After a Summer Game Fest season no-show, it’s perhaps not terribly surprising to hear that Frictional Games’ upcoming science fiction horror game Ontos has been delayed to 2027. The news was shared in a teaser video featuring the admittedly ironic caption “Time is a construct.”
Ontos is Frictional Games’ spiritual successor to its 2015 sci-fi psychological horror game Soma. Soma was the studio’s first title following its breakout viral success with 2010’s Amnesia: The Dark Descent and features similar combat-less survival horror gameplay focused on a main character trapped in an underwater neuropsychological facility.
Today, Frictional Games revealed that Ontos will now release in 2027 with a brief message on X (Twitter), teasing that more information will be revealed soon.
During The Game Awards 2025, the studio announced that after several Amnesia titles including Amnesia: Rebirth and The Bunker, that it would be returning to a science fiction setting with a new game set on a hotel on the moon titled Ontos. The game will be published by Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Orbitals publisher Kepler Interactive, and feature Andor and Chernobyl actor Stellan Skarsgård.
Ontos will release for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S in 2027.
