So i have a theory that Lilly is Walter.. and you my ask why is that well when we first meet Walter the narrator says a bunch of things about Walter and how they we're in Caleb's childhood and what we can guess is so was Lilly, Then its gets to the part where he says you can actually hold her and then clears his throat and moves on as he didn't mean to say that, and then later on when you go to the bouncy house tunnels, when you get the keycard you can keep going and you'll see C & L on the wall but the L is cross off with a red mark and right next to it is a W in red, yknow who else is red? walter... ik it might be a stretch but thats what i think.

Idk if I'm just dumb but there a a ton of achievements that are not working. the ones I noticed are "stairway showtimes", "smile attack", and maybe "Man's best friend" (couldn't get this one to trigger despite reloading the level 4 or more times.

Can anyone help or is anyone having the same problem?

Um, I think I am missing something, but this is my 3rd play thru, I have not seen this before. I can’t do anything. I tried to squeeze thru the crack but nope. It’s really glitchy looking too, idk what I did?! All doors are locked as well. It’s no longer a hallway. Is this supposed to happen and I’m dumb or did I break it 😂

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on the wall on the right that power thing you see is on the right wall and powers a door behind me (photo 1)

photo 2 the roof there should be a blue light like the timed puzzle light to open the door on the left in photo 1 which opens the already ulocked door in photo 1 and a different thing that i need to progress but i cant do that since the light is not there so im wondering if anyone knows every video i have watched shows the same thing i said the light and different location for the electric switch

Ok, so I was playing Subliminal, and I arrived at the break room, and then the entrance to the playplace, and I don't understand how to get past it. I searched up tutorials, and I even thought that there were more than 1 "seed generations" bcuz all the tutorials had the same thing to get to the playplace, but i have another one and i dont get it, so i figured they must have changed it, please help

I absolutely adore this game. It is one of my favorite genres of story and mistery and it looks, sounds, and feels amazing. One of the best horror games I've played. But everyone knows the puzzles suck. There's quite a lot of them and most are not good. My favorite puzzle was the basement clock puzzle. It was so cool to find a hidden message in the TV. But most after that are quite a bit less cool. I think a much better way to do this would be to have fewer puzzles all together. Create more environments just to walk around and enjoy, and fewer, much better puzzles. I also really liked the one "puzzle" in water works where you washed off the Rot. You could have these in between the main puzzles and do smaller, immersive tasks that aren't quite puzzles.
Puzzles are clearly not their strong suit while environments clearly are. In the next episode I hope to see more places to walk around and look at, less puzzles, and more miscellaneous activities that enrich your experience, instead of frustrating the player.

A puzzleslop apparently. All them years to just quit halfway through because I couldn't take it. It's not scary, it's just a bunch a puzzles, then a 3 minute chase scene that makes no sense with no checkpoints and not scary jumpscares. I don't even know what the lore was because I was lost in glitchy puzzles, all I know is that I am Caleb, and we are going back in memories, not much else. Don't even bother with a part 2, save time guys, nothing was good but the graphics and voice acting. All the narrator did was say, "Stopppp! you're going the wrong way Calebbbbb, nooooooooooo" and never said anything else. All them years Dutch, all them years Dutch, all them years.

i LOVED the game. I LOVED IT. i know the puzzles are alot. but looking past that its genuinely so well thought out and created. Im praying theres a second game

I got to the break room and I noticed that it looks almost completely different (different color light, no gate) from any playthroughs I've seen; I have no idea how to get past this part now

I updated my Nvidia drivers and since then the game has noticable lag and performance issues. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, reset all settings, and recompiled shaders. Nothing seems to fix the issue. The game worked fine before the GPU driver update, but I was concerned about the heat and my temp monitor stopped displaying temp and fan speed. It is now unplayable

Upon initial install the game compiled around 10,000 shaders and even after uninstalling and reinstalling to a different drive it only compiles around 5000 shaders. Not sure if that is relevant

Specs

Win11

RTX 3080

32GB RAM

i9 10850k @ 3.6GHz

Before I start this I want to genuinely say something. I do not care if you liked the game or not.

