Underwater horror, claustrophobia thanks to being stuck in a tiny submarine, exploring the unknown and being fully aware that you're aren't alone... There's a lot in this game's atmosphere, and it worked really well here.
one of cool submarine games is "Barotrauma", it is 2D game, maybe it is not as scary but it have a lot to present, even after hours of game when you know what to expect in each situation, you can never be sure, there is something unsettling, driving you into states of fear you cannot explain, you know what to expect but not when and where, and if you will survive, or if your submarine will be there when you return, if your crew will be still alive, and if creatures from cold underwater abyss won't decide to visit you. But today my flight or fight system went crazy for some reason
I love that they named it the Iron Lung after the early ventilator used to treat polio and botulism. Like the device is life saving but the patient is bound to the claustrophobic space for an indefinite amount of time.
Which is kind of ironic since from what I've heard and read as well as watched, nearly everyone who's been in an iron lung was never clausterphobic of it or anything since well. It was keeping them alive and helped them breathe. The few documentaries I've seen showed that as a majority, as the people who were talked to and such that were in them (being past recordings/recorded and written things, to the more recent and practically LAST people still using them. I think I saw an article actually more recently about how there is only one person in current(last year atleast) day still IN one. Sadly from what I've seen, shes pretty much relying on old stock since no ones making anything for iron lungs anymore, and is literally on the last of the air tight seal collars made for them.
@@pirig-gal eh, from what I know is small space is small space you cant move from, it encompasses a majority of your body, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's all they'd need for it to trigger the phobia.
@@ME_KL The SCP Foundation: "Did someone just said an anomaly?!" (Also there is this one SCP that is a red lake that spawns monsters, I think it's called SCP-354)
I love how almost instantly upon getting into the game, Manly’s first comment is “Oh no, this is going to be immersive.” And he was right- the game is great, and terrifying.
If you slow it down to .25 and keep tapping pause, you can see some creepy creature at the end. It kinda looks like one of the photos manly took before.
@@justRICHTOFEN Yeah, in another playthrough of this game I watched I got a good look at it, it's the same fish creature that appeared in one of Manly's photos at 12:23, it's an angler-fish looking creature.
@@kenjutsukata1o1 that can't be the same creature who's eye he took a picture of then can it? it doesn't look like it has the right eye shape for that.
I also think that's the moment that makes the creature attacks you, I mean it has been swimming around us this entire time, approached us on numerous occasion but the attack only starts after you take a picture of it, my theory is that the camera probably have flash, which attracts the creature's attention after living for so long in this dark void, it was probably only curious and had no bad intention but since we took a picture of it's eye, flashing it, it might have interpreted us as a threat
@@toeseater2855 I think that, when the monster inspected the site of the flash, the flash went off inflicting pain onto the creature, therefore it shrieked right after, turning it from a curious fish, into a shark.
The real horror was the amount of film that camera went through just because they shut the front window. If it's expensive now, imagine how expensive it is by then! So many photos of just walls and open water.
The thing is, the sub is already past it's crush depth. If they had not shielded the window it would have burst and nothing would have been discovered at all.
@@Silamon2 That did occur to me, but I'm doubtful of how much pressure it was really holding. The cover should be to protect the surface of the glass from scratches, not to provide the bulk of the strength. Fewer critical moving parts is better design, because if that moving part ever failed to seal then the design would be worthless. If they really thought the window was a weak point, that cover would've been welded on permanently at the surface.
@@Silamon2 Russia has a submarine, where it has a window. Because they designed it within or something. So they can have windows, I think it's just expensive.
Yes on the blood planet. Do you know what blood is made of? They have space travel between planets in this setting. No way they can't use all that organic material to do a little resource farming.
You might want to take a look at Naughticrawl. Less horror, but similar premise - operate a machine you know nothing about while orienting via a radar system.
I LOVE the concept, but one thing these underwater games rarely get right is the sound design. Got to have the sounds of metal straining and creaking under pressure, of player footsteps booming and reverberating inside the tiny sub, of objects hitting and dragging along the hull etc.
_"Let's get a little closer"_ Nope. The low moans did not entice me to want to snuggle. There may indeed be hope in the void. Something is living down there in the blood. It should be left alone. I love the combination of scary space with a deep sea monster and the claustrophobic atmosphere of that tiny sub.
They ARE looking in a good spot by going underwater. Life needs energy, and almost all life traces its food back to light-grown plants or algae. Finding energy is hard without a star though. I don't know if the light from stars in their dying phases like white dwarves and neutron stars or even black holes were what the story meant by "ghostlight of vanished stars," but I loved that they decided to go looking for life-supporting geothermal energy on an otherwise inhospitable planet.
@@Thelothuo Ghost light is the light from stars that are already dead. Since the star's are so far away, even after they die it will take millions of years for their light to stop coming. Something like 20% of star's in the sky aren't there anymore.
@@coledibiase1777 Then these scientists are awfully pessimistic for a bunch that tells themselves they're looking for hope! Starlight is only ghost light when we _predict_ that the star it came from has died (which we will see eventually). If we _saw_ all the stars disappear, there would be little hope, but we would know we really are the center of something in the universe. If the stars all disappeared at once then we still couldn't know for sure if it's local or universal. The game mentions that humans have developed starships, but even within 100 lightyears of Earth (the distance we would see after "a few decades" like the game said) there are only about 80 star systems. If we do have FTL travel/comms and find all the stars have gone, we should run for the nearest nebula and don't look back!
Played this moments ago.. If you Always take pictures whenever you avoid obstacles theres a chance you'll capture the monster on cam. Sometimes you see the tail or even see it following you.
@@radtrainlord8126 Correct, but that is actually a different creature. That creature has what looks like protruding black eyes, whereas the big eye we see is clearly reptilian. Which is somehow even worse, because it means not only is there monstrous life down here, there's probably a whole ecosystem.
This is a hell of a setting that sends chills down my spine. The world thrives because of solar energy (not the kind used to charge batteries but the kind that flora live off), so with the ghostlight, the photons still in transit from now-gone stars, being a finite resource in this universe that's effectively a hard countdown to life ending regardless. All life. Damn.
