
Scanner Sombre is a 3d horror cave exploration game where darkness is your greatest foe. Illuminate the unseen with your LIDAR scanner, revealing the eerie beauty and peril of the abyss. From the creators of Prison Architect, this immersive adventure uses light and shadow for a haunting experience.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
Scanner Sombre is a tense 3d horror cave exploration game where oppressive darkness becomes your greatest enemy. The silence, broken only by echoes and hesitant footsteps, builds chilling tension, while the unseen unknown keeps you on edge. Blending psychological horror with discovery, it challenges you to navigate a hidden world lit by a LIDAR scanner. From the creators of Prison Architect, this immersive adventure uses light and shadow to craft a hauntingly beautiful yet terrifying experience.

In Scanner Sombre, the LIDAR scanner is your lifeline. Armed with this innovative tool, you reveal the unseen by casting light into the abyss, slowly mapping the cave around you. As the silence presses in, and shadows twist, the scanner’s color-coded beams uncover hidden dangers and untold mysteries lurking in the dark.

Scanner Sombre features a striking visual style built around vibrant, rainbow-colored point clouds, inspired by industrial LIDAR scans. Players use a handheld scanner to gradually reveal the environment, with color-coded points helping to perceive depth. This distinctive, inhuman aesthetic creates an eerie atmosphere and enhances the exploration experience.

In Scanner Sombre, the story unfolds subtly through the environment, with hints of forgotten histories hidden within the cave. As you explore, remnants of the past, strange symbols, and eerie remnants suggest a deeper, darker narrative. Each step forward invites you to unravel the mysteries bit by bit.

Introversion Software has been developing games since 2001, and stands behind acclaimed titles like Uplink, Defcon, Darwinia, Multiwinia, Prison Architect, Scanner Sombre, and their latest release, The Last Starship. Introversion has garnered both critical and commercial success being recognised with multiple awards including the IGF grand prize for Darwinia and BAFTA for best persistent game (Prison Architect). They have sold more than 4M copies of their games worldwide.
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| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $2.09−70% | 3.2Kreviews | 91% | — | $94.5K |
| $2.09−70% | 97ratings | 74% | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
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The best game to play on LSD, trust.
This is a great quick play and runs Great on my PC, the VR though doesn't seem to work as I can't enter the gameplay part nor am I able to use the desktop SteamVR feature to click on the button to play.
Walking Sim, novelty doesn't last long. Poor execution of horror. Not much game here. World building is very basic. Its an interactive movie that isn't worth your time.
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Languages: English*, French*, Italian*, German*, Spanish - Spain*, Danish*, Dutch*, Norwegian*, Portuguese - Portugal*, Portuguese - Brazil*, Bulgarian*, Czech* +14 more
Hours played at review time, across 81 reviews with recorded playtime.
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--- Spoiler Warning --- I always love original concepts like this. Instead of super sharp graphics, this game refuses to directly show the game world to the player, who has to rely on their imagination. Creepy setting that combines the occult with cave exploration. Very interesting narration that unfortunately doesn't go into detail very much. Map design is convenient, meaning you don't get stuck at all or constantly slip into a deep abyss, if you're careful. The game was a bit too short and I wish the devs explored the unusual design limitation a bit more. The crying angel statue at the beginning for example led me to believe that there would later be some kind of entity which worked in this way. There could be moving objects that the player has to interact with somehow. Or enemies that you have to hide from or trick. The material scanner could be used to identify different objects and use them to progress. Maybe tunnels that lead away from the linear path that make the player feel disoriented or some kind of passive survival pressure like the cave periodically filling with water or stalagtites that fall down in a certain pattern. Maybe optical illusions or perspective artwork. Overall, it was a fun but short expedition.
Словно книга детективного жанра, эта игра вызвала у меня желание пройти её заново, дабы взглянуть на это приключение через линзу личной драмы.
muito muito top, para quem gosta de exploração é mt bom, e não caia na água sksksksksk
Pretty incredible liminal game with some nice visual storytelling. not gameplay heavy but enjoyable. Buy if you are looking for a unique audio/visual trip
Honestamente me esperaba más jumpscares, estuve cagado todo el juego al pedo jajajaja
Очень понравилась атмосфера игры. Она держит в напряжении не за счёт дешёвых скримеров, а благодаря неизвестности и окружающему миру. Исследовать пещеру было действительно интересно, а необычная механика только усиливает впечатления. Если любите атмосферные хорроры без постоянных «бу»-моментов, рекомендую.
真っ暗な洞窟の中を、スキャナーで色を付けながら景色を作りだし、探索していくゲームです。真っ暗で何も見えない空間が少しずつ色づき、自分の歩いてきた軌跡が徐々に見えてくる感覚が探索好きの私に深く刺さりました。またマップも非常に良く作り込まれていて、様々な地形や人類の痕跡の魅せ方に惹き付けられました。 ボリュームは短めですが、それを補って余りある程のゲーム体験ができるのでオススメです。特にラストの展開は衝撃的でした。
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