About the 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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Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
On the site: Build 8791987
Up to date
We recently added Russian to the console ports together with a new crisp Russian font. This patch brings the new font to the PC version together with some other minor localization improvements.
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Fixed a bug where the STROBOSHOCKER would sometimes show the wrong symbols.
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- Fixed a localization bug where some of the lines from the STROBOSHOCKER would not get translated
- Fixed an issue where the Science or Kapok displays would not updated
- Fixed an issue with the Inventor achievement
- Added achievement descriptions
Some players experienced issues with the Steam overlay and game background. This is fixed now.
Some players got stuck because of a corrupt master save file. The game can now repair the master save file if this happens.
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Some players got stuck because of a corrupt master save file. The game can now repair the master save file if this happens.
Load time and memory consumption has been reduced.
Especially on slower machines the loading time was a bit long before. You will now be able to enter the game much faster. Remember you can still skip the video intro on Esc.
Bug Fixes:
A game breaking bug where the RETINA DECODER got stuck.
A number of small bugs.
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Especially on slower machines the loading time was a bit long before. You will now be able to enter the game much faster. Remember you can still skip the video intro on Esc.
Bug Fixes:
A game breaking bug where the RETINA DECODER got stuck.
A number of small bugs.
Fixed some UI bugs.
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For your convenience:
You can now leave treatment to repack your bag and resume treatment immediately as long as no insanity points have been removed.
Logo video intro can now be skipped on ESC. This is mostly intended for players who can't load the videos for some reason. Skipping the video intro won't make the game load much faster on most systems as the game is already loading in the background while the videos are playing.
Balancing:
Slightly more insanty on hard mode.
ROBOTANY made easier.
Cooldown changes:
Bugfixes:
Trauma Bomb + Ease Pill
Mouse issues
Text alignment
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You can now leave treatment to repack your bag and resume treatment immediately as long as no insanity points have been removed.
Logo video intro can now be skipped on ESC. This is mostly intended for players who can't load the videos for some reason. Skipping the video intro won't make the game load much faster on most systems as the game is already loading in the background while the videos are playing.
Balancing:
Slightly more insanty on hard mode.
ROBOTANY made easier.
Cooldown changes:
- Electrigger cooldown now stacks with other cooldowns
- ECHOPUNCTURE cooldown now depends on the number of insanity points you remove.
- HYPNAMID cooldown slightly increased to not allow back to back uses.
Bugfixes:
Trauma Bomb + Ease Pill
Mouse issues
Text alignment
Small new features to improve the life of any Mind Scanner:
Device changes:
Balance changes: Slightly shorter traveldistances and more available patients at any given time.
Gamebreaking bugs have been fixed:
Minor bug fixes:
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- Easy swap and reorder devices in device manager.
- A device can no longer be interrupted while it is just about to deliver its effect.
- You can now also delete your current profile.
Device changes:
- 5 new mazes added to MIND MAZE.
- LUNA SUCKER made slightly easier.
- Improved Russian and Chinese localization for REFLECTOR (word device).
Balance changes: Slightly shorter traveldistances and more available patients at any given time.
Gamebreaking bugs have been fixed:
- Mouse issues on a multiple monitor setup.
- Better handling of currupted/missing save files.
- Game will skip video intro if video can't be played.
Minor bug fixes:
- Fixed time pausing exploits with book of Lunacy.
- Some missing sprites have been hooked up.
- Fixed interaction edgecases of different devices.
- UI tweaks.
This patch is meant to make it easier to pick up and learn new devices.
Learning new devices (only on easy and normal difficulty):
Book of Lunacy instructions have been extended to better explain how devices are operated.
Time is paused while reading the book.
Time consumption and patient stress is lowered while learning a new device.
Device changes:
MIND MAZE must be used on the same day to recover a lost personality.
IDENTETECTOR radar has a maximum of one complete symbol per operation. (easier)
Minor bug fixes and balancing tweaks
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Learning new devices (only on easy and normal difficulty):
Book of Lunacy instructions have been extended to better explain how devices are operated.
Time is paused while reading the book.
Time consumption and patient stress is lowered while learning a new device.
Device changes:
MIND MAZE must be used on the same day to recover a lost personality.
IDENTETECTOR radar has a maximum of one complete symbol per operation. (easier)
Minor bug fixes and balancing tweaks
Hi all! A New patch is now up and apart from some minor bugs, we have now added a difficulty setting!
When you start a new game, you will be now able to select a difficulty setting from the main menu.
If you already have an existing save, you will not be able to change the difficulty setting for that particular playthrough.
Here are some notes on what is different in the different difficulty settings:
Best wishes,
Brave At Night & The Outer Zone
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When you start a new game, you will be now able to select a difficulty setting from the main menu.
If you already have an existing save, you will not be able to change the difficulty setting for that particular playthrough.
Here are some notes on what is different in the different difficulty settings:
- maintenance amount
- starting kapok amount
- symptom points amount
- travel time
- device cost
- auto-balanging thresholds (when will the auto balancer try to make life easier or harder for you)
- the penalty for answering wrong in mind scan is also different: 5/10/15
Best wishes,
Brave At Night & The Outer Zone
Current Release
Build 8791987
Uploaded Nov 03, 2026
System Requirements
OS
N/A
CPU
Intel Core i5
RAM
2 GB RAM
GPU
Nvidia Geforce GTX 550/equivalent or higher
How to Install
1
Download all files
2
Extract the .ZIP file to a folder (use WinRAR or 7-Zip)
3
Run Mind Scanners.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
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Archive password
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
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