Well it says all the habitable planets disappeared along with the stars, and the only humans left alive are the ones left on space stations and starships. And the use of the word starships implies the humans are somewhat more technologically advanced in terms of space travel, so they probably live off of synthetic foods and plants/animals most likely don’t exist at all outside of laboratories. Sounds like infinitely depressing world.
@@AB-ln2py We ain't got a way to change photons back to their original state as of now, so unless a miracle happens at the bottom of the blood ocean, it's a slow but definite downward spiral
When I saw this on Steam, I knew Manly was gonna add it to his list of games. The black and white images do have the potential to play tricks on your perception. For me I saw a skeletal corpse crawling towards the submarine at 22:42.
I love manly reaction of seeing a fire. He acknowledged that there's a fire. Finds a note right after starts reading the note. And only takes care of the fire until he gets burned. At least he has priorities straight. 20:00.
This game is so terrifying. Blood is something that is only supposed to be inside, never on the outside. If blood is seen outside, it means that something is wrong. To have an entire ocean of blood means something VERY wrong has happened...
Probably because you’re surrounded by living organisms that can render your entire existence futile and, if you go down too far, you could possibly be crushed to death without anyone witnessing your last moments on this planet. :)
Theory. The blood ocean is the pulped remains of all life that was on the habitable worlds. The living creatures down there were from worlds or places on worlds where all that pressure and weight wouldn’t be an issue.
while i would say there would be way too much organisms and such for that it did say there were multiple of such blood oceans. So I would say its plausible
It is plausible but it doesn't seem plausible to me that the majority of all life in the entire universe would have red blood specifically I mean even here on Earth we already have things like Horseshoe Crabs which have BLUE blood instead of red. But then again the game specifically says that it's blood so who am I to argue against that.
@@hansword Interestingly enough, there's actually a reason why most (non arthropod) animals on Earth have red/iron based blood; as far as we can tell, that's the most efficient way to carry oxygen to all of our cells. Horseshoe crabs, and arthropods in general, are the exception rather than the rule, which is why they're so limited in the size that they can grow. The larger arthropods that used to exist, such as the car-length millipedes and eagle-size dragonflies from the Cambrian era, were only able to get that big because the atmosphere used to be much more saturated with oxygen, so the lower efficiency of their haemolymph (their equivalent of blood) wasn't as much of an issue. With this in mind, it does seem likely that most living species on other planets would evolve something similar to iron based blood. The biggest reasons I can think of for why they wouldn't are a) they don't need oxygen to survive, or b) they evolve a kind of blood that's even more efficient than iron based.
So blood is more efficient in transporting oxygen so life here on earth evolved to use red blood due to oxygen requirements so I suppose that if the majority(or alternatively only specifically only earth-like planets can support life) of all life nesting planets in the universe were pretty much identical to our Earth then sure the majority of all life would share blood(as blood is efficient at its job). So that then give us the question whether or not specifically only spitting images of Earth can support life. What is considered earth-like in this context: it has water lots of it, it has oxygen in its atmosphere, the planet supports an atmosphere in the first place, it MUST be a rocky planet, it has a field to shield it's surface from solar winds and the parent star UV rays, the crust is stable/tectonic activity is low, has lots of plant life, it is rich in minerals and natural resources, and finally the greenhouse is like the Earth's lest the planet become another Venus. So the question here is can a specific types of life evolve from planets with certain deviations from the conditions of our main template that is the Earth. And if so then that would mean that while this life would almost certainly share similarities with Earth life there would still be MASSIVE differences in physiology which may or may not include blood(AKA whatever their equivalent of that is) in those differences that is if they even have blood in the first place. Like you said life on other planets would evolve something SIMILAR to blood but not necessarily blood like human blood. I'm talking specifically about the color of the ocean here and not about whether or not life on other planets would need some type of blood(which they may or may not depending on the type of life). I forgot what makes blood red specifically so basically what I'm trying to say is that is the reason that makes our blood red specifically absolutely MUST be present in alien blood as well I mean it clearly isn't a constant since there are Horseshoe Crabs and the universe is nearly unfathomable in its vastness and hidden secrets you know and along with it is a pretty much unfathomable variety of life to say that(if we aren't alone in the universe of course) all alien life or even most alien life share the same human red blood as us requires a suspension of disbelief.
There’s something truly horrifying with being blind in a metal pod that is slowly killing you as the only way to see is very low quality images where your imagination is scaring you or that you aren’t actually imagining things…
A submarine sunk beyond its maximum depth means that the weight of the water pressure is already beyond what the metal walls were ever designed to withstand. At that depth, the sub's only staying intact because the water doesn't have an entry point, and its not being ripped open because the water pressure all around the sub won't let it expand in any dimension. However, if you so much as make one dent in the walls of the sub, that dent will be rapidly deepened and pushed inside the sub by the water pressure, resulting in the immediate failure of that entire wall as an entire ocean of water tries to force its way into the now-accessible pocket of air you previously called a submarine. The fact that it's an ocean entirely consisting of blood means that if anyone ever finds your submarine, they wouldn't even be able to tell your blood splatter apart from the splatter of the blood burst that crushed you into meat paste.
@@chesed_yt1 If you use a hammer, for instance, and smash it at a certain angle, it will easily shatter. So, I'd recommend wurtzite boron nitride (w-BN) as it has a greater indentation strength than diamond.
