The Inpatient is an adventure developed by Supermassive Games, released 23 January 2018 on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR.
What The Inpatient is
The Inpatient is an adventure game developed by Supermassive Games and released in 2018. It was published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A twisting tale of terror. Life and death decisions Open your eyes... and prepare yourself for the dread of unforgettable psychological horror. Set 60 years before the nerve-shredding events of "Until Dawn", you awaken in a strange medical facility, with no memory. It's up to you to discover why you're trapped within Blackwood Pines Sanatorium - and uncover a chilling conspiracy lurking within its shadows.
How it plays
It is played from a virtual reality perspective. Its themes are action, horror, survival and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Inpatient holds a critic score of 57 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 12 points below the year average.
What it launched against
The Inpatient launched on 23 January 2018, within three weeks of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Monster Hunter: World, Celeste and Shadow of the Colossus. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Monster Hunter: World, Celeste, Shadow of the Colossus.
Official trailer
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