Please Knock on My Door

Please Knock on My Door

2017

An uncomfortably authentic portrait of depression

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The WhatsNext verdict

For Players looking for an intimate, unflinching psychological narrative about living with depression and social anxiety.: It translates the exhausting inertia, self-doubt, and fragility of mental illness into quiet daily routines and consequential choices. Tradeoff: Its deliberately bleak atmosphere and repetitive mundane tasks can feel emotionally draining and mechanically sparse.

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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