Mind Scanners: "Normalize" Anomaly Citizens in this Retro-Futuristic Cyberpunk Psychoanalysis Game!

[@AlphaBetaGamer]

Note: I've got 1,000 Steam Beta keys to giveaway for this game. You can grab a key here: www.alphabetagamer.com/mind-scanners-steam-beta-key-giveaway/

[@bwtrickster]

:^)

[@coma-body-stilllife]

sketchy

[@ForeverLaxx]

Giveaways tied to social media. What a poison.

[@bwtrickster]

@@ForeverLaxx Unfollow then

[@ForeverLaxx]

@@bwtrickster Unfollow? How about "never sign up in the first place", which is the path I actually take. Fuck social media.

[@InternationalBoardsOfPigeons]

reject normality become oak tree

[@mrsmartypants1987]

Hmm yes standing still eating sunlight is more exciting then being a very smart monke

[@schizophrenic_rambler]

Reject multicellular, become bacteria

[@calico9046]

@@schizophrenic_rambler reject existence, become V O I D

[@elecstorm3701]

@@calico9046 i second this

[@hotpikachu]

Swoosh swoooosh

[@struppi441]

"If the Personality is destroyed it can't be recovered". proceeds to destroy personality even when he has the tool to save it. *Tries to save it a day later when its already gone* xD

[@mikerueffer579]

Vivian Lyon: *Acts like a feral cat* ABG:"I see nothing wrong with this behavior."

[@davek7289]

peoples holding their rage against furries

[@eng3d]

Its youtube where cats are rulers

[@Handhandme]

Well, she had some great moves in bed.

[@skaistes5416]

And he treats the healthy person that has a passion for the devices

[@ruefysh9576]

@@skaistes5416 I mean it kinda looked unhealthy to be so obsessive about them

[@trieuucthanh6388]

I like these types of mechanics, similar to "Paper Please" , it is subtle yet brings aesthetic to the game

[@The_KingDoge]

Play death and taxes. It's sorta like PP

[@yummy4871]

@Dominotik Ivan Tulovskiy I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING!!!

[@chatboss000]

I'm fascinated with game design of 'operating machinery with lots of buttons'. It doesn't have to be narratively deep. Some examples I've played/ seen : " Cook!Serve!Delicious! 2" and "Please don't touch anything", though obviously "Papers Please" and "Mind Scanners" fits in the list."

[@repubblesmcglonky8990]

GLORY TO ARSTOTSKA!

[@frocco7125]

Me too. I love these "small role, big impact" games that simulate a small role in some strange social system, where you can subtly influence the society around you. "Papers Please" is the most famous example, but "The Westport Independent" is also kind of like that. It's a game where you play as a newspaper editor, where you can censor important information to spread fake news and have to sway the political beliefs of the people against the government.

[@Martyrsong]

I gotta admit that in my opinion this is so far most interesting concept for a game on this channel. I say it, because myself I am quite interested in psychology, which this game is quite about. I also enjoy the artstyle that makes it look like kind of that old retro games.

[@gustavogodoy9626]

*wastes 100 time and leaves you half mutilated* Yep, that's a sane person

[@pissfrog]

Theres a "tail" pun in here somewhere

[@zarnox3071]

@@pissfrog Where would that fit? Edit: I feel this was a poor choice of words…

[@UlyssesK402]

The moment that she licked the protagonist I was like "Dude, you don't even need any tools to diagnose them as insane, you just need them to determine the insanity type."

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

The doctor waited to see if he's by any chance suddenly into femdom BDSM

[@bralvar2352]

"If the Personality is destroyed it can't be recovered." *Proceeds to absolutely deep fry his mind.*

[@ooferine504]

Judging by the title i thought this was just another satire game about a future where free will is considered a mental illness in a dystopian society... Turned out this is much more "normal" than i expected

[@ERBanmech]

Well, I think it leaves itself open to decide whether you are the villain or not; you can do your job properly and save clearly unstable individuals, mess things up, or be a true control freak.

