| 33bits |
Fernando Sánchez |
80 / 100 |
06-14-2023 |
Amnesia: The Bunker is the fourth installment in the star franchise from Frictional Games. We return to survival horror with more classic elements such as in The Dark Descent and we add significant innovations such as the use of some weapons to defend ourselves or help us advance or that the action takes place in a semi-open mapping that will allow us to explore as we see fit. assuming the risks of it. The result is quite solid and The Bunker’s proposal fulfills its purpose, and the beast will make us feel constant tension and terror. |
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| 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. |
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| ACG |
Jeremy Penter |
Not Recommended |
06-05-2023 |
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| 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. |
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| BaziCenter |
Hamed MohammdPor |
7 / 10 |
06-14-2023 |
The Bunker is a great addition to the Amnesia series and shows that Frictional Games is on the right path, and even though it doesn’t offer as much quality as the very first game, it’s still an atmospheric survival horror and is the best in the genre this year. |
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| 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. |
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| Checkpoint Gaming |
Alex Beaty |
7.5 / 10 |
07-04-2023 |
At its core, Amnesia: The Bunker is a monster of the week horror game that dips into the Amnesia lore pool but still feels more than accessible to someone who hasn’t played or watched the games before. While the controls are rigid, the game shines in its use of atmosphere and survival elements which many will find enjoyable. The Bunker will have you running for your life in a deadly game of cat and mouse, even if the ending feels a little lacklustre. |
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| COGconnected |
Lou Sytsma |
74 / 100 |
06-11-2023 |
Amnesia: The Bunker lacks the story-telling and emotional heft of the previous games in the series. But, if you are in the mood for a scary and tense game of cat and mouse, this game will satisfy your needs. |
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| 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. |
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| DarkZero |
Dominic Sheard |
8 / 10 |
06-26-2023 |
This new design for Amnesia with Amnesia: The Bunker allows the series to progress forward from its more linear experiences in the past. |
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| Dexerto |
Olly Smith |
3 / 5 stars |
06-05-2023 |
Amnesia: The Bunker has all these little pieces that work well, but doesn’t fully deliver on its main hook. Fans of the series may be set up for a No Man’s Land of disappointment, where just a few tweaks here and there might make it a much more enjoyable experience. With it also launching on Xbox Game Pass, that might be the best place for it to gain an audience. |
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| Echo Boomer |
João Canelo |
Recommended |
07-02-2023 |
Amnesia: The Bunker is a step in the right direction and a culmination of Frictional Games’ entire journey. It is both a return to the past, as well as laying the foundation for what the future of the series could be. |
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| 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. |
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| Everyeye.it |
Riccardo Cantù |
8 / 10 |
06-05-2023 |
The playful formula of Amnesia: The Bunker is configured as the most articulated and varied in the entire history of the brand. |
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| Expansive |
Tom Hynes |
6 / 10 |
06-07-2023 |
Amnesia: The Bunker is a well-designed, short sharp episode in the award-winning horror series. The setting is suitably tense, the new inventory management and puzzle-solving philosophy feeds into the suspense, along with the limited resources, and the multiple endings do add replayability. Short length and some interactivity issues aside, this is another memorable Amnesia game and one of the best to date. |
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| Game Rant |
Dalton Cooper |
3 / 5 stars |
06-05-2023 |
Amnesia: The Bunker is genuinely scary, and its puzzles are fun to solve. Old-school survival-horror fans in particular will find a lot to like about the game. It randomizes certain elements in subsequent playthroughs to keep things interesting and that combined with its open-ended nature makes it the most replayable Amnesia game, even though it doesn’t quite stick the landing like its predecessors. Luckily, Amnesia: The Bunker is a day one Xbox Game Pass game, so horror fans can brave its terrors for themselves without making any kind of major financial commitment. |
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| Gameblog |
KiKiToes |
6 / 10 |
07-16-2023 |
Amnesia is not a flagship of the genre. It doesn’t pretend to be, and it doesn’t even try to revolutionise the genre or its franchise. It evolves a little in its content and structure, but retains the same strength. Its job is to scare you for a few hours by immersing you in its world, and it succeeds perfectly. The Alien Isolation-style beast that stalks you incessantly makes you break out in a cold sweat, and the game is gripping. You’ll simply have to get used to the decade-old gameplay. The problem is that it can also put some people off. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| GameSpot |
Mark Delaney |
8 / 10 |
06-05-2023 |
Frictional Games reinvigorates the series that made it famous with its scariest game in years. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| GamingTrend |
Cassie Peterson |
90 / 100 |
09-21-2023 |
Amnesia: The Bunker is a truly terrifying experience that will keep you on the edge of your seat and your sanity. The overall experience is thrilling amidst all the horror, leaving me (almost) craving more. Almost. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Impulsegamer |
Sandro Falce |
4 / 5 stars |
06-30-2023 |
While there’s some gameplay issues here and there, Amnesia: The Bunker is a short, tense, claustrophobic experience that’s well worth your time. |
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| INDIANTVCZ |
Barbora Šalandová |
8 / 10 |
07-03-2023 |
Amnesia: The Bunker has done the impossible |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Niche Gamer |
Fingal Belmont |
9 / 10 |
06-16-2023 |
Frictional Games have finally abandoned their “walking-sim” style horror games with Amnesia: The Bunker. The experience is unrelenting white-knuckle terror where the player’s actions and choices are critical. Fans of Alien: Isolation and classic horror will get a lot of enjoyment from this. |
