What other games should be aadded to the list?
Life is Strange
Persona 2 IS and EP.
Spec ops the line
Dota 2
CSGO
>>344857186
What this guy said. Also maybe some SMT games. It's literally expected that if you have friends in SMT there's at least one outcome where you'll murder them all.
Add MGS3 as well. That ending hit me pretty hard the first time through.
>>344857094
Those arent depressing you dumbass
Theyre comfy
>>344857193
>Dota 2
>CSGO
No, that's angercore.
>>344857307
MGS3 is the least depressing of all MGS games.
>>344857094
>Essential
>Has The Walking Dead, FFX, Heavy Rain and Final Fantasy
>Has none of Pathologic, The Void, Gods Will Be Watching, Sunless Sea, or VtM: Bloodlines
Who made this? A philistine?
>>344857331
depressing != depression i.e. melancholia, you dumb faggot.
those games have a general melancholic theme/atmosphere
>>344857498
No they dont you oversensitive fucking projector
>>344857094
Yakuza 5
>>344857094
>Tfw you liked 9/10 of these
I don't get why a TV show is on there. But I agree with everything >>344857307 said
LISA desu
>>344857602
Depression Quest
>>344857094
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>No LISA
Oh shit nigger what are you doing
>png
>Dark Souls
Change that to Bloodborne
TLoU is a pretty downer game from start to finish.
>muhh childhood nostalgia masquerading as depression
Nah faggot you're wrong
>>344857574
>You're the only moneylender the Yakuzawould ever bow to
my FUCKING dick
>>344857498
OP said depression not depressing. like it would be possible to differentiate between the two in a fucking videogame unless it was literally depression quest
Metro 1 and 2.
>>344857365
Really? MGS1 ends pretty hopefully despite what could happen to Snake. MGS2 ends in a weird spot where you don't know what to believe, but at least Raiden and Snake seemingly make it out. MGS4 ends with Snake not committing suicide, Big Boss finally passing on, Meryl getting married, Otacon and Sunny seemingly okay, and everything somewhat worked out.
MGS3 ends with you completing your mission which required the death of a motherly/mentor figure, feeling betrayed by your country, EVA making off with the item, and the final moments having Snake saluting Boss' grave with tears in his eyes. How is that the least depressing of the games? Perhaps the least depressing during the main part, but within the ending it's easily the saddest.
Needs Max Payne on that list too.
>>344857867
>>344857365
>Forgetting MGS4
Fucking depressing as shit
>>344857919
I had a dream of my wife. She was dead, but it was alright
>>344857094
i think the general insanity of E.Y.E cpuld be seen as psychotic depression, seeing as the game's about guilt, also put yume nikki and .flow up there, also the lain psx game and the evangelion game
>>344857935
I talked about MGS4. It would be super depressing if the ending didn't try to wrap everything up in an awkward, sickly sweet manner with shit like CQC hugs and Meryl getting married. The game overall was rather sad, but other than Snake's suffering it wasn't that bad.
Harvest Moon 64
but it's not quite the same idea as that of op image
The word depression gets thrown around far too much now days, you have one shit day at work/school and suddenly you're depressed.
Anyway i'd add GZ/PP to the list as they're both stories of loss, something that I think almost everybody with mental illness can relate to.
>>344857919
Fucking this. Max had a shitty life.
Spec ops the line
>>344857094
Not memeing.
But honestly E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy.
Undertale
>>344858125
>Kojima removing shit characters established in Piss Wanker
>depressing
>not fucking joyous
>people with mental illnesses can relate to
everyone has lost something you fucking retard, not just autistic no like full grown adult male weeaboo neets like you
>>344858238
someone had to say it
>>344858238
This, it's fucking depressing that there's a large fanbase of autists that think this "game" has a good and deep story when literally everything it does is not original at all
Dota 2
>>344857094
>Mother 3 and FF VII
>Depressive
FFVII has a very depressive tone but it ends with the good guys saving the world, and Mother 3 is all but depressive for god's sake, yeah your mother dies but in a ridiculous scene and you didn't even get time to give a shit about the character, and the ending may seem depressing but even the fucking credits literally tell you everyone survived and had a happy life.
