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Sanatorium - A Mental Asylum Simulator
Set in a fictionalized version of the 1920s where the lines between modern psychiatric treatment and pseudoscience are still muddy at best. Sanatorium is a 2D card-based workplace adventure where the player has to test, diagnose and treat patients. At its core, Sanatorium is a comment on the turbulent history of the practices and pseudoscience used to stigmatize mental illnesses.
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6 reviews found80
Cultura Geek
Nov 10, 2025
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DualShockers
Nov 6, 2025
Sanatorium: A Mental Asylum Simulator is a unique, compelling little indie title that examines the dark, sometimes stigmatized world of mental health. It does so in a lovely way that is clearly made by a team with tons of respect and sensitivity. The oddball staff members at the asylum are full of charm, and the patients are just as endearing. It struggles with some unfortunate design choices and some unusual bugs in the menus, but is overall worth a bit of your time.
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Try Hard Guides
Nov 14, 2025
Sanatorium – A Mental Asylum Simulator provides a unique coat of paint over a deckbuilding-style puzzle loop. That coat of paint is about as deep as the theme goes; however, the game unfortunately lacks a lot of immersive features or mechanics beyond color-matching cards. If you know what you’re getting into, it’s not a bad game, but the promise feels like more than what the title actually delivers, which also feels a bit like it should still be in Early Access. Try Hard Guides was provided a Steam code for this PC review of Sanatorium – A Mental Asylum Simulator.
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KeenGamer
Nov 18, 2025
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AltChar
Nov 6, 2025
I got hooked on Sanatorium's paperwork during the preview build and needed to see where this undercover journalist-turned-fraudulent-psychiatrist thing was headed. Twenty hours and a couple of Campaign restarts later, the bugs had other plans entirely. What you need to know - What is it? A deck-building workplace sim - Reviewed on: PC (Ryzen 5 7600x, RTX 3070 Ti, 16 GB of RAM) - Developer: Zeitglas - Publisher: Shoreline Games - Release date: November 6, 2025 - Available on: PC A review key was provided by the publisher. Sanatorium is a card-based management sim from Zeitglas, a four-person indie studio based in Zürich, and you can feel that small team size throughout the experience. While Sanatorium’s foundation is solid, it stumbles on technical execution.
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Minimap
Nov 17, 2025
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