Play GOG Sanitarium With Scummvm

Last week the psychological horror adventure game Sanitarium was available for free on GOG.com. It is a Windows game from 1998 and the download consists of a small setup.exe and a 1.3 GB binary file.

As I want to play the game on Linux, I was happy to learn that ScummVM supports Sanitarium! According to the release notes, it will be part of the upcoming version 2.6.0. However, it seems to work just fine with the latest ScummVM 2.5.1.

First, you have to run the setup.exe to extract all the files. This works with WINE, too. Then you have to move all music and video files in Data/Music and Data/Vids to Data/. You can then add the game in ScummVM by providing the path to the Data directory.

By the way, if you don’t move the files, the error message will be:

ERROR: [Video::playVideo] Invalid video index (0)!

Have fun!