Soma
SOMA is a sci-fi horror game from Frictional Games, the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. It is an unsettling story about identity, consciousness, and what it means to be human. Enter the world of SOMA…
Soma is an adventure developed by Frictional Games, released 21 September 2015 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux. It currently starts at $5.99 at Humble Store. The main story takes about 10.6 hrs to finish.
What Soma is
Soma is an adventure game developed by Frictional Games and released in 2015. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on HPL Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The radio is dead, food is running out, and the machines have started to think they are people. Underwater facility PATHOS-II has suffered an intolerable isolation and we’re going to have to make some tough decisions. What can be done? What makes sense? What is left to fight for?
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, mystery and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 10 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Soma holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 12 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 82, across 687 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 10.6 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 16.3 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $5.99, that works out to about $0.57 per hour of the main story, or $0.37 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Core i3 / AMD A6 2.4Ghz, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 / AMD Radeon HD 5750. OpenGL 3.3. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 25GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $5.99 at Humble Store, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Soma launched on 21 September 2015, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Undertale, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone and Mad Max. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Undertale, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone, Mad Max.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Soma yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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