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Amnesia: The Dark Descent scares up 400,000 in sales

by Richard Mitchell on Aug 15th 2011 5:47PM

We're still not sure what drives players to submit themselves to the psychological assault of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Whatever it is, it seems to affect quite a few gamers, as Frictional Games' Thomas Grip revealed at GDC Europe that the survival horror title has sold 400,000 copies.

It's a significantly higher number than last January, when Frictional reported sales were nearing 200,000, which already handily surpassed the company's "dream estimates" of 100,000 copies. In short, that's a lot of dudes screaming like little babies.

Tags: amnesia-the-dark-descent, Frictional-Games, gdce-2011, mac, pc, sales

Reader Comments (45)

Where is the Xbox port???

@ThePunisher138
Dreamcast port comes first

@ThePunisher138

I do remember reading a while back about a possible 360 port, but i guess plans never took off.

Imagine playing this game with Kinect though, would be intense. Pushing doors open, manually lighting torches etc.

@Darki Dreamside

I'm curious as to how you would walk and run with the kinect though. I don't think it'd be as scary if I was jogging on the spot to get out of water with carnivorous ghosts. Haha.

i want to play this but my laptop can barely play portal, too slow or something

@Senor Whopper

OnLive, if you have a good internet connection.

@Senor Whopper

There was a promotion on OnLive where you could've got it for free.

I've yet to play it because I'm too much of a bitch. . .

That is wonderful news! I would have ever expected the game to do that well. So can we expect another game soon?

Good game..
also, link at bottom is broken :p

Link doesn't work. You know the one.

well this be ported to consoles?

@chrono It's always seemed to me like a console port wouldn't work because of the control scheme. But I would be really interested to seem them do a console version.

These guys deserve every sale they make.

It's a testament to how scary the game is that I didn't want to buy it... I guess that's a double-edged sword for Frictional.

Only 400,000? NOT ENOUGH I SAY!

Amnesia is the only game to have ever made me whimper with fear. It is a fantastic game and I recommend it to anyone... In small doses :D

@Ad134

Well considering its such an unpleasant game to play, i would say 400k is an impressive feat then.

@Darki Dreamside It is terrifying, traumatic, and unpleasant, but I wouldn't have it any other way. A truly amazing game.

Great game, deservers every one of those sales. Actually a bit surprised that it didn't do even better considering how well received it was and how people talk about it.

I own it and can't finish it. It's that intense.

dudes make a damn 360 game. I bought this on steam but I like console controls and my coach much better,

@kcswanko

My PC sucks for gaming too. They'd sell a ton on XBLA and PSN.

@kcswanko You know it supports gamepads on PC, right?

@Raikulxox yeah but it's a on iMac and looks super hassle to do.

@kcswanko Its also on ONLIVE i use it for playing that game and got it from them for free and i am such a wimp at playing it but when i do its usually 11pm all lights off and i go in for 2 min and turn everything back on.lol

@Raikulxox

Not natively. I've heard legends of people playing Amnesia with a gamepad, but I believe in them as much as I believe in ghosts.

Seriously, it's next to impossible to set up due to all of the manual mouse commands (opening doors, turning cranks, etc).

I'd like to play a PS3 Move port. You could open the doors and pick up stuff with your right hand and move with your left. It would feel more immersive.

Thou speaketh the truth!

Fantastic game and EASILY one of the scariest I have ever played. I could only hope for you with PC's that can't run this to someday get a port to the consoles. This game deserves everyone's attention.

"That... that is not... traditional fire!"

Awesome game.

I must say, if they were to port this over to consoles, I would be rebuying this in a heartbeat.

Console port please gentlemen.

I really need to play this, but I've virtually abandoned my PC as a gaming platform. Yeah, my fault not the developers, but still.

I may or may not be one of those screaming like little babies....I was.

what even is

bought it
played it for 10 minutes
stopped
seems needs bigger balls to play it, mine too small

As soon as I saw that picture I thought it said Ico spelled out in pigs...off topic but I saw the picture before reading the headline.

PS3 PORT + MOVE SUPPORT PREASE

Its on OnLive i play it on there and plus they have a free trial of it and plus you don't have to have a great computer just a good connection mine runs smooth and i have Toshiba Satellite laptop which the graphics card is poo but with Onlive it looks just like the screenshot.

@GTThaAceman reply fail!

@GTThaAceman DAM YOU JOYSTIQ COMMENT SYSTEM! I was trying to reply to Senor Whopper

Been a big fan of these guys since the 2006 Penumbra tech demo and Amnesia was great (though some later puzzles were ridiculous)

I have nothing against FPS, but these guys know the key to making a game scary - not being able to fight back. Once you've played through this, Dead Space, Fear, etc are just shooters.

This, Exmortis, and LSD are the scariest games I've ever played. Especially LSD. That god damned headless woman by the road...

I still have to beat this, currently at the prisons. Need to muster up enough fortitude to continue onward.

The first successful modern horror game that doesn't give you any weapons.

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