It puts you on the edge of madness and terror and keeps you there without ever pushing you to the point where it because mundane. The story is actually very engaging, with the protagonist being an Englishman suffering amnesia, stumbling around a dark castle searching for answers. A true classic and the benchmark by which all other horror games are judged, Amnesia The Dark Descent is an old school horror experience where it is what you can’t quite see that terrifies you more than what you can see.
