In a shock transfer, Frictional Video games has launched Steam Workshop support for its foundational horror sport, Amnesia: The Darkish Descent. The change got here 4 days earlier than the launch of the most recent sport within the sequence, The Bunker, and brings The Darkish Descent extra in step with later video games from Frictional like Soma and Amnesia: Rebirth.
“We’re nicely conscious (and in awe) of the numerous mods and customized tales made all through the years,” Frictional wrote in its announcement. “And now we have lastly ensured you’ll be able to publish and set up them easily by way of Steam.”
Frictional has traditionally been pleasant to modding already, making stage constructing instruments for its in-house HPL engine freely out there and together with a “customized story” possibility proper in the principle menu of appropriate video games, making accessing user-made campaigns a cinch. Beforehand, mods for The Darkish Descent may primarily be discovered on ModDB and NexusMods.
The Steam Workshop compatibility presents extra comfort for gamers who need to entry customized campaigns for Amnesia, in addition to larger discoverability for mod makers—it is a good present of help from Frictional to the neighborhood. I am notably intrigued by this HPL engine Darkish Souls 3 homage, “Profaned Capital,” that was first released in 2020 and now appears to be attracting renewed consideration on Steam.
The most recent entry within the Amnesia sequence, The Bunker, launches in only a few days, and it is shaping as much as be one thing particular. PCG workers author Morgan Park praised The Bunker’s open-ended gameplay in an earlier preview, discovering it to be “inching towards the participant company and emergent gameplay of a full-blown immersive sim.”
