Frictional Video games is engaged on a brand new “SOMA-style” title alongside Amnesia: The Bunker.
Initially launched by the studio in 2015, SOMA is a sci-fi horror sport “set under the waves of the Atlantic ocean”. Gamers had been tasked with surviving the kind of “hostile world” that may make them “query their very existence.”
Since then although, Frictional Video games has been targeted on the long-running Amnesia collection, with The Bunker due for launch later this 12 months, following on 2020’s Amnesia: Rebirth.
Nevertheless in a brand new interview with DualShockers, Amnesia: The Bunker’s inventive lead Fredrik Olsson mentioned: “We’re nonetheless very a lot fascinated by doing extra SOMA-style stuff.”
He added that Frictional Video games’ co-founder Thomas Grip is “nonetheless very a lot engaged on an even bigger mission you can say has far more of this sort of philosophical stuff such as you noticed in SOMA.”
It comes as earlier this month, Frictional had been hiring a story designer who “loves sci-fi and horror”.
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Amnesia: The Bunker was initially due for launch subsequent month however earlier this 12 months, Frictional delayed its launch by eight weeks.
Asserting the brand new launch date of Might 16, 2023, Frictional launched a statement that defined that “the crew has had a tricky winter with a slew of diseases that has affected the event.”
“It is very important us to do the sport justice, and in mild of those halts in manufacturing we don’t want to rush the tip product. The crew is working laborious to make The Bunker the perfect it may be, and some extra weeks will make the mandatory distinction,” Frictional added.
Set to launch for PC, Xbox and PlayStation, Amnesia: The Bunker follows a French soldier in WW1 as he turns into trapped in a darkish bunker with a “dynamic and ever-present monster that reacts to participant actions.” A trailer displaying off The Bunker’s “semi open-world” was launched in December.
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