Game won't launch (Steam)

[Capnbob]

Greetings,

I have a new gaming PC I've recently built and have been unable to play SOMA on this machine.

When I attempt to play the game, Steam shows "Preparing to Launch" for maybe a second. The game will show as "running" in the left library panel and then nothing. It seems to immediately crash or otherwise fail. No error messages are displayed. It just stops there.

I've read a common issue is that MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO C++ REDISTRIBUTABLE needs to be installed. I've confirmed this is installed on my machine (at least that's what I'm told when I try to install these files).

I've attempted to find the hpl.log file on my computer but there isn't a SOMA file under Documents/My Games. I found a SOMA file under Steam/steamapps/common/ but there's no hpl.log to be found there.

Here are my specs:

Windows 10 (fully updated)
Intel Core i7-6700k @ 4GHz
EVGA GTX 1080 (latest drivers)
16GB RAM