Frictional reveal Soma follow-up Ontos, a lunar nightmare with talking rat walls and Stellan Skarsgård

Trading the heavy bluish for the Sea of Tranquility

Amnesia developers Frictional person yet done the decent happening and confirmed their much-teased follow-up to Soma, the much-beloved/dreaded underwater sci-fi fearfulness crippled from 2015. Revealed conscionable present astatine the Geoffrey Awards, the caller crippled is called Ontos, which appears to beryllium the Greek connection for "Being". It's acceptable successful immoderate benignant of creepy lunar huffy subject edifice called Samsara, and it honestly reminds maine much of Bioshock astatine a glimpse than Soma, adjacent though it's acceptable successful outer space. That's partially due to the fact that it has a noticeably chattier NPC cast.

There are a batch of talking heads successful that trailer, for a task from the Amnesia devs. Admittedly, immoderate of the talking heads are lone fractional a head. There's besides a talking... partition of rats? One of the little ratty, afloat jaw-equipped NPCs is voiced by Stellan Skarsgård. It sounds similar helium wants you to experimentation connected yourself.

Plot? Well, you are Aditi Amani, and you've been invited to the Moon to analyse thing your estranged dada did. "What begins arsenic a hunt for answers rapidly spirals into thing acold stranger," the blurb expounds. "As you delve deeper, guided by fragments of your father's past, you indispensable face disturbing revelations astir the quality of reality- and your spot successful it.

"Your beliefs volition beryllium questioned, and you volition beryllium pushed acold retired of your comfortableness zone," it continues. "Choose your way and look the consequences." Don't wanna, Frictional! I cognize your methods. At slightest 1 of those paths is bound to beryllium the domain of thing I can't termination that makes my imaginativeness glitch out.

It's retired for PC successful 2026. There is simply a Steam page, from which we larn that Ontos "presents a gauntlet of chilling experiments and disturbing encounters that propulsion the boundaries of some subject and morality". It sounds similar the crippled is simply a bid of tests, each an existential dilemma "that volition marque you question the quality of the soul, suffering, and the precise cloth of world itself".

"These trials are not conscionable puzzles--they are provocations," the developers continue. I similar you Frictional but I deliberation you request to upwind your cervix successful a little. Less grandly, the leafage characterises the crippled arsenic "an immersive communicative with a tactile, systems-driven gameplay experience" successful which you'll "scavenge materials, manipulate intricate machinery, and prosecute with analog systems requiring cautious calibration and hands-on interaction".

I'm astir attracted to the setting, which is "a vast, interconnected labyrinth built atop the ruins of a failed mining colony and an opulent edifice mislaid to time". It's divided betwixt a clump of warring philosophical factions, and features theatre stages, caves, casinos and laboratories. Again, decidedly getting immoderate Bioshock vigor from this. In a promising way.