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Sanitarium

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4.5/5

( 289 Reviews )

4.5

289 Reviews

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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...
Genre:
Adventure - Action - Horror
Tags:
Adventure, Action, Classic, Dark, Horror
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4.5/5

( 289 Reviews )

4.5

289 Reviews

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Product details
1998, DreamForge Intertainment, ESRB Rating: Teen...
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

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

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:
Recommended system requirements:

This game is powered by ScummVM

Recommended system requirements:

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 length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Adventure - Action - Horror
Tags:
Adventure, Action, Classic, Dark, Horror
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 ' }}
Company:
DreamForge Intertainment / Ziggurat
Size:
1.5 GB
Links:
Forum discussion
Rating:
ESRB Rating: Teen (Strong Language, Animated Violence)
Game features
Cloud saves
Single-player
Languages
English
audio
text
Deutsch
audio
text
français
audio
text
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Posted on: June 9, 2025

Morpheus666

Verified owner

Games: 123 Reviews: 1

Definetly Alpha

The idea of the game and the car models and parts are great. The multiplayer is frought with issues, particularly saving and the guest rejoining. My friend and I have had to reload very old saves losing progress too many times. May revisit the game in the future, if I read the multiplayer is working.

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Posted on: May 6, 2011

Fear57

Verified owner

Games: 60 Reviews: 11

Average.

While I must admit I was a little dissapointed in the end. It had its moments where it shined. The story was unoriginal and very bland, just because you chop it into pieces and throw it around out of order does not mean it will become good. The sounds and music are indeed chilling and the cimitaics are amazing. Gameplay wise it was fun trying to solve puzzels and explore.

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Posted on: October 19, 2022

ScintorIV

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 3

Does not work.

The game is totally unplayable as it crashes after a few seconds after launch. I tried various advice on the internet how to fix this issue, but was ultimately not able to fix it. Fortunately I got this game for free, but GoG shouldn't sell games that simply don't work.

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Posted on: November 13, 2009

Bresse

Verified owner

Games: 198 Reviews: 1

Whoooo

I'm so glad to see this awesome game on GOG.

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Posted on: June 20, 2017

CMonster

Verified owner

Games: 28 Reviews: 1

Not fun

Your character moves painfully slow, the puzzles don't have interesting solutions and the characters are unremarkable. The game also laughs at the mentally ill, which doesn't lend itself to an interesting narrative. The game tends to be inexpensive. I don't regret buying it for $1 but there are far better adventure game classics to invest in.

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