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* LonersAreFreaks: You certainly seem to think this about yourself.
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* [[BreakHisHearttoSaveHim BreakHerHearttoSaveHer]]: If your depression gets too severe, your girlfriend tells you she doesn't think she can be with you anymore. One of the options is to break up with her under the assumption that she'll be better off without you.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]. In the intro before the game starts, a warning is given that people considering SuicideMission should not play this game. There is even a link leading to a suicide hotline in the first paragraph of the intro.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]. In the intro before the game starts, a warning is given that people considering SuicideMission Suicide should not play this game. There is even a link leading to a suicide hotline in the first paragraph of the intro.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Averted. The writers intentionally left this possibility out, because they didn't want to risk triggering some of their audience.
* DownerEnding: Absolutely nothing can change.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Averted. The writers intentionally left [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]. In the intro before the game starts, a warning is given that people considering SuicideMission should not play this possibility out, because they didn't want game. There is even a link leading to risk triggering some a suicide hotline in the first paragraph of their audience.
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** If the protagonists depression gets too severe, than the box describing his/her mental condition will describe the character as wanting to die but ironically not having the energy to act on this.
* DrowningMySorrows: There are two situations in which the character can choose to get drunk; neither of these end well. Likewise, it states the character started a creative endeavor at the suggestion of a colleague after a drunken tirade about the meaningless of his/her existence.
* DownerEnding:Absolutely nothing can change.The worst ending. Your girlfriend broke up with you after you became too distant, you missed so many days of work you will probably get fired, and your depression is so bad you want to die. When your mother asks you how you are doing at the end, you break down sobbing at how your life fell apart.
** If the protagonists depression gets too severe, than the box describing his/her mental condition will describe the character as wanting to die but ironically not having the energy to act on this.
* DrowningMySorrows: There are two situations in which the character can choose to get drunk; neither of these end well. Likewise, it states the character started a creative endeavor at the suggestion of a colleague after a drunken tirade about the meaningless of his/her existence.
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* FeaturelessProtagonist: The only thing that's certain is that A) the protagonist is male, B) you've got a family with a brother, C) you hold down a nondescript entry-level job, and D) you've got a girlfriend.
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* FeaturelessProtagonist: The only thing that's certain is that A) the protagonist is male, male (or lesbian), B) you've got a family with a brother, C) you hold down a nondescript entry-level job, and D) you've got a girlfriend.
* HeroicBSOD: If you don't go to therapy or take medication, than there will be days when you can not even muster the strength to get out of bed.
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* TheNondescript: Your character is described as "a twenty two year old human".
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* TearsofFear: When your friend asks how you are doing, one of the options is to notice that your hands are shaking. If you select this, you will start sobbing uncontrollably and telling your friend all your problems. She will then email you a therapists number.
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* TheNondescript: Your character is described as "a twenty two year old human".
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The game has garnered more than a bit of controversy and polarizing reactions. Quinn herself is a '''very''' polarizing figure among gamers due to [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/quinnspiracy certain events]], so '''please''' keep all information regarding Zoey Zoe Quinn's history off this page and use RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: As with actual depression, you start thinking people are out to get you. For example, a coworker who's trying to sell his kitten becomes an irritating little greedy scammer, and your mother feels abusive from her constant nagging.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: As with actual depression, you start thinking people are out to get you. For example, a coworker who's trying to sell his kitten becomes an irritating little greedy scammer, and your mother feels abusive from her constant nagging.
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* DownerEnding: Absolutely nothing can change.ButThouMust: Invoked in the game - there are sensible, social options that are always crossed out, which accurately reflects a depressed person's feeling of inability or unwillingness and recognition that they're doing nothing.
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* ChooseYourOwnAdventure: The way you progress through the game is through a series of choices.choices, having been built on a game engine that primarily focuses on CYOA.
* CoolBigBro: Your brother knows you're depressed, and defends you against your mother's accusations of being lazy.
* CoolBigBro: Your brother knows you're depressed, and defends you against your mother's accusations of being lazy.
* DownerEnding: Absolutely nothing can change.
* EpiphanyTherapy: At one point, you accidentally wake up your girlfriend as you're sharing a bed. Given enough treatment, you brush your paranoia that your girlfriend won't understand and push you away, letting it all out and admitting you've been feeling horrible and depressed. Your girlfriend completely understands, hugs and kisses you, and pledges to help you feel better. This really helps with your depression.
* EpiphanyTherapy: At one point, you accidentally wake up your girlfriend as you're sharing a bed. Given enough treatment, you brush your paranoia that your girlfriend won't understand and push you away, letting it all out and admitting you've been feeling horrible and depressed. Your girlfriend completely understands, hugs and kisses you, and pledges to help you feel better. This really helps with your depression.
