SOMA

It's worth playing it. !!!!!!

Gameplay and story are out of this world!! This is the only game to ever invoke actual fear in me with it's monsters. Fantastic game!

amazing and heart wrenching game

I enjoyed the game a lot and I don't regret puchasing it (when it was on sale). It's like an horror graphical adventure where you have to piece together what happened by listening to comms recordings and reading documents. Yeah, there's some puzzles, but nothing complex. I'm not a big fan of horror games where you can't fight back. However, I watched a bunch of SOMA gameplays before buying it and I really liked the premise and the biomechanical aesthetics. Kudos to the devs for having a native Linux version, but I couldn't get the game to detect my controller, so I had to use AntiMicroX as a workaround. They paid a lot attention to detail on all environments. You can go to barely any random corner on the seabed areas and find something (rocks, corals, structures, etc.). Feels realistic and not half-assed. Same with indoor areas. Almost all of them have bathrooms and storage rooms. While they usually don't have any functional purpose, their presence helps with the immersion, reminding you that people used really to work and live there. As a downside, your main character, Simon, is a bit of and overreacting and oblivous a-hole. Also, if you are triggered by though moral decisions on a videogame (see negative reviews), this game may not be for you. Put it on your wishlist and buy it when it's on sale.

The best part of this game is that it was nothing like I expected. At some point I gave up expecting anything, which actually helped me fully enter the character and try my best. In fact, I only intended to try it out, but the world was so interesting, the story so captivating and the characters so realistic that I got hooked until completion LOL This is no horror game, rather a sci-fi thriller. Thanks to the reviews that recommended to play in easy mode, I could focus on the story, not struggling with the mutants which, really, are one of the least important parts of this odyssey. The world is detailed and, although not an open world game, it feels huge. The puzzles really make sense, they feel necessary, there is no gibberish to sort out just for the sake of it. That in a few words, trying to avoid spoilers. The narrative is very consistent, things make sense along the way. There is no rush to explain you anything, nor absurd and unnecessary "mystery". Things start making sense just like in real life. There are no silly weirdo evil masterminds who prepared a big surprise for you at the end, unless you view them like that, depending on your personality. The characters are common sense, this is refreshing. The only thing I found a bit annoying is this tendency, fashionable these days, to force too many female characters in the important engineering roles. It feels a bit unrealistic, though not impossible, in particular considering the time and setting of the story. I read complaints about the inconsistency of the main character's reactions, in particular in respect to the decisions that the player takes. I didn't find that to be the case, the character maintains his personality across the game and it has its comic streak. The ending is priceless, and could not happen otherwise. That's when I knew it was better this way, haha! The philosophical ideas in it are not new to me, but it was fascinating to immerse in this world where they become palpable.