REVIEWS Survival game
Amnesia: Rebirth
Management refuses to go into the server dungeon, and for good reason – Leana Hafer has returned a changed woman.
SPECS
Minimum
OS: Any major 64-bit distro
CPU: Intel Core i3, AMD FX 2.4GHz
Memory: 4GB
GPU: OpenGL 4.0, Nvidia GTX 460, AMD Radeon HD 5750, Intel HD 630
HDD: 35GB
Recommended
CPU: Intel Core i5, AMD Ryzen 5
Memory: 8GB
GPU: OpenGL 4.3, Nvidia GTX 680, AMD Radeon RTX 580, Intel Xe-HPG
Rebirth struggles with the concept of ‘outside’.
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mnesia: The Dark Descent is one of the PC’s best loved horror games, so this direct follow-up had enormous expectations to meet. Judging by the number of times our teammates heard our shouts at it, we’d say it succeeded. Navigating dark and cramped corridors with no way to directly combat the abominations pursuing you may not be as novel today as it was a decade ago, but it’s as terrifying as ever, and Rebirth takes the series to even more profoundly disturbing places. It makes The Dark Descent look downright adorable in comparison.
Enter the darkness
It’s almost impossible to say anything specific about the plot, characters or locations without spoiling the expertly crafted story. Here are just the basic details, then. The beleaguered protagonist Tasi Trianon, brought to life with a superb performance by Alix Wilton Regan, finds herself marooned in the Algerian desert in 1937 with, of course, amnesia. Trekking through dark and foreboding locales (most of which we can’t even hint at in good conscience), finding notes and photos to piece together her past, while evading nightmare horrors using stealth and speed, all feel very familiar. But the stakes are much higher and the journey is much, much weirder. If The Dark Descent scratched the surface of the Amnesia mythos and 2013’s A Machine for Pigs gave us a glimpse below the skin, Rebirth takes us all the way into its Eldritch heart.