[@NevaehCyanide]

_"She tears your shirt and digs her nails into your flesh. She licks and bites you."_ *OK* 15:06

[@ICEknightnine]

"OK" ~ ABG 2021

[@webby3174]

And then he declared her sane...

[@davek7289]

@@webby3174 he liked it

[@Handhandme]

@@webby3174 her analysis was a very stimulating one...

[@Guest-lq6vt]

nothing wrong here

[@ICEknightnine]

don't think that that Oliver guy was insane, he just had a strong opinion on what reality is and dislikes fiction, but is otherwise a functional person even if his perspective comes across as emotionally distant, was sorta unnerving that you then proceeded to deep fry his personality.

[@harleymitchelly5542]

Psychology, even at the best of times has an element of normality to it. It's one of many reasons it, of all the sciences, needs an objective ethics board most, the difference between a novel quirk and something pathological can be a very fine line. Oliver's case could be a sign of many things, but, at least judging from his case docket, there's a good chance he wasn't as functional as you assume. Granted, I don't have his life story, and judging somewhat from the Steam trailers, there's a bit of RNG to patient creation, but if he's on your registry, and for the sake of argument grant that you're being sent to him for a legitimate reason as opposed to him asking too many questions about the city as would be expected given this is cyberpunk, he could be endlessly questioning things and lapsing into a sort of existential depression or obsessive behavior regarding the great questions of philosophy, neither of which are particularly functional. Perhaps he's begun expressing solipsistic sentiments and has quite literally begun questioning if he even exists, he did say the calculations were off so perhaps he believes he's in a simulation and thinks he's been gaming it, or he's entered into nihilistic depression if the comments about atoms is to be any indication. That he fried his personality can easily be chocked up to bad therapy. Madness is, to be blunt, preferable in many respects to a therapist who doesn't know what they're doing. Whether intended or not, ABG here's demonstrated what bad therapy can do. Destroy a personality and render them in a malaise. All the game does is fast-track the process. If it's following the Papers Please formula, no doubt that's going to be a part of the latent commentary brought on by this game's existence, you've been given control of someone's thoughts, pretty explicitly have the power to delete memories, and have to balance doing your job, doing it right, and paying your rent. If you want, you can be the state's hitman curing any and everyone with the technological equivalent of free lobotomies for everyone, you can do your best and cure as many as you can without ruining their personalities, or, as it seems, play an agent and bring down the city. Yes, I did go into a high-minded deal about a fictional character in the beta of a game. It is contemplative and your comment set the stage right.

[@ICEknightnine]

​@@harleymitchelly5542 it's not possible to go into more depth than the limited interaction within the game, for all anyone knows, outside of this interaction; he could be sitting in a chair all day demanding a scientific reason to leave the chair or some other nihilistic activity. But from the information that we do have, ignoring what the mind scanner protagonist summarizes about Oliver's demand for scientific data to motivate his interests becoming "pathological" and that there's a concern over his mental health which has brought him to the mind scanner in the first place. We know that he's trying to participate in relationships, if he was a depressed nihilist or was obsessively concerned with sorting out his philosophical values; he probably wouldn't even bother and we know that he is open to new information and isn't putting up social barriers between him and ABG (though i don't think any of the characters in the game do due to the protaganist's authority). We also know that "poor social performance" on its own isn't really something that screams mentally dysfunctional. I see it like this, Since the game revolves around making the decision of whether or not someone is insane or not before lobotomizing them, and not a deep world with realistic characters you have to interview for hours before coming to a diagnosis, you'd need to go by what information is actually within these interactions that would suggest the person to be insane otherwise if they haven't said or did anything considerably insane (or in this case: deserving of a *mild* lobotomy) then it's the player's call to say that they aren't. it's probably poor game design to have the protagonist allude to whether or not the character is insane before the player gets to make that decision, it's better if that's shown through the characters being diagnosed.

