Imagine a world created out of insanity – deformed children, ancient gods, ghosts from your past in the house inside of a water reflection. You are an asylum patient and you have just survived a car crash – the problem is you can't remember anything. Visions reveal answers to some questions, but cre...
Imagine a world created out of insanity – deformed children, ancient gods, ghosts from your past in the house inside of a water reflection. You are an asylum patient and you have just survived a car crash – the problem is you can't remember anything. Visions reveal answers to some questions, but create even more riddles! Which part of it is true? What do all these things mean?
Sanitarium is one of the few psychological horror adventure games. As the protagonist you will visit five different worlds full of riddles and answers, with which you will have to figure out what exactly is happening and what is real. The story is so incredibly good and enthralling that it could easily drive a sane person mad.
One of the most immersive and chilling psychological horror games ever created
Discover what your warped mind is hiding under the veil of a psychedelic dream
Explore surreal worlds inhabited by crazy, half-sane and or half-dead characters
I was very sceptic to this game. Never heard about it..
But I was thrilled to learn that I loved it..
Even if I sometimes got very irretated about the bugs in some sections of the game.
Higly recomended for those who like a good plot and adventure.
It's not merely a game, it's a study of madness and its nature. The game abounds with disturbing scenes, and the most powerful one are the sight of deformed children near the beginning of the game. If you have the stomach for that, it will prove a very rewarding experience.
Sanitarium is one of the best point n click I played in very long time. It's story is solid, puzzles makes sense and atmosphere is thick as mist in rainy Arkham city. I think it also survived test of time very well and I had no troubles playing it on Win 10.
This Point-and-Click Adventure is not without its problems. The controls aren't quite as intiutive as you might expect for the genre, and it goes so far as to have combat! That said, the combat works well enough, but the very first encounter catches you with your pants down, and is, perhaps, the most complicated fight in the game. There are also a few moments where it's not entirely clear what to do, some of which involve looking for some magic pixel that gives you a hard-to-see item that makes everything finally click.
Put all of that aside, and you'll see that the writing is simply exquisite; every thread of the plot is so intricately interwoven, that when you step back and look at the whole picture, you have an unbelievable tapestry before you. The whole "Is the protagonist really insane or not?" concept is always fascinating, but often mismanaged, leaving a mangled wreck of a statement, but Sanitarium handles it extremely well, going so far as to take steps toward destigmatizing mental illness by showing that this sort of thing can happen to most anyone. That's showing; not telling; this isn't some preachy, pretentious, in-your-face diatribe, but a well-crafted eye-opener. Though it's hard to understand how some of the puzzles even work, once you do, most of them are quite clever; very stimulating. If you're a fan of the genre, I highly recommend putting aside its gameplay issues and giving it a go.
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