Who has played Amnesia?


Recommended Posts

Recently I got the game to give it a chance. No mistake, it's great! The production and the sound effects are beyond marvelous, however ITS TOO DAMN TENSE!

I cant play it over half an hours per try without getting overly anxious.

Anyone even finished the game?

Link to comment
https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1072975-who-has-played-amnesia/
Share on other sites

I wish FPS games had this feature: "...Few in-game objects are operated by toggle; to open a door, for instance, the player must hold down a mouse button and then push (or pull) the mouse, and thus the door, open. This gives the player stealth, allowing them to peek out a barely-opened door or open it slowly to sneak away, but also adds to the player's sense of helplessness, as it is now entirely possible to attempt to push open a "pull" door whilst danger approaches from behind."

This game scared the **** out of me. It took all I could muster to get into the dungeon down the elevator. The neutral room before that was somewhat of a place of calm for me. I'd always be able to go there and collect my thoughts in a atmospherically peaceful, if somewhat creepy room.

Once I went down that elevator though, I just quit. Before that it was enough. Going even deeper is too much.

I still love watching some of the play through videos on Youtube. People screaming like little girls, going insane on Ventrilo/Mumble servers while playing. It's just fun watching and hearing that.

Then I played it and it scared me. I hate the game. (Game is awesome though) I got it for free on OnLive in some promotion, real glad I got it.

I've got it installed and I've played a few hours. I need to keep stopping though since it scares the heck out of me. I seem to remember stopping when I was down in a cellar that had water everywhere. The moment you touch the water some invisible creatures starts moving towards you, and all you can see are the splashes from his footsteps...*shudders*

Definitely a great game, but it's really intense.

For Penumbra, I haven't played enough to comment on whether it is scarier. The thing that put me off was the seemingly impossible puzzles. There were just too many things at the beginning that didn't make sense, so I ended up putting it down again and not picking it back up.

Really like the game. I'm not one to get tense or scared in games/movies etc so it never really bothered me. I just enjoy it for what is.

I am a big fan of the Penumbra series also. If you haven't played them, i seriously would considering picking them up. You can get the "trilogy" for peanuts now.

I wish FPS games had this feature: "...Few in-game objects are operated by toggle; to open a door, for instance, the player must hold down a mouse button and then push (or pull) the mouse, and thus the door, open. This gives the player stealth, allowing them to peek out a barely-opened door or open it slowly to sneak away, but also adds to the player's sense of helplessness, as it is now entirely possible to attempt to push open a "pull" door whilst danger approaches from behind."

I remember a game in which you could open doors with a mouse wheel. But I can't remember the name :pinch:

I played it a bit, got lost and stopped playing. I was just running around in circles and running out of light making my dude get scared.

After playing the F.E.A.R series and growing up with Silent Hill, and Resident Evil (2,3 Nemesis) I don't get too scared from games anymore.

I've got it installed and I've played a few hours. I need to keep stopping though since it scares the heck out of me. I seem to remember stopping when I was down in a cellar that had water everywhere. The moment you touch the water some invisible creatures starts moving towards you, and all you can see are the splashes from his footsteps...*shudders* Definitely a great game, but it's really intense. For Penumbra, I haven't played enough to comment on whether it is scarier. The thing that put me off was the seemingly impossible puzzles. There were just too many things at the beginning that didn't make sense, so I ended up putting it down again and not picking it back up.

ya...thats where i played till...the difficulty decreases every time i die i think...i died so many times that in the end they removed the creature in the water :)

I remember a game in which you could open doors with a mouse wheel. But I can't remember the name :pinch:

I want to say "Thief" but I'm not sure.

EDIT: Oh yeah, the later Rainbox 6 games had it as well. I remember opening the door a fraction, tossing in a flashbang and closing it again before storming the room. *Sigh* good times...

I remember a game in which you could open doors with a mouse wheel. But I can't remember the name :pinch:

There were a few. I think the Rainbow Six series was one of the first to do it.

As for Amnesia, like you I'm slowly making my way through it. i didn't find it scary at all. Until I hit the flooded cellar level. Stuck there now because I forgot a key in the other room and don't want to run back for it, haha.

Amnesia is intense, but so slow. I found the Penumbra series to be much more my style. There are more enemies to have to scout around and get passed, all the while, you can't really ever look at them. Amnesia is great, but if you want some real scare, go for their first series, Penumbra.

hey Sanctified, play it! it's a unique experience, and really good. not that scary, really, just tense cause you can't fight and i hate being chased around heh heh. i agree with Lingwo once more, this is a game you need to check out, you will enjoy it, and the story is really good with how it incorporates real historical figures.

