Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

Doesn't have the mechanical freedom of the original, but it kept my ADHD ass engaged and excited until it was complete; it's a solid choice for a basic, linear horror game

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Neither a good game nor a horror game at all. Boring walking simulator gameplaywise and too long for what it is. 10/20. The setup and story are not bad, but the game has a tendency to use too many words to express everything, from the enormous amount of letters and notes to the dialogues, every sentence is so obtuse and tedious to read. The gameplay lacks a lot of interactivity elements compared to the first game, the puzzles are not clever or interesting, nor meaningful but since you have just a few interactable elements in the game you usually pass through the puzzles etc.. without even noticing just click on every interactable object and that's it. Conclusion it's not bad, but not good at all.

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Although quite short, A Machine for Pigs is a brilliant and beautiful game, insanely overshadowed and underrated over its predecessor. Sure, its not the usual Amnesia experience, but its such a genius and original concept that you should, atleast try once. They will make pigs out of us.

Really surprised by how much I liked this. The gameplay is certainly less important to this game than in The Dark Descent, but I found the story of this one almost more interesting. It's also very short, which is a good thing to me but maybe bad to others. The pigs scared me quite a bit as well, and there's some great and subtle psychological horror tricks the game uses at various points that honestly had me questioning if I was imagining it. I would recommend this if you like horror games and want a game with more of a focus on the story and less on gameplay. Only flaw was some cheap-ish jumpscares but they weren't too common. Very underrated game in my opinion.

The general themes were cool, the environments were great, alot of the ideas around evil and the human condition were interesting but it's a slog to play through. A Walking simulator with half the game having no real threat, and when one is introduced it's not very threatening. Multiple crashes, and judging from other reviews, im not alone in that. The game is capped at 60 but has frequent performance issues dipping below that, despite it's little graphical requirements and its age. Not unplayable but by no measures is this a smooth experience. I don't care at all for the children that my character cares about so deeply. The game never really attempts to get me to know them or understand what they were like, just two generic stand in's completely indistinguishable from one another to be killed in a plot twist you can see from a mile away. The constant repetitous voice lines of them saying "Daddy this way!" are not creepy or endearing or.... anything really? just boring and gets so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tiring in the final act of the game. Best part and element was the partnership between the two who built the machine, the metaphors and lingering utter hatred at the world being confronted in such a twisted and disgusting way. Rarely art is made with no happy ending and rarely art is made like a machine for pigs. it is an original story and one i am glad i played through although dissapointed in execution. 4/10.

long story without point, constantly running without end