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Depression Quest Interactive Fiction Game Needs Help Getting Onto Steam

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Depression Quest is an award-winning 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. 

If it makes it onto Steam it will be 100% free, pretty good deal. As someone who has gone through depression I applaud this and it's very sad to see the abuse the developer has gotten over it.

Features
  • 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. 
  • Five endings. See how your choices affected the game's world, and how well you've dealt with 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


It's a bit of an odd game, something I can't see myself playing mainly because I am really not a big reader, but I hope some of you find it interesting or useful.

Greenlight Link: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=200770535

You can also play for free and donate to them directly on their website.

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6 comments

philip550c Dec 13, 2013
weird
Sslaxx Dec 13, 2013
Quoting: Quote from philip550cweird
I take it you've never experienced depression, then. I think this is a good idea, going to upvote it.
philip550c Dec 13, 2013
Quoting: Quote from Sslaxx
Quoting: Quote from philip550cweird
I take it you've never experienced depression, then. I think this is a good idea, going to upvote it.
I didn't mean weird in a bad way, I like weird. I meant it more like "unique". I didn't mean this as an insult to the devs or anyone suffering from depression. And while at one point in my life I had a bit of depression I now know that it was rather mild compared to some that really suffer and that I don't really have any issues with this at all anymore. I would buy this for sure.
sw Dec 14, 2013
Every interactive fiction on Greenlight deserves an upvote.

Voted.
s_d Dec 16, 2013
Quoting: Quote from swEvery interactive fiction on Greenlight deserves an upvote.

Voted.

Ditto, that!
Kovyx Apr 7, 2014
Honestly, this game almost made me cry multiple times. I've been suffering from depression for almost 3 years, and this very accurately described my typical every day life of recent. I'd say the stage I'm at currently is likely level "2", second to suicidal/lifeless. My boyfriend showed me this game, although I think he needs to play it himself so he understands what I go through. It's really depressing that he doesn't want to because "it's boring". *sighs*
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