The Amnesia series has carved a name for itself on the wall of the cell in the abandoned prison we like to call the horror genre. The debut title had you exploring a creepy mansion, stalked by monsters that would chase you in the dark and which you had no means of fighting off.
It’s been nearly a decade since Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and developer Frictional Games has announced it’s returning to that world with a radical shake-up of the format.
Developer Frictional Games have announced that the next installment in their psychological horror series, Amnesia: The Bunker, will take a leaf from some of the best horror games – such as The Dark Pictures Anthology – by allowing the player to explore a “semi-open world” of largely unscripted events.
Set in a World War 1 bunker, we’ll be expected to fight our way out with nothing but a single bullet left in our revolver.
Whilst the hint of a combat element in an Amnesia game is interesting, let’s hope that the “randomization and unpredictable behavior” of this unscripted hellhole still gives us a reason to care about our character.
Set in a dark, dank, desolate WWI bunker, you’ll be playing as lonesome French soldier Henri Clément. He seems to have woken from one nightmare to another; gone are the bullets and mortar shells of all-out war, but something down here definitely wants you dead.
Judging from the sparse details on the Amnesia: The Bunker’s Steam page(opens in new tab), we can expect a lot of twists and turns not only to each individual playthrough but to the genetic makeup of an Amnesia game itself.
Gone are the days of being totally helpless to the madness within and without, as you’ll be (partially) armed down in The Bunker. From the trailer we can see that the protagonist
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