Building on the ground Papers, Please broke, Mind Scanners has the potential to be special.
Its aesthetic is a mind-bending blend of two opposing forces, Freudian psychology and Soviet bureaucracy. (So it’s actually a Jungian duality, if anything!) This would be intriguing enough, but the lo-fi aesthetic is suitably dismal yet engrossing, and the day-to-day routine of the work simulation is like a lava bath for the brain, as you try to juggle pleasing both the id and the ego of the General Secretary and your own sense of justice.
For Tom and Phil’s impressions of the Mind Scanners beta, click here.