There's a secret I didn't mention, but is actually in the first thirty seconds of the video. Did you spot it?

I worked on this game back in the day and always glad to see people discovering it and spreading the love. Great stuff.

i mean, 451 is a famous video game thing beginning in system shock 1, as the first door code and seeing references in games such as system shock 2, deus ex, and bioshock. The code itself holds little meaning, as it was the head dev's room code at the time

It's such a shame this game isn't talked about much nowadays, it's one of my all time favorites, a really solid creepy adventure. I missed a lot of these things, this video was super interesting!

Of all games to make a clickbait style "things you didnt notice" video, I hardly expected someone to make one on Sanitarium

HOLY SHIT. I was watching your King's Quest stuff, saw this and was all "huh, seems interesting." I spent YEARS trying to remember what this game was called. I had a super short demo of it back in the late 90's as a kid, and could only ever remember some vague aesthetic of creepy horror, but not the name or what it was actually about. Soooo, thank you! So glad to finally have found this after so many years.

THERE'S A BLOODY SHORTCUT?! Replayed it just a couple of months ago, never knew. Still damn good game though.

I loved this game back in the day. When it came out, it was one of only a handful of games explicitly written for a mature audience. Not mature as in "contains sex and violence", but as in dealing with mature themes such as psychology, the subconscious, repressed trauma, etc.

Great game, I would be curious to see how a modern facelift for the graphics and controls would turn out. I'd definitely buy a remaster.

This is one of those games that stays with you and I'm so happy to see someone talk about it! Definitely underrated! In '98 most people were not giving adventure games a chance so a lot missed this.

Great vid! Played this game years ago on a wim and loved it. A side note actually found the pumpkin patch password from playing tic-tac-toe and didn't notice that church sign has it! Super cool having alternative ways of finding the solution!

I had never heard of this game before but I went and watched an entire playthrough of it before coming back to watch this video and I'm really glad I did. I really enjoyed the game and the story, its so well made and is actually pretty funny for a horror game. Thanks for sharing things you're passionate about :)

Que gusto ver a más gente mencionar este juego, mi personal favorito. Un detalle no mencionado acá que quizás no conocías: en el escenario del circo, vuelve a hablar con la adivina y el diálogo cambia a "You Will play a Game called Sanitarium".

I slept on this game when it was released. Didn't play it until last year. What a goddamn adventure, this was.

How does this video only have 443 views?!

best game ever! my favourite. the memorable loader and menu… the fantastic story, the immersive atmosphere.. the puzzles, the horror.. the sheer originality and uniqueness.. and the joy of old school point and click adventures. sanitarium ftw

I have never heard of this game before, but this is quite fascinating I don't really play horror-games myself, but is there a reasonably quick playthrough of someone going through the game, explaining the story you would recommend? (Like, does your run in the horror marathon maybe cover that? ^^) Edit: Wow, I should've read the description first. Thank you :)

There are a couple of things you never mentioned, likely because most people never discovered them. Years ago on the something awful forums, a user made a lets play of this game, and it just so happened that one of the game's developers was on there, he shared two bizarre easter eggs that they put in the game, here's what I remember off the top of my head: 1. In the "Innocent abandoned", if you click on a specific feather on the angel statue Max will transform into a bird, he can then fly himself to the bottom right of the screen to see a bunch of Mayans worshipping what I assume is one of the developers, you click the same feather again to transform back. The other one I've only seen in screenshot form, but on the chapter before you become Olmec, if you click on a specific leaf (something along those lines) a giant corn cob with a face will move onto the screen. The first one can be found in a youtube video, but the second one would require me to get archives access in order to look up the instructions.

I used to play the soundtrack on loop while I slept, but that didn't last long as the nightmares became pretty extreme.

ah sanitarium, too bad it got banned in France due to Catholic lobyying . But, the feeling of playing a forbidden game that is also a small gem make him so precious in my heart. Thanks for your passion

I'm so glad someone did a video like this for Sanitarium, a forgotten classic. interesting vid, great work!

Oh my... I spent months until i discovered that you need to throw the stone on the bell to call the kids... Awesome game

YOU DID A VIDEO ON THIS GAME TOO?? no now i DEFINITELY am subscribing. you just made my day. thank you for this !

Your editing style is fantastic

This is absolutely one of my favorite games of all time. I'm so glad to see this video. Really brings back some good memories of my dad and I playing it together.

This is on my list (video) of underrated horror games. So glad to see a proper secrets video.

Great video man! I love people sharing info about one of my favorite adventure games! But it kinda seemed like It went from things you missed to things you didn't know if that makes sense? Either way all great info I hardly knew! Except the plank and Sign Board.

