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A few more I just thought of, and in addition to the other list BeamBrain made:
Spiritfarer (Entirely about learning to accept mortality, mourning, aging and death, but VERY whimsical and playful on the surface. You are a sweet young girl who is actually the captain of the ferry of death, giving the dead their last wishes before leading them into oblivion... by farming and cooking and sight-seeing)
Gris (more dreamlike than whimsical, but again reveals through the game it is meant to be explicitly about trauma)
The next three I haven't played, but by what I know of them...
Farewell North (About healing after trauma, and admittedly as the name implies, saying the last goodbye, but on the surface about a dog making the world colorful by shepherding, freeing wildlife, etc.)
Beacon Pines (another story-book kind of adventure with furry animal characters on the surface but has some really dark twists about trauma and existential dread underneath).
Wanderstop (a tea shop in a magical forest! Oh wait it's dealing heavily with burnout and psychological pain/trauma.)
The list just goes on.
There's even studies that have been done addressing how trauma in indie games is a thing.!
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