Dear Esther and the highly regarded horror title, Amnesia The Dark Descent creators are back with their next horror, Amnesia A Machine for Pigs.

This strangely named game is set in the year 1899 and aims to deliver a story driven from the first person perspective, using an upgraded version of the HPL2 Engine, created by publishers Frictional Games. Lets see if you can run Amnesia A Machine For Pigs System Requirements, and like the game title they are pretty weird...

Amnesia A Machine For Pigs System Requirements

Amnesia A Machine For Pigs Minimum System Requirements

OS: Win Vista

CPU: 2.0 Ghz core i5 or similar

RAM: 2 GB of memory

GPU: Mid-range NVIDIA GeForce 3x0 / ATI Radeon HD 5x00

HD: 5 GB of available free hard drive space

OTHER: Intels integrated HD graphics solutions should work but are not specifically supported.

Amnesia A Machine For Pigs Recommended System Requirements

OS: Win 7

CPU: 2.0 Ghz core i7 CPU or similar

RAM: 4GB of memory

GPU: High-range NVIDIA GeForce 5x0 / ATI Radeon HD 6x00

OTHER: Intels integrated HD graphics solutions should work but are not specifically supported.

Amnesia A Machine For Pigs Sys Specs Summary

Wow, what was that? i7 or i5 2.0 Ghz processors dont exist. Recommending high end GPUs and then saying Intel HD integrated graphics solutions should also work, seems a little contradictory.

Ok, this is what we have translated that into:

Amnesia A Machine For Pigs Translated System Requirements

OS: Win 7

CPU: Intel Core i7-920 Quad 2.67Ghz or AMD Phenom II X6 1045T

RAM: 4GB of memory

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 or ATI Radeon HD 6850

Pop over to the system requirements area to check if you can run the game

All of these sys requirements seem pretty steep, but we will let you know more once we get our hands on the review copy, to run it through some tests.

Heres an interesting fact for all you fellow gaming nerds out there: the game engine used in A Machine for Pigs is named after the initials of super famous horror writer, H. P. Lovecraft.