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: The narration makes it clear you find the therapist overly bright and annoying, though this is due to your depression.
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* InspirationalInsult: Your mother is in the camp that believes complaining and nagging about your listlessness is going to spurn you into action. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: The narration makes it clear you find the therapist overly bright and annoying, though this is due to your depression. You also see your girlfriend as this, pushing you into social situations you don't want.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: The narration makes it clear you find the therapist overly bright and annoying, though this is due to your depression. You also see your girlfriend as this, pushing you into social situations you don't want.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Compared to your father and brother, who at least attempt to sympathize with you, your mother ''constantly nags'' about your lack of a real job and your apparent unwillingness to move up in the world.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Compared to your father and brother, who at least attempt to sympathize with you, your mother ''constantly nags'' about your lack of a real job and your apparent unwillingness to move up in the world. At one point, she makes your depression even worse.
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* NoMedicationForMe: About three weeks into a medication regimen if you decided to take them, you note you're feeling much better - and recalling the various side-effects of anti-depressants, or if you don't want to feel like a pill-popper, you can choose to stop taking your pills. [[spoiler:This is not a good idea.]] If you finally work up the courage to go see a therapist, you can choose to forgo medication and just see the therapist.
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* SchmuckBait: If you've chosen to take medications, the narration notes you've been feeling much better - maybe you really didn't need medication! [[spoiler:Oops. If you are seeing a therapist, she notes that this happens to a lot of people - thinking they're better off without their meds, only to crash harder than before.]]
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* SchmuckBait: If you've chosen to take medications, medication, the narration notes you've been feeling much better - maybe you really didn't need medication! [[spoiler:Oops. If you are seeing a therapist, she notes that this happens to a lot of people - thinking they're better off without their meds, only to crash harder than before.]]
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* AloofBigBrother: Played with. Your brother is actively trying to help you and defends you from your mother's nagging, but you can't help but see him as this - he's far more successful than you, or so you think.
* BittersweetEnding: The best ending - you're on medication, you're seeing a therapist, your girlfriend is actively helping you to get better, your mother's off your back, and you feel like you're climbing out of your depression - but there's always the risk you can relapse, or it'll come back.
* DownerEnding: Absolutely nothing can change.
* CatsAreMean: Variant - if you decide to take in a co-worker's kitten, the scared, desperate mewling it gives as you try to sleep make you feel awful. However, the kitten warms up to you.
** CoolCat: The kitty can help you with your depression.
* BittersweetEnding: The best ending - you're on medication, you're seeing a therapist, your girlfriend is actively helping you to get better, your mother's off your back, and you feel like you're climbing out of your depression - but there's always the risk you can relapse, or it'll come back.
* DownerEnding: Absolutely nothing can change.
* CatsAreMean: Variant - if you decide to take in a co-worker's kitten, the scared, desperate mewling it gives as you try to sleep make you feel awful. However, the kitten warms up to you.
** CoolCat: The kitty can help you with your depression.
* FeaturelessProtagonist: The only thing that's certain is that A) the protagonist is male, B) you've got a family with a brother, C) you hold down a nondescript entry-level job, and D) you've got a girlfriend.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: The narration makes it clear you find the therapist overly bright and annoying, though this is due to your depression.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: The narration makes it clear you find the therapist overly bright and annoying, though this is due to your depression.
* MyBelovedSmother: Compared to your father and brother, who at least attempt to sympathize with you, your mother ''constantly nags'' about your lack of a real job and your apparent unwillingness to move up in the world.
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* SensoryAbuse: The soundtrack consists of an ominous DroneOfDread, which some depressed people hear.
* SchmuckBait: If you've chosen to take medications, the narration notes you've been feeling much better - maybe you really didn't need medication! [[spoiler:Oops. If you are seeing a therapist, she notes that this happens to a lot of people - thinking they're better off without their meds, only to crash harder than before.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: The main character counts as one due to their depression, and their feelings of alienation around largegroups. groups.
* SoulSuckingRetailJob: Your job isn't described in detail, but from what we can tell from the boss and your mother, it's entry-level, and you hated it even before you fell into depression. Depending on your choices, working may make you even more depressed.
* SchmuckBait: If you've chosen to take medications, the narration notes you've been feeling much better - maybe you really didn't need medication! [[spoiler:Oops. If you are seeing a therapist, she notes that this happens to a lot of people - thinking they're better off without their meds, only to crash harder than before.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: The main character counts as one due to their depression, and their feelings of alienation around large
* SoulSuckingRetailJob: Your job isn't described in detail, but from what we can tell from the boss and your mother, it's entry-level, and you hated it even before you fell into depression. Depending on your choices, working may make you even more depressed.
