![]() ![]() When you’re not desperately searching for new ways to conjure light or avoiding the horrors that are constantly pursuing you, you’ll spend your time either exploring the castle or solving environmental puzzles that aren’t afraid to boggle the mind with their obtuse solutions. That’s the simple way The Dark Descent forces you to progress: to survive, you need to delve deeper into the nightmare in search of tinderboxes to create new sources of light, and collect mementos and diary entries that slowly reveal who you are why your memories have gone walkies. And if you spend too long in darkness, you’ll start to lose your marbles that way, too. Oh, and if you look at what’s chasing you for too long, you start to lose your sanity, the screen warping as you slowly lose your grip on reality. There’s no means to fight back, and your only means of preservation is hiding and hoping that the ‘thing’ that keeps following you goes away, or simply turning tail and praying you escape with your life. You awaken with a bout of – you guessed it, the forgetsies – in a spooky old castle, where creatures made of flesh and shadow are relentlessly hunting you. Many of its most recognisable attributes have been reused countless times in the last decade – specifically that first-person view with a focus on running, hiding and uncontrollable sobbing – but as familiar as it might seem, it’s how Amnesia rarely over-complicates itself that really makes it a winner. It might have been made on a budget for an old generation of hardware, but time hasn’t dulled the potency of its scares.Ĭollecting together The Dark Descent, its Justine DLC and its sequel-of-sorts A Machine for Pigs, Amnesia: Collection is still one of the best examples of how to freak out a player with shadows, a perpetual sense of vulnerability and a growing air of dread. And with so many great (and a fair few not so great) horror games on Nintendo Switch, it’s fitting a game that was siloed away on PC for so long should join the ranks of portable fear. It’s the game that helped put the 'Let’s Play' format on the map, and while the series has long been showing its age – the original game is almost a decade old, and you can really tell – it’s still one of the most unsettling franchises you can play. Amnesia: The Dark Descent is one of those games part of a very select club that not only redefined the genre in video game form, but established a template that many would imitate (and most would fail to surpass). There are countless films, books and TV shows out there that claim to conjure blood-curdling chills, but very few of them really stay with you, like a splinter burrowing beneath the skin. Anyone can throw together enough blood, guts and gore to make a butcher green at the gills, but proper, unsettling terror is a rare thing indeed. One more chance to win.Horror isn’t easy. 225 Upvotes? If it takes to long I may lower that but so far yeah. so i'm sending a PM to a random comment number asking for their steam name.Įdit 4: Screw it. I dont get Karma and dont wanta sound anoying I just want as many people as posible to see this.Įdit 3: Seems like Trolls keep downvoteing this to make it under 125. I used a random number generator and picted the closest person that wants the game IF they made a careing comment.Īt 125 I'll spread more fear of monsters and hand out anouther copy.Įdit 2 Please upvote this. More people can win, everyone has a chance to win still. ~~ Edit 1: I pickted our winner for 50 points but I'm loveing you all. All I ask you do is One day give a gift to make someone's day.Īt 50 upvotes I'll pick someone nice from the comments and Pm you about winning. I'm wanting to give away Amnesia: The Dark Descent so Someone else can have fun for me. Mine is from a Connective tissue disorder and Bla bla. see here (en./wiki/Pneumothorax) for more info. As I write this out I'm sitting in a hospital bed with three tubes in my chest and I had sugery yesterday to fix a collapsed lung. ![]()
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