Again, this is not a creepy game; its a mystery and plot driven well conceived game.

User Rating: 9.1 | Sanitarium PC
By sharier | Review Date:
This is yet another timeless masterpiece. I played the game at first soon after it was released in 1998, and abandoned it due to its technical glitches. Then again in 2005, I decided to play it again, after applying a patch that was then available. I decided to play it, because the theme and the mystery I experienced in the game was unforgettable. I wanted to know what happened to the hero, who was he, and why was he stuck in a sanitarium.
This time, the technical glitches did not stop me from proceeding deeper into the game. And as I proceeded, I was engulfed by the desire to want to know more about the hero and the plot of the story. From starting to end, the story of this game is so well conceived that it stands as a masterpiece despite a technical glitch in Chapter 2.
The game revolves around the hero who awakes in a sanitarium with amnesia and injuries. As you play on, bits and pieces of events start to unfold your memories. Gradually you get to learn that you have been a perfect family man who has been a victim of a business conspiracy.
The sanitarium sequences used all kinds of symbolic fears-- deformed mesmarised children, a living scarecrow, a circus along with strange characters... and moves on to mind battles. Nothing can be so nicely conceived when the theme of the story is a sanitarium.
The environment set in the game is also well-thought out. Beautiful graphics, haunting audio and quite diverse in its puzzles plus really involving lead character makes this game immortal. I give credit to the makers of the game for being so professional about each and every aspect of the game. I really feel sorry that the makers of this game no longer exist.

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