[@harleymitchelly5542]

@@ICEknightnine I'd honestly chalk that up to setting. This is Cyberpunk. Part of the territory is hard decisions, too little information about your surroundings, and your hand getting forced in ways you don't like it. The resident oppressive government entity is getting tipped off about people who are "potentially insane," and one of the ones shown is getting targeted pretty much purely because she's a popular media figure harboring antiestablishment thoughts. We aren't given much information, but that's part of the premise given you're an underpaid and overworked state psychologist being employed for not-good motives. The bean-counter is only given the beans he is supposed to count and nothing more. There's also indications that your "help" isn't requested by the patients. The DIY Mind Scanner and Ste-V are both other instances of people unlikely to seek help of their own volition, heavily implying that your patients are less than willful. The former legitimately thinks he's helping people and the latter is a raging narcissist, someone who generally never seeks help of any kind. I'd also say with both the emotionally dead patient that basically comes alive to inject you with what I can only presume are performance enhancing drugs in some mania nothing told you about and the callousness your devices have when you accidentally lobotomize your first patient that, "The UI does not tell you everything," is in full effect. This is also still a beta, there could definitely be room for "insane" patients who are just eccentric or sane presenting patients that are really dangerously insane. I'd also say that the very end also indicates that you might not be the one writing those reports, just stamping them. Your panel there seems to have a mind of its own, so who is writing those mockups of the patients, and what exactly is getting sent since the model's diagnosis explicitly says she's a danger to society in classic totalitarian fashion yet her getting ruled sane doesn't have any immediate effects? Either way, no one's actually told you your job is to be a therapist. Your job is to operate a mind scanner and fix the people on your list. If a major lobotomy accomplishes that, as far as the state is concerned it's still accomplished. That you have a mind scanner in the first place and your time per day is 200 units of unknown time also pretty much builds into itself that you're accomplishing things at an exponential rate, so if we don't get an answer, MST3K Mantra takes effect, and if we've got a good game we can set that aside. The bottom line here is that what was wrong with Oliver is unknown, but if we want to venture our guesses we need to fill in the blanks ourselves. I did ask that we grant that you're being sent to him for some semblance of good will, but that's purely because we'd otherwise be unable to say anything about him that would explain why you're there. We literally got nothing so it's fair to assume there's something about this we don't know since "it's above your clearance level," or some such dystopian justification. I can however at the very least say that if a therapist calls something pathologic, it means that it's unhealthy behavior, even if it's nominally good. Focusing in on his remarks about his ex, which were his words if Ste-V explaining how the scans worked is any indication, it doesn't sound like Oliver was trying at social interaction. He went through the motions, sure, but at no point was his heart in it, likely stemming from a deterministic outlook that can't abide by abstractions. He's likely unable to relate to others entirely, since you can't quantify friendship or relationships in a numerical value or data, and if you are given an accurate description of his state of mind, it is a fair assumption to say he has a non-functioning social life, and he would be in his job despite his outlook at this point instead of because of it. But of course, this is me taking a guess at it. We're likely going to get a lot of incomplete case file situations because that's the nature of this kind of game. You don't always get everything you need and are forced into grey situations.

[@ICEknightnine]

