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Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 35, under the fair line, at $16.99.
- Length
- 4.5h 13.7h to 100%
- Value
- $3.78/hr
- Reviews
- 75% of 1,473 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Greetings. Your Mind Scanner request has been approved. Your duty is to diagnose and treat the citizens of The Structure. The patient list is long so don't waste your time. We’ll let you see your daughter soon...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce GTX 550/equivalent or higher, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 59 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 41 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience ($19.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Beholder 3 ($17.99, scores 12).
More about Mind Scanners
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 543 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 238 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
4.5 hours to finish it, 14 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.0 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
14% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
I liked the game a lot but wouldn't recommend on Steamdeck. I have no idea why it was Steamdeck verified. I trusted the tick and now won't play anymore - some instruments are usable with the commands but some are not at all (like the one where you have to adjust the frequency in Hertz). Feel like I got fooled by the Steamdeck verified check. Oh well! Looks like a cool game, though I couldn't get past Day 10 or 12...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Story is very good and it got me genuinely interested but man are those minigames just a total slog. I seriously can't bear them anymore, whole game went the other way for me and I won't finish it because of it. It just gets incredibly tedious. Game rewards you with even more minigames if you do well, I had to solve nearly 30 of these to treat a patient once and then it gave me another 20 next time around, there's...
So many different endings and very fun gameplay. The minigames can take a second to understand but once you get it they aren't very difficult at all. Same type of satisfying & undertones of authoritarianism 9-5 that paper's please/ death and taxes gives. Big fan!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Mind Scanners scores 35/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1389550/mind-scannersReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.