So is no one gonna talk about the star at around 24:30 ? The one where Manly had to get VERY close to take the picture? It was literally a star-shaped object shining brightly in a deep ocean of blood, hidden far from every possible creature. What scares me isn't the dying universe, nor the sea of blood, and certainly not the giant lizard thing down there. It's whatever the hell that bright thing is. It was the only place in the ocean that physically distorted the submarine. Seeing how the distortion disappeared after Manly left the thing, I believe that "star" actually distorted the human's vision, not the submarine. It also distorted and created audio hallucinations, such as the submarine metal "bending" and creating that sound that's constantly heard there. I have no theory, no story i can imagine behind it, and that's the scariest part to me as a writer. Manly referred to the "trees" on the northeast section (just near the star, before getting knocked off-course) as 'souls' and that's also a very deep thing, pun aside. I immediately thought of Dante's Inferno, specifically the part where the souls of the dead are buried upside down with only their feet on the ground; and The Mystery of Amigara Fault, where human-shaped holes appeared INSIDE a recently-split mountain. They seemed to have formed naturally, yet the people investigating fit perfectly inside said holes/formations. Once you go inside, you slowly fall deeper and deeper, slowly being distorted until you reach the other side as a sticky mess of distorted limbs, dead. What if the star left behind was the "Hope" the note talked about? The "hope" of freedom, not through death, but through transcendance? Sure, but why? How? And hidden where nothing but beasts can find it? What's the point? It doesn't matter how much I think about it, nothing makes sense in a logical sense. Even if I were to write a story based on this theory, it could very well be as far from the truth as humanly possible, and we would NEVER know, because my theory is simply a baseless theory created through the misleading images. That "star" could very well not be a star, but rather one of those white stones growing from the ground (white stones? Growing in an ancient blood sea? What if those are bones? Whose bones? Perhaps the moon is a living being?) with some sort of space radioactivity. At 16:50 you can also see what seems to be fallen buildings. What the hell happened here? Where did all that blood come from? An average human (therefore humanoids as well) only has 5L of blood in their body. To fill an entire fucking moon with blood would mean a massacre of BILLIONS would have had to take place in that place. edit: I'm glad I gave y'all food for thought. Nothing makes me happier than seeing people writing and putting their minds to work nowadays, especially in a world where none of my friends read books, and most of them have the memory of a fucking goldfish. Don't turn into people like them, y'all. train your minds even if it's just theorizing about an indie game on Manly's channel.
Even then the blood wouldn't remain water cycle all that shit the heat would evaporate it (unless i dont know how blood and water cycle works) so this isnt normal blood something much much worse might have happened. So we see our fishy friend right? It blew through a submarine withstanding an insane amount of pressure with ease and it also knew where the camera was so this thing is intelligent we dont onow how intelligent but it is the buildings mean some people were there since we arent given any real information only a theory but life cannot exist on the moon the moon does not have bacteria and such to then continue and grow evolve yada yada so the fish should not be able to exist on the moon right? It couldnt have been there unless someone brought it (which couldnt happen since things like this dont exist on earth) or something was made into it, okay so the sea of blood? couldnt realistically happen but what if we arent being realistic? Cthulhu mythos does a lot with the sea and cthulhu likes his fish people so the whole souls thing helps support this what if cthulhu made a sea of blood on the moon and turned the people into fish and such? There were bones which mean things have been here a while but anyways. Its a wild theory but hey no real lore to disprove or prove it
"Something weird is going on." You've been piloting a blind sub by paper charts and still photos in an ocean of blood on a dead moon for 30 minutes, and this just occurred to you MBAH? The perfect recruit for the job.
33:05 Although it isn't a clear view since Manly was surprised, going frame by frame, you can see that it kinda looks like a giant fish head getting closer
I liked how this game actually had a reason for a completely untrained person to be piloting a submarine. Also had a reason why you would be doing this at all! Good story, good gameplay, and good atmosphere! Very well done. Thanks for the video Manly! 🙏
@@fatchins9126 For what the game is doing? Yes, absolutely. It's simple and monotone, or it would be if the horror aspect wasn't stopping you every now and then. The simplicity itself is limiting, which only serves to amplify the effect.
man don’t you just hate it when you’re attempting to navigate the depths of an alien moon in your rinky dink rusty submarine and a fire just randomly shows up behind you?
While I do like the design of this game, it really scratches that horror element of the unknown. The more I think about the lore of this game, the more it makes no sense. They have spaceships and spacestations, so they're advance pretty much to travel the stars and survive in space stations for some time, considering they have the ability to send a submarine to a moon (for what reason would you have a submarine in space? Unless you could travel to a unexplored planet that has water). However, the subarmine they have is rusted, uses portholes to see and they have an old camera to transmit images. They're capable of putting a camera on the outside to transmit images, but can't put a video camera to feed directly inside so he could navigate like that instead.
The subs are a form of punishment and disposable analog. They go in and die and they're supposed to be able to recover you but in this case there was no tangible remains.
@@ManlyBadassHero aah ok, I guess in that case it makes more sense to give these prisoners the shitiest bare minimum equipment to at least do their job.
@@Deadman6 They're actually more similar than you might think. 1 - Both space and the ocean are environments that humans can't survive in without special gear, like suits and a portable source of oxygen. 2 - Both environments render a person weightless, which is why astronauts are often trained on Earth in underwater settings. 3 - Submarines and space shuttles are both compact (relatively) and airtight, with only the walls of the vessel separating a person from near-certain death. 4 - To even become an astronaut, you can't be claustrophobic. You have to stay level headed even if something goes horribly wrong with the vessel, because it's literally a matter of life-or-death. The same thing applies to aquanauts, just with water instead of a vacuum outside. Granted, launching a space vessel is (I assume) different from deploying a submarine, but the technology to explore space and the technology to explore the ocean have a lot in common. As for the game, well, the intro does mention that they're starved for resources. Why waste the good stuff on a disposable test subject?
The Quiet Rapture is definitely a very scary idea ngl. Reminds me of "Lets Go, Stuck In the Sound" but like 100% scarier. For real tho I love how this gam perfectly encapsulated Low Res Lovecraftian horror, the fear of the ocean, claustrophobia and all sorts of fears and terrors in one simple-loonibg but very tight package.
I had a dream like that once. The light from the stars all faded out over a few nights and the news was freaking out about it. I've practiced lucid dreaming a lot to the point where even when I'm not lucid (like in this dream) I can often retain a lot more of my normal intellect without falling prone to weird dream logic stuff. I was so scared because if the stars' light vanishes that means the star itself vanished ages ago (for example, if a star is 500 lightyears away and goes out it means the star actually died out 500 years ago). If the light all stopped around the same time it means the stars died out at very different times. You would need to strategically snuff them out to time it like that so that Earth would perceive it this way. A universe wide star extermination apparently done to bother Earthlings specifically. It doesn't make any sense. Even if the universe ended except for us it should be like in this game, with the stars' ghost light. There was no answer to explain it. This incomprehensibility is what scared me so much in the dream, in a very cosmic horror sort of way, only instead of us being small and insignificant we have a huge spotlight being shone on us and can't see what is operating it. Not sure if I explained this well but yeah.
