Frictional Games' ONTOS Gameplay Shows Rat 'Brain Experiments' in Lunar Hotel
The footage confirms ONTOS retains Frictional's signature psychological horror, transplanting it into a lunar hotel setting where the line between human and rat consciousness dissolves.
Reporting from 1 source: Denfaminicogamer.
Ten minutes of gameplay footage for 'ONTOS,' the new sci-fi adventure game from Frictional Games, the developer behind 'SOMA,' has been released. The footage shows first-person exploration of an eerie facility with puzzle elements. It reveals rats with brains cut open, a 'server rack' device housing rats that emit human voices, and a lunar hotel setting. The game is scheduled for release in 2027.
The ten-minute clip opens with standard first-person exploration and object-throwing puzzles, but the tone shifts when the protagonist steps into a wing labeled 'Hospital.' Rats with their brains cut open are strapped to devices; cutting their cables frees them, and they can be picked up.
The footage escalates when the protagonist finds a server-rack-like machine packed with rats, a microphone in front of it. As the rats move, voices plead for help. One voice explains it was meant to copy its mind but ended up trapped in the rat server. Pulling the main cable kills the host body, and the consciousness is left permanently confined, raging at the player.
Per the Steam page, ONTOS is set in the lunar hotel 'Samsara,' where the player controls Aditi Amani to expose the facility's experiments. Release is set for 2027 on Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and PC via Steam.
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