Also, WHERE THE HELL IS THE VOID, PATHOLOGIC AND STALKER? Slavs are the true kings of depression, probably because their own lives are shit.
All the max payne games. Even the third, as much as I dislike it
Anything icepick lodge
Persona 3 mixes comfy and depressing
LISA
Take out majora btw
>all these plebs not knowing about the real hardcore shit
Remove FFX and add Saya no Uta
>>344857094
>FFX
Why?
To the moon and papo & yo if indieshit counts
>>344857094
I have diagnosed depression and I deal with it, but I started playing max payne 3 recently and it just made it worse, I think this is worthy of depressioncore
>>344858764
MY NIGGA
This game is depressing as fuck
Lost souls are like that. They are heavy. You let your soul go, and it sinks. The life of a man is a chain of Voids, and the lifetime of each Void is short. Color runs out, the soul leaves, and everything falls into slumber.
>>344857094
Parapappa the rapper
Doesn't Bloodborne fit a bit better than Dark Souls here?
>>344858881
Fuckingspoilers, tovarich
lost odyssey
>>344857784
I love Akiyama, best character in the series.
>>344857094
>FF10
How big of an pussy can you be? Everything else is ok I guess but what the fuck.
>>344857094
add Wii U to that list
>>344858938
Depends on how you look at it. Bloodborne is dark and has people going crazy 24/7, but Dark Souls is about people losing hope and going hollow. Losing hope and drive is the entire basis of the curse. Add to it the fact that you explore dead societies that have either been abandoned or taken over by the curse, leaving behind just remains of once amazing cities. Whereas something like Yharnam is crazed but is certainly not abandoned or hopeless.
Bloodborne is about exploring the madness and an ongoing plague. Dark Souls is about exploring what remains after everything is dead and long gone. I'd say the latter is much more depressing.
>>344858805
>To the moon
That isn't depressing. Sad at some parts but that's it. Cheerful ending too.
>>344858792
>Saya no Uta
How is it depressing? Shit happens but it ain't depressing at all.
999/VLR/ZTD desu
For something extra video gamey, Lost Odyssey
>>344858876
Did you get good?
I can't save frogs for shit.
I can barely survive myself.
>>344858514
The Void seems interesting, there aren't too many purgatory themed games out there.
where is pathologic
The Darkness
>>344859019
>>344859196
the dream sequences in lost odyssey were too much for me
Mighty no. 9
>>344857638
Slut, please...
>>344857094
>Final Fantasy VII/X
>Heavy Rain
Jesus fucking Christ
I still haven't recovered from that ending.
Limbo is a pretty overrated game. I just got a big pretentious vibe from it, I also got the same from Braid, but at least that game had interesting puzzles, now in Limbo you just walk to the right, solve some extremely easy stuff and watch the creepy huge spider coming at you.
I honestly feel that whenever I finish a good game, I get depressed. Especially long RPGs
>>344857094
>Dark Souls
>Not Demon's Souls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI33I5rGAuE
>>344859656
This, heavy rain is more retarded than actually depressive, same with FFX but to a lesser extent.
I dunno. Super Metroid maybe?
>>344859758
Astraea is such a fucking dirty whore.
>>344859758
It's only this one boss, rest is okay and not as depressing. Plus Dark souls world is fucked but Bloodborne should've been there anyway
add pic related to the list
watching band of brothers/the pacific
something about depressing realistic war that helps depression
>>344857094
This
>>344859919
>Forgetting the crestfallen warrior that slowly loses his mind until he disappears leaving his soul behind
>>344860254
Gaunter O'Dimm?
>>344860254
That happens in every souls game.
What makes him special?
>>344857094
>Heavy Rain
>>344857094
Pic related.
something about bully is really depressing
the ambient soundtrack, washed colors, everyone is cynical and hates everyone else, and just the overall atmosphere.
>STALKER
>Pathologic
>The Void
Slavs know the bleakness.
>>344860443
It doesn't in DS2.
Fucking DS2.
>>344857094
>ffx
>ffvii
>heavy shawwwwn
>the walking simulator
wew lad
>>344860495
This part got to me especially.
