Amnesia: Rebirth the latest entry in the Amnesia series from Frictional Games receives a mode that lets you experience the game with a little less threat. Much like they did with SOMA, this mode is for people who want to play through and focus more on the story and puzzles than needing spare pants handing for scary bits.
"The game still has its very serious theme and sometimes unnerving ambiance, but the new mode feels a lot more like an Indiana Jones type of adventure in places where it would otherwise be more of a horror experience," explains Fredrik Olsson, Creative Lead on Amnesia: Rebirth.
What to actually expect from it: the removal of life-threatening monster encounters, plus certain sounds and visuals involved in the main character's fear levels were also cut out. Your environment is also lit up a bit more so there's less worrying overall. On top of that, Adventure Mode includes a number of bonus puzzles "that add up to the experience of a true Lovecraftian mystery adventure novel".
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"We believe that anyone who loves a good story-driven adventure game will be stoked about this new mode. Not everyone is into horror and we don’t want that to block people from experiencing Tasi’s story," comments Fredrik. "We did something very similar when we released the Safe mode for SOMA. It was extremely well received and opened up the game to a much broader audience, something we hope will happen with Rebirth as well."
I still believe it is one of the best games of 2020 and Frictional did a great job on it over all, once the launch issues got fixed up nicely.
You can buy Amnesia: Rebirth from GOG and Steam.
If you missed it, Frictional also open sourced Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. Read more on that news here. Continuing to be a developer well worth your time and support.
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17 comments
oldominion Mar 30, 2021
If it's going to be like Layers of Fear 2 it would be nice.
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Luke_Nukem Mar 31, 2021
Honestly I wish the Nu-Dooms had mode slike this too. Endless arena combat with waves is tiring.
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PublicNuisance Mar 31, 2021
I like how this is an option but not forced. Best of both worlds. People like myself that love Lovecraft atmosphere and story can enjoy it without the stealth that I don't enjoy but those who want the stealth can have it.
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While SOMA is absolutely worth playing without too much horror, I'm not sure the same is true for Amnesia: Rebirth.
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Honestly I wish the Nu-Dooms had mode slike this too. Endless arena combat with waves is tiring.It's only endless if you die... and you know what the solution to THAT is
Though I do agree that a few of them felt like they were really dragging it out.
For Amnesia, I really don't get the need for it, though.
The light sources are ample unless you light every single torch on your way, dying is inconsequential (I died a bunch and wasn't locked out of any ending), ...
Anyway, for this kind of game, I don't have a problem with story modes existing.
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*Me who survived Alien: Isolation (on Nightmare!), Outlast 1&2, Call of Chtulhu and more*Soma was really the best for me, man, what a story.
Ah, a child mode! o.o
I survived alien isolation, much fun, really!
Outlast, too much anxiety, stress and i hate to make things with too much hurry.
Call of Chtulhu: do you suggest it?
And finally, i gave up on the observer, not splatter, but man, it toke me soo bad.
Being in theme, i can suggest you Omen exitio, if you like Lovecraft, a nice and relaxing way to enjoy a good thrilling story.
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Outlast, too much anxiety, stress and i hate to make things with too much hurry.
I played through Outlast, but gave up on Whistleblower due to the same reasons.
And finally, i gave up on the observer, not splatter, but man, it toke me soo bad.
I don't understand what you're saying?
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Horror is not a game style I like, but I'm always in for a good story. So this is good news for me. And as it's also on sale right now, I'll take a look...
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I don’t enjoy horror/scares so I thought I’d get the game now, but the reviews on GOG are saying you’re constantly being interrupted by cutscenes or such.
The cutscenes are fine in my humble opinion. I avoided most of the written lore sooner or later though. It was more interruption of atmosphere than building atmosphere.
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Luke_Nukem Mar 31, 2021
Honestly I wish the Nu-Dooms had mode slike this too. Endless arena combat with waves is tiring.It's only endless if you die... and you know what the solution to THAT is
I'm old, my reflexes aren't what they used to be. I work all day, I don't want to feel like I'm working in a game too.
