Fractured Minds (2019)

Fractured Minds is an immersive artistic short game, exploring anxiety and mental health issues.

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Critical HitNoelle AdamsNov 20198/10
The video game equivalent of a shot of espresso, award-winning Fractured Minds is a short, potent and tonally dark exploration of living with anxiety and other mental health issues. In some ways, it's obviously the effort of a teenage game developer. In others, well, a good many adult creators can learn from its perceptiveness and sophisticated implementation.
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Cubed3Thom ComptonDec 20197/10
Fractured Minds is a beautiful experience, and by no means should any complaints from this end diminish that. While it won't be everyone's kind of game, it is something anyone looking for something a little different should try out. Furthermore, if you suffer from anxiety, or even more important perhaps, know someone who does, this is a gorgeous realization of what it's like to suffer. In short, Emily Mitchell, keep making games, cause if this is any indication of what you can do, the industry definitely needs your voice.
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Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Developer: Emily M Games
Publisher: Wired Productions
Released: November 14, 2019
Modes: Single player
Perspective: First person
Engine: Unity

IGDB rating 5.1/10 from 22 ratings.

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