It was okay

[Zonker]

You see, that's different opinions or tastes doing their job.

When I played Call of Cthulhu: DCotE, I sure felt some scary moments during the first two or three hours. Then, the game started to annoy and frustrate me. Trial and error stealth sequences, enemies seeing you in spots you didn't expected, infinite hostile spawns on several occasions. Some first person shooter gameplay and scenes which were rather badly executed. Although I wanted to like the game, it was so disappointing after a while (and not even the slightest bit scary anymore) that I never finished it.

Amnesia on the other hand kind of put me in a more or less constant grip of fear. Although I started getting used to the monster encounters a bit at the end of the game, they never ceased to make me run or hide like a scared schoolgirl. And the general atmosphere was so intimidating that I could never play more than an hour at a time and sometimes didn't really want to start the game again. :)

But I just wanted to add my view on those games because of all things (from my perspective) you chose Dark Corners of the Earth as an example for a "good" horror game, when my experience with those two were so much the opposite.