Also, it's not very scary TO ME, but then again, I’m not easily scared and I wasn’t while playing some of the above titles, either (except Alien: Isolation). TO ME, Soma was deeply disturbing at times, but not in a scary way, but an existential one.

As for genre labels, they’re just that: labels. Short-hands used to fit games into neat categories that, however, don’t necessarily convey individuality of the said games. They’re useful, sure, but so are longer descriptions. Case in point: reviews. Like mine :-)

@Plasmabolt, thank you for sharing your opinion. I wouldn't like to sound like a contrarian, but TO ME PERSONALLY (because - as at least implied several times in my brief review - it's just MY OPINION) Soma is NOT a survival, but rather an existential horror game, if anything.

Now let me elaborate why I think that’s the case. For starters, the game lacks the mechanic most commonly associated with SURVIVAL horror games like Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Outlast, Alien: Isolation or Resident Evil 7, which is resource management. Contrary to the devs’ assurances, you as a player don’t really struggle to survive, even tho the protagonist is technically doing just that along with humanity as a whole.

I'm about to be super contentious, heads up.

"but I'd hardly consider it a survival horror game, a misnomer that some people might want to label it as."

It is a survival horror game. That's not a misnomer. It's literally in the description posted by the devs: a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive .

"I'd personally describe it as an existential horror first-person adventure game with a focus on a deep sci-fi narrative and environmental story-telling interspersed with some obligatory stealth sections"

I don't call Skyrim a "sandbox game with a focus on fluid class building and environmental story-telling interspersed with with quests that can be played non-linearly." I just call it a sandbox RPG. Typically when people say a genre they keep it to about two words.

Oooh errr.... fooling around with "Miss Nommer" Cam? you`ll go blind you know...

Ik, same.

Misnomer...oft....stop it, sir, you’re making my nipples hard.