​@@harleymitchelly5542 Yeah, that makes sense, it could be justified that he was going through the motions but not actually putting in the effort to search for someone who shares in his ideals if he's not going to compromise on them for the relationship. It's also fair to say that there aren't a lot of people who would share in his materialist perspective but not so few to say that he is socially inept. It would seem that his logic obsessive personality doesn't give him the ability to foresee undesirable situations or determine what he wants out of life. I'd still rather give him the benefit of the doubt and say that life experience alone would help him realize how he and his perspective fits into society. I don't see how having a deterministic or non-deterministic outlook on life changes anything about a person (edit: i don't think that it's even alluded to that he believes in determinism, he's just a materialist though the two concepts are related). It's not like life necessarily looses all meaning if everything is determined. And meaning doesn't necessarily need to be abstract, it is usually built with reasoning based in material existence. Even the abstract itself is just an ambiguity of specific material components. Point is i don't think his perspective is so limiting to be considered a mental illness that he can't adapt out of (in contrast to "i am an oak tree" man), he probably just needs a normal therapist to sort out his daddy issues (which is the core cause of his aversion to the abstract) and not a lobotomy to any extent. If he was actually 100% serious about his stance against all abstractions and not just art and fiction, he would no longer use language since all words are abstractions to some degree. The greater Issue in the narrative is that the grey area is faced with two options for treatment: lobotomy or no lobotomy, and if the person isn't actually insane or out to murder someone the game states that there are likely to be complications with the treatment. So the obvious safer answer in these grey areas is to not give the go ahead on the lobotomy if the patient has a perceived better chance to recover on their own or through other means. So it doesn't really become a grey area at that point. moral of the story: ABG needs more performance enhancing drugs from that emotionless blockhead so that he can conduct """therapy""" at maximum speed on the behalf of *The Structure* .

[@harleymitchelly5542]

@@ICEknightnine When I use determinism, I'm referring back to his extremely scientific outlook. I got a bit of an implication that he does see much of a distinction between materialism and determinism at this point, as I believe the valid answer to the first question was "Follows Natural Laws." That, in and of itself, is just a logical position, but there's subtle hints that he's gone that extra step farther with it. Love is not love, it's merely a series of neurochemical reactions that are, judging from his experience with dating, fleeting and fickle and the word has no coherent meaning. Given that kind of outlook, it's easier to see how this would be completely socially alienating. You bring up that he wouldn't use language, but he merely has an extreme distaste for abstractions. He may very well use language but consider it a poor and crude way of communication, or is rationalized out that words do tie back to objective things (see positive reaction to graphing. "I like it when the shapes have meaning."). Either way, I don't think regular therapy exists in this world as an option. The Structure sees him as a malcontent to be fixed, and given this is a definite job big enough to warrant institutes and several levels of clearance, I doubt traditional therapy would have survived since mind scanning is so much more "economical" and it's not like we can go back in time to pre-punish daddy to stop the issues. There's nothing stopping you from finding out later that The Structure jails declared sane individuals who aren't brain scanned and that's going to be a big plot point later, or they employ a "Try until it works," method where if they don't like your sane declaration, they just send someone else the next day and just wait until someone busts out the headgear. (Before asking, Cat Lady didn't even get one day before she snapped.) This is Cyberpunk, and dystopia is the watchword. To that end, we don't actually know what these devices are doing to people in certain capacities. About the only definite one is the one that finds ideas in the person's mind and deletes them. All we know is that, eventually, you'll see a personality erasure and lobotomy end state. For all we know, the other treatments are just fast-tracked regular therapy and the lobotomization process is part of the fast tracking. Wouldn't want to rush brain surgery now would we? I'd honestly frame it this way, you're expected to be a mind scanner first and a therapist second from The Structure's point of view. If someone has issues, I genuinely would doubt The Structure would let independent practice be a thing since that doesn't deal with malcontents fast enough and is too far removed from their control to be allowed. Compounding this, cybernetic brain implants are an established thing, Ste-V's issue was explicitly that, and I have a sneaking suspicion that the jammer disease ties back to cybernetics one way or another, so perhaps therapy is literally impossible in some cases since it's a mechanical problem only a mind scanner can even hope to deal with, being both diagnostic and curative. We also have no idea what good implant work is to be frank. Someone else here said this was stuff out of Cronenburg, and Ste-V does look like he got the budget model of brain implants. (I think they forgot to leave space for the eyes.) Maybe Oliver here had an implant somewhere that was going haywire and caused a fixation on his childhood? His dad clearly wrote science fiction, I would not at all discount him being a futurist in some capacity and The Structure letting him get implants for the whole family. They're getting pinged about illness all the time it seems, so they've clearly got a good monitor game going. If you ask me though, I think our emotionless fellow is a druggie. They said he was a sense expert, that he's lost all interest, and that his job "came with a price," which does sound like a situation of sensory overload. Dude would probably be miserable if his brain could shut up enough to let him think, and if the devs were smart, they'd use a case like his to blow open your UI's accuracy. His final actions are not in line with his profile, and I've begun interpreting it as a desperate cry for help over what those needles do to people.

