Utsuge is the Japanese portmanteau for "depressing/melancholy game". As the name implies, these games' goal is to make the player cry. Most of them are of the Visual Novel variety, in which the player is guided through an increasingly (melo)dramatic story, Deconstruction mostly optional.
Games of this type contain lots of typical tear-jerking material, with death, mental problems, loneliness and [...] [tvtropes.org]