Amnesia 4 The Bunker should mark a real leap forward for the license. Gone are the basic interactions with the scenery, make way for guns and totally free puzzles.
For the past few days, Frictionnal Games has been sharing short clips from its Amnesia The Bunker, the fourth installment in the franchise, and showing us new game mechanics never before seen in the license.
Far from an anxiety-provoking The Dark Descent and a wobbly A Machine for Pigs, Amnesia had already tried to reinvent itself a bit with Rebirth in 2020, but beyond a few more open sequences than usual and a drastically different story from previous games, the recipe was the same. As successful as it is, the series Amnesia acts mainly as a ghost train where interactions with the scenery are often limited to rummaging around in search of documents and other useful objects. But with The Bunkerthings should change.
Amnesia The Bunker will bring something new
If we do not yet have clear information on the game, we do know that this Amnesia The Bunker will bet on a particularly claustrophobic atmosphere, and like an Alien Isolation we will be constantly chased by a creature much more powerful than us. However, it will now be possible to defend yourself with firearms, at least a revolver with limited mutinies.
But as a bonus, Amnesia the Bunker will also allow us to interact with the scenery to solve puzzles in a perfectly free way. Frictionnal Games illustrates these new mechanics by showing us that it will be possible, for example, to open a door in several ways, such as destroying it with a barrel, either by shooting at it, or by setting it on fire from any what other ways, or by throwing objects directly at it. It seems pretty meager from here, but for the license, it’s already a big leap forward and we can already expect other similar game mechanics.
For now, Amnesia The Bunker has only been presented once, but should most certainly be more by 2023. The game is expected on PS5, Xbox Series and PC but does not yet have a release date.
