People do not do this game justice. First-timers generally recommend this game. Those returning from Amnesia - The Dark Descent, the prequal, generally do not. There's of course something to note about that fact, but it does not ruin the game if you've got the mind to follow the story of Amnesia - A Machine For Pigs.

If you loved ATDD, you may have mixed feelings about this one. It is not like the other, so be aware of that. Many game mechanics from ATDD are not present in AMFP, such as inventory and puzzle items, sanity drain or oil for your lantern. Therefore, if you have high expectations of this game being like its predecessor, then you will join the group of people who were disappointed. If you, however, try it for what it is, I think you'll enjoy it.

This game focuses on telling a narrative story. Most of the time you spend in this game is done venturing through the story at your own pace. There are notes to read if you would like to delve deeper into the story, which I highly recommend. The story is by far the best part of this game, however it can be very difficult to follow if you don't try. It's written like a poem, and should be interpreted as such. There are many metaphors and "ye olden" English-styled conversations from the Industrial Revolution period, so if you heavily disliked English class, you might struggle. Nevertheless it is an incredibly deep and wonderful story for those fortunate enough to embrace it.

Some say they spent 4 hours through this game. My first play-through I believe was 8 hours. Obviously I was going very slowly through it but if you rush, you will miss the details that make it good. Take your time with it. It might not be for you if you're of the impatient type.

Story, music, atmosphere, and narration is all excellent. There isn't much of gameplay though, as it's mostly just walking through this journey of a story. Think of it as an interactive movie. That's my advice. It's definitely not for everyone, so if this fits you, give it a shot. If not, well, you should know yourself.

This game follows destiny of many sequels.

Take the first part, make it less scary and mystic, reduce puzzles to "hit this button", remove inventory and sane meter. What is left is Machine for Pigs. This game does not worth the money paid. Do not be a pig, do not buy it.

Not nearly as good as The Dark Descent, there's no inventory and no insanity meter, the monster isn't nearly as scary to me either and it's easy to soft-lock the game while playing through it normally. Also, frame-rate is capped at 60 FPS with no way to unlock it (setting Engine LimitFPS to false didn't work for me).

Nice work Chinese Room, way to ruin this game. Can't really say I'm surprised this was so bad after playing Dear Terrible by them. Take everything good about the first Amnesia, get rid of it, and you have this piece of garbage. No inventory, no sanity, infinite lantern, mostly nonsensical story, and no challenge. You spend most of the game walking/running down long corridors. "Puzzles" consist mostly of you touching a switch in one room, which will let you go touch a switch in another room, which lets you continue to the next long corridor. Occasionally you have the real brainburner "puzzle" of inserting two objects into something (fuses, vials, coal, gears), which will of course then allow you to press a switch, which of course allows you to continue to the next long corridor. You figure out pretty early on that there aren't going to be many enemy encounters, which removes most of the horror. There might be 4 enemy encounters throughout the course of the game, all of which are very easy to get through. Even the "final boss" is a joke. He appears and then you press two switches in the room you're in and he goes away. Way to work hard on that idea guys.

Seeing as how everything else about this game is terrible, you'd think there would at least be a decent story, but there isn't. You get what's happening pretty quickly, though the how and why take a while to develop. I'll save you a little time, this guy doesn't like people. He does, however, love pigmen. Now, as the story goes on, I began to question his pigman masterplan. It seemed like there might be a few flaws in it. Towards the end, it began to appear that I was wrong to ever doubt his evil schemes. Apparently, the small army of pigmen are well coordinated and too powerful for normal people to handle. This criminal mastermind's dastardly plan for world domination and the extinction of humanity was underway. I then began to question new flaws in his plan, such as the very large issue of getting the pigmen army out of England and to the mainland continents. I wondered about the navigational ability of the pigmen. Would they be able to board ships and navigate the high seas? Would they be able to read the maps or would they just kind of float around until they wrecked somewhere? If they ♥♥♥♥♥ and pillaged after landing, would they be Viking Pigmen? Fortunately, the hero of the game kept me from having to wonder to much about these questions, as he destroyed the pigman making machine and saved the world...... except from the small pigmen army which had previously been released and was currently running amok and killing people. RIP England. You'll be remembered as the country that was overwhelmed by the awesome military might of the pigmen.

There was one part of the game that I did enjoy. That was when I got to enter into his secret creeper room, where he drew sexy photos of his wife while watching her bathe through a one way mirror. She never suspected a thing.

To wrap this up, this game sucks. I'm reluctant to even call it a game. You spend most of the game walking around being bored and wanting it to end. Especially terrible are the parts where the game forces you to walk in slow motion. This game kind of reminds me of Dear Terrible, except it's 4 hours long instead of 40 minutes, and you get to press a button now and then instead of not being able to do anything. It also has 100% more pigmen in it then their other game.

It took me only four hours to complete. That should be considered before buying it if you don't like short games.

That being said, this game had a great creepy feel to it and told a compelling story that reached much further than I expected. Really enjoyed this game

Lacking in actual gameplay but making up for it in atmosphere and the succesful realisation of a good concept.

Combine Dear Esther and Amnesia: TDD and get A Machine for Pigs. It is a little more than a walking simulator. The atmosphere is not as spooky as I remember TDD being. Unfortunately the game stutters a lot, though it is still worth a quick play through.
One thing I found out is that a pig corpse will prevent a gigantic truck from backing up. Who would have thought?

As someone else said, it's "Dear Esther" with pigs.

Embrace this as the Chinese Room walking simulator it is - you will be disappointed if you expect a traditional Amnesia sequel (that's what SOMA is for).

Machine For Pigs is a very well woven story in an incredibly atmospheric game with some not-too-puzzling puzzles - well worth the few hours it takes to play through.

The downside? Surprisingly for an "Amnesia" game, the few monsters you meet add little to the narrative and the encounters are more irritating than terrifying.

Went for the bacon, ended up starving :(

Is this meant to be a horror game? Because it got pretty boring for the 2 hours I played. Just walked around and touched ♥♥♥♥.