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{{quote|"If ''[[Jacob's Ladder]]'' was reality squared, this is reality cubed"|'''J.C. Herz''' (The New York Times) on the game}}
'''''Sanitarium''''' is a [[Point and Click]] [[Adventure Game]] by ASC Games. It is set in a mental hospital, except when it ''isn't''.
More clearly, it begins with the main character losing his memory and being instituted in a sanitarium. Occasionally, he is transported to strange, alternate worlds, sometimes changing his form, sometimes not. A constant feeling of bewilderment and fear follow you as the worlds you visit become stranger and stranger.
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You need to figure out many things: Why have you lost your memory? Why are you in an insane asylum? [[Cuckoo Nest|Is the asylum the "real" world]], [[Or Was It a Dream?|or is it just another dream]]?
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* [[Adult Child]]: Lenny.▼
▲* [[Abusive Parents]] - {{spoiler|See [[Mummies At the Dinner Table]], below}}
▲* [[Adult Child]]: Lenny
* {{spoiler|[[Adventures in Coma Land]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[All Just a Dream]]
* [[A Glitch in the Matrix]]: The "real world" starts becoming more and more unreal with each chapter.▼
* [[All the Worlds Are a Stage]]
▲* {{spoiler|[[All Just a Dream]] - Most of the game, except several cutscenes, is just Max's dreams while he was in coma.}}
* [[Alternate Universe]]
▲* [[All the Worlds Are a Stage]] - The next to last subchapter is a mishmash of all of the non-"real world" chapters. {{spoiler|You also have to [[Shapeshifting]] between Max and all of his alter-egos.}}
** {{spoiler|Two of the chapters have an alternate universe version of Max's wife as well}}.
▲* [[Alternate Universe]] - {{spoiler|It turns out that the Morgan from Max's past is not the same Morgan that he encounters throughout the game. The former exists in the real world. The latter exists in Max's dream world.}}
** Then there's a {{spoiler|
* [[Ambition Is Evil]]:▼
** Played straight with Morgan.
▲* [[Ambition Is Evil]]
**
*
▲* [[Arc Words]] - "Seek the truth"
* [[Back From the Dead]]
▲* {{spoiler|[[Babies Ever After]] - During the final cut scene, it is revealed that Max's wife was pregnant during the events of the game. The end credits/epilogue shows a picture of them with their new baby.}}
▲* [[Back From the Dead]] - A dead woman comes back to life long enough to give Max some cryptic warnings.
* [[Bandaged Face]]
* [[Bedlam House]]
* [[Big Bad]]
* [[Big No]]
* [[Black Bug Room]]
* [[Body Horror]]
* [[Booze Flamethrower]]
* [[Bratty Half-Pint]]
* [[Breather Episode]]
* [[Buried Alive]]
* [[The Chessmaster]]
* [[Circus of Fear]]
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* [[Combat Tentacles]]
* [[Cool Big Sis]]
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]:
* [[Creepy Child|Creepy Children]]
* [[Creepy Circus Music]]
* [[Creepy Twins]]
* [[The Cuckoolander Was Right]]
* [[Cuckoo Nest]]
* [[Daddy's Girl]]
* [[Dead Little Sister]]
* [[Dead Man Writing]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Doppelganger]]
* [[The Dragon]]:
** {{spoiler|Max's shadow}} to {{spoiler|Dream World Morgan}}.
** {{spoiler|Dream World Morgan is unwittingly this to Real World Morgan, due to him thinking they are the same person
** {{spoiler|The scarecrow}} to Mother.
*
* [[Evil Laugh]]
* [[Face Heel Turn]]
* [[False Widow]]
* [[Final Boss]]: {{spoiler|Max's Shadow
* [[Five-Man Band]]
** Max is [[The Hero]] and [[The Smart Guy]].
** Olmec is [[The Lancer]].
** Grimwall is [[The Big Guy]].
** Sarah is [[The Chick]] (and
* [[Foreshadowing]]
* [[Freudian Excuse]]:
** Hinted that this is at least part of Morgan's motivation.
** Mother.
** Inverted with Max, who used his own past tragedy as motivation to become a doctor and help people.
* [[Ghost Town]]
▲* [[A Glitch in the Matrix]]: The "real world" starts becoming more and more unreal with each chapter.
* [[Go Among Mad People]]
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]
* [[Grave Humor]]
* [[Greed]]
* [[Happier Home Movie]]
* {{spoiler|[[Happy Ending]]}}
* [[Haunted House]]
* [[Hybrid Monster]]
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: Vera.
