Depression Quest
The Quinnspiracy · 2014 · Short, Indie, Free to Play, Interactive Fiction, Singleplayer
PC
Mixed63% · 30
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About Depression Quest
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Navigate daily life while managing depression through meaningful choices that open or close based on your mental state, with over 40,000 words of branching narrative that shifts in tone, color, and sound to reflect your emotional journey. This interactive fiction aims to foster empathy for those struggling with depression while showing sufferers they're not alone, featuring 150+ unique encounters and multiple endings shaped entirely by your decisions.
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment. This game aims to show other sufferers of depression that they are not alone in their feelings, and to illustrate to people who may not understand the illness the depths of what it can do to people.
- Over 40k words of interactive fiction.
Playthroughs are short enough to be done in one day, but long enough for the game to have gotten it's point across. - About 150 unique encounters.
Based on your depression levels, different choices open and close off to you. - Content generated based on your decisions.
The choices you make have a real effect on how your playthrough turns out. - Multiple endings.
See how your choices affected the game's world, and how well you've managed your depression. - Audio and visuals react to your depression.
Listen as the music gets glitchier and see how much stronger the static gets. Watch the color get sucked out of how you see the world.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
didn't love it as much as I thought I would
this is art. it may not be perfect, but it gets a point across. its not that long, I just left it on in the background because the music is a vibe.
Accurate depiction of depression. Thank you for the representation
Painfully accurate
this game is not debressing
For the haters, it's obviously not a game for the 'fun' or 'entertaining' factor. Nor can you stick it in a specific genre. As someone with moderate depression whilst being unmedicated; a lot of the game resonated with me. Everyone's experience with depression isn't the same but a good bit of the story was similar to mine. I'm glad the creator didn't give the typical happy ending even though it would probably be reassuring for some people. It shows the reality of living with depression and never knowing 'when' or 'if' it will end.
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