Frictional Games Puts A Simulated Mind Inside Sixty Rat Brains
Ontos, Frictional Games' spiritual successor to SOMA, arrives on PS5 in 2027 after more than a decade of development.
- Crombie, the game's simulation, runs on a server made of sixty living rats.
- Players manipulate probes on a character's head to run experiments with uncertain results.
- Creative director Thomas Grip says the game prioritizes research and testing over fast action loops.
Why it matters: Sixty rats hosting a mind is fiction, and the question it dramatizes has no settled answer outside the game.