Though the game occasionally employs the timeworn tactic of sudden loud noises to startle the unwary, it is the game’s subtler, quieter moments that will truly unhinge you. Every bump, scream, and knock is faithfully realized in the game world, and they will have you spinning in circles or sprinting for the nearest cover. It is, in part, thanks to the excellent sound design. This is the strength of "A Machine for Pigs": its ability to make you question everything around you. There may not be something lurking in the shadows, waiting for you…but you could be wrong. Footsteps stalk your every move, only to fall silent the moment you turn around to look. Disembodied laughter rings down dimly-lit corridors. And though you begin this journey alone, you will swear, at least five minutes into the game, that you aren’t. The walls seem to lean in, as if to crush the very breath from your lungs.Īnd underneath it all, beneath miles of brick and stone, something is stirring: a beast of metal, steam, and blood.Īrmed with nothing but a lantern, the search for your missing children will take you from the halls of your enormous manor, to the streets of London, to the dark places below the sleeping city.
Your children cry for you, their faceless shadows haunting the corners of your vision.
As Oswald Mandus, a wealthy industrialist who has just recently returned from an ill-fated expedition to Mexico, you awaken to a house whispering with voices. It is against this backdrop that our story unfolds. Yet the valiant effort to rise from the squalor of his past is not without casualties: factories dot landscapes once verdant with trees newfangled automobiles chug noisily along cobbled roads, belching poison and grime the destitute and the diseased choke dark alleys and the forgotten places beneath the streets, victims of the unyielding march of progress. Despite having a title that sounds like it was borrowed from a Nine Inch Nails album circa 1994, the story of "Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs" takes place in the last days of an alternate 19th century London, where man and machine have become inextricably linked.
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