Posted on: January 26, 2020

Megacyclo

Игр: 3269 Отзывов: 30

Visual exploration

Scanner Sombre is something of an artistic experiment by Introversion. Instead of being a story-driven tactical game or a simulation, it's a game that toys around with underground LIDAR exploration. The story is extremely light and while the general mood feels creepy, there are no real hazards, just "surprises" to make you feel unsafe. In the end you just walk around trying to escape the cave while painting it with pretty colors to see your surroundings an discovering strange stuff (like giant stone totems that look quite cool I might say). The LIDAR scanner itself is very well made and an interesting mechaninc I'd like to see in more games, with an adjustable span that allows you to scan wide for general recon and then fine scan to see more"details". the mood and graphics felt great to me and I really had the feeling I was lost in a weird place I could only see through a visor and not wih my own eyes, which makes for an interesting alien feeling. It's a very short game, as everyone said, and for some reasons the game demands you allows it though your firewall at launch (you can then turn off the tracking option in the options menu). I suppose the devs wanted to learn how people approach this (like a scanning ratio or how fast people breeze through or try to light up everything) but it's slightly strange that they don't outright tell you about this. I got the game on sale for 79c so I can't really complain, but I'll agree that for the full asking price, stealth tracking and a short experience can negatively impact the experience. However I still think everyone should try it. It may be a walking simulator, but at least it doesn't veer off into a preachy one-sided story of stupid jumpscares, God forbid long, boring, unskippable spoken rambling where you just wait for the interlocutor to shut up. It's a visual trip, and I'd say you could give it a try if on sale, I think it's the upper tier of walking simulators.

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Posted on: January 15, 2023

fsmcas

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Игр: 756 Отзывов: 14

Great VR game

First and foremost: This is a game meant to be played in VR. Not necessarily by the developers, I don't know - but it is made vor VR, it is made for simulated depth and free hand controls. On a flat screen you play a gimmicky game in total darkness while creating your environment by painting dots onto the walls. Which is nice for some time, but won't be fun for endless hours. But once you start to play in VR, suddenly the dots are not just colored but you can see how far they are away, you get a real feeling of your surroundings. Having the ability to control your pointing device independently from your viewing direction also ehnaces the game greatly. It's less then 2 hours from start to finish, way less if you hurry. But in all honesty, this is one of the games I use to showcase VR. It really is that good ----- as a VR tech demo. DonÄt expect a huge AAA title, but a really unique experience.

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Posted on: February 23, 2024

MinesBoom

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Игр: 274 Отзывов: 1

Really nice game, CHROMADEPTH COMPATIBLE

I found this game through a short on YouTube and was instantly hooked. While trying it, i got the idea of testing it with my ChromaDepth-Glases (they make an 3D-Effect based on the refraction of the different colors, like when shining white light through a prisma. Red object will be in the front and the more blue an object is, the more away it is) Just amazing, how it looks through them. So, if you dont have enough money (or PC-Power), then grab one of these glasses (under 5 Bugs per unit on amazon) and enjoy it. You dont have to change any settings ingame.

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Posted on: June 15, 2017

harkejuice

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Игр: 117 Отзывов: 5

Clever, if short and lackluster

I expected this to be a short little trip around a single gimmick, but I had hoped there was more to it somehow. I can't say I'm disappointed since I knew all along it was going to be a rather short tech demo. Impressive visuals, good music at times, novel mechanic that becomes tiresome quickly. However, too many missed opportunities to make a deeper, scarier and more satisfying game to beat. I understand that is maybe not what the devs intended with their story, however the trailer is expertly crafted to make you think there is a mystery to solve, that you are trying to survive. Tiny spoiler: you aren't, there isn't. After everything's said and done, I would consider it worth the experience for the current summer sale price, I just feel that I would have gotten more out of buying a book ten times the length for the same money.

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Posted on: June 18, 2017

Mittelweg

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Игр: 115 Отзывов: 4

Great exploration, but forget the rest

Don't play this game for its story/game mechanics, play it as a beautiful exploration toy and you'll have a good time! It's just a walking simulator with a dark atmosphere, yes. The whole thing took me about 3 hours to complete and I went slowly. The story is promising in the beginning, but doesn't expand on the interesting bits. The rest of the story feels a bit like a forced conclusion, it's not too bad, but it's really just there to mark the ending. What makes this game great is that exploring feels more interesting than in a normal game where you see what's there versus here where you discover the area around you by scanning. Scanning looks cool and is quite fun in itself. Looking back at the whole long winding cave you've scanned is really neat! Some people mentioned they didn't like to hold LMB all the time: You can just press MMB once and your scanner keeps scanning till you press MMB again. Compared to Dear Esther: DE is a more coherent game, the single parts make more sense together than in Scanner and it worked better as a whole. On the other hand, exploration in Scanner is way more satisfying.

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