[@jameson7276]

Don't see any comments praising this awesome soundtrack!

[@TitansTracks]

For real, the sound design is on point in this game! 💎

[@marte010exe]

"This woman is a danger for our society" ABG: Looks good to me :) [SANE]

[@AlphaBetaGamer]

Haha! Well... it seemed like she was dynamite in bed! That's gotta count for something! ;)

[@MrSpinachguy]

I mean, yeah she's sane and it's not your job to deal with insurgents so that's technically the right call.

[@Exarian]

Something to be said about recognizing the pathologization of class consciousness... For instance, If I have to hear the phrase "external locus of control" in the context of dismissing analysis of class society I'm gonna flip.

[@fashbasher2120]

@@oldpersonalaccount They were just demonstrating what a lack of it does to a person's mind.

[@LamiaDomina]

@@Exarian Does it bother you *at all* that 99% of the people most concerned with "class consciousness" still worship psychotherapy as a literal cult and see no problem with that institution except that power over it is in hands other than their own? This game's mechanics already present the issue as "forced psychiatry is okay as long as you're -compassionate- and use the personality-fixy-tool," I guarantee you it won't be anything resembling a hard hitting polemic of the issues it's dancing on.

[@JohnVance]

Music and sound design is solid as hell.

[@BasileosHerodou]

The world building is everything ✨

[@RoastHardy]

Some woman buries her claws in ABG and continues to murder someone the next day, ABG says: "Sane". Okay?! Some guy remains unaffected after rescueing a mother of a young child, and injects ABG with kryptonized heroin afterwards, ABG says: "Sane". Hmm

[@harleymitchelly5542]

Credit where it's due, the report did say he "wouldn't hurt a fly." Seems the reports aren't foolproof, which is a good way to introduce the potential that your UI lies to you in places.

[@RoastHardy]

@@harleymitchelly5542 Okay

[@Handhandme]

Eh, I mean they basically had sex on the first one you mentioned lmao

[@RoastHardy]

@@Handhandme Sounds like great sex, I'll stick to drugs. I love my life.

[@kristofladanyi3671]

Alpha Beta Gaming Alpha's true name is a secret even to the Structure itself. He has been known to become a severe conspiracy theorist.

[@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149]

Mindscan enthusiast: *Completely insane.* Actual murderer who acts like a feral animal: _Looks about right. Carry on!_

[@OxeMizeria]

The mind scanner is something dangerous, that guy made like a bomb based on trial and error, its obvious hes insane

[@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149]

@@OxeMizeria Or alternatively, dumb.

[@capthavic]

*gets mutilated by patient* I DECLARE YOU SANE!

[@kristofladanyi3671]

The amateour Mind Scanner dude be like:

[@Sebastianmaz615]

Right away I like the "speaker mouth thing."

[@magencrisis1682]

The crazy cat-lady was seducing the protagonist, and I love how the narrative shows that without telling it to the player directly. Maybe that twisted the psychologist's perspective about her and that's why the report ended up painting her in a positive light. Maybe if you had pushed her away at the beginning, the report would've been worded differently? Btw, I love everything about this game. I paused the video to open Steam and add it to my wishlist

[@thewanderingassassinlk3136]

She killed someone tho

[@spiderchap1857]

Kind of got a Cronenberg vibe. I like the patients. They have a lot of personality and uh... unique features. It's a fun style.

[@ouij]

"The Ear of Ouiji" I feel personally attacked.

[@davek7289]

go weegee go weegee go weegee go weegee

[@Shoeconsumer]

Did they take your ears to make those?!!!!!????!!!

