Simon's Apartment | SOMA Game Walkthrough SOMA Guide and Walkthrough
Last update: 27 November 2018
On this page of SOMA Guide you'll find a walkthrough for Simon's Apartment location.
After a short and certainly weird cutscene, you will wake up in the apartment, in the skin of the main character. Look around the area and locate the smartphone lying on the bedside cabinet - interact with it in order to learn about your next objective. You have to find and collect a bottle containing the Tracer Fluid. Before you do so, however, look around the area - there are plenty of things to find here.
Tracer Fluid
While being in the apartment (as well as during the rest of the game), you can interact with a lot of different items - most of them can be grabbed and thrown (which will become handy later on in the game), but for now we will focus on newspaper clippings, books, comic books and all items that can be looked through and / or read. Those can be found quite easily, as they tend (from time to time) to glow slightly, becoming visible from a distance. Those items are not required to collect / read, but they contain massive amounts of information about the world the game is set in, the characters you will stumble upon during your journey and they build a spectacular feeling - you should definitely spend a few extra minutes to collect all of them.
After getting out of the bed and answering the phone, check the lower drawer of the nightstand - inside you will find a book, which can be read. Put the item down and go along the wall on your left until you reach the cabinet, on which a wired telephone can be found - activate it and listen to the recorded message. There is nothing else in the cabined, so just continue on until you get to the bookshelf - on the second from the top shelf, on the left side, you will find a number of photos which can be looked at.
Head towards the desk now - there's a leaflet, as well as a notepad here, and on the pin board located above the desk there are five photos too look at. In the upper drawer of the desk there's a newspaper clipping, and in the middle one two additional newspapers.
Afterwards, interact with the computer so that you can check the available message list. You should focus on the one titled "Saturday off", which can be found in the "Drafts" tab. Select it and then press the "SEND EMAIL" button located in the upper section of the screen. After sending the message, leave the computer - ignore the nearby bathroom as there's nothing to do there.
Head towards the couch in the middle of the room - there's a book there. Put the collectible back on the sofa and then check the dvd box located on the ledge below the TV. The TV itself can be interacted with as well, but you won't be able to watch a movie on it, so just ignore it.
It's time to head to the kitchen area of the apartment. The cupboard located above the microwave hold the story item - a bottle containing Tracer Fluid. Collect it and drink the fluid, by pressing the interaction button again. Afterwards, check the envelope lying on the rack by the door, and then collect the keys located right next to it - all that's left to do is to leave the apartment, by interacting with the door, which will bring you to a new location.