If you pay attention as you play the puzzles aren’t overly difficult as clues to how to solve them are typically found fairly close to each puzzle. There are multiple puzzles scattered throughout the game. Items are not carried over from chapter to chapter so everything you find will need to be used within the chapter you found it. The inventory items are accessed via a ring menu around the character, and all items (aside from one literal “red herring”) are required to complete the game. These are done in typical fetch-quest style whereby (typically) a character will provider you with a clue as to the location of an item that you then need to go find and bring back in order to progress or to unlock some piece of the chapter. Everything you read further uncovers bits of the story that have been obscured due to the main character’s mental state.Īs you move around you’ll find items that can be used to solve various puzzles. Chapter progression involves walking around, talking to the characters to uncover more of the story and reading various background pieces such as books, notes, diaries and tombstones. Sanitarium is a point and click adventure that is split into 9 chapters. He remembers the death of his younger sister Sarah years ago and the real reason behind his institutionalization. Between each episode, Max returns to the asylum grounds, blending real and unreal, each time closer to regaining his memory and unraveling the truth surrounding the mysterious Dr. As he delves deeper into the asylum’s corridors in search of answers, Max finds himself transported to various obscure and otherworldly locations: a small town inhabited only by malformed children and overseen by a malevolent alien entity known only as “Mother”, a demented circus surrounded by an endless ocean and terrorized by a squid-like individual, an alien hive overrun by cyborg insects, and an Aztec village devastated by the return of the god Quetzalcoatl. I have a long history with this game so that’s likely going to influence the rating somewhat, but for anyone that hasn’t played this game before the story is what steals the show.Īfter a car accident knocks him unconscious, a man awakens from a coma, his face fully bandaged, to find that he has been admitted to a dilapidated sanitarium and that he cannot remember who he is or where he came from, or how he came to be there, though his fellow inmates seem to know him simply as “Max”. It was developed by DreamForge Intertainment and published by ASC Games in 1998. Sanitarium is a psychological horror point-and-click adventure video game that was originally released for Microsoft Windows. I took a little break from this series to work on other writing projects, but considering ScummVM announced support for this title officially I figured it was time to finally get back in the saddle and run through some adventure games again :) See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series.
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