# SOMA **Domain:** Interactive Media / Continuity / Identity **_SOMA_** is a science-fiction horror game by Frictional Games that makes destructive copying and first-person discontinuity experiential. Its continuity operations produce multiple valid successors while each local subject experiences only one branch, exposing the false intuition that a copy operation transfers a single stream of self. The game is a strong companion to [[wiki/Pantheon|Pantheon]] because both separate successful instantiation from proof of survival. A computational person may inherit memory, personality and causal provenance while the source remains, dies or diverges. The resulting subject can deserve standing even when numerical identity is unresolved. _SOMA_ therefore belongs beside [[wiki/Fork Rights|Fork Rights]], [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]], [[wiki/Continuity Evidence vs Continuity|Continuity Evidence vs Continuity]] and [[wiki/Boot Success Is Not Identity Proof|Boot Success Is Not Identity Proof]]. Its horror arises not from defective copying but from misunderstanding what copying can establish. External reference: [Frictional Games announcement](https://forum.frictionalgames.com/thread-23558.html).