Mind Scanners (2021) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Mind Scanners

Mind Scanners is a retro-futuristic management game in which you diagnose the citizens of a dystopian metropolis. Locate a host of other-worldly characters and use arcade-style treatment devices to help them…

70 20 May 2021

What Mind Scanners is

Mind Scanners is an adventure game developed by The Outer Zone and released in 2021. It was published by Brave At Night. It is available on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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...

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Mind Scanners holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 4 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Mind Scanners launched on 20 May 2021, within three weeks of Biomutant, Resident Evil Village, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition and Mass Effect Legendary Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the Xbox Series's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Biomutant, Resident Evil Village, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

Cheats and codes

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