[@johncoppinger2241]

This is one of the more interesting takes on this kind of game I've seen thus far. Very cool concept and execution. Looking forward to seeing the full game. Really evocative synth background track too! Loved the BGM.

[@clavilenoelaligero579]

That was amazing. The sound design, the overall aesthetic... It was a very immersive experience. Thank you for sharing!

[@AlannaArtroid]

It's like "Papers Please" meets "Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory".

[@frocco7125]

I love games like this or Papers Please, where you have some small role in a big social system and can use it to influence the society and the lives around you in strange ways.

[@TitansTracks]

"OooooooohhhhhhmamamamaMAMAAAAAAA" What an amazing game! 💎

[@enochturnal_]

This is stellar! I may be biased though, since I loved Papers Please, but this is really neat and I can't wait for the full game release

[@DeoMachina]

The art direction on this is captivating, its like some old comic book I once read but for the life of me I don't remember which

[@benny_lemon5123]

This is 100% going on my wishlist

[@kungfuskull]

So I was skeptical at first, but this really drew me in. Very curious to see where this goes.

[@corbin4360]

*Gets mauled and mutilated* ABG: Seems pretty sane to me

[@GuardianDbbrrtt]

«10 seconds: The Pain Beginis. 15 seconds: You Can’t Breathe. 20 seconds: You Explode» Treatment of patient fail.

[@wutnow6419]

I'm looking forward to play this once it's out of beta

[@paintrain3367]

This gives off massive papers please vibes, were they made by the same people?

[@Skellington77]

No, I think this is the company's first game, the papers please game is made by one man named Lucas Pope (He also made "the mystery of the obra din)

[@DollyNipples]

I was thinking that too. Maybe it was just some kind of influence.

[@Cupcake-yg6yo]

@@Skellington77 Actually, they have another game called yes, your grace! Their work seem to be going amazing so far.

[@howardmurphy8019]

Topical, and looks like a less complicated or stressful papers please. I like it.

[@twig1129]

Speaker boi is better than we thought!

[@michellenich3172]

I feel like this game is trying to say something about misdiagnosis and malpractice within the psychological health industry. What with the patients ranging from simply having odd interests to being completely off the wall whacky and a side effect of treatments being complete personality obliteration. 10/10 would question what the nhs did to me again.

[@thewanderingassassinlk3136]

Whys everyone gotta pretend to be a mini detectives and give Theories about fucking everything.

[@bwtrickster]

this game is kinda wholesome in a way :^)

[@Jizzfrosti]

Goofy, yet dystopian. Reminds me of Brazil

[@igorpedroso5281]

@@Jizzfrosti nailed it.

[@fgjjdgb3949]

It seems that we should not have given up free public medicine after all.

[@andrewandrew6376]

Amazing work!

[@GuardianDbbrrtt]

It remind me "Zoids: The Battle Begins - ZX Spectrum game" you cool guys! Like OLD TIMES. Like!

[@GuardianDbbrrtt]

inspiration to me : Equilibrium Libria, a totalitarian city-state, was established by the survivors of World War III. In Libria, all emotions and emotionally stimulating objects, blamed for causing the war, have been forbidden. Those in violation are labelled "sense offenders" and are put to death. Kree Empire's capital planet of Hala, Supreme Intelligence, the artificial intelligence that rules the Kree, urges her to keep their emotions in check. Blader runner 2049...

[@kristofladanyi3671]

Imagine the Team Fortress 2 mercenaries getting treated.

[@opiumlover91]

"Game where you normalize anomaly citizens" Oh cool, just like Twitter.

[@saphi20]

hope you mean it as in twitter users needing normalization 🤣

[@ICEknightnine]

the blue checkmark marks you as abnormal.

[@LordTyph]

soon to be real life too.

[@Chrisknyfe]

Twitter signal boosts anomalies, and we can't get enough of them.

