Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Frictional Games
https://store.steampowered.com/app/999220/Amnesia_Rebirth/
About the GameThis world is a Machine. A Machine for Pigs. Fit only for the slaughtering of Pigs.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
The year is 1899
Wealthy industrialist Oswald Mandus awakes in his bed, wracked with fever and haunted by dreams of a dark and hellish engine. Tortured by visions of a disastrous expedition to Mexico, broken on the failing dreams of an industrial utopia, wracked with guilt and tropical disease, he wakes into a nightmare. The house is silent, the ground beneath him shaking at the will of some infernal machine: all he knows is that his children are in grave peril, and it is up to him to save them.Unique Selling Points
- Fresh and new approach to the Amnesia world while staying true to its origins.
- The darkest, most horrific tale ever told in a videogame.
- Stunning soundtrack by award-winning composer Jessica Curry.
Game Discussion
Steam User 40
The whole game is very poetic and fascinating in its ideology, worthwhile playing it just for the sake of the satisfying elegance and eloquence of the notes and dialogues, suffering from a gameplay view sadly. It has one of the darkest stories in the gaming world, and the soundtrack and voice acting are on point. While The Dark Descent's gameplay and use of environment was better, this game counters those strong elements with ıts unique story and ambiance, sadly it can be easily viewed as just a walking sim. It deserved more, but I'm happy to have played it.
Steam User 17
Good macabre history that shows how much a guy can love is family at a point where he doesn't even recognize what is saint or not. Not the best horror game I've played, but still worth it and enjoyable. I give it a 7/10!
Steam User 9
A mixed bag of a game for sure, if you have played the first game, you will quickly realize this one isn't as well designed in its gameplay. But the music, art direction and story, truly were fantastic from the start, they weren't realized perfectly, but ultimately this is a game i would still recommend to anyone.
This is one of those games you have to make peace with, it could've been better, but we still got something unique to experience. Just finish it once and see what i'm talking about.
---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☑ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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Steam User 19
While I think game had better potential, I feel like this game is overhated. Machine for Pigs has far stronger writing and better soundtrack in my opinion than the original. I feel like hate originated from people expecting scarier game than before and it shows. It is not bad, it is just different approach to a horror, more story-driven and less gameplay-dependent. Maybe if gameplay was not that simple, it could be a greater success. Performance issues are still a issue, however managed to finish the game by clicking save and quit right in front of the loading zones where it was happening and then reloading until it worked.
Steam User 9
The best story in the series.
The game however has massive performance stability issues on modern hardware.
Steam User 6
This game simplifies the Amnesia game design to focus more on telling a story. Luckily for me a really enjoyed the story and if you want a game that explores the horrors of a perspective that values commodity production over the lives that labor to make those achievement possible, this is a interesting story to unravel.
Pros
-creative story
-short game
-runs fine
-ambiance
-can get this game cheap
cons
-Not scary enough for me
Steam User 8
Probably one of the most upsetting horror games I've ever played?
Off the bat, AMFP plays pretty bad, especially for an amnesia game. It's basically a walking simulator with very little player involvement.
The story however? Is gut-wrenching. Easily the best of the Amnesia series. In broad strokes it's about originalist Marxism, but more specifically about the concept of revolution, and the rapture-like implications it's sometimes given. The writing's flowery and hard to follow but sickening, and the world-building is equal parts dark mysticism and endless 19th century machinery. The story definitely requires lots of reading and environmental awareness to understand fully, but it's worth the effort.
The game's pretty short, only about 4-6 hours front to back. Very good for an unpleasant afternoon or two.