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The Inpatient - PlayStation VR

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At a glance

Condition
New
Dimensions
1 x 5.12 x 6.69 in; 2.89 oz
Weight
2.89 oz
Publication Date
January 23, 2018
Computer Platform
PlayStation 4
Type of item
Video Game
Language
English

Features 4

  • Discover who you are before its too late
  • Branching narrative Choices and consequences are integral to the gameplay. Your life (and the lives of those around you), are dramatically affected by the decisions you make.
  • The story isn't just about scares; you'll discover a rich backstory and uncover a conspiracy.
  • This game puts YOU in the shoes of the main character.

Description

Discover who you are before it's too late in The Inpatient; a PSVR Exclusive set in the Blackwood Sanatorium, over 60 years prior to the 2016 BAFTA award- winning Until Dawn. With deep immersion that places YOU in the game, you take on the role of an amnesiac inpatient who must find out who you are and why you are in the Sanatorium. With a branching narrative, and different endings; every choice you make can drastically affect the way the game plays out.

Specs 12

Publication Date January 23, 2018
Computer Platform PlayStation 4
UPC 711719510574
Compatible Video Game Console Models Sony PlayStation 4, Sony PlayStation 4 Pro, Sony PlayStation 4 Slim, Sony PlayStation 5, Sony PlayStation 5 Pro, Sony PlayStation 5 Slim
Release date January 23, 2018
Product Dimensions 1 x 5.12 x 6.69 inches; 2.89 ounces
Type of item Video Game
Language English

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Arrived early and worked great
Platform For Display: PlayStation 4
Great customer service and product worked awesome.. good price also!! Worth dealing with again!
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2026 by Morley

This is a very good and entertaining VR game
Platform For Display: PlayStation 4
This is a very good and entertaining VR game. Not sure why people are complaining . This game it supposed to be played again and again to get the different out comes. You can use your own voice to interact with the in game NCP. its fun tense and scary at some points. Its a mystery story. I loved it. VR are is evolving into a great new game mechanic. I find it hard to go back to 2D. I would recommend this game to anyone. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2018 by Laceylacey449

A 2 hour walking in the dark with a flashlight game for PSVR.
Platform For Display: PlayStation 4
Wandering around in the dark with a flashlight is a good summary of The Inpatient, as most of the time you're following a character through the empty halls of the asylum, mysteriously taken over by something from outside. The game looks decent with nice graphics, but the plot is slow to unfold, even though the game only lasts about 2 to 3 hours if you take your time. The PSVR visuals are neat, but there's just not enough excitement in this story driven game where you are just walking ahead to start the next cutscene dialog. There are moments where you make decisions, but most of your decisions feel without consequences. It's an okay horror experience but not great as I wasn't scared a single time, not because I didn't want to be, but because the game didn't intrigue me as I was hoping. I wouldn't pay more than $10 for this walking in the dark demo. Decent, but could've been so much better if this was only the first chapter of an 8 chapter game. Too short. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2018 by ThunderHawk

The haters are completely missing the point. VR's new standard.
Platform For Display: PlayStation 4
Not for everyone, but certainly amazing and incredibly engulfing, particularly for a VR game. It's one of the first of its kinda that allows you to use your voice to answer questions with your voice. Yes, it's been done eons ago, but doing this in VR takes on an entirely different delivery. I assume that the naysayers complaining that this game is "too short" didn't realize that this game was meant to be played multiple times and experienced via different possibilities via the butterfly effect that its predecessor games employ. When taking the various stories into account the game becomes more than a 10+ hour game, if not more. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2018 by Sindred

5 Stars
Platform For Display: PlayStation 4
Really enthralling experience. Yes, it's short, but I don't think it's fair to judge VR games based on quantity over quality. What's here is quality in every sense. Definitely the best looking VR game to date and the 3D audio is immersive. I wouldn't recommend playing with the Move controllers, though. I never was quite comfortable with the controls. Play with the Dualshock instead. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2018 by Thomas

