The game offers no respite.Īmnesia is also prominently known for launching the careers of several prominent YouTubers, such as Pewdiepie and Markeplier. This creates a wonderful blend of fear where no matter what you are doing in the game, you are constantly in danger. It forces you to weigh your options of whether to go insane or run out of light at inopportune moments.
Though you must be conservative, as there are only a finite amount of these in the game. The castle has tinderboxes to light candles and oil scattered around so you can fill your lamp. While you can’t fight against the monsters, you do have weapons to fight against the darkness. If you let the sanity bar deplete completely, your character becomes easier to hunt down, often due to falling to the ground and having to crawl. The lower it drops, the more your reality begins to distort. The issue is that the more time you spend in darkness or looking at disturbing events, the worse your sanity gets. Exploring deeper into the castle means the player character is often surrounded in darkness. It is not enough that you must deal with the ‘Gatherers’, but even the darkness is out to get you. This makes every encounter with the ‘Gatherers’ tense, as you are completely helpless.
When you stumble upon these deformed creatures, your options are to run or get gutted. It isn’t the first game to play this way, but it did do a great deal to popularize it. The castle is bursting at the seams with monsters, yet the player has no way to fight back. Amnesia’s greatest strength is making the player feel truly helpless. Unsurprisingly, he has no memory of how he ended up there, but must now escape from the terrors within. Amnesia: The Dark Descent (2010) starts with your character waking up in a castle. Let’s start with a game that just managed to sneak into this decade. To celebrate the star of a new decade of gaming, let us look back and celebrate the most brilliant, influential, and downright spooky games that came out of the past 10 years. With the rise of streaming, gaming, and “Let’s play” (videos of people playing through games) on YouTube, the genre has surged in popularity. It has been a strong decade for horror games. As we enter a new decade of horror gaming and await the next great spine-chilling adventure, we look back on the past ten year’s most terrifying titles.
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