# Depression Quest

Summer DB entity ID: 26b89acd\-c0ae\-43c3\-b392\-5974bea6fd59

Steam App ID: 270170

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\. 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\.     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\.    Multiple endings\.  See how your choices affected the game's world, and how well you've managed 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\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: The Quinnspiracy, Patrick Lindsey, Isaac Schankler

- Publisher: The Quinnspiracy

- Release date: Aug 11, 2014

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: true

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Free To Play, Indie, RPG, Simulation

- Categories: Single\-player, Full controller support, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/270170/ss\_3dfbe9351e77e08658a91e64697ad93ea01def18\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1447359786, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/270170/ss\_cdb2481e952ca9a97073a50efc5f3b3e296ac8ad\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1447359786, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/270170/ss\_f4fe535f4a95ef45fd85c1cdabe65f09c2404c70\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1447359786, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/270170/ss\_79c81a7f945c94c9b0931e9069c78eadf1894e64\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1447359786, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/270170/ss\_61abc910238ba568768f0a62943d5c86c381a95b\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1447359786

- Price: Not collected

- Price country: Not collected

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 2

- Steam review count: 4008

- Steam positive reviews: 2432

- Steam negative reviews: 1576

- Steam positive percentage: 60.678642714570856%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/26b89acd-c0ae-43c3-b392-5974bea6fd59/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/26b89acd-c0ae-43c3-b392-5974bea6fd59/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-21T22:52:32\.20119\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-21T22:52:33\.503417\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-21T22:52:33\.251425\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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