The monsters aren’t scary because they jump out in front of you, but more due to the atmosphere.Īs a decade old game, Amnesia is considered by some to be a classic of the survival horror genre.
When monsters appear your only defense is to run away and hide. This also seems like a good time to note that you have no weapons in Amnesia. Health can be restored by consuming an in-game item, laudanum. You also find tinderboxes throughout the castle, which can be consumed to light various candelabras, or torches, throughout the castle in order to provide an additional place to restore sanity. Sanity can be restored by staying in well lit areas and not seeing scary thing for a time. When you see unnatural events, otherworldly creatures, or are stuck in a dark place your Sanity drops – leading to auditory and visual hallucinations, loss of mobility, and potentially death on the Hard difficulty setting.
These are only visible from the inventory screen, and you are only given a rough indication of how sane and healthy you are.
In Amnesia: The Dark Descent, hereafter Amnesia for short, you have two basic stats: sanity and health. Not how you want to wake up in the morning.Īs you follow along the trail, text overlays give you basic information about the game mechanics.
