Amnesia: The Dark Descent | HARD MODE | Full playthrough | No commentary | PC

Full playthrough of Amnesia: The Dark Descent on hard mode. I am not picking up any notes in this playthrough, just wanted to beat it for the achievement. Some parts are cut to reduce the video length, but not much is left out. Hope you enjoy!

What is the Hard Mode?

It is really just as the title suggests: a mode that makes it harder to beat the game. You know, in case The Dark Descent wasn’t stressful enough for you.
The Hard Mode has the following features:

Autosaves are disabled, and manual saving costs 4 tinderboxes
Sanity dropping to zero results in death
Less oil and tinderboxes throughout the levels
Monsters are faster, spot the player more easily, deal more damage and stay around for longer
There is no danger music when the monsters are near.

So in summary: the environments are harsher, the monsters more unforgiving, insanity is deadly, and death is final – unless you pay a toll.

You can pick between normal mode and Hard Mode when starting a new game of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. The mode changes some fundamental elements of the game, and therefore can’t be changed halfway through.

A Machine for Pigs and Justine do not feature this mode.