>>344857094
Heavy Rain is too goofy/poorly executed to be depressing,
>>344860495
>title that you can't read
stupid af
>>344857094
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hrqqld2Aew
It's been mentioned before but LISA's my suggestion, including the first game and the DLC.
Don't know if it's been mentioned too, but 'the static speaks my name', also known as suicide simulator
http://store.steampowered.com/app/387860
Planescape Torment
Persona 3
Minecraft singleplayer
undertale
>>344857094
Try Papers please
Dear Esther
>inb4 2deep4u walking simulator
>>344857094
Majora's Mask is the absolute nihilism-core.
>>344861621
It is LITERALLY that.
>>344861621
2deep4u walking simulator
>>344857094
grim fandango
ace combat assault horizon
those touched me
>>344861520
>Minecraft singleplayer
this
it will make you rethink your life
>>344857094
Terranigma
>>344857094
FFX isn't entirely fitting. It's fairly upbeat most of the game, and even the ending is bittersweet.
>>344859196
When are they putting out 999 on steam?
>>344862121
Tomorrow. Didn't you hear?
>>344861914
Seconding this.
>>344857094
>The Warriors
Inside
Spec Ops
MaxPayne1&2&3
SimCity 4
Project Zomboid
>>344861543
ALSO THIS
Quake, definitely.
The soundtrack is made by NIN for fuck's sake.
>>344857356
At this point dota is no more angercore, you should have see me yesterday at 4am when we were winning and our clinkz decided to fucking throw the game for NO REASON after a 55 minutes game...
This War Of Mine
literal depression simulator
>depression-core games
>implying depressed people play video games
>>344865712
What is escapism?
>>344866727
>being able to escape depression with just video games
Thats not depression.
American Mcgee's alice, maybe.
>>344858514
Bro. The ending was an inside joke.
Everyone died at the end. Lucas killed his brother, and killed everyone.
>>344857094
VP1-2. Though its more like sadcore.
>>344857674
Came here to post this
>>344865712
Never seen spoony stream? I'm just waiting for him to kill himself desu
>>344857307
Either MGS4 or MGSV. I'd say 4 is the most bleak.
>>344867235
Its different because its his work.
You see depressed people do their job all the time.
>>344857094
Halo 3 ODST
>>344857186
Seconded
Katawa Shoujo
>>344857094
GTA 4
SMT3
LISA
PAPERS PLEASE
>>344857094
Metro Last Light/2033
INSIDE
The first Dark Souls
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Gone Home
>>344857094
Bastion
>>344859919
Nah, I'd say Demon's Souls world/lore is more fucked and depressing than Dark Souls. Religious people worship a god that eats their souls, and no matter what, it seems like everything is going to be shitty forever.
>>344857094
Stalker
>>344867068
MORE AMERICAN MCGEE ALICE WHEN
>>344857094
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
>>344865613
game really isn't that depressing desu
nor is the atmosphere even that good
there are some moments where things actually stick, like your kid asking for food, and then another pair of kids coming to the door and asking for food
but due to the way the game works, these moments become way more annoying than depressing or sad
>>344860815
>tfw david cage stole the "Detective Shelby who murders a girl" idea from an episode of fucking Frasier
>>344857094
this has to be the worst list i've ever seen
>>344860815
It's still very melancholy. The goofy moments really just add to the melancholy since that's also quite a common way to deal.
>>344857094
yeah metro
and dead space 1
Skyrim
>>344857094
>ffvii
It's not depressing pussy
>heavy rain
More like an unintentional comedy movie
>sotc is depressing
fucking pussy
>dark souls is depressing
do you have problems that you call every game depressing.
>limo is depressing
Get the fuck out of here
>>344872437
you sound autistic
>>344857094
What starts off as a weird cool thing gets really, really dour towards the end.
What are some good games to play while feeling down /v/?
