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3 months ago
Feature: "What's scary isn't the monsters or location, it's that you're stranded"
The year is 1937, and you've just woken up in a crashed plane in the middle of a desert. You're not some sort of Indiana Jones-esque film though, I'm afraid, you're in a horror game - Amnesia: Rebirth, to be exact. It's the new survival horror from Frictional Games, the team behind Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Soma, and it's out today.How can the horror…
4 months ago
In the run-up to the release of Amnesia: Rebirth, Frictional Games are continuing to show love to their first Amnesia game for its tenth anniversary. Paying tribute to the modding community that's played no small part in Amnesia's longevity, Frictional have now released the source code for Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs freely online.
5 months ago
In an alternate universe, Amnesia: The Dark Descent included Jesus and trampolines
In all of horror, the true terror often lies in threats of things that might have been more than what really is. A jump scare that's just a gust of wind or a monster that's actually a hallucination, you know the kind. Here's a truly frightening prospect then: a version of Amnesia: The Dark Descent with some very different details. Frictional Games celebrated the game's…
11 months ago
Amnesia: Rebirth will continue Frictional’s fine horror series in autumn
After a stretch of teasing and ARG puzzling, Soma developers Frictional Games today announced their next game, Amnesia: Rebirth. This autumn they'll return to the first-person horror series that made their name with a new protagonist, a new setting, and new awfulness. Have a peek in the announcement trailer below.
Here’s the first actual teaser video for Frictional’s next horror game
If you've not heard, those folks who done underwater horror game Soma and haunted house horror game Amnesia: The Dark Descent are working on another thing that is almost certainly a horror game. And look, it's a scary desert game this time around. Probably. We don't know for sure yet because so far they've led players on an ARG—that's alternate reality game—looking for clues about…
1 year ago
The developers of SOMA and Amnesia: The Dark Descent are up to something new
The folks over at Frictional Games seem to have something new in the works. The studio has largely been quiet since releasing SOMA back in 2015 aside from adding a monster-free Safe Mode to the spooky underwater game. Frictional overhauled their old website just before taking a holiday break and in the update have added a new entry to the "games" tab simply called "Next…
Feature: Thanks for the memories
Nine years on, Amnesia: The Dark Descent is still scary as all hell
I return to Amnesia: The Dark Descent with one question alone: will it still scare me?Amnesia scared the bejesus out of me in 2010 when it first came out. But we all know how games age, and the magic can wear off. At the time the graphics and physics on offer were really astonishing work for a tiny indie team, but what about almost a…
2 years ago
Feature: Just get out
Nobody has to die, Justine told me. There's a way to save them all. Reader, I did not save them all.
With the season of spooky celebrations kicking off, Amnesia: The Dark Descent has added a Hard Mode for people who wish to suffer terrible cruelty as they explore the horrible ghost house of meat monsters. The new mode, added to 2010's first-person spooker in a patch today, makes the meatmen more murderous and starves us of comforting light so we lose our mind (and then…
I was jolly pleased when Frictional Games patched a 'Safe Mode' into Soma, letting fraidypants like me freely explore the undersea horror. Conversely, I said "Ha ha ha NOPE" aloud after Frictional announced today that they will next add a new difficulty level to Amnesia: The Dark Descent - a 'Hard Mode' to freak your nut out and murder you hard. No thank you! But…
3 years ago
Feature: Scream if you wanna go faster
Four developers of scary games explain how to make scary games very scary indeed
The inspiration for Alien: Isolation came from a simple thought experiment: what if somebody let a lion loose in developer Creative Assembly’s office? “I’d get behind my desk and make sure it wouldn’t see me,” says the game’s creative director Alistair Hope. “Then, you’d need to get to the fire escape. Maybe I’d move desk to desk and distract it. If you are confronted by…
If you have not bought the Amnesia first-person spookers intentionally, inadvertently acquired them in an old bundle you don't really remember buying, nor grabbed them when they were free in January good news: both Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs are free for keepsies right now on Steam. What's changed since the last giveaway? I still have not finished either of…
Hey, come here a second. I want you to stare at this dank room full of eerie machinery. Really give it a good stare. Drink in the atmosphere, maybe play with some of the meatblobs, think about how small we are in the universe, andBOO!Liked that, did you? If you quite like a spot of spooking with cosmic horror and science gone meatwild, you might…
Feature: Is #1 A Jump Scare?
To compile a list of the 25 best horror games on PC is to look into the void for so long that the void not only starts to look back, but shakes you by the hand and takes you out for coffee. It is to fight with monsters until you become a monster and then go on a European railtrip with the other monsters, and…
4 years ago
Feature: Never forget
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives and PC miscellany. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.I have a limited patience for scary games. I enjoy a surprise jump-scare here and there, but I struggle to enjoy an incessant barrage of them making every step an anxiety-inducing moment. And yet, wow, I love Amnesia.
Feature: Fear is contagious
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time.Before they struck (presumably cursed) gold with Amnesia: The Dark Descent , Frictional Games released a trilogy of shorter first-person horror games under the title Penumbra [official site]. The first of these, Overture, was a bit wonky, and the third, Requiem, completely lost the…
5 years ago
Feature: Abandon all hope
These are my personal Edwin Droods. Stories that I've failed to finish, for one reason or another, and that are left suspended. In the manner of somebody reversing out of a relationship like a heavy goods vehicle, trundling slowly and beeping nonchalantly, I'd like to say to the games included: “It's not you, it's me.”
While Frictional are exploring the depths of consciousness in their latest creep-fest Soma, other developers are continuing the story they began in Penumbra [official site] all those years ago. A team going by the name CounterCurrent Games released an unofficial total conversion going by the name Necrologue last Halloween and this year they finished the story with the fantastically-named Twilight of the Archaic [official site].…
Feature: Cartesian BOO-ality
Five years ago, Frictional released Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a horror game that made us afraid of the water. That was five years ago. Now, with SOMA [official site], the studio have switched from gothic castles to science fiction and they're taking us right to the bottom of the ocean. I've faced my fears and here's wot I think.
Next week, Frictional's Soma [official site] will finally be available. Amnesia: The Dark Descent is five years old and surely everyone is ready for another round of the first-person frighteners? I've already played a fairly large chunk of the game and will have a review ready for you before launch, so you can trust me when I say that the "story trailer" below has been…
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