Two years after the success of Amnesia: The Bunker, Frictional Games has sets its sights on a new project. It looks like it might even share Soma's brand of existential psychological horror.
After what seemed like months of cryptic riddles and ARGs in the official Frictional Games Discord Server, the community’s smartest players finally cracked the code and unveiled a teaser trailer hinting at Frictional’s next project, which is tentatively dubbed as “Hotel Samsara.”
The official ARG website is still riddled with secrets despite the community finding a few solutions for it on October 1. Fans noticed that there are obvious hints at a puzzle after finding bolded letters that form a word, indicating that this is one of the many steps to uncover the mystery. The website also includes odd reviews from fictional guests, with some talking about a man named “Felix” responsible for “willing themselves back to life.” Fueling the mystery even further.
No one knows what Hotel Samsara is going to be about, but the 42-second teaser trailer provided fans what to expect. It’s likely that this next game will literally take place in a fictional hotel called Hotel Samsara, and might even deal with whatever horrors that haunt it. The trailer gave us some clues on what to expect: a luxurious hotel, mysterious etchings on walls, bloodied hallways and a lot of sci-fi lighting indicating the game’s tone.
As Soma celebrates its tenth anniversary, Frictional Games’ next title might be a successor to their hit science-fiction horror. Fans are hopeful that it might be another bout of existential nightmares similar to how Soma dealt with the nature of consciousness and artificial intelligence.
Hotel Samsara may not be the final title for their next project, but it’s already giving us ideas, especially with its name, Samsara, which is derived from the Sanskrit word meaning “wander” or “world.” It’s often linked to the Karmic cycle and the nature of rebirth. Given that we’re in it for a sci-fi setting inside a hotel, there could be themes about reincarnation and morally gray experiments being dealt with about the nature of the soul or what it means to be alive.
Gameplay is still being kept under wraps as the game is still in development. Knowing Frictional Games’ previous titles, we should be expecting a first-person adventure like Soma and Amnesia: The Bunker. Or maybe Frictional Games could surprise us and make it their first ever third-person horror game.
The community is still talking about their discovery over the official Discord server and some are even speculating about what Hotel Samsara will be about. You can join the official Frictional Games Discord server here.
Right now, all we can do is wait until Frictional Games officially drops the full reveal for this mysterious new project. And if it’s as great as its previous entries, we might see another horror banger that can possibly compete with Capcom’s Resident Evil: Requiem next year.
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