It's been a long time since I've played a game this crushingly bleak and abjectly horrifying. Even longer since an experience where that bleakness is contrasted with just enough hope and ambiguity made traversing the world not feel pointless, despite how many times you may question yourself during the journey. Soma is about existential trauma and horror, about what it means to exist and how easy it is to other those who don't conform, about how we can conceive of continuing on when all seems lost. It explores these ideas with a philosophical confidence that I wish more games had the conviction to explore. A masterpiece.