* [[Infant Immortality]]
* {{spoiler|[[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]}}
* [[Ironic Nursery Tune]]
* [[Jerkass]]:
** Dennis.
** Morgan's Father.
** Olmec.
** The Clown with the Balloons.
* [[Kid Hero]]
* [[Large Ham]]: Grimwall:
* [[Little Miss Badass]] - Sarah (again)▼
{{quote|"Now that ''evil'' machine will be silent for a while!"
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] - It may be an [[Adventure Game]], but it utterly averts the [[Beautiful Void]] trope.▼
"No More Genocide Today!"
* [[Lotus Eater Machine]] - after the Maze, {{spoiler|Morgan}} attempts to trick Max into believing he's in the real world and just had a nasty bump on the head, and dreamt everything. {{spoiler|Max breaks out of it when he realizes SARAH IS SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD, even though she's alive and living with him and his wife. Still a kid. And levitating.}} A very eerie scene, all in all.▼
"Grap!"}}
* [[Mad Scientist]] - Morgan, {{spoiler|the dream world version. Given the real Morgan's personality, it isn't a stretch to see why Max thought of him this way.}}▼
▲* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]
▲* [[Lotus Eater Machine]]:
▲* [[Mad Scientist]]
* [[Make It Look Like an Accident]]
* [[Mama Bear]]
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* {{spoiler|[[Mental World]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body]]
** At its most extreme with Olmec, who is almost the exact opposite of the kind, compassionate Max.
* [[Mind Screw]]
* [[Mommy Issues]]
* [[Mummies At the Dinner Table]]
▲* [[Nice Guy]] - The Main Character and Timmy O'Toole.
* [[Non-Identical Twins]]
* [[One-Winged
* [[One
* {{spoiler|[[Plant Aliens]]}}
* [[Preacher Man]]: Preacher Bob takes himself seriously but is a comical instance of this trope. In addition, Chapter 2 makes mention of an influential small-town preacher.
* [[Red Herring]]
* [[The Reveal]]: A whole lot.
** {{spoiler|"Mother" is an alien}},
** {{spoiler|Max was called by his parents because his sister was dying}},
** {{spoiler|Morgan is behind everything}},
** {{spoiler|Everything other than the opening and the flashbacks was a [[Dying Dream]] resulting from Morgan trying to kill Max; also, there are two Morgans; the one who sabotaged Max's car and the one who exists in the dream world and tries to prevent Max from making any progress}},
** {{spoiler|Max's wife is pregnant}},
* [[Rhymes on a Dime]]: Vera.
* [[Romancing the Widow]]
* [[Rule of Scary]]
* [[Scary Scarecrows]]
* [[See You in Hell]]
* {{spoiler|[[Shape Shifter]]
* [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes]]
** Appropriately, as he is the least likable of the playable characters, Olmec is voiced by the same actor who plays the [[Big Bad]].
* [[Songs in the Key of Lock]]: One of the doors in the Hive has a lock with keypad buttons that produce individual musical tones.
* [[Surreal Horror]]
* [[Timeshifted Actor]]
▲* [[Theme Naming]] - All of the cyclopses have names beginning with "GR."
▲* [[Timeshifted Actor]] - Frank Schurter plays Adult Max while Paul Crocker plays him during his childhood flashbacks.
▲* [[Town with a Dark Secret]] - The entirety of chapter 2.
* [[Twist Ending]]
* [[The Unseen]]
** This is a rare case of the main character pulling off this trope.
▲* [[The Un-Reveal]] - The {{spoiler|Cure}}
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]
▲* [[Unusual Euphemism]] - Grimwall's favorite exclamation, "Grap".
▲* [[Unwitting Pawn]] - Arguably {{spoiler|Dream World Morgan.}} He believes that {{spoiler|he and Real World Morgan are the same person and doesn't realize that his fighting Max and enabling the poison to work its way through his veins will actually kill him along with Max.}} The example has the oddity of ''both'' the pawn ''and'' the manipulator being unaware of the manipulation {{spoiler|due to Real World Morgan being unaware of Dream World Morgan's existence}}.
▲* [[Villain with Good Publicity]] - {{spoiler|Morgan and Gromna}}
* [[Waking Up At the Morgue]]
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]
* {{spoiler|[[Wicked Cultured]]}}
* [[Womb Level]]
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