Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Game
Game2010
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Developer Frictional Games
Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a 2010 survival horror adventure game developed and published by the Swedish game development studio Frictional Games. It was first released on 8 September 2010 for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Later, it was released to PlayStation 4 on 22 November 2016, Xbox One on 28 September 2018, and Nintendo Switch on 12 September 2019 as part of The Amnesia Collection. The game follows… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
472 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
93
LovedLoved
279 positive · 21 negative
95% range 90–95%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 279 | 21 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 31 | 5 | 130 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Overwhelmingly Positive
20,080 of 21,123 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
93% recommend · 228 yes, 16 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 244 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (33,875 of 35,811 positive).
Players widely praise the game's atmosphere and horror, calling it a timeless classic. [1][2][3] Some note the graphics are dated but say gameplay and immersion compensate. [4][5][6] A few reviewers find the game boring or frustrating, preferring other horror titles. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [7]
Beating this game was a torture indeed. Boring AF. Just a bunch a nonsense "puzzles".
- [1]
15 years later and this game still manages to be one of the best horror games to ever be released. Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a fantastic survival horror game where you must use your immersion, discovery, and solve puzzles in order to progress further into the game. The art direction is perfect, with some of the areas being just wallpaper worthy as well. The story is also great too and the voice acting is well …
- [2]
This game is the kind of horror game that makes you afraid to open the next door. There are no guns, no fighting back, and honestly, that's what makes it so scary. When something starts chasing you, all you can do is run, hide, and hope it doesn't find you. The atmosphere is amazing. The dark hallways, creepy sounds, and music work together perfectly to keep you on edge. Even when nothing is happening, the game …
- [5]
When it comes to horror games, Amnesia: The Dark Descent is still one of the best of all time. Sure, the graphics look dated, but trust me: when you’re hiding in a closet while a monster growls nearby, the last thing you care about is texture resolution. What really matters here is the atmosphere: the feeling of vulnerability, the darkness swallowing you whole, and that brilliant mechanic where staring too long at …
- [3]
Greatest horror game to date. Creepy crawlies. Dark corridors. Enticing notes with brilliantly written lore detailing the game and its backstory, helping the player piece together the story with little effort. The puzzles are fun, and some of them, frustrating. The monsters are scary, and after a while, annoying. But the game is timeless. Its lore brilliant. Its characters well written and fitting. The story is …
Summarised from 34 of the 339 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 9, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
93% of the 244 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Amnesia: The Dark Descent. The complaint that keeps coming up: graphics are dated. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Amnesia: The Dark Descent received "generally favorable" reviews according to review aggregator website Metacritic. Josh Tolentino of Destructoid, Adam Biessener of Game Informer, and Bev Chen of PALGN saw Amnesia as a return to true survival horror, contrasting it with action-heavy titles like Resident Evil or Dead Space. Its focus on powerlessness and psychological horror was seen as a bold, influential move, with Ashton Raze of The Telegraph calling it a "masterwork of horror" and Al Bickham of PC Gamer noting its superiority to modern blockbusters. Critics unanimously lauded Amnesia for its oppressive, terrifying atmosphere. The game's use of darkness, sound design, and minimalistic…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 472 · most liked firstThis game is not Amnesia. This game is something much much better.
positive · AI labelView post →White Knuckle is the most interesting, genuinely fresh first person game I've played in I don't know how long, and also one of the most terrifying things I've ever played. Getting Over It meets The Descent meets Amnesia meets Half-Life 1.
neutral · AI labelView post →Frictional Games (SOMA, Amnesia) next game teaser www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmHn... www.hotelsamsara.com
neutral · AI labelView post →Our new horror game: Amnesia meets King's Field 4, set in a 16th-century alchemist's tower... #TrailerTuesday
neutral · AI labelView post →Just wrapped an intense 2 weeks of composing and producing music for a Double Fine game prototype - Bard Crawl! Bard Crawl is 1 of 4 game prototypes that were made in just 2 weeks as part of a company-wide game jam / fundraiser they call "Amnesia Fortnight."
neutral · AI labelView post →I just backed Amnesia Fortnight 2026, Indie Reboot on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/dou...
neutral · AI labelView post →If you want to vote on which games we make in our Amnesia Fortnight game jam, you need to back our reasonably-priced Kickstarter! Side benefit, if you do, we will be friends forever! :D www.kickstarter.com/projects/dou...
neutral · AI labelView post →Hello, we're contacting you about your indie games industry's extended warranty. Have you considered helping support a freshly (re)independent studio by backing AMNESIA FORTNIGHT: INDIE REBOOT today? 😁 www.kickstarter.com/projects/dou...