Okay just watching this now and I didn't realize you had runs in NASA. The Halloween side banner from NASA was made by me. That's my hand. What a weird cameo to have lol.

Used to the King's Quest content, but I'm loving this too!

Great video. Haven't played this for many years, really did enjoy it though back then.

Coming back to this after I play it. Looks awesome just from the intro!

finally I can watch this video. I saw everything else you put out and it was excellent but I had never heard of this game. Just got done watching a full playthrough just so I can understand the context of this video. edit: It is an awesome game! Really cool ideas, I loved the different areas, deff creepy... except for the Aztec level. The person I watched clearly played before or was using a guide but good god some of those puzzles looked hard.

i was 6 when i first saw this game, and man it haunted me then and it haunts me now. whats funny is my parents had this church party, and a kid brought it over and played it on our pc. he also showed me runescape so i can’t be completely mad at him.

I finished this game 20 years ago. This video brought back memories. Thanks.

Awesome game, but I remember the cyclop and aztec part being difficult as hell, couldn't beat them without a walkthrough whereas the rest of the game was pretty doable. First and second chapter was amazing, especially with those deformed kids.

I remember playing this game when I was a kid and it creeped me out enough to still remember after all this time. Personally, I haven't beaten it, but I hope to get my hands on it again so I can try to finish it.

I loved this game so much when it was released. Think I need to replay it...

I recently got this game for someone and they enjoyed it. I'm glad people still remember

Zippy the clown's predictions are foreshadowing too. I hadn't noticed the plank! Or the IV in the last level (I too was too busy examining the puzzle itself).

If i remember correctly this game was supposed to have more chapters with different characthers but the idea was scrapped during development, partly because the chapters didnt have an intereconnected story. Sarah and max initally in development didnt have a connection that was written in later. The game is also heavily inspired by jakobs ladder and the developers didnt have experience in creating adventure games. Also i think the whole padlock puzzle thing was not because the developers were frustrated but because the publisher asked them to make it approachable by a mass market forcing them to revision at the last minute, some of the dialogue giving away the puzzles also stems from this.

I'm always surpised how little coverage this game got in modern youtube era. You have plenty of channels and media going back, and rightfully so, to Silent Hill series, System Shock, Dexus Ex, Metal Gear Solid, yet if my dad didn't play it back then I would have never encountered this title again over the years. And I truly believe it deserves its flowers, one could even go as far to say that this game is a predecessor to what Silent Hill 2 perfected, a depressive, twisted dream-like reality that ultimately stems from feelings of grief, guilt and hopelessness for not being able to alleviate the suffering of a loved one. Same goes for I Have No Mouth and I Must scream. While based on a written story, it still masterfully executes a world made of nightmarish embodiments of real-life memories for the characters. I also dare you to finish this game with no walkthroughs. And to find this game I probably typed something like "games similar to sanitarium" in the search bar lol.

It was a real classic! It was hard to solve! Loved it!

I remember playing the 1st level as demo and I knew I just have to buy the game - loved it since!

Deadly video, classic game! Also in Aztec level if you give red herring to the fisherman's wife she'll tell you that this fish is no good and brings nothing but bad luck.

I'm pretty sure the code 451 is a reference to System Shock. It's the first code you enter in that game, and it's been referenced in many games since. Often appears in immersive sims, but different genres also referenced it

Glad I knew most of these, except the drawing next to the lock and version differences. Some other things are two characters on some art of the game. Showing a fat person whose muddy with pupils, unlike Lumpy who a comment suggested it was. Another is a skull with scars. Neither of them appears in the game not to mention the unused music track that's never been clarified what it was meant for.

26 year old game still being played and discussed. Will anyone replay and discuss any of the current gen releases in 20 years? Don't think so. These old games are full of creativity and they're basically art. The passion and effort put in by their makers gave them soul. Just goes to show how little graphics actually matters.

In that yard outside the morgue with the talking tree, I got one of the background trees to turn into a strange colourful dancing stick figure. I guess it's an easter egg but I don't know how I did it and I've never seen it on any videos...

9:56 Same. I beat it first try, pausing multiple times to check things around the stage.

great video! I bought Sanitarium because of this!

I was JUST thinking about replaying this game yesterday

ive never heard of this game before! (though i suppose its older than me) fascinating though, im going to have to look up some lore videos or maybe play it for myself!

This was an awesome game me my brother and dad played this one still a favorite of point and click puzzle games didn't know about a lot of these

Love this game, it's a cult classic. Couldn't finish the game when I was younger but a few years later completed it.

