Welcome newcomers and oldcomers alike! ːsteamhappyː
This is Behind the Doors, where we cover a new door every week and showcase its conception phase, as well as its final look. Today we will examine a new door you haven’t seen on twitch or in the demo! The Sanatorium is yet another creepy door, but don’t be fooled - it’s wildly different from its Infernal Fire relative.
Let’s start from the beginning - one who reads these posts will correctly guess the beginning is the prototype. And oh my, is that an overwhelming prototype - you could use the paint bucket for some color and call it a day with all the stuff going on. We’ve got the wheelchair, the pushcart, the hospital light and the weird stabby thing, which for no reason at all will be called a stuffed sweater.
There was clearly a vision for this door and while the final look had some extra stuff included, the general concept remained the same. The Sanatorium, which obviously has nothing to do with sanatoriums, is just a psychiatric hospital presented to seem inviting, while in reality it’s far more sinister than you can imagine. And that was generally a well-known trope - American and British “asylums” were notorious in cinema and video games, spinning multiple horror stories and faux documentaries, which we based our Sanatorium on.
We have to be honest here - this level is one of the hardest levels we’ve done. By this we mean the content that's included - puzzles and mechanics alike are a bit more intricate than what you might find in other doors. The reason is simply because this is one of the last levels you will play. Naturally, we’ve tried to add the harder levels at the end of chapters simply for progression purposes.
Without spoiling much of the fun to come - we will provide a sneak peek at this neat little puzzle which is by all means unsolvable!
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If you enjoyed our demo and want to see more from Doors, check in with your favorite puzzle streamers, because plenty of them are already playing an exclusive 15-level version!
