60 years before the events of Until Dawn (2015), which make this game a prequel of it.
In the nightmare of choosing to follow the deer or Abe and the nightmare of choosing to follow the wolf or the rabbit, if the player follows the deer, then the rabbit and then eats the cockroach when Bennet offers it, the Inpatient will still stay human throughout the whole game.
When the player walks up to the bars of the room, it will trigger a flashback of William Bates struggling with two orderlies before turning his attention to the Inpatient. If the player looks closely at William's eyes, his irises are white. A clear indication that he is going to turn into a Wendigo.
The Inpatient received polarized reviews from professional gaming critics, earning a "mixed or average" score of 59 on review aggregation website Metacritic based on 55 reviews.