- Announcing Amnesia: Design Works 🌹 - 12 November 2025
Another descent into darkness.Amnesia: Design Works delves deep into the writing, design and art of the Amnesia series. From Castle Brennenburg down into the darkest Bunker.Amnesia: Design Works chronicles the development of all four games in the Amnesia series; Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs, Amnesia: Rebirth and Amnesia: The Bunker. Written by Toussaint Egan and designed by Callin Mackintosh, Amnesia: Design Works comes in both Standard and Deluxe Editions with around 200 pages of fascinating, frightening, and phenomenal new secrets and behind-the-scenes concept art.Amnesia: Design Works' Deluxe Edition is rich with fan collectables including postcards printed with concept art and sketches, replica notes from The Bunker, embossed bookmarks, a slipcase, a large-scale folded print, and an embroidered patch.We are beyond stoked to share this with you and immensely…
- Frictional Games Mod Jam 2024: Escape Room Edition - 28 May 2024
Passwords, puzzles, hidden clues… In true Bunker fashion there is one goal in an escape room - get out. We're thrilled to announce the Frictional Mod Jam 2024: Escape Room Edition, where creativity meets strategy, and innovation intertwines with mystery. This is your chance to showcase your ingenuity, puzzle-solving prowess, and narrative flair by designing an escape room experience that captivates and thrills players. Join us over the summer for an event focused on HPL modding! You’re welcome to participate alone or in a small team (up to 4 people). For peer support, head on over to our Discord server. The winner(s) will receive A3-sized posters and a secret prize The winners will also receive Steam-keys to any Frictional game of their choice. This Frictional Fan Jam is specifically for HPL modding. You are free to use HPL2 and HPL3, or even HPL1 if you’re brave enough. Duration: May 2…
- Announcing two new Frictional Games bundles! - 26 April 2024
We just launched TWO new Frictional Games bundles on Steam! These are curated for you who would like to explore more of the same themes - without having to buy all games at once. Two bundles with focus on Frictional's most favorite things - stories and horror. Frictional Survival Horror Collection: A collection of the most Survival Horror heavy Frictional Games titles. Put your brave face on and embrace terror. Bundle includes: Penumbra Collectors Pack Amnesia: The Dark Descent Amnesia: The Bunker Frictional Story-Rich Collection A selected collection for you who enjoy tales of psychological horror and existential dread. Bundle includes: Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs SOMA Amnesia: Rebirth Buy these bundles and get an extra 15% off! https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/41033/Frictional_Survival_Horror_Collection/ https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/41032/Frictional_Story_Rich_Collection/
- Frictional Collection at 60% discount this week! - 22 April 2024
As a big THANK YOU to our loyal fans you can now complete your Frictional Collection at a super low price! 🩵 This week only, the Frictional Collection is down to 60% off - this means that if you own ANY or no game of ours, the rest is more than half off! ⏰ Frictional Collection includes: Amnesia: The Bunker Amnesia: Rebirth SOMA Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Amnesia: The Dark Descent Penumbra Collectors Pack https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/6817/Frictional_Collection/
- Record discount on Amnesia: The Bunker and A Machine For Pigs! - 15 January 2024
Happy new year everyone! We’re kicking off 2024 with a record discount on Amnesia: The Bunker! For one week only you can grab the game at a 35% discount. We just launched the Accessibility patch with a bunch of new features, as well as the recent Halloween Update which introduced whole new ways to experience the Bunker. If you're hungry for more we also have Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs at 90% off! There hasn’t been a better time to strap in for some good ole’ horror madness. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1944430/Amnesia_The_Bunker/
- Snag a free horror game to celebrate Amnesia The Bunker's launch - 6 June 2023
With Amnesia The Bunker finally out in the world, horror game fans will be happy to hear that a previous entry in the series is now available for free. You'll have to be quick though, as while it is part of the Amnesia The Bunker celebrations, the game is only available for a limited time. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Amnesia The Bunker detonator handle location Amnesia The Bunker wrench location Amnesia The Bunker dynamite location
- Claim a free copy of Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs on GOG - 6 June 2023
