Amnesia: Rebirth News

Amnesia: Rebirth gets new Adventure Mode that makes the game less frightening

Amnesia: Rebirth is undoubtedly a very beautiful game featuring a wealth of interesting environmental design ranging from the deserts and forts of Algeria, as well as more occult and mysterious settings. That said, it’s sometimes very difficult to see all of that when you’re scared out of your mind trying frantically to think of the best way forward through a deadly situation. To that end, Frictional Games has put together a mode to help keep your head on straight so you can see more of the work they poured into the story and environments of Amnesia: Rebirth and this Adventure Mode comes to the game in an update today.

Amnesia: Rebirth revealed the Adventure Mode update in a developer blog and dev diary on the studio’s YouTube channel on March 30, 2021. Available now on PC versions of the game on Steam, GOG, and Epic Games Store alongside a 40% discount, the Adventure Mode offers a far more risk and tension-free way to enjoy the game.

In Amnesia: Rebirth’s Adventure Mode, the story still plays out the same, but monsters won’t attack, the environments are lit up a bit more for easy navigation and observation, and the fear mechanics are removed so you don’t have to mind your positioning as much around enemies and darkness. To balance things out, a few new bonus puzzles are added to Adventure Mode to keep you on your toes and engaged with the otherwise easier-to-handle scenario.

For our money, Amnesia: Rebirth’s design, narrative choices, and mechanics served to make it an excellently crafted horror title worthy of a sparkling Shacknews review and our Best Horror Game of 2020.

That said, we can’t help but be intrigued by the opportunity to explore Amnesia’s rather gorgeous and well-designed environments, props, and foes in a way we simply couldn’t before. Likewise, if you want to enjoy all of the intriguing narrative Amnesia: Rebirth without all of the nervous tension that comes with playing it in its standard form, Adventure Mode looks like a great way to go with it. You can check out the mode now on PC with a PS4 version of the mode coming soon.

Frictional Games рассказала о продажах Amnesia: Rebirth и SOMA, студия уже сейчас занята новыми проектами

Команда Frictional Games отчиталась о показателях продаж своих последних релизов. В поле внимания попали две хоррор-игры - Amnesia: Rebirth, дебютировавшая осенью прошлого года, и SOMA, с которой аудитория впервые познакомилась еще в 2015 году.

Launching Amnesia Re-collection bundle

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 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

Disappearing UI elements fixed

When we released Amnesia: Rebirth in October we were quite happy to see that very few major bugs got reported. At Frictional we have tried to adopt a “zero defect policy” throughout the development of Rebirth, which basically means that defects and bugs should be fixed as soon as they pop up, and that approach seems to have paid off.

However, during the first few weeks of this year we started seeing an influx of reports surrounding a new specific type of bug. It seemed text, crosshair, interaction icons and menu art started disappearing a bit randomly, while people were playing the game. As you can imagine, this took us a bit by surprise and since we couldn’t reproduce this thing ourselves we felt quite powerless as to how we could do something about this.

Luckily, a few weeks back, we actually experienced the same issue myself on one our own PCs. This finally gave us something to work with and we eventually managed to trace this bug back to a Windows 10 patch that was released late last year. It seemed that in certain cases the GPU was reading data before the CPU had finished writing it, causing UI elements to randomly disappear.

With the help of our friends at Nvidia we managed to find a way to fix this issue and after having had this tested out on our BETA branch on Steam (thanks everyone for helping out with the tests!), we now feel confident that the problem has been solved.

The new patch has already gone live here on Steam with the Steam BuildID: 6257379

If you encounter bugs or problems, please reach out to us on our support platform here: https://frictionalgames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us

Vote for Amnesia: Rebirth in the Steam Awards

With the fall sale in full force, we add our first sale with 15% off of Amnesia: Rebrith!

This also means that the Steam Award nominations are live!

Steam awards is important to us. It's your award, the players voting for their favorite games of the year. We truly believe that the game has something unique to offer, and that the amazing work both the team and Alix has done is worth all the recognition it can get.

That's why we need your help in this. If you feel like Amnesia: Rebrith made an impact on you we encourage you to nominate us in a category of your choice! Why not Outstanding Story-Rich Game?

Happy to see so many enjoying the game, and we are more than grateful for your support!