Emotional Damage
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Emotional Damage is a unique 2D side-scrolling shooter where you face off against an unrelenting therapist, launching question-based attack patterns designed to break your mental defenses. As the Ego, you must equip defense mechanisms like Rationalisation, Projection, and Dissociation and more to deflect the questions and protect your emotional cores.
Navigate waves of psychological onslaughts with strategic planning, quick reflexes, and a dash of dark humour. The game features an escalating dialogue system where every round unearths deeper layers of introspection (or avoidance), culminating in a final showdown against your own psyche. Will you emerge victorious or come undone?
Inspired by my own experiences with psychodynamic therapy.
Gameplay tips
Easy difficulty is for anyone not interested in a challenge but perhaps more interested in the dialogue. Normal and Hard should encourage you to use all your abilities during combat. (I heavily recommend hard) :)
Press Escape or Pause on a controller to reach the Pause menu whenever the bottom left icon is green and active. Tutorials and control info are in the pause menu!
If you find yourself having any trouble playing it here, please try one of the downloads for Windows or Mac on itch.io.