Amnesia: Rebirth

Released: Oct 20, 2020
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Last updated: 16 Sep 2026, 09:51 GMT

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12 Nov 2025Developer post
Announcing Amnesia: Design Works 🌹
Another descent into darkness. Amnesia: Design Works delves deep into the writing, design and art of the Amnesia series. From Castle Brennenburg down into the darkest Bunker. Amnesia: Design Works chronicles the development of all four games in the Amnesia series; Amnesia: The Da
28 May 2024Developer post
Frictional Games Mod Jam 2024: Escape Room Edition
Passwords, puzzles, hidden clues… In true Bunker fashion there is one goal in an escape room - get out. We're thrilled to announce the Frictional Mod Jam 2024: Escape Room Edition , where creativity meets strategy, and innovation intertwines with mystery. This is your chance to s
26 Apr 2024Developer post
Announcing two new Frictional Games bundles!
We just launched TWO new Frictional Games bundles on Steam! These are curated for you who would like to explore more of the same themes - without having to buy all games at once. Two bundles with focus on Frictional's most favorite things - stories and horror . Frictional Surviva
We just launched TWO new Frictional Games bundles on Steam!
These are curated for you who would like to explore more of the same themes - without having to buy all games at once. Two bundles with focus on Frictional's most favorite things - stories and horror.
Frictional Survival Horror Collection:
A collection of the most Survival Horror heavy Frictional Games titles. Put your brave face on and embrace terror.
Bundle includes:

Penumbra Collectors Pack
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Amnesia: The Bunker
Frictional Story-Rich Collection
A selected collection for you who enjoy tales of psychological horror and existential dread.
Bundle includes:

Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs
SOMA
Amnesia: Rebirth
Buy these bundles and get an extra 15% off!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/41033/Frictional_Survival_Horror_Collection/
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/41032/Frictional_Story_Rich_Collection/
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22 Apr 2024Developer post
Frictional Collection at 60% discount this week!
As a big THANK YOU to our loyal fans you can now complete your Frictional Collection at a super low price! 🩵 This week only, the Frictional Collection is down to 60% off - this means that if you own ANY or no game of ours, the rest is more than half off! ⏰ Frictional Collection
23 Jan 2024Developer post
You can’t let out a breath.
Hello there, Don’t miss out on the chance to grab Amnesia: Rebirth at record low 90% off this week! Uncover your past and survive the Algerian desert. Fear is your enemy; stay calm to not succumb to an illness threatening you and your loved one. Avoid darkness, hide from monsters
21 Nov 2023Developer post
Autumn Sale | Vote for Amnesia: The Bunker in the Steam Awards!
Rain pouring down out there? Looking for a good reason to stay indoors? Look no further! Amnesia: Rebirth and the entire Frictional Games library is part of the Steam Autumn sale with discounts up to 85%. Autumn sales also mean one big thing… The Steam Awards nomination period is
27 Oct 2023Developer post
Steam Scream Sale | Amnesia: The Bunker Halloween Update
Happy Halloween everyone! 🎃 Amnesia: Rebirth and the entire Frictional Games library is part of the Steam Scream sale event with discounts up to 80%. Amnesia: Rebirth is a first-person horror adventure. Uncover your past and survive the Algerian desert. Fear is your enemy; stay
24 Jul 2023Developer post
Frictional Mod Jam 2023: Horrors of War
We were so impressed by some of the fantastic mod submissions last Jam that we wanted to dedicate an entire Jam to get to see some more! Join us for a month and a half-long event focused on HPL modding! You’re welcome to participate alone or in a small team (up to 4 people). For
03 Jul 2023Developer post
Amnesia Re-Collection update
We’ve decided to include Amnesia: The Bunker as part of the Amnesia Re-Collection and Frictional Collection bundles here on Steam, alongside SOMA, Amnesia: Rebirth and Amnesia: The Dark Descent As an owner of one or multiple games in the Amnesia Re-Collection and Frictional Colle
We’ve decided to include Amnesia: The Bunker as part of the Amnesia Re-Collection and Frictional Collection bundles here on Steam, alongside SOMA, Amnesia: Rebirth and Amnesia: The Dark Descent
As an owner of one or multiple games in the Amnesia Re-Collection and Frictional Collection bundles you can now purchase the other ones (including the newly released Amnesia: The Bunker) at a discounted price!
The Amnesia Re-Collection includes:

Amnesia: The Bunker
Amnesia: Rebirth
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs
In addition to the games above, The Frictional Collection also includes:

SOMA
Penumbra
Grab the Amnesia Re-Collection bundle for an additional 15% discount on all Amnesia games, or the Frictional Collection for 20% discount on all games!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/20170/Amnesia_Recollection/
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/6817/Frictional_Collection/
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23 May 2023Developer post
Amnesia: The Bunker Demo out now!
Amnesia: The Bunker DEMO is available Today! Trapped in a WW1 bunker, a relentless monster stalks you. Survival depends on finding tools, crafting items, and keeping the lights on. Full game launches on June 6 - wishlist now!
05 Jan 2023Developer post
Amnesia: The Bunker prep - Frictional Games Fan Jam 2023!
In anticipation of the upcoming launch of Amnesia The Bunker we are hosting a Frictional Games Fan Jam! We all know them, we all love them - the Grunt, Terry Akers, The Pigs, the Wraiths. The theme for this year’s Fan Jam is Frictional Games Monsters. Submit your most haunting cr
01 Dec 2022Developer post
Announcing Amnesia: The Bunker!
Amnesia: The Bunker is the latest installation in the Amnesia franchise, a first-person horror game set in a desolate WW1 Bunker. Face the oppressing terrors stalking the dark corridors. Search for and use the tools and weapons at your disposal, while keeping the lights on at all
29 Nov 2021Developer post
Frictional Games Fan Jam: Holiday 2021
The holidays are just around the corner, and what better way to get in the mood than with a Frictional Games Fan Jam? It’s been way too long - many have been holding out since before the launch of Amnesia: Rebirth. For some of you this might even be the first Frictional Fan Jam,
28 Oct 2021Developer post
Amnesia: Rebirth Anniversary!
To all our fans who have played Amnesia: Rebirth this past year, we are grateful for all the love, support and engagement you have shown - without you we would never be able to do what we do. From the very bottom of our hearts, thank you . All the love Amnesia: Rebirth has receiv
20 Sep 2021Developer post
Simplified Chinese now available for Amnesia: Rebirth and SOMA!
Dear Chinese players, We love and value our Chinese-speaking fans and constantly strive to make our games more accessible – therefore we are happy to announce that Amnesia: Rebirth and SOMA are now available to play with Simplified Chinese subtitles and interface. With the help f
Dear Chinese players,
We love and value our Chinese-speaking fans and constantly strive to make our games more accessible – therefore we are happy to announce that Amnesia: Rebirth and SOMA are now available to play with Simplified Chinese subtitles and interface.
With the help from passionate friends at Testronic the latest update of Amnesia: Rebirth and SOMA now includes the option to play through the entire games in Simplified Chinese.
To change language setting:

Enter the main menu
Press “OPTIONS”
Press “GAME”
Scroll on the “Language” bar until you reach your desired language
If you run into any problems, contact our support.
To celebrate this occasion, we’re throwing a big sale on the entire Frictional Games library here on Steam!
So, if you or anyone you know has been holding off on playing these mind-boggling games because they have been waiting for a Chinese translation or sale – now is the time!
To keep up to date with everything from Frictional Games, please like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and Instagram.
Thank you and have a great time playing Amnesia: Rebirth and SOMA
Frictional Team
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30 Mar 2021Developer post
Adventure Mode Out Now!
The free Adventure Mode update for Amnesia: Rebirth is out now! This new mode allows players to experience the game with reduced scares, where you don’t have to worry about darkness nor monsters attacking you. Continue reading and check out our Dev diary for more info: When we re
The free Adventure Mode update for Amnesia: Rebirth is out now!
This new mode allows players to experience the game with reduced scares, where you don’t have to worry about darkness nor monsters attacking you.
Continue reading and check out our Dev diary for more info:
https://youtu.be/OlOyhsoUE9s
When we released “Safe mode” for SOMA some years ago we didn’t really know how it would be received or if it would make a difference at all to the players out there. Today we know that it was well worth the effort and that the mode allowed a whole new audience to experience the game. We got a lot of player feedback from people appreciating SOMA’s safe mode, and nearly every single interview leading up to the release of Amnesia: Rebirth contained the question “Will it come with a safe mode?”. This indicates to us that the mode has had an important influence on SOMA’s reception. Now, we’ve created something very similar for Rebirth.
Safe mode allowed players to take in SOMA’s narrative, atmosphere, story and theme, without having to worry about monsters attacking them. And even though Amnesia: Rebirth has a foundation in the same kind of horror that once made Amnesia: The Dark Descent so successful, the game shares many characteristics with SOMA.
With Adventure Mode we hope that new players, that have a hard time handling horror as a genre, will get to experience Tasi’s story. That they will get to immerse themselves in the character and the unforgiving environments of Rebirth, as they fight for survival for themselves and those closest to them.
Playing the game in Adventure Mode still contains the same serious themes and story - and the atmosphere can still be quite unnerving at times - but the experience is going to be much less of a horror experience and more one of an epic adventure.
Here’s a summary of the features that comes with the new Adventure Mode:

