iconicthejam

I would love to see the Sanitarium pc game by dreamforge entertainment. It's a top-down psychological thriller horror game released in 1998 (and actually just got an ios port in 2015 but i havent looked at it) and seems right up his alley! I consider it to be a flawed yet ultimately engrossing and satisfying experience, and the story always keeps you guessing up until the end, so i can't really say too much in terms of the plot because it's better you know as little as possible when going into it. It is, in my opinion, an underrated gem of the late 90's and got released just as adventure games were dying out so didn't get the attention i think it deserves, and it f*cked me up as a kid haha. One of the very first areas is a town where all the children playing and living there are being deformed by some hideous disease and all the adults are missing, along with a barn that no-one is allowed to enter until 'mother' has finished resting. Heres a plot synopsis according to wikipedia: "After a car accident knocks him unconscious, a man awakens from a coma to find that he has been admitted to a derelict 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". 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 overlooked by a malevolent entity known only as "Mother", a demented circus surrounded by an endless ocean, and an alien hive overrun by robotic parasites, to name a few. As he traverses these unfamiliar and bizarre landscapes, his memories slowly rebuild themselves, forcing him to relive the fate of his younger sister Sarah years ago, and the real reason behind his institutionalization." Its currently 10$ on GOG https://www.gog.com/game/sanitarium