>>344872437
Go spread you asperger somewhere else plz.
low quality bait
>>344872773
silent hill 4
>>344872459
>>344872836
not my fault your list is shit
>>344857094
The Cat Lady should be at the top
>>344857094
Most Tale of Tales games eg The Path, Graveyard
Shelter
Most Ice Pick games eg Pathologic, The Void
Heaps of those flash games; Everyday the same dream, I can hold my breath forever, I fell in love with the majesty of colours etc
Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Winter Voices
The Cat Lady
some endings for Planescape Torment, Arcanum and Mask of the Betrayer
Rule of Rose
Kentucky Route Zero
The Static Speaks My Name
The Wolf Among Us
You have to burn the rope is great for a pick me up
>>344858764
What is this? It looks like iOS.
>>344858115
looking back, that game does have an eerie vibe to it.
>>344860495
More like NosurGAYYYYYYY
>>344858881
The dream of the future you see dissolves
And with time so does the apprehension
The world under sun is no exception
And all you see around you evolves
New traits in things familiar can be sensed
But futile is hope without fruition
The grief you knew begets no vision
The happiness you felt becomes regret
Winter fades and takes its cold and storm
Spring revives the world with love and warmth
But still the law: all things decay and age
Vanity itself won’t dry your tears
And so you fear as your time draws near
The world will turn but never change
>>344857094
>No depression quest
![eye_artwork_013[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/VrBxGFd.jpg "eye_artwork_013[1].jpg")
Is E.Y.E. depression core? What with the cycles of guilt and all.
>>344858797
Have you played it? The whole game revolves around death and loss. Everyone of the main cast has either lost something or loses something dear to them throughout the course of the game. In the grand scheme of things, except for the end, nothing upbeat happens during the whole game. It fits the theme very well.
>>344857094
>fecal fantasy
hilarious m8
what meds are you guys on
>>344874307
would you fuckin cyber nerds stop pushing that game everywhere, if it was going to catch on it would of by now.
dragon quest 5
>>344857094
Dark souls is somewhat comfy, i feel it dont belong in that list
>>344873238
Fucking right. Even thoughvtge endung is "good" I have yet to experience a game that nails the feeling of being depressed and the wanting to kill yoyrself multiple times in a very hurtful and gorey way.
>>344874596
Filthy Jian scum.
>>344874476
>what meds are you guys on
Beer and weed.
>>344874476
I have a job, a lovely girlfriend (maybe my wife in a couple of years) and mom is proud of me, yet, I feel dead inside. I'm pretty sure depression is a mental illness at this point. I'll visit a doctor one day so he can give me pills to fix my fucking brain.
>>344874476
Im not, Im afraid if I get on aome they wont let me join the military.
>>344857094
What is depression core?
Games to play while depressed?
Games that cause depression?
Games that have a depressing atmosphere?
>>344857094
>/depression/ core
>>344875209
You're right on that
>>344875439
Yeah...I know.
>>344875346
Games that have a depressive atmosphere and/or lore
>>344857094
LISA
OFF
>>344875206
We are in the same boat.
>>344874476
Just quit celexa and I actually feel better now. I just kinda force myself to enjoy things and I think it's beginning to work.
>>344857094
Demon's Crest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOzkzx1RKgw
>>344857094
>Majoria's mask
>worth playing
That game was hipster trash and a cheap knockoff of Ocerania of Time and everyone knows it.
>>344864453
Stop playing shitty games then retard.
>>344874476
For anxiety? Sertraline. I'm made to take other stuff too, though.And I'm certain that my health being fucked has nothing to do with the fact that my grandparents were cousins.
>Heavy Rain
But it's the funniest game ever made.
>>344857193
I do agree with spec ops, that game made me want to go take a cold shower
>>344857094
>Final Fantasy, Shadow of the Colossus, and Walking Dead are ACTUALLY listed in a /depression/ core thread
>>344876962
SotC belongs there
>>344857094
Inside should now replace limbo
>>344877108
i dont believe it, its more melancholic than depressing
>no Ice-Pick Lodge
The Void is probably the closest you can get to actual depression without having it.
>>344877248
Mate. Mate come on.
Does I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream count? I was pretty bummed out for a few days after playing it.
AC V pretty much confirms no matter your choice in FA, everyone fucking dies. The only difference is whether it's by your hand or not.
STASIS , the whole game is just all betrayal, doom and gloom.
>>344874476
Adderall
>>344874476
Pristique
>>344877389
ACV was a shit heap.