[@ChazDragoon]

twitter is the DLC...dubbed "Endless Mode". Unfortunately, it will always end in failure and questioning your life choices.

[@brunogoncalves9747]

I found it really interesting and I loved the concept! Will definitely have a try on this game later!

[@savawhatever3092]

this has a slight papers please vibe

[@Gadget622]

Am I the only one who immensely adores the button pressing sound effect

[@GuardianDbbrrtt]

The Structure every day - "GIVE ME A RENT"

[@biggabey993]

Hey ABG, can you release a video showing what would happen if you put different characters as sane or insane? And different endings to some characters? I want to see more of this game.

[@ReesesBees]

i'm getting strong Papers, Please vibes from this, and i love it.

[@artofmomo]

oh my god I LOVE IT

[@TheLongasen]

Interesting!

[@lordfriedrick7911]

I think this game will have great potential to become really famous

[@darknez09240]

i dig the weird cyberpunk future vibe to this game the characters, ui's creepy robot looks too and the soundtrack fits the weird theme

[@ghost_ship_supreme]

It’s kinda creepy how you kept erasing their personalities

[@michaelg4888]

ABG: 'Is just trying to show off the cool game' Comments: "Okay so here's everything you did wrong ever"

[@frocco7125]

This game does raise some interesting moral questions. How do we define "insane"? Which mental traits should we consider insanities, and which traits not? Where is the line between curing and brainwashing someone?

[@kirtil5177]

i think curing the personality is also brainwashing, but just depends on the intent of either curing or making them a tame subordinate

[@GuardianDbbrrtt]

"Pi Pi Pi Pu Pu... " I'm yelling meme - it realy amazing!

[@R421Excelsior]

Wishlisted immediately.

[@_samtsa]

when they said "this is the end of the beta" i was hit hard

[@Laozi_Sparta]

Can't wait for a full version

[@_err0r_error_]

reminds me of papers please and please don't touch anything looks interesting

[@fritzskrivvens8727]

Very interesting results. We'll have to get someone to you when we determine your treatment.

[@leoleo4469]

"end bata" well, this is a bata

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

Steffi: "sometimes you gotta construct a bomb and blow shit up fo the greater good. You know what I'm saying?" ABG: sounds legit.

[@salsichalivre5401]

The Chinese government simulators are funny, aren't they?

[@ICEknightnine]

Don't you bring politics into my state enforced brainwashing simulators!

[@salsichalivre5401]

@@ICEknightnine that is exactly what state enforced brainwashing simulators would ask! HELP! Somebody!

[@ICEknightnine]

​@@salsichalivre5401 ℕ𝕠𝕓𝕠𝕕𝕪 𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕤𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕟𝕠𝕨

[@nbtwall7287]

This reminds me of demonologie, you're patrolling a town with absolute authority on whether or not people need to suffer/die, and you even if they aren't insane/witches, you get paid for harming them regardless.

[@RasmusMolck]

Would love to see you play the full game. It is out now on steam.

[@hicksdillon]

I've never played Papers Please, but I guess I need to because I think this concept is so creative.

[@qualia8047]

Thats an interesting game credit for the Sounddesign as well.

[@camiepotatopattie8754]

Wow it’s blade runner but with more purple

[@aimlesspassions1157]

“You raise the blade, You make the change, You re-arrange me til I’m sane. You lock the door and throw away the key, There’s someone in my head, but it’s not me.” -Pink Floyd; Brain Damage 🧠

[@TheRealNormanBates]

“...I don’t know.. I was really drunk at the time..” - I don’t know.. I was really drunk at the time

[@santiagot172]

Amazing game. Does someone know when it comes out ? Never mind: it comes out on 2021.

[@zigaudrey]

I remember making a text-based game on Python including psychological symptom based on words. However, it is more complex than it looks and I give up. Fun Fact is that the protagonist an amateur but psychologist enthusiast, believe the main fault is the brain. I love the atmosphere and theme. It is all about conformism.

