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Depression Quest for Windows

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Editors’ Review

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Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game that simulates living with depression, challenging players to manage life events and their illness.

  • Pros

    • Vast amount of interactive fiction content
    • Short play sessions enable daily engagement
    • Numerous unique encounters
    • Dynamic choice system affects gameplay
    • Consequential player decisions drive narrative
    • Multiple distinct endings
    • Reactive audio and visual feedback

  • Cons

    • Focuses on one specific illness
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Depression Quest for Windows

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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
final
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 10
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows XP
Additional Requirements
None
POPULARITY
Total Downloads
481
Downloads Last Week
2
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Developer’s Description

By Zoe Quinn
Play as someone living with depression, manage a series of everyday life events and control your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.
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.
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