Sanitarium and the Underworld of Grief
RagnarRox
Jul 6, 2026 18:41
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Sanitarium and the Underworld of Grief or: (It Was Never Madness)
Sanitarium is a 1998 psychological horror adventure that a lot of people considered weird, dated, and confusing.
They weren't wrong. But they also weren't looking closely enough.
I’ve been wanting to revisit Sanitarium for a long time, after making a video on it over a decade ago.
So at long last, in this video essay, we descend into the depths of a fractured mind of an amnesiac in an insane asylum – through grief, trauma, identity, and the psychology of survival – and discover that nothing in this game was placed there randomly. In the underworld of grief, everything means something.
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