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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 22.5 hrs on record (13.2 hrs at review time)
Posted: 4 Dec, 2017 @ 8:48am
Updated: 21 Nov, 2018 @ 10:42am

Soma is my go-to game when it comes to describing video game storytelling. In all my years of gaming, I have never connected with such a protagonist (Simon). The fact that you are both tossed into the atmosphere allows you to not just embody Simon, but also sympathize and empathize with him. Feeling the anger, the frustration and the loneliness of the unknown.

While the game does have great story, environment, and atmosphere, it lacks in gameplay from time to time. The horror elements do get tiresome after awhile, but do spice it up every so often with a new creature, however, they can all be boiled down to "this one can't see, so be quiet around it", "this one can't hear so stay out of sight", or "this one doesn't like to be looked at, walk around."

The game does have moral decisions throughout it, yet they do not affect the story or the games ending.

In the end I give SOMA

Story - 5/5
Music - 4/5
Gameplay - 3/5
Graphics - 5/5
Overall - 8.5/10
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