Buy it if you like
- Story: 195 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 65 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Audio: 51 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
- Interface: 29 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Crashes: 20 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Bugs: 9 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 1k player reviews · updated
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
Why players love itThings to know
46% of themes are praise27% are divided27% are complaints
Story
Players who bring up Story mostly praise it.
195 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Story of the game is great and is brilliantly executed, creating many plots, black holes, situations and dialogs that at first appears to be pointless or simply insane, just to finally be small part of bigger picture, that is giving them sence and makes them suddenly extremely important in process of understanding plot.
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
65 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Despite the art style being influenced from all over the place it still felt like a cohesive whole.
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
51 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Back then everything about Sanitarium was simply flawless, locations were beautyful in the eerie, horrific way, voice acting- perfect, sounds and music-unique and integrated with rest of the game, animation and most of all the movies.
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
39 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
That's when we come to great thing about Sanitarium, that is really uncommon in adventure games - replayability.
Difficulty
Players who bring up Difficulty mostly praise it.
21 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Sometimes it won't work at all, but I had zero difficulty running and streaming Sanitarium.
Theme by theme
Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.
Players love
Story195 reviews
Graphics65 reviews
Audio51 reviews
Gameplay39 reviews
Difficulty21 reviews
Divided opinion
Characters100% still recommend
Combat100% still recommend
Steam Deck100% still recommend
Players complain
Interface90% still recommend
Crashes80% still recommend
Bugs89% still recommend
What you get
Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.
Play modes
- Single-player
Controller
Steam lists no controller support.
Store features
- Family Sharing
- Steam Achievements
- Steam Cloud
Platforms
- Windows
Valve device support
Steam DeckPlayable
SteamOSPlayable
Steam MachinePlayable
Should I buy it now?
Based on Steam price history.
Prices have been lower
$9.99
The lowest we've tracked is $4.54.
7 points recordedtoday · $9.99
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