Get Sanatorium: Anthropocene Retreat for PC

Sanatorium: Anthropocene Retreat combines arcade, quest and shooter gameplay in a story about a protagonist whose identity changes through interactions with non-player characters. Starting as a non-human agent, you pass through viral forms of life and take human form before ultimately becoming an artificial intelligence. The game explores antihumanist, posthumanist and transhumanist ideas, technological singularity, and the doctrines of Haraway, Latour and Land through a fantasy performance framed as a classical “vergilian” road movie.

Transformations and encounters

Your character’s settings are not fixed; they change according to interactions with non-player characters. You take on missions, communicate with characters, solve unusual puzzles and undergo magical transformations. The game’s storyline also determines an exact date for the beginning of the Anthropocene, defined here as the epoch of significant human impact on Earth.

Arcade and shooting

The game shifts between genres as you progress. You can set records in mini-games and compete on an internet leaderboard in each of the subgames. In the second part, you can shoot in five museums of modern art.

Game activities

• NPC missions
• Magical transformations
• Shooting galleries
• Unusual puzzle solutions
• Seamless changes of game genre