Frictional Video games – the Swedish developer behind Soma and Amnesia: The Darkish Descent – has introduced its upcoming launch Ontos is being delayed to 2027.
The sport was introduced with a common 2026 launch window, so it isn’t as if folks had already marked their calendars for some devoted Ontos time. With the again half of 2026 immediately wanting mightily busy, and loads of different builders making comparable choices, the delay will not be a complete shock. Nonetheless, the information comes immediately.
In a social media put up from the official Ontos account, the developer writes: „Ontos is our most bold sport to this point, each by way of its measurement and scale, and within the depth and layers of our story and gameplay. To be able to ship this imaginative and prescient, we’ve got determined to push the discharge of Ontos to 2027. We stay up for sharing extra updates about Ontos, our characters, and our world quickly.“
First revealed in December 2025 throughout The Recreation Awards, Ontos is described by Frictional as a sci-fi thriller sport with „tactile, systems-driven gameplay“ and an immersive narrative. Stellan Skarsgård can also be within the sport, which definitely provides to the attraction. Hopefully he is not too upset by the delay.
Ontos is the primary sport to come back from Frictional Video games after it introduced it could „in the reduction of a bit“ from horror video games for future tasks, whereas making certain followers that its video games would nonetheless „really feel like Frictional ones“. Certainly, as first impressions go, the reveal trailer for Ontos did really feel very Frictional. As that is all we’ve got to go on, we’ll have to attend some time longer with simply that style to tide us over.
