Dark Fall: Lost Souls

[Guyra]

First off, regarding the sound, it might be that the songs are just very similar, or it might be that they've both used the same free or commercial sound effects provider for some sounds, something which is very common in indie game production. The developers often don't have decent enough sound equipment, the skills to use it, or the money to hire someone to do it for them, so they rely on providers who sell or give away sound effects they've made, which in turn ends up being in several games. (You've also got the same stuff for music, textures, 3D-models, and whatever else you could possibly think of having need for. It's all over the place.) But still, as I said first, the sounds just might be very similar. That is also something that happens. A lot. And even if some sound files were copied from Penumbra, it's a pretty big leap to get to the conclusion that Dark Fall is a remake of Amnesia...

Now, for the game itself, it's not even close to being anything near Amnesia:
- The Dark Descent. There's a couple of hundred years(or something) between the settings.
- Amnesia is 3D while Dark Fall is 2D(prerendered 3D), Amnesia.
- Amnesia is about an amnesiac out for revenge, Dark Fall is about a drunkard PI trying to solve the mystery of the death/disappearance of a girl who, amongst others, haunts the area(and him).
- Amnesia bases most of it's puzzles on physics, Dark Fall has a couple of puzzles with parts that are "physics based-ish".
- Amnesia's story is based on Lovecraftian horror, Dark Fall is more standard "ghost story".
- Amnesia is more gameplay and immersion based than Dark Fall, the latter is more puzzle and story driven.

I have played through both Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dark Fall: Lost Souls, and I recommend both as good horror games with some emphasis on puzzles. However, the only similarities between the games are that they are horror games, and they contain puzzles. There's just as many(if not more) similarities between Amnesia and Doom 3. (If it isn't obvious enough: Between them, they're both horror games, they're both 3D and first person, they both deal with enemies that are flesh, there's probably something in Doom 3 that'll qualify as a puzzle, and I'm also quite certain that you could find some kind of sound that's pretty similar in both games.)

Also, just because it irritates me(and this might be slightly trolling, but what the f), what do you mean "our Amnesia"? There's as much "our Amnesia" as it's "our Halflife", or "our Playboy Mansion". You make it sound like we're some tight knitted gang of over zealous cultists who either go "this is blasphemy to OUR Lord Amnesia" or "this is made in OUR Lord Amnesia's image, and so it belongs to Him!" Just because we're members of Frictional Games' official forum, and fans of one of their games, doesn't turn us into one big, chummy bunch with a hive mind. It's not "our" Amnesia. It's Frictional Games' Amnesia. It's everyone who bought(or otherwise legally got) the game's Amnesia.

Also, some part of this whole annoyance comes from the fact that the opening post is so strikingly advertisement like, as Crypt also pointed out. If you like a game, how about making a post in the right section of the forum and just say, "check out this horror game I discovered, I think you'll like it because blah, blah, blah"? People would appreciate and respect it more.