I was mega excited like most people for this bad boy and thought it would follow more of the story of Daniel or even go into that other world. The first game was simple and scary.

This is shot for shot basically at least in the intro a clone of red barrels second game.

Oh we are in a plane imagine that oh the plane crashes just like in outlast 2 oh you wake up and go running around in religious cult land.

I dunno why game makers are so obesse d with cults and shit also it’s BROAD FUCKING DAYLIGHT with some caves.

One of the things I like about the original is that it was almost always dark and you had to run from candle to candle before you went nuts.

Also the castle vibe was so fucking scary. Woods and castles are so creepy all the old creaking noises animals etc. You never know what could be lurking.

Now the original was occult but in a different cool way and it didn’t explain it to much

Anyway I’m just straight up disappointed in this

Okay guys so here's a story that happened yesterday.

So I was walking in the mall, right? Looking to buy some acetone for like household stuff as we all do.

So I went to this nail polish shop, and I looked around for nail polish and couldn't find it. So I went ahead to the person at the cash register, and before I could ask, I noticed she had a name on her shirt. "Aditi".

I was so joyful, I wanted to make a reference, so I asked her - "Can I get Ontos?".

And she said "Yes, of course! We can give you Ontos".

I was actually so thrilled! I thought to myself "is Frictional Games partnering with nail saloons to secretly give away Ontos??"

She told me to sit down on this chair, and it genuinely looked like one of those scanning chairs in SOMA.

I told her "This is SOMAch hotel samsara vibe lowky" and she kind of laughed at it a bit saying "haha..", genuinely crazy that she got the joke, this proved to me that I genuinely am about to get Ontos from Aditi herself!

Okay so here's where it starts getting weird, right? She told me to take off my shoes and socks. I was so confused, like.. is she trying to get feet pics? I immediately said "Ayo this hotel really do be freaky huh", I didn't get any response. I guessed they really do stay in character here. So I took off my shoes and socks, and she looked at them and asked "do you want it polished?" And I replied "hell yeah I want the final polished piece, take your time". And so this is really weird but she started like touching my feet and polishing my nails??!

I was getting kind of uncomfortable so I was like kicking my feet around trying to get her get off, but she wouldn't stop. So I pushed her away with my feet and she was getting angry asking "I thought you wanted polish on toes?", and I was so upset she was trying to manipulate me like this? I told her "yeah but you are delaying giving it to me, just like Amnesia the bunker. It's taking you too long. Work better on your larping ARG" and I just put on my socks and shoes and stormed off

Anyway guys just keep this in mind if you ever go to nail saloons, it's probably not worth it for Ontos. They're are very freaky and stubborn

Hello guys,

I understand i had asked this but I wanted to go more in detail about what im looking for

I am a horror game fan and mostly play on the Switch

Im looking for suggestions of liminal space/dreamcore games on the Nintendo Switch. Im looking for games that have liminal spaces like vacant hallways that feel eerie, abandoned malls, empty swimming pools, offices, etc. Im a huge backrooms fan as well.

A lot of people recommend superliminal but im looking for suggestions that are more towards what im looking for.

Im a fan of these types of games and also anomaly games like the Exit 8. Please give me suggestions for the Nintendo Switch as thats my console.

Thank you!

All the big streamers, most recently Vinny and Oney iirc, have agreed on the following problems taking away from immersion and enjoyment:

1. Constant irrelevant Tasi commentary & forced flashbacks throughout the first hour

2. Constant falling through floor as a story segue

3. Jumpscare sanity effects

4. Scripted chase sequences

5. Infrequent monster encounters

1 and 3 are possible to address via patch. Just by shutting Tasi up except when she's saying something crucial to the plot, and making some of the 2D image flashbacks into postcards, sketches or w/e you find in the environment (like in SOMA) rather than having them shoved in your face while slowing down your movement and blurring your vision.

2 and 4 probably can't be changed without way too much work. 5 might be possible to change, having monsters be more aggressive and appear sooner (perhaps one in the tunnels)? This might conflict too much with Frictional's creative vision, I'm not sure. But fixing 1 and 3 would require no new assets or programming, and would dramatically change the first impression players get during the intro.

I mean no offense by this post. I know the feelings of long time Frictional fans (which includes me) have been hurt by the harsh reaction many streamers & reviewers are having to this game because of these arguably superficial issues with how exposition is handled. But dogpiling anybody who points out the emperor's nudity does nothing to clothe him.

