Games like Sanitarium
Closest overall match: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (★ 3.4). Highest rated: Runaway, A Road Adventure at ★ 4.1. Quickest to finish: Little Big Adventure 2 at about 1 hours.
Looking for something like Sanitarium? Our model ranked 12 games by how much they share with it. What ties them together most: 1990's, Singleplayer and Point & Click.
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66%
1. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Shares 1990's, Surreal, Dark, Point & Click and Horror and 1 more tags; same developer; rated 0.5 lower.
- Year
- 1995
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 70%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7
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60%
2. Little Big Adventure 2
Shares 1990's and Singleplayer; same developer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 1997
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 72%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, 7
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59%
3. The 7th Guest
Shares 1990's, Point & Click, Horror and Singleplayer; rated 0.5 lower.
- Year
- 1993
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 36%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7
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54%
4. Realms of the Haunting
Shares 1990's, Point & Click, Horror and Singleplayer; rated 1.3 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 1996
- Rating
- ★ 2.6
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 25%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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54%
5. Normality
Shares 1990's, Point & Click and Singleplayer; rated 1.7 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 1996
- Rating
- ★ 2.2
- Playtime
- 4h
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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53%
6. Toonstruck
Shares 1990's, Point & Click and Singleplayer; rated 0.7 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 1996
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 65%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7
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52%
7. Shadow Man
Shares 1990's, Dark, Horror and Singleplayer; rated 0.8 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 1999
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 40%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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52%
8. Runaway, A Road Adventure
Shares Point & Click and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2001
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 85%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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51%
9. Anna's Quest
Shares Dark, Point & Click, Horror, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 81%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7
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51%
10. Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh
Shares 1990's, Point & Click, Horror and Singleplayer; rated 0.3 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 1996
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Playtime
- 1h
- Shared genres
- 3
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51%
11. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
Shares 1990's, Point & Click and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 1993
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 70%
- Shared genres
- 3
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50%
12. Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
Shares 1990's, Dark and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 1998
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 58%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Sanitarium?
On our similarity model, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is the closest match to Sanitarium — shares 1990's, Surreal, Dark, Point & Click and Horror and 1 more tags; same developer; rated 0.5 lower.
Which game like Sanitarium is rated highest?
Runaway, A Road Adventure holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.1/5 from 102 players.
Are there games like Sanitarium on Android or iOS?
Yes — we found 5 games like Sanitarium on Android & iOS. See the dedicated list.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Sanitarium on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
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