Games with heavy focus around mental illness or similar topics.
Favorite quotes included. Order mainly based on cover color.
Genre, length & heaviness varies.

Tales of Berseria
Tales of Berseria
"To have it all stolen from me... Why them? Why not me?"

Genre: JRPG
Length: 40+ hours
Themes: Grief, survivor's guilt, religious trauma, betrayal, self-sacrificial tendencies
Needy Streamer Overload
Needy Streamer Overload
"Bitches be posting emo song lyrics after a breakup, I'd probably be bitches."

Genre: VN
Length: 15 mins
Themes: Self destructive behavior, self deletion, virtual identity
Serial Experiments Lain
Serial Experiments Lain
"I don't know. But it feels as if there was another me, touching my body, ripping it apart."

Genre: VN
Length: 9 hours
Themes: Psychosis, isolation, identity loss, virtual identity
The Shell Part I: Inferno
The Shell Part I: Inferno
"Find my true self."

Genre: VN (!!18+!!)
Length: 20+ hours
Themes: Crime, religion, horror (gore)
Omori
Omori
"Kids are so mean... Like really, really horrible..."

Genre: RPGM
Length: 20+ hours
Themes: Trauma, isolation, guilt, self deletion
Yume Nikki: Dream Diary
Yume Nikki: Dream Diary
Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
"I don't like when that happens. I want to remember things only when I wish to."

Genre: VN
Length: 15mins
Themes: Trauma, psychosis
Saya no Uta
Saya no Uta
"I was unlucky. That's all there is to it. The point is that my condition isn't treatable."

Genre: VN (!!18+!!)
Length: 5+ hours
Themes: Insanity, obsession, illness
Dramatical Murder
Dramatical Murder
"I don't know how anyone else feels. I don't know to connect with them."

(Routes: Noiz, Clear, Ren)
Genre: VN (!!18+!!)
Length: 12+ hours
Themes: Identity, trauma
Hello Charlotte: Heaven's Gate
Hello Charlotte: Heaven's Gate
"There's just no hope for me, is there?"

Genre: VN
Length: 30 mins
Themes:
Tales of Arise
Tales of Arise
Persona 5
Persona 5
For Mother Matron
For Mother Matron
"I could fight all I want, but in the end what am I? A tunnel rat running for its life, through a maze with no exit. An ant under the boot of a god. Knowing that now... would I have rather never existed at all?"

Genre: VN
Length: 4 hours
Themes: Hopelessness
Superliminal
Superliminal
Hello Charlotte Ep.2: Requiem Aeternam Deo
Hello Charlotte Ep.2: Requiem Aeternam Deo
Hello Charlotte Ep.3: Childhood's End
Hello Charlotte Ep.3: Childhood's End
"Why become the god of some unknown place when you're the god of my world already"

Genre: RPGM
Length: 4 hours
Themes: Trauma, religion, grief, obsession, psychosis, self deletion
The Beginner's Guide
The Beginner's Guide
"Would you simply let them be what they are?"

Genre: Walk Sim
Length: 1 hour
Themes:
Flesh, Blood, & Concrete
Flesh, Blood, & Concrete
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
"In the end, everything will happen painlessly, I hope."

Genre: VN
Length: 5+ mins
Themes: Psychosis, trauma
Hope Left Me
Hope Left Me
Momotype
Momotype
"I love you so much it hurts my insides. I want to tear out everything in me so I can be at your side. I want to love you for forever."

Genre: VN
Length: 5+ mins
Themes: Obsession, ethics, identity
Missed Messages.
Missed Messages.
You Left Me
You Left Me
Yume Nikki
Yume Nikki
Tomorrow Won't Come For Those Without
Tomorrow Won't Come For Those Without
"'I wanted to learn how to love myself', she said. 'So that I could love others'"

Genre: RPGM
Length: 30 mins
Themes:
When the Darkness comes
When the Darkness comes
Hikeback
Hikeback
Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service
Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service
You Will (Not) Remain
You Will (Not) Remain
"It's like watching someone else, like you're no longer there. Like you're watching yourself like someone else would watch you."

Genre: RPGM-like
Length: 15 mins
Themes: Dissociation, isolation
7 Years From Now
7 Years From Now

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