Amnesia: The Dark Descent

I thank you.

You haven't even begun to experience how scary it is.

And the story is really fucked up, in a good way.

Great, great, great game.

I like the atmosphere quite a bit, just in the starting area. Wanna wait 'til after dark tonight to get into it.

This game is an absolutely fantastic piece of work. Probably one of the best horror games there's ever been, and the fact this little indy team has turned out an adventure that's more imaginative and polished than a lot of big-budget releases is astonishing, even if you were familiar with their previous work.
This is a proper horror game in a way very, very few have ever been.

FIVE MAN indie team....

who also created their own engine.

It's the palpable sense of dread that does it. You have to keep exploring in spite of yourself. And I love that you're not armed, you're not supposed to fight anything, you just have to try and maintain your sanity and survive. Great stuff.

From what I'm reading elsewhere these guys might go under if this game doesn't move some copies, so be sure to recommend to to your horror-loving friends.

I'd agree- the light/darkness system and sanity mechanics are perfectly balanced, and much cleverer than anything I've seen in a while.
Hoping it attracts at least some imitators.
The developer admitted to being a fan of Dark Corners of the Earth, but they've improved on that game's ideas by quite a bit.

Motherfuck this prison level. I feel like I should leave a note about the discovery of my real-life corpse just in case.

I played the first two hours of this during a mild thunderstorm Saturday night. I thought I was hot shit. "Aww man, I got this. What's the ruckus?"

I may not sleep tonight...

....This sounds interesting.


But I'm a pussy.

Youtube, for the win!

I'm getting this. Hope my sad rig can play it.

Sony Vaio laptop.

Desktop: defunct. However, I'm may be hammering that back together soon.

Are the system requirements insane?

It's integrated. But I'll fix up my desktop and download this sucker. Sorry to derail this thread. Thanks for the heads up on this game. Wouldn't have known about it otherwise. Really looking forward to it.

Rest assured, the worst is definitely still ahead of you.

I don't consider myself terribly hardened when it comes to horror, but I rarely flinch when films or games try to scare me. I'm not counting all the monster-in-a-closet-jump-scare moments from fare like Doom III because nothing in the damn game was scary, but it was quite startling. (At first. Then you get a minigun and everything becomes so much gory tedium.) Amnesia, though, is a whole other kettle of fish.

I loved the first two Penumbra games but Overture lost a bit of it's horror when I figured out how easy the AI's pathfinding was to break, then I was able to defeat every enemy in the game by simply jumping on a crate and whacking them with the pickaxe from safety. Penumbra solved this for the most part by reducing the number of enemies and taking away all your weapons, and Amnesia appears to have taken that idea to an even further extreme. I think I've encountered three enemies total at three hours in, and already I feel like I need a buddy to play this all the way through. The lantern oil drains at a worrying rate and I've never wished for a glowstick so much in my life. In the operating room I could hear the sounds of dogs crying out in pain from somewhere nearby. Fuck me.

Small complaint, but I'm a little disappointed that the monsters aren't as... shocking as the infected in Black Plaque. The first encounter with one of those things, silhouetted in a door frame with its extra-terrestrial genitals dangling right there for all the world to see is such a memorable moment. I dunno, maybe these things will be even more F'ed up once we learn a bit more about them, but the first encounter lacked the punch that Black Plague had.

Sometimes I get the feeling I have a natural talent for killing threads.

Anyway I could use a hint or two. I can't find the third rod thing to fix the elevator and I'm all out of lamp oil, making backtracking and exploration tough. What should I do?

Any chance this is coming to Xbox? There's no way my old Macbook can run it.

It'd be nice to see it come to a wider range of platforms, but Frictional have never released for consoles before.

Seems to me like that's the kind of game that's tailor made for Xbox Live Arcade.

Well the game's almost two gigs so I doubt it. Also if I recall correctly the development team is less than ten people, so adapting it to more platforms may prove tricky...


Found the third steam rod thing, but holy shit why would anyone want to go forward? Right smack into the dungeon of a castle full of eldritch abominations and worse. Fffffffuck. The sound design in this game is fantastic, but it's so crisp and, well, descriptive of what is going on just beyond your range of vision is so damn unsettling. If I hear one more disemboweling I'm gonna have to turn the gamma settings all the way up.

The sign of a really great horror game is when you dread going forwards, but don't want to stay where you are.
The stronger Silent Hills did it, and so, at times, did Siren: Blood Curse. Amnesia's one of a select few.

This game sounds too good. Unfortunately I've only got a macbook pro with OS X. Think I can run it?

Downloading the demo should tell you that pretty easily.

I picked this up upon your recommendations. Now I can't sleep. Thank you very much.

This shit is terrifying; I love it.

And Evi, it's one of those "SteamPlay" games so if you get it through Steam it should work on both Windows and Mac OS. Minimum Mac requirements are:

OS: Mac OS X 10.5.8 or newer
Processor: 2.0Ghz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: Radeon 9600/GeForce 4 (GeForce4MX not supported)
Hard Drive: 2GB space free

Just started the game and can't get the noises out of my head.

The amount of work they put in to making Danial's encroaching madness come alive is just awesome. Sometimes cockroaches will appear on my screen crawling all over the place for no apparent reason.

The other night I was screwing around on some scenery trying to find an impenetrable hiding spot when I fell through the level and died. When I respawned I was in a small room with one of those creatures blocking the doorway directly in front of me, but before I had time to crap my pants it disappeared. Naturally when I opened the door to leave the two adjoining rooms I walked smack into another creature, which was not an illusion and promptly tore my face off. Best of all, when I respawned a third time neither creature was anywhere to be found and I was free to carry on my way.

Eurogamer gave this glowing praise a little while ago, been meaning to play it - haven't PC gamed since Valve threw that free Alien Swarm multiplayer out.