A wonderful addition to the Amnesia series, The Bunker turns the horror adventure series into actual survival horror in the classic sense! Resource management, backtracking, choosing between fighting and fleeing, solving puzzles, exploration... it's all there! And it's all so fine tuned and perfected.

The game has gameplay similar to that of The Dark Descent and Rebirth, with a structure more akin to that of the original Resident Evil games from the 90s, the stalker enemy(Nemesis) from RE3, and a WW1 setting.

The introduction of weapons is subversive, as it's practically just another tool: You can't kill the monster with it! At best you can hurt it and make it flee, but only if you have the ammo for it - and ammo is very, very scarce! And you might have to save that one bullet you have for shooting off a padlock or ignite gasoline. There is one enemy you can actually kill in the game, but even then you can choose to instead sneak past. And then there are the rats, of course...

When you have completed it once, you're able to unlock "New Game+" options, which essentially lets you decide a lot of difficulty parameters. One of the choices is to add fuse boxes to the game, which is required for Shell Shock difficulty. And I can highly advise playing the game with this on! It makes the game feel so good, as it adds another puzzle step that feels natural, and incentivises more exploration(to find fuses). It almost feels like this was the intended way to play, and then Frictional Games removed them from the standard way to play to make it easier. But I don't think it makes it any harder, just more fun!

Honestly, this was absolutely fantastic!

100% in 23 hours.

A wonderful addition to the Amnesia series, The Bunker turns the horror adventure series into actual survival horror in the classic sense! Resource management, backtracking, choosing between fighting and fleeing, solving puzzles, exploration... it's all there! And it's all so fine tuned and perfected. The game has gameplay similar to that of The Dark Descent and Rebirth, with a structure more akin to that of the original Resident Evil games from the 90s, the stalker enemy(Nemesis) from RE3, and a WW1 setting. The introduction of weapons is subversive, as it's practically just another tool: You can't kill the monster with it! At best you can hurt it and make it flee, but only if you have the ammo for it - and ammo is very, very scarce! And you might have to save that one bullet you have for shooting off a padlock or ignite gasoline. There is one enemy you can actually kill in the game, but even then you can choose to instead sneak past. And then there are the rats, of course... When you have completed it once, you're able to unlock "New Game+" options, which essentially lets you decide a lot of difficulty parameters. One of the choices is to add fuse boxes to the game, which is required for Shell Shock difficulty. And I can highly advise playing the game with this on! It makes the game feel so good, as it adds another puzzle step that feels natural, and incentivises more exploration(to find fuses). It almost feels like this was the intended way to play, and then Frictional Games removed them from the standard way to play to make it easier. But I don't think it makes it any harder, just more fun! Honestly, this was absolutely fantastic! 100% in 23 hours.