These zombified things roam the facility, convincingly selling the notion that perhaps it’s better to let sleeping gods lie.īlack Plague consolidated the solid template for the Amnesia games that followed, with the accent on exploration, enviro-puzzling and as far as possible the steadfast avoidance of any contact with the bads of the piece. In retaliation, the Tuurngait have set loose a virus which has either killed, or possessed and transformed all the scientists at the station. Philip has previously been summoned to the facility by his father, chief translator for a scientific body called The Archaic, who have ill-advisedly disturbed the subterranean resting place of an ancient spiritual body called the Tuurngait.
The game starts in earnest as you regain consciousness in a dingy locked room in a scientific facility in the freezing wastes of Greenland, having been knocked-out by an unknown entity at the end of Penumbra: Overture.