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The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2016

Should you play it?

A short lesbian / yuri visual novel set in England. Our heroine, Toma Andrews, meets a ghost girl wearing an old-fashioned nightgown in a graveyard who calls herself Emmeline. Just who is she, and how did she die?

What works

  • Beautiful and unique art style
  • Emotional and well-written story
  • Soothing piano soundtrack
  • Free to play
  • Easy achievements

Things to keep in mind

  • Very short length
  • No gameplay or interactivity
  • Linear with no choices
  • Some players find story predictable
  • Sound effects occasionally jarring

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Fox Hime

  • 恋爱关系/Romance

  • KARAKARA

  • Lingering Fragrance

  • Ambre - a heartbreaking kinetic novel

  • Letters From a Rainy Day -Oceans and Lace-

More autonomous

Games that feels like The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns but with more freedom over how you play

  • SeaBed

  • Koi x Shin Ai Kanojo

  • Aokana - Four Rhythms Across the Blue - EXTRA1

  • Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-

  • Dream Ending

  • Love Ribbon

Less idle-friendly

Games that feels like The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns but with less of an idle filler feel

  • Your Smile Beyond Twilight:黄昏下的月台上

  • Putrika 1st.cut:The Reason She Must Perish

  • Fox Hime Zero

  • Starlight of Aeons

  • SnowNight

  • Trap Shrine

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Sweetest Monster

  • Asphyxia

  • Six Days of Snow

  • Lynne

  • It gets so lonely here

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Competence, Experimenting, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Autonomy, Exploration.

Last update: 03/08/2026