"I've been speedrunning the game"

4:04 also that Marty Johns character tells Max he has a cousin with the same name. When playing as Sarah (Max sister) walking around the mansion you can see a picture of Marty Johns in the house and when clicking on it Sarah comments "This must be the ugly cousin"

3:10 Starship Troopers movie quote

I made a video about the secret in the red herring house, but I see in the comments that you already know about that one. :)

this game is so superb, that i tend to play it over and over for since my childhood. and i am 36 now :) i have found the head of Travis two times in my life, by accident, tryed to recreat it, never managed on purpose. I am glad i know now. I think i found one more eastern egg few years ago, but i neeed to play it again to be curtain. I am also a music producer, i have managed to recreate the intro sounds, back in 2007 it was not able to learn it through tutorials via youtube, but i managed to recreate the very same scary ghosty effect by recording an audio in reverse, with specially prepared reverb set on WET 100%, than reversing it after a record, and layering it a bit off, on the original voice. also, i have sampled many many games through out of my life, incorporated in my rap and other beats, i have made an EP, of some of my chilled/marijuana instrumentals, something like Cypress Hill kinda music, but without rapping, and i have named it Bonewerkz - 7 Ways to Fly EP....every instrumental was named after one masterpiece game i grew up with, and was sampled in some way in the EP, some games are sampled but never mentioned, like Starwars Broodwar, like an eastern egg of some sort, so the listener (almost no one listened lol) can be happy when/if they found out. the very name of the project was a chapter or lets say ,a factory, in Oddworld and Oddworld Exoddus, one of my favorite games BONEWERKZ. One instrumental i named Sanitarium :) check it if you like, its free. i have made it back in 2015 but some instruemntal are from 2010 or even older. kzfaq.info/sun/PLhXu5ks763bnbd4UXzw700hB0I3p1y8Sg p.s. also, i have made a rap song, i have rapped and made instrumental and everything, i have sampled the main theme from the second chapter. i guess its not very legal, but i have made totally old school boombap beat like many famous producers out there, just to keep the spirit of the game somewhat alive, i will leave the link here as well kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oKlxdZmX1svOinU.html&ab_channel=Najstefaniji

Have you played Dark Seed? I'm more into Kings Quest than I am this spooky stuff but Dark Seed seems to give off some similar vibes.

Nothing quite takes me back to that era those eras as this piece

Recently learnt of a secret I've never seen before. In the morgue if you walk up to the trees, hold down ctrl and left click on one of them I can't remember which. Then some noodle thing animation will popup.

I wish they'd make a remastered version. One of my favourite games.

Of course the code is 451 - it`s the Looking Glass code. ;) Also used in classics like System Shock or Deus Ex.

Subbed and liked

"the creators wasnt sure on which story to pick and mixed them"... I guess this was quoted in an online forum trying to analyze the plot!

A true classic.

Never heard of this game but its totally my style going to try it out not sure if I will buy gog or steam version yet though

Funny it's 451, since that code or 0451 since that is a common code in games. I THINK because of the book Fahrenheit 451. I dunno

By using the "red herring shed" it is possible to transform yourself into a raven and fly off to find an easter egg.

Here's another bit of foreshadowing, maybe a bit obvious, bit I was quite pleased with myself when I got it: Gromna is an anagram of Morgan.

I wish that some indie horror game developer will make game with style like this. This game is not scary but its creepy and haunting.

If only Sanitarium had an UrQuan who could make an emulator that ran it consistently across all hardware _and_ was speedrun-competitive with the GOG version.

I remember this game 👍

Underated game!

I have to say, I know this is not typical for Speedrunners, but if you did casual LPs of games like King's Quest, Quest for Glory and Sanitarium, I would totally watch them.

This is a great game

Have you played the point-and-click game Harvester?

What would be the preferred method of playing the game casually? The GOG or Steam version?

Cool :)

the graphics remind me of the sims 2 on the gba aha

Any NEW game similar to this that you recommend? Thanks!

You can go back to the fortune teller in the carnival for an Easter egg.

8:07 - For those wondering there is no Psalm 4:51

Am I the only one who keeps hearing James Hetfield scream the name of this game in their head? SA NI TARIUM!!!!! 🤘

Do NOT pass the white boy the aux they'll just start playin Rockabilly Swing Thing

I would love tp update the performance in the steam version since the game version currently is just 1.0 and the mouse seems laggy for me everytime:(,

Clearly inspired by "Torment"

Lol I discovered this game on google play store and I must say mobile version fk good. It consume 1.5gb. Can someone let me know what engine they used for this game. I really love games which have graphics like this.

Can you explain the major spoiler redacted

What's the retarcted spoiler?

The game plays much better on scummvm

The ending kinda ruins the game for me, i was expecting a darker ending.

Planescape:torment is king of story telling ever made of gaming but Sanitarium is a prince storyteller of all time.