I'm a guy who likes to play custom stories for Amnesia The Dark Decent. I'm also trying to create my own as well...

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Amnesia: The Streets of London

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3

The Barn's Secrets -Full Release-

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TL;DR Version: The story had potential to be very good but was ultimately a disappointing experience.

-PROS-
-Maps are generally well designed.
-Music is really good.
-Voice Acting is well done.
-Scripting is good.
-Atmosphere is also really good.

-CONS-
-Too short for proper story and character development.
-The Monsters and their encounters.
-Not that scary.

I'm sorry to give this one such a low score but I have to say it. The Barn's Secrets sucks. I only played the story twice, beating the game on my second try due one of the flaws in this game that I will get into later.

My main gripe with this game is that while the story seems like it would have been good, the way it was executed was very poor. From what I got out of the game it seems like it was supposed to be taken seriously, but failed to make me care about anything and anyone, and was just laughing almost the entire game.

This game wasn't even remotely scary, with very few scares and relying only on atmosphere and visuals. The game is also very short that it feels like this was rushed, you don't even get time to get into the story because it's moving so quickly.

The Enemies in this game are a joke, there is only two "monsters" in the entire game. Both aren't technically even real monsters, one is just a statue entity that just teleports in a scripted event. The only other enemy, I won't give away what it is exactlly, is very underwhelming and was laughing how absurd it was. The one major thing with the enemy encounters was that you don't get enough time to run away to safety, they always manage to kill you just seconds after being able to get back in control, this happened to me with the first "monster" encounter the first time I played this game and just gave up on the story.

There are other things I found to be very annoying but I've spent too much time writing this up so just read the TL;DR version for my summed up thoughts including a Pros & Cons list.

6

Obscurity

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9

The Subconscious Trials

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8

The Silver Key [Collapsing Cosmos]

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I really liked this, for a first mod you did really well with the mapping, and the story was very different too. It also had really nice atmosphere as well.

Now the problem I had was the library, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do. I knew where I was supposed to go with those mementos, but it never told me I was supposed to do. For example, using the ladder on the Balcony, or that I was supposed to look for a key for the door exit. Those problems can be fixed if you were to add some more mementos giving the player a hint so that they aren't left hanging on what to do.

After that it was pretty good, I noticed typos in your notes near the end of the story. Other than that though I really enjoyed it. Can't wait for your next one!

9

A Late Night Drink

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9

Penumbra: Necrologue

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9

La Caza

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8

Nepsis

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10

Ninth of October - Chapter One

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This is a very well made custom story, with well designed levels and atmosphere as well as scares. There were a few minor problems but not enough to distract from what makes it good.