However, making your way through this spooky journey sure won’t be easy.

5Play It Safe Or Play It Normal?

Soma, interestingly, features two modes of play: safe and normal.

soma spooky robot creature, underwater pod, storage area and tool featured

This normal mode makes it so you have to be stealthy, sneaky, and smart.

Arguably then, this would be the “best” way to experience Soma.

However, the gamealso features a narrative-focusedsafe mode.

soma normal mode and safe mode descriptions at start of game

They might still provide a good fright or two though.

In the case of Soma, this fact remains omnipresent and ever true.

Simon is able to walk, run, jump, and crouch as his basic moves.

reading an email in Soma

Strewn all about the game world are signs and points of interest which make getting lost much harder.

Take your time to learn each new area you stumble across.

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the omnitool service sign in Soma

throwing a coffee mug near some diving suits in Soma

a bunch of sign markers in Soma

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