Fractured Minds
Fractured Minds is an immersive artistic short game, exploring anxiety and mental health issues. Winner of the BAFTA Young Game Designers Award, Fractured Minds is a game created by 17-year-old Emily Mitchell…
Fractured Minds is an adventure developed by Emily M Games, released 14 November 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Mac.
What Fractured Minds is
Fractured Minds is an adventure game developed by Emily M Games and released in 2019. It was published by Wired Productions. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Fractured Minds is an immersive artistic short game, exploring anxiety and mental health issues. Winner of the BAFTA Young Game Designers Award, Fractured Minds is a game created by 17-year-old Emily Mitchell, with the hope of aiding understanding and awareness of mental illness. Embark on a journey through the human psyche and experience six atmospheric and thought-provoking chapters, each symbolising a different aspect or challenge associated with mental health issues; from isolation to anxiety, with everyday situations being distorted beyond recognition. Raw, emotive and earnest, Fractured Minds demonstrates that video games are capable of communicating vital messages in imaginative…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are educational and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Fractured Minds launched on 14 November 2019, within three weeks of Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds and Persona 5 Royal. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds, Persona 5 Royal.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Quick answers
Fractured Minds — frequently asked questions
When did Fractured Minds come out?
If you like this
