Brain Please Don’t is a small game exploring a snapshot of modern teenage life, with an innovative deckbuilding and card-game mechanic studying the inner turmoils, dysfunctionalities and means of improving the situation of one’s psyche. Can you leave young Cameron better off?
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Mixed (12) - 66% of the 12 user reviews for this game are positive.
Release Date:
Jul 1, 2020
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About This Game

Brain Please Don’t lets you try Cameron’s week with various different versions of the teenager, and each choice made along the way changes Cameron’s inner universe, and the deck that represents it.

In each encounter, play the cards that represent Cameron’s inner workings, thoughts and impulses. Like in any teenager’s life, avoiding self-doubt, anxiety and inadequacy will be a constant challenge. Those challenges can only be meaningfully overcome if the psyche changes to manage them, if you build the deck into a better version of itself through the choices made.

Having better mental states give you access to more answers, and good answers can sometimes create better general states of mind. The game is all about trying to construct positive psychological spirals, while also looking at what happens when that can’t be the case.

Not all endings are always happy, not all darkness is always pitch black, and only your take of each playthrough can explore the various paths and destinations of this short game.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

The game looks at psychological anguish and issues in a serious matter, which includes symbolic depictions and study of these matters.

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macOS
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS *: Windows 7 or newer
    • Processor: 2.0GHz
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Storage: 150 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
    Minimum:
    • OS: macOS 10.7 or newer
    • Processor: 2.0GHz
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Storage: 150 MB available space
    Recommended:
      Minimum:
      • OS: SteamOS 2.0 or newer, Ubuntu 14.04 or newer, Debian 8 or la newer. Other distributions may work
      • Processor: 2.0GHz
      • Memory: 2 GB RAM
      • Storage: 150 MB available space
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