Sanctum
An inventive tower defense/ first person shooter hybrid that pits elite soldier Skye against various forms of alien life on a small set of unique maps. Skye must build and upgrade defensive structures while…
Sanctum is an indie developed by Coffee Stain Studios, released 15 April 2011 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $2.00 at GamersGate.
What Sanctum is
Sanctum is an indie game developed by Coffee Stain Studios and released in 2011. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Sanctum is a first-person shooter tower defense video game, developed by independent developer Coffee Stain Studios. It was released on Steam for Microsoft Windows on 15 April 2011. The successor, Sanctum 2, was announced in 2012 and released in May 2013.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 100 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Sanctum holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 2 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.6 GHz Dual Core Processor, 2 GB RAM and Shader Model 3, 256 MB VRAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.00 at GamersGate, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Sanctum launched on 15 April 2011, within three weeks of Portal 2, Mortal Kombat, World of Tanks and SHIFT 2 UNLEASHED. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Portal 2, Mortal Kombat, World of Tanks, SHIFT 2 UNLEASHED.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sanctum yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Dlc
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