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Depression Quest is an InteractiveFiction AdventureGame developed by Zoe Quinn. It was playable for free on [[http://www.depressionquest.com/ it's own website,]] but was released on [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/270170/ Steam]] on August 11, 2014 for free.
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Depression Quest is an InteractiveFiction AdventureGame developed by Zoe Quinn. It was playable for free on [[http://www.depressionquest.com/ it's its own website,]] but was released on [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/270170/ Steam]] on August 11, 2014 for free.
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* ShrinkingViolet: The main character counts as one due to their depression, and their feelings of alienation around others.
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The game has garnered more than a bit of controversy and polarizing reactions. Quinn herself is a '''very''' polarizing figure among gamers due to [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/quinnspiracy certain events]], so please, '''''please''''' think before you post '''please''' keep all information regarding Zoey Quinn's history off this page and use the RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement.
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* RealityEnsues: To reflect the reality of how depression affects the decisions one makes in life, certain decisions will be crossed out and unavailable to you as the game goes on.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Averted. The writers intentionally left this possibility out, because they didn't want to risk triggering some of their audience.
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* ChooseYourOwnAdventure: The way you progress through the game is through a series of choices.
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* MultipleEndings: The game has different endings that are determined bu how depressed you are at the end of it.
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* MultipleEndings: The game has different endings that are determined bu by how depressed you are at the end of it.
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Loads of people don\'t use their real name online, if she wants to be known as Zoe Quinn you could at least give her that.
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Depression Quest is an InteractiveFiction AdventureGame developed by Chelsea Van Valkenburg, better known as Zoe Quinn. It was playable for free on [[http://www.depressionquest.com/ it's own website,]] but was released on [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/270170/ Steam]] on August 11, 2014 for free.
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Depression Quest is an InteractiveFiction AdventureGame developed by Chelsea Van Valkenburg aka Zoe Quinn. It was playable for free on [[http://www.depressionquest.com/ it's own website,]] but was released on [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/270170/ Steam]] on August 11, 2014 for free.
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Depression Quest is an InteractiveFiction AdventureGame developed by Chelsea Van Valkenburg aka Valkenburg, better known as Zoe Quinn. It was playable for free on [[http://www.depressionquest.com/ it's own website,]] but was released on [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/270170/ Steam]] on August 11, 2014 for free.
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Depression Quest is an InteractiveFiction AdventureGame developed by Zoe Quinn. It was playable for free on [[http://www.depressionquest.com/ it's own website,]] but was released on [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/270170/ Steam]] on August 11, 2014 for free.
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Depression Quest is an InteractiveFiction AdventureGame developed by Chelsea Van Valkenburg aka Zoe Quinn. It was playable for free on [[http://www.depressionquest.com/ it's own website,]] but was released on [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/270170/ Steam]] on August 11, 2014 for free.
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The game has garnered more than a bit of controversy and polarizing reactions. Quinn herself is a '''very''' polarizing figure among gamers due to [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/quinnspiracy recent certain events]], so please, '''''please''''' think before you post and use the RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement.
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Depression Quest is an InteractiveFiction AdventureGame developed by Zoe Quinn. It was playable for free on [[http://www.depressionquest.com/ it's own website, website,]] but was released on Steam [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/270170/ Steam]] on August 11, 2014 for free.
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* RealityEnsues: To reflect the reality of how depression affects the decisions one makes in life, certain decisions will be crossed out and unavailable to you as the game goes one.
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The game has garnered more than a bit of controversy and polarizing reactions, but most people agree that what's depicted in the game is pretty realistic with regards to the sort of things actual depressed people actually go through.
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Depression Quest is an InteractiveFiction AdventureGame developed by Zoe Quinn. It was playable for free on it's own website, but was released on Steam on August 11, 2014 for free.
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. These are reflected as answers on a multiple choice questionnaire.
The game has garnered more than a bit of controversy and polarizing reactions, but most people agree that what's depicted in the game is pretty realistic with regards to the sort of things actual depressed people actually go through.
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* CentralTheme: How you and the people around you react to and deal with your depression.
* MultipleEndings: The game has different endings that are determined bu how depressed you are at the end of it.
* RealityEnsures: To reflect the reality of how depression affects the decisions one makes in life, certain decisions will be crossed out and unavailable to you as the game goes one.
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. These are reflected as answers on a multiple choice questionnaire.
The game has garnered more than a bit of controversy and polarizing reactions, but most people agree that what's depicted in the game is pretty realistic with regards to the sort of things actual depressed people actually go through.
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!!!Tropes used in Depression Quest:
* CentralTheme: How you and the people around you react to and deal with your depression.
* MultipleEndings: The game has different endings that are determined bu how depressed you are at the end of it.
* RealityEnsures: To reflect the reality of how depression affects the decisions one makes in life, certain decisions will be crossed out and unavailable to you as the game goes one.
