SOMA studio says its next game is not ‘stressful or scary’ in the traditional sense, but it’ll still mess you up real good: ‘The goal is to evoke this deep existential terror that stays long after you finish playing’
One of the reveals I was most jazzed for at The Game Awards 2025 was Ontos, the new thing from Frictional Games. I’m a fan of the studio’s work in general, and I loved the way SOMA took the aging Amnesia formula and somehow made it better (and so much worse) by dialing back the…