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Eheh, sorry, language barrier here.Outlast, too much anxiety, stress and i hate to make things with too much hurry.
I played through Outlast, but gave up on Whistleblower due to the same reasons.
And finally, i gave up on the observer, not splatter, but man, it toke me soo bad.
I don't understand what you're saying?
I meant ">Observer_" the game, and in italian "splatter" is a term that stands for english "gore".
I don't know why using an english term to indicate a different meaning, i just learnt about that :)
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Eheh, sorry, language barrier here.
I meant ">Observer_" the game, and in italian "splatter" is a term that stands for english "gore".
I don't know why using an english term to indicate a different meaning, i just learnt about that :)
I'm no native speaker either, so we've got two barriers. ;)
I actually find it amazing that people from so many different places can communicate that well with each other in the end.
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Soma was really the best for me, man, what a story.
I survived alien isolation, much fun, really!
Outlast, too much anxiety, stress and i hate to make things with too much hurry.
Call of Chtulhu: do you suggest it?
And finally, i gave up on the observer, not splatter, but man, it toke me soo bad.
Being in theme, i can suggest you Omen exitio, if you like Lovecraft, a nice and relaxing way to enjoy a good thrilling story.
SOMA is one of the best games ever made imo. It had exactly correct amount of Horror (aka not much). It was more of a atmosphere and the story that was really nicely done in this game.
Alien Isolation first few moments were pretty nice in this game, the atmosphere and setting, but after first encounter it was just a jumpscare fest imo. Pretty boring if you ask me
Outlast - Generic story, jumpscare fest. Boring
>observer_ - Amazing story and really trippy :) loved it. I would put it into the ballpark with SOMA.
Layers of Fear - Nice visuals, generic and boring setting, didnt really hook me in. Didn't care about the person i was playing.
Haven't tried other games
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oldominion Apr 2, 2021
Soma was really the best for me, man, what a story.
I survived alien isolation, much fun, really!
Outlast, too much anxiety, stress and i hate to make things with too much hurry.
Call of Chtulhu: do you suggest it?
And finally, i gave up on the observer, not splatter, but man, it toke me soo bad.
Being in theme, i can suggest you Omen exitio, if you like Lovecraft, a nice and relaxing way to enjoy a good thrilling story.
SOMA is one of the best games ever made imo. It had exactly correct amount of Horror (aka not much). It was more of a atmosphere and the story that was really nicely done in this game.
Alien Isolation first few moments were pretty nice in this game, the atmosphere and setting, but after first encounter it was just a jumpscare fest imo. Pretty boring if you ask me
Outlast - Generic story, jumpscare fest. Boring
>observer_ - Amazing story and really trippy :) loved it. I would put it into the ballpark with SOMA.
Layers of Fear - Nice visuals, generic and boring setting, didnt really hook me in. Didn't care about the person i was playing.
Haven't tried other games
Never heard of SOMA and checked it out, it is even on sale on Steam right now, thanks for pointing it out.
I have played LAyers of Fear 2 only and I think it was great.
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Alien Isolation first few moments were pretty nice in this game, the atmosphere and setting, but after first encounter it was just a jumpscare fest imo. Pretty boring if you ask me
Haven't tried other games
Alien: Isolation has like 3 jumpscare (two what I can remember after many playthroughs). Compare to Outlast which is basically a very dumbed down horror game, sometimes with telegraphed jumpscares (about 20-30 at least).
A:I is probably the least jumpscary game, but maybe you have a different definition for it. :)
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Alien: Isolation has like 3 jumpscare (two what I can remember after many playthroughs). Compare to Outlast which is basically a very dumbed down horror game, sometimes with telegraphed jumpscares (about 20-30 at least).
A:I is probably the least jumpscary game, but maybe you have a different definition for it. :)
my definition for jumpscare is when you already know theres enemy lurking around and it just throws up random noises and the enemy jumps out of and killing you instantly.. but in A:I its not like in Outlast yeah, but still not scary at all after first encounter imo.. just annoying alien jumps out from places :D
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