Soma has a live-action mini-series, first episode out now

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I liked Frictional Games' SOMA a fair amount, but it didn't live up to those early live-action teasers, which set my imagination racing a couple of years ago. (Also, hey, I was pretty off with my 'wild prediction', wasn't I?) Now, Frictional has returned to the realm of live-action with a new prequel miniseries, fleshing out the plot of their soggy, philosophical horror adventure.

It's about Sci-Fi—sorry, *shudder*, 'Syfy'—TV movie quality, I reckon, although that robot is pretty convincing. Frictional is going to be releasing an episode a day between now and October 5, and as this one came out yesterday, we should expect another later today.

Andy called SOMA a "masterpiece of audio and visual design", "atmospheric, cerebral, and occasionally frustrating".

Tom Sykes
Tom Sykes

Tom loves exploring in games, whether it’s going the wrong way in a platformer or burgling an apartment in Deus Ex. His favourite game worlds—Stalker, Dark Souls, Thief—have an atmosphere you could wallop with a blackjack. He enjoys horror, adventure, puzzle games and RPGs, and played the Japanese version of Final Fantasy VIII with a translated script he printed off from the internet. Tom has been writing about free games for PC Gamer since 2012. If he were packing for a desert island, he’d take his giant Columbo boxset and a laptop stuffed with PuzzleScript games.