![]() Markiplier hams it up beautifully and the video is edited with great comedic timing, but horror games are also easy to watch because you're not missing that much by not having your hands on the controller. ![]() PewDiePie made a whole series about Amnesia when the game released, before he was big enough to be a guest on late night talk shows, but it's another YouTube star, Markiplier, who made a whole career out of being freaked out by Amnesia. On top of that it is really fun to see someone scared for some reason."īy this time, you've probably heard of PewDiePie, who with over 40 million subscribers, has the most popular YouTube channel in the world. That gives a lot more space for 'Let's Players' to put on a show, either by being very scared or just fooling about. You need to be concentrated and play a certain way to play 'properly.' But with horror games, the aim is not to win, but rather to get immersed. "I think Amnesia got a lot of free PR because of "Let's Play" videos, but I also think that Amnesia opened people to a new style of 'Let's Play,'" Frictional Games creative director Thomas Grip told me. ![]() It too found financial success without a marketing budget thanks to YouTube "Let's Play" Videos. The game, which is set in a gothic mansion, gives you only a lantern when facing horrific monsters, and is the king of making players cower pathetically. In fact, those games owe a lot to Amnesia. ![]() Amnesia was released in 2010, before Slender: The Eight Pages, Outlast, Alien: Isolation and other popular horror games released in recent years.
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