The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

[GrAVit]

A chess game is a good example for such a challenge.

As cool as that would be, being an amateur chess player myself, I just don't see it working out in a game like SOMA, which will probably have a deep philosophical story to it while staying in the boundaries of science fiction. I just don't see a chess game happening in SOMA's setting, at least not in the form of a serious puzzle. It would probably fit better with more fanciful horror games like Silent Hill or something where obscure puzzles could be expected and their mechanisms wouldn't have to make sense, but from what I've seen so far, SOMA takes a somewhat more realistic and serious approach. Opening something with a complex chess mechanism would be inconvenient to say the least. However, I don't mind intellectual puzzles as long as the game provides some information on how the puzzle's basic mechanics work.