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The best depressing games to languish to in 2025
What qualifies a video game as “depressing?” Here, we’re looking at games that just have a pall over them, whether it’s directly from story beats or a more subtle vibe given off by the visuals, music or activities the player has to participate in.
You see a mouse woman sipping coffee and smoking alone on her porch, a fox man waiting in line to enter his job at a bottling plant, a moose kid sledding on the first day of winter. All game long you see unremarkable people bound to routine jobs in a black-and-white world, occasionally interrupted by moments of freedom; one character daydreams of making music, another rides a bike in an open field, another stares out the window. In To the Moon, players take on the role of two scientists as they attempt to fulfill a dying man’s wish with their special brand of reality manipulation: They’re able to implant memories and create a new life story in someone’s head, but the procedure is so intense that it’s only performed on people who are about to draw their final breath.
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