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“No One Else is Making This”: Exploring the Horrifying Experiments of Ontos

Ontos' morality is "so personal," it's forcing players to "take the actions on your own, [...] it's not someone telling you to." The post “No One Else is Making This”: Exploring the Horrifying Experiments of Ontos appeared first on This Week in Videogames - TWIV.

This Week in Video Games / Maddie Agne
Interview

Ontos devs on the centered around a server of ratspsychological gameplay

After working on Ontos for over a decade, it is incredibly exciting to take a deep dive into the gameplay. Ontos is a spiritual successor to Soma, posing deep philosophical questions to players. Because of this, it is also always hard to figure out how to make it understandable in a short video. The focus […]

PlayStation Blog / Thomas Grip
Interview

You can't pet the talking rat wall in Ontos, the new space horror game from Soma's creators, but surely it can run Doom

When Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Soma developers Frictional announced Ontos, their philosophical horror game set in a mad science hotel on the moon, the internet's jimmies were rustled by the presence of an AI server made out of rats. I have several questions for Frictional regarding that talking rat wall, based on my peerless track record of arts and technology journalism.

Rock Paper Shotgun / Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
Announcement

ONTOS, the next horror from Frictional Games has a new extended look

ONTOS is the next horror game coming from Amnesia and SOMA developer Frictional Games and we've just got a real good look at it. Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

GamingOnLinux / Liam Squires-Hand
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ONTOS: This Horrifying, Tantalizing Thriller Feels Like an Immersive Sim for Puzzle Gaming

ONTOS is the kind of game you don’t stop thinking about, even after you’ve turned it off. And not just because it offers you the horrifying reality of the question: “What if a man’s consciousness was stored in a server rack made of rats?” I’ve played its first demo – shown to press and creators […] The post ONTOS: This Horrifying, Tantalizing Thriller Feels Like an Immersive Sim for Puzzle Gaming appeared first on XBOX Wire.

Xbox Wire / Joe Skrebels, XBOX Wire Editor-in-Chief
Preview

ONTOS ‘Gameplay Reveal’ trailer

Publisher Kepler Interactive and developer Frictional Games have released the gameplay reveal trailer for science-fiction …

Gematsu / Sal Romano
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Ontos Has the Most Unsettling Yet Gripping PS5 Gameplay You'll See Today

Due for PS5 release in 2027. Your first look at what Frictional Games is doing for its next new IP after SOMA dropped today in the form of an ONTOS gameplay debut, straight from the Gamescom Opening Night Live stage. Take a look above, with the unsettling title due for a PS5 release next year. "Do you trust the machine? Do you seek an alternative approach? Perhaps even sabotage the Experiment entirely for your own morbid curiosity of what happens next? There is no right or wrong solution in ONTO

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Amnesia studio delays its new game into 2027

Frictional says Ontos is its "most ambitious game to date," and it wants to get it right.

PC Gamer / Andy Chalk
Delay

SOMA Dev Pushes PS5 Thriller ONTOS to 2027

So it can fully achieve its vision. Frictional Games, the studio behind Amnesia and SOMA, has announced it's delaying ONTOS to 2027 so it can properly deliver on its vision for the PS5 psychological thriller. It first debuted at The Game Awards back in December, originally scheduled for a launch this year. That is no longer the case after today's news. Read the full article on pushsquare.com

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Delay

That's a bummer: Frictional's Soma follow-up Ontos has been delayed into 2027

To be truthful, these days it's generally surprising when a game isn't delayed these days, whether that be for a month, months, or even a full year. But perhaps in a year like this one, where a certain game that promises to engulf every other game around it like that black hole it truly is is due for release in November, you can't blame a studio opting to delay to get things in ship shape. Which is exactly what Frictional are doing with Ontos, pushing their next game from this year into 2027.

Rock Paper Shotgun / Oisin Kuhnke
Delay

Soma dev's next game, Ontos, delayed to 2027 in order to deliver on studio's "ambitious" vision

Frictional Games - the Swedish developer behind Soma and Amnesia: The Dark Descent - has announced its upcoming release Ontos is being delayed to 2027.

Eurogamer / Connor Makar
Delay

ONTOS delayed to 2027

Publisher Kepler Interactive and developer Frictional Games have delayed science-fiction mystery thriller ONTOS from its … Source

Gematsu / Sal Romano
Delay