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About This Game

A reel came to me in the mail. I'm inside it — a childhood I don't remember at all.

The Dawn Sanatorium closed decades ago. Yet a strip of old film has led you back through its doors, into corridors that only your flashlight can hold back. Somewhere in the dark is a name you've forgotten — and something that remembers you.

Dawn Sanatorium is a slow-burn, first-person psychological horror about memory, identity, and the things a mind buries to survive. Play a reel and the walls rearrange. Search the dormitory for the bed that was yours. Descend to the morgue for a body that was never there. Every fragment you recover pulls the truth closer — and pushes it further out of reach.

You are not being chased. You are being watched. The Horned One does not run. He simply appears — behind you, at a door, in the flicker of the reel — and if you hold his gaze too long, you unravel. In the pitch-black basement, a blind thing hunts by sound; press yourself into a drawer and pray it doesn't hear you breathe. And in the rooms you light up, a nightmare waits for the beam to find it.

Piece the memories together. Reach the bottom of the sanatorium. Learn what really happened here — and to you.

Best played with headphones, in a dark room.

Features

• Flashlight-driven darkness — the sanatorium is truly dark; your light is your only shield, and it can betray you.
  
• A watcher, not a chaser — the Horned One kills with presence and gaze, not a foot race. Look away. Keep moving.
  
• Hide from the blind — a sound-hunting horror stalks the basement; tuck into a morgue drawer and stay silent.
  
• A reality that rewrites itself — projectors and reels bend the space around you as your memory returns.
  
• Fragmented-memory exploration & light puzzles — restore power, find your bed, open the right drawer.
  
• A story with a floor beneath the floor — an ending that recontextualizes everything you thought you understood.
  
• Fully localized in 7 languages — English, Türkçe, 简体中文, Русский, Español, Português, Deutsch.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Generative AI was used during development as an assistant, limited to text: (1) Localization — the in-game text was authored in Turkish and translated into 6 additional languages (English, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, German) with AI assistance, then reviewed by the developer. (2) Store page copy — the store descriptions were drafted and translated with AI assistance and edited by the developer. No AI-generated art, audio, models, or animations are used in the shipped game: visual assets are hand-built/asset-store content and real in-game screenshots, and audio is authored or procedurally synthesized. No live or real-time AI generation occurs during gameplay. The developer has reviewed all AI-assisted text to ensure it is accurate and does not contain illegal or infringing content.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This game contains intense psychological horror, sudden frightening moments, and disturbing imagery involving a medical/institutional setting, memory loss, and death. No graphic gore or sexual content.