You essentially use this to look behind you for Virginia while navigating most of the 'stage.' It comes off clumsy at times, but it's certainly a creative gameplay solution. However, with this location's main threat comes a unique gimmick: a broken mirror shard. This is where Virginia's area occurs in, but now in a closed-down and ruined state due to an 'incident.' As you walk the dark aisles using a flashlight with limited battery usage, you will encounter Virginia as a glowing purple phantasm she immediately charges through your body if you look in her general direction. When a local grocery store shut down due to the Walmart Homa Mart superstore taking away their revenue, she was forced to shop there, a more congested space. The first main area, for example, revolves around Virginia, who had a fear of people perceiving her scarred face in public. Interestingly, each area is an amalgamation of a patient's problems, fears, and usually the last place they were alive. From there you travel to different locations relating to each patient via cassette tapes, in the hopes of finding answers. A little ways into the game, you then realize the story revolves around the deaths of his recent patients and how they may be connected to a conspiracy. If all that sounds a bit disjointed, it's because In Sound Mind is going along with the notion that Desmond Wales has been transported into a dream-like domain, one filled with dread and otherworldly threats. As you walk down a long corridor, hearing all sorts of creaks, you turn around and see the hallway get replaced by a wall. Such instances include constantly finding barrels with rainbow liquid oozing out, a black cat gazing from a distance, and a phone randomly ringing as you stroll past it. As you make your way to the upper two floors via an elevator, you experience strange occurrences in a world void of normal life. You, now taking control of a therapist named Desmond Wales, inexplicably find yourself in an apartment building's trash room. Eventually, the viewpoint makes its way into a building until settling into a first-person view of the protagonist. As the story begins, the perspective zooms through a town at night specifically, one that is partially submerged in an oily substance.

In Sound Mind is a first-person psychological horror title and it wants you to know that right away.

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