Amnesia: Rebirth

Amnesia: Rebirth is a 2020 survival horror video game developed and published by Frictional Games. It was released for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 4 on October 20, 2020. It is the third installment in the franchise and serves as a sequel to Amnesia: The Dark Descent (2010). The game received generally positive reviews upon release. As PlayStation 5 is backwards compatible with PlayStation 4 games, the game can be bought and played on a PlayStation 5 as well. 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.

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Glitches and Techniques
Main article: Glitches and Techniques

Rebirth has some glitches, techniques, skips and tricks, and while prop flying is the most prominent one, there are other glitches and techniques that are used throughout the speedrun.

Speedrun Categories
Categories are made by the community after enough interest has been shown by a sufficient amount of runners.

This game currently has two categories; Any% and No Major Glitches. The Any% category submerged within the first week of the game's release, and while much work was done within the first month, the No Major Glitches category didn't officially launch until late February 2021 after sufficient ruleset discussions.

Below are the listed categories of Amnesia: Rebirth, which you can browse on speedrun.com.

Any%
Main article: Rebirth Any%

The goal for this category is to beat the game as quickly as possible without any glitch restrictions. This is the fastest way to beat Rebirth. The Prop Flying glitch is the most significant glitch in this category. It essentially allows Tasi to hover infinitely to easily traverse entire maps.

No Major Glitches
Main article: Rebirth No Major Glitches

The goal for this category is to beat the game as quickly as possible using a limited amount of glitches and skips. The ruleset has been crafted by the community in the #rebirth channel in the HPL Games Speedrunning Discord server.