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Originally released in 1998 on PC, and awarded as the Adventure Game of the Year, The timeless horror point-and-click, Sanitarium, is returning to frighten the bravest adventure game fans.

Sanitarium is a point & click, adventure and horror game developed by Piko Interactive LLC and bleem.net and published by DotEmu.
Released on October 29th 2014 is available only on Windows in 3 languages: English, French and German.

It has received 1,180 reviews of which 1,104 were positive and 76 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 12.79€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows Vista, 7, 8
  • Processor: Pentium 4 2.4Ghz
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel HD Graphics
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Storage: 3 GB available space

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Dec. 2024
A- A true classic. It's been a really really long time since playing this game and I only remembered key pieces of the story. As a PnC Adventure game, the game is pretty easy and there are only a couple of puzzles that should take you brief moments to solve. The gem of this game is the art direction and delivery and it still is so novel. It takes the isometric 3rd person perspective where this was unique for PnC since nearly all viewpoints were orthogonal or perpendicular to the world. I really love how the cutscenes are interwoven through the gameplay. The story, creepiness, and unveiling of weird creatures and subplots is so well done. If there are any classics needing to be remade this is definitely one of them. Really no bugs to speak of running in SCUMMvm. I opted to go streched aspect ratio on my widescreen as it actually looked pretty good. The only thing I disliked was Max's walking speed....omg so slow!
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Dec. 2024
I played this one back in the day, it makes me very nostalgic. On the other hand, it is a great game, it always has been, it holds up very well, storywise, the graphics are good for the time it was made, but the story is still great and relevant
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Nov. 2024
It actually uses logic to solve puzzles, unlike many other adventure games.
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Nov. 2024
Some difficult pixel hunting but doable, very good story and vibe 9/10
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Oct. 2024
Was too damned scared to play this game when I was small and am really happy I backed out after the first level. I would have had some horrible nightmares and would have probably been a bit traumatized... or maybe not. Either way, I came back to it now and finished the game. I can say it has been an enjoyable experience and terrifying at the same time, but I highly recommend you to play Sanitarium if you are a fan of adventure point 'n click games as well as horror stories. It scores really high in both categories, I will even call it a masterpiece.
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Sanitarium
8.8
1,104
76
Online players
2
Developer
Piko Interactive LLC, bleem.net
Publisher
DotEmu
Release 29 Oct 2014
Platforms