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2013PC60 % positive

A text-based interactive fiction in which you live through the daily life of someone with depression. Your choices show how the illness limits relationships, work and treatment, building empathy for both sufferers and those who don't understand it.

  • Emotional impact
  • Choices with consequences
  • Dialogue and role-playing
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Depression Quest special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Actual Sunlight

93 %Match

2013PC, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch74 % positive4.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Depression Quest: emotional impact, a strong story and a dark atmosphere.

You follow Evan Winter through three periods of his life in Toronto, shaped by love, depression and a corporation. Gameplay is deliberately minimal so that the text-driven story and its emotional weight stay in focus.

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Confess My Love

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