I’d recommend it for a certain subset of a subset of people interested in the ways developers are pushing boundaries nowadays-the ones who found value in Virginia or Beginner’s Guide or any of the other “This is a weird thing worth poking around in” games that have released the past few years. Even for a so-called “walking simulator,” Scanner Sombre is austere. It’s a weird experiment-and, again, one I think will utterly baffle anyone who comes to it because they see it’s by “the Prison Architect Developers.” This is considerably less mainstream, more likely to appeal to those interested in what’s being done on the fringes of the medium. Or, more often, prompting you to find your own beauty in the chaotic rainbow of dots that is your lens on the world. It’s a mood piece, telling the lightest of stories, moving section to section and revealing the secrets (such as they are) of the cave, occasionally pausing to revel in its own otherworldly beauty. There’s a sense Scanner Sombre couldn’t be much more than it is, but nor does it want to be. Enough to sustain it for the game’s short two-hour running time at least. The player awakens in a tent inside a cave after finding an augmented reality headset and a LIDAR scanner, the player can illuminate the surrounding environment using dots. Scanner Sombre is exploration video game played from a first-person perspective. You’ll periodically happen upon scanner upgrades that give you new abilities, like changing the beam tightness or increasing the scanner resolution (adding more dots), so that every time the gimmick starts to wear thin it gets a little booster shot. Scanner Sombre is an exploration video game developed by Introversion Software. Rewards are smartly paced as you scurry through the tight passages, though. At its worst, it’s just.exploring a cave. At its best, it demonstrates how limited data can lead you to wildly incorrect conclusions. EB: Scanner Sombre depends on the unknown to propel you forward as an all-encompassing blackness surrounds the player every step of the way. This push and pull, between information given and information inferred, is at the heart of Scanner Sombre. Is that a stream you’re about to wade into or a river echoing from hundreds of feet below? Hard to tell. A rushing river, the sound of your feet scuffling against gravel, or wind blowing mournfully through narrow passages is all the more haunting when you can’t see them clearly. There’s a palpable sense of claustrophobia to Scanner Sombre’s cave, encouraged by the stark audio design. It borrows some horror elements, especially from the found footage genre, but most of the dread is inherent to the setting itself. In it you use a LIDAR device to map out your path through the dark in a 2 hour game of p.
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I’m also tempted to call it a horror game, but it’s not. Scanner Sombre is a Walking Simulator game by Introversion Software. I’d call it a gimmick game, were it not so well-executed. You really do spend the entirety of the game in a dark cave, your sole interaction with the environment just mapping its edges so you can walk through. Like Introversion’s older games, Scanner Sombre is an experiment centered around a singular idea and mechanic-in this case, LIDAR.
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