In many games, mental disorders are very much defined as auxiliary to the characters within the game. They are used to derive a sort of mechanic and are ignored narratively as they relate to character development and seriously dealing with these topics. Games like Amnesia, Don’t Starve, and The Evil […]
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It’s no secret that I have depression. I’ve been chronically depressed my entire life, and even though it’s impacted by external events and forces, for the most part it’s just a chemical imbalance in my brain that makes me wake up mid-afternoon instead of when my alarm goes off at […]
This contains possible spoilers for The Last Guardian. It was like coming home. For a brief moment I looked around the room for my mother, or brother, or sister, or father. The people who had been around when I started the journey with these games. Shadow of the Colossus, a […]
Trigger Warning: This article contains descriptions of suicide attempts and depressive episodes. This article contains spoilers for Undertale’s Neutral and True Pacifist Route. — There’s a kid sitting on the roof of a house. They’re only two stories up, but they think they’re high enough. They’ve been up there for […]
(We were asked by a friend of the site to run this personal essay, which we present here anonymously at the author’s request. Warnings for difficult subjects like sexual abuse and depression apply.) I was sexually abused at thirteen years old. The experience left me so damaged that I wasn’t able to […]
Get the new episode! (Right click and save as to download, or hit us up on iTunes or Stitcher) This week, we talked games and mental illness with Philippe A. Ménard, a scriptwriter at Ubisoft Montreal, among other things, who recently held forth on anxiety and depression in gamers at […]