Mind Scanners
Released May 2021
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...
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Done
All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Steam $16.99
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Evaluation
Mind Scanners launched on May 20, 2021 as a complete, finished game. In the months following launch, the developer shipped two notable free content updates: a September 15, 2021 update adding two new arcade-style treatment devices and new story events, and a November 30, 2021 update that expanded endings on the evil story path, added new story events for the "help The Structure" path, and launched the game on Nintendo Switch and Xbox platforms. A handful of smaller patches addressed bug fixes, balancing, localization, and quality-of-life improvements through December 2021. After that point, developer communications effectively ceased — the only subsequent post was a May 25, 2026 anniversary sale promotion celebrating the game's fifth birthday, which contained no announcements of new content or ongoing development. The sole DLC listed is the soundtrack, which released alongside the game on launch day. There are no unreleased DLC items, no announced future content, and no indication from the developer of any planned updates. The game appears to have concluded its post-launch content cycle with the November 2021 update.
Evidence
Update added expanded endings on the evil story path, new story events for the Structure-aligned path, and launched the game on Nintendo Switch and Xbox. Last substantive content update from the developer.
Free content update added two new treatment devices (Hemolyzer and Stroboshocker) and a new in-game event.
Content
1 of 1 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Brave At Night
Achievements
14
Platform
Windows, macOS
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player
About this game
Mind Scanners is a retro-futuristic psychiatry simulation 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. Manage your time and resources to keep The Structure in balance. Remember, you take full responsibility for your patients.
- Manage your time and resources to aid the citizens of The Structure
- Diagnose your patients by analyzing their views of the world
- Operate and master a variation of arcade-style devices to treat your patients
- Spend your ₭apok and science points to develop new devices
- Face difficult moral choices and ethical dilemmas
- Report the resistance group Moonrise or join them to help their cause
- Gain the trust of The Structure if you want to see your daughter again
The meteor came. And from it, the survivors learned to harness the power source known as Zygnoka. In the next forty years, the megacity known as The Structure was erected inside the impact crater. Here, the people isolated themselves, accelerating their dependence on technology and created a society as a machine of its own.
In The Structure, order and efficiency is maintained by severe top-down control. In the name of efficiency, new machines and instruments are put to use on the public the instant they are invented. In pursuit of optimisation, a new profession is tasked to maintain the increasingly precarious anomaly levels of the city's inhabitants. These are called Mind Scanners.
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Last evaluated Jun 24, 2026
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