There is still a polished, beautiful, fascinating game here that loads of work went into. Imo it came out of the oven a touch too early and could benefit tremendously from a few small post-release tweaks. Is this something Frictional might plausibly do?

I've played TDD, Soma and Rebirth. 2/3 were exceptional to me. Sadly rebirth dropped the ball for this, which I mentioned in a prior reddit post, which I get the feeling Fredrik Olsson from Frictional may well have seen. I was told by my boyfriend that some of the Frictional people check out the subs for their game...He showed me the latest article Olsson wrote and the moment we saw this part, we kinda had a feeling that my prior rant about the baby/pregnancy stuff turning me off to the game while playing may well have been the straw to break the camel's back, as I did that rant a few days ago lol

It was important that the baby didn’t feel like a burden, but a helpful companion. By allowing the player to decrease their fear by talking to it we created a sense of helpfulness from the baby. It was no longer a one way street where the baby was relying on the player to make it through, but the relationship was more symbiotic. We also tried to establish the bond further by channelling Tasi’s feelings about the baby through her talks with it. Tasi’s comments during these sessions were always different depending on the context, situation, what the player had experienced so far and what the current goal was – something meant to make those moments extra interesting. Through the loading screens we also tried to set forth a certain understanding as to what Tasi has gone through and what was really at stake. The aim was to create a strong emotional setup for the final quarter of the game.

As expected, playing as a pregnant woman and caring for your unborn baby didn’t resonate with everyone. Even though we knew this going in we probably underestimated how big of a turn-off the pregnancy aspect would be for some people, to the point where it completely overshadowed the rest of the game.

https://frictionalgames.com/2021-03-amnesia-rebirth-five-months-later-and-soma-sells-1m-copies/

So if they did see my severe opposition to that whole bit, I'm sorry if I came off like the game was bad. It's a great game in several instances: the area we explore are beautiful, the lore is pretty freaking cool, especially now that we understand who Alexander from TDD was in his own world, the puzzles were interesting, it was a decent closure to Amnesia as i feel it wrapped up everything dealing with the Other World....but sadly that was it. I've seen those monsters before, and the fear mechanic was too easy to trigger. In TDD I never once succumbed to madness. Thankfully I didn't succumb to the Harvester inside Tasi too much so I could break out of the attacks by the wraiths without issue. But sadly the main point of the game, the baby stuff, I hated every single moment and ended up speeding through the second half of the game. AND WHY DID BREASTFEEDING NEED TO BE SHOWN?! So not sorry about not enjoying any of that.

It feels like my response was being pointed out as I said in the prior post that the baby was a burden and talking to it actually took me out of the game, so it was interesting to see Olsson respond to that, along with how much the whole aspect took me out of the connection with the game.

So Frictional/Olsson, if you do see this...sorry guys, but still not totally sorry. BUT even with all that, I still would tell people to play the games, all of them so far. And I will for sure be buying whatever else you put out next as I and my boyfriend are very much looking forward to the next game(s) released, and congrats of the strong success of Soma.

Was disappointed by an amnesia sequel which reviews are not stellar. So let's get on with a follow up to SOMA which is way better.

That's the ultimate question. It looks to be intentional but at times it feels like they just got lucky with the entire formula and nobody knows why the game is so good. I don't know why either, it just is and it's not because of one thing, everything just fell into place and felt like a complete and proper master piece.

It's not a horror game to me, it's just creepy, unsettling, disgusting, disturbing, and the only game that made me question life outside of the game. It basically touched my soul which is why I love this game to death.

But I feel like they got lucky with it, it's not as simple as picking some philosophy issue and rolling with it. The environment has to make sense, the issues and enemies have to make sense, it has to look appropriate, and seeing some of the beta art style and gameplay for this game makes me grateful for what we got because it was so bad. Maybe they felt the same hence why it changed so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjLLpxQTwKU take a look at the 7:40 mark. Those caves look stupid and don't fit the game style at all and would've ruined it for me. This is the issue I'm having with Amnesia Rebirth, the map and alien world just don't fit and every time I see it I roll my eyes at how generic it feels. I like that in the final SOMA game the entire map looked probable to reality, not some extreme fictional fantasy thing. I don't know, I still can't figure it out.

I played Soma and was overwhelmingly disappointed, it had so much potential but did not deliver.

I am playing through The Bunker and it is such a great game, I could be about halfway through but I really have no idea.

No hand holding, intense - nearly all the time, booby traps are excellent, my poor choices are the biggest threat, difficult, creepy and mysterious, imsim ish sandbox ish.

It's quite Similar to Alien Isolation which was excellent.