neutral · AI labelView post →#SteamNextFest has begun!! If you feel like trying a weird horror game that takes inspiration from Amnesia and King's Field 4, check out Caput Mortum! 👇
neutral · AI labelView post →#vss365 #satsplat #vsshorror In the forest of beautiful bloom Sits an animal hard to see Maker of gloom Aura black as a starless night Its scent a putrid Deathly blight Beware of its #lure Amnesia its game For one whiff of its stench And you'll forget your name
neutral · AI labelView post →Our King's Field and Amnesia-inspired horror game, Caput Mortum, is now also available on Itchio! 🥳 It's 25% off for the first week! 🫴 wildarts-games.itch.io/caput-mortum
neutral · AI labelView post →Frictional Games (SOMA, Amnesia) have shared a teaser of their next game ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmHn...
neutral · AI labelView post →17. Amnesia: The Bunker Frictional's best game since Soma, adding combat and immersive sim elements to the Amnesia formulae. Giving the player the means to defend themselves and scare off the monster for a time actually raises the tension dramatically. store.steampowered.com/app/1944430/...
positive · AI labelView post →Okay it’s time for probably the scariest game we’ve played all month (so far) Amnesia The Bunker! Come watch me be very brave 🥺 (also we have heart rate monitor) twitch.tv/rose_waltz
neutral · AI labelView post →Lfgggggg Double Fine announced a Kickstarter for Amnesia Fortnight 2026 - Indie Reboot! Game Jam, Documentary and Kickstarter Campaign. (If you don't know Amnesia Fortnight youtu.be/nwklVX05gEM ) www.kickstarter.com/projects/dou...
neutral · AI labelView post →Classic adventure game Amnesia (complete with its vast, text-only city) has been impressively restored, and is available to play online for free. ▶️ amnesia-restored.com
neutral · AI labelView post →The sights and sounds of our horror game that takes inspiration from King's Field 4 and Amnesia 👻 #horrorgame #survivalhorror #indiegame #caputmortum
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm watching a playthrough of the recent FNaF game and it really is just Amnesia meets Bioshock.
neutral · AI labelView post →I've just added Amnesia: The Bunker to my Steam curator page store.steampowered.com/app/1944430/...
neutral · AI labelView post →An Amnesia game where when your sanity gets low motion smoothing gets turned up
neutral · AI labelView post →the bunker is such a great, condensed horror game. im super happy with how Fractional are willing to experiment with the Amnesia formula from game to game
positive · AI labelView post →Good god, Amnesia: The Bunker is easily the hardest survival horror game I've ever played
positive · AI labelView post →15 years later and this game still manages to be one of the best horror games to ever be released. Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a fantastic survival horror game where you must use your immersion, discovery, and solve puzzles in order to progress further into the game. The art direction is perfect, with some of the areas being just wallpaper worthy as well. The story is also great too and the voice acting is well done too. The gameplay is also pretty good too, considering Amnesia has inspired…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Caput Mortum is a psychological horror game inspired by King's Field 4 and Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Releases on August 27.
neutral · AI labelView post →ScummVM gets support for the survival horror Penumbra Overture from the Amnesia developers #PenumbraOverture #Gaming #PCGaming #OpenSource #Linux #HorrorGames
neutral · AI labelView post →BTW TOMORROW. 5PM EST* my most highly requested horror game to stream this month. Amnesia The Bunker!
neutral · AI labelView post →After Being Ditched by Xbox, Double Fine Says It'll Make Brütal Legend 2 If Its Amnesia Fortnight 2026 Kickstarter Raises an Impossible-Sounding $100 Million.
neutral · AI labelView post →You will like our game Caput Mortum if you enjoyed: - King's Field 4 - Amnesia: The Dark Descent - Shadow Tower - Arx Fatalis
neutral · AI labelView post →The unabashed champion of pregnancy kink making it into a mainstream video game, Amnesia Rebirth, is less than $10 right now on steam
negative · AI labelView post →This game walked so that Outlast 1 could run. 10/10 Horror game. Creepy and scary. The story is great too. Recommend!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not as scary as I was afraid it might be, but atmospheric. Not really any *big* jump scares which was a plus, at least for me. Quite like a first-person adventure, even often relaxing when you weren't being pursued. Good logical and mostly physical puzzles. Cool screen effects when you lose sanity. I liked the mechanic of constantly needing to be near light and scavenging for tinderboxes and oil, but I admit it could grow tiresome. The diary entries were very well written, reminded me of a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Time to raise my blood pressure with the first horror game I play on stream: Amnesia: The Bunker. Live NOW on Twitch! twitch.tv/andresplays93
neutral · AI labelView post →My 5 game submissions for #SGDQ2026 - Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs - SOMA - Trepang2 - System Shock 2 (1999) - Legendary
neutral · AI labelView post →If you remove the fact that it's an Amnesia game A Machine for Pigs is genuinely such an incredibly good game with an amazing atmosphere, monster designs, story, music and specially voice acting.
