Sanity: Aiken's Artifact

Sanity: Aiken's Artifact (2000)

by Monolith Productions, Fox Interactive
Genres:Shooter
Themes:Action
Game modes:Single player, Multiplayer
Story:In the near future, Psionics are among us. Their evil thoughts pulsate across time and space corrupting even the strongest minds. Players assume the role of Agent Cain, a powerful Psionic working for an elite government agency. As Cain, you strive for mastery of innate psychic “Talents” such as the ability to shoot fireballs or the power to summon hideous creatures. Using these “Talents” depletes both Health and Sanity, so players must walk a fine line to ensure that they don't lose their minds!Show more
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user avatar@Agthalasuser avatar@Agthalas
January 29, 2025
Peak cheese in the best ways. A just-clunky-enough power system, Ice-T in the lead role, but more importantly, it's one of the "Lost" Monolith Productions games from their early years of the LithTech engine.
user avatar@SenatorIvyuser avatar@SenatorIvy
January 29, 2025
I remember buying this when it came out solely because Ice T was in it. Nobody else I knew had it and I kept trying to get people to play it but they all were like "so it has 'cards?'" and I couldnt get them to understand that they were just the power loadout that you could change. Now that everybody loves card related things it's time for Sanity to get a modern release, lol. This would be a day 1 buy for me.
user avatar@JediCoreuser avatar@JediCore
February 03, 2025
I remember installing this game that I have found on one of the demo disk but that version of a game was bugged as none of the keybindings were saving and you couldn't move. All I remembered from this game was the very first location where you start the game and the UI. I managed to find a copy of this game last year and finally finished it. It was worth waiting all these years.
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