SOMA SOMA MONSTER GUIDE

First Chapter And Warning

Hello.

SPOILER ALERT

I still want to warn you, if you have not finished this game this may spoil you too much. You may get scarier experience when you do not know anything about how the monsters work and the game might/will be better for you. If you are having troubles with some monsters this will help you, but remember that you can learn how they behave easily by just playing the game. If you already know something about the monsters or have finished the game go ahead and take a deeper look in to them! You have been warned! I don't know all specific names of the monsters, so I will use some other names for them.

Thank you for choosing my guide! :)

In this picture you can see a robot.

General Information Of Monsters That You Will Encounter

In soma you will encounter same monster once or twice.

Some monsters in soma can open doors. So be carefull when hiding in dead end rooms.

Do not stare at all monsters, they can see you.

There will be one enemy encounter at one time, with "big bosses". When you are walking under water there can be monsters near each other, so be carefull.

When you go close to enemies you screen will start to "glitch" so that is when you know you might have to start running/hide.

Here you can see good robot again doing its job. :)

First Monster/Construct Robot

This is the very first monster you will encounter in SOMA. You will see it first time after talking to Catherine, but you will hear it before that in the start of the game. Do not go near the source of this guys sound, just wait some time for this guy to move forward and then you can move safely.

This guy is like The Grunt from Amnesia the dark descent, but this guy is smarter. You will see this guy twice. First you will hear it in the start of the game and after that you will see it first time. When you have survived the first encounter you will see it soon again. I suggest you to hide behind walls and other stuff, but no dot hide in same place for too long, this guy will eventually find you. It happened to me, I was hiding behind one corner for 4 minutes :D and it eventually just ran in to me and killed me.

Hide for in one spot for enough time that he looks away or moves somewhere far enough for you to change hiding place and then move slowly and solve all the puzzles required for you to move forward in this encounter, Do not make too much sound for him to notice you.

Here is picture of this guy.

Second Monster/Crawler

This is the second monster you will encounter in SOMA. This robot will talk to you, first he will just ask you for spare gel (structure gel that WAU creates) then it will start to talk to you with pretty bad tone, it clearly does not like you.

This monster just idles in place and after it sees player it starts chasing. This robot will give up on chasing pretty easily so just keep moving after seeing this guy. You will encounter this guy twice when travelling under water.

Here is two pictures of this underwater monster.

Third Monster/The Flesher

Flesher is first hard monster that you will encounter. This guy has lights in its head and it makes non-human noises. This guy can teleport. You will spot this guy easily in dark hallways. You will encounter this monster twice in SOMA.

Even though this guy can teleport, he won't do it if you do not make him angry. As Catherine tells you, do not look at this guy, that will make him angry and teleport to you. Also I recommend that you don't move too fast, that may teleport him to you. From my own experience when I just stayed still and didn't look at him even though he was almost right behind me he didn't attack, but that worked only once.

First encounter with this guy is not hard, just hide and do not look at it. Second encounter may be a bit harder, hide behind walls and try not to be too close to him. After finishing the puzzle in second encounter you have to run from him. Your character will lean to the direction you have to run, so you will have bigger change to survive him.

Here is two pictures of this guy.

Fourth Monster/Proxy/Akers

Fourth monster you will see on SOMA is proxy at Theta. Proxies are employees that have been mutated by structure gel. Proxies are blind, so they can not see you. That isn't necessary that helpful thing, because they have really good hearing. It can even hear you toggling your flashlight. You will know where this guy goes easily because it makes really terrible non-human noises most of the time.

When this monster gets angry it sprints really fast. This monster is also capable of opening automatic doors. It's extremely hard to run away of this monster when it's angry. Best way to survive this monster is just crouch and move slowly. You can also try to throw objects to lure it to a specific location. Somehow even this guy is blind it sometimes noticed me when i looked at it with flashlight, but that was only few cases when seeing this guy. This guy can also hear things from other side of the room where you will encounter it first time and in other cases too...

You will encounter this guy again a little later after that, this time it looks a bit different (right picture). DO NOT RUN this time as it spawn him and makes it chase you immediadly. Just crouch and move slowly.

After that encounter you will see same kind of guy as first time few times. Just crouch and move slowly. Don't make too much noise, but you can lure him as said before. This part might be the trickiest part in this game with monsters.

Here is a picture of two proxies. Left is the first encounter (and the rest of them) and right is the second.

