Mind Scanners
Mind Scanners is a retro-futuristic psychiatry simulation in which you diagnose the citizens of a dystopian metropolis. Locate a host of other-worldly characters and use arcade-style treatment devices to help them. Manage your time and resources to keep The Structure in balance. Remember, you take full responsibility for your patients.
- Manage your time and resources to aid the citizens of The Structure
- Diagnose your patients by analyzing their views of the world
- Operate and master a variation of arcade-style devices to treat your patients
- Spend your ₭apok and science points to develop new devices
- Face difficult moral choices and ethical dilemmas
- Report the resistance group Moonrise or join them to help their cause
- Gain the trust of The Structure if you want to see your daughter again
The meteor came. And from it, the survivors learned to harness the power source known as Zygnoka. In the next forty years, the megacity known as The Structure was erected inside the impact crater. Here, the people isolated themselves, accelerating their dependence on technology and created a society as a machine of its own.
In The Structure, order and efficiency is maintained by severe top-down control. In the name of efficiency, new machines and instruments are put to use on the public the instant they are invented. In pursuit of optimisation, a new profession is tasked to maintain the increasingly precarious anomaly levels of the city’s inhabitants. These are called Mind Scanners.
Game Discussion
Steam User 17
Repairing the mind may be mechanical, but the ethics it damages are deeply human.
Steam User 7
Fun game and interesting satire of basing mental health care on deviance from normality instead of what a person really needs.
Steam User 6
Mental health is not a joke and is very important in this day and age. So take care of yourself and your loved ones. And also play this game, it's very good.
Steam User 6
This feels like a variation of papers please. This starts out as your daughter is taken by "The Structure" and you need to work
along side them to control the population and free them of their "Personalities" and make them like sheep Lmao.
It is repetitive.However, if you are a fan of papers please, you will love this game.
6/10. Maybe would play again if im bored.
Steam User 6
Good game overall. While the minigames can get a tad repetitive (which isn't great considering that's basically all of the gameplay), the world created by Mind Scanners makes it more than appealing enough to keep you hooked.
I also personally liked the game's take on the "dystopian society" trope. While it's still plenty dystopian its characters feel more multidimensional. Additionally, while act of mind scanning and "treating" patients in the way depicted in this game would be horrifying in real life, it doesn't feel like EVERYTHING you do is overtly evil within the confines of the game's world. There are times where your treatment protocol genuinely seems to improve the lives of people you treat; a rarity in games like these. I'd love to see a more fleshed out sequel in this series in the future.
Steam User 5
Here is my review for Mind Scanners:
This game draws heavy inspiration from Papers Please. Yet instead of having one increasingly complex task, you have multiple tasks to constantly switch between. There is an authoritarian government you are employed by, and your role is to zap mental illness out of people. You find out that there's also a revolutionist group who want to overthrow the dictatorship. The government has your daughter and you have bills to pay. So you go and diagnose people with crazy, and zap their brain meat. This has the unfortunate side effect of destroying their personality and making these folks into husks of themselves. However, you do get paid for each person you zap. Each day has a time limit, and at the end of each day you have to pay rent. So you're continually forced to decide... Do you zap people to make money? Do you invest your time & rent money into upgrading your tools so that people don't lose themselves? Do you align yourself with the government or the revolution? Or do you only strive to save your daughter? I found it enjoyable and it got quite tense near the end.
Overall, this is a grim reminder that even in dystopian worlds... rent never stops.
Steam User 6
original
worth it on sale
bad: winning on higher difficulties doesn't unlock achievements for winning on lower ones