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Sanitarium

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4.5/5

( 284 Reviews )

4.5

284 Reviews

English & 2 more
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Sanitarium
Description
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...
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4.5/5

( 284 Reviews )

4.5

284 Reviews

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Product details
1998, DreamForge Intertainment, ...
System requirements
Windows 10 or newer, 1.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible wi...
Time to beat
8.5 hMain
9.5 h Main + Sides
9.5 h Completionist
9 h All Styles
Description
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

©2009 XS Games. All Rights Reserved.

Goodies
manual (30 pages) in-game soundtrack
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:

This game is powered by ScummVM

This game is powered by ScummVM

Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
8.5 hMain
9.5 h Main + Sides
9.5 h Completionist
9 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04), Mac OS X (12+)
Release date:
{{'1998-05-11T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Size:
1.5 GB

Game features

Languages
English
audio
text
Deutsch
audio
text
français
audio
text
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Posted on: November 10, 2009

ttomm46

Games: 185 Reviews: 8

My All time Favorite!

This is not only my favorite adventure game but my all time favorite game period...really fun if a tad too short..still, well worth getting!


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Posted on: November 13, 2009

thorndraco

Verified owner

Games: 111 Reviews: 1

An amazing game!

I still own my original CD for this game. It's very compelling and well written with interesting concepts and ideas.


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Posted on: January 14, 2023

UltimateGuru

Verified owner

Games: 95 Reviews: 7

Journey into madness

Starts out as a psychological horror, but not much later turns into a really strange, surreal journey (everything gets explained in the end, though). It's definitely a unique experience, but not very scary. Most of the puzzles are fun, however, I could never get used to the weird movement controls.


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Edited on: September 20, 2025

Posted on: March 4, 2023

ahmed_bilbiz

Verified owner

Games: 192 Reviews: 10

fun point & click

a fun point and click adventure/puzzle game with a cool setting.


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Posted on: October 20, 2023

zennor2

Verified owner

Games: 13 Reviews: 1

A great atmospheric game!!!

Hey this is a great game still good today. Deep story line many levels decent puzzles....This was great back in the day and can still stand today. Very imaginative and the later levels sci fi ideas or cloning etc considering this was made years ago. Actually its brilliant. But i have a diaster on the hive level there is a glitch. My character after delivering the part for the machine is stiuck just where the walkway has dissapeared. It wont move forward or in any direction so looking like i need to start again. Another glitch in the mansion the text descriptions that came up when examining things in the house belonged to the other level with the children. For example I would look at a cupboard in the manion or the clock and the description text would say oh a boy with 2 mouths or something about the children from another level. Brilliant other wise:)


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