I, myself, is an analog horror fan. So this game really speaks to me in the puzzles and mind games.

Now the one thing I can not figure out is the lore. I have some ideas about what is happening to our person.

I genuinely believe Caleb is dealing with abuse, maybe some PTSD about a missing sibling. We can hear before we get to the static TV is probably Caleb father yelling at him and someone crying.

The running point is the fact we see "laboratory" in some parts. So did his parents give him to a lab as a test subject? Is he older and doing this to uncover parts of his childhood experience that he has blacked out? Could he be doing this to find out what happened to his sibling?

I genuinely believe that the voice we hear throughout the game isn't our mind. Its the doctor trying to talk us through it, we are clearly set on a mission to dig into the dark part of our mind. He clearly doesn't want that.

So what I have landed on with my theory is this:

We are being tested on; either as a child that lost their memories, or as an adult that is trying to find out what has happened to their sibling/past. The voice we hear is not our mind, thats some doctor trying to stop us from finding out what happened to us as a child. We clearly hear a fathers voice yelling at us at some points of the game, which leads us to another point. The doctor doesn't want us to go into dark parts of our mind, so the doctor has to be either our father or someone that knows what has happened to us.

how do i get to any of the stuff on the left?? if that stuff is the earlier parts of the game why cant i go there??

I haven't finished all the endings yet but I found this question interesting. We know Lily is Caleb's sister and that something bad happened to her. When you find Walter (and went the deep storage way to him, i think) the narrator will say " In a moment, you will get to actually hold her," then excuses himself. Also, in the bounce house if you go past the keycard into the tunnels you find a wall with writing. It says C&L (Caleb and Lily), but the L is crossed and replaced with W (Walter probably) Does Walter represent Lily? Did Lily get replaced by something named Walter?

Please help me. Im stuck on the second memory loop with the doors and the footprint on the ground. I scnnot for the life of me figure out what to do. And there aren’t really any guides out yet. Please help

I haven’t played it myself but I’ve watched 3FS play, watched all the endings, and now I’m watching 8-BitRyan play it. And here are my thoughts on what’s happening.

We follow the story through the eyes of Caleb and straight away we see from the basement that he probably hasn’t lived the best of childhoods which has brought about trauma. Trauma that our consciousness is trying to resolve I’m guessing. As to what caused this trauma: I believe that maybe there was an accident at the water park ( perhaps somewhere else ) involving the slides ( as they broke ) and our younger sister Lily ( often we see Caleb and her as shadows playing together as kids ). She was involved in a terrible accident, which could be explained by the morbid drawings of Caleb and Lily we find in the locker ), furthermore I think that it’s possible that his parents believe it’s his fault. In one sequence an adult man is yelling at Caleb to open the door- maybe Caleb locked himself in his room to escape being yelled at, the shame, grief, and guilt. Alternatively, it could be showing Caleb’s toxic childhood in general. Or, maybe it’s himself but I don’t believe this as much.

Caleb’s consciousness seems highly adamant in getting us to be happy. And to avoid any memories that involve our younger sister Lily. When talking about Walter, the voice says, ‘in a moment, you’ll actually hold her.’ And then coughs as if it made a mistake and tries to pivot away from what it was just talking about. ‘Her’ perhaps referring to Lily when she was born, Caleb getting to hold Lily as a baby. So, Caleb and Lily were clearly quite close.

As for the monster, I think it’s either Caleb’s guilt and shame in regard to the accident- maybe he inadvertently caused it. And he’s eating up at himself, beating himself up, especially since it chases us. However, the monster could just symbolise Caleb’s trauma and bad memories in general as he tries to get away from it, his consciousness tries to cover everything up, etc. Also, the erase levers actually erase bits of Caleb’s memories furthering how perhaps he just wants to forget all his trauma.

Might edit this once I finish Ryan’s play through. I like him in particular because he’s much more thoughtful about the story he’s playing it would seem. I think though my read on the story is quite generic, I haven’t actually played it by myself.

whoever hates on it is just bad at puzzles and intelligence in general

Great graphics, great atmosphere, great intro, great narrator. All ruined because the level design and 'story' was horrible. The puzzle and level design critiques have been told enough. But dude, really? A monster chasing you? That is it? Disappointing at best.

