Can you turn off the monsters on the PS4 version?

[A.M Team]

Story Time:

Frictional Games were alpha testing SOMA with close friends and acquaintances (including some people from the forums). According to sources the game had little monster encounters. People reacted negatively to this saying it was some sort of 'walking simulator'.

So Frictional had one or two years to write, design, model, rig, animate, import and implement monsters in a meaningful way into the game (which probably explains why Art Bully was called in to model the enemies). Hence the clumsy mechanics.

I for one liked the monsters as they can be put to good use in the modding community and hopefully would create better mechanics in the future.