Soo-ey!: 'Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs' Gets Release Date and Pre-Order Sale
A recent delay notwithstanding, news from thechineseroom on "Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs" has been scant, and you'll not hear me complaining. It's not so much that I've forgotten about "Amnesia" as that I've tried my best to repress the memory of its existence: a swine crucifixion just plain gives me the willies.
Today, developers in The Chinese Room have been kind cruel enough to announce a release date and pre-order sale for "A Machine for Pigs": the porcine horror will be available on Mac, Linux, and PC on September 10, on a brace of digital distributors.
Steam, Good Old Games, the Humble Store, Gamefly, GamersGate, Desura, and the Mac Game store will all be carrying the game on your operating system of choice.
To give you a slightly less opaque idea of what's going on in that trailer, here's the game's cringe-inducing synopsis:
The year is 1899.
Wealthy industrialist Oswald Mandus has returned home from a disastrous expedition to Mexico, which has ended in tragedy. Wracked by fever, haunted by dreams of a dark machine, he recovers consciousness in his own bed, with no idea of how much time has passed since his last memory. As he struggles to his feet, somewhere beneath him, an engine splutters, coughs, roars into life…
That's more or less your basic Victorian steampunk nightmare, but there's something about pigs that makes it worse: their vaguely human squeals and skin, those bone-devouring teeth, the hungry, black eyes. I just can't even deal with that, man.
For those of you made of sterner stuff, pre-orders "Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs" are now open. If you pony up before the game's September 10 release date, "A Machine for Pigs" is only $15.99. It'll skyrocket to $19.99 when it's officially released.
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