Games like Mind Scanners
If Mind Scanners is your kind of game, the closest matches are I'm a King, Editor's Hell and Not Tonight — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and immersive. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
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Steam players who put hours into Mind Scanners also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
I'm a King
WHY THIS
Top pick for Mind Scanners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Mind Scanners.
Role-playing strategy "I'm a King". Rule the kingdom, decide the fate of people, investigate, survive during periods of dark storms. This is only a small part of what you have to do.
Editor's Hell
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Mind Scanners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mind Scanners.
You just became the editor for a newspaper in a troublesome country. After months of unemployment; you just had to took it. First, you have to make a choice. Will you support the government or will you go against it? Dreams, nightmares, don’t matter anymore; you have a new opportunity in your life.
Not Tonight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mind Scanners.
Third-strongest match for Mind Scanners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Mind Scanners.
Person of European Heritage #112: Welcome to Relocation Block B, your new home. Your designated role is 'Bouncer'. Work hard, stay out of trouble, and we might let you stay in the UK.
Influence, Inc.
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Mind Scanners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mind Scanners.
Manage a digital influence agency in this strategy-simulation game about modern-day propaganda and advertising. Manipulate social media and the mainstream news to promote celebrities, market products, and even sway elections. Research, share, leak, and target your way to influence.
Not For Broadcast
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mind Scanners.
Ranked #5 for Mind Scanners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Mind Scanners.
A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?
Recursion: Alignment
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Mind Scanners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mind Scanners.
Run an AI lab. Ship models. Survive what they learn to fake. A satirical management sim where every shortcut compounds. Run an AI startup through data deals, GPU shortages, public backlash, and board pressure — and find out what your optimization targets were really doing.
Civil Purgatory
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Mind Scanners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mind Scanners.
Interrogate, investigate, and judge in an authoritarian regime. In Civil Purgatory, real-time AI-generated role-playing dialogue adds depth and dynamism to this narrative simulation full of moral dilemmas, where you decide who walks free… and who doesn’t.
Organs Please
WHY THIS
Shares moral decision making and resource management with Mind Scanners.
Ranked #8 for Mind Scanners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mind Scanners.
A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mind Scanners at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Mind Scanners on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Mind Scanners.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Mind Scanners on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Mind Scanners.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Mind Scanners on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Mind Scanners.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Mind Scanners on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Mind Scanners.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Mind Scanners on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Mind Scanners.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Mind Scanners.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Mind Scanners.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Mind Scanners.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Mind Scanners.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Mind Scanners.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Mind Scanners.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Mind Scanners
- Is Mind Scanners verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Mind Scanners is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Mind Scanners cost?
- Mind Scanners is listed on Steam at 16.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Mind Scanners?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mind Scanners are I'm a King, Editor's Hell, Not Tonight.
- Who developed Mind Scanners?
- Mind Scanners was developed by The Outer Zone and published by Brave At Night.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Mind Scanners.
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