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Developers
Introversion Software
Engines
Unity 5[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows April 26, 2017
macOS (OS X) April 26, 2017
Linux August 24, 2017[Note 2]
Reception
Metacritic 67
OpenCritic 69
IGDB 73
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Adventure
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Key points

VR support is experimental and may not work with all devices.[4]
Save files grow to be extremely large (often hundreds of MB to several GB in size) and cannot be deleted in-game.[5]

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Official website
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Humble Store
DRM-free
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Oculus Store
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Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Linux compatibility is not shown on the game's store page. However, a Linux depot does exist.[6]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Introversion Software\ScannerSombre
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Introversion Software\ScannerSombre
macOS (OS X)
Linux $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d/Introversion Software/ScannerSombre/
This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Introversion Software\ScannerSombre\saves\
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/unity.Introversion Software.ScannerSombre/saves
Linux $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d/Introversion Software/ScannerSombre/saves/

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.
General settings.
Unity launcher, accessed by holding LShift when opening the game.
Unity launcher, accessed by holding LShift when opening the game.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
60-90 vertical.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Enable windowed mode and use the -popupwindow parameter (or see the glossary page).
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Disabled on low graphics setting, enabled with medium and high.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Character movement is capped at ~60 FPS.[1]
High dynamic range display (HDR)
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Danish
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Norwegian
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Spanish

VR support

Issues fixed

Constantly spinning camera, Cursor not visible

See Unity engine article.
Disable/Unplug all unused controllers[1]
Rebind controller buttons[1]

Game crashes during gameplay

See Bypass OpenSSL SHA bug on Intel 10th gen and later CPUs.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3 GHz
AMD Phenom II x4 940 3.0 GHz
AMD FX-8350 4.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8
AMD Radeon HD 2000
DirectX 10 compatible
Sound (audio device) Ad Lib Music Synthesizer
A 64-bit operating system is required.
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.7 Lion
Processor (CPU) 64-bit
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 5.4.0f3[1]
  2. The Linux version was added to Steam in a beta branch on May 17, 2017.[2] Subsequently the Linux version was moved to the public branch on August 24, 2017.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Verified by User:Marioysikax on 2017-10-08
  2. Help Test Linux Version - Introversion - last accessed on 2023-07-12
  3. Scanner Sombre History · Change #3328429 · SteamDB - last accessed on 2023-07-12
  4. PC Gamer: "Scanner Sombre VR mode now available in beta" - last accessed on 17 May 2023
  5. Steam Community forums: "600 Mb of save files?!" - last accessed on 17 May 2023
  6. Scanner Sombre Depots · SteamDB - last accessed on 2023-07-12