Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a first person horror game with focus on immersion. It is a game where atmosphere and story comes first.

Daniel awakens in a desolate Prussian castle without any memories to explain his situation. A letter written by himself reveals that the amnesia is actually self-inflicted. The mysterious message urges him to seek out and kill Alexander, a man residing deep below the castle. Hunted by a dark shadow, Daniel can see no other way out. If he is to save his life and mind, he needs to find out what it is all really about. It is his only hope for salvation. A dark descent awaits.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is brought to you by the same developers behind the critically acclaimed Penumbra series. With this new title, Frictional Games aim to take horror gaming to a new level. The game enables real-world physics, making interaction truly intuitive, and allows you to step inside the world of Amnesia. Pick up and manipulate almost any object, study them, and find a way to use them to your advantage. Feel the excitement of being an ordinary person trapped inside a fantastic and dangerous setting.

Forget about fighting back. To survive you need to use your wits. Sneak, hide, and if all else fails – run!

Forget about cutscenes and other breathers. Everything that happens, happens to you first hand. Become Daniel and uncover your past in a maze of forgotten memories.

Enter an interactive nightmare where reality is a fragile concept.

Do you have what it takes to survive?
  • True Survival Horror - Horror is not a feature – it is the very essence of Amnesia.
  • Unique Physics-driven Interaction - Based on real-world physics, this innovative system allows for a natural approach to interaction. Slowly open a door or throw it open. Closely examine an item or throw it across the room. Stack things together to climb and reach that upper level.
  • Storytelling- Inspired by true events of human evil, the game tells a terrifying tale of the darkness within us all. A thought provoking journey into the human psyche, forcing the question: what would you have done?
  • Optimized for your Computer - The game engine has been designed to accommodate both old and new computers. Are your computer a few years older than it should be? No problem, Amnesia will run and look incredible even on low performance systems. Newer computers can take advantage of special high-end features, such as SSAO and parallax mapping, making the game look even better.
  • High Production Indie - Taking several years of hard work to complete, the game features a cutting edge engine, high quality art, sound, studio recorded dialogue, and more.
Notice: This Game Requires a Macintosh Computer

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  1. FIRST PERSON HORROR!
    by acto, USA - Apr 27th 2013

    This game relly cant get any more scary then it already is. the game features alot of dark and spooky places that make alot of wierde sounds. for example i was going up the stairs looking for a way out when suddenly i herde a female voice. she sount like she was being
    atacked by somthing becoause she kept screming and kept saying "AHHHHHH…. GET AWAY FROM ME!" so i simply went down to were i herde the voice and it was called the wine celler. but the door said that it wouldnt buge so i went to the lab to try and find a key. but i still havent found it yet going to continue the dark decent today!

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  2. Well worth it
    by G. D. Hodge, USA - Oct 6th 2012

    This game is much better than most point-and-click adventures. Spooky, scary, but the movement is a bit nausiating if you get motion sickness.

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  3. Excellent
    by NoriMori, Canada - Jul 9th 2012

    At first, I wasn't convinced that this game was actually going to be scary. I started playing, and all that happened at first was that there were some weird noises and the walls seemed to pulsate when I was on low sanity. I thought, "Creepy, sure. But scary? No." I kept playing. Even after seeing my first monster, I was only creeped out, not actually scared.

    But then I got to the Archives, where there's very little light, and the invisible Kaernk chases after you. The last bit, where you have to outrun it by closing every door behind you, had me panicking and whimpering with fear.

    Then, I got to the Guest Room, where a Servant Grunt appeared. I was horrified by its appearance, but I didn't think it would attack me! I freaked out when it started coming towards me. I hadn't read the manual and didn't know anything about hiding, so even though I went into the closet like the game told me, it kept killing me, until about the third time when the game got rid of it for me (I guess to make it easier).

    Now I'm in the Storage Room, where I've had two or three Grunts chase me so far. The first time, I was playing with a friend watching. I heard the music that means a Grunt has spawned somewhere, but the Storage Room is oppressively dark, so I couldn't even see two feet in front of my face to find a door. I turned around AND THERE WAS THE GRUNT. I literally screamed out loud. And then it killed me.

    Last time I played, I ran through several hallways and crouched down in a dark room to escape a Grunt. That's where I quit the game out of sheer terror. And now I'm scared to keep playing. Since then I've discovered from an Amnesia wiki that there's another kind of monster, called a Brute, which I haven't encountered yet, and which is FASTER THAN DANIEL AND CAN KILL IN ONE HIT. And that I'm close to getting to an even scarier part of the game.

    I'm absolutely terrified to continue playing. I'm scared to get up out of the room Daniel's holed up in, in case the Grunt hasn't left. In case another one shows up. I'm scared to go through the Back Hall, where the Shadow will have left its mark now that I have all the rods. I'm scared to go back to the dark Machine Room and fix the elevator. I'm scared to take the elevator to the next part of the game, where more horrors will await me. I'm so freaking scared.

    Eventually I'll muster up the courage to continue. But for now I can only congratulate Frictional Games on a job well done. People were always telling me how scary this game is, so I decided I had to get it. When I first started playing, I didn't see what all the fuss was about. Now I do and I'm one of the people making a fuss. At first, I thought I'd made a mistake in buying it. Not anymore!

    The game recommends that you play Amnesia in a dark room, but for the sake of my own sanity I'm unable to do this unless I have a friend with me.

    I'm sure I'll have loads more to say once I've finished the game. And I can't wait for Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs!

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