A Disappointment: One Half Horror/Thriller (the First Hour), One Half Walking Simulator (Everything Else)
Platform For Display: PlayStation 4
Well, that was anticlimactic. (Very minor spoilers ahead.) I'd been eager to play Supermassive Games' newest outing, "The Inpatient" for PlayStation VR since it was announced. I really enjoyed their "Until Dawn," and their "Until Dawn: Rush of Blood" PSVR game was fun, though very different. I expected something of either calibur from "The Inpatient," but what we get is . . . weak to say the least. First, the game's replay value comes from branching paths and the Butterfly Effect game mechanic that was used so well with "Until Dawn," though here there appears to only really be 6 possible path change moments, two of which I never encountered on my initial playthrough because of what I think was an early choice I made. So, understand that you're expected to get your value by playing multiple times, making different choices each time. That said, a single playthrough lasts only about 2 hours. Moreover, this is a horror/thriller game, and the game seems to completely forget that once you get about halfway through. The first half is unnerving in its atmosphere, has some actually tense "what's going to happen" kind of "potential scares" that don't manifest so that the unease lingers, and it has a couople of main "jump scares" in that first hour. (One had me nearly wake my wife up by jumping backward and saying, out loud, "MOTHER******!!!" It was frightening, but only in a "jump scare" sort of way.) Once you hit the second half, the game becomes a walking (and flashlight pointing!) simulator. You walk around in a creepy atmosphere without anything really much happening to actually try to scare you (not even jump scares), and then you meet someone and walk a while with them. Then another person (or people) and walk with them... You get the idea. Otherwise, in both the first and second halves, much of your gameplay (other than walking) is either picking up (or staring at) an object to trigger a brief flashback, making binary dialogue choices (some of which are the Butterfly Effect choices that only reveal that after you choose), or pointing your flashlight around. Never once in the course of this game that deals with monsters in its latter portions are you allowed to pick up one of the several weapons you find lying around (whether a hammer or a firearm). Instead, you just wander around with one hand for touching and another for pointing your flashlight. Moreover, your movement and that of the other characters in the game can be best described as a "slow stroll." Regardless of the danger, you just walk casually everywhere you go. Playing with the two Move Motion Controllers does allow you some tactile senses when picking up objects and trying to point, but turning and even walking (to some degree) is a bit awkward with that control scheme, and your hands will tend to smack into things (or sound like they are, even when they aren't) that wouldn't happen in most VR games. Need to pick up that sandwich? Better raise your arms unnaturally in real life so that you can be sure you won't bump the table! On the one hand, the fact that you don't just pass through the table is great, but the fact that this kind of restriction happens from time to time when nonsensical (along with sometimes having the screen go black because an NPC just tried to walk through you or something) makes the controls feel unpolished. At least in my initial playthrough, I assume that I made an "evil" choice by doing something basic at the beginning (which I won't spoil because if I'm right that it's the choice, most people will make the "evil" chocie and want to replay to make the "good" one). That meant that in the last half hour or so, I could basically walk around with impunity in the overly-linear environment because I figured that any of the game's "antagonists" (to use the term very loosely) wouldn't see me as a threat. The second half, especially in that scenario, simply bleeds away any tension until it becomes appropriate to start muttering, "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?" like a child on a dull car ride. It isn't all disappointing (and let's be clear here that for the most part the game is disappointing moreso than "bad," since it does manage to take you through a story that follows some of your choices, just without making it particularly engaging for the back half). There are a few positives that stand out. First, the visuals are fairly crisp, leaning toward the level of character models in Resident Evil 7 when played in VR, rather than the character models we've gotten in plenty of other VR games. Second, the story does manage to act as a sort of origin story for the creatures we meet in Until Dawn, including a rather surprising quasi-epilogue (that lasts a minute or less). Third, being able to see the Butterfly Effect cataloged on the menu, as in Until Dawn, does make the desire for a replay greater. (And, hey, why not, when it will only take a couple of hours to replay the entire thing, and now you already know where the few jump scares are?) Overall, I had high hopes for this game, but it fell far short of expectations. I'd recommend this only for the most ardent Until Dawn enthusiasts, and even then, I'd say to wait for a bargain price, rather than the $40 MSRP. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2018 by Nathan Butler

Surprisingly scary
Platform For Display: PlayStation 4
I've only played the game once through so far and I definitely enjoyed it. Took me maybe between 2 and 3 hours to finish. I was very surprised with how scary the game was. There were a few times where the game tries to give you a good fright, like in a horror movie, but I thought the scariest parts were when you almost expect something to jump out and frighten you but it never does. There were a couple of times, walking through dark hallways, where I didn't want to look off to the side into rooms because I thought there might be something scary. There were even times when I wanted to take the headset off and stop playing because of this, which is a great endorsement, in my opinion. It's rare for me to feel that way about a video game or movie. My first play through was done with the Dual Shock controller, which was fine with me. I tried playing again with the Move controllers but had some problems. The whole time during cutscenes it would show images of the Move controllers on the screen with red X's over them, as if the game was telling me I couldn't use them. But instructions would show to press the "move" button on the controller to start the game, or in the first scene where you can actually move around it said to push the "move" button to move forward. That worked, but when I was instructed to point the right controller behind me and press the button to turn around it didn't work. I got stuck at that point with the NPC telling me over and over to turn around but I couldn't. Had to give up on that play through and will try the Dual Shock again next time. As mentioned, the game is pretty short, but you have 6 times where you can choose an option to enact the "Butterfly Effect", which dictates how your game will go. This means there should be 2 to the 6th, or 64, if my math is right, different paths that you can take, which leads to over 100 hours of game play if you do them all. I feel that would be very boring to try them all consecutively, but this might be a game that you can pull out from time to time and quickly play through to see something new. Overall I think this game is worth it for the right price. I pre-ordered, I think at about $40 (minus Amazon discount), and I feel that might be a little high for what you get. I definitely think it would be worth it for $20 bucks or so. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2018 by SLR

The impatient game rocks!
Platform For Display: PlayStation 4
Wow! Wow! WOW!! This game will literally blow you away. The graphics in the game could have been a lil sharper but other then that, I’m speechless. The experience on the VR is phenomenal. There’s a scene where they are pushing you in a wheel chair. I literally immersed myself into the game and felt like I was actually there. It blew my mind. Try the game for yourself. It’ll rock your socks off. Lol! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2020 by Why_u_Mad_Son203
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