Monsters still exist in the game but they won’t attack you anymore.
Locations that contained pitch black darkness have been brightened up a lot, making environments possible to explore at one’s own pace, allowing for easier navigation and removes some of the oppressive atmosphere.
No active fear mechanic, meaning that you don’t have to worry about taking fear from being in darker areas or near monsters.
A few bonus puzzles.
For those of you who still want the horror experience, the Original mode is still available to you, but we hope that this new mode will be a nice alternative for others.
We are celebrating the release with a 40% discount on Amnesia: Rebirth, and 80% off on all our other games!
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26 Feb 2021Developer post
Launching Amnesia Re-collection bundle
Amnesia Re-collection bundle We’re happy to announce that we’ve just launched our brand new Amnesia Re-collection bundle! It allows you to purchase any Amnesia titles that you don't currently own at a 20% discount. Amnesia: Rebirth added to the Frictional Collection Bundle We als
18 Feb 2021Developer post
Disappearing UI elements fixed
When we released Amnesia: Rebirth in October we were quite happy to see that very few major bugs got reported. At Frictional we have tried to adopt a “zero defect policy” throughout the development of Rebirth, which basically means that defects and bugs should be fixed as soon as
26 Nov 2020Developer post
Vote for Amnesia: Rebirth in the Steam Awards
With the fall sale in full force, we add our first sale with 15% off of Amnesia: Rebrith ! This also means that the Steam Award nominations are live! Steam awards is important to us. It's your award, the players voting for their favorite games of the year. We truly believe that t
06 Nov 2020Developer post
Custom stories and mod support finally here! Biggest bugs taken care of
Patch 1.2 for Amnesia: Rebirth is out now out! In this patch we believe we’ve finally managed to identify and fix the most serious bug we’ve had left to fix – the one where some players have gotten stuck on black screen immediately after the intro. It was a hardware-related bug w
Patch 1.2 for Amnesia: Rebirth is out now out!
In this patch we believe we’ve finally managed to identify and fix the most serious bug we’ve had left to fix – the one where some players have gotten stuck on black screen immediately after the intro. It was a hardware-related bug which made it particularly difficult to reproduce.
With version 1.2 we also bring you Custom Stories and modding tools! This allows you to create everything from slightly modified versions of the base game to full conversions with all new assets, as well as play other people’s creations. Custom Stories can be uploaded to Steam Workshop. See more info below!
Various blockers and other bugs have also been fixed.
In summary:

Custom Stories can now be selected from the main menu.
The editors used in the development of Amnesia: Rebirth have been added to the install directory of the game.
Fear is no longer increased while reading notes.
Disabling Video Distortion now disables the pulsing tilt and zoom effect while standing in darkness.
Inventory can now be opened with D-Pad Up on gamepads that don’t have a View/Back button.
Fixed a major bug where the game would be stuck on a black screen after the intro.
Fixed a bug where the game would not progress after a major late-game cutscene.
Fixed a bug where some memories could not be replayed from the sketchbook.
Fixed a bug where some objects wouldn’t play sounds while being dragged across the floor.
Various other bugfixes.
The Steam build ID is: 5787922
Custom Stories
Custom Stories are user-created modifications (mods) to the base game of Amnesia: Rebirth. They can include all new maps and assets, as well as replace any existing file in the game. We are really excited about this as mods and custom stories have been a big part of the Amnesia community and DNA ever since the release of The Dark Descent in 2010. We’re really looking forward to seeing what creations will emerge from this, the possibilities are limitless!
Custom Stories can be added to the game directly from the Custom Stories menu on Steam (which is integrated with Steam Workshop), or by downloading them from elsewhere and putting them in the Mods folder in the install directory of the game. They can then be played using the Custom Stories option in the main menu.
Custom Stories are built using the same tools used to develop the game. These can be found in the install directory of the game. The LevelEditor is used to build and modify levels, while the ModelEditor is used to create the entities used in these levels. You can open a few levels and entities from the game in these to get an idea of how things work.
In order to modify the actual functionality of the game, you’ll have to edit the game’s script files. This can be done with any text editor, but an external IDE such as CodeLite is strongly recommended.
How to get properly started on modding the game is too big a topic for a blog post, so check out the documentation on our wiki for more information: https://wiki.frictionalgames.com/page/HPL3/Amnesia:_Rebirth/Modding
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