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Mind Scanners

The Outer Zone · Brave At Night · 2021-05-20

Steam

AdventureRPGSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

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...

75%
positive of 1.5k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$16.99
steam price (US)

Greetings. Your Mind Scanner request has been approved. Your duty is to diagnose and normalize anomaly citizens. The patient list is long so don't waste your time. We’ll let you see your daughter soon...(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 197 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~25/week).
  • · Review velocity up 156% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 25% of 11,638 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 29k–66k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,462 total reviews — how this is computed.

12-month high $2.55 · on sale 5 of 7 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
15215220212026Week of 2021-05-01: 152 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$2.55$1.692026-08-062026-08-122026-08-06 — best price $1.692026-08-07 — best price $1.692026-08-08 — best price $1.692026-08-09 — best price $1.692026-08-10 — best price $1.692026-08-11 — best price $2.552026-08-12 — best price $2.55
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsRemote Play on TabletFamily Sharing1 DLC

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Danish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Polish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)9577%14
Xbox One (Xbox)7207%14
Switch (Nintendo)520%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DRPGRetroPoliticalDystopian FuturisticManagementSimulationStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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