@@Silvercanth that’s a really well written comment, I love it! I got shivers just reading through your scenario because alone the thought of having something so unexplainable of this scale happen is extremely terrifying.
@@fireflieer2422 You have no idea how happy that makes me. I'm normally thrilled to see even one person liked my posts so such an awesome compliment is gonna keep me smiling for days. I'm glad it was comprehensible at all, dreams can be very hard to convey in words.
@@Silvercanth that makes me equally happy! Personally I love reading through comments that express a feeling like fear in such a clear way and give them a body through words, especially since dreams are so (like you said) hard to grasp and fleeting. So I had no other choice but to appreciate your comment.
Fun fact, the game's NOT lying to you, it actually has a 3D world you're exploring and taking pictures of. Though for the most part the only interesting parts are marked on the map, the rest are cavern walls and tree thingies. Look up "iron lung outside bounds" The game is excellently designed, considering it's "low budget"
This is an extremely extremely interesting game. Definitely tickles that unique itch. A lot of people go for new and unique and make some weird failure of a game. They actually achieved something with this one
I love the idea of the thought, or detail here, that all the stars tgey see still aren't actually there anymore. Not just not in this position, but gone completely. Only their light is still there, traveling through the void, until we see it. Until it too is gone.
This is genuinely one of THE most unique post-apocalyptic horror settings I have ever seen! I couldn't even contemplate living in such a horrible world!
"This is gonna be immersive I think" Me: "you mean, SUBmersive" Then I have the quiet realization that I'm alone in my room, making puns at a UA-cam video with no one but my lizard to hear me.
I wish there were more horror games that had this sort of environment. It seems like underwater horror games are just not very common, or atleast if they are. They arent really represented, talked about or shown. I really love this type of horror game, where you are trapped underwater, something else is there, but you dont know what. Watching you, something much bigger then yourself, and you are helpless to do anything. Nowhere to run, trapped. I love these types of games.
Monstrum was a good candidate of the practice. A pool of monsters that are randomly picked with each having a different set of ways to detect you, chase you, find you and kill you. Banger of a game although a bit old.
this game hits all of my worst fears honestly. At least the guy's death was quick at the end so I can't add 'drowning' to the list of horrifying shit this game brings to the table o_o
I've drowned before, in a pool. Fell in, horrible feeling. No one saved me until my face was purple and blue and I had stopped swimming. It burned a lot, but that's drowning in chlorine, can't even imagine drowning in space, on a moon, in a bloody ocean. Literally a bloody ocean. Imagine what the water or whatever taste like. Good riddance.
If you ignore the unnecessarily dubious plot veil, this was quite good. The atmosphere alone carries it. I think there was a lot of room for more interesting "anomalies" to be seen, as well as some additional minor occurrences in the open water between certain distant points to build more tension. I loved the shock ending, but I feel the payoff for all of it just being a big fish or whatever was a little lackluster. Despite that, very cool feel and smooth execution. David's always improving with various aspects of his games which is great to see.
more type of sea life would have been great for this game. Have u you seen mermaids by david romero? its an animation on youtube and pretty creepy, if the game added some creatures like that i feel like it would increase the scare factor so much.
The backstory might not be strictly necessary, but it gets you into the right mindset for this kind of game and adds to the atmosphere. EDIT: Hang on, if it's an ocean of red blood, maybe they could derive iron from it? It's not much but it would be something. EDIT 2: Also, the creator should make more games set in this universe, it's just begging to be explored!
I’m sure metals and iron isn’t a waning resource in the far future, if anything it’d probably be the lack of any kind of fuel in the known universe which would cause spaceships to stop functioning and humanity to slowly die out
"They will have their execution. I will have my freedom." Two meaning: - The criminal (you, the player) will get to be free from the suffering of space, by death of either drowning in blood or sea creatures in the bloody depths. Meanwhile, the survivors' "execution" is the continuous suffering, probably later of turning on eachother one day. If the survivors don't find helpful resources in soace sooner or later, their life will be quite...disatrious. Either that, or - When the criminal finishes their mission and heading back home, I think the criminal can finally be free of service from the survivors, since they don't want the criminal back in their life again. I mean, would you, even if they used up their second chance already? Besides, I'm sure both sides are satisfied anyway, considering one side gets on with life without criminals and the other doesn't want to see the ending outcome of the survivors.
Pretty sure dwindling resources means no sunlight for plants, no food. And that just means one thing. Honestly you(sub pilot) get to die swiftly in the pressure depths or by that sea monster, while the survivors would probably turn on their own just to survive.
Oxygen critical, fire in the compartment, strange environmental acoustics not resulting due to pressurized differentials. Manly, discovers a diary entry, calmly finds a moment to read it.
They absolutely have had an increase. Iron Lung had now been getting people playing in multiple languages, countries and communities. Some have had 900k views and are posted after Titan. So some are already close to a million views and it's only been a few days, and that's for new ones. I wouldn't be surprised if some of these have gone up a lot in watch time. I'm sure analytics could tell us.
21:42 I believe those may be ribs and a skull of another whale fall, just laying on it's side. It looks half buried in silt and I can see how the rips are formed, but I can see how the ribs look like tentacles, It's quite a haunting angle. I... I like looking at skeletons for inspiration.
This game is certainly an unnerving one, I feel this one would be amazing for one of those vr horror games, given how cramped and somewhat intense it tends to be.
It's honestly kinda merciful and nice that the game teleports you out of the really tight spots just so you don't have to navigate them a second time to go back. They still give you a bump to scare you though, you don't get those teleports for free.
God damn there NEEDS to be more of this setting/universe in the future, what a good experience. I should have picked up this game for myself instead of watching a let’s play of it…
I would love to have "diving in to the bright star at 25:22" be an option. You will die anyways but at least on your own term (neither eaten by the fish nor succumbed to the commands given) while getting to have a glimpse at the eldritch unknown.
