Overview
- Frictional Games announced Thursday that Ontos has moved from a 2026 release window to 2027 so the team can finish development.
- Ontos is a sci‑fi horror thriller set on the moon-base Samsara where players control engineer Aditi Amani and where actor Stellan Skarsgård is attached to the project.
- Frictional describes the game as an immersive, tactile, systems-driven experience that emphasizes scavenging, machinery manipulation and analog systems.
- The studio called Ontos "our most ambitious game to date" and said the delay will allow it to complete the title's larger size, deeper story layers and complex gameplay systems while promising more updates on characters and the world.
- The pause follows the studio's history of narrative horror with titles like Soma and Amnesia, and observers noted the congested late-2026 release calendar though Frictional framed the decision as driven by creative scope rather than external timing.