He creeps through pitch black hallways and dark chambers, trying to remain hidden from the beady eyes of monsters that stalk the fortress. Our hero, Daniel, awakens in a Prussian castle with no recollection of how he got there. In Amnesia, every step you take taunts you. It terrorizes more than horrifies, building mood more often than shocking you.

It's an immersive title that does more than force you through old corridors, pelt you with jump scares or barrage you with poorly translated messages. In Amnesia's case, developer Frictional fleshed out an entire, tremendous location and breathed ghastly life into it. Though 'Jaws' is a classic, it's sometimes shuffled in with the likes of more laughable creature features like 'Slugs.' Such is Amnesia's lot, though (like 'Jaws') it doesn't deserve it. Horror sub-genres sometimes receive judgments based on their endless stacks of lesser works, and more effective examples of that category become associated with those titles. They would see the promise of yet another experience where a man enters a dusty, old building, rummages for items and slinks into the darkness to avoid the killing grasp of a sinister entity. A casual onlooker may dismiss Amnesia: The Dark Descent as one of many tiresome haunted house simulators offered on Steam.

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