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December 17, 2023 - Day 351 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 371

Game: Mind Scanners

Platform: Steam
Release Date: May 20, 2021
Installation Date: Aug 31, 2022
Unplayed: 473d (1y3m17d)
Playtime: 1h15m

MInd Scanners is a 2D pixel-art game about psychotherapy in a dystopian society.

The game is set in a society where everything within the walled city in which you live is tightly controlled, while outside the walls, people are gathering.

This society is seemingly run by some kind of AI system, and that system has locked up your daughter for being mentally ill.

You take a job as one of the titular "mind scanners", with a goal of infiltrating "The Structure" to get to your daughter.

You're sent out each day with your little machine, which runs a "mindscan" on each target, allowing you to declare them "sane" or "insane".

If "insane", you play a series of minigames with each minigame targeting a particular type of "insanity" to proceed through a process of "curing" them.

I kept playing as long as I did in the hope of "rescuing my daughter", but the game ultimately became repetitive and boring, feeling like I was just treading water waiting for the next story beat.

This is another game whether the game didn't rise above the pixel art, and the subtext of the game just made me feel icky.

In spite of spending over an hour playing Mind Scanners, I wish I could get that hour back; it's a:

1: Nope

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