10 Video Games You Weren’t Expecting To Make You Cry

4. Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons

Despite looking and feeling like a simple kid's game, the ingenious premise of indie puzzler Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons is so brilliant, players will wonder how no other developer came up with it before. Each half of the controller is allocated to one of the titular brothers, allowing the player to move and control them simultaneously, the game building puzzles around this basic concept, and it works brilliantly. The story of Brothers is told in a minimalist fashion with little dialogue or text, yet the game manages to give each brother a distinctive personality through motions, expressions and gestures. The game does all of this to lead the player into one hell of a sucker punch. As the brothers approach their goal - The Tree of Life - they have to defeat a monstrous spider (who they had earlier aided when she was disguised as a girl). Doing so comes at a cost though as she mortally wounds the older brother, Naia. The two continue but the younger brother, Naiee, has to climb the Tree Of Life alone. When he returns, Naia has died. The player then has to drag Naia's lifeless body into a makeshift grave before venturing off alone for the first time - it's unbelievably moving and shocking. The final blow is surprisingly well done too. Throughout the game, Naiee has to climb onto Naia's back when they are required to swim across a pool of water; upon returning to the village, Naiee has to take it on a stretch of water alone, aided by the player using both triggers on the controller for the first time - never before has a single button press meant so much. Surprisingly, Brothers manages to form a deep connection with the player, while hiding dark secrets behind a colourful, cartoon-esque exterior; the final scenes of the game are masterfully done.