@@corneliusocachorromanteiga5931 you literally cant dock the submarine, you are welded inside of it, there was no true intention of freeing you, they sent this Convict to their death
Game: By the way, the proximity sensors will tell you if you're getting close to something. Game: Proximity sensor goes off. ManlyBadassHero: Oh hey, what's this.
Wow, even the first few minutes of background is horrific. ...Well, actually, for me that was about the only horror content. It was _interesting,_ but I was more curious about what was in that ocean and what was going on with the universe then I was scared or anxious about the situation. So I was disappointed we didn't really learn anything. Jumpscares did make me jump though. To me the most unbelievable thing in this game is that they had some ancient mini-sub lying around on a space station. That thing looks like it would already be obsolete in modern times.
Well i mean it is made for prisoners who they probably would rather see di so they don't have to waste any other precious resources. So giving them armored exploration coffins sounds about right.
@@fenrirsrage4609 Maybe, but that thing -- the incandescent light bulb especially -- looks like it was made in the 20th century. Though I do question the wisdom of throwing away resources like that as well. The convict may be expendable, but if he smashes into a cliff face and sinks the sub, they might not even get their precious pictures back, let alone a sub capable of being repaired.
Well the sub was actually basically just cobbled together out of random shit, just the complete bare minimum necessary for a convict with a death sentence to do a task or die trying, killing two birds with one stone.
they could be fishing the remains of the sub, cobbling it back together, and sending another down. hence the rusts and meatal patches. they also would be able to get the photos this way. they must have used cheap, sturdy(ish) bulbs to last any hul failures.
Fun fact: iron lung is an irl thing too, but it was more of a medical thing. It was one of the earliest machines that were used to help a criticaly ill patient breath. Idk if it has anything with some small lore of the game or not, my thinking is that the sub is somewhat shaped like this medical instrent
Once stricken with lung failure(like in polio) the iron lung is with you for life. You are stuck in the machine, unmoving, every day until you die regardless. There is something to be said there.
I think you’re absolutely right, but it’s probably more so a metaphor. Iron lungs were giant, claustrophobic tubes where only the patient’s head would be outside the machine. Typically, they were used in people who’s respiratory muscles were failing, and they couldn’t breathe on their own. Therefore they needed manual respiration via the machine’s pressure pumping mechanism. It would be the only thing keeping the patient alive but also would usually be where they died. Similarly, the only thing keeping this person alive in the sea of blood is this giant metal coffin of oxygen.
Getting caught just before reaching safety is such a common horror trope, but for some reason it got me good in this. You're so ready to take that last picture and get done as your sub is filling up with blood, and BAM. I think it caught me off guard because the last photo isn't just safety, but you're also expecting to get one last clue
I wonder how many critical resources could be obtained from blood. After all, it's possible that the blood ocean itself could be very valuable without even considering other resources on the planet.
Considering what lives in it, and the general eldritch nature of a ocean of blood that seems to have nothing living in it other than, what best can be described as, horrors unfathomable, I think its safe to assume you don't want that blood. Just saying.
Free iron+water+possibly edible+habitable environment(I mean the big fish seems fine living there)+whatever resources are on the seafloor like bones and concrete buildings+big edible fish. The place seems like a treasure during a resource shortage and all they do is send a death row convict to snap pics
I think you’d like this game called Kholat. It’s based off the Dyatlov Pass Incident where 9 experienced Russian hikers died in mysterious circumstances
I wonder, in a sea or pool of blood, do things float or will they drown in it? Can fish survive in it or will they die? What's the closest living things that can survive in a pool of blood? Edit: Thank you for the answers, it's been years and my brain sadly isn't sharp enough to understand science anymore ig 😭😂
blood is more friendly to live in then salt water, drinking blood hydrates so its less salty then salt water. this means its properties outside of life is between fresh and seawater. blood is more nutrient rich so it will support more life. the only thing that might kill fish is the shock of being put in a different salinity so quickly but that doesn't stop a native monster from living in it.
Well, Blood is basically rust water, so all that oxygenated iron will be caustic and void of free floating O² that Fish would breathe. So no gilled fish. Amphibians and Lungfish can breathe above the surface, but blood being so thick, it would be impossible for anything to swim in it the way one would expect in normal water. This is all on the assumption that Heme Iron would behave like Iron Oxide - It doesn't. Blood is an Organic Material that thickens when exposed to air outside its host body. An Ocean of Blood would just become one giant scab on the surface, with countless microbes putrifying it just below. Just what sort of animal is massive enough to drain an Ocean's worth of Blood?
Cool. There's two Lovecraft stories that this game seems to derive heavily from. One is about a guy who gets lost at sea and finds an island of flesh and monsters hiding beneath it, the other is about a German submarine crew who lose power, begin to go mad, and eventually find Atlantis.
For a vessel that's falling apart, the Iron Lung can maintain a remarkably steady course, down to 0.01°. If there are future updates, a simple but cool thing to add would be random sway, increasing as the sub deteriorates.
,,,I think a good idea to keep in mind when designing a game is if you’re going to add to the difficulty of a game, the change should not be needlessly frustrating.
"oh no! fire!" "Ooo a note" I have never seen someone casually start reading the note on the floor _before_ putting out the fire. Not that I think it really matters, but wow. He wasn't even speed reading!
So the red lake and grey grass(?) combined with the convict tasked with exploring an anomaly part makes me think the game might have been inspired of SCP-354 "the Red Lake" Which is super cool, I've wanted to see a game inspired by that particular SCP for quite some time now. Edit: it could of course just be a coincident that it just looks similar
There's also some weird book with a similar idea. I forget what it's called. The idea is... for some reason all men are gone and the entire human race is now space lesbians. Also there's a planet or moon with a blood ocean. There are horrible parasitic and highly intelligent lamprey type aliens in that blood ocean. They get inside people and take over their bodies. Also they drink blood.
reading thru the scp entry the pool had the power to cause psycic phenomenon, manipulate the area around it and summon monsters, even grow with time you would be able to make a connection there
Man, the opening paragraph sounds like a really cool setting to be explored. A universe with no stars or planets left, the remnants of humanity trying to survive and find out what happened...
