Frictional Games is focusing on a new “SOMA-style” title alongside Amnesia: The Bunker.
Originally released through the studio in 2023, SOMA is really a sci-fi horror game “set below the waves from the Atlantic ocean”. Players were tasked with surviving the type of “hostile world” that would make them “question their expereince of living.”
Since then though, Frictional Games continues to be centered on the long-running Amnesia series, with The Bunker due for release later this year, following on 2023's Amnesia: Rebirth.
However inside a new interview with DualShockers, Amnesia: The Bunker's creative lead Fredrik Olsson said: “We are still very much thinking about doing more SOMA-style stuff.”
He added that Frictional Games’ co-founder Thomas Grip is “still greatly working on a larger project you can say has much more of this kind of philosophical things like you saw in SOMA.”
It comes as earlier this month, Frictional were hiring a narrative designer who “loves sci-fi and horror”.
Amnesia: The Bunker was originally due for release the following month but captured, Frictional delayed its release by 8 weeks.
Announcing the new launch date of May 16, 2023, Frictional released a statement that explained that “the team has already established a difficult winter having a slew of illnesses which has affected the expansion.”
“It is essential to us to complete the sport justice, and in light of those halts being produced we do not wish to rush the finish product. They is working hard to help make the Bunker the best it may be, and a few more weeks will make the necessary difference,” Frictional added.
Set to produce for PC, Xbox and PlayStation, Amnesia: The Bunker follows a French soldier in WW1 as he becomes held in a dark bunker with a “dynamic and ever-present monster that reacts to player actions.” A trailer revealing The Bunker's “semi open-world” was launched in December.
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