Depression Quest
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…
Depression Quest is an adventure developed by Isaac Schankler, released 14 February 2013 on Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser.
What Depression Quest is
Depression Quest is an adventure game developed by Isaac Schankler and released in 2013. It was published by The Quinnspiracy. It is available on Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser. It runs on Twine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are drama and non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Depression Quest holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Depression Quest launched on 14 February 2013, within three weeks of Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Mass Effect 3: Citadel and Antichamber. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Mass Effect 3: Citadel, Antichamber.
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