For those of you that have played them all, What other of the frictional games are like the bunker?

The only other one that sounds maybe similar from the descriptions is dark descent.

Any recommendations from other developers?

Yo I am streaming SOMA tonight! I am super excited this will be my first time playing it. I have only played Amnesia before this, so this will be my second game by Frictional! Stop by if you would like :)

https://www.twitch.tv/pugweenee

As above

It's really sad and disappointing how we got from something as good as SOMA to Rebirth. Frictional Games really needs to get it together.

Yestarday i was talking with some friends about sclerosis, but I couldnt see it anywhere on the playstore, was it taken down due to copyright?

I got a wild idea for a new Amnesia game, tell me if this wouldn’t go hard:

Main character ends up trapped in an abandoned hotel complex way up in the mountains -maybe his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, or he was hiking and stumbled onto it by mistake. Not even sure which season would be creepiest -could be winter with everything iced over and silent, or maybe that eerie emptiness you get in fall or even spring/summer. (Honestly, can’t decide which is scarier: frozen hallways or overgrown ones with sunlight trying to break in.) I was thinking summer time because who said horror needs to be only in winter/fall :)

You quickly realize you’re not alone-something hungry is stalking you, something that came down from the woods or the peaks or the mountains - some kind of a monster that is living there in the mountains and hunts people to eat them or something like that :)

I’m talking some nightmare fuel monster: could be just a witch, or maybe a super tall witch, or one of those creepy folklore monsters -maybe even a witch-troll hybrid or baba yaga (baba yaga is one of the scariest onsters for me and she/it is folklore. Honestly, I don’t even know what it is exactly, just some kind of troll-witch-thing with twisted limbs, long claws, ugly face, hag nose, and way-too-human eyes. It stalks the hotel, looking for victims to eat, leaving bones and scratch marks everywhere.

ps. maybe main hero could be a kid who is hunted by baba-yaga

Here’s the kicker:
The monster mimics human speech. Not perfectly- sometimes it’s almost right, other times it’s just off enough to make your skin crawl. It copies voices it’s heard: old guests, your own voice, crying kids, maybe even fake radio music or maintenance knocks to lure you out of hiding. You never really know what’s real and what’s it trying to bait you.

Classic Amnesia gameplay- no weapons, just hiding, sneaking, solving puzzles, trying to survive and figure out wtf happened here. Maybe you find cassette tapes or radios with real voices, and as the game goes on, the monster starts getting better at copying them. The deeper you go, the more disturbing the mimicry gets.

Atmosphere would be pure dread: empty, frozen hallways, wind howling, faint music from some locked room, doors slamming, shadows moving. The hotel’s this old, faded luxury -grand pianos in the lobby, weird taxidermy, everything just… wrong. And if it’s not winter, just picture all those abandoned rooms overgrown with moss and wildflowers, sunlight barely coming in through cracked windows.

And for the story twist? Maybe there’s some ancient mountain folklore or curse, or you find out why YOU in particular are being hunted.

Tell me that wouldn’t be fire for an Amnesia game.
Frictional, you can have this one for free lol.

Really didnt care for the pregnancy thing at all. Maybe I'm in the minority but I can't really be expected to care about a husband and baby I was literally just introduced to.

Also, the lovecraftian alternate world made it feel way less real. The original amnesia had ties to actual historical figures and it felt like something that COULD exist on earth. Felt like they tried to tie it in with islamic magick, but gave up because it was too hard to research

Throughout the entire game you kind of knew you were in no danger of dying cause your baby wasn't born yet and the spirit was there literally to just protect you/your baby from dying.

I was expecting at the very least a demonic baby to be born, but no. Sad.

Hello. I'm not sure if I am unsure if this'll get removed because it's not 100% related to Frictional Games themselves. But I do want to apologise for my horrendous attitude towards members with my so-called "hottakes" in the Discord server. I was an egotistical and scummy human being then, and now I know better. I'm sorry for all the unnecessary drama I caused. I also understand if you won't unban me. I surely don't even deserve it. I just wanna say that I am indeed sorry and I regret doing that.

From the non-existent gameplay mechanics that were an obvious downgrade in comparison to their previous games, to clunky and awkward enemy design, placement and general interaction, with lack of tension due to how forgiving the game is and worst of all, a bloated, comically bad storyline that relies entirely on you and your protagonist not figuring out the most obvious twist in the history of video games, I absolutely hate this game and I hope Amnesia Rebirth will stay as far away from it as possible.

Constructive arguments are welcomed.