Amnesia: The Dark Descent developers, Frictional Games, have come out with new information on their upcoming sci-fi, seemingly H.R. Giger-inspired horror game, SOMA, announcing that its project has now entered “Pre-pre Beta”. What’s more is that SOMA’s campaign is suggested to be roughly 11 hours long on average. However, that’s also taking into account “a lot of note-taking, quick discussions and bug-fixing.“
In SOMA, you play as Simon, a scientist who works in an underwater research facility, where the game itself takes place. Whilst Simon won’t be suffering amnesia, as Frictional Games confirmed, there is indeed a big mystery surrounding him and how he ended up in the research facility.
According to Frictional Games’ latest blog post regarding SOMA, the developer announced that the game entering Pre-pre Beta marks the milestone of the first time the game could be played from start to finish, which is a goal the developer is happy to have reached during SOMA’s four-and-a-half years of development.
“While we’ve played the individual levels many times, you never really get the same sense as you do when you play the full thing,” Frictional Games wrote in its blog post. “[We] personally think it’s a significant experience as you now get a mental picture of the game as one complete thing, instead of a massive cluster of themes, systems and scenes. [We] finally know for sure what it is that we’re working towards.“
As mentioned earlier, testing of the game from start to finish to an average of 11 hours per person. With all the worked added on top of the time, i.e. bug fixes, Frictional Games believes that the 11-hour mark should give the developer “a decent estimate of what it will take the average (and non stressing) player to complete SOMA.“
Whilst there’s still a lot of work to be done on SOMA, Frictional Games is still nonetheless excited about releasing its new horror game to the world. Not much is known about when exactly the game will release, but it is slated to launch at some point in 2015. We’ll bring you more news on the SOMA should further information reach our ears.
[ Source(s): FrictionalGames.Blogspot ]