The Loneliest Games in the World

This topic has been on my mind a lot lately, so here's a list of the loneliest games I've ever played. I hope you find them as interesting as I did.

Yume Nikki is a game where no matter where you go or what you do, all you have is yourself. No one interacts with you, follows you, or even acknowledges you. There are beautiful sights to see, but none of them are yours. There are homes to visit, and communities to discover, but none of them are yours.

Trapped inside of your room with nothing to occupy your mind but dreaming, you begin to wonder if your room, your bed, your chairs, or your dreams are even yours anymore. There is something so comforting and welcoming about the world of Yume Nikki, and something so deeply disappointing when you've explored the whole thing, seen everything sight and found every item, and you feel exactly the same as you did when you started searching: like you've found nothing.

There is no experience in Yume Nikki worth drawing from or remembering, nothing makes any sense, nothing fits together. Everything you like about Yume Nikki is invented entirely by you, you're wasting time by projecting your own views onto a meaningless world.

And in that sense, it is a touching story about what it feels like to be afraid of the world.Undertale is the exact opposite experience of Yume Nikki. There is always a character guiding you along the way, supporting you on your journey. You always have someone by your side.

But there's a twist.
They all want you dead, they just don't know it yet.

In Undertale you play as a human who falls from the human world into the underground world of monsters. After collecting seven human souls, the monsters can break the barrier trapping them in the underground and finally go back to living on the surface as they did in ancient times.

You are the seventh human to fall into the underground.

It's been so long though, that most of them don't know what humans look like anymore. Everyone talks about how excited they are to leave the underground, how they can't wait to be free. Through all of this you know that their freedom will cost your life. Or more accurately, since you're the player, by beating the game and returning home, you will be the reason their dreams never come true.

This, combined with the fact that every character who journeys with you finds out you're a human and either tries to kill you or decides they can't travel with you anymore, results in this painful loneliness, a desire to be accepted that no other game has been able to instill in me.