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Depression Quest is about life, will evoke real feelings
Depression Quest is a game that "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." Unlike Dys4ia, it's not purely autobiographical, though its expression of depression and the limitations that come with it are based on the developers actual experiences. The game contains over 40K words, 150 different encounters, and 5 endings. That's a lot to dig into. This isn't the first time a game has taken on depression. Heavy Rain tried, but ended up a melodramatic, corny, heavy handed, borderline offensive mess. Thankfully, Depression Quest doesn't try to dress up the experience of depression into an "Hollywood thrill-ride", and instead goes for something much more genuine. I'd wager that's why it's already making a difference in people's lives. You can pay what you want or get it for free right now. Check it out and tell us what you think. Did you know? You can now get daily or weekly email notifications when humans reply to your comments.
4:45 PM on 05.24.2013 Act fast: God game Reprisal is free todayThanks to a cool little promotion, the Populous-inspired Reprisal is free today in an effort to drum up support on Steam Greenlight. It's playable on Windows, Mac, and Linux, though the latter version is in beta. You don't h...
11:30 AM on 05.24.2013 Joe Danger 1 and 2 are racing towards SteamHello Games is finally releasing both Joe Danger and Joe Danger 2 for the PC! They'll both be available through Steam, and they'll each have Steamworks implemented to easily share custom created levels. The PC versions will a...
10:30 PM on 05.23.2013 Japanese indie shmup trilogy Tale of Alltynex gets fundedNyu Media has successfully concluded its Kickstarter campaign to localize a trilogy of Japanese indie shoot-'em ups, The Tale of Alltynex, the doujinsoft publisher has announced. Inspired by Taito's RayStorm series, The...
7:30 PM on 05.23.2013 Fight for free this weekend in Chivalry: Medieval WarfareThis weekend until 2:00PM Eastern on Sunday you can play an awesome first-person medieval battle game Chivalry: Medieval Warfare for free. Head on over to the Steam page to download it and start playing. If you deci...
3:30 PM on 05.23.2013 Super Splatters will be out on Steam in late JuneSpikySnail Games is targeting a June release on Steam for its enhanced-for-Windows/Mac/Linux Super Splatters. The physics-based puzzler provided a good deal of fun in its original Xbox Live Arcade incarnation, and this new In...
3:00 PM on 05.23.2013 Spot all the new stuff in this Terraria 1.2 preview videoEarly last year, Terraria developer Redigit released a statement that there would be no more major updates to the 2D open-world phenomenon, citing fatherhood as the main reason for moving on. Fortunately for fans of the game...
10:30 PM on 05.22.2013 Raise your badger children in Might and Delight's ShelterLife as a mother badger doesn't strike me as something that would be particularly easy, but conflict sure does make for an interesting story. Pid developer Might and Magic is going where no one to my knowledge has gone befor...
6:30 PM on 05.22.2013 Devs express disappointment with Xbox One over TwitterMicrosoft's Matt Booty affirmed earlier today that digital publishing policies on Xbox One would be no different than they were on Xbox 360. Any hope that Microsoft would right the ship that has inconvenienced a good number o...
12:30 PM on 05.22.2013 Xboned! Indies can't self-publish on Xbox One[Castle Vidcons by Tyler Rhodes] Both Sony and Nintendo are bending over backwards to make their platforms as attractive to indie developers as possible, from waived licensing fees to free patching. Microsoft has been slippin...
11:00 PM on 05.21.2013 Put on your ninja shoes, N v2.0 is playable nowBy now, we've seen the big reveals of the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One, and I can safely declare a winner: PC. Why? Because just a few days ago, Metanet Software released a huge update to its diabolical ninja platformer N,...
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Nyu Media has successfully concluded its Kickstarter campaign to localize a trilogy of Japanese indie shoot-'em ups, The Tale of Alltynex, the doujinsoft publisher has announced. Inspired by Taito's RayStorm series, The...more
This weekend until 2:00PM Eastern on Sunday you can play an awesome first-person medieval battle game Chivalry: Medieval Warfare for free. Head on over to the Steam page to download it and start playing. If you deci...more
SpikySnail Games is targeting a June release on Steam for its enhanced-for-Windows/Mac/Linux Super Splatters. The physics-based puzzler provided a good deal of fun in its original Xbox Live Arcade incarnation, and this new In...more View all Indie |


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