Whether they were sad, angry, or troubled, the version of them presented in the level will match both the emotion and the level’s theme. After you get through this strange area and listen to the optional lore tapes, you will step through another door with the white light and the real level begins.Įach level is completely different and features the troubled, emotionally stressed version of a patient’s ghost. Once you step through the door, you get a section of a strange pathway that has the theme of what the level will consist of and a bunch of cassettes to listen to while you make your way through to get lore information. After a bit of in-game visual action, the door will open with nothing but a bright white behind it. Inside their home, you will find a cassette tape that you take back to your office, put in the tape player, and press play. In order to access levels, you must enter the home of the patient that the level is based around. Once you are able to assemble the pistol, grab the flashlight, and find your office, the real game begins.Īfter you are introduced to Tonia, the first level will be opened up to you. From here you get to experience the first form of puzzle setup and exploration that this game will throw at you. Just a strange setting and a confusing start to a long journey. Starting the game, you’ll have no tools or items to work with. With the help of his talking cat named Tonia, he must find what connects everybody together while bringing peace to the disturbed souls of his lost patients. Immediately finding oddities within the building, he learns that something strange is happening and that this building has a strange connection between him, his practice, and his patients. Therapist Desmond Wales finds himself waking in the basement of an apartment building with the world outside flooded, a therapist begins a journey, unlike anything he could have expected. Being released with the help of publisher Modus Games, players have an interesting and unique journey with this one. This is what developers We Create Stuff utilized when they developed In Sound Mind. With how wild our minds can be on their own, the added stress of emotions can really be shown in creative ways. One of the more popular base concepts is the psychological aspect. You’ll be glad you did.There are a lot of concepts that a horror game can use to create a story and build strange events around. Trust me, though: when you find that shopping cart, give it a few boots from me.
Ultimately, In Sound Mind is walking some well-worn paths-the horror equivalent of competently made comfort food. During a sequence in the nightmarish reflection of a shopping center, it was hard to ignore that the game was asking me to defeat a ghost by repeatedly exposing her to the trigger for her psychosis-essentially asking me to weaponize a woman’s own fatal psychological trauma against her to progress. It doesn’t help that when In Sound Mind tries to paint with psychology as part of its horror palette, some of its attempts dip from clumsy to tasteless.
Maybe most damning is that its enemies, including each area’s boss, felt more inconvenient than scary.
There are plenty of little jumpscares and spooky thuds, occasional brief glimpses at lurking threats, but nothing that spiked the heart rate as much as I’d hoped. If I’m really disappointed by anything, it’s that In Sound Mind never felt particularly horrifying.
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