Freebie Info - SOMA [ENDED]

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Greetings, you gay 'ol grand goobers. It's just your friendly neighborhood ape dropping by for possibly the last freebie thread of the year, since I'll be quite busy the next few days and won't have much time to keep tabs on stuff. In the meantime though, today, for you:

[HEADING=2]SOMA [https://www.gog.com/game/soma][/HEADING]

Available for free at GOG for the next 46 hours or so. Just follow the link, make sure you're logged in, click the button to claim the game and it'll be automatically added to your library. The game will of course be DRM-free and comes with wallpapers and artwork as extras.

Enjoy.

 

[Dalisclock]

I played this around the time it came out and really enjoyed it. It had the atmosphere and sense of underwater horror I really wished for in Bioshock(which sadly didn't feel very "underwater" for much of the game) as well as some fun existentialism to boot.

If I had any complaints is the common frictional issue of enemies being attached to a trigger. In one particular section, you need to sneak past a monster to repair and use an elevator, but no matter how far away the monster is when you start messing with the elevator, he will ALWAYS immediately beeline to the elevator to try to murder you. Which rather ruins the immersion of that scene somewhat.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

I couldn't get into this one. the plot was a mess. Once you introduce false memories and basically brainwashing and that the protagonist along with all the other characters can easily be convinced of anything at any point you've lost all scale and tension. There's no reason to believe anything we're doing is actually what we're doing or any of it is happening at all.

 

[Mcgeezaks]

Great game with a great atmosphere, don't expect it to be nearly as scary as Amnesia:TDD though. This game is more about exploring, puzzles and narrative.

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

I'm about 2 hours in and my initial reaction is mixed. The atmosphere is great and the story seems promising, but introducing monsters and environmental storytelling at the same time is stupid. So I'm near a monster who wants to do monster stuff to me, but if I want some world building I'm going to need to crouch in a corner while letting the audio clip play out? It isn't necessarily wrong, but it seems like a bad way to introduce world building details, if lots of players will miss them in their urgency to not become monster food.

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

I'm about 2 hours in and my initial reaction is mixed. The atmosphere is great and the story seems promising, but introducing monsters and environmental storytelling at the same time is stupid. So I'm near a monster who wants to do monster stuff to me, but if I want some world building I'm going to need to crouch in a corner while letting the audio clip play out? It isn't necessarily wrong, but it seems like a bad way to introduce world building details, if lots of players will miss them in their urgency to not become monster food.

Afaik they added a "safe mode" to SOMA that eliminates monsters from the game.

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

Afaik they added a "safe mode" to SOMA that eliminates monsters from the game.

All it does is remove the monsters ability to kill you. They will still patrol, chase you and hurt you (complete with the interface screw that getting hurt in SOMA entails). It might be less scary, but it still interrupts the attempt at puzzling up the lore when you are listening to some audio log when a monster appears, screeches and knocks you down.