Top Upcoming Emotional Video Game Stories of 2017

It’s tough to make a call right now on what to expect in terms of narrative tones in the upcoming 2017 video game releases. While there are several titles announced and confirmed to launch at some point in 2017, we narrowed down a few video game titles we can expect to see a few emotional narrative moments. For instance, our first point, Vampyr, comes from development team Dontnod Entertainment, who previously brought out Life is Strange, a video game title that threw players into one massive emotional roller coaster. We have high expectations for their upcoming release and we’re certainly expecting a few heart-aching moments scattered about.

Take a look at some upcoming video game titles that we believe will have some strong emotional ties down below. Likewise, let us know what your favorite emotional video game title is by leaving a comment. Without further ado, here are our picks of the top upcoming emotional video games of 2017.

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Vampyr

Developer: Dontnod Entertainment
Publisher: Focus Home Interactive
Platforms: PC, PS4, XB1
Release Date: TBA 2017

Development team Dontnod Entertainment really gained mass exposure for their Life is Strange video game release. Now the studio has taken a much darker tone for their next IP, Vampyr. This is a title that is set during the 1918 London Spanish flu pandemic.

Players will take the role of a doctor named Jonathan Reid who happens to be a vampire. Johnathan is fighting his own inner demons that conflicts with his sworn Hippocratic Oath as he needs to feed on the blood of humans in order to survive.

Similar to Life is Strange, it appears that Vampyr will present players with a variety of choices and dialogue options that will likely steer the narrative overall. However, unlike Life is Strange, this is an action role-playing video game where players can battle enemies rather than focusing on communication and choices to progress the campaign story.

Horizon Zero Dawn

Developer: Guerrilla Games
Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment
Platforms: PS4
Release Date: February 28, 2017

Horizon Zero Dawn will mark as the first IP developed by Guerrilla Games since their release of Killzone in 2004. This is an action role-playing video game title that is set a thousand years into the future.

Mankind has mysteriously fallen with cities only a shell of a once thriving society. Now only small tribal groups remain with giant predatory mechanical beasts roam the world openly. The plot will revolve around a female hunter named Aloy who sets out on a journey to explore the open world, meet with other tribes, and potentially learn of the reason mankind fell to being with.

Mass Effect: Andromeda

Developer: BioWare
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platforms: PC, PS4, XB1
Release Date: Q2 2017

The next installment of the Mass Effect franchise will be launching during the second quarter of 2017. From what we know so far, Mass Effect: Andromeda will be taking place hundreds of years after the events of Mass Effect 3.

Set within the Andromeda Galaxy, players take on the role of an N7 Special Forces soldier who is set to be a Pathfinder. These Pathfinders are an operative task force that is in charge of discovering new planets for the Human species to colonize.

Red Dead Redemption 2

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Developer: Rockstar Games
Publisher: Take-Two Interactive
Platforms: PS4, XB1
Release Date: TBA 2017

So far there is nothing we know officially about Red Dead Redemption 2 other than Rockstar Games is currently working on the third entry to the Red Dead series.

With Red Dead Redemption being a critically acclaimed hit and fans eager to continue with the Grand Theft Auto style gameplay set in the old west, Rockstar Games isn’t revealing just what all they have planned for their next entry quite yet. One thing is for sure, we certainly hope that Red Dead Redemption 2 will at least offer PC gamers a chance to pick up the video game installment.

We Happy Few

Developer: Compulsion Games
Publisher: Compulsion Games
Platforms: PC, PS4, XB1
Release Date: TBA 2017

We Happy Few allow players to step into a world where society has been controlled by taking away their emotions and morals. The video game being developed by Compulsion Games takes place in a fictional English city that follows an alternate timeline of events following World War II.

Now as humanity strives to live a better life within the 1960s, they’ve become accustomed to a new law and order, one of which that requires all citizens to consume a drug regularly. This drug blinds citizens of the real world, allowing them to only see joy. Gamers will take on the role of three individuals who decide to pass on their drug intake to complete a task that is not only important to each individual but personal.

Being discovered as a “downer”, or a person who refused to take their drug dosage, the city is out for blood wishing to cleanse you from stumbling out from the chosen path the government laid before you.

The Walking Dead Season 3

Developer: Telltale Games
Publisher: Telltale Games
Platforms: PC, PS3, PS4, PSV, X360, XB1, Mobile
Release Date: TBA 2016-2017

Telltale Games has had plenty of successfully video game hits based off of popular media franchises, one of which being The Walking Dead. This will be the third season of the Telltale Games The Walking Dead franchise and its set to draw in new players.

Season three is set to take place several years after The Walking Dead season two and it will tie in all the possible endings that players could have experienced from the previous season installments. Once again, players will be taking on the role of Clementine who has been looking after AJ, the infant she rescued at the end of season two.

Being an episodic video game release, the first episode of season three is expected to launch towards the end of this year with future episodes releasing in early 2017.

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