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

Amnesia developers Frictional have finally done the decent thing and confirmed their much-teased follow-up to Soma, the much-beloved/dreaded underwater sci-fi horror game from 2015. Revealed just now at the Geoffrey Awards, the new game is called Ontos, which appears to be the Greek word for “Being”. It’s set in some kind of creepy lunar mad science resort called Samsara, and it honestly reminds me more of Bioshock at a glance than Soma, even though it’s set in outer space. That’s partly because it has a noticeably chattier NPC cast.

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