Mods ‘n’ Horrors

Any horror followers casting their minds again will fondly bear in mind Frictional Video games’ Amnesia: The Darkish Descent. Launched in 2010, this indie survival horror title rapidly turned probably the most terrifying video games of its period. Now, the developer has introduced that modding for it simply turned so much simpler by the Steam Workshop.

In a current submit on the Amnesia web page, Frictional has mentioned that in anticipation of Amnesia: The Bunker, which is due out in simply a few days, the workforce determined to allow the publishing of customized mods by way of Steam. The studio acknowledges that modding has develop into an enormous a part of the group. Locations like Nexus Mods have been an excellent supply of recent content material, however now there’s a brand new repository to get your modifications for Darkish Descent.

Whereas survival horror has at all times been round, it was the primary Amnesia launch that actually shook issues up. By introducing a mechanic that makes it unimaginable to defend your self, the sport turned a take a look at of mettle. Together with Minecraft, it just about birthed the early days of the YouTube Let’s Play video, as followers would problem themselves to see how far they may get earlier than changing into too scared.

Since then, there have been further entries within the collection, however none may fairly match the unbridled terror of the OG. There might by no means be something fairly like Amnesia: The Darkish Descent once more, however with The Bunker coming to Xbox Video games Cross, there’s going to be loads of horror followers who will likely be excited in regards to the new sport.

Andrew Heaton

Andrew has been a gamer because the seventeenth century Restoration interval. He now writes for quite a few on-line publications, contributing information and different articles. He doesn’t personal a powdered wig.

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