OP, if you enjoyed Amnesia: The Dark Descent, I strongly suggest you check out the Penumbra series, Frictional Game's earlier releases. The system is pretty similar, with a different setting. The first part, Overture, includes combat, but I would suggest not using it at all, as it destroys the fear factor of the game. The second game, Black Plague, is much more similar to Amnesia, but you wouldn't understand what is going on if you didn't play the first part. - Not really "hidden", but I don't see it discussed as much as I think a game as good as this one deserves: Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. It is a first person combat fantasy game developed with the source engine. As soon as you start you are sent to recover a magical artifact which could bring the destruction of the world if it fell in the wrong hands. The selling point is not the story, obviously, but the strong gameplay. You can chose to play as a warrior, charging into enemies and cutting their heads off; or go the rogue way, using stealth to stab enemies who haven't noticed you in the back, or simply pickpocket them for keys and running away without being noticed at all; or you can go the mage way, cast fireballs and lightning rays, control enemies to fight for you, or telekinetickly smash everyone with a statue from a distance. And also there's archery, but it's not very good as an only style of combat, more of an aid to the others. Note that none of the combat styles are exclusive to each other. Instead, the game works in a points system, in which you recieve skill points after completing parts of the quests, and you can spend those into skills that are associated with a style, but you can always be a mix of everything. Most of the scenarios are set up in a manner that it's more rewarding if instead of charging, you use the enviroment to create traps such as making an almost broken statue fall on your enemies, kick enemies over ledges for a fun 50m freefall, impalling him on spikes, etc. Enemies include necromancers, dark knights, goblins and orcs, and the more rare cyclopes and dragons. Here is a pretty good video that shows the basics of the warrior gameplay:
- Another great game I never see even mentioned is Ecstatica, a 1994 MS-DOS action adventure, which in my opinion, alongside with alone in the dark, invented survival games. I'd say survival horror games, but ecstatica is not all that scary nowadays. (Although it did scare the [cabbage] out of me when I was 6 years old).