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Scanner Sombre is a 3d horror cave exploration game where darkness is your greatest foe. Illuminate the unseen with your LIDAR scanner, revealing the eerie beauty and peril of the abyss. From the creators of Prison Architect, this immersive adventure uses light and shadow for a haunting experience.

Scanner Sombre is a exploration, walking simulator and horror game developed and published by Introversion Software.
Released on April 26th 2017 is available on Windows and MacOS in 26 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Bulgarian, Czech, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Ukrainian.

It has received 4,067 reviews of which 3,643 were positive and 424 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 5.89€ on Steam.


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System requirements

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: 64 bit OS. Windows 7 or Greater
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.3 GHz or AMD Phenom II x4 940 @ 3.0 GHz or AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0 GHz
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Radeon HD 2000/GeForce 8
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Storage: 3 GB available space
  • Sound Card: Ad Lib Music Synthesizer or greater
  • VR Support: SteamVR. Standing or Room Scale
MacOS
  • OS: 64bit Os. MacOS X 10.7 Lion or greater
  • Processor: 64 bit Processor
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Storage: 3 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Jan. 2025
For how minimal the tid bits of story you get are, this game is thoroughly engaging and emotive. There's fear, there's wonder. There's exploration and that feeling of being lost yet determined push forward. I love mechanically how this game works. The way the scanner forces you to interact with the environment all the way to how it handles you losing progress is so fluid and just, curious. I love it. I genuinely have zero complaints other than it could have been longer. Yet even as I type that, it's more that I wish I could play it through again for the first time. Genuinely awesome work, I can not recommend it enough.
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Dec. 2024
---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good β˜‘ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Donβ€˜t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- β˜‘ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good β˜‘ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids β˜‘ Teens β˜‘ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- β˜‘ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk β˜‘ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- β˜‘ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- β˜‘ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore β˜‘ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee β˜‘ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! β˜‘ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- β˜‘ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 β˜‘ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
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Dec. 2024
I don't ever review games, however this game was absolutely amazing in vr. I didn't expect to get THAT into the game. I haven't tried it non vr but I feel it wouldn't be close to the same experience. If you have vr I highly recommend giving this a go.
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Nov. 2024
You pay for an experience: getting to paint the level with a LIDAR device on an otherwise black field of view. At what do you value that experience? You get a few hours of moving around a straight forward level-design, with a couple of jumping challenges. That's okay. It's stunningly beautiful, but I am glad that I waited for a sale. There were a couple of major bugs while using a gamepad controller. I can only recommend playing with a keyboard and mouse. I used Steam's Proton compatibility software.
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Oct. 2024
Absolutely stunning. Horror is perhaps the wrong description for the game. I feel things about the game that I cannot explain without spoiling, so I won't. This game was beautiful way to explore a gaming world. Spelunking in total dark, with only the light tool at your disposal is absolutely lovely. The sound design is just *chefs kiss* The atmosphere? Oh boy That atmosphere is amazing.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Scanner Sombre is currently priced at 5.89€ on Steam.

Scanner Sombre is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 5.89€ on Steam.

Scanner Sombre received 3,643 positive votes out of a total of 4,067 achieving a rating of 8.63.
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Scanner Sombre was developed and published by Introversion Software.

Scanner Sombre is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Scanner Sombre is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Scanner Sombre is not playable on Linux.

Scanner Sombre does not currently offer any DLC.

Scanner Sombre does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Scanner Sombre does not support Steam Remote Play.

Scanner Sombre does not currently support Steam Family Sharing.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Scanner Sombre.

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Scanner Sombre
8.6
3,643
424
Online players
6
Developer
Introversion Software
Publisher
Introversion Software
Release 26 Apr 2017
VR VR Supported
Platforms