Amnesia: The Bunker

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An excellent survival horror game. The setting, a French bunker under the European front line during the first world war, is dark, claustrophobic and full of stuff. The dark tunnels really stay dark, unless you manage to get the lights on or dare to crank the flashlight. The environment combined with good audio design really sell the horror. This should be played with surround headphones, preferably in a dark room. I have not played any other [i] Amnesia [/i] games, so I can't say how this one compares to the rest. Nevertheless, this one is an amazing survival horror experience. The story is pretty bare bones though, told almost entirely through notes and diary entries found in the bunker. Your singular objective is to survive and escape and the rest is just for flavor and that's just fine for me. The monster reacts to your action, mainly to any sound you make, be it a slamming door, a gunshot to a padlock or a crackling distress flare on the ground. Like the alien in [i] Alien: Isolation [/i] moves around in vents, this monster darts around the map in tunnels and emerges through holes in the walls almost anywhere in the bunker. The monster might also just prowl around the corridors looking for you and breaking anything in it's path. It's all in all not a very long game, around 10 hours maybe. But trying to manage the darkness can make those minutes spent in the dark looking for fuel feel like hours. During the game you find new tools that help you on your journey but in the start, all you have is an empty revolver and a hand operated, loud-as-hell flashlight. After a certain point, some resource scarcity will get trivial and you might be swimming in fuel and hand grenades. A saving grace is the multiple difficulty settings, including a custom difficulty setting unlocked after the first play trough. The resources, items and traps are also mostly placed randomly in every play through, so there is replay value also.