Frictional has been busy scaring the wits out of us with Amnesia (opens in new tab) in recent times, however the studio hasn’t forgotten SOMA (opens in new tab), its relatively glorious philosophical robo-horror from 2015. Though the Swedish developer is difficult at work on Amnesia: the Bunker, the sport’s inventive lead Fredrik Olsson just lately let slip in a chat with DualShockers (opens in new tab) {that a} venture in SOMA’s heady mould is quietly within the works on the studio.
“We’re nonetheless very a lot all in favour of doing extra SOMA-style stuff,” Olsson instructed DS, noting that Frictional’s co-founder Thomas Grip is at present at work “on a much bigger venture that you would be able to 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 on the lookout 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 most likely simply have to attend till after the following Amnesia sport’s decidedly robot-free WW1 horror will get out the door. That is set to be Could 16 this 12 months, after a “robust winter” at Frictional (opens in new tab) pressured the studio to push the sport again a bit bit.
Look on the intense aspect, although, the Amnesia video games have been fairly nice to date, 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, identical to its predecessor”. Hopefully, the Bunker will stay as much as that stellar observe report, and we will spend our time being irreparably traumatised by that whereas we look forward to the items to fall into place on Frictional’s upcoming SOMA-like.