You might like if: You crave a thriller that psyches you out, as opposed to resorting to cheap horror tropes that set out more to disturb or disgust.

I've had 3 Amnesia-related nightmares (no really) and spent the first night after playing it looking at my cupboard, bracing myself to run into it if my bedroom door started getting kicked in.

And yet I still come back for more.

The horror genre is currently saturated with remakes of loud noises and things jumping out at you to rip off your head and eat it in front of you. It's frustrating and is more like developers just trying to repulse and upset you, than actually create a terrifying yet exciting experience. But this is what Amnesia does beautifully: It psyches you out. It doesn't milk the "hey, you've opened a door - Let's have 50 spiders jump at your face" but just drip-feeds uneasiness with a brilliantly cultivated environment to the extent that you're jumping at your own shadow and freezing when you hear creaks of floorboards...

The tension just mounts further as you have no weapons and must make do with limited sources of light (lest your sanity crumble). Nothing exacerbated the sense of dread more than sheltering by a single candle in winding labyrinth of pitch black corridors and rooms - with nothing more than 2 tinderboxes and a drop of oil.

The story is also superb, even if you don't get scared by the game. You wake up with no memory and a hand-written note from yourself... and that's it. As you progress and find more scattrered notes, diary entries and flashbacks - you unearth the dark stories of what's occurring. It's grim in places, but tastefully done and drives the story well.

2 people playing, taking in turns, tends to get the best result. Good scares but a lot of laughs.

Kill the lights, turn up the sound... get stuck in.

[b]You might like if:[/b] You crave a thriller that psyches you out, as opposed to resorting to cheap horror tropes that set out more to disturb or disgust. I've had 3 Amnesia-related nightmares (no really) and spent the first night after playing it looking at my cupboard, bracing myself to run into it if my bedroom door started getting kicked in. And yet I still come back for more. The horror genre is currently saturated with remakes of loud noises and things jumping out at you to rip off your head and eat it in front of you. It's frustrating and is more like developers just trying to repulse and upset you, than actually create a terrifying yet exciting experience. But this is what Amnesia does beautifully: It psyches you out. It doesn't milk the "hey, you've opened a door - Let's have 50 spiders jump at your face" but just drip-feeds uneasiness with a brilliantly cultivated environment to the extent that you're jumping at your own shadow and freezing when you hear creaks of floorboards... The tension just mounts further as you have no weapons and must make do with limited sources of light (lest your sanity crumble). Nothing exacerbated the sense of dread more than sheltering by a single candle in winding labyrinth of pitch black corridors and rooms - with nothing more than 2 tinderboxes and a drop of oil. The story is also superb, even if you don't get scared by the game. You wake up with no memory and a hand-written note from yourself... and that's it. As you progress and find more scattrered notes, diary entries and flashbacks - you unearth the dark stories of what's occurring. It's grim in places, but tastefully done and drives the story well. 2 people playing, taking in turns, tends to get the best result. Good scares but a lot of laughs. Kill the lights, turn up the sound... get stuck in.