For starters, you need more fuel to keep it running.

There are passcodes to find and tools to recover.

Bandages, too, are required to stop the blood gushing from your dirt-encrusted fingers.

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So creep about you must.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, you have just one goal, and that’s to GTFO.

Hang around too long trying to work it out and you’ll be lying there amongst them.

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But sitting at the heart of Amnesia: The Bunker is a wickedly dark premise.

I think I only fired two shots throughout my entire playthrough.

It’s loud and it’s noisy, and often not worth the risk.

Amnesia: The Bunker review screenshot, showing an inventory screen with an assortment of tools and healing items for use. The hand on the left-hand side intimates the soldier is currently unwounded.

Consequently, the rules of old apply; hide, creep.

Frictional has absolutely nailed this.

What about using that handy bolt cutter on something other than chains?

Amnesia: The Bunker review screenshot, where a red light casts a bloody sheen over sandbags, a gas canister, and scattered broken items on the floor.

The same options are also available for controllers.

you’ve got the option to adjust video distortion effects, the FOV, and framerate.

There are three difficulty options: Easy, Normal, and Hard.

Amnesia: The Bunker review screenshot showing a locker room, where most of the lockers stand open. A body is dumped in the corner of the room, but in the dim light, you can only see it from the chest down.

That’s what makes The Bunker such a delight.

There are a few snags.

And where are the puzzles, Frictional?!

Amnesia: The Bunker review screenshot, showing the administration room. A warm lantern hangs over a table in the foreground, with a chest and a map in the background. There are huge dead rats on the floor.

Those are small things though, really.

Tiny irritants rather than full-on misfires that leach all enjoyment out of the horror adventure.

I’d be interested to know what others make of the ending, too.

Amnesia: The Bunker review screenshot of the generator room. “KEEP ON AT ALL TIMES! THE FUCKER HATES LIGHT” is scrawled on a sign to the left of the machine.

Even creeping around a wartime bunker with reminders of conflict everywhere, I forgot.

Amnesia: The Bunker review screenshot showing the map of the Bunker, with a variety of rooms and hubs connected by corridors and tunnels.

Amnesia: The Bunker review screenshot shows Henri in the “safe” administration room, looking at the lit lantern and clutching a toy rabbit.

Amnesia: The Bunker review screenshot showing the main thoroughfare of the bunker. A stairway rises into the background, over which a lit EXIT sign shines. A sign to the right says OFFICER QUARTERS / MAINTENANCE whilst the sign on the left says: ARSENAL / SOLDIER’S QUARTERS / ADMINISTRATION

Amnesia: The Bunker review screenshot showing Henri descending a ladder somewhere in the bunker. His clothes are scratched and frayed, and there’s a bandage around his left wrist.