Frictional officially unveils space horror game Soma

(Credit: Frictional Games)

Earlier this month, Frictional Games, the developer behind the magnificent Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Penumbra, launched a mysterious teaser Web site that seemed to showcase retrieved space artefacts. The game behind it has been unveiled: Soma, a first-person space horror slated for a 2015 release for PC and PlayStation 4.

Creative director Thomas Grip took to the PlayStation blog to open up about the game, which has been kept tightly under wraps for three years. He describes it as a game in which you, the player, are not a hardened space marine or super warrior, but an ordinary person in extraordinary circumstances.

The radio has gone silent on PATHOS-2. As isolation bears down on the staff of the remote research facility, strange things are happening. Machines are taking on human traits, and alien constructions have started to interfere with routine. The world around them is turning into a nightmare. The only way out is to do something unimaginable.

“The subject that Soma will discuss is consciousness,” Grip wrote. “Personally, I fin… [Read more]

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