positive · AI labelView post →Mopheads state in the story resembles the plot of the game Amnesia: the bunker. I like it #ersatz #fanart
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is now 15 years old! Living proof that graphics don't matter if the gameplay/experience is great, sound is well made and the storytelling is engaging. This is the Skyrim of horror games. You will have a lot of fun with it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got some fresh ink today. It's inspired from my favorite horror game, Amnesia the Dark Descent. 🥀 Credit to Lancaster Tattoos
positive · AI labelView post →OH Amnesia Rebirth, which is just straight up a pregnancy kink horror game, is less than $10 on steam right now
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is the kind of horror game that makes you afraid to open the next door. There are no guns, no fighting back, and honestly, that's what makes it so scary. When something starts chasing you, all you can do is run, hide, and hope it doesn't find you. The atmosphere is amazing. The dark hallways, creepy sounds, and music work together perfectly to keep you on edge. Even when nothing is happening, the game somehow makes you feel uncomfortable in the best way possible. The sound design and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh right, it's the spooky season, here's your yearly reminder that Amnesia Rebirth is unambiguously a pregnancy kink game
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the best psychological horror titles out there. It's a must play for any horror fans. To keep it short, the atmosphere (both creepy and eerie), music, areas, enemies are really well done. The sanity mechanic is a good addition and that can for example cause your run to end at any point if you're not careful with how long you are staying in the dark or looking at the monsters. There is no fighting back. It's hide and seek with limited tinderboxes, oil and a lantern that you can't keep…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Why did Paradox give VtM:B2 to the company responsible for the worst Amnesia game?" ...because it's the company responsible for the worst Amnesia game. Their reputation meant they'd accept a cheap contract, and they worked with the right subject matter.
neutral · AI labelView post →I just backed Amnesia Fortnight 2026, Indie Reboot on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/dou...
neutral · AI labelView post →the last horror game i played was Amnesia: The Dark Descent...at launch So anyway, lets play White Knuckle!
neutral · AI labelView post →Patrons of Retrograde Amnesia are currently fighting about which game should be covered in our seventh miniseries: www.patreon.com/posts/poll-m...
neutral · AI labelView post →Greatest horror game to date. Creepy crawlies. Dark corridors. Enticing notes with brilliantly written lore detailing the game and its backstory, helping the player piece together the story with little effort. The puzzles are fun, and some of them, frustrating. The monsters are scary, and after a while, annoying. But the game is timeless. Its lore brilliant. Its characters well written and fitting. The story is fulfilling, and interesting, in a way that keeps the player invested. As amazing as…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →THIS TUESDAY watch me FINALLY play the game I've avoided playing because I'm a scared little BITCH... Amnesia: the Dark Descent! Arpeggio's VA voiced the antagonist of this game, so I shall find comfort in hearing a different version of my dear husbird's voice 💕 #twitch #stream #amnesia #gaming
neutral · AI labelView post →👀Happy 15th anniversary to one of the the scariest games ever - Amnesia: The Dark Descent! The game was first released on September 8, 2010. #gamedev #gaming #amnesia #horrorgames
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is what I believe all gamers should finish before moving onto any other horror games. This game is the entry exam for them.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Monster from the “Amnesia: The Bunker” #amnesia #horror #game #fanart
neutral · AI labelView post →Heya folks, here's a short featuring the indie horror game Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I finally beat this game earlier this year, but I didn't do a First # video for it at the time. So, I figured I'd get it out of the way. #amnesiathedarkdescent #videogames #indiegames #horrorgames #shorts
neutral · AI labelView post →The best horror game i've ever played. This game was a staple of my childhood, because I would load the title screen and get off. Now this is one of the most intriguing story games I have ever played. I now don't find this game scary whats so ever, because I just speedrun it and farm achievements. But for new horror game players, this is a 10/10 and a must play.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My dual cents... Amnesia the Dark Descent! Closely followed by Thief 3 - the only game I've had to download a save file to skip a level, specifically because it was too scary for me. 😱
positive · AI labelView post →I just backed Amnesia Fortnight 2026, Indie Reboot www.kickstarter.com/projects/dou...
neutral · AI labelView post →It's pretty good. Hard mode is a nice challenge once you've played the game on normal. No issues running it on Linux.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After years of watching Pewdiepie's amnesia as a kid to now officially playing it, I can say this game is still great. Old, yes-- but I got scared a couple of times. Even though I stealth'd This game like Solid-freakin'-Snake. Alot of times I was being chased or forced to face monsters head-on, I still love this. Especially when playing one of the Mods I've seen long ago.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I appreciate Amnesia and Outlast for their cultural impact but I kinda can't stand playing either or any horror game that uses their idea of stealth or mechanics It kinda sucks because I know some people love that but those systems are like my kryptonite
negative · AI labelView post →It reminds me a bit of an unfinished game I did, Amnesia. I abandoned this one.
neutral · AI labelView post →Double Fine launches Amnesia Fortnight 2026, Indie Reboot.
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