I think the reason why this is so terrifying is that you know something is with you, but your not sure what. And you can't run away from it too. And also the atmosphere, if you thought scary music was bad, *_silence is way worse._*
This game, was indeed very immersive. I particularly like how Manly started seeing things and making assumptions to try and rationalize some of the objects in the photographs. You can really tell it was getting to him. and no I'm not just talking about the eyeball, All over this he was just trying to give some kind of name to things that just couldn't really be explaned.
This trend of 90s-esque looking horror games coming out recently is really exciting to see. Creativity seems and atmosphere is being put above graphics as it should imo
Holy Moses, that was incredibly anxiety inducing, probably one of the most dreadfilled video games I've seen in quite awhile! I legit just wanted it to end and that was 100% a face in that picture! Maybe it's the ghost of the previous person! Manly, you played this so well! Truth be told I would've been running into every other cliff face, forgetting where I was, etc. You're a natural! 😄 Well.... you were until they or "it" blew open your sub and you died. Rip Manly x(
Welcome to the I Sea You There In This Comment Tree Club, how I Sea You There In This Comment Tree are ya?
I bet you sea me.
*H-How did you Sea me so easily Manly Kun?!*
As a person with "good" eyesight I can confirm, I can see you from miles and miles away
i cannot see i'm illegaly blind-
Well, water you wading for?
"Something weird is going on here..." Says Manly, as he is in a dinky rusted submarine on a forgotton, barren moon, in an ocean of blood.
And all habitable planets disappeared without a trace from the universe.
You think that’s weird? You really haven’t been around for long, eh?
Don’t forget the stars apparently a bunch of them (or all don’t remember exactly) vanished as well.
@@anti-usernamesaltaccount3623 It is a little weird for Manly, but nothing too crazy. Not like that one horrible time when he had a daily routine.
@@Flammifleure he had a WHAT
Underwater horror, claustrophobia thanks to being stuck in a tiny submarine, exploring the unknown and being fully aware that you're aren't alone... There's a lot in this game's atmosphere, and it worked really well here.
Underblood
Probably the best feeling on a sub game
one of cool submarine games is "Barotrauma", it is 2D game, maybe it is not as scary but it have a lot to present, even after hours of game when you know what to expect in each situation, you can never be sure, there is something unsettling, driving you into states of fear you cannot explain, you know what to expect but not when and where, and if you will survive, or if your submarine will be there when you return, if your crew will be still alive, and if creatures from cold underwater abyss won't decide to visit you. But today my flight or fight system went crazy for some reason
Small space comfy
Big outside scary :(
Thalassophobia
I love that they named it the Iron Lung after the early ventilator used to treat polio and botulism. Like the device is life saving but the patient is bound to the claustrophobic space for an indefinite amount of time.
Which is kind of ironic since from what I've heard and read as well as watched, nearly everyone who's been in an iron lung was never clausterphobic of it or anything since well.
It was keeping them alive and helped them breathe.
The few documentaries I've seen showed that as a majority, as the people who were talked to and such that were in them (being past recordings/recorded and written things, to the more recent and practically LAST people still using them.
I think I saw an article actually more recently about how there is only one person in current(last year atleast) day still IN one.
Sadly from what I've seen, shes pretty much relying on old stock since no ones making anything for iron lungs anymore, and is literally on the last of the air tight seal collars made for them.
@@Laughing_Dragon I think by clausterphobic is that it did not have much room to move.
An iron lung doesn't normally enclose your head, so it's not that bad when it comes to claustrophobia.
@@pirig-gal eh, from what I know is small space is small space you cant move from, it encompasses a majority of your body, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's all they'd need for it to trigger the phobia.
@@AmericanIdiot7659 irrational fear of confined places, rather than not much room to move, but can coincide with that.
It's not a ocean of blood I fear, it's the idea something is living in it.
where did all of that blood come from
@@zGoldenHawk And that's why it's called an anomaly
@@zGoldenHawk it’s actually ketchup!
@@zGoldenHawk What am I a blood transporter? you tell me. /s
@@ME_KL The SCP Foundation: "Did someone just said an anomaly?!" (Also there is this one SCP that is a red lake that spawns monsters, I think it's called SCP-354)
I love how almost instantly upon getting into the game, Manly’s first comment is “Oh no, this is going to be immersive.” And he was right- the game is great, and terrifying.
Hi bow kid =D
Hehe, immersive…underwater
I thought it was a great dad joke.
this game would be perfect for a vr port
Yeah, that retro ps1 vibe is so petrifying... Also hello bow kid!
I love the ending. No dark secrets, no plot reveals, no insanity, just big fish.
Same.
big fish, hungry, eat, you gone
@@LeivenFrestea now thats epic
Big fish ending unlocked
@@pojfgdlkfgjgdlkfg6912 big boi hungry
Manly's scream at the end really fit what happened there, as if he got pushed back like he was in the submarine
Gotta be realistic
Jumpscare made me jump, manly's scream made me laugh.
If you slow it down to .25 and keep tapping pause, you can see some creepy creature at the end. It kinda looks like one of the photos manly took before.
@@justRICHTOFEN Yeah, in another playthrough of this game I watched I got a good look at it, it's the same fish creature that appeared in one of Manly's photos at 12:23, it's an angler-fish looking creature.
@@kenjutsukata1o1 that can't be the same creature who's eye he took a picture of then can it? it doesn't look like it has the right eye shape for that.
27:57 is my favorite, the horror of finally seeing what's with you and immediately retreating it
The thing is, I don't even think it was the fish thing we see at the end, that may of been something else.
I also think that's the moment that makes the creature attacks you, I mean it has been swimming around us this entire time, approached us on numerous occasion but the attack only starts after you take a picture of it, my theory is that the camera probably have flash, which attracts the creature's attention after living for so long in this dark void, it was probably only curious and had no bad intention but since we took a picture of it's eye, flashing it, it might have interpreted us as a threat
@@toeseater2855 I think that, when the monster inspected the site of the flash, the flash went off inflicting pain onto the creature, therefore it shrieked right after, turning it from a curious fish, into a shark.
