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 3,989 reviews of which 3,573 were positive and 416 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 5.89€ on Steam.

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

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Dec. 2024

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ 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 }--- ☑ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ 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 ☑ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ 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 }--- ☑ 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 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

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.

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.

Feb. 2024

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

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
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Steam price	22 January 2025 20:45
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5.89€

8.6

3,573

416

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Developer

Introversion Software

Publisher

Introversion Software

Release 26 Apr 2017

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