Depression Quest

This game Is ground zero for how a lot of people learned and got roped into gamergate, the reason I've seen certain people talk online like they've got to sleep with one eye open every day. after the gamergate controversy, the fact that it was over such a huge mess of a controversy Is wild to me but hilarious at the same time, I wish humanity can go back and undo this canon event In stupidity and accountability failure but sadly we can't and now we just have to sit with it and the insanity that came with it. oh I guess i got to make a review of the game too! it's okay, short but nice, it's about someone trying to get out of depression and fix their life to be happier and not get overtaken by depression. the route to get there is not long, and not bad. definitely an inoffensive game about depression, idk what else to say!

powerful narrative and very good and realistic dialogue choices. i dont know how this has mixed reviews man. give it a shot

interesting game, makes you ponder some stuff

in hindsight this game was super important, not for anything it is or does but for a review it received. this little CYOA text adventure is why modern US politics are the way they are. GamerGate started because of THIS. That's all to say, make your little platformer tech demo and post it on itch.io, send an application for your 2 dev passion project to steam greenlight. If this can shape a nation your virtual studio project with ms paint sprites can change someone's life

to preface this, I like text adventures. this one is well made. fairly linear but well-written. great sound design. made me cry it's good.

"Such is the power of art to transfigure what is objectively ignoble or depraved that [Depression Quest] is actually deeply moving and even inspiring. . . . To know the nature of despair and to triumph over it in ways that are possible to oneself is surely a sort of grace." - Richard Gilman.