#IN SOUND MIND LIGHTHOUSE PLUS#

There are weird fluorescent puddles of poisonous goo everywhere, not a soul to be seen, portals leading to your patients’ inner psyches, and oh yeah, an incredibly fluffy talking cat.īy going through portals that somehow lead to their homes and finding a tape of their therapy sessions, you gain access to four of your patients’ psyches. You play as Desmond Wales (thank gods it’s not Miles), a psychiatrist who wakes up to find himself in the basement of his apartment building, only, everything’s definitely not normal.

To put it more precisely, it’s the overall vibe and mystery-unraveling aspect, as well as some similar game mechanics and level design of Alan Wake, combined with Psychonauts’ exploration of people’s psyches through levels.

#IN SOUND MIND LIGHTHOUSE PLUS#

In any case, with that disclaimer out of the way, let’s get this thing going, shall we? A Fascinating Mystery-Horror NarrativeĪt the risk of an overly simplistic comparison ( Far Cry with guns hah!), In Sound Mind is basically Alan Wake meets Psychonauts, plus a healthy dose of puzzles. It stands to reason then that a few of my frustrations with the game may just be an outcome of my inexperience of the genre and may not be applicable to genre veterans. So, how soundly (heh) does In Sound Mind manage to pull off its lofty ambitions? Before I give the game a piece of my mind (heh) though, I feel compelled to divulge that I’m not the biggest horror-puzzler aficionado – in fact, I’ve only ever played a few ( Resident Evil 7, Little Nightmares come to mind) and completed even fewer. Not content with just being story-rich though, the game also has FPS and platforming elements to boot. Would you look at that, it’s already October! Obviously, you know what that means… only a quarter of the year remains to be devoured by the unrelenting ravenous all-consumer called Time and I’m going to turn 24 soon and they say 23 is the physical and mental peak of the human body oh crap we’re all gonna die what is life’s purpose?īut also, on a lighter note, it’s spooky season! And what better way to kick things off than with a review of the latest offering of the psychological thriller genre, In Sound Mind ?ĭeveloped by We Create Stuff and published by Modus Games for the PC, PS5, XSX, and Switch, In Sound Mind is a story-rich psychological horror-puzzler much-anticipated by horror fanatics everywhere.

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