Amnesia: The Dark Descent is an adventure developed by Frictional Games, released 8 September 2010 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux. The main story takes about 9.5 hrs to finish.
What Amnesia: The Dark Descent is
Amnesia: The Dark Descent is an adventure game developed by Frictional Games and released in 2010. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on HPL Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game, set in 1839, casts the player in the role of Daniel, a young man from London, who awakens in the dark halls of Prussian Brennenburg Castle with little to no memory about himself or his past. All he can remember is his name, that he lives in Mayfair and that something is hunting him. Shortly after waking, Daniel finds a note written by himself that explains how he purposely made himself forget his past, because he couldn't handle losing his innocence, so he wanted to forget it all. The note urges Daniel to descend into the castle's Inner Sanctum and murder a man named Alexander , the baron of the castle. The note gives a final warning that a "living nightmare" is chasing him, and…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 18 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Amnesia: The Dark Descent holds a critic score of 89 out of 100. That places it above 91% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 19 points above the year average. Players rate it 83, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 9.5 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.0Ghz - Low budget CPUs such as Celeron or Duron needs to be at about twice the CPU speed, 2 GB of RAM and Radeon X1000/GF 6 - Integrated graphics and very low budget cards might not work.. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB.
What it launched against
Amnesia: The Dark Descent launched on 8 September 2010, within three weeks of Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Pokémon Black Version and Mafia II. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Pokémon Black Version, Mafia II.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Amnesia: The Dark Descent yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Characters
All 8
Dlc
Expansions
Quick answers
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