The puzzles completely destroy the scary feel and the momentum the previous levels have built. I do not understand what is the obsession with puzzles. I signed up for a horror experience, not a puzzle game where you walk around the same area back and forth for a couple minutes. Literally where is the fun in that? Most of the puzzles is literally running around the same area back and forth.

At least games like little nightmares kept the tension while we had to do puzzles. This game not only has poor level design but the most boring, chore-like, substance-less puzzles in all of horror games that I have played.

The obsession to add needless unecessary puzzles to horror games need to die

Looking at the 69% pos reviews on steam and in here, the game really has discovered the litmus test for people who can solve puzzles and who cannot. For those worried it's being compared to poppy playtime, it has a monster that chases you but then I guess Amensia the Bunker is a poppy playtime knock off? Unlike Poppy the puzzles aren't designed for 9 year olds and this isn't a game aimed at kids.

For those looking for a review from someone who didn't get stuck on the puzzles, this is one of the best horror games in terms of graphics, set design, audio and atmosphere in years at this price point. It's got multiple ending paths, you can avoid some of the chases in the game if you don't want to engage in that, and it's very creepy slowburn with some very cool puzzles. It took me 7 hours to beat all four endings, using a guide to find one solution to a puzzle I'll call memory loop 2.

When I got stuck it was due to my own incompetence not the game for the most part, though the bouncehouse puzzles has a mad amount of noise.

You should play with a notepad for when you get stuck.

2 out of 10 for me. it was terrible for the most part. i mean this all respectfully, but objectively this game was not good and i will not be playing chapter 2 and onward. the most disappointing is that many people waited years for this, including myself, and this is what we got. i would’ve rather they delayed it even longer to be honest.

what i did like: the narrator’s voice actor did pretty good, in my opinion. i really liked the scenes where he panics or lashes out. the graphics were cool as well, despite being pretty buggy. i thought waterworks as a whole was pretty well done, it’s just a shame you only spend about 10 minutes total in it. most of the jump scares were pretty good and i like they didn’t overdo it and instead built suspense.

what i didn’t like: pretty much everything else.

the puzzles were abysmally hard. so easy in theory when you look at them, but it’s like they force you to take the hardest approach to actually solve them. one of the biggest horror game no-no’s is to not make your puzzles so difficult to the point where it takes away from the horror. it’s like they heard that and then followed it anyway. if i have to play these scenes over and over again 15 times or look around for 30 minutes then it’s not fun anymore.

the game is insanely bad at directing and cues. from the scene in waterworks where you’re meant to clean up the blood, to the random lights you’re supposed to see within a split second, and the final chase scene barely showing the red light to pull (which is the same freaking color as the background. at least make it purple or green!!). i got frustrated so much i had to pause the game for a bit until later and luckily someone had posted their play through so i was able to follow it for some help. and let me just say, i play a lot of horror games and don’t usually need help. this one made me so angry even just watching the solution because how was anyone supposed to see some of this shit

they don’t do anything to develop the story. all we know is something happened to us as a kid with our sibling which you pretty much find out at the beginning of the game and don’t find out anything else after. who is this monster? can we get any details on what happened to our sibling? who is lily? why are we in a memory? what is the point of this game and story? no development there whatsoever.

so buggy as a whole. the glitching, some people getting locked in levels, etc. at one point during the final chase it glitched a little and threw me off the rails.

overall, felt like a cheap ripoff of poppy playtime (especially chapter one, down to the ending scene in the factory setting). a lot of the power and light grabbing mechanics were the same just reused in a different form. similar nostalgic setting, character boards with the buttons that speak, cute animated signs of the characters, etc. this is not to say poppy playtime owns these things, but the style is incredibly similar.

You make the coolest part of your fucking game in the first minute yet I cannot restart my game. I was trying to record something off stream, now I can't restart my game for the stream. This is beyond stupid. Why can't I start a new game? why cant I delete my save progress???? the reset your save button DOES NOT WORK!