Amnesia: The Bunker

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Amnesia: The Bunker is a bold new direction for the series, a focused and refreshing horror game that constantly leave you in fear.

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Amnesia: The Bunker is a bold new direction for the series, a focused and refreshing horror game that constantly leave you in fear.

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8/10

Mark Delaney (GameSpot)

Frictional Games reinvigorates the series that made it famous with its scariest game in years.

June 5, 2023 |

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Amnesia: The Bunker corrects the missteps of its predecessors and adds in a sense of invention, creating a truly unsettling adventure.

June 5, 2023 |

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Vikki Blake (Eurogamer)

Recommended

Alice Bell (Rock, Paper, Shotgun)

Amnesia: The Bunker is a compact, focused and refreshing horror game that brings new excitement to one of horror’s modern classic game series.

June 6, 2023 |

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Mark Delaney (GameSpot)

8/10 - (Read Review)

Frictional Games reinvigorates the series that made it famous with its scariest game in years.

Vikki Blake (Eurogamer)

Recommended - (Read Review)

Amnesia: The Bunker corrects the missteps of its predecessors and adds in a sense of invention, creating a truly unsettling adventure.

Alice Bell (Rock, Paper, Shotgun)

Recommended - (Read Review)

Amnesia: The Bunker is a compact, focused and refreshing horror game that brings new excitement to one of horror’s modern classic game series.

