10 Games You (Probably) Forgot Released in 2018
The Inpatient
To be fair, this entry probably wasn’t on the radar of anyone who doesn’t own a PlayStation VR headset. All the same, it was a title that, on paper, should have been a lot more memorable than it was and is.
Made by the same team behind the surprise hit Until Dawn, Supermassive Games’ The Inpatient sought to take players on a VR journey into insanity.
As a patient at a mental asylum, they’re tasked with uncovering their lost memories and identity, digging ever deeper into the asylum’s secrets as they do.
It was a novel premise ripe with chances to tell a memorable story, but in practice, it didn’t quite stick the landing gameplay-wise. Players were severely limited in how they could interact with the world around them, instead strapped in for a cinematic narrative told through VR.
Still, it served as an interesting experiment for what VR could accomplish and left many hungry for more of Supermassive’s brand of writing.