Oh god I'm close to there
"omgg finally a frien, helo frien what u doin, uh r u alive, AAAAAAAAAAA ENEMY ENEMY ENEMY ENEMY"
The real horror was the amount of film that camera went through just because they shut the front window. If it's expensive now, imagine how expensive it is by then!
So many photos of just walls and open water.
open blood*
The thing is, the sub is already past it's crush depth. If they had not shielded the window it would have burst and nothing would have been discovered at all.
@@Silamon2 That did occur to me, but I'm doubtful of how much pressure it was really holding.
The cover should be to protect the surface of the glass from scratches, not to provide the bulk of the strength. Fewer critical moving parts is better design, because if that moving part ever failed to seal then the design would be worthless.
If they really thought the window was a weak point, that cover would've been welded on permanently at the surface.
@@Silamon2 Russia has a submarine, where it has a window. Because they designed it within or something. So they can have windows, I think it's just expensive.
@@earnem4175 it’s on the conning tower right? That area is flooded and the pressure is equalized, so it doesn’t need reinforcing.
"somewhere out there in the universe, there must be hope."
and manly's response is:
"NoT On tHe bLoOd pLaNeT."
848 people saw this and I'm seriously the only one that taught of commenting 🗿
@@ahimahmad8932 same
brgu
Yes on the blood planet. Do you know what blood is made of? They have space travel between planets in this setting. No way they can't use all that organic material to do a little resource farming.
This game is more interesting and engaging than most other horror games I’ve seen and you do is look at a map and take pictures of the outside
You might want to take a look at Naughticrawl. Less horror, but similar premise - operate a machine you know nothing about while orienting via a radar system.
This game is a gem.
I mean, SCP-087 literally only has a ladder that you descend, yet it achieves just as much. Horror and minimalism work well together.
@Oofster yes, that's what I meant.
living up to your name
I LOVE the concept, but one thing these underwater games rarely get right is the sound design. Got to have the sounds of metal straining and creaking under pressure, of player footsteps booming and reverberating inside the tiny sub, of objects hitting and dragging along the hull etc.
YES. YES. YES. this game got all of those sounds impressively spot on and im here for it :))
Just what I was thinking. When the sub is going over vegetation, we should hear it scraping the hull
I'm your 666th like
Maybe they wanted to keep in as little sound as possible to make the scaryish sounds drive the point home.
Implying the sound design isnt excellent in this game?
_"Let's get a little closer"_
Nope. The low moans did not entice me to want to snuggle. There may indeed be hope in the void.
Something is living down there in the blood. It should be left alone.
I love the combination of scary space with a deep sea monster and the claustrophobic atmosphere of that tiny sub.
They ARE looking in a good spot by going underwater. Life needs energy, and almost all life traces its food back to light-grown plants or algae. Finding energy is hard without a star though. I don't know if the light from stars in their dying phases like white dwarves and neutron stars or even black holes were what the story meant by "ghostlight of vanished stars," but I loved that they decided to go looking for life-supporting geothermal energy on an otherwise inhospitable planet.
@@Thelothuo
Ghost light is the light from stars that are already dead.
Since the star's are so far away, even after they die it will take millions of years for their light to stop coming.
Something like 20% of star's in the sky aren't there anymore.
Deep sea monsters need hugs too. 😂
@@coledibiase1777 Then these scientists are awfully pessimistic for a bunch that tells themselves they're looking for hope!
Starlight is only ghost light when we _predict_ that the star it came from has died (which we will see eventually).
If we _saw_ all the stars disappear, there would be little hope, but we would know we really are the center of something in the universe.
If the stars all disappeared at once then we still couldn't know for sure if it's local or universal. The game mentions that humans have developed starships, but even within 100 lightyears of Earth (the distance we would see after "a few decades" like the game said) there are only about 80 star systems.
If we do have FTL travel/comms and find all the stars have gone, we should run for the nearest nebula and don't look back!
@@derekdrake8706
Found the deep sea monster. May I recruit you on the mission to *h u g ?*
Played this moments ago.. If you Always take pictures whenever you avoid obstacles theres a chance you'll capture the monster on cam.
Sometimes you see the tail or even see it following you.
How is it? Just the eye?
@@Sephlock 11:52
The triangle is the fish watching you
I think
Better veiw at 12:26
@@radtrainlord8126 Correct, but that is actually a different creature. That creature has what looks like protruding black eyes, whereas the big eye we see is clearly reptilian.
Which is somehow even worse, because it means not only is there monstrous life down here, there's probably a whole ecosystem.
@@radtrainlord8126 yeah watching the breaching part in a single frame that exact shape was there with the big eyes and all
@@radtrainlord8126 yes actually that fish is also the same fish that attacked the submarine
This is a hell of a setting that sends chills down my spine. The world thrives because of solar energy (not the kind used to charge batteries but the kind that flora live off), so with the ghostlight, the photons still in transit from now-gone stars, being a finite resource in this universe that's effectively a hard countdown to life ending regardless. All life. Damn.
Chilling, truely
Well it says all the habitable planets disappeared along with the stars, and the only humans left alive are the ones left on space stations and starships.
And the use of the word starships implies the humans are somewhat more technologically advanced in terms of space travel, so they probably live off of synthetic foods and plants/animals most likely don’t exist at all outside of laboratories. Sounds like infinitely depressing world.
You'll have already been dead for billions of years by then and all of it is pointless anyway.
Not really... energy doesnt vanish it changes state. The fact stars are gone doesnt mean the energy is gone as well, it kust changed state..
@@AB-ln2py We ain't got a way to change photons back to their original state as of now, so unless a miracle happens at the bottom of the blood ocean, it's a slow but definite downward spiral
When I saw this on Steam, I knew Manly was gonna add it to his list of games. The black and white images do have the potential to play tricks on your perception. For me I saw a skeletal corpse crawling towards the submarine at 22:42.
Same it looks like a demon because of the horn like thing
I thought I did too
I saw it too and thought it was intentional.
It reminded me of that one scary image of a skeleton from Children's programing from Local 58
Same
I love manly reaction of seeing a fire. He acknowledged that there's a fire. Finds a note right after starts reading the note. And only takes care of the fire until he gets burned. At least he has priorities straight. 20:00.
