Video Game BacklogAnalyze your library
Sanitarium cover

1998 · Point & Click · Horror · Psychological Horror

How long isSanitarium?

by Dotemu

8.5 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 4.5 hours and 14 hours

Good value: $1.18 an hour, cheaper than 1,749 of 2,083 adventure games here.

Do the first two hours of Sanitarium tell you?

In the first two hours83%recommend it

After that95%recommend it

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 8.5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 4.5 hours and 14 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 1,390 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

13% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 83% of those recommend it. After the window, 95% do.

When would you get there?

9days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 8.5 hours on Thursday, October 29.

Half of its reviewers had played between 4.5 and 14 hours: Oct 25 to Nov 3 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

Where do players get filtered in Sanitarium?

The filter

Hide and seek

18 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold Exhaustion and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. ExhaustionFinish Level 1−2575% hold it
  3. Hide and seekFiltered −1857% hold it
  4. FeverFinish Level 2−552% hold it
  5. HeadacheFinish Level 3−844% hold it
  6. LimboFind the children in the wood−242% hold it
  7. Dance, dance crazyMake dancing three friends−240% hold it
  8. MigraineFinish Level 4−436% hold it
  9. HallucinationFinish Level 7−333% hold it
  10. Major DepressionFinish Level 8−330% hold it
  11. From life to deathSort them−327% hold it
  12. InsanityFinish level 13−225% hold it
How this is counted

75% of the players who launched Sanitarium hold Exhaustion, its first story achievement on Steam, and 25% hold Insanity, its last. The steepest drop comes between Exhaustion (75%) and Hide and seek (57%).

Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.

Is Sanitarium worth it?

Is Sanitarium worth it? Yes.

  • Good value

    1.9× the hours of a typical adventure game, for the same money

  • Loved

    95% recommend it after the refund windowmost adventure games: 90%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $9.99, the typical player's 8.5 hours come to $1.18 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 95% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $1.18 an hour, Sanitarium is cheaper per hour than 1749 of 2083 adventure games here: the typical one of 2083 adventure games here charges $2.22, so the same $9.99 buys 1.9× the hours.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (adventure games) is named by its strongest Steam tags, a narrow kind before a wide one, among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Would you like Sanitarium?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Sanitarium, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Sanitarium would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

What did people here do with Sanitarium?

  • 1 in 3,480

    Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory

How this is counted

Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.

Games like Sanitarium

All 30 games like Sanitarium, and which you already own
How this is counted

The same series first, then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the ones of a similar typical length ahead. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.