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Outlet	Author	Score	Date	Quote	Read
3DNews	Денис Щенников	9 / 10	06-05-2023	Amnesia: The Bunker feels like returning to the roots for Frictional Games, with its strong emphasis on gameplay and cohesive mechanics.	Read review
Attack of the Fanboy	J.R. Waugh	4 / 5 stars	06-05-2023	The terror and isolation you feel here is a devious construct you must outsmart to escape to the surface and makes this feel like a true horror game in the best of ways.	Read review
CGMagazine	Andrew Farrell	5.5 / 10	06-05-2023	While the classic Amnesia gameplay is available here in a lot of ways, it’s mixed with some underwhelming, poorly balanced monster gameplay that doesn’t work as well as it should.	Read review
Cultured Vultures	Jimmy Donnellan	8 / 10	06-05-2023	Amnesia: The Bunker is one of the most terrifying horror games ever made, but those looking for Resident Evil 4 levels of length and replayability are going to be left seriously disappointed.	Read review
Eurogamer	Vikki Blake	Recommended	06-05-2023	Amnesia: The Bunker corrects the missteps of its predecessors and adds in a sense of invention, creating a truly unsettling adventure.	Read review
Gamefa	Mohammad Reza Nowroozi	7.2 / 10	06-05-2023	Amnesia: The Bunker doesn’t necessarily bring anything new to the table of Horror genre. That being said, It’s a pleasant 5 hours experience with world War II theme that could be a great choice for horror fans.	Read review
GameGrin	Alyssa Rochelle Payne	8 / 10	06-05-2023	Amnesia: The Bunker is excellent, offering the dread and terror you’d expect along with engaging new mechanics. Some technical issues occasionally break the immersion, but Frictional’s approach to frightening and challenging you still offers its best thrills.	Read review
GameMAG	Unknown	5 / 10	06-05-2023	Amnesia: The Bunker is a step down from Amnesia: Rebirth. New release from Frictional Games is visually boring, lacks atmosphere and can get on your nerves with constantly teleporting stalker enemy.	Read review
GameSpot	Mark Delaney	8 / 10	06-05-2023	Frictional Games reinvigorates the series that made it famous with its scariest game in years.	Read review
GamesRadar+	Hirun Cryer	4 / 5 stars	06-05-2023	Amnesia: The Bunker is a bold new direction for the series, and it chiefly pays off with brilliant scares and disempowerment of the player. The bottlenecked level design can be frustrating though, as can the nature of do-overs with the beast hot on your heels.	Read review
GameWatcher	Neil Bolt	8.5 / 10	06-05-2023	Amnesia: The Bunker continues Frictional Games’ smart evolution of the series with an intense survival horror/immersive sim cocktail that almost balances its ideas perfectly.	Read review
GamingBolt	Ravi Sinha	8 / 10	06-05-2023	Amnesia: The Bunker is Frictional’s best entry in the series since The Dark Descent. Its environmental design and mechanics offer multiple solutions for problems, and its use of darkness leads to some genuine dread. Just don’t go in expecting a very long experience.	Read review
Generación Xbox	Alejandro Serrador	8 / 10	06-05-2023	And perhaps that is the greatest success of this game, beyond the monsters that terrify us so much, to understand what war really means. In understanding that, at a certain point, there is no longer a border between good and evil, but that everyone is part of evil and the true border is between those who can live with it and those who cannot.	Read review
God is a Geek	Chris White	8.5 / 10	06-05-2023	Amnesia: The Bunker is a heart stopping horror that constantly leaves you in fear, but it’s all the better for it.	Read review
Hey Poor Player	Jonathan Trussler	4.5 / 5 stars	06-05-2023	Amnesia: The Bunker is purist survival horror at its best, with a thoughtful take on the genre and mind-shredding scares. Even the most hardened gamer will feel their pulse racing as they are stalked through the underground hell, feeling a desperation to see daylight. The challenge is not just mastering your environment but mastering your own fear of the evils that lurk in the darkness.	Read review
Hobby Consolas	Daniel Quesada	78 / 100	06-05-2023	The craftmen of Frictional Games show again how well they know the horror genre. This might not be the most ground breaking game, but it offers a noteworthy survival experience.	Read review
IGN	Leana Hafer	8 / 10	06-05-2023	Amnesia: The Bunker is a smaller, more self-contained episode in the groundbreaking horror franchise that shows Frictional still has some chilling, new tricks up their sleeves.	Read review
IGN Italy	Alessandra Borgonovo	6.5 / 10	06-05-2023	Amnesia: The Bunker is a more guided experience than it claims, where ingenuity and improvisation are replaced by tedious resource management.	Read review
Merlin’in Kazanı	Selin Yoko	80 / 100	06-06-2023	If you really like both exploration and survival-horror genre, Amnesia: The Bunker can satisfy you. As a horror lover, I found the game replayable with the high randomness factor.	Read review
Metro GameCentral	GameCentral	8 / 10	06-05-2023	The best Amnesia game since The Dark Descent and a welcome spiritual successor to Alien Isolation, that makes darkness more terrifying than any video game before it.	Read review
New Game Network	Ben Thomas	76 / 100	06-05-2023	Amnesia: The Bunker has a fantastic dynamic involving light and power management, as you explore an atmospheric WW1 bunker and avoid a monster with a keen sense of hearing. Despite a lack of puzzles, a bland story, and a few monster quirks, it packs enough good horror to keep players on edge.	Read review
