PLEASE GIVE SOME TIME TO LOAD. IT CAN TAKE A MINUTE.

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.

Medium and Hard should encourage you to use all your abilities during combat.

(I heavily recommend hard) :)

(If you find yourself having any trouble with the Web GL version, please try one of the downloads for Windows or Mac).

Credits:

Concept, Direction, Game Design, Programming, Art & Animation

Jacob M Wolf

Office Environment & Character Art

Rachinta Platts

All Title Art

George Coffey

Lead Composer and Assistant SFX

Rowan Matthews

Assistant Boss Animation

Szymon Kwinto

Combat Composer

James Willets