History VideoGame / AmnesiaTheBunker

* MenuTimeLockout: The game is paused while you are looking through your inventory, reading notes or interacting with the item box in your safe room. This lets you read and strategize in peace without having to worry about the Beast showing up or wasting precious generator fuel. The upcoming "[[HarderThanHard Shell shocked]]" difficulty disables this.

''Amnesia: The Bunker'' is the fourth installment of [[Creator/FrictionalGames Frictional Games]]' SurvivalHorror franchise ''VideoGame/{{Amnesia}}'', being both developed and published by the same studio. Initially planned for release on UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesX, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, UsefulNotes/PS4 and PC in May 15th, 2023, the game was delayed and eventually released on June 6, 2023. A demo of the game was released on May 23, 2023.

* HarderThanHard: The upcoming Halloween update will add a new "Shell shocked" difficulty for those looking for a true test of their survival skills. Among other things, this new difficulty disables MenuTimeLockout, takes away your revolver and places it in one of the padlock lockers and replaces the sturdy metal doors of your safe room with brittle wooden ones.

* DaylightHorror: The game is set on a cloudy day in July, though you only get brief glimpses of it.
** Stare too long at the sunlit battlefield outside the pillbox and a German sniper will start taking potshots at you.

* ChekhovsGun: It doesn't come up until later in the game ([[PermanentlyMissableContent and is only discovered via two journal entries]]), but [[spoiler:Henri's cantene was filled with water taken from the spring found in the Roman tunnels. That very same spring contains the Harvester mutagen. In other words, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Henri inadvertently made Lambert into the Beast]].]]

* DoppelgangerAttack: In the ancient Roman tunnels [[spoiler: there's an area filled with thick fog with shadowy human "ghosts" wandering around. These shadows make the area confusing because there's a very real human soldier also in the area, who you need to fight or stealth around, and in the thick fog it can be hard to tell the shadows apart from the real threat.]]

* DirtyCoward: The bunker's officers were the first to flee when the Beast started attacking.

* InterfaceSpoiler: It is possible to pick up [[spoiler: shotgun shells]] long before seeing the [[spoiler: shotgun, which requires both the wrench and boltcutters to access]].

* EarnYourBadEnding: [[spoiler: Finishing the game with the Beast still alive is ''way'' more difficult than just killing it in the final confrontation. Killing the Beast just requires you to raise, block off, or destroy enough bridges so it's forced to jump across a broken bridge to get to you, at which point you can just shotgun it while it tries to climb up the ledge, or even easier you can distract it with the rabbit then destroy the bridge it's standing on with a single grenade or shotgun blast. Escaping the Beast, on the other hand, requires a complex cat-and-mouse dance across the maze of bridges in order to delay the Beast long enough to give you time to move some crates around so you can jump over the wall blocking the way to the exit. Killing the Beast just requires 1 shotgun shell and a couple of grenades or extra shotgun shells, which you can find in the tunnels where you get the shotgun or in Lambert's locker, while delaying it so you can escape without killing it will likely require you have saved up a decent stockpile of ammo and resources.]]

* DoppelGangerAttack: In the ancient Roman tunnels [[spoiler: there's an area filled with thick fog with shadowy human "ghosts" wandering around. These shadows make the area confusing because there's a very real human soldier also in the area, who you need to fight or stealth around, and in the thick fog it can be hard to tell the shadows apart from the real threat.]]

** In the Roman tunnels [[spoiler:there's a very trigger-happy human soldier (Toussaint Beaufoy, as indicated in the note you find shortly before meeting him) armed with a shotgun who's been driven mad by the influence of the tunnels, likely due to dimensional bleed-over from Tihanna's world. He's too far gone with insanity to be reasoned with, so you need to either fight or stealth around him. You need to explore this area to obtain both the detonator lever you need to escape the bunker and Lambert's dog tag that unlocks his locker which contains a journal revealing the origin of the monster.]]