Dementium: Remastered

In Dementium: The Ward, the player takes the role of William Redmoor, a man with amnesia, and has to venture through a hospital's rooms and hallways in order to find the exit and escape the establishment. The game uses a first-person view. In order to advance in the game, the player has to resolve puzzles and defeat monsters. At the beginning, William only has access to a nightstick that he can use to defend himself against enemies in addition to a flashlight.

As the game progresses, he finds more weapons, such as a revolver. The console's touch screen is used to move the character's vision, to change weapons and to interact with some nearby elements. It also displays the health bar and can show a map or the player's inventory. In addition, the player is also equipped with a notebook in which they can jot down clues with the stylus.

The protagonist, William Redmoor, wakes up in a medical ward with amnesia. Equipped with a flashlight, he discovers that the hospital he is in is abandoned and crawling with unspeakable creatures. As he makes his descent from the seventh floor, Redmoor collects more weapons in his effort to make progress.

Throughout the game, Redmoor discovers newspaper clippings and staff notes about a man who brutally murdered his wife, and that authorities believe that Redmoor is the killer. He also sees visions of his daughter Amanda running in the corridor as well as a man dressed in black who calls himself 'The Doctor.'

The first game to be developed by Renegade Kid, a studio formed from Iguana Entertainment alumni, Dementium: The Ward was originally planned as a Silent Hill game for the Nintendo DS. In meetings with multiple publishers, Konami turned down their pitch, causing the team to create an original game instead when Gamecock agreed to publish the game.

Renegade Kid developed a Nintendo 3DS remaster to fix problems with the original release. After the company was closed on 2016, the intellectual property of the game was acquired by Gregg Hargrove's studio Infitizmo, with Jools Watsham's studio Atooi acquiring the intellectual property after Hargrove's death from pancreatic cancer in 2018. Atooi developed remasters of the game for modern consoles.

Dementium and Dementium Remastered received "mixed or average reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

Craig Harris of IGN said that the visuals were "outstanding: the lighting effects and texture work in Dementium: The Ward are pretty special when you consider the Nintendo DS' capabilities." He also noted "the flashlight effect might not match what other developers have done on more powerful systems" but "it's a believable technique that's pulled off better than anything seen on same-level hardware." Pete Sellers of Deeko was more positive, commenting on the DS version's many pros and few cons in a parody of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe: "Visually, Dementium's divine and every facet is designed / To create a sense of ambience that offers frights galore. ...

Following the release of the sequel Dementium II, Renegade Kid lost the rights to the intellectual property due to licensing agreements with the publisher. The studio created a spiritual successor, Cult County, which it attempted to fund through a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. The campaign, started in 2014, failed to meet its funding goal of US$580,000.

Renegade Kid regained the rights to Dementium in September 2014. The studio released a remaster of the game, Dementium Remastered, in 2015 with enhancements including checkpoints and improved graphics. Watsham later announced a remaster of Dementium II as well as the third entry in the series. When Renegade Kid was dissolved in 2016, co-founder Gregg Hargrove retained the rights under his company Infitizmo.