Frictional Games, the studio behind Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Soma, appear to be teasing a new project on their website. The company hasn’t released a new game since 2015’s Soma. Frictional Games is known for creating creepy atmospheric games that leave the player feeling helpless against the untold horrors thrown at them.
Thomas Grip and Jens Nilsson launched Frictional Games on January 1, 2007 and by March released their first title, Penumbra: Overture. In the next several years, they released a sequel and an expansion that made the series as a whole a financial success for the company. The Penumbra series was very heavily inspired by games like Silent Hill, another series that specializes in atmospheric horror. From here they refined their ideas and game mechanics with the Amnesia series and Soma.
Frictional Games has updated their website (via Niche Gamer) with what can only be a very odd teaser for their next game. Instead of a trailer or an announcement of some kind, fans were treated to strange dot of blue light blinking back at them from the center of the page. While this may not be a very obvious clue for a new game, it is quite apparent that this dot must mean something or it wouldn’t have been put there to begin with. The company also announced a few years ago that they were working on two new games simultaneously but gave no indication of a time frame or what those games would be about.
There is also the added intrigue that Frictional Games is known for its very odd marketing choices when it comes to announcing new games. Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs had an extremely vague marketing strategy. There was an entire augmented reality game (ARG) set up in order to entice fans to figure out what the new game would be. The ARG had fans clicking on links that redirected to Google Maps. The locations of these links gave clues as to all kinds of details about the video game. If this marketing strategy is anything to go by then, a blinking blue light might be a clue for something big.
Frictional Games has spent their entire career subjecting their fans to all manner of gore and insanity. With every single new entry, gamers are taught what fear really is all over again. When their logo is attached to a game you automatically know that things are going to become horrific in the most fun way imaginable. Frictional Games has knocked it out of the park before by creating some of the scariest games, and let’s hope they do it again with whatever they are cooking up now.
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Source: Frictional Games/Niche Gamer
