Soma - Video Game Review

An emotional experience filled with horror similar in the vein of The Last Of Us.

Title: Soma 
Genre: Psychological horror
Platform: Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, Playstation 4
Developer: Frictional Games (Amnesia and Penumbra series) 
Good for gamers who: Are really into story, and is more into puzzles rather than combat.
Bad for those who: Are into more combat-filled gameplay, and are not into puzzles, or games where you can't at least fight back.
Rating: 8/10.

In 2015, protagonist Simon Jarett gets in a car crash in Toronto, Canada, that leaves him with severe brain damage. Because of his injuries, he agrees to a brain scan. While in that process, he passes out and wakes up in the year 2104, in a research facilty deep in the sea. A year before his awakening, a comet crashed into Earth. Humanity is in ruins. You seem alone in this world, but there are robots driven mad or monsters found in this post-apocalyptic Earth. You can't even fight back against these threats. Gameplay plays from a first-person perspective, and there is no combat whatsoever. You can only hide and run away. You can also possibly distract with thrown items. And enemies don't straight up kill you once you're caught. You lose some health, and you can stick your arms in these (what TFS Krillin calls "robot buttholes"), to restore your health.

Throughout the game, you have several decisions that seem bad regardless of what decision you actually make. You can leave the robot to get killed by the monsters or you can at points, kill them yourself. The problems I see with these is, they actually don't affect the story in the end. But I don't think that was point. The point was, these robots are essentially humans downloaded into the robot. You have to decide if you can kill a machine who really believes they're human. Do you believe they're actually human? It's definitely a very emotional experience that will definitely deliver some scares along the way, though the story may run a little long at 10+ hours. Definitely recommended.