Frictional Games, creators of the cult horror hit Amnesia: The Dark Descent, are hoping to once again scare the pants off gamers with their upcoming title SOMA. This time, however, they’re hoping to try out a different kind of fear.
“SOMA will be scary in a different way from Amnesia: TDD and I really hope that people will feel it is a fresh experience,” creative director Thomas Grip told Gaming Bolt. “There have been so many games now that are just about running way from monsters, and I think a lot of player are getting desensitized to that.”
Grip describes SOMAas a kind of “neo-Lovecraftian” game, capturing {url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft]the author’s[/url] theme of humanity’s terrifying insignificance at the cosmic scale, but with nods to modern scientific principles of neurology, psychology and artificial intelligence. The game takes place in a remote research facility, where strange things are beginning to happen to an isolated research team.
“So our goal is for SOMA to also feel like a revitalization of the horror genre, just as Amnesia did,” Grip explains. “Will it be as scary? I do think so! Not just in the same primal “run and hide in closets”-fashion that Amnesia evoked, but at a more deeper more psychological and gut-chilling level.”
SOMA is coming to PC and PS4 sometime in 2015.
