Please Knock on My Door

Please Knock on My Door

2017

An uncomfortably authentic portrait of depression

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The WhatsNext verdict

Please Knock on My Door is a powerful, unusually honest interactive portrait of depression rather than a conventional adventure. Play it if you want a brief, thoughtful experience about mental illness and can handle its very dark themes.

What it does best

  • An uncomfortably authentic portrait of depression

  • Small choices with genuinely heavy consequences

  • A game that makes depression part of the player’s control

What might put you off

  • Extremely heavy subject matter

  • Very short and mechanically limited

The setup

What you are walking into

A summary of every emotion you'd rather lock away and forget.

Where it lives

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Genre

Indie

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