The be blunt, Amnesia: Rebirth is a terrible sequel and simply not scary at all. It feels more like another A Machine for Pigs than a proper sequel, with more focus on the story and voice acting than actual horror and survival elements, and the entire game suffers as a result. Gone is the chilling 'you can get attacked anywhere' atmosphere, replaced with frequent cheap jumpscares, scripted short monster sequences, and literally zero punishment for 'dying' as... you simply cannot die, and if you 'die' enough, the game just pushes you forward.
However, the environments are stunning, some of the puzzles are quite clever, and the expansion of the Amnesia universe is quite nice as some questions raised in TDD are finally answered, but these few positives are dragged down by the many, many poor design choices.
If you came here expecting Soma's deep philosophical existential terror, or TDD's nail-biting tension and harrowing management of supplies and randomized enemy encounters, you will be sorely disappointed, just as I was.

The be blunt, Amnesia: Rebirth is a terrible sequel and simply not scary at all. It feels more like another A Machine for Pigs than a proper sequel, with more focus on the story and voice acting than actual horror and survival elements, and the entire game suffers as a result. Gone is the chilling 'you can get attacked anywhere' atmosphere, replaced with frequent cheap jumpscares, scripted short monster sequences, and literally zero punishment for 'dying' as... you simply cannot die, and if you 'die' enough, the game just pushes you forward. However, the environments are stunning, some of the puzzles are quite clever, and the expansion of the Amnesia universe is quite nice as some questions raised in TDD are finally answered, but these few positives are dragged down by the many, many poor design choices. If you came here expecting Soma's deep philosophical existential terror, or TDD's nail-biting tension and harrowing management of supplies and randomized enemy encounters, you will be sorely disappointed, just as I was.