Fifth Monster/Robot Girl

Fifth monster you will encounter is the Robot girl in Omicron. It is another human that WAU has tried to reconstruct. This creation has all kinds of WAU things in it, like light implants. All of these implants seemingly react to its level of aggression, as they light up when it detects something.

You will see one or two of these at Omicron. First you one is when you have to get a part to your suit. When you move towards this robot, you have to move slower as you get closer to it. This robot does not react to seeing you or to any sound, only if you move too rapidly near it, she will start to chase you. If this happens its rather easily outrun, if you find good hiding place. If she gets agitated just a little, but does not start to chase you, just stay still until she calms down.

Second time when you see this is when you are going back to the room where your suit is. She will be in room near the hallway leading to that room. You can either run or just crouch past her, there is enough time to outrun her if she get angry.

Here is two pictures where she is starting to chase and chasing the player.

Sixth Monster/Leviathan

The leviathan is seen many times in the deep sea part of the game. First encounters are harmless, but this monster is harmful towards the end of the game. This thing will follow you all the way to the omega space gun.

As the game tells you: be close to lights so you will can avoid encounter with this guy. At the end of the game you can hide in rocks etc. so it cant catch you. If this catches you it will drag you far away from lights so it wont kill you instantly. Just try to go near lights again if this happens. From my own experience when you are close to omega space gun this guy will still take you even though there is lights near you, so just keep moving and try to hide if it gets close to you.

Two pictures of this monster. Sorry for the quality, visibility in deep sea is pretty bad at this point.

Seventh Monster/Viperfish

Viperfishes are encountered shortly after seeing the leviathan. They swim in groups and try to attack the player. Best way to avoid encounter is to be near the lights. There is still change that they might attack. There is also some abandoned crates in the sea, you can use them as a hiding place also. You can also just keep going to avoid encounter. You will see them only once.

One viperfish looking at the player.

Eighth Monster/Anglerfish

This monster is seen some time after viper fish encounters. This monster is another WAU creation that has been heavily mutated. It has no eyes and it has a human face and hand stuck in its body. This monster tries to lure the player near it by its light source on its head. When encountering this guy, just keep moving and stay close to lights. This guy will slowly swim towards the player so, move.

Anglerfish in different angles.

Ninth Monster/Deep Sea Diver/Jin Yoshida

This monster is encountered only once and I mean that's enough of this guy. This guy is employee named Jin Yoshida. It's another WAU creation in power suit. This is the fastest and strongest monster in the game. It has all senses and it can hear you really well. This monster can also open doors.

To avoid encounter or to avoid dying try to hide in dark places and throw objects to distract it. Maintain eye contact to keep it at bay, but that only works for few seconds. You will see this guy first time when you open a very big door in Tau. After that just hide in dark places and wait for him to move away from the hallway. After that you have to open another big door and after that a small door to get on a ladder that will lead away from that part.

I suggest that you try to distract him with objects when opening big doors (they take some time to open). You can also just run from him by opening door and closing them, but that is hard. It also seems like he always knows where you are, so don't just stay still, it will find you like the first monster. Just crouch and try to move smoothy, thats what I did.

Two pictures of this guy. Other picture shows a moment before he killed me.

Tenth Monster/Johan Ross

Spoiler warning!

This guy is not really a enemy for the player, but I had to include this to my guide. Ross was a employee, but he is reconstructed by WAU and heavily mutated. In his mutated form, Ross is a gaunt, top heavy creature with a jaunting gait and thin tentacles pouring from his mouth.

Despite Ross being reanimated by the WAU, he acts against it throughout the game. His behavior is unusual for a WAU-affected being; he is not hostile to Simon, and appears to retain his character and a semblance of human sanity. Ross is seen many times when player goes towards the end. Ross tries to convince Simon to kill the WAU So this guy just opens doors and says stuff sometimes towards the end of the game. Simon even communicates with him when you are almost at the end of the game. You have to make a decision if you want to kill the WAU, either way this guy will die as the leviathan comes trough the floor and eats him before he can kill Simon.

Two pictures of Ross.

Thank You

You survived to the end! I really want to thank you for checking out my guide, I put so much effort in to this. Please rate and comment below about your thoughts of this guide and your own experience of these monsters in SOMA. You can always correct me if I put something wrong!

Thank you! :)

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SOMA MONSTER GUIDE