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Frictional Games set up a website to tease its next game, and it’s got a heartbeat (via PC Gamer).
Frictional Games makes very good horror games, including the Penumbra series, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and SOMA. The latter of these snagged a spot on our alternative games of the decade list, because it scared me and that is a big deal. Unconvinced? I’m the designated “spider capture and release” person in my house, and SOMA made my skin crawl. Quite the admission for a thrill-seeker such as myself. Frictional Games has begun to tease its next venture with an official website, and it appears to be… alive.
Amnesia and SOMA developer studio (Fictional Games)
have uploaded a teaser site for their next gameany guesses to what it means?
link to site: https://t.co/WRIQpYorbl
via @ign pic.twitter.com/dO2uf5ZdoN— Acing Entertainment (@U_S_Ace) January 4, 2020
Last week, this little thing in the centre of the site was microscopic. It looked like a neuron, or a bit of fluff from under the sofa. The Gamer checked up on this whatever-it-is, flickering like a heartbeat, and now it’s gotten bigger. It’s also stretching teeny tiny tendrils from its core into the darkness. That’s reassuring.
Something seems to have changed with Frictional Games' preview video…. pic.twitter.com/xF1bykejWZ
— Phillip Moyer (@phillipmoyer) January 8, 2020
The Gamer started digging for clues, and for that reason, I would like them on my team when this thing decides it’s time to see the sights. When it was in its neuron stage, the filename of the looping video was “1230.mp4.” In its bean stage, the filename for this video is “0106.mp4”, suggesting that these are in fact dates and we’ll get a new evolution with each week. Time to get cracking on the photo album, then. “Oh, that’s when it started walking! And then when it ate the dog! Look, remember when it drew us that lovely picture of the sun engulfing the earth?”
Frictional Games’ monsters are unforgettable, but they don’t seek the spotlight. I doubt that we’ll get a fully-fledged creature from the teaser website, but the biological notions of neurons and cells insinuates a sci-fi shocker. Watch this space for updates, or maybe get cosy in the bunkers.
