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2021PCXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified77 % positive13.99 €

You play a mind-scanning psychiatrist in a retro-futuristic dystopia, diagnosing citizens and treating them through quirky arcade-style minigames while juggling time and resources. Your choices about patients carry weight and paint an unsettling picture of society.

Choices with consequences
Distinctive, stylised art style
Sci-fi setting
Puzzles and brain teasers

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The closest matches for Mind Scanners are Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward, Papers, Please and The Red Strings Club. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Mind Scanners special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Best alternative overall: Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward 88% match – Choices with consequences
Newest alternative: Beholder: Conductor 86% match – released 2025

Best match

Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward

88 %Match

2012PCPlayStationXbox

A visual novel with escape-room puzzles where you play a deadly game of trust and betrayal, unlocking many endings through a branching flowchart. Its intricate sci-fi story full of major twists is the clear centerpiece.

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Papers, Please

Dark, serious atmosphere

As a border inspector in the fictional Eastern Bloc state of Arstotzka, you scrutinize paperwork under time pressure while balancing duty, your family's survival, and the fates of desperate travelers. A bleak, morally gripping game with many endings.

The Red Strings Club

Sci-fi setting

A dense cyberpunk narrative game where you work as a bartender, potter and phone impersonator to steer people and expose a corporate conspiracy. It raises thoughtful questions about fate, happiness and the ethics of technology.

Whispers of a Machine

Sci-fi setting

A sci-fi Nordic noir adventure where you play a cybernetically enhanced detective solving murders in a post-AI world. Your choices and interrogation approaches shape the story, alongside classic point-and-click puzzles.

Beholder: Conductor

Dark, serious atmosphere

As a train conductor in a totalitarian state, you watch passengers, report offenses and carry out sensitive Ministry tasks. Moral dilemmas and surveillance drive this spin-off of the Beholder series.

Do Not Feed the Monkeys

Strong, story-driven narrative

You join a secret club that spies on strangers through surveillance cameras and decide whether and how to interfere in their lives. You also have to pay rent and buy food, which makes every moral choice harder.

Neofeud

Sci-fi setting

In Neofeud you navigate a bleak cyberpunk world where conversations and political scheming shape your path. Its hand-painted, stylized look gives this point-and-click adventure a distinctive identity.

Beholder 2

Dark, serious atmosphere

You climb the ranks of a totalitarian ministry through scheming, blackmail and moral compromise. Every decision carries consequences for your career and conscience in a grim, satirical dystopia.

Silicon Dreams

Sci-fi setting

You play an android interrogator in 2065, coaxing secrets out of disobedient androids by playing on their emotions. Your choices decide who is spared or scrapped, and they challenge your own loyalty to your creators.

Not for Broadcast

Strong, story-driven narrative

You work the control room of a TV station in a satirical 1980s dystopia, cutting live broadcasts on the fly. Every call on what to show or censor shapes the story, mixed with dark humour and live-action footage.

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