The game was released on PC in 2015, and is available for purchase on Steam here.
It was also ported to Xbox One in 2017.
Not to be confused with Nirvana's legendary album.
Nevermind contains examples of:
- Addled Addict: Client #418 seems to have become this.
- Ate His Gun: Client #251's father did.
- Awful Truth: The premise centers around this trope - each client has some sort of horrible experience that they have somehow forgotten or repressed, and it is your job as the Neuro-Prober to uncover it.
- Domestic Abuser: Client #909's partner's abuse is the trigger for her agoraphobia. Initially seeming sweet, the partner turned increasingly controlling and bullying, culminating in them stalking her and brutally killing her pet bird with a pair of scissors as "punishment" for a perceived transgression.
- Featureless Protagonist: The doctor, who is meant to represent you, is never seen, and the clients are also never directly seen, though vague depictions in the photographs can hint at their appearance.
- Ghost City: Client #418's landscape is one.
- Hell Is That Noise: The car horn from Client #251's landscape.
- It's All My Fault:
- Client #251's scopophobia stems from her belief that she somehow contributed to her father's death, and that not only did her father stare at her just as he killed himself, but everyone who encountered her knew and was judging her.
- Client #909 came to blame herself for the abuse that she started suffering in her relationship, telling herself that everything would be fine if she would only "do everything right" from her partner's perspective.
- No Name Given: None of the clients are referred to as anything but their patient numbers. After you complete each's mindscape, they send you a signed thank-you card, but the signatures are all of the "super-freehand and impossible to interpret" variety.
- The Perfectionist: Client #440's main issue. She's an older woman developing Alzheimer's, and is admitted for severe guilt after an episode prevents her from performing as a professional pianist at a concert. She admits outright in a "that's my motto" sort of manner during her intake interview that her mother always drilled the idea that suffering is worth it for perfection into her, and it turns out that sure enough, when she was a kid, her parents hired a horribly strict piano teacher for her who once slammed the headboard onto her hands out of irritation when she made a mistake, officially planting the seed for her own abject fear of screwing up and quite literally underperforming.
- Red Herring: While you find ten photographs in each mindscape, only five of those photographs are related to unlocking each client's Awful Truth. The other photographs do give you more details on each client's full story and they're not unrelated to what each of them's most-immediately contending with (e.x., it's implied that Client #418 already had emotional issues and difficulty relating to others before his PTSD), but they're not needed for solving each stage's final puzzle.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: Client #418 is this.
- Solve the Soup Cans: Due to the symbolic nature of the landscapes, many puzzles become this.
- Whole-Plot Reference: The tutorial client is one to Hansel and Gretel, which comes into play when determining which photographs tell the truth and which do not.
- World of Symbolism: Invoked, as each world is the client's subconscious.
- You Are Not Alone: An element of Client #418 and Client #909's respective recoveries - in their post-level monologues, Client #418 states that despite his previous feelings of alienation, he finally feels ready to accept real help from others, and Client #909 mentions having a strong base of friends to help her move on from her insecurities and trauma.
