Soma is a First-Person horror game where you have no weapons of any kind, with the murky ruined environment of Bioshock and the run-for-your-life gameplay of Outlast. This is one of those games that you can blow through in about 5 hours if you’ve played before, but you really should be exploring and reading/listening to all the story snippets that you find lying around. The game has an “easy” mode where you can’t be killed by enemies, in case you only care about story and don’t want to be molested by the various monsters.

*spoilers ahead*
You play Simon, a regular dude who finds himself in an empty post-apocalyptic environment a hundred years in the future. It turns out that in the future, brain scans can be used to build artificial intelligence versions of people (like you), and the “real” Simon died long ago. Your quest is to launch the ARK, a self-contained computer simulation that holds computerized copies of the last few remnants of humanity. You’re not completely alone in this ruined world though. The same technology that brought you to life has also created monsters, and they want to eat your face.

You play Soma in First Person perspective with very simple controls (keyboard and mouse are fine). You don’t have any weapons, and only have a couple of usable tools. This isn’t a true “stealth” game because in Soma there aren’t that many enemies, and the ones you meet aren’t that great at tracking you. In fact, I’m fairly sure that most of them can be outrun if they do see you. This is an immersive horror game, not an action game. There are a few jump scares though, so be warned.

You should play Soma if:
+You’re looking for a scary game, not as scary as Outlast or Amnesia, but definitely enough to creep most people out.
+You like the kind of game where you’re exploring a spooky environment, trying to find out what happened to the world while trying to avoid enemies that pop up occasionally. The story is thought-compelling and pulls you in. I got stuck in a few places because I’m used to games with “objective markers” while Soma just gives you clues of where to go next.

You should NOT play Soma if:
-You generally avoid horror games.
-You want to blast aliens/monsters. You have no weapons and throwing stuff at the monsters only makes them chase after you harder.
-You want something casual or straightforward. As mentioned earlier it can occasionally be unclear what you’re supposed to do next. There’s no game map and some of the puzzles are not intuitive.

Soma is a First-Person horror game where you have no weapons of any kind, with the murky ruined environment of Bioshock and the run-for-your-life gameplay of Outlast. This is one of those games that you can blow through in about 5 hours if you’ve played before, but you really should be exploring and reading/listening to all the story snippets that you find lying around. The game has an “easy” mode where you can’t be killed by enemies, in case you only care about story and don’t want to be molested by the various monsters. *spoilers ahead* You play Simon, a regular dude who finds himself in an empty post-apocalyptic environment a hundred years in the future. It turns out that in the future, brain scans can be used to build artificial intelligence versions of people (like you), and the “real” Simon died long ago. Your quest is to launch the ARK, a self-contained computer simulation that holds computerized copies of the last few remnants of humanity. You’re not completely alone in this ruined world though. The same technology that brought you to life has also created monsters, and they want to eat your face. You play Soma in First Person perspective with very simple controls (keyboard and mouse are fine). You don’t have any weapons, and only have a couple of usable tools. This isn’t a true “stealth” game because in Soma there aren’t that many enemies, and the ones you meet aren’t that great at tracking you. In fact, I’m fairly sure that most of them can be outrun if they do see you. This is an immersive horror game, not an action game. There are a few jump scares though, so be warned. You should play Soma if: +You’re looking for a scary game, not as scary as Outlast or Amnesia, but definitely enough to creep most people out. +You like the kind of game where you’re exploring a spooky environment, trying to find out what happened to the world while trying to avoid enemies that pop up occasionally. The story is thought-compelling and pulls you in. I got stuck in a few places because I’m used to games with “objective markers” while Soma just gives you clues of where to go next. You should NOT play Soma if: -You generally avoid horror games. -You want to blast aliens/monsters. You have no weapons and throwing stuff at the monsters only makes them chase after you harder. -You want something casual or straightforward. As mentioned earlier it can occasionally be unclear what you’re supposed to do next. There’s no game map and some of the puzzles are not intuitive.