MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition
Pantumaca Barcelona · 2014 · Adventure, Puzzle, Walking Simulator, Indie, Surreal
PC
Mixed62% · 85175Metacritic
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About MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition
✦ AI summary
Manipulate weather and time itself—cycling between day and night, summoning storms, and shifting seasons—to solve mind-bending environmental puzzles as a man trapped in his own consciousness. Unravel a deeply emotional story about regret and redemption through over 40 creative puzzles across fantastical landscapes that reflect your character's psychological state, all accompanied by poignant voice acting.
Change the entire environment!
Wrapped in a mind-bending tale, the gameplay of “MIND” focuses on changing the very weather in order to solve puzzles: the player will cycle between day and night, modify the levels of fog and rain and even travel in time between seasons, changing the environment to advance the gameplay-driven story —indeed, the mechanics are directly related to who the protagonist is, what has happened to him and everything he is doing: a man trapped in his own mind, he must use all the tools at his disposition to escape to reality. Accompanied by the snarky yet heartfelt narration of this comatose patient, the player will guide him through fantastical forests, dark caverns and deceptive worlds of water and ice that directly relate to his emotional state at each point in his journey.Enhanced Edition Features
- Play the game in Virtual Reality for a full immersive experience. VR support only for motion controllers (HTC VIVE and Oculus Rift + Oculus Touch).
- Powerfull new Unreal Engine 4 engine gaining even 70% more performance in almost every level.
- Steam controller, keyboard, gamepad and VR controllers 100% supported and configurable.
- 4 secret levels, redesigned interactive ending, narration and also an alternative ending.
- More than 40 different, creative puzzles seamlessly integrated into the environment.
- 6 ways to affect the environment in order to solve the puzzles.
- More than 25 distinct landscapes into with which you will be able to interact.
- Turn day to night, make it so everything is covered by a blinding fog, summon incredible storms, travel to the past and make use of even more as of yet unknown mechanics.
- More than an hour of voice acting that, while integrated into the gameplay itself, will tell you a whole story that is not about saving the world but about living through the pain of a father broken by his mistakes.
- Face down imposing enemies by using your creativity and everything you have learnt along the way.
- 22 achievements full of Easter eggs and references.
- OST and Artbook included.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Regular crashes, puzzles where you try to find invisible walkways through trial and error. Was unable to complete this game. Would not recommend2 found this helpful
Forced WASD lol. Always negative review lol. Regardless of anything else lmao.1 found this helpful
Walking Simulator
MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle adventure developed by Pantumaca Barcelona together with Carlos Coronado, Dani Navarro, and Luka Nieto, and published by Talking About Media. Rather than focusing on action or traditional gameplay systems, the title invites players into a surreal psychological world where environmental manipulation, symbolism, and emotional storytelling take center stage. The Enhanced Edition rebuilds and expands upon the original release with improved visuals, redesigned areas, additional content, and virtual reality support, making it the definitive version of the experience. At its core, the game is a journey through a dreamlike landscape that represents the subconscious mind. Players travel through vast forests, desolate plains, frozen environments, mysterious caverns, and other fantastical locations that constantly blur the line between reality and imagination. The environments are visually striking and serve as more than simple backdrops. Every area feels crafted to communicate emotions, memories, and personal struggles, creating a strong sense of immersion that remains one of the game's greatest strengths. Th…
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Mind: Path to Thalamus — The Ghost of a Great Game There's a version of Mind: Path to Thalamus that would be genuinely remarkable. A one-man indie project, visually stunning, built around the grief of a father processing the loss of his daughter through a surreal dreamscape — on paper, this is exactly the kind of personal, atmospheric puzzle experience that the genre occasionally produces at its finest. The bones are there. The execution is where things quietly come apart. The world itself is the game's strongest argument. Carlos Coronado has a remarkable eye for atmosphere. Dense, fog-threaded forests, desolate desert plains stitched through with impossible architecture — these environments convey the psychological weight of guilt and loss better than anything the game explicitly tells you. Walking through them, you occasionally feel something real: the loneliness of a mind turning inward on itself. That is no small achievement for a solo developer. The trouble is that these spaces are asked to carry too much, because the game's two other pillars — its puzzle design and its narrative voice — can't hold their share of the load. The puzzle concept is genuinely interesting: manip…
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