History VideoGame / AmnesiaAMachineForPigs

* EatTheRich: [[spoiler: Mandus eventually gets sick of his fellow social class and invites them to lavish parties, getting them full of food and massively drunk - then using traps in their bedrooms to feed the sods into the Machine, harvesting their vitae and butchering them up for product.]]

* AMillionIsAStatistic: During his MotiveRant, [[spoiler:the Engineer]] contrasts [[WarIsHell the general horrors]] of World War I's trench warfare, with [[spoiler:Edwin and Enoch's fated deaths at the Battle of the Somme]], [[OutlivingOnesOffspring a much more up-close and very personal horror scenario for Mandus]].

* ShoutOut: Early on in the game there's a room full of hunting trophies and you can find a spider that looks suspiciously like the ones from [[VideoGame/{{Penumbra}} Penumbra]] in a display case. It's also sort of an in-joke or CallBack because Amnesia is Penumbra's SpiritualSuccessor and [[VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent Dark Descent]] was developed by the same team even though A Machine for Pigs wasn't.

MyGodWhatHaveIDone?: Said nearly verbatim by Mandus when he returns to the streets of London after [[spoiler: reactivating the machine and unknowingly releasing the manpigs onto the unsuspecting populous]].

Taking place in the same [[TheVerse universe]] as ''The Dark Descent'', ''A Machine for Pigs'' is set sixty years later, in VictorianLondon, on New Years Eve, 1899. Wealthy industrialist Oswald Mandus has just awoken from a fevered comatose state that lasted him several months, haunted by nightmares of a vicious, dark, elaborate machine of mysterious purpose. And much more to his worry, as he attempts to shake off his confusion while stumbling around his estate, he finds that it appears to complete empty, his young sons, Edwin and Enoch, both being strangely absent. Mandus must trace his life back to find out what happened during his months of unconsciousness, discover the whereabouts of his missing sons, and figure out what happened during his ill-fated trip to Mexico that immediately preceded it...

%%* ImAHumanitarian: wrong trope. no one is eating human flesh willingly. see TheSecretOfLongPorkPies

''Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs'' is a {{survival horror}} video game developed by Creator/TheChineseRoom (best known for ''VideoGame/DearEsther'') and published by Creator/FrictionalGames (also known for the ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}'' series) on September 10, 2013. It is an indirect sequel to ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'', originally started as a small mod before both companies saw potential that would be fulfilled with a larger game.

* AMillionIsAStatistic: During his MotiveRant, [[spoiler:the Engineer]] contrasts [[WarIsHell the general horrors]] of World War I's trench warfare, with [[spoiler:Edwin and Enoch's fated deaths at the Battle of the Somme]], a much more up-close and [[OutlivingOnesOffspring very personal horror scenario for Mandus]].

-->''"[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI I have stood knee deep in mud and bone, and filled my lungs with mustard gas]]. [[AMillionIsAStatistic I have seen two brothers fall]]. I have lain with [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict holy wars]] and copulated with [[AtomicHate the autumnal fallout]]. [[ThoseWackyNazis I have dug trenches for the refugees]]; [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheUSSR I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws, and starved the masses into faith]]. [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork.]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Cambodia}} A house of skulls in the jungle.]] The innocent, the ''innocent'', Mandus, [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved!]] [[HumansAreBastards This is your coming century!]] They will eat them, Mandus! They will make pigs of you all! And they will bury their snouts into your ribs, and they will [[PunctuatedForEmphasis eat. Your. Hearts!]]"''

* CreepyTwins: Oswald keeps catching glimpses of his ghostly looking, English-accented children running throughout the manor. [[spoiler: Taken UpToEleven after he is tricked into turning the machine back on, where they appear right before the camera pale as corpses and covered in blood and ripping their own hearts out their chests.]]

* AMillionIsAStatistic: During his MotiveRant, [[spoiler:the Engineer]] contrasts [[WarIsHell the general horrors]] of World War I's trench warfare, with [[spoiler:Edwin and Enoch's fated deaths at the Battle of the Somme]], [[AdultFear a much more up-close and]] [[OutlivingOnesOffspring very personal horror scenario for Mandus]].

* PsychologicalTormentZone: Mandus occasionally finds areas covered with children's wooden building blocks and teddy bears. Time often slows down here, and Mandus laments for [[AdultFear what might have happened to his children.]]