Frictional Games just dropped 10 fresh minutes of Ontos gameplay at Gamescom, and it's the exact brand of rat-brained existential nightmare the SOMA crew was born to cook up. Aditi Amani rolls up to the lunar hotel Samsara's hospital wing via gondola, pokes through Crombie's lab, yanks electrodes from a live rat's exposed brain, and gets a sales pitch from a consciousness that got uploaded into a rodent server rack instead of its original body slumped in the corner. The camera even tracks thrown objects for stealth, because of course the moon base has motion-sensing security straight out of a fever dream.

This isn't just another Frictional walking sim with text logs—it's the same tactile poking, moral-choice brain-melters, and "no right answer" philosophy that made SOMA a cult hit, just on a bigger interconnected moon colony with labs in old casinos and experiments in drained pools. PC Gamer called it the standout of Opening Night Live amid a sea of generic fantasy action slop, and the extended look confirms the rat server isn't a one-off gimmick—it's the centerpiece of a puzzle that makes you question who's really talking when the voice comes through the vermin mainframe.

Stellan Skarsgård is on the voice cast, the delay to 2027 was announced to nail the narrative ambition, and the community is already memeing the electrode rat setup while waiting for more. 2027 can't come soon enough for this level of unhinged sci-fi horror.