Good Old Games adds Sanitarium

By Robert Purchese Published 11 November, 2009

Strange old adventure game returns.

Good Old Games has reached back to 1998 and pulled out bloody weird adventure game Sanitarium.

For $9.99 you can dive back into the world of point-and-click, where a world of deformed children, ancient gods and ghosts awaits. You are an asylum patient that has survived a brutal car crash and you can't remember a thing, so making sense of reality and self is the challenge that lies ahead.

Sanitarium is compatible with Windows Vista and XP and has no DRM measures to trip you up. There's a bonus Sanitarium soundtrack thrown in, too.

Wander over to GOG.com to buy.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • MasterNameless #1 2 years ago

    There's a total of 3 three Modern Warfare stories on the front page, including the review. Get over yourself.

  • WinstonChurchill #2 2 years ago

    Great game. The opening areas are quite unsettling, although it loses it somewhat when you go into... well... later areas.

  • crwoody #3 2 years ago

    Looks interesting, Might have too look at this when I have time.

    But as the knob Earl has pointed out I'm still playing Modern Warfare 2.

  • JusticeMoses #4 2 years ago

    I really enjoyed this when it first came out, although as Winston said, some of the later levels get a bit too strange. But the majority of it is very innovative (in terms of story and level design) and the fact I can remember a lot of the scenarios means it left an impression.

  • gimo80 #5 2 years ago

    Wow I remember this game! I only had the demo, but I remember it being really freaky - the asylum patients were hilarious, especially the guy who keeps smashing his head against the wall. Love it :)

  • EmiliasHorse #6 2 years ago

    Cool I always fancied Sanitarium and never got around to buying it.

  • GreyScale #7 2 years ago

    Great game. The opening areas are quite unsettling, although it loses it somewhat when you go into... well... later areas.
    Very true. First couple of bits (that were in the demo) were pretty creepy and very interesting, but the more mental you went, the more stupid the areas got. Some of the later sections were kind of rubbish tbh.

  • Eraysor #8 2 years ago

    "I don't see the link to MW2?
    Why has this been posted? "

    I loled.

  • suicida #9 2 years ago

    @EarlBassett

    Every single post I read of yours is moaning about something on this site, why do you even come here if you don't like it?

  • PlugMonkey #10 2 years ago

    Great game.

  • Hairbear #11 2 years ago

    i love GOG.com

  • IneptPercy #12 2 years ago

    Sure I still have this on disc somewhere, never got that far into it. Will have to give it another go.

  • twoism #13 2 years ago

    One of the finest point n click adventures ever made.

  • 1471 #14 2 years ago

    I really enjoyed this game. As said, first few levels are great but I think only two of the later ones are bit shoddy, the ones after and between are good, some brilliant, some kinda sick. In fact one of the main problems with the rubbish levels is that they're bright, colourful and/or simply not grim or unsettling enough.

    In a way it's almost a bit like Psychonauts. I wish I could find more games that could have that kind of diversity and take 'reality' off on a tangent. Insanity seems to be criminally underexplored in games.