Frictional Games has just released the E3 trailer for SOMA and it is scary. Not in the jumpscare way, but in the way that feeds off your paranoia and your imagination. As described on their website:
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.
Getting cut off from society can wreak havoc on a person’s sanity. Sure, you have the other members of the staff to keep you company, but you’d get sick of them, too. Are the events in SOMA really happening? Have the machines really become sentient? Or is it all in the research staff's heads, and we are but witnesses of their descent into madness?
Upon examining the files available on the website, there are moments when you almost wish you could reach out to these machines and give them life, but then you’re yanked back into the reality that these machines do not know how to play nice. They can get aggressive, and send death threats to the research staff that are trying to understand what’s going on. Sympathy will likely get you nowhere in this game.
Judging from the trailer, SOMA is probably going to be an immersive, nerve-wracking, enjoyably scary game that will really find its way into your head. If you’re in the mood to have your head toyed with, you can check out the previously-released gameplay trailers.
We look forward to hearing more about this game soon, and we’re probably going to scramble to get our hands on it. SOMA will be released on September 22 for Steam and PlayStation 4.