Discomfort Zone

Discomfort Zone is a 2D pixel-art narrative game about depression, anxiety disorder, despair, and recovery. The game takes a realistic, un-filtered, and at times uncomfortably personal look at depression and anxiety disorder through the eyes of someone dealing with these conditions, promoting understanding and sharing the experience with a wider audience. The game deals with many themes related to depression and anxiety: worry, loneliness, and self-deprecating thoughts, but also hope and finding the strength, when all seems lost, to keep going.

Released

2018 · see every game from that year

Modes

Single player

Perspective

Bird view / Isometric · Text

Engine

Bitsy

• Alex TomkowDeveloper · Publisher

• Drama
• Non-fiction
• anxiety
• art game
• depression
• mental health
• mental illness
• narrative

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