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graphic adventure game
Sanitarium
By DreamForge Intertainment, released 1 Jan 1998
- Microsoft Windows
What it is
Sanitarium is a horror point-and-click adventure from DreamForge Intertainment. After a car accident, the protagonist wakes in a gloomy asylum with bandages over their head and must work out why they are there. The story moves through a dark setting where the boundary between sense and madness is uncertain, with riddles to solve throughout. Its Steam features include single-player, achievements, Steam Cloud and Family Sharing. Sanitarium was originally released on PC in 1998 and is available for Windows; the Steam release date is listed as October 29, 2014. The developer is DreamForge Intertainment and the publisher is Ziggurat. A Steam description says an enhanced and updated version with new features is coming soon, but provides no further details.
What players like, and what they don't
- Point-and-click horror adventure
- Includes puzzles throughout its story
- Steam Cloud and achievements are supported
- Single-player with Family Sharing
- Windows is the only listed platform
- Enhanced version details are not provided
Who it suits
It suits players interested in horror point-and-click adventures and a story built around an asylum, uncertainty and puzzles. The listing also presents it as suitable for both beginners and experienced riddle-solvers.
Sanitarium pairs a dark asylum mystery with puzzles and a story focused on the line between perception and madness. Windows players looking for a single-player point-and-click horror game may find its premise a fit.
