The only issue is, Mount Massive dares not employ house cats-but bloodthirsty lions. Consequently, when the power cuts out, it becomes a game of cat and mouse. However, in spite of his best interest, he soon learns that the asylum doesn’t want him. Outlast follows an investigative journalist as he reports on Mount Massive Asylum, a facility that houses some of the most disturbing folk on the planet. And to be fair, both are perfectly capable of raising a few dozen hairs on the back of your neck. Both have you wandering monster-infested locations, solving puzzles, and using stealth-based tactics to bypass the bulk of the story. At least, not entirely.Įxcluding the fact that both Amnesia and Outlast are set a century apart, the two do share a pretty similar vein. And as you can probably imagine-it isn’t deserted.

Further investigation leads him to venture inside, where he finds the remnants of a lost convoy, ultimately leading him on a breadcrumb trail to understand what happened in the depths below.

After receiving a letter out of the blue from his supposedly dead father, he is led to an uninhabited location on the far end of Greenland, where he stumbles upon an old mine. Penumbra: Overture follows a man named Philip, a physicist in grieving, as he learns to overcome his late mother’s passing. Similar in design, in the fact that your character could only really use stealth and dumb luck to traverse the creepily vacant world, it became the source material for later ventures, including but not limited to Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

Years before Frictional Games rustled up the foundations for the universally acclaimed Amnesia trilogy, the creative minds took a liking to another puzzle-solving world, one that went by the name of Penumbra: Overture, a first-person survival horror that undoubtedly paved the way for the former.

Amnesia the dark descent vive