Sanitarium

Had a ball playing this again. My mom introduced me to it when it came out, and I never forgot how intriguing and clever it was. I was thrilled to find it here available for the iPad. The touch controls are finicky sometimes, leading to some confusion, so I’d say it’s like a 4.5/5 just because of that. But the hint system is good and the story and puzzles hold up. Thanks for making an iPad version after all these years!

Along with the review “Fantastic game, iffy controls,” I’ve noticed that it would randomly skip to the next piece of dialog even when I was certain nothing was touching or charging my iPad. Still, I want to see the game to completion. I have a hunch that the plot (which, by the start of chapter 4, seems to be a kudzu plot), will come together nicely at the end.

I appreciate the developers making this mobile port. But it glitches very often and doesn’t respond to input well. I’m stuck on Chapter 2 because every time I go to the barn, a glitch happens where everything I do Max says something to the effect of “That won’t work.” Even when I’m not holding an item, anything I touch he says I can’t do that. I can’t even open the main menu. And I can’t fill the generator with gas. I hold the full gas can but when I tap on the generator he says that won’t

Although the games storyboard and the games atmosphere is scary there is one thought that came in mind,one thing is that at the schoolhouse and church it won't let me enter also at one certain moment there is a glitch in the game for example I want to get in the 💒 but instead of getting in the church I'm walking all the way to the roof of the church. So those are the two things that need fixing

There's a game ending bug on chapter 3, if you can even make it that far. The game is in serious need of fixing. Dotemu seems content to continue pocketing money for an app that doesn't work, though. I'll never buy anything from them again until they either fix this app or give me a refund.