Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Skip · Action · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 4.1h
- Value
- $4.88/hr
- Reviews
- 70% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
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How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was November 2024. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 100 in the 13 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 73 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. SOMA ($29.99, scores 70) and Visage ($34.99, scores 44) both outscore it.
None of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 880 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
29% start to 8% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
10 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Anoðer peak game in ðe Amnesia series. My expectations weren't ðat high for ðis one as while it is an Amnesia game, it wasn't developed by Frictional ðemselves, but by a dev team who have, if I remember correctly, only released a walking simulator game before ðis, which is somewhat noticeable. However, ðe game was genuinely surprisingly good. If you liked The Dark Descent, you'll most likely like ðis one too. It's a...
شريتها بس عشان اقول الجميع بلا استثناء لكل فرد تعال طيزلي لكل واحد يشتم اللعبه ذي الجميع عليه بلا استثناء تعال حمير معطيها مكسيد تعال طيزلي قيب نويل ذي وحده من افضل العاب التصنيف ذا عنفسي افضل شي
I didn't mind the lack of interaction or the anemic puzzles or even the overwritten dialogue, I simply cannot recommend it because it could barely run. It crashed between every level transition and half the time while saving or loading. There is a NoSteam.exe in the game folder that works better, but the fact that you have to dig to find it to make the game work should say enough.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs scores 20/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/239200/amnesia-a-machine-for-pigsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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