While not the rosiest of topics, depression affects a lot of people, and media that portrays what it’s really like can be cathartic as much as it can be somber. Their interactivity makes them an ideal platform for doing so it’s easy to read about depression in a book or see it in a film, but interacting with it firsthand is much more visceral.
Video games have never shied away from portraying mental illness. Survive a nightmarish mirror world full of monsters.