[@Code_Machine]

I like that poster girl the most

[@eduesmalo]

superb idea

[@donuts9451]

i really like papers please so seeing a game like it is nice. quite excited to try it out

[@healthyfire]

This game RULES

[@neofulcrum5013]

Curious to learn more about moonrise. In these types of dystopia the underground rebel group is usually the lesser of the two evils.

[@lonerimortal8]

this game has a lot of potential :^)

[@ivorymantis1026]

This is an incredibly good game through it's metanarrative. As someone who both had to seek psychiatric help a long time ago, and as a family member of those institutionalized, Society has utilized psychiatric services to weed out and conform "non-thinkers" to their paradigm of groupthink for years. Society and Government, using the standards they desire as "neurotypical", utilize these services on a daily basis to straighten out the "knots" of people's thinking in attempt to make a unilateral society of like-minded thinkers only. Psychiatric services, in other words, have become a tool of the Neo-Ecclesiarchy denoting non-thinking individuals as "insane" in the same way a priest of the past declared someone Demon-Possessed. The "Sane" members of society (simply those who have the most neurotypical or society-benefiting personality traits) themselves will ostracize those with the Diagnosis of the Psychiatrics State Priests as they always have. Little do people know that these Modern-Age clergymen of the self-proclaimed God of the State essentially gather in monastic cabals to determine which other non-thinking traits to add to the ever growing list of Mental Demons. Treatments might as well be psychosomatic, a spiritually-damaging autohypnosis to convince someone that there is something wrong with them because the exorcist demands that there is indeed something wrong. Why else would they be there? Akin to the Plague Doctors of old issuing lead-based medicine, the pharmaceutical titans of the world always welcome more members to the fold, to tithe away their income towards their centers of worship for a "sound state of mind" as they issue their addictive placebos to the masses like communion crackers and wine at Mass. In the end, what you have is nothing more than a message that has and will be, **"CONFORM OR DIE."** You either die socially or worse. It matters not to the Neo-Ecclesiarchy of the State if one person lives or dies from their confirmation of demonic possession. Only that one more Demon has been rid of their ideal world as they continue to make a Hell of Heaven and a Heaven of Hell.

[@WillieManga]

Ah, destroying free will, my ultimate nightmare fuel!

[@shadowscarnage]

This reminds me of "Papers Please!" such a good game.

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

12:57 The patient was cured by being turned into Crazy Frog. "She will tear down anyone to get what she wants". I think the game tells you she is a narcissist psychopath or some other antisocially disturbed person. 33:47 the most scifi aspect of this game is that they still use faxes in the future.

[@ovapolnareff6899]

14:51 This taste... is the taste of a liar, Giorno Giovanna!

[@ikonhero]

Looks like an awesome game!

[@chrisc.5911]

At just a cursory glance, this looks like a mix of Papers Please and Please, Don't Touch Anything.

[@automatedfigment]

46:44 *cosible Vinfusion That moment was worth over 100 Kapok. 😂

[@GuardianDbbrrtt]

Mr Ditkovich(The structure ) GIVE ME A RENT!! The Mind Scanner - Fix This Damn Door !

[@letsatsi2616]

Hey could u do full playthroughs soon. I just love the games you go through but I don't see a lot of them elsewhere...

[@EGRJ]

It's like that Stuffed Animal Therapy game, but dystopian.

[@MynicknameisViolet]

If this was in VR it'd be super meta

[@familyguyrofl]

Oh this is cool as heck

[@ptrd4111]

You did my man Oliver dirty. :(

[@not_ryuka]

sci-fi papers please

[@omarpikm2101]

the speaker thing sounds like the hocotate ship no cap

[@papabakabon]

Remind me Paper, Please

[@GuardianDbbrrtt]

Paper, Please in Cyberpunk.

[@gart8224]

who else saw the thumbnail and got monster house flashbacks to the basement pipes scene

[@ead5070]

When te personality bar is 0 its unreversable. So before you treat someone with the last personality block you might wanna increase the personality first before you could do so