Amnesia: The Bunker is the fourth instalment in Frictional Video games’ survival horror sequence, and it is a bit of a departure from earlier video games. You could possibly say that about 2020’s Amnesia: Rebirth too, with its sun-blanched Algerian setting, however The Bunker has weapons. That is fairly one thing, as a result of Amnesia principally popularised the cat-and-mouse format of recent survival horror, later adopted by video games like Outlast and Visage, to call a couple of.
Initially primed for a March 2023 launch, Amnesia: The Bunker will now launch a few months later, on Could 16. “The workforce right here at Frictional has had a troublesome winter with a slew of diseases that has affected the event,” the studio mentioned in its announcement. “We’re a small workforce and issues like this closely affect manufacturing.
“It is very important us to do the sport justice, and in mild of those halts in manufacturing we do not want to rush the top product. The workforce is working arduous to make The Bunker the most effective it may be, and some extra weeks will make the required distinction.”
Firepower is not the one novelty in Bunker. It’s going to have a semi-open world, the outcome being that almost all of its encounters might be unscripted. In response to inventive lead Fredrik Olsson, the studio goes for a extra “systemic, dynamic and emergent” strategy to horror, which stands in distinction with the closely scripted nature of earlier Frictional video games. In the identical article, Andy Chalk says the sport wends nearer to stealth than pure horror, noting that “the alchemy that made The Darkish Descent such a terrifying brain-melter simply would not have the efficiency it as soon as did.”
Appears like a tough needle to string. Amnesia: The Bunker hits Steam, Epic Video games Retailer and GOG on Could 16.