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The game follows Lana, a woman who is travelling on a train into Silver City with an eight-year old [[The Speechless|autistic]] girl named Amy, who exhibits unique psychic powers. As Lana travels with Amy on a train to see a doctor in the city, an unexplained explosion causes the train to crash, and Lana discovers that the situation is worse than she thought - most of the population has been transformed into monsters. Together with Amy, Lana must escape the Phoenix Foundation (the organization that originally had Amy) and deliver the young girl to the doctors in the city. Amy can exhibit a wide array of special powers, including computer hacking and psychic abilities that can be unlocked through drawing different glyphs present in the environment.

''AMY'' was critically panned by both reviewers and players, and received a 22% score on Metacritic.

 

* [[Abandoned Hospital]]: Chapter 6 - a hospital wing has been deserted after an attack which happened a few minutes prior to Lana and Amy's arrival.

* [[Action Girl]] / [[Badass Normal]]: Lana, a civilian who goes through the entire game beating monsters to death with crowbars and planks of wood while avoiding soldiers and protecting a young girl.

* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: At one point, the player can find a newspaper that details the explosion that went off in the city, and the events immediately following it.

* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: Let's just say Amy has a tendency to stray from you ([[Too Dumb to Live|even if the area is infested with monsters]]) and let's just leave it at that.

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Amy has the ability to learn various powers by drawing glyphs found in the various chapters, but they all have limited uses - if you waste a power, you'll often have to backtrack through the level to get it again, and you have to wait for Amy's drawing animation to finish before you can continue.

* [[The Big Guy]]: Marcello.

* [[Body Horror]]: The "demons" who have been infected with the plague are snarling, decaying monsters, and dissolve into nothingness once Lana hits them enough times.

* [[Boss Battle]]: There is only one in the entire game, in Chapter 6.

* [[Breakable Weapons]]: Most of the melee weapons Lana finds break after a few hits, forcing her to look for new ones.

** [[It Gets Worse|Even worse]], if you reach a checkpoint and decide to quit the game and come back to it later, you don't return to the checkpoint. Your progress through the story is only saved when you complete a chapter.

*** Thankfully, a later patch added many more checkpoints, mitigating the issue. You still can't save mid-chapter, though.

* [[Critical Existence Failure]]: Lana can be hit up four times by an enemy and not show any visible damage, but the second she gets hit again, she falls down like a ragdoll.

* [[Determinator]]: Lana promises Amy that she'll bring her to safety, even if she dies trying.

* [[Dull Surprise]]: Lana's (in-engine) facial reactions display this. It doesn't matter if she's having a heated conversation with the Professor, fighting an enemy or dying - the expression on her face is always one of dull disinterest.

* [[Escort Mission]]: A rare example of an entire game that focuses on escorting one person. However, unlike most examples, Amy will generally stay out of harm's way (if an enemy runs towards Lana, Amy will quickly get out of the way). However, if Amy is left in a hiding spot for too long, she will break from cover and start running around.

* [[Living Emotional Crutch]]: Lana is this to Amy. Whatever the problem is, Amy gets scared or runs away unless Lana is around to reassure her.

* [[Mama Bear]]: Lana, to Amy.

* [[Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book]]: Amy's Drawing of the {{spoiler|[[Zombie Apocalypse]]}}

* [[Noodle Incident]]: The circumstances behind how and why Lana took Amy away from the Phoenix Foundation.

* [[Unwinnable By Mistake]]: If the player gets Amy to draw a glyph, moves onto a new area and dies before they can use the symbol on a plot-required obstacle, the game restarts with Amy's power wheel completely empty, and the player stuck forever because the glyph is located beyond a locked door.

* [[The Virus]]

* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]

* [[Zombie Infectee]]: Lana is infected with the virus, and will turn after a few minutes unless she stays around Amy at all times (or gives herself syringe injections to mitigate the symptoms).

 

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