
In an interview with Lewie Proctor for RockPaperShotgun in March, Dan Pinchbeck (lecturer in games design at Portsmouth and co-founder/creative director at TCR) said “It has to be absolutely, bone-shatteringly, terrifying. Thechineseroom are looking to continue the series’ reputation for horror. Coinciding with the end of the Bundle’s sale period seems as good a time as anyway, however. You can find HD screenshots from the teaser at the bottom of this post.įrictional had originally intended to release the video in celebration of reaching a given number of sales on the Humble Indie Bundle 5, but any figure they might have chosen was smashed before they could arrange anything. At midnight on Thursday, the website was updated with a new logo and a hidden link to a teaser trailer. Three days ago, a small and understated countdown appeared on the Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs website. Having lost his wife and children on an expedition to Mexico, he wakes in an enormous abattoir of his own design with no memory of the past several months.


A Machine For Pigs – which is incidentally the single best title ever held by a video game – is the story of Oswald Mandus, a Victorian industrialist in the year 1899. It is being developed by thechineseroom – they of Dear Esther – with the Amnesia’s creators Frictional Games playing the role of producers. A midnight countdown ends with the a teaser and first look at Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs, by thechineseroom and Frictional Games.Īmnesia: A Machine For Pigs is the thematic sequel to 2010’s terrifying game of esoteric mysticism, torture and gibbering quietly in a corner while abominations of science roam the dusty halls of a Prussian castle.
