Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

“But excluding those two mini bonuses, the gameplay is abysmal.”

“First of all, the game is very short, usually only taking 3-5 hours to complete for its price, and the main function and purpose of the series, which is the sanity mechanic is removed from this game, which defeats the entire purpose of the series and if it were added, it could definitely be much more scarier, but overall, you're basically playing a horror visual novel.”

“The gameplay lacks a lot of interactivity elements compared to the first game, the puzzles are not clever or interesting, nor meaningful but since you have just a few interactable elements in the game you usually pass through the puzzles etc. without even noticing just click on every interactable object and that's it.”

“The atmosphere at the beginning is very dense, it speeds up in the middle of the game and completely ceases to be terrifying.”

“The enemies are not scary, the atmosphere is not tense, and the environments are incredibly bland (mostly industrial).”

“The atmosphere isn't much different from the first although in actuality the creatures chasing you are far more horrifying, the locales are even more twisted, and the ambient sounds really mess with your mind; however, the monster itself isn't that scary, killing some of the early atmosphere.”

“The music felt way too grand and at times repetitive to the point of annoyance, not very fond of the repetitive children singing.”

“No shift to tense music, no dramatic sound effects, you can basically walk right by them... there is no sanity meter in this game so there really isn't any pressure.”

“The music is also a total step down and the intense music when being chased is not scary and really the only thing that might scare you is a loud noise something that occurs frequently throughout the game.”

“The graphics are also dark and muddied so much so that it's difficult to see anything half the time.”

“I had really bad screen tearing that was not correctable no matter the adjustments I made to vsync, graphics, resolution, etc. I had to turn off so many things right out of the gate as the visual effects were determined to give me a headache (radial blur, mouse smoothing, light bloom, image trail, sepia, etc.).”

“The graphics are terrible and muddy.”

“This game's performance is in the bin; it shouldn't be available for sale, especially for the price on offer.”

“Many optimization issues: I've got a powerful PC (7900XT and 5800X) and still had many laggy and terrible framerate areas that I had to toggle adaptive sync just to get steady frames; also the game crashed a lot (I didn't have either problem in Amnesia: The Dark Descent).”

“The game was very, very badly optimized, running all game from 23 to 60 fps no matter the settings. Don't know how from the first game, which was perfect, you can mess up this much most of the game.”

“Boring story until the end.”

“Boring story, absolutely nothing like Amnesia: The Dark Descent.”

“Boring gameplay, not even scary, too short, too easy game and puzzles, a boring story which you can guess halfway through.”

“I'd say don't pay more than £5: this is a 12-year-old game that is very short and has near-zero replay value unless they come up with direct sequels or prequels.”

“All this combined with a play time of under 3 hours, with zero replay value (you can get every achievement in a single run if you find all of the notes), make Machine for Pigs unworthy of anyone's money.”

“In my opinion, that is way too much for a game that has no replayability and is simply a downgrade from the older Amnesia.”

“Maybe the worst offense is that the game is very repetitive and outright tedious. For the last hour or so I was just hoping for the game to end while trudging through the forced slow walking and gameplay consisting of opening the same kind of special door and pulling the same levers and valves over and over.”

“The game makes it painfully obvious through in-game text and resources exactly what you're supposed to do, turning puzzles into gratuitous chores that only add to the tediousness.”

“Objectives are generally more confusing at first glance compared to the first game, but at the same time, they're very easy and tedious due to the fact that they mostly involve walking to specific points and interacting with specific things.”

“Truly unepic and unfunny.”

“Without grounding, you can never be sure what's supposed to be funny or scary, because you don't know what's normal.”

“You can see around 5 monsters for 5 minutes together, and there's one 'boss fight'... if I can call it that. The game is boring, not funny, and worst of all - it's not scary!”

“Buggy mess, can't interact with the world or pick up things, game crashes constantly causing your save to become corrupt.”

“The game also introduces problems of its own: far less to interact with than the original which affects potential puzzle ideas, tons of copy-pasted assets from the original (which makes the previous point of interactivity even more irritating); the whole game is buggy and unstable (fps dipped from 60 to 40 whenever literally anything noteworthy happened, like a scripted startle or voice acting kicking in, game crashing constantly [which even corrupted a save file, thank god this game autosaves constantly], carrying certain objects was clearly overlooked in the testing phase of development [you'd be amazed at what you can do with the rugby ball in the first chapter of the game]); and inconsistent design concepts (holding an item and throwing it via right-click falls pathetically short so as to not soft lock the player in certain sections, but flinging the camera around and releasing left click yeets massive items into oblivion such as pig carcasses [i even got myself nearly softlocked at one point messing around with that. don't throw the pig carcass on the roof of the truck you have to refuel]).”

“Plus not to mention the fact that glitches are basically a death sentence if they cause your game to crash as it will corrupt your save data and you have to restart the entire game.”

“What a flipping cash grab!”

“As I said before, it is a cash grab, don't buy this game, Steam customer support is useless and they never fix it.”

“Attaching itself to the Amnesia brand feels like a manipulative cash grab, a cynical attempt at tricking gamers into buying a game that would otherwise probably sell far less.”

“There also is no real character development of the children, and no real reveals of the relationship your character has with his children.”

“Lack of motivation, lack of character development, nothing really makes sense and by the end of the game I had just given up reading notes because they were all just absolute nonsense written with really fancy words.”

“Collectables fail to add world-building or character development and become useless and tedious to read after a while.”