Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
7.2
Platforms
- PCSep 10, 20137.2playscore7.624 Critics6.56.92K Players
24 critic reviews · 3 community reviews across all platforms
Critic Reviews
- Tangibly terrifying atmosphere, excellent graphics and sound design, multilayered and unique narrative, highly immersive world, painstaking attention to detail, deeply horrifying. Relies more on scripted scares than truly dangerous encounters, some puzzles are too obvious and feel unnecessary, no sanity meter.
Kim Berkley · Sep 15, 2013 Reviewed on PCRead full review - ...many will feel restricted in what can feel less like a game and more like an interactive horror novella.
Edge Staff · Sep 11, 2013 Reviewed on PC - Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs may be a different kind of horror than fans are expecting, but it's an interesting and welcome experiment in gaming terror. Though its sharp fangs of resource management may have been dulled, in place of the swift bite is a deeper, more haunting world that will linger with me much longer than the original.
Marty Sliva · Sep 10, 2013 Reviewed on PCRead full review - In fact, A Machine For Pigs has a lot in common with The Chinese Room's debut effort, far more than it has with The Dark Descent. But while Dear Esther provided a framework upon which players could build their own satisfying narrative, this game is just a near-random collection of imagery and ideas that, while creepy and cool, never come together as a coherent whole.
Andy Chalk · Sep 10, 2013 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Dark Descent took you on a steady journey into an ocean of madness. A Machine for Pigs will hold your head underwater until you're about to drown and then bring you back up for air, again and again. And one of those times you resurface, you may discover you've learned things about yourself other than the fact that you need a new pair of underpants.
TJ HAFER · Sep 09, 2013 Reviewed on PCRead full review - This is a captivating adventure, but it's also a very dark and disturbing one that touches on depressing real-world themes and doles out psychological horror along with monsters and gore. Still, this gives the game added depth and a literary weight that elevates it well above much of the horror genre in general, especially in a game that arrives without much pretension and with a plot device about murderous pig-men.
Brett Todd · Sep 09, 2013 Reviewed on PCRead full review - That's enough to make Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs worth playing, so long as you can accept that it won't make you squeal.
Richard Mitchell · Sep 09, 2013 Reviewed on PC - A Machine for Pigs is ultimately disappointing because you never have to worry about running out of resources or being scared of the dark. What you’re left with is a slow-moving game that lasts a few hours and leaves you feeling cheated and your expectations unfulfilled. Even if you suffer from a fear of the dark, pigs, or the genre in general, don’t expect to be plagued by nightmares after playing it.
Giancarlo Saldana · Sep 09, 2013 Reviewed on PCRead full review - It's hard to recommend A Machine For Pigs to every horror fan, as it provides something that could so easily delight or dismay, something that is unique and effective, but potentially shortchanging. If you want to be told a vexingly bizarre story presented with a real sense of style, The Chinese Room may have exactly what you want.
Jim Sterling · Sep 09, 2013 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Horror enthusiasts who loved the first Amnesia may be disappointed in what this sequel has to offer
Chris Nguyen · Sep 09, 2013 Reviewed on PC
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About the game
Trailers & Screenshots:
The game is a survival horror game played from a first-person perspective. Players explore the environments using a lantern, with diary entries and notes providing information on the lost memory of the title character. Some elements of The Dark Descent have been removed, while new elements have been added. One of the reasons for this is to provide a fresh gameplay experience to veteran players of The Dark Descent. The inventory has been removed, along with the oil and tinderboxes. Most of the puzzles that occur in the game are based on physically interacting with the environment because of this change.
Developer: The Chinese Room