Scanner Sombre

Scanner Sombre

PC

Release Date: April 26, 2017

Adventure, FPP, puzzle elements, indie games, experimental/artistic, exploration games, singleplayer

92%

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An adventure game with horror features, focused around exploration and with unusual visuals. The work of Introversion Software’s team delivered a title set in a system of underground caves and corridors, wrapped in utter darkness. With no flashlights or torches of any kind, we can only navigate using laser-scanning system LIDAR, which displays our surroundings as three-dimensional shapes formed by sparkling points.

Scanner Sombre is an exploration game for PC and with features of horror and adventure genres. Its uniqueness comes out of its unusual visuals, as the world is presented as a collection of countless points of light, generated by a LIDAR scanning system.

This experimental project has been developed and published by Introversion Software studio, which is well known for its titles with unique visuals, like Darwinia and Defcon, as well as popular economy strategy Prison Architect. Scanner Sombre has been inspired by exploration games of others developers: Gone Home and Dear Esther.

Plot

Scanner Sombre’s protagonist is a spelunker who tries to discover secrets of an ancient cave system. Equipped with the laser-imaging device LIDAR that lets him see object in utter darkness of the underground, he explores tight and damp tunnels, caves full of stalactites and ruins of ancient structures.

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Last updated on May 15, 2017

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Scanner Sombre Summary

Platforms:

PC / Windows

PC / Windows

Age restrictions: none

Scanner Sombre System Requirements

PC / Windows

PC / Windows

Minimum: Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3 GHz/Phenom II X4 940 3.0 GHz, 4 GB RAM, graphic card 512 MB GeForce 8800 GT or better, 3 GB HDD, Windows 7/8/10 64-bit