A beautiful idea paired with the perfect setting to explore that idea. This game however sadly feels like it doesn't quite know what it wants to be. Part typical indie walking sim, part horror, part adventure, part puzzle solver. Scanner Sombre dips it's toe into a number of genres never really committing to any of them so even with it's genius scanner mechanic it ends up feeling half baked. The plot is rather generic and uninspired and honestly does the game a disservice in my opinion. Sometimes less is more, and in this game I don't think we needed backstory, clearly we are deep down in a cave somewhere and are trying to get out - that's all the motivation I need.

This game does have one of those "oh wow" moments that will stay with me for a while. See after you escape the cave the camera slowly travels back through the path of your journey showing you not only how far you've come but also revealing this human snail trail of scanner data that creates this massive anthill-esque work of art that I found strangely beautiful. I'm going to choose to ignore that very last sequence which totally undermined the greatness that occurred right before it. Ultimately Scanner Sombre is worth a playthrough just for the fact that it tried something new and pulled it off relatively well, so give it a go if you are into trying out games with unique ideas.