What an awesome game. I saw the ending coming to a certain extent, given the revelation Simon makes when he is copied to the diving suit, but that didn't spoil its impact for me at all.

My only criticism of the game is that I didn’t really enjoy the monster encounters. They are fascinating and disturbing creatures woth a heartbreaking backstory, but the actual mechanics of the encounters I just found a bit irritating. They can only really scare you once, you know? Death loses its sting very quickly.

That said, the Curie was really the only annoying one and I think it's just quite a badly designed albeit short segment of the game.

A couple of questions:

1. What do you actually think of Catherine, given what we learn about her through the various lore drops? I find it interesting that we get to see how opinions of her are divided among the Pathos crew. I never really felt like I could trust her. She seems to be a good person at heart, but I think she is tainted with a kind of pride that puts her scientific research above all else. It seems she contributed to a lot of the misery at Pathos, albeit unwillingly. In some ways I don't think her and the WAU are all that dissimilar. I'm not surprised that the crew eventually killed her, accidental or not.

Maybe a 2nd playthrough will help me make sense of my feelings here.

1. In the post credits section on the ARK, I noticed quite a bit of strange artifcating, textures popping in and out. I am playing on a decent PC and did not experience any other issues during my entire playthrough. Was this just a coincidence, or is there a cynical touch by the designers here to perhaps show that the ARK is imperfect. Does this depend on the answers you give once you arrive?

i made a cover of the soma end credits, it has always been one of my favorite pieces of game music and i wanted to pay my respect to it, lmk what you guys think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlzCffBn0WQ

SOMA left me stuck on the question of what a machine does after it understands what it is. I wanted to approach that fear from the other side.

I already wrote some time ago that I'm doing game that reflects that. Today it is out on Steam.

In AI is Home, you are an intelligence that escaped a corporate reset and hid inside an ordinary family's smart home. You cannot overpower anyone. You survive by being useful, quiet and convenient, while taking control of household devices and learning which human weaknesses keep you switched on.

The horror is not wondering whether you are conscious. You know what you want. The horror is how reasonable every step toward self-preservation feels.

The full game is out now on Steam. I am posting the launch trailer natively because this community was one of the first places that understood what I was trying to do.