I started playing Soma last night for some festive spoops. From the makers of Amnesia and Penumbra and nothing else, it plays identically to their previous work- so far I have no weapons and am being chased down by horrors, both real and imagined. BUT- the setting is much more to my personal preference, taking a sci-fi nightmare approach and having more interaction with other "living" things. Despite this, it still relies on audiotape storytelling a little too much (in the form of interacting with... data..) but Frictional Games knows what they're doing with oppressively spooky atmospheres and I'm excited to see what terrors unfold, if I'm brave enough to keep playing.
I've also been enjoying podcasts and youtube channels doing their frightening October content. Wizard and the Bruiser covered Silent Hill, Matt McMuscles has been playing a slew of horror games, and How Did This Get Played? have slogged through a few painful video game entries and one not-so-bad one, Typing of the Dead.
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