SOMA Vertical Slice (early beta from 2013) - inside SuperSecret folder

[Omnitool]

I think many things in the vertical slice video were even better than in the final game. The voice acting hears by far more "dramatic", the atmosphere in the ship wreck is more danger at all. Monster music is very creepy and so many locations were different. They re-worked A LOT! From the 5 years development it seems like they wasted 1-2 years with early stuff that got finally cutted out or re-done. I like the final game, but the vertical slice feels more horror.

It sort of reminds me a lot of Penumbra Black Plague for some reason...Judging by the content found in the vertical slice video and artwork folders, I thing Simon would have had a nightmare / hallucination similar to Philip, where he would revisit his appartment and memories of his life. Maybe it would be just like when Philip had to survive the hallicination in order to resist infection from the Tuurngait virus (the "dream" was the way your mind interpreted the virus getting over), in Simon's case the WAU would try to assimilate his mind and it would interpret it as a dream, which if he escaped he would escape the assimilation attempt.