Ontos

A sci-fi mystery set on the repurposed moon hotel Samsara. Uncover cryptic experiments, face unsettling encounters, and piece together a mind-bending narrative. The deeper you go, the more the truth unravels as you confront the ultimate question: What is reality?

ReleaseDecember 31, 2027

StatusCONFIRMED

DeveloperFrictional Games

PublisherKepler Interactive

Why it matters

Frictional Games, the studio credited with reshaping first-person survival horror through Amnesia: The Dark Descent and SOMA, develops its latest narrative-driven project with publisher Kepler Interactive.

About Ontos

Frictional Games, the studio behind SOMA and the Amnesia series, is making a science fiction mystery called Ontos with publisher Kepler Interactive. It is set aboard the Samsara, a hotel built on a moon and since converted to some other purpose, where the player works through cryptic experiments and increasingly unsettling encounters toward an explanation. Frictional tends to use horror in service of a question rather than for its own sake, and this one is organized around what reality is and whether the player can trust theirs.

Ontos is set for 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, pushed back from the 2026 window it carried when Kepler announced it at The Game Awards in December 2025. Frictional said the extra time was needed for the game's size and scale and for the depth of its story and systems, and did not narrow the new year to a quarter. That emphasis on scale is itself notable from a studio whose previous work has been deliberately small and tightly bounded.

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