Mind Shift is set in a college town in the northwestern United States. You will take on the role of a male graduate student in psychology and budding hypnotherapist. Your goal is to make your lovely neighbor, Bree, your hypnotized plaything in the alotted time, all while earning your degree. Mind Shift is a combination of sequential exploration, puzzle-solving, and stat management.

Over its multi-year development, Mind Shift's design goals have changed many times, from standard harem-builder to more character-focused and less sex-driven gameplay. Some hallmarks of the harem-builder legacy remain but all in all Mind Shift is EMC with a small e.