Amnesia 3

[Alardem]

The Peacekeepers are a secret organisation that find and contain weird artifacts and machines in an effort to gain a better understanding of them. Klaus is a descendant of both Daniel and Mandus, looking for the Orb and the Machine to try to destroy them, so that they cannot be used for evil purposes.
However, since Klaus is "in the way" the Peacekeepers have "no choice" but to take him out of the picture. What neither realises is the danger behind the objects they are trying to obtain or destroy, so, while the Peacekeepers are smart, they know not of the powers of the Orb or the Shadow that guards it, they only know about the Servant Grunts.
More to come still

Okay, that plot is precisely the kind of regurgitation I don't want in a sequel. A Machine For Pigs continued a lot of themes from the original game, but distanced itself enough from its precursor that even the handful of references it contains feel a little contrived.

Put it this way - horror is about the unknown, and you're just retreading stuff we've already seen. It doesn't even make sense because the 'Machine' is dead and both Mandus and Daniel's stories are over. The less I hear of them, the orbs, shadows and grunts, the better.

The 'Peacekeeper' idea does make me think of the Archaic from Penumbra, however. A secret society of elites obsessing over the paranormal? That seems to be a recurring theme in Frictional's stories...