The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

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Not really.
I'm looking at the original tweet: https://twitter.com/HorrorHoneys/status/...8529711104
and it does not say anywhere that he is talking in the context of the SOMA's universe nor he is talking in the context of game's release. Basically it could be either 19 years from the point of DEPTH events or 19 from now now.

Yeah, it depends when you begin the 19-year countdown. I didn't say the game definitely was set 19 years from 2015, I said that this was "presumably" the case.

I presumed 2015 to be the year because that's when the game is to be released; it would be pretty weird, to me at least, to have a story's timeline tick down for 2 years before anyone can read it/play it. It's like we'd have to imagine the characters going about their business for a couple of years as they wait for us to join them. It seems more likely, in that case, that the game would be said to take place "17 years in the future", or however many years it happens to be.