The fourth gameplay trailer for Amnesia: The Bunker has been released since the game’s introduction at the end of November. The protagonist of the game, set during World War One, delves through a dark and decaying network of subterranean bunkers. This latest teaser pans menacingly toward a hole in a concrete wall that looks to have been excavated by some hideous thing, whose restless, gravelly snarl can be heard as the film fades to dark. Exhausted artillery round casings, blood-stained concrete flooring, and an abandoned, period-appropriate helmet with half of its owner’s brains still inside are among the items in the dust-covered chamber. The distant sound of howling winds and the thrum of machinery add to the trailer’s eerie atmosphere.
March 2023 cannot arrive soon enough for fans of Frictional Games and the Amnesia franchise. Amnesia: The Bunker is building out to be a spine-chilling addition to the survival horror genre, and the strategy of releasing short, contextless vignettes of the game is a brilliant way to pique curiosity without revealing the horrors that lay beneath.
