I can't believe I haven't talked about the game on here yet (I have on steam). I played and finished it before I left on holiday, and loved it to bits. It's short, but very good and ridiculously good at evoking a psychological horror. You can't fight the things that are behind you and have to be sparse with light and candles as you're running on oil/using tinder...the more time you spend in the dark, the quicker your sanity will drop. This is clearly only worsened by certain events and the proximity of monsters.

At one time, I was looking in a dungeon for something when I see the Beast/Shadow/God Knows at the end of the hallway, howling. I turn around into one of the cells and throw closed the door behind me, then huddle up in a dark corner of the cell. I don't hear anything for a few moments, then it starts bashing down the door. My (in-game) breathing picks up and my sanity goes on vacation...I know it's gonna peer into the room any second but that gazing upon it will only increase my panic/insanity, so I stay in my corner but against all intuition I face TOWARDS the corner. The door comes crashing down and I hear it in the door opening for seconds that seemed to last for minutes. All the while I'm sitting at home with my hands before my face, looking in between my fingers whether it'll get me or not. Then it walks away and I (in-game) catch my breath.

Moments like that are just sheer brilliance. I actually played in short sessions of an hour, hour and a half because the constant idea of there being something there wears you out. The story is good too, balancing somewhere between a classic historic horror story and Lovecraftian. Graphics extremely efficient for the genre, with an intuitive handling system (mouse-operated) that it borrowed from the Penumbra series.

If you like horror games, a must-buy.

I played the demo of this, it was I think 2 levels long and it was the best 30 minutes of horror gaming I've experienced for a long time.

Looks like I might make my first steam purchase soon

It gets a glowing recommendation from me, it's an amazing game. The psychological horror eating away at you works great. Played it in 'short' bursts of 1-1.5 hour at a time to cope (and to not get numb to the horror, to an extent) at night. With the lights off and headphones.

Amnesia was one of my favorite games in years, probably. DO IT.

Haha, I love that entire scene with the waitress. 'Do it. Do it.'

The makers of Amnesia have released a free DLC of about an hour. It's called 'Justine' and it's slightly related to the original game, although it's really a seperate story. I really, really enjoyed it and got a few massive scares out of it again. Another cheap indie game releasing more - good - content for free. If this were an EA game, it'd have cost at least 5 €.

To give you an idea of what it's like

couldn't deal with the idiot talking

Here it is sans idiot voice over

Well, I started playing this game the other day.

Holy. Shit.

I'm probably about 3 hours in (Maybe 2 hours if I'd been quicker at solving the puzzles.) I've only just gotten to the part where you get the elevator back on-line. Damn, this game is ace. There are some proper heart in hand moments where you're really drawn in to the characters emotional state. Losing your footing whilst trying to run with whats left of your sanity, or hiding in a corner waiting for the evil to go away - then poking your head around dreading what you might see.

So far, so good!

haha, awesome, finally someone else who actually has the balls to play the game (yeah ok, I know you just didn't like it Derf )

Where you at now Mole?

Amnesia scared the fuck out of me a few times. The great thing is that it doesn't really throw any opening wallpanels with imps behind them at you (Doom 3 lame jump scares), but plays on your nerves with sound, visual effects and music. Some of the chases are. OMGWTFBBQNOOOO scary.

For Mole



Don't forget to play the free DLC 'Justine' when you're done. It's really good too.

I haven't had chance to play it since last time; but I will be tomorrow!



EDIT: Played it some more tonight, just (about) made it through the prison... I've come to the theory that if I'm gonna make it through this game in one piece, I need to man up when exploring. I as in me, Mole, not my character - gotta face the fact that this game is gonna creep me out. Especially at 1am. In the dark. With the volume up.

And playing the game in the dark with the sound up (headphones preferably), alone, is the only way to do it man.

Just got to the bit where there is an electrical field in the way, there are several locked doors about a rather large chamber that looks like one of the ruins in Oblivion. I'm stuck! But so far, this game is epic.

I know the place you mean, but I can't remember the specifics enough to tell you what to do. Hope you figured it out by now. The maze around that part of the game is fucking scary. Still creeps me out thinking about it.

I haven't been on it for a while again, but the last thing that scared the crap out of me was...