Sanitarium

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 1,160 reviews of which 1,084 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.

The Steam community has classified Sanitarium into these genres:

Point & Click Adventure Horror Psychological Horror Atmospheric Classic Retro Story Rich 1990's Dark Puzzle Surreal Isometric Singleplayer Mystery Cult Classic Great Soundtrack Thriller Narration Supernatural

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Requirements

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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

Reviews

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Nov. 2024

It actually uses logic to solve puzzles, unlike many other adventure games.

Nov. 2024

Some difficult pixel hunting but doable, very good story and vibe 9/10

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.

June 2024

I do love these weird and off-putting old games, but when I played Harvester, the disappointment was big enough to get me distrustful of any game that shared similar concepts. But this game really nails what it means to be a "quirky and strange adventure game", in which you play as an asylum inmate, but you seem SANE, so what should you do to get out of there? The game starts in the nominal place, where you are surrounded by crazy people that speak so much nonsense you just start to ignore them. But then, as you start to travel through incredible and surreal adventures, you will soon be blabbering nonsense to sane people and be ignored the same way you ignored them. So, were their experiences as real as yours? Or were your experiences those of a mere lunatic as the ones you downplayed? The game blendsreality and the imaginary into a convoluted mess and you will have difficulties trying to discern what is fiction or not, all of this enveloped into an interesting drama which will make a lot of sense by the time you reach the end of the game.

April 2024

(100% completed) Nostalgia with this game. I remembered when was young and play it for the first time. General good game with nice puzzles. The only thing that bothers me is how clanky the player moves.

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12.79€

8.8

1,084

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Developer

Piko Interactive LLC, bleem.net

Publisher

DotEmu

Release 29 Oct 2014

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