SOMA Discussion - Spoilers

Welcome back to another TA Playlist month. Use this thread to speak freely about SOMA and assume anything goes in here.

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Don't think i've got this although it looks quite good

No thanks, i will take the badge upgrade though

Looks good, possible purchase

Anyone else wish a sequel would come out for SOMA it as very good

I completed SOMA recently. It had been in my backlog for quite awhile. I highly recommend the game. You must choose to either use the nice walkthrough (quicker completion but miss some of the story), or go it alone. Either way do it!!

Completed this one quite a while ago, those of you on the fence it's a really nice story but not awfully long.

These are one of those titles where the gameplay is perfectly serviceable, but the real reason you play SOMA is for the story. I absolutely love the haunting, BioShock-ish atmosphere and its themes of mortality, consciousness, and existential dread. Complicated ideas that are rarely touched upon by games (an exception being Planescape: Torment), if at all.

My favorite part of the story was when Simon's consciousness was copied and we, as the player, transferred to the other body while he was stuck in the previous body. The first time was powerful, but the ending doing it again was a gut punch as well. Reminded me of Christopher Nolan's The Prestige.

Excellent music too.

Don't think i've got this although it looks quite good

Still waiting for a sale to pick this up.

That meltdown in the end... one of the best endings ever.


Catherine! YOU monster!! F***************************!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Catherine? Hello? please?

That was a really cool experience def recommend people play it on the normal setting not the cannot be hurt mode as i never actually died even having no clue were to go or what to do but i can understand not wanting the stress and the story should be experienced just to make u think about what it means to actually be human!

Very disturbing game sometimes...but I'll play through it again someday to traumatize myself all over :)

I haven't really played much horror games but I've heard this ones story was great and picked it up on sale. I remember watching Westworld Season 2 and seeing this game being mentioned as a similar story and it seems I started it right when season 2 was finishing.

I thought it was great and yeah they definitely share very similar stories but that didn't take away from me still enjoying it.

The 29.99 USD price is a deal breaker. Instead, I opted to play another survival horror game: Visage. It's on GamePass and is great.

Truly one of the most despair ridden games I have ever played. After completing this in 2020 I went on many youtube deep dives watching video after video about this game, and that only compounded my love for it. I cannot recommend this game enough, it checks nearly every box for me. And it's an easy completion, especially with the availability of safe mode for players who may want a less stressful experience!

I really enjoyed this game when I played it a couple years ago. The story and atmosphere really kept me immersed.

This game is clever in its portrayal of consciousness and reality and, at times, a story I found to be disturbing. Wonderfully put together concept

Absolutely incredible writing in this game. The story itself is very thought provoking and spark interesting ideas on state of AI and thinking feeling human even when you know you're not.

The gameplay I really liked as well. Very smooth and very polished. But the parts where you're walking around on the ocean bed was like pulling teeth for me. Thankfully, there isn't many of them, but I did get lost sometimes in the first half of the game.