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| Oyungezer Online |
Ufuk Yurtbil |
7.5 / 10 |
07-07-2023 |
A successful game that adds a different flavor to the Amnesia series. It promises a satisfying few hours for horror thriller fans. It is also a good starting point for those who aren’t familiar with the genre. |
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| 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. |
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| PlayStation LifeStyle |
Michael Leri |
9 / 10 |
06-16-2023 |
Not even an intermittent crash or clunky load screen can minimize what Amnesia: The Bunker does so well. The intimate world, wonderfully interwoven mechanics, and semi-random nature make The Bunker a nerve-racking experience that’s a natural evolution of its landmark first entry. On a surface level, it’s still about creeping through a dimly lit hellhole and evading unspeakable horrors, but Frictional has spent the last decade advancing that formula to create the best version of it so far. |
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| 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. |
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| Polygon |
Diego Nicolás Argüello |
Recommended |
06-16-2023 |
These moments rival those of the best stealth games, when the slightest noise can mean revealing your position to much more powerful foes. Frictional has made a name for itself by creating these moments out of elegant yet terrifying systems. The Bunker’s standout achievement, then, is creating a nonlinear sandbox where you’re constantly learning from your own bad habits. I’ve never been so conscious of how much noise everything makes around me in a digital space, cautiously entering rooms to avoid kicking an empty wine bottle or activating the flashlight intermittently when I knew the monster was near. As McKee described, it’s your mundane actions, in conjunction with the crude and hostile setting, that create a solid ceiling of sound — one that only grows thicker the longer you inhabit the bunker. |
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| PS4Blog.net |
EdEN |
8 / 10 |
06-16-2023 |
Can you survive through the madness? |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Rectify Gaming |
Henry |
8.5 / 10 |
06-13-2023 |
Amnesia: The Bunker’s engaging gameplay loop effortlessly blends in immersive sim elements, creating an absolute survival horror gem. |
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| 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. |
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| Screen Rant |
Joanna Koziol |
4 / 5 stars |
06-05-2023 |
Amnesia: The Bunker is not for the faint of heart. Frictional Games courageously breaks free of its own formula to examine what truly gets the blood pumping and the brain racing, and the result is a challenging and nearly unmanageable combination of stress and fear. While it misses the mark somewhat with story and atmosphere, The Bunker makes up for it through engaging and one-of-a-kind gameplay, which stretches the limitations of the horror genre. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Sirus Gaming |
Jarren Navarrete |
8 / 10 |
07-25-2023 |
Amnesia: The Bunker is an amazing step forward for the franchise that isn’t afraid to experiment on established mechanics without deviating too much from its DNA. For survival horror fans, even those who aren’t fans of the run-and-hide formula of the previous Amnesia games, the Bunker is a must to experience. |
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| Slant Magazine |
Steven Scaife |
3 / 5 stars |
06-06-2023 |
Experimenting will more often reveal methods that do not work rather than validating the loading screen’s impossibly lofty claim to player freedom. Further, the resource scarcity that drives the game is hardly conducive to experimentation, doing more to keep you strictly on the path of least resistance. What motive is there to waste a precious gas can on some hare-brained scheme when you know for sure that it will work just fine in the generator? Certainly the more restrictive means of progression in The Bunker has its own pleasures even within a more open framework, but the game insists on calling a shot that it has no hope of making. |
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| SomHráč.sk |
Adam Hambálek |
70 / 100 |
06-17-2023 |
Amnesia: The Bunker is, in its scope compared to the other titles of the series, a smaller experimental title, but it offers a few new neat tricks. It’s up to you whether that’s enough or not. |
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| 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. |
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| The Escapist |
Michael Cripe |
Recommended |
06-05-2023 |
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| 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. |
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| The Jimquisition |
James Stephanie Sterling |
7 / 10 |
06-13-2023 |
Amnesia: The Bunker is a pleasant step up from its predecessor Rebirth, but it all too often falls into the problem many horror games have |
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| TheSixthAxis |
Steve C |
7 / 10 |
06-17-2023 |
In its best moments, Amnesia: The Bunker joins Outlast and Alien: Isolation at the pinnacle of this style of horror, but this is a game with a split identity. Combat feels out of place and mostly ends up being a navigation tool, while I would have liked to see better use of light as a defence against the creature. The story is somewhat predictable, but Amnesia: The Bunker excels with its atmosphere and the kind of tense gameplay that will thrill genre fans. |
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| 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. |
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| Use a Potion |
Unknown |
8 / 10 |
06-15-2023 |
Amnesia: The Bunker is an unnerving experience that’ll both terrify and enthral players in equal measure thanks to its gripping gameplay. I loved exploring the bunker, finding clever ways to progress, and carefully evading the wrath of the creature, whilst the moments where it was on my back were always exciting as I fought for survival. And sure, the open-world design of the game isn’t always executed perfectly, but the sense of progress you feel as you open new pathways and complete objectives is always satisfying. |
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| VGChartz |
Paul Broussard |
6.5 / 10 |
06-16-2023 |
The best way I think I can describe The Bunker is that it is an exceptional proof of concept. There’s immense potential here, and the first couple of hours or so are genuinely great horror, but the game doesn’t have enough tricks up its sleeve to maintain momentum. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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