

Mandus witnesses the near destruction of London towards the end of the game. Apocalypse How: The Engineer/The Machine plans a planetary class 3 type.Animal Motifs: Diary entries repeatedly use Pigs heavily to represent people.And Show It to You: When you finally find your children, they tear out their own hearts to show you.Amnesiac Dissonance: The moment when Mandus discovers a note that reveals before his memory loss, he used to send child laborers into the pipes of his factory to clean them and then send more in to clean up the mess caused by the children being boiled alive by the extreme heat that traveled through the pipes, followed by letting the manpigs eat the children alive to keep the factory a secret.Alternate Reality Game: The title, tagline, a release window, two pieces of artwork and hints of The Chinese Room's involvement were all revealed through various fake websites.Mandus must trace his life back to find out what happened during his months of unconsciousness, discover the whereabouts of his missing sons, and figure out what happened during his ill-fated trip to Mexico that immediately preceded it.

And much more to his worry, as he attempts to shake off his confusion while stumbling around his estate, he finds that it appears to complete empty, his young sons, Edwin and Enoch, both being strangely absent. Wealthy industrialist Oswald Mandus has just awoken from a fevered comatose state that lasted him several months, haunted by nightmares of a vicious, dark, elaborate machine of mysterious purpose. Taking place in the same universe as The Dark Descent, A Machine for Pigs is set sixty years later, in Victorian London, on New Years Eve, 1899. It is an indirect sequel to Amnesia: The Dark Descent, originally started as a small mod before both companies saw potential that would be fulfilled with a larger game.


Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is a survival horror video game developed by The Chinese Room (best known for Dear Esther) and published by Frictional Games (also known for the Penumbra series) on September 10, 2013.
