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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

The Chinese Room

2013•Puzzle•About 6 hours

Taste attributes: actionadventurehorroranimalsgay/lesbianunsavouryheavyimaginarylinearbig & variedemotive & stirringfighting evilhuman spirit/resilience/survivalrescue/escape/jeopardyself destruction/implosionsolving the riddle/not as it seemsunderdog triumphs

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Boxlist takeDark and stylised: an expansive puzzle game, heavy rather than light. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.

Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

IGDB rating

70 / 100

265 ratings

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About This Game

From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.

Summary: IGDB

Story

The year is 1899. Wealthy industrialist Oswald Mandus awakes in his bed, wracked with fever and haunted by dreams of a dark and hellish engine. Tortured by visions of a disastrous expedition to Mexico, broken on the failing dreams of an industrial utopia, wracked with guilt and tropical disease he wakes into a nightmare. The house is silent, the ground beneath him shaking at the will of some infernal machine: all he knows is that his children are in grave peril, and it is up to him to save them.

Characteristics

Where this game sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast

FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal

DarkTONEWholesome

LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy

FantasyREALISMRealistic

SimpleINTRICACYIntricate

Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear

UnderstatedSTYLEStylised

IntimateSCALEEpic

RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

ActionAdventureHorrorAnimalsGay/lesbianFighting evilHuman spirit/resilience/survivalRescue/escape/jeopardySelf destruction/implosionSolving the riddle/not as it seemsUnderdog triumphs

Keywords

BloodyShortHidingSurvival horrorNuditySequelDarknessSingle-player only

Where to play

Details

Developer: The Chinese Room
Publisher: Frictional Games
Released: 10 September 2013
Series: Amnesia
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Modes: Single player
Perspective: First person
Time to beat: 4h rushed, 6h normally, 3h complete
Taste scores: How we score
Source: IGDB

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