Amnesia Creator Frictional Games Teases Upcoming Psychological Thriller
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Key points
- Frictional Games officially revealed its upcoming game through a trailer teaser.
- The video is currently named Frictional_Next_Project.mp4, and shows little else outside of still images.
- The upcoming project was briefly teased in an in-game easter egg within SOMA.
Frictional Games, the development studio responsible for Amnesia and SOMA, officially teased its upcoming project. Though the project does not have a name quite yet, the trailer released on Oct. 1 reveals gameplay stills, where the environment moves slowly but little else changes.
Gamers are speculating that the upcoming title will be within the SOMA franchise. One user noted Soma’s glitch sound effect used in the trailer, while another claims that the title is “definitely a spiritual successor to SOMA.”
The upcoming project was teased earlier within SOMA, nine days prior, as a part of SOMA’s 10th anniversary. As noted by a Reddit user, the recent SOMA patch included a new email on Simon’s computer. The email presents broken lines of code and has hints towards Frictional Games’ next project. A user in the comments deciphered the broken code, which spells out the website Hotelsamsara.com. The same website is linked within the official teaser trailer above.
Visiting the website allows users to sign up for a newsletter and contains artwork and themes. The confirmation email comes from Kepler Interactive website domain, which created speculations, which have now been confirmed, that Kepler Interactive is a co-developer or publisher for the supposed SOMA spinoff.