>>344857804
Half of those games are neither depressing or feature a sense of depression
Seems more like a list of games you play when it's raining outside when comfy
>>344877468
>I'm on adderall
>I'm going to an engineering college in two months
Looks like I'll be making bank with this shit
>no Yume Nikki
Also maybe My Summer Car when it releases
>>344877504
Yeah but that's not the point. V and VD are set years after FA when everything has gone to shit. It doesn't matter if Strayed murder the dozens of millions in the arks, they fucking die anyway.
>>344876443
It's okay to like OoT over MM. I enjoyed some of the sense of hopelessness and pointlessness of everything I do being reset besides keeping the rewards.
>>344874476
Hot lead moving at incredibly hihg speed.
Not as depressing as the short story, but still
>this thread
Not one of these games has made me feel depressed except for the ones that are so good that I get sad when the credits roll.
>>344875206
It's not a mental illness, its a mindset. The people who take meds are weak.
>Shawn and Jason yelling simulator
>depressing
What did he mean by this?
>>344857094
>Mother 3
>Shadow of the Colossus
>Final Fantasy X
>FF7
>"depression"-core
>>344857094
Yeah I was feeling a bit down after playing Limbo because of how shit it was.
A game having a few sad moments doesn't make it depressing
>>344879080
You kill yourself twice.
You even commit assisted suicide.
>>344878907
>i havent played any of these but I'am going to spout my opinion like i have anyway
Where the fuck is Max Payne 2 ?
>>344878247
You might have a case of low empathy.
I'm sorry.
Changes that need to be done:
>FFX
LISA
>Limbo
Sunless Sea
>Heavy Rain
Pathologic
RYSE: SON OF ROME
D2
>>344857094
>ffx
>depression
>laughing like Tidus
Deadly Premonition
>>344857094
>Heavy Rain
Unless you mean depressing as in destroyed potential and being a complete piece of shit then yeah, real depressing.
>>344879564
I've played them all
And while they are tragic in nature (which only Shadow of the Colossus ends in) the other games don't really encapsulate hopelessness.
You want depression core, play Bloodborne or even fucking .Hack// or Lisa.
Mother 3 has tearjerking moments and depressing moments but the whole game itself doesn't encapsulate or leave you feeling depressed in any fucking way.
I made a different list, What else should I add?
>>344857094
>no Stalker
What the fuck.
>>344883010
>Metal Gear Solid 3
As much as I hate to recommend, I feel like MGS4 deserves that spot more. It was depressing as hell seeing Snake as an old nicotine addict having to deal with the realization that he's fucking old, and a potential bio-hazardous bomb that might kill anyone close to him with his Foxdie
>>344874476
none desu
my diet was a fucking disaster, my doctor didn't give a fuck so i pretty much had to spend a lot of time making a change
desu i feel much better now but sometimes it creeps back
>>344878247
might want to ask your doctor if you have autism desu neko chan
>>344883010
what's the point of making a list if you're going to actually make it worse
>metro 2033 and metro last light isnt in the OP pic
>instead its mostly games that are aggravating because they are so shitty
Man, I am dissapointed in you.
>>344874476
None.
I tried taking meds back last fall when I was breaking out of being a NEET. I didn't take meds 7 years prior due to side effects ruining me, I've been doing better since I've got a job and moved.
I still feel depressed. I'm more stressed than usual and I have gray hairs to show it. What's worse is I'm slowly losing my voice.
FFX's ending is still one of the most depressing endings in FF
>tfw Yuna tries to hug Tidus but falls right through him and lies on the ground looking like she's about to cry
>>344874476
Meditation, or at the very least frequent mindfulness. It has worked better than any drug I was on, because I've learned to recognize which thoughts make me depressed and then challenge their validity. Feels bretty gewd desu
>tfw used to be very depressed around 4 years ago
>was mostly into music
>everyone who shared similar interest in music was a normalfag without crippling anxiety (opposite of me)
>started ditching school
>started buying/playing video games more
>started browsing 4chan often
>got over depression
>way better socially than I ever was before
>slightly more lazy and lacking in long term goals
>all at the cost of not graduating
Thanks, video games! And thank YOU, /v/!Thanks for reading my blog.
