Depression The Game
Skip · Strategy · 2018
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 21, under the fair line, at $1.99.
- Length
- 0.5h 0.7h to 100%
- Value
- $3.98/hr
- Reviews
- 69% of 307 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 830 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Depression The Game is an interactive game simulating major depression. You are joining a young man on one of his really bad days trying to handle his thoughts and survive that day... Will he?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX11 Compatible GPU with 1 GB Video RAM, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 43 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 119 weeks ago.
It is cheaper than 86 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 74 percent. On the same math While We Wait Here ($4.99, scores 75) and KARMA: The Dark World ($24.99, scores 62) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Depression The Game
Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 228 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 88 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
78% start to 32% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
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2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
ich hasse mein Leben. Ich hab weg von meinen Eltern gefahren, aber ich hatte zurueck gekommen. Because I couldnt stand the feelings of guilt even though they are the worst people I know. I planned to starve myself to death. Coming back, nothing changed for the better. It only got worse. Every day means nothing. I dont fit in with anyone. I hate my body. Im losing hope of things. Nothing is fun anymore. My old...
Overview: So this review will talk about the positives and negatives of this game. The comments are mostly negative however as this game was laughably bad when going through it, when you were to supposed engage with the character in this game and understand what he is feeling. This was basically impossible in this game, due to the many many issues with the models, the design of the house, etc. Audio was jank at...
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Cite this score
Depression The Game scores 21/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/881920/depression-the-gameReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.