A tight, well designed horror game that is both a welcome, fresh spin on the Amnesia franchise and an evolution into a much more complete game and puzzle experience.

The cramped, familiar quarters serve as the equivalent of a "bottle episode," with you and the inevitable monster playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse. More surprising, however, is how the natural and logical the gameplay is -- you blow doors open with grenades, break locks with bricks, or read logs to solve puzzles the way you might in reality and not in some contrived design. This was a somewhat jarring change to acclimate to as it's not well introduced, but once you embrace it, it becomes probably the best experience in the series.

I hope this is a sign of things to come for Amnesia and horror games as a whole!

Reviewed on Jan 11, 2024


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