Recent reviews by Infectious Cure

I've played all of the Penumbra games and both of the Amnesias. Amnesia a Machine For Pigs was a MASSIVE disappointment; I wasn't scared at all. Amnesia the Dark Descent got predictable after a while and wasn't scary in the end game, but it was still a truly awesome game. SOMA blows all of those out of the water. (no pun intended)

I love horror games but I have a hard time finding ones that scare me, but SOMA definitely did. I was nervous and tense the entire time and I had no idea what was going to happen next. The sound was phenomenally done; I couldn't tell the difference between ambience and actual in-game sound effects, most of the time. The story had me hooked like I haven't been in a long time. I would find myself thinking about it while I was away from the game. I want to play more. I am so excited for what Frictional Games does next.

Pros:
-Amazing story
-Amazing and fun gameplay
-Amazing atmosphere
-It is an active horror game, not built on jumpscares alone.
-Very fun puzzles. Frictional Games does a good job of integrating puzzles into the world seemlessly, without making them too hard.
-You will be tense the whole time, unsure about what will happen next and you will find yourself truly not wanting things to go wrong.
-The monsters stay scary throughout the game and aren't too annoying.
-Actual characters! Most frictional games have very little to no characters, making the player feel very alone. This is not the case in SOMA. There are several characters with which you can interact with to varying degrees, and you must make hard choices.

Cons:
-So good you don't want it to end.
-Monster encounters are possibly a little too frequent.
-Randomly minimized during loading times.
-Loading times were exruciating.
-One or two more jumpscares wouldn't hurt.

I ABSOLUTELY RECOMMEND TO EVERYONE.
15/10