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Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs is free on Epic right nowThis world is a machine, a machine for pigs, fit only for the slaughtering of pigs
This world is a machine, a machine for pigs, fit only for the slaughtering of pigs
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First released in 2013, the first-person horror game is set in London at the turn of the 20th century and revolves around a great and terrible machine. Off you go, exploring, puzzling, and fleeing from oinkers. It ditches a few bits fromAmnesia: The Dark Descent, like the sanity and inventory systems, which disappointed some fans but it’s decent as its own thing.
Jim Rossignol called it “a marvellous, revolting, disturbing sequel to Dark Descent” in hisAmensia: A Machine For Pigs review:
“I could probably recommend A Machine For Pigs purely on the basis of its sound design. Few games pay as much attention to piling tension and startling you with sonics in the way that this does. It staggers violently between throbbing threat and violent, shuddering screams: sometimes of pigs, sometimes of tortured metal and failing machines, always of something that puts needles into that bit of your phrenology marked RUN AWAY. Going to open a door and having it BANGBANGBANGHOWL in your face is enough of a jump scare, but when the sound goes on and implies some vast machine starting up in the Earth beneath you, and architecture is buckling and coming down around you, and then pigs are screaming on the other side of the walls.
“Oh god.”
Head on over tothe Epic Games Storeto get Amensia: A Machine For Pigs free for keepsies. You’ll also findKingdom: New Lands, a sequel to the minimalist side-scrolling RTS, up for free. Both have been given away on various stores before, but what use is the past to us now?
Frictionalreleased the source codefor Dark Descent and Piggy-wigs last month too, if you fancy really rooting around in it (or waiting to see what other people do with this - dare you dream of VR support?).
Next week’s Epic freebies will also be spooky: Double Fine’s cute trick-or-treating RPGCostume Quest 2, and first-person explore-o-horror Layers Of Fear 2.
