Scanner Sombre

Inspired by Gone Home and Dear Esther, Scanner Sombre is a cave exploration experience. With stunning visuals and a terrifying theme, it is the 6th major video game released by Introversion Software - creators of the BAFTA award winning Prison Architect as well as Uplink, Darwinia and DEFCON.

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 3,929 reviews of which 3,519 were positive and 410 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 2.35€ on Steam and has a 60% discount.

The Steam community has classified Scanner Sombre into these genres:

Exploration Walking Simulator Horror Atmospheric Indie Adventure First-Person VR Singleplayer Short Psychological Horror Colorful Action Casual Lovecraftian Sci-fi Jump Scare Underground Linear Mystery Dungeon

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

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

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

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.

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.

Feb. 2024

This is how you do environmental storytelling. A great quick game, well worth whatever you paid for it.

Feb. 2024

First play through I got scared shitless in the Lake, after having the temptation to go back in, I finished it. Overall the game is unique, I could happily play a puzzle game based off the same theme. The replay-ability of this game is limited, but its worth the first time experience :)

Feb. 2024

Such a great walking sim - I love the ray mechanic it uses. I also love the ability to play the prototype and the new game+ gives you a little insight of the things you missed early game as you didn't have all the upgrades as you did. The main story is great, but the story of the cave is a little over the place - but if you play the prototype you can see why it was shaped that way. The music is great, but at times it feels out of place. Overall, I personally love this game - it's not the best in the world, but I love how it was put together.

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Steam data	15 November 2024 21:06
SteamSpy data	18 December 2024 18:49
Steam price	23 December 2024 12:45
Steam reviews	23 December 2024 00:03

-60% 5.89€ 2.35€

8.6

3,519

410

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Developer

Introversion Software

Publisher

Introversion Software

Release 26 Apr 2017

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