In a shock transfer, Frictional Video games has launched Steam Workshop help for its foundational horror sport, Amnesia: The Darkish Descent. The change got here 4 days earlier than the launch of the newest sport within the sequence, The Bunker, and brings The Darkish Descent extra consistent 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 through 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” choice proper in the principle menu of suitable video games, making accessing user-made campaigns a cinch. Beforehand, mods for The Darkish Descent might primarily be discovered on ModDB and NexusMods.
The Steam Workshop compatibility affords extra comfort for gamers who wish to entry customized campaigns for Amnesia, in addition to better 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 launched in 2020 and now appears to be attracting renewed consideration on Steam.
The newest 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 employees 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.”
