Especially when you find a letter that you seem to have written to yourself, telling you to murder someone you’ve never heard of (while assuring you that it’s okay, he’s evil). As you take in your spooky castle surroundings you’ve no more idea of what’s going on than the in-game character has. But then visual clarity has never been a requirement for horror, and in fact the opposite often helps.Īs you might gather from the name you being The Dark Descent by waking up with every Japanese role-player’s favourite ailment: amnesia. Which given The Dark Descent is six years old and originally very low budget means that the visual presentation is considerably less than state-of-the-art.
None of the games have appeared on a console before, but these are more ports than remasters.
It contains Amnesia: The Dark Descent, which was originally released on PC in 2010 its DLC expansion Justine and 2013 sequel A Machine For Pigs.
Before we get into the details we need to make it clear exactly what this collection is.