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

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Published 2018-09-29

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.

All Comments (21)

@EuriLochus 5 years ago

Laughed out loud at 36:35 lol "Nope."
@yunderaly 4 years ago

I played Amnesia so often that this playthrough is some kind of ASMR for me.
@muffinman2546 1 year ago

This game really had one of the best sound design.
@Charizarzar 5 years ago

Thanks so much! Don’t know if this’ll help anyone but I made a note of all the saves he made, so you know when the next one is coming up: 21:29, 29:13, 51:00, 1:17:00, 1:20:40, 1:41:50, 1:56:40
@shikarinami 5 years ago

This is one of the best games I've ever played, and it still scares me to this day. Thanks for sharing with us your gameplay of the hard mode, I'm pretty sure it would take days for me to finish this lol
@leadpencil-223 5 years ago

I literally passed out while watching this lmao. Woke up to it still going
@Nadroj1999 5 years ago

I never understood that brute sound in 7:53 XD
@fancreper 5 years ago

The update is currently unavailable on PC due to some save problems, they will fix it next week and hopefully everybody else will get a chance to play it then. This was recorder before they reverted the update, for now it is only available on Xbox One. EDIT: The Steam version is fixed and it should be playable now, enjoy!
@derekvalenti9365 2 months ago

Thanks so Much!!!! I got the achievement about 15 minutes ago!!! I had to look up how to get into the orb chamber, and I know everyone keeps saying you need to go into the orb chamber with crystal clear sanity, but I couldn’t obtain it… looked at a light forever, and only ever got headache… but it’s all good, I got it, and certainly couldn’t have done it without you!!! Thanks, Happy Gaming
@sitrongr 5 years ago

This was a great playthrough, it really helped me to get the hard mode achievement that came out just recently on Ps4. I'm sure this playthrough will help many more people and I thank you for having uploaded this gameplay.
@ickymartin2602 4 years ago

14:06 the first monster encounter
@DrowningInTea 5 years ago

1:47:50 "Listen carefully..." "Nope."
@EKRules98Bandicoot 5 years ago

Yo man, as many people, I'm just recently watching this guide since HM just got released on PS4. Not only your guide is pretty much flawless, but some parts of you messing around were quite hilarious! You earned a sub, cheers from Italy!
@AdenaKaiba 5 years ago

Very impressive. Thanks a lot for sharing! PS: no commentary is fantaaaastic
@xajdax6586 2 years ago

34:32 wow, the explosion have bigger range in hard mode :D
@romainnicolas8967 2 years ago

Thank you a lot for this very good and helpful video concerning the hard mode for this awesome game.
@wytchfyndergaming 2 years ago

GG. Cheers for the help with the plat. Sub earned👍
@OCPyrit 5 years ago

One of the best games ever made.
@miomiomio56 5 years ago

Thank you bro, I needed this
@demokosonofazathoth2555 5 years ago

2:00:08 the shadow has activated cosmic rage RUN DANNY BOI RUNNNN