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Mind Scanners

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

SteamGOGEpic Games StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureRPGSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Nov 30, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Nov 30, 2021 (Xbox Series X|S), Nov 30, 2021 (Xbox One), May 20, 2021 (Mac), May 20, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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 an Adventure, RPG, Simulation, and Strategy game released in 2021, priced at $16.99, with an estimated 0 .. 20,000 owners and Mostly Positive (75% of 1462 reviews).

75%
positive of 1.5k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
64/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$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 11% of 29,241 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 30k–67k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,480 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$16.99
Microsoft Store$16.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.01 at Steam (2026-05-25) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $16.99 · on sale 30 of 88 observed days · $15.98 above the all-time low (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

$16.99$1.692021-05-202026-10-152021-05-20 — best price $15.292021-09-13 — best price $11.892021-11-15 — best price $16.992022-01-24 — best price $11.892022-03-28 — best price $11.042022-06-28 — best price $16.992022-09-06 — best price $16.992022-12-01 — best price $16.992023-01-30 — best price $16.992023-03-20 — best price $7.642023-07-28 — best price $16.992023-11-16 — best price $7.642024-01-04 — best price $16.992024-02-14 — best price $6.792024-03-21 — best price $16.992024-05-30 — best price $16.992024-07-20 — best price $16.992024-09-09 — best price $5.092024-10-21 — best price $5.092024-12-12 — best price $16.992025-01-16 — best price $16.992025-03-13 — best price $4.242025-06-27 — best price $3.392025-09-12 — best price $3.392025-10-20 — best price $3.392025-12-23 — best price $2.542026-03-02 — best price $3.392026-04-03 — best price $16.992026-07-09 — best price $16.992026-08-11 — best price $2.552026-09-06 — best price $16.992026-09-14 — best price $16.992026-09-22 — best price $16.992026-09-30 — best price $16.992026-10-08 — best price $16.992026-10-15 — best price $16.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

14
achievements tracked
14.4%
earned "Exiled"
4.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsRemote Play on TabletFamily Sharing1 DLC

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

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-05-20 (Steam store data)

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.

Recent updates

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