Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will…
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is an adventure developed by The Chinese Room, released 10 September 2013 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux. The main story takes about 5.9 hrs to finish.
What Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is an adventure game developed by The Chinese Room and released in 2013. It was published by Frictional Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on HPL Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The year is 1899. Wealthy industrialist Oswald Mandus awakes in his bed, wracked with fever and haunted by dreams of a dark and hellish engine. Tortured by visions of a disastrous expedition to Mexico, broken on the failing dreams of an industrial utopia, wracked with guilt and tropical disease he wakes into a nightmare. The house is silent, the ground beneath him shaking at the will of some infernal machine: all he knows is that his children are in grave peril, and it is up to him to save them.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, stealth and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 7 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 3 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 70, across 264 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 5.9 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for High-range Intel Core i3 / AMD A6 CPU or equivalent., 2 GB RAM and Mid-range NVIDIA GeForce 200 / AMD Radeon HD 5000. Integrated Intel HD Graphics should work but is not supported; problems are generally solved with a driver update.. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs launched on 10 September 2013, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto V, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, Rayman Legends and Saints Row IV. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto V, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, Rayman Legends, Saints Row IV.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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