When clever ARG-crackers uncovered this message on nextfrictionalgame.com,
the internet leapt to the conclusion that the next Frictional game
would be called Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and that it would be coming
out later this year. It was even rumoured that the game was being
created in collaboration with Dear Esther developers thechineseroom.
As it happens, the internet was absolutely correct. A Machine for Pigs
is set in the same universe as Amnesia but features new characters and a
new setting. thechineseroom’s Dan Pinchbeck told Joystiq
that the game takes place in the same horror-laced alternate history as
its predecessor, but won’t continue the same story. It’s set in 1899,
when wealthy industrialist Oswald Mandus returns home from Mexico and
lapses into a months-long coma during which he dreams of a terrifying
machine. When he wakes, the machine is real: and presumably what follows
is an entirely pleasant experience in which no-one is dismembered.
The combination of Amensia’s panic-inducing physical scares and Dear
Esther’s top-tier writing and atmosphere makes for a really promising
collaboration – to the extent that ‘promising’ means ‘bum-clenchingly
terrifying’. I’m also starting to suspect that the machine isn’t really
for pigs. Just a hunch. Better to be safe than sorry.
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