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.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.29/day in the week to Aug 20 → 0.57/day in the week after.
About
After a car accident, you wake up in a gloomy asylum with your head wrapped in bandages. Many questions remain, but the most important one to solve is: what are you doing here?
Sanitarium features a plot intricate set in an intense dark world where a very thin line separates senses from madness. There are many riddles to solve throughout this immersive and captivating adventure that will make your head spin with terror.
Even now, Sanitarium is a masterwork suitable for point-and-click beginners, confirmed or riddle-solving experts who enjoy.
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Sums Steam + Google Play only; App Store, Epic publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $9.99 | 1.4Kreviews | 93% | — | $244K |
| $3.99 | 1.7Kratings | 83% | — | $91.5K | |
| $3.99 |
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Reviews
Themes across 65 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
I played this game back then when it was new. I remember I liked the beginning but didnt finished it...I can not honestly recommend this game and Im not sure how much is at fault the age of the game or deliberate designer choices. First problem is the movement. Althought this game is point & click game, you move by holding the mouse button and moving mouse in the direction you want to move. I dont remember this control scheme from any other point & click game. This will get really frustrating really fast. Player character will get stuck on everything, it will go ways you dont want to and more. Also if you want to interact with something or pick up something, 90% of time you will need to manualy move to it, or else player character will quip something like "cant do this from here"... My suspicion is that this was done, because there are two "fighting sequences" in fist half of the game. Similar to those in Harvester game. I guess that game was made in order you play it and designers must realised how dumb are those sequences, but they didnt correct the movement... Second problem is audio...You have multiple settings in ther game for audio, but its still cursed. Even if you turn every sound option off, prerendered videos are still audible and are about 20 TIMES LOUDER than game. I started playing with headphones and nearly got deaf. Then I tried to jank headphone cable from my laptop and learned that when I do that, it canclels the video (like I pressed ESC), thats scary 4th wall break! Even when you turn off the music, it sometimes chimes in, again about 20 times louder to jumpscare you... This happened mainly in Circus part. Almost all time in the background, someone is always yapping, singing, whistiling or humming... its really not conduictive for thinking in point & click adventure. So you gonna turn off the voice audio, right? Well now not only you dont hear main character commenting, but it also turn off subtittles somehow, so now you can only play the game from memory... :D Third problem. Game is, how to say it, rather stupid. Yes I had 14+ hours in it, but... You dont really have "inventory" in this game. 80% of time you have 1-3 items. You cant use item on item. I got stuck 4 times. One was musical puzzle, the classic repeat melody you hear (this time melody and puzzle itself are in the same room...) and I was just going deaf from this game stupid audio jumpscares. Other three times it was just that I was missing a pixel I was supposed to click... If this game had "highlight interactive spots" option it would remove 90% of playtime. So I was usually left to try clicking on everything on screen, and about half the time, I can not cancel main character yapping about what have I just clicked. Full screen puzzles move really fast (like it was speed up in DosBox..), but most character animitions are slow as ♥♥♥♥... I mean game has atmosphere, but the game mechanics are just bad...
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Jul 25 → 0.71/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Languages: English*, French*, German**languages with full audio support
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| 83% |
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 65 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Et bah bordel quel jeu exceptionnel, ça peut ne pas vous plaire si vous êtes pas un minimum curieux pour les vieux point and click ou les vieux jeux en général mais c'est votre problème pas le mien, moi j'ai pu adoré ce jeu de bout en bout. Il a de nombreuses qualités qui vont me marquer durant des années, déjà l'histoire en somme plutôt classique et simple est plutôt bien ficelée au fil du jeu grâce aux différents niveaux qui arrivent à ne pas créer un sentiment de répétitivité et à un garder un rythme qui tient en haleine, petit à petit le protagoniste essayera de comprendre ce qu'il se passe, pourquoi il se retrouve dans cet asile, ça permet au joueur de faire ses propres interprétations afin de comprendre le fin mot de cette histoire ce qui rend la chose passionnante à suivre, mais faites attention aux différents détails au fil de l'intrigue pour pouvoir la comprendre. L'ambiance du jeu est sûrement ce qui fait le plus son charme, en tout cas c'est vraiment ça qui m'a permit de m'accrocher dès le début, certains vont dire que c'est chiant de marcher aussi lentement, d'avoir autant de dialogues, autant d'aller retour à parler aux différents pnj, mais y a rien de plus immersif surtout pour un point and click où vous devez mener une sorte d'enquête pour avancer, le doublage peu paraître pauvre mais pour l'époque le travail est phénoménale, les personnages ont vraiment une identité propre, et quand je parle de personnages je parle bien des simples pnj auquel il faut parler J'ai parlé du manque de répétitivité tout à l'heure, en effet le jeu arrive à avoir des différents niveaux/chapitres qui se diffèrent tous les uns des autres, le deuxième chapitre est clairement mon favori voir le meilleur du jeu Le gameplay est très classique pour un point and click, parlez aux personnages, trouvez des objets, utilisez les un peu partout, cliquez n'importe où quand vous êtes bloquer etc. C'est certainement cela qui va bloquer certaines personnes, personnellement à part certaines énigmes farfelues j'ai pas vraiment eu de soucis et je m'y suis vite fait, et encore une fois il faut bien se remettre dans le contexte de l'époque pour pouvoir apprécier les vieux jeux, ne vous gênez donc pas d'avoir une soluce sous la main au cas où, sans bien sûr l'utiliser à tort et à travers car certaines énigmes une fois résolues arrivent à vous retourner l'estomac (par exemple sans vous spoiler l'énigme du cache cache dans le deuxième niveau du jeu ne mérite pas d'avoir une solution pour comprendre) L'horreur est très axé psychologique, à la manière d'un Silent Hill 2 où le protagoniste devra mener une quête sur son identité ou sur le pourquoi du comment. Le jeu est plutôt glauque à beaucoup de moments, et l'ambiance créé un sentiment de malaise, vous avez pas l'impression d'être à votre place et bordel c'est ça que j'aime dans les bons jeux d'horreur de l'époque, ne vous attendez pas à des screameurs pourri des jeux moderne comme fnaf et compagnie, ici votre imagination et votre façon de vous immerger dans le jeu sera nécessaire pour vous angoisser, si vous êtes pas curieux et que vous avez l'habitude de regarder des streameurs jouer à des jeux de merde bah passez votre chemin à part si vous voulez pas rester de cette façon Bref, Sanitarium est un jeu qui mérite le détour, pour tout passionné de jeux d'horreur (les fans de fnaf vous comptez pas vous êtes fan de mode bande de bouffons). Les énigmes parfois hors du commun et tirées par les cheveux peuvent vous faire enquiquiner mais à part ça le jeu a tout pour lui, remettez vous simplement dans le contexte de l'époque et dites vous qu'il a été créé par un petit studio en 98 pour arriver à mieux apprécier l'oeuvre
so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good highly recommend أجوائها مختلفة
sucks that i have to give this a thumbs down but continuously holding down the mouse button for movement instead of WASD is unintuitive and hurts, especially with how slow the main character moves so you will be holding it down for A WHILE to finish the game, so if you have wrist issues (like me) you would be better off just watching a playthru of this...
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9/10
Top thrilling adventure which is set in someone's schizophrenic mind? Is this all even real? What is going here? Who am I?
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nunca me senti tao esquizofrenico
Its a great game with a lot of smart challenges and a great story line. It also has a lot of heart
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