PC Gamer	Ted Litchfield	93 / 100	06-05-2023	Amnesia: The Bunker is an essential horror game and an inspired next step for the series.	Read review
PlayStation Universe	Timothy Nunes	7.5 / 10	06-05-2023	This may not be the horror romp you’re itching for, but Amnesia: The Bunker provides a fantastic map to explore with engaging gameplay to make it that much more enjoyable. It’s too bad the game’s stalker creature lacks the necessary delivery to generate authentic scares.	Read review
PSX Brasil	Bruno Ribeiro	80 / 100	06-05-2023	Even without revolutionary additions, Amnesia: The Bunker does not disappoint in the horror department. The darkness of the underground is really scary and fills you with anxiety, but, despite not being something necessarily negative, the new game in the franchise brings more of the same without being especially striking. For lovers of the genre, however, the experience is quite satisfying, and it will be even more when the technical issues are resolved.	Read review
Push Square	Liam Croft	7 / 10	06-05-2023	Amnesia: The Bunker sticks a little too close to what Frictional Games has been doing for over a decade now, but with a more free-form approach to gameplay, the team is back on the right track again. Coupled with an excellent setting, Amnesia: The Bunker represents a vast improvement over its predecessor. You’ll still encounter the same stumbling blocks of old, but this horror experience comes recommended.	Read review
Rock, Paper, Shotgun	Alice Bell	Recommended	06-06-2023	Amnesia: The Bunker is a compact, focused and refreshing horror game that brings new excitement to one of horror’s modern classic game series.	Read review
SECTOR.sk	Timotej Kadlec	8 / 10	06-06-2023	The Amnesia moves forward and does not stand still. Graphics and technical condition are definitely not among the tip of the iceberg, but the gameplay and atmosphere is excellent.	Read review
Shacknews	Lucas White	6 / 10	06-05-2023	There are lots of ideas in Amnesia: The Bunker that are truly intriguing. I love the World War 1 setting as a backdrop for a horror story, especially the way it intersects with technology of the era. But the way gameplay elements are introduced as friction meant to induce tension simply feel overtuned. I often felt like I was fighting the game just to get around, which was frustrating in a software kind of way rather than an atmospheric enhancement. I wasn’t scared because I was too busy squinting or yanking on the flashlight’s pull cord just so I could pull on doors and latches. No amount of spooky ambiance in the background could bring me back into the experience.	Read review
SpazioGames	Domenico Musicò	7.7 / 10	06-05-2023	Amnesia: The Bunker introduces a brilliant gameplay with many new features for the series. It is a real survival horror with a great atmosphere and a superb concept. Too bad for the randomic encounters with the creature, often not well balanced.	Read review
The Games Machine	Erica Mura	8 / 10	06-05-2023	Amnesia: The Bunker manages to be a challenging and unsettling experience without falling into the easy temptation of jumpscares or holding the player’s hand too much. Whether you memorized the previous chapters or decided to give the Amnesia saga a chance for the first time, this game proves to be a new success achieved by Frictional Games and a satisfying experience for all survival horror lovers.	Read review
Twinfinite	Gray Giron	4 / 5 stars	06-05-2023	Amnesia: The Bunker felt like it was somehow different from its predecessors. The puzzle-heavy horror game and a hint of resource management give the anxiety of suddenly plunging into danger. I felt like the franchise made a different approach but in the end of the day it’s worth the adventure.	Read review
WayTooManyGames	Kyle Nicol	7.5 / 10	06-05-2023	Amnesia: The Bunker is a mix of Alien: Isolation‘s singular persistent threat that follows you around, coupled with elements of the immersive simulator genre, resulting in a horror game with a unique flavour. It’s not the most revolutionary or polished experience stemming from the developers themselves, but Frictional have done what they do best. They have delivered, yet again, a true survival horror experience, but this time around, making a few bold changes I was glad with.	Read review
Wccftech	Ule Lopez	9 / 10	06-05-2023	Amnesia: The Bunker has become one of the best horror games in an ever-changing landscape on par with titles like Resident Evil 7 and The Dark Descent. This game not only is a return to form for Frictional Games but it also paves the way forward thanks to its systems that encourage creative solutions to problems and an ever-changing nature that will keep players on the edge of their seats as they face off against the supernatural threat that’s roaming the halls of the bomb shelter.	Read review
We Got This Covered	Peter Kohnke	4 / 5 stars	06-05-2023	While ‘Amnesia: The Bunker’ is a brief, albeit very replayable experience, we’d wager that even the most grizzled survival horror veterans will be clenching their sphincters as they navigate Frictional Games’ masterclass in terror. The overhauled gameplay loop is a welcome change, though ‘The Bunker’ does fall victim to the same shortcomings as its predecessors, which makes it feel somewhat dated in places.	Read review

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Amnesia: The Bunker is a first-person horror game set in a desolate WW1 Bunker. Face the oppressing terrors stalking the dark corridors. Search for and use the tools and weapons at your disposal, while keeping the lights on at all costs. Overcome fear, persevere, and make your way out alive.

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