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Navigate work, relationships, and treatment in a text-based story where depression can narrow your choices and shape each ending.
Released 11 Aug 2014
Watch Choices Disappear
Manage Work and Relationships
Explore Treatment Choices
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.
Developed by The Quinnspiracy, Patrick Lindsey, Isaac Schankler · Published by The Quinnspiracy
You play as someone living with depression, facing everyday situations involving work, relationships, and possible treatment.
Read each scene and choose how to respond. The character’s depression level can make some options unavailable, shaping which choices appear later and how events unfold.
Choices lead to different outcomes and endings. The presentation also reflects the character’s state through changes in the music, static, and color.
Players who connect with the game often value its portrayal of depression, saying its situations and restricted choices feel recognizable or encourage empathy and reflection. Some also appreciate the writing and characters. Others find the depiction too simplified, the recovery path too easy, or choices too limited to meaningfully affect events.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
|---|---|
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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