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Greetings. Your Mind Scanner request has been approved. Your duty is to diagnose and treat the citizens of The Structure. The patient list is long so don't waste your time. We’ll let you see your daughter soon...

Mind Scanners is a time management, dystopian and political game developed by The Outer Zone and published by Brave At Night.
Released on May 20th 2021 is available on Windows and MacOS in 7 languages: English, French, German, Danish, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Polish.

It has received 1,169 reviews of which 907 were positive and 262 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 13.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.72€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Mind Scanners into these genres:

Time Management Dystopian Political Simulation Multiple Endings 2D RPG Singleplayer Futuristic Atmospheric Management Choices Matter Story Rich Pixel Graphics Retro Strategy Political Sim Adventure Choose Your Own Adventure Psychological

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 or later
  • Processor: Intel Core i5
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 550/equivalent or higher
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
MacOS
  • OS: MacOS 10.12.6
  • Processor: Intel Core m3
  • Memory: 4 MB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel HD Graphics
  • Storage: 300 MB available space

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May 2025
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.
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Feb. 2025
Fun and paced nicely, though I don't think its difficulty scales very well, even on the later days with more difficult mini games and supplementary patient illnesses. There are hard choices to make that suck away your resources, but with enough practice the mini games grow easy, even repetitive. Thus, the weight of your choices don't have a lot at stake. While I appreciate the visual design of Mind Scanners, its gameplay loop isn't quite as meaty as it could be. Nonetheless, the game does not overstay its welcome, so the repetition of what you're doing isn't as hard to swallow. Regarding its story, you are again the sand in the machine of an evil fascistic regime, and the rebels make lots of mistakes that are I guess worth it in the end, but you never really see their interactions with the people of The Structure. You're mostly just told that the ruling class is oppressing everyone, and all you really know is that people get exiled for treason. I wish more games that feature a "movement of the people" showed more people. While I found state-sponsored mental healthcare hilariously the most fantastical piece of the world, it feels like there's a disconnect between what you're doing and the goals of the state. It seems they would rather you erase the personalities of all your patients (who are potential threats to the state) but that also seems to remove their labor potential, which the state also requires to survive. The state doesn't seem to care one way or another if you're erasing personalities, it's just up to you if you want to go the extra mile. Surprisingly, for a game where you're against autocratic regime, there isn't enough conflict. From a gameplay perspective, it's mainly "do I have the ability to play mini games fast and well enough to avoid ruining peoples' lives?" The moral choices aren't weighty enough, probably because the focus is about rescuing your daughter, but a more antagonistic force that's more forthcoming with putting heavy decisions in front of you could've made this story stronger.
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Jan. 2025
Fun game and interesting satire of basing mental health care on deviance from normality instead of what a person really needs.
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Oct. 2024
A "Papers, please"-esque game, which is also set in a dystopian state with a government that see it's people like individual cogs in a great machine for the greater good. The greater good being "the normality of the mind". Where in papers, please you deal with the bureaucracy of a state with ever changeing directives for you to remember and follow with continues small exceptions to also have in mind, thus being a game of memory and speed. This game is more about minigames, here you get to decide if a person is sane or insane depending on if they are against the state, feeling like they are on a different planet, are an abusive father or a leader of some obscure sect. Depending of your, the good doctor, mind read and diagnosis you later get to try to remove each persons affliction by doing the different minigames. Through out the game you get to upgrade and get different equipment or pills to assist you in your treatment of the mind. I really appreciated this version of a desk based bureaucrat, where not having to memorize the game rules gives it way more avaliability for any player with difficulty in this region. Allowing everybody to experience the dystopian state of the Structure. Also, the game has about 9 different endings to experience depening on your decisions in the game. Choice matter.
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July 2024
Rather short, but good. Either the game play will click for you as you zone out and just hit that post dad game vibe, or it absolutely won't. In the same style of games of papers please, but not the same genre, or pace. Give it a shot, or don't. I'm not your mum.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Mind Scanners is currently priced at 13.99€ on Steam.

Mind Scanners is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 13.99€ on Steam.

Mind Scanners received 907 positive votes out of a total of 1,169 achieving a rating of 7.43.
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Mind Scanners was developed by The Outer Zone and published by Brave At Night.

Mind Scanners is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Mind Scanners is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Mind Scanners is not playable on Linux.

Mind Scanners is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for Mind Scanners. Explore additional content available for Mind Scanners on Steam.

Mind Scanners does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Mind Scanners supports Remote Play on Tablet. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.

Mind Scanners is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Mind Scanners
13.99€ -95% 13.99€ 0.72€
7.4
907
262
Game modes
Features
Online players
3
Developer
The Outer Zone
Publisher
Brave At Night
Release 20 May 2021
Platforms
Remote Play
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