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Surprise! Prison Architect dev's unsettling new game Scanner Sombre out in two days

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Surprise! Introversion's colourful and mysterious new PC game Scanner Sombre will be released this week! In two days! On Wednesday 26th April at 3pm BST!

Scanner Sombre is a short and unsettling exploration game about revealing a hidden landscape, a cave system, around you.

You use an in-game - not real-life - virtual reality headset in conjunction with a scanner to change the impenetrably dark environment into a dotted, colourful world, and uncover the tunnels and bridges that will get you through it.

But soon you'll realise you may not be alone.

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Martin wrote about Scanner Sombre having played it at EGX Rezzed a couple of weekends ago. We'll be reviewing the game for Wednesday, too.

Scanner Sombre is a marked departure for Introversion from Prison Architect, and is designed to be gobbled up in a single play session. It's £8.99 but slightly reduced on GOG and Steam and the Humble Store for launch.

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