Robots and monsters

[schneefink]

On a friend's rec I started playing SOMA. Horror is normally not my genre (says a person who really loved The Magnus Archives but that was an exception) but he said the SF story is fantastic. So far, 3.5 hours and seven locations in (I suspect I'm rather slow), the story is promising, the locations are cool (I especially enjoyed the underwater sequence) and the horror is effective. The monster escape sequences are very stressful! I do check a walkthrough every now and then, especially so I don't go the wrong way while avoiding monsters, that would be annoying. There is an option to play the entire game in safe mode where the monsters can't hurt you but he was right in that the constant caution and occasional adrenaline rush add to the atmosphere. But next time I should plan for a little more time between finishing a session and going to bed, I'm still too keyed up.