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The Patient - can you escape? playtest
by toby made, Bagpack Games
The Patient is a first-person escape horror set in a 1939 sanatorium. A lamp flickers, and somewhere close the doctor is calling for "his little runaway". Hide anywhere, run when he spots you, and solve twisted puzzles to escape. Play on a flat screen or in VR.
Anyone with a Steam account can join, and it's free.
- Access
- Instant
- On playtest since
- Oct 26, 2026
- Planned release
- To be announced
- Developer
- toby made, Bagpack Games
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- English, French, German, Italian and 8 more
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About The Patient - can you escape?
Wake up. The doctor is waiting.
1939, the Black Forest. Patients keep disappearing from the local sanatorium, and Doctor Herbert Heidenreich tells the press they simply ran away. Nobody believes him. Now you are inside his sanatorium with nothing but an oil lamp, searching its dark rooms for keys and clues... and he is looking for "his little runaway"!
The doctor takes special care of his patients
It doesn't stay quiet for long. The doctor prowls the corridors, searching every shadow. Step too loudly, and he will hear. Run, and he will hunt you down. Open a door, and he will investigate. Let your lamp flicker in his sight, and the pursuit begins. There are no sanctuaries and no guaranteed hiding places, and you can't fight back: crouch behind anything you can and hold your breath until he passes. If he finds you, his treatment will make sure you never leave.
Solve your way out of the sanatorium
No quest markers, no hints. Only your eyes, your wits, and whatever you can find in the dark. Every lock you open, every puzzle you solve takes you deeper into the sanatorium... and a little closer to the truth. And your way out?
Explore its grounds and the places better left forgotten. Read the diaries, newspapers and files left behind, and piece together what Doctor Heidenreich's treatment really means for his patients.
Closer than ever in VR
Play The Patient on your screen, or step inside the sanatorium with a headset. In VR, every creak echoes behind you, your lamp's glow is your only shield against the darkness, and when the doctor leans in, you have nowhere left to hide.
Lights out. Can you escape?
From the game's Steam page.
