Frictional has been busy scaring the wits out of us with Amnesia (opens in new tab) lately, however the studio hasn’t forgotten SOMA (opens in new tab), its fairly glorious philosophical robo-horror from 2015. Though the Swedish developer is difficult at work on Amnesia: the Bunker, the sport’s artistic lead Fredrik Olsson just lately let slip in a chat with DualShockers (opens in new tab) {that a} mission in SOMA’s heady mould is quietly within the works on the studio.
“We’re nonetheless very a lot enthusiastic about doing extra SOMA-style stuff,” Olsson advised DS, noting that Frictional’s co-founder Thomas Grip is presently at work “on an even bigger mission you could say has far more of this type of philosophical stuff such as you noticed in SOMA”. That may jive with a job posting from the corporate final month (opens in new tab), which was explicitly searching for a story designer who “loves sci-fi and horror”.
So concern not, followers of being horrifically mutilated by androids, your time will come. It will in all probability simply have to attend till after the subsequent Amnesia recreation’s decidedly robot-free WW1 horror will get out the door. That is set to be Might 16 this yr, after a “powerful winter” at Frictional (opens in new tab) pressured the studio to push the sport again just a little bit.
Look on the intense aspect, although, the Amnesia video games have been fairly nice thus far, with the final one drawing reward in Leana Hafer’s Amnesia: Rebirth assessment (opens in new tab) in PCG for being “one of the vital efficient and mind-bending horror video games ever made, similar to its predecessor”. With a bit of luck, the Bunker will dwell as much as that stellar observe document, and we are able to spend our time being irreparably traumatised by that whereas we watch for the items to fall into place on Frictional’s upcoming SOMA-like.