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Dotemu · 2014 · 93 % positive of 1,202

24 games that play like Sanitarium and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: ASYLUM, The White Door and Strangeland.

Player tags

  • Point & Click
  • Adventure
  • Horror
  • Psychological Horror
  • Atmospheric
  • Classic
  • Story Rich
  • Retro

At a glance

What games like Sanitarium have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Sanitarium: Horror (24 of 24), Psychological Horror (19) and Point & Click (15).
  • They came out between 2011 and 2025, 20 of them after Sanitarium (2014).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Is this Game Trying to Kill Me? (95 % positive of 1,068).
  • Blackbay Asylum both plays and looks like Sanitarium.

By gameplay

Plays like Sanitarium

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. 9 Clues 2: The Ward91 % positive of 958Shared: Point & Click · Horror · Story Rich
  2. Midnight Scenes: The Highway89 % positive of 265Shared: Point & Click · Horror · Psychological Horror
  3. Into The Gloom80 % positive of 263Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Story Rich
  4. Follow the meaning93 % positive of 780Shared: Point & Click · Horror · Story Rich
  5. JANITOR BLEEDS88 % positive of 240Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Story Rich
  6. Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?95 % positive of 1,068Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Retro
  7. Scratches - Director's Cut82 % positive of 428Shared: Point & Click · Horror · Psychological Horror
  8. Don't Be Afraid 275 % positive of 224Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Story Rich
  9. Octave71 % positive of 165Shared: Point & Click · Horror · Adventure
  10. Now You See - A Hand Painted Horror Adventure83 % positive of 173Shared: Point & Click · Horror · Psychological Horror
  11. Phantasmagoria86 % positive of 478Shared: Point & Click · Horror · Psychological Horror
  12. DYING: Reborn76 % positive of 215Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Puzzle

By look

Looks like Sanitarium

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Divine Divinity87 % positive of 3,532
  2. Avadon 2: The Corruption81 % positive of 197
  3. Jagged Alliance 2 - Wildfire77 % positive of 1,727
  4. The Age of Decadence81 % positive of 3,744
  5. Siege of Avalon: Anthology86 % positive of 269
  6. Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness74 % positive of 889
  7. Psychopomp GOLD97 % positive of 3,443
  8. Commandos 2 - HD Remaster56 % positive of 2,291
  9. Hands of Necromancy85 % positive of 334
  10. The Temple of Elemental Evil71 % positive of 369
  11. Shadow Man87 % positive of 709
  12. Serpent in the Staglands64 % positive of 196

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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