To celebrate the release of the new Amnesia: The Bunker, GOG are giving away free copies of Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/claim-a-free-copy-of-amnesia-a-machine-for-pigs-on-gog
- Amnesia: The Bunker Demo out now! - 23 May 2023
Amnesia: The Bunker DEMO is available Today! Trapped in a WW1 bunker, a relentless monster stalks you. Survival depends on finding tools, crafting items, and keeping the lights on. Full game launches on June 6 - wishlist now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1944430/Amnesia_The_Bunker/
- Amnesia: The Bunker prep - Frictional Games Fan Jam 2023! - 5 January 2023
In anticipation of the upcoming launch of Amnesia The Bunker we are hosting a Frictional Games Fan Jam! We all know them, we all love them - the Grunt, Terry Akers, The Pigs, the Wraiths. The theme for this year’s Fan Jam is Frictional Games Monsters. Submit your most haunting creations for a chance to win Amnesia: The Bunker A3 posters and Amnesia: The Bunker Game Keys at launch. Duration: 5th of January until 26th of January Theme: Frictional Games Monsters Medium of your choice - video essay, 2D/3D art, music, mods, short stories, sky’s the limit! You can submit your creation by posting an image/video or a link to your work in the following channels: On Twitter and Instagram – you should tag @frictionalgames and mark the submission with #FrictionalFanJam On Discord – you can share the project in the #2023_winter_jam channel. If you don’t have a social media account, please send your…
- Amnesia returns in 2023 with new WWI sandbox horror - 1 December 2022
The Amnesia series is returning in 2023 with another instalment in the long-running indie horror series, plonking us down in the already horrendous environments of World War I. With Amnesia: The Bunker , devs Frictional Games are also dialling down the scripted sequences in favour of a semi-open world survival sandbox. Steady your grip on your revolver and step into the dark to watch the trailer below. Read more
- Amnesia: Rebirth - Adventure Mode Out Now! - 30 March 2021
The free Adventure Mode update for Amnesia: Rebirth is out now! This new mode allows players to experience the game with reduced scares, where you don’t have to worry about darkness nor monsters attacking you. Continue reading and check out our Dev diary for more info: https://youtu.be/OlOyhsoUE9s https://store.steampowered.com/app/999220/Amnesia_Rebirth/ When we released “Safe mode” for SOMA some years ago we didn’t really know how it would be received or if it would make a difference at all to the players out there. Today we know that it was well worth the effort and that the mode allowed a whole new audience to experience the game. We got a lot of player feedback from people appreciating SOMA’s safe mode, and nearly every single interview leading up to the release of Amnesia: Rebirth contained the question “Will it come with a safe mode?”. This indicates to us that the mode has had a…
- Launching Amnesia Re-collection bundle (including Amnesia: Rebirth) - 26 February 2021
Amnesia Re-collection bundle We’re happy to announce that we’ve just launched our brand new Amnesia Re-collection bundle! It allows you to purchase any Amnesia titles that you don't currently own (including Amnesia: Rebirth) at a 20% discount. Amnesia: Rebirth added to the Frictional Collection Bundle We also want to highlight that if you are interested in getting all of our games we’ve just added Amnesia: Rebirth to our Frictional Collection bundle. Through that bundle you can, at a 25% discount, complete your collection of Frictional games. The bundle includes titles such as SOMA, Penumbra, and all of the Amnesia games. It's worth pointing out that when purchasing games through a bundle you only pay for the products that you do not yet own on Steam. Cheers, Frictional Games
- Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and Kingdom New Lands currently free on the Epic Store - 16 October 2020
If you're looking for a bit of spookiness as the nights draw in and Halloween approaches, developer The Chinese Room's Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is currently free on the Epic Store; and if you're not looking for a bit of spookiness, well, there's some good news on that front too: Kingdom New Lands is also currently free on the Epic Store. Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is, of course, the follow-up to Frictional Games' seminal horror effort, Amnesia: The Dark Descent. However, while it retains its predecessors focus on gloomy chills, its story of a Oswald Mandus - a wealthy industrialist in the last days of the 19th century - and his vast underground factory, swaps clever systems for a more guided narrative experience. Its scares aren't anywhere near as effectively orchestrated as those in The Dark Descent, but it's still a deliciously atmospheric tale of societal horror, with some truly…
- Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs is free on Epic right now - 16 October 2020
