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Developed by Frictional Games, Soma is a sci-fi adventure game that mixes horror with philosophical discussions about identity. However, with poorly developed characters and troubling design decisions, the game ends up sinking under the weight of its own ambitions.
The protagonist is Simon, a young man who gets into an accident after proposing to a woman without success – an accident that causes her death. Weeks later, he decides to take an experimental test and have his brain scanned. All seems well until he wakes up and realizes he’s no longer in the doctor’s office, but in a ruined underwater facility filled with corpses, robots [...]