TL/DR: Slow beginning, good midgame, bad end and ending overall... not recommended. Wait for sale since there is little to no replay value!


I start with comparisons:

Rebirth < Original Amnesia
Rebirth > Machine for pigs
Rebirth < Outlast 1
Rebirth > Outlast 2

I think the story was very... all over the place. It was super super slow paced at beginning. I got the feeling like the game wanted you to get the handle of controls and such for 3h. I think there should've been some cuts. Original Amnesia had the pacing done much better. I was left with feeling that they just didn't dare to cut stuff off.

Big plus is that the atmosphere and monsters are actually scary compared to the machine for pigs. I mean... if you were scared of the pigs... okey! Even more okey if you don't find ghuls scary in this game but you find pigs scary! There was also more to the story in this game and ending has options. Thuswhy Rebirth is easily better than Machine For Pigs.

Again the pacing... This game added more chases which I'm more familiar with Outlast. When I say Outlast, I refer original Outlast 1. They also build the atmosphere and world around these chases in Outlast. Rebirth... Idk if the A.I. was flimsy or was it really intended this way. At least "sleeping sequence" was imo bit stupid. Outlast was very unforgiving and you got killed for mistakes. This game didn't work the same way... It felt more forgiving and chase sequences didn't feel fluid. They felt like... "okey, now the player has done two puzzles and reached the "end" and got all components and now he needs to go back... let's make it chase sequence so it feels more interesting to crawl through same places". When you just keep repeating this same pattern over and over again.. it becomes predictable and boring.

And Outlast 2... how was Rebirth better then? Outlast 2 was nothing more than chases after chases. Outlast 2 has serious lack of pacing. There was little to no puzzles. And some chases included puzzles that if you failed or didn't think u had time to do something and died over and over again.. the fear factor really fell off and turned into frusthration. In Rebirth the fear factor at least is there with ghuls all the time.



It's 8h game at most. I was seriously stuck and had to check walkthrough.. (after 1h of search) and I'm glad I did. It wasn't puzzle. It was just finding a thing that was not in notes or anything anywhere. I did actually read all the lore I found which lead to the ending I got. Still it took me bit just over 8h. I think I am decent at puzzles so those didn't really take my time. If I wasn't stuck, it would've been 25€ for a game that is bit over 7h and does not have replay value. You can play it for the other endings since you cannot load and it just autosaves so it forces you to replay... ehh... not worth it. I think this whole mechanic is just to make the game have hours, really forced mechanic. Since there is no real choices until end. For example game called Singularity has similar thing. Lots of choices in the end, more than 3. BUT! In that game you can actually load, try the other thing and this way just discover the different endings fast and leave the game satisfied.

Worst parts of the game: beginning and ending... There is choices to be made at the end. I did check some data from achievements and I am kind of surprised that most got the ending I did and even more surprising for me was the 2nd most picked ending out of 3. But then it occured to me... probably most of the ones who got my ending, wanted to "break the cycle" (which I'm sure only the ones who played the game understands and its not spoiling for others since they don't get the meaning) and get happy ending. But then your character gets frozen and it shows you the ending so you cannot do what you had in mind. Then the actual ending scene takes like... 10 seconds? And then credits roll. YIKES! Payoff was... really bad.