Tis the season to be spooky, so you might fancy grabbing a free copy of Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs from Epic to keep you quivering until Amnesia: Rebirth launches next week. Piggy-wigs was quite different for an Amnesia follow-up, having been made by Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture developers Thechineseroom rather than series creators Frictional Games, but it does have some jolly unpleasant parts. Defs worth a poke for the price. (more…)
- This week's free games from Epic include a perfect spooky game for October - 8 October 2020
October 15, 2020 Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and Kingdom: New Lands are now available to claim from the Epic Games Store. It's another Thursday, and that means it's time for another round of free PC games from the Epic Games Store. Rising Storm 2: Vietnam and Abzu are gone, but as always, there's a fresh set of freebies to replace them. Epic's setting the Halloween mood right with Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, which is now available alongside Kingdom: New Lands. You can grab both games from the Epic promotion page , and they'll be available until October 22 at 8:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 16:00 BST, when they'll be replaced by Costume Quest 2 and Layers of Fear 2. You'll 'purchase' the games for zero dollars a piece, at which point they'll appear in your Epic library and remain there forever. Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is the semi-sequel, semi spin-off of the original Amnesia: The Dark Descen…
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent is now open source - 23 September 2020
In the run-up to the release of Amnesia: Rebirth , Frictional Games are continuing to show love to their first Amnesia game for its tenth anniversary. Paying tribute to the modding community that’s played no small part in Amnesia’s longevity, Frictional have now released the source code for Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs freely online. (more…)
- Amnesia: Rebirth will continue Frictional's fine horror series in autumn - 6 March 2020
After a stretch of teasing and ARG puzzling , Soma developers Frictional Games today announced their next game, Amnesia: Rebirth. This autumn they’ll return to the first-person horror series that made their name with a new protagonist, a new setting, and new awfulness. Have a peek in the announcement trailer below. (more…)
- Sumo buys Everybody's Gone to the Rapture studio The Chinese Room - 14 August 2018
Sumo has bought The Chinese Room. The Crackdown 3 developer said it had acquired The Chinese Room, the studio behind Everybody's Gone to the Rapture and Dear Esther, from founders Dan Pinchbeck and Jessica Curry. Brighton-based Pinchbeck is on board as creative director of The Chinese Room, while Curry will continue her career independently as a composer, Sumo said. Pinchbeck added he's now working on new concepts. In a blog post , he said The Chinese Room is talking to potential partners about a new game, "something bigger"... "something that takes a more traditional game genre - no, you don't get to know what just yet - and lets us spin our worlds and stories on top of that. It's going to be very, very exciting." Read more…
- Boo! Both Amnesia games are free right now on Steam - 9 March 2018
If you have not bought the Amnesia first-person spookers intentionally, inadvertently acquired them in an old bundle you don’t really remember buying, nor grabbed them when they were free in January good news: both Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs are free for keepsies right now on Steam. What’s changed since the last giveaway? I still have not finished either of them, I’ll tell you that much. You go lock yourselves into dungeons with terrible monsters, I’ll be just fine where I am, thanks. (more…)
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent and A Machine for Pigs are currently free on PC - 25 January 2018
Those with a love of the macabre and a steely constitution are in for a treat; Amnesia: The Dark Descent and its follow-up A Machine for Pigs are currently free on the Humble Store. Developed by Frictional Games (the studio responsible for the terrifying SOMA ), Amnesia: The Dark Descent unfurls among the tenebrous stones of a vast and loathsome castle. It's as much a masterclass in psychological manipulation and suffocating atmosphere as it is in jump-scares, and is generally considered to be one of the finest horror experiences a person can have in front of their video game machine. I can personally only vouch for the excellent first few hours however, because it all got a bit too much for me after that. A Machine for Pigs, meanwhile, continues on with the series' Lovecraftian stylings, albeit with a touch more political subtext as you battle your way through a terrible, subterranean…