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
  • Posts

    • AltSendme 0.4.1 by Razvan Serea AltSendme is a minimal, cross-platform application designed for fast, secure, and private peer-to-peer file transfers. It allows users to send files or entire directories directly between devices without relying on cloud servers, accounts, or any personal information. Everything is encrypted end-to-end using modern protocols like QUIC and TLS 1.3, ensuring both strong security and low-latency performance. Transfers are verified with BLAKE3 for data integrity, and interrupted downloads automatically resume, making the experience reliable even on unstable connections. You can transfer anything—images, videos, documents, and more. Integrity checks are performed on both ends, so your files are automatically verified for correctness during both sending and receiving. AltSendme works seamlessly across local networks or long-distance links, capable of saturating multi-gigabit connections for extremely fast delivery. With built-in NAT traversal and encrypted relay fallback, it connects devices almost anywhere. The app integrates with the Sendme CLI and will soon support mobile and web platforms. Fully free and open-source, AltSendme offers a lightweight, privacy-first alternative to traditional cloud-based services, removing size limits, upload costs, and unnecessary data exposure. AltSendme 0.4.1 changelog: Release Highlights Self-hosted relays: Run your own iroh relay so transfers don't rely on public infrastructure. Includes a full deployment template in deploy/relay/ with Docker Compose for a VPS and configuration examples for production use. Fly.io support: One-click deploy template for Fly.io, including a quick-start config (fly.dev.toml) for testing without a custom domain, plus production setup with Let's Encrypt and your own hostname. Relay settings UI: New Settings → Network panel to choose how AltSendme connects: automatic public relays, custom self-hosted URLs (with optional auth token), or disabled. Test connections, verify latency, and see live relay status in the footer. Disable relays: Turn off relay servers entirely when you only need same-network transfers (e.g. LAN). Direct connections only. No relay hop required when devices can reach each other. Android graduates from beta: Android is now part of the regular release cycle alongside desktop. APKs ship with each version (universal, arm64, and armv7). Other improvements Private relay access control via shared auth token Relay fallback notifications when a custom relay is unreachable Broadcast mode toggle in sharing settings Android release build fixes (split-per-ABI APKs, universal APK preservation) UI polish: mobile safe-area insets, dropzone layout, transfer progress animation Bug fixes for minification-related serialization issues and system tray icon loading What's Changed feat(relay): add relay status functionality and settings UI (a120cdf) feat(relay): implement custom relay server configuration and verification (51276c7) feat(relay): add configuration for private relay access and enhance observability features (48fbabf) feat(relay): enhance relay URL validation, display connection status (d4fffa0) feat(relay): add RelayChangeGuard component and enhance relay-related translations (16ba514) feat(broadcast): add toggle setting for broadcast mode in sharing UI (ca6d977) fix(relay): correct QUIC discovery port, pin image, templatize fly.dev (52a2ba5) fix: More broken serialization due to minification (67491a9) fix(android): preserve true universal APK across per-ABI builds (e9f256f) fix(ui): conditional safe-area insets padding on mobile (1182f0e) refactor(transfer): CircularRing component animation fix (944572b) chore(android): drop x86 and x86_64 release APKs, keep universal+arm64+armv7 (34ada0b) Download: AltSendme 0.4.1 | ARM64 | ~9.0 MB (Open Source) Download: AltSendme for MacOS | Android Links: AltSendme Home Page | GitHub | Screenshot Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware
    • You are mostly right about the ephemeral nature of it. As I mention in the article, if you dont add a second device or take a backup of your account before uninstalling it, then yes you will lose access to your account. That said, in terms of actual user experience when you sync multiple devices your message history carries across and there's also a Saved Messages chat like there is on Telegram to send messages and attachments between your installs. But yh, what you point out are correct and its not trying to emulate Messenger or Telegram.
    • OK so SearXNG is a meta search engine that you can install locally or use via a public instance. It scrapes other search engines which you choose and then sorts the results. Not as complicated as multiple relays
    • The only difference here is that you think you came up with these reasons. You didn't. These age old fearmongering lies (that were NEVER true) were funded by and the anger stoked by Putin through proxies like Farage (and later in the USA, Trump) and filtered down through the skinheads, Neonazis, etc. until it reached the uninformed, ignorant, and gullible -- never realizing they were being played for fools against their own best interests. Even now, despite all of the EVIDENCE proving that Brexit was a terrible mistake for ALL citizens of the UK and that its supporters were tricked by Putin's proxies into sabotaging their own nation, you're still here defending these well-known lies as if they were ever true. Not only are they not true. They NEVER were. So, when are you going to realize that you were lied to and actually get angry at the liars and charlatans who lied to you, instead of blaming the innocent people they lied to you about?
    • Dupe of "Microsoft further improving Windows 11 Taskbar with latest builds", published <20 minutes apart
  • Recent Achievements

    • Week One Done
      flexorcist earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • One Month Later
      Woland13 earned a badge
      One Month Later
    • Week One Done
      Woland13 earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • One Year In
      bernmeister earned a badge
      One Year In
    • Week One Done
      Scoobystu earned a badge
      Week One Done
  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      495
    2. 2
      +Edouard
      224
    3. 3
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      150
    4. 4
      Steven P.
      75
    5. 5
      FloatingFatMan
      71
  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!