Hey all, I have no idea why I haven't seen this mentioned outside of one or two websites, but SOMA had itself a little ARG, that mainly involved inputting commands into a console and uncovering stuff.
Main things that were discovered were links to Youtube videos uploaded by FrictionalGames that were set to not show up in searches or upload history. Here's probably the most significant one of them:
Now we're waiting on a countdown, which, to our dismay/annoyance, suddenly jumped up by 2 hours when there were only 15 minutes left.
Here's a link to the thing itself:http://somagame.com/YuXIm5/pathos2_cnsl/
Forgot to link this. It's a pastebin of all the pertinent info so far: http://pastebin.com/X0GivsGP
Edit: Countdown going down led to next step of ARG. People frantically trying to guess password to the new 'ireed' account that popped up.
Edit 2: We got the password. Now enough people need to do a simple grid puzzle to get to whatever next stage there is. If you want to help out, here's a little guide I made. Deleted the pic, that part of the ARG is done.
Edit 3: Got past the pipe puzzle, but there's another 2 day countdown. We did get a new video clip, most likely part from the short movie tied to the game to be released in about a week.
Edit 4: Some keen guy has noticed that one of the videos that was previously nonsense has been sneakily reuploaded to be an actual clip.
Edit 5: Thanks to the stubbornness of /v/ and the FrictionalGames forums, we finally go to what is probably the end of this.
We got the video, after a crapton of false starts and being stuck on a single point for literally hours. No matter what you hear otherwise, it is these two communities that dug this up and stuck with this ARG all the way through.
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