Amnesia Speedrunning Wiki

**Welcome to the Amnesia Speedrunning Wiki!**
*This wiki is brand new and thus under **heavy construction**. You can contribute to a page by clicking the "EDIT" button!*

A collection of Amnesia speedrunning guides, glitches, tips, and routes.

Beginners are welcome! Guides exist for people to learn the routes for their preferred category, to set up the game and recording, and to set up LiveSplit to automatically remove game loads, and even automatically start, split, and stop the timer.

New to *Amnesia: The Dark Descent* speedrunning? Check out the getting started guide!

All new runners should check out Technical Information before starting their speedrunning journey, regardless of which Amnesia game they want to run. There's information on how to configure game settings, how to record your attempts, how to configure LiveSplit and even some tips on how to optimize performance for both the game and OBS.

## Amnesia: The Dark Descent

*Main article: Amnesia: The Dark Descent*

*Amnesia: The Dark Descent* is a first-person survival horror game developed by Frictional Games for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Mac OS X, Sony PlayStation 4, Microsoft Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. It was first released in 2010 for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It was later released on PlayStation 4 in 2016, Xbox One in 2018 and Switch in 2019 as part of *The Amnesia Collection*.

The Microsoft Windows version is by far the best version of the game to use for speedruns as it has the most patches available for running, practice and research, supports a load removal tool and is used by the vast majority of the community. Additionally, the Steam version is the most versatile among the PC releases.

## Amnesia: Justine

*Main article: Amnesia: Justine*

*Amnesia: Justine* is a first-person survival horror game developed by Frictional Games for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Mac OS X, Sony PlayStation 4, Microsoft Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. It was first released in 2011 for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It was later released on PlayStation 4 in 2016, Xbox One in 2018 and Switch in 2019 as part of *The Amnesia Collection*.

The Microsoft Windows version is by far the best version of the game to use for speedruns as it has the most patches available for running, practice and research, supports a load removal tool and is used by the vast majority of the community. Additionally, the Steam version is the most versatile among the PC releases.

## Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

*Main article: Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs*

*Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs* is a first-person survival horror game developed by The Chinese Room and published by Frictional Games for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Mac OS X, Sony PlayStation 4, Microsoft Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. It was first released in 2013 for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It was later released on PlayStation 4 in 2016, Xbox One in 2018 and Switch in 2019 as part of *The Amnesia Collection*.

The Microsoft Windows version is by far the best version of the game to use for speedruns as it has the most patches available for running, practice and research, supports a load removal tool and is used by the vast majority of the community. Additionally, the Steam version is the most versatile among the PC releases.

Frictional Games were kind enough to provide the speedrunning community with a speedrun branch (Steam version), which is the optimal patch for speedruns.

## Amnesia: Rebirth

*Main article: Amnesia: Rebirth*

*Amnesia: Rebirth* is a first-person survival horror game developed by Frictional Games for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Mac OS X and Sony PlayStation 4. It was first released in 2020 for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and PlayStation 4. The release for Xbox One is TBD.

The Microsoft Windows version is by far the best version of the game to use for speedruns as it has the most patches available for running, practice and research, supports a load removal tool and is used by the vast majority of the community. Additionally, the Steam version is the most versatile among the PC releases.

## Amnesia: The Bunker

*Main article: Amnesia: The Bunker*

*Amnesia: The Bunker* is a first-person survival horror game developed by Frictional Games for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S.

The Microsoft Windows version is one of the best versions of the game to use for speedruns as it has the most patches available for running, practice and research, supports a load removal tool and is used by the vast majority of the community. Additionally, the Steam version is the most versatile among the PC releases.

## Links

Speedrun.com

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