Much of the gameplay revolves around exploring and hiding from enemies, since you have no ability to fight back. The game puts you in a mansion with no memories of how you got there, and the only objective you get is to “Find the Journal”. The prequel, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, is an indie horror game that received much critical acclaim. The house is silent, the ground beneath him shaking at the will of some infernal machine: all he knows is that his children are in grave peril, and it is up to him to save them.' Tortured by visions of a disastrous expedition to Mexico, broken on the failing dreams of an industrial utopia, wracked with guilt and tropical disease, he wakes into a nightmare. Here's the story of the game according to the developers: 'Wealthy industrialist Oswald Mandus awakes in his bed, wracked with fever and haunted by dreams of a dark and hellish engine. Many pigs were harmed in the making of this screenshot