Amnesia: The Dark Descent News

Simplified Chinese now available for Amnesia: Rebirth and SOMA!

Dear Chinese players,

We love and value our Chinese-speaking fans and constantly strive to make our games more accessible – therefore we are happy to announce that Amnesia: Rebirth and SOMA are now available to play with Simplified Chinese subtitles and interface.

With the help from passionate friends at Testronic the latest update of Amnesia: Rebirth and SOMA now includes the option to play through the entire games in Simplified Chinese.

To change language setting:

Enter the main menu
Press “OPTIONS”
Press “GAME”
Scroll on the “Language” bar until you reach your desired language

If you run into any problems, contact our support.

To celebrate this occasion, we’re throwing a big sale on the entire Frictional Games library here on Steam!

So, if you or anyone you know has been holding off on playing these mind-boggling games because they have been waiting for a Chinese translation or sale – now is the time!

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Thank you and have a great time playing Amnesia: Rebirth and SOMA

Frictional Team

Amnesia: Rebirth - Adventure Mode Out Now!

[h3]The free Adventure Mode update for Amnesia: Rebirth is out now![/h3]
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:

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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 an important influence on SOMA’s reception. Now, we’ve created something very similar for Rebirth.

Safe mode allowed players to take in SOMA’s narrative, atmosphere, story and theme, without having to worry about monsters attacking them. And even though Amnesia: Rebirth has a foundation in the same kind of horror that once made Amnesia: The Dark Descent so successful, the game shares many characteristics with SOMA.

With Adventure Mode we hope that new players, that have a hard time handling horror as a genre, will get to experience Tasi’s story. That they will get to immerse themselves in the character and the unforgiving environments of Rebirth, as they fight for survival for themselves and those closest to them.

Playing the game in Adventure Mode still contains the same serious themes and story - and the atmosphere can still be quite unnerving at times - but the experience is going to be much less of a horror experience and more one of an epic adventure.

[h3]Here’s a summary of the features that comes with the new Adventure Mode:[/h3]

Monsters still exist in the game but they won’t attack you anymore.
Locations that contained pitch black darkness have been brightened up a lot, making environments possible to explore at one’s own pace, allowing for easier navigation and removes some of the oppressive atmosphere.
No active fear mechanic, meaning that you don’t have to worry about taking fear from being in darker areas or near monsters.
A few bonus puzzles.

For those of you who still want the horror experience, the Original mode is still available to you, but we hope that this new mode will be a nice alternative for others.

We are celebrating the release with a 40% discount on Amnesia: Rebirth, and 80% off on all our other games!

Launching Amnesia Re-collection bundle (including Amnesia: Rebirth)

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

Revisit the Silent Hill series in this Amnesia mod

Playing any of the classic Silent Hill games isn't easy these days. The PC port was a cold 18 years ago, and the last remaster was in 2012. For such a beloved horror game series it's criminally hard to play now, so a modder has created a refresher using Amnesia to make sure we remember it fondly.

Silent Hill: Respite is a visual novel mod of Amnesia: The Dark Descent that plays as a strange, in-universe memoriam of Silent Hill's better days. You start in a small diner, on one side is the mark of series antagonists The Order, and on the other is a notice board full of characters that are either dead or alive, each with a short description attached. Four songs from the collective soundtracks by Akira Yamaoka play as you wander around, or stare out into the thick fog outside.

Strewn around the room are Easter eggs and references, a guide to which you can watch below in a developer's commentary from creator TrollForce. The whole thing is meant as a small celebration of the first four Silent Hill games, and the community that still loves them. "Entries such as Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3, and Silent Hill 4: The Room are collected as memories and to show what the series has meant to the community," the ModDB description reads. "Team Silent and Silent Hill may be gone, but the memories and the lasting impact on horror will forever be in the hearts and minds of the fans of the revolutionary series."

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Amnesia: Rebirth - a new game in the Amnesia universe

Wishlist Amnesia: Rebirth now!

March 6, 2020

Ten years ago Amnesia: The Dark Descent heralded a new generation of horror. Five years ago, SOMA took us to fresh depths of terror. Now, steel yourself for the next nightmare as we at Frictional Games prepares to release Amnesia: Rebirth this autumn. A new story set in the world of Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Rebirth represents yet another evolutionary leap for Frictional games, challenging players to remain calm in the face of unimaginable terror.

Get a glimpse of what’s to come in today’s announcement trailer and first in-game images.

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Amnesia: Rebirth is a new descent into darkness in the iconic Amnesia series. Set in the desolate landscape of the Algerian desert, the game will focus on new character Tasi Trianon as she sets out on a harrowing journey through devastation and despair, personal terror and pain, while exploring the limits of human resilience.

You can’t let out a breath. The creature is only inches away. Its sole purpose - to feed off your terror. And so you crouch in the dark, trying to stop the fear rising, trying to silence what lies within you.

Retracing Tasi’s journey and pulling together the fragments of a shattered past will be the only chance to survive the pitiless horror that threatens to devour you. Time is against you. Still, you must continue, step by step, knowing that if you fail you will lose everything.

Amnesia: Rebirth is scheduled for release in autumn 2020 on PC and PlayStation 4. Wishlist on Steam in order to follow along with the updates as they are released.

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