Amnesia: The Bunker is a first-person horror game from the makers of SOMA and Amnesia.
Left all alone in a desolate WW1 bunker with only one bullet remaining in the barrel, it’s up to you to face the oppressing terrors in the dark. Keep the lights on at all costs, persevere, and make your way out...
Amnesia: The Bunker is a first-person horror game from the makers of SOMA and Amnesia.
Left all alone in a desolate WW1 bunker with only one bullet remaining in the barrel, it’s up to you to face the oppressing terrors in the dark. Keep the lights on at all costs, persevere, and make your way out alive. A truly intense horror experience.
RISING TENSION
Immerse yourself in the multiple ways of tackling survival. In the shoes of the French soldier Henri Clément, you are armed with a revolver gun, a noisy dynamo flashlight, and other scarce supplies to scavenge and craft along the way. With randomization and unpredictable behavior, no play-through is the same.
Hunted by an ever-present threat reacting to your every move and sound, you must adapt your play-style to face hell. Every decision will change the outcome of how the game responds. Actions bear consequences.
ESCAPING THE NIGHTMARE
Solve things your own way in a semi-open world. You must explore and experiment to make your way out. Figure out what’s going on down here - what has happened to the other soldiers? Where have all the officers gone? What diabolical nightmare lurks underneath this hellscape? Unravel the mysteries of the Bunker and get to know the nooks and crannies of this cruel sandbox to up your odds of survival.
FEATURES
Dynamic and ever-present monster that reacts to player actions.
Constant tension - Time is not on your side.
Tactile and physics based interactions with the world.
Scavenge for resources and craft tools to aid your survival.
Multiple solutions to problem solving in a non-linear open world.
Got it on Steam and I loved it. Short but really intense. The narration is at your pace and don't have to suffer long expostion. And for once in a video game you play a French soldier.
I was glad to see this return to more of a middle level between Penumbra-style self-defense and fear at the same time. The constant monster mechanic along with having to hurry before the lights go out was a great gameplay mechanic that cannot be missed. Thank you thank you thank you! There is also more than one way to play the game, giving a few different options and tools at your disposal to try to solve door traps, rats, and to find needed equipment. That was another welcome return away from the linear stories of the past Amnesia games. Last but not least, the only thing I have to take 1 star away from the team for is the fact that there are no real puzzles. I miss the difficulty of some puzzle areas like Penumbra had and a few in the original Amnesia. But you guys are on the right path. I loved the game!
Amnesia: The Bunker has some of the best horror and level design ever done in this genre, it's worth checking out by any horror fan.
The game also has lots of configuration/accessibility options and plenty of replayability due to traps and items being in different places each time you start a new game.
However, there are a few rough edges that prevent this game to reach the masterpiece level:
- The story is very superficial, which limits the player immersion.
- Player actions don't feel very responsive, as in animations not starting right the hell now and not being able to cancel what you're doing quickly. It's a horror game and the character should be able to drop what they were doing to react to whatever is happening in an instant.
- Guns have too much sway. I had to restart multiple times because I was missing shots on locks at a few meters away. Aiming while standing still for a while should be precise, there's nothing fun about missing shots because of randomness mechanics.
- Storage box has a limited space, yet you can pile items on the ground around it as much as you want. To me this makes not sense, the storage should be endless and sortable, similar to how the newer Resident Evil games work.
- I personally found the game's contrast to be quite low, which makes the game look blurry on my 1080p monitor. Contrast and brightness sliders would have been great additions to the options menu, again similar to how the newer Resident Evil games work.
A lot of these issues could be addressed in a patch. I hope the devs will consider fixing some of these issues in an anniversary patch of sorts, that would be really great.
Amnesia the bunker is very good horror with a lot of unpredictability, first playthrough took me 5 hour. Only negatives i can think off is that ending end way too quick and no achivments.