History VideoGame / SOMA

* BlueandOrangeMorality: [[spoiler:The WAU's bread and butter. As the administrative AI in charge of PATHOS-II, it is supposed to keep people alive, and its programming evolved after the comet impact to keep the last remnant of humanity alive. However, it's definition of "alive" ranges from giving artificial organs to injured people who can't seek medical attention, keeping them alive and coherent, but unable to move and in excruciating pain, to uploading brain scans of people it has directly or indirectly killed into immobile robots so they are still technically alive, to mutating people with its own structure gel to make them a part of itself.]]

* BoomerangBigot: While Simon is quite squeamish about hurting the station's non-hostile robot inhabitants, Catherine repeatedly tells him that robots are just machines and has no qualms about mistreating them in pursuit of her goals. [[spoiler: This is despite the fact that she and Simon are technically robots themselves.]]

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything:
** When you get on the tram, it's only headed to one spot (and derails before you even get to Lambda) but the expository video that plays at the beginning changes depending on which place in the game you select as its destination. [[spoiler: If you try to select any place in the Abyss it says the tram for that spot isn't built yet and you need to stop at Omikron and take the climber down.]]
** Regarding Carl in Upsilon: [[spoiler: There's no way to the Comm Tower without hurting or killing robo-Carl as he's wired into the place. If you hit the switch that electrocutes him, Simon mentions hurting Carl to Catherine on the radio. If he killed Carl by cutting the power (accidentally or not) he'll mention that to Catherine and she'll shrug and go, "Well, it's a good thing robots don't have feelings." If you killed Carl but just ran up the stairs without checking on Carl at all (likely because you're running from the enemy robot), Simon doesn't mention Carl at all when talking to Catherine.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: From the sounds of the teasers, human-machine integration does ''not'' go well, with scenarios including patient suicide. The truth turns out to be more existential; [[spoiler: these individuals were unable to grasp that the BrainUploading meant to save what's left of humanity is a form of personality copying rather than an actual transfer of consciousness, and killed themselves under the mistaken belief that their consciousness would be "reborn" as the copied mind in the paradise of the [=ARK=].]] While Catherine isn't strictly responsible for any of this (the suicidal scientists were influenced by a highly "spiritual" colleague who brainwashed them with pseudo-science), throughout the game she does frequently lies to others about the exact nature of her BrainUploading process, all in the name of completing the [=ARK=] project and ensuring that something of humanity is saved.

* NeverMyFault: "It's not my fault people keep killing themselves!".

** Sometime later, you get the ability to do a medical scan on yourself and a chance to look in the mirror, just to be sure. [[spoiler: Simon's body is a human body (the woman Reed, to be precise) stuffed into a diving suit with a blackbox, camera-eyes where a head should be inside the helmet, and everything laced with structure gel to keep it all running. Simon is particularly lucid compared to most of the station inhabitants because his body is mostly-humanoid so his digitized mind doesn't distort itself much to compensate.]]

* YourHeadAsplode: ''Everyone'' in Omikron Station mysteriously died of simultaneous head explosions. [[spoiler: While at first it seems that Ross is responsible, he says it was the WAU itself killing everyone there to prevent them from using the poisoned structure gel.]]

* XMeetsY: Many have seen this game as ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' meets ''VideoGame/BioShock'' meets ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream''.

->''"Uh, hey, look, look, this place is not - there's something seriously wrong here. Hello?"''
-->--'''Simon Jarett'''

'''''SOMA''''' is a 2015 GenreBusting SurvivalHorror ScienceFiction game by Creator/FrictionalGames, in the vein of their ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}'' series, few details are available about the game's plot, though the teaser website and announcement trailer have strong parallels to the Wiki/SCPFoundation and ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream''. The most recent trailer reveals its set at least partially in an underwater laboratory similar to ''Franchise/BioShock''.

''SOMA'' is released on [=PC=] and the [[{{Playstation 4}} [=PS4=]]] on 22nd of September, 2015.

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* TheUntwist: [[spoiler:Simon wakes up right after a brain scan in a world full of robots that think they're human, no points for guessing that the same is true for him. He's directly told this by robo-Catherine not long into the game and he just rolls with it, though the true consequences of this are something he continues to ponder as time goes on and it sinks in.]]

* AfterTheEnd: [[spoiler:It appears that SOMA is set during 2104, an unknown number of years after an asteroid impact destroys the surface of the Earth, leaving a bunch of scientists stranded in an underwater research facility.]]

* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Sarah.]] [[Cspoiler:Catherine]] tries to do this, but winds up getting KilledMidSentence as she's screaming at a belligerent [[spoiler:Simon.]]

* UnderTheSea: The "Lambda" trailer reveals the game is at least partially set in a science facility at the bottom of the ocean.

The game will utilize the third version of Frictional's HPL Engine. A return to sci-fi horror, the dev team intends to bring deeper themes to the front, in order to create a much more disturbing experience -- a reaction to Thomas feeling that ''[[VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent Amnesia]]'' was more of a "shallow fright-fest". While a gameplay [[TheTeaser teaser]] can be seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWHVkMIP1b8 here]], the series also has a few live-action teasers to hint the setting, which can be found below.

''SOMA'' is scheduled to release on [=PC=] and the [[{{Playstation 4}} [=PS4=]]] on 22nd of September, 2015.

* PlayerPunch: To progress through the game, you will have to cause a lot of machines great agony. Many of which aren't actively malevolent and are lucid enough to be considered human.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Catherine spends her last moments cursing Simon's stupidity, and Simon is left alone aboard the habitat in a broken robot body, having failed to realize the BrainUploading process actually creates a copy of the person's mind instead of actually transferring their consciousness. However, the digital copies of Simon and Catherine live on happily together aboard the paradise-like virtual reality environment of the [=ARK=], with the Simon copy totally unaware that he's not the "original".]]