This is fine.. 😹🔥
he quickly read it before the paper burned
This game is so terrifying.
Blood is something that is only supposed to be inside, never on the outside. If blood is seen outside, it means that something is wrong.
To have an entire ocean of blood means something VERY wrong has happened...
reading this gave me the chills.
No shit 😭
@@janssenlaguna4421 lol
found the vegan
@@gorkamorka999
I'm not, I just wanted to write something scary.
There`s something so ungodly horrorfing about being alone underwater in a vast ocean.
You mean NOT being alone in a vast ocean..
@@sukoto6672
Not... Not is worse. :(
Probably because you’re surrounded by living organisms that can render your entire existence futile and, if you go down too far, you could possibly be crushed to death without anyone witnessing your last moments on this planet. :)
also its literally unknown, at least with earth you could expect something similar to the other sea animals, with this you don't know what to expect.
Alone? No.
Vast ocean? aaaAAAAAAAAAAHH-
Theory. The blood ocean is the pulped remains of all life that was on the habitable worlds. The living creatures down there were from worlds or places on worlds where all that pressure and weight wouldn’t be an issue.
while i would say there would be way too much organisms and such for that it did say there were multiple of such blood oceans. So I would say its plausible
That's my theory as well. Their pulped remains were transported to the blood oceans together with some of the buildings perhaps?
It is plausible but it doesn't seem plausible to me that the majority of all life in the entire universe would have red blood specifically I mean even here on Earth we already have things like Horseshoe Crabs which have BLUE blood instead of red. But then again the game specifically says that it's blood so who am I to argue against that.
@@hansword Interestingly enough, there's actually a reason why most (non arthropod) animals on Earth have red/iron based blood; as far as we can tell, that's the most efficient way to carry oxygen to all of our cells. Horseshoe crabs, and arthropods in general, are the exception rather than the rule, which is why they're so limited in the size that they can grow. The larger arthropods that used to exist, such as the car-length millipedes and eagle-size dragonflies from the Cambrian era, were only able to get that big because the atmosphere used to be much more saturated with oxygen, so the lower efficiency of their haemolymph (their equivalent of blood) wasn't as much of an issue.
With this in mind, it does seem likely that most living species on other planets would evolve something similar to iron based blood. The biggest reasons I can think of for why they wouldn't are a) they don't need oxygen to survive, or b) they evolve a kind of blood that's even more efficient than iron based.
So blood is more efficient in transporting oxygen so life here on earth evolved to use red blood due to oxygen requirements so I suppose that if the majority(or alternatively only specifically only earth-like planets can support life) of all life nesting planets in the universe were pretty much identical to our Earth then sure the majority of all life would share blood(as blood is efficient at its job). So that then give us the question whether or not specifically only spitting images of Earth can support life. What is considered earth-like in this context: it has water lots of it, it has oxygen in its atmosphere, the planet supports an atmosphere in the first place, it MUST be a rocky planet, it has a field to shield it's surface from solar winds and the parent star UV rays, the crust is stable/tectonic activity is low, has lots of plant life, it is rich in minerals and natural resources, and finally the greenhouse is like the Earth's lest the planet become another Venus. So the question here is can a specific types of life evolve from planets with certain deviations from the conditions of our main template that is the Earth. And if so then that would mean that while this life would almost certainly share similarities with Earth life there would still be MASSIVE differences in physiology which may or may not include blood(AKA whatever their equivalent of that is) in those differences that is if they even have blood in the first place. Like you said life on other planets would evolve something SIMILAR to blood but not necessarily blood like human blood. I'm talking specifically about the color of the ocean here and not about whether or not life on other planets would need some type of blood(which they may or may not depending on the type of life). I forgot what makes blood red specifically so basically what I'm trying to say is that is the reason that makes our blood red specifically absolutely MUST be present in alien blood as well I mean it clearly isn't a constant since there are Horseshoe Crabs and the universe is nearly unfathomable in its vastness and hidden secrets you know and along with it is a pretty much unfathomable variety of life to say that(if we aren't alone in the universe of course) all alien life or even most alien life share the same human red blood as us requires a suspension of disbelief.
There’s something truly horrifying with being blind in a metal pod that is slowly killing you as the only way to see is very low quality images where your imagination is scaring you or that you aren’t actually imagining things…
Also I can’t explain how badass and calm this man is with seeing an eye show up.
A submarine sunk beyond its maximum depth means that the weight of the water pressure is already beyond what the metal walls were ever designed to withstand. At that depth, the sub's only staying intact because the water doesn't have an entry point, and its not being ripped open because the water pressure all around the sub won't let it expand in any dimension.
However, if you so much as make one dent in the walls of the sub, that dent will be rapidly deepened and pushed inside the sub by the water pressure, resulting in the immediate failure of that entire wall as an entire ocean of water tries to force its way into the now-accessible pocket of air you previously called a submarine.
The fact that it's an ocean entirely consisting of blood means that if anyone ever finds your submarine, they wouldn't even be able to tell your blood splatter apart from the splatter of the blood burst that crushed you into meat paste.
*shudders* creepy...
Why did I already know this 💀
I'm gonna need an iron lung after that jumpscare at the end. Holy crap.
Go for platinum.
Go for diamond
@@chesed_yt1 diamonds easily shatter
@@anti-usernamesaltaccount3623 how?
@@chesed_yt1
If you use a hammer, for instance, and smash it at a certain angle, it will easily shatter. So, I'd recommend wurtzite boron nitride (w-BN) as it has a greater indentation strength than diamond.
So is no one gonna talk about the star at around 24:30 ? The one where Manly had to get VERY close to take the picture? It was literally a star-shaped object shining brightly in a deep ocean of blood, hidden far from every possible creature. What scares me isn't the dying universe, nor the sea of blood, and certainly not the giant lizard thing down there. It's whatever the hell that bright thing is.
It was the only place in the ocean that physically distorted the submarine. Seeing how the distortion disappeared after Manly left the thing, I believe that "star" actually distorted the human's vision, not the submarine. It also distorted and created audio hallucinations, such as the submarine metal "bending" and creating that sound that's constantly heard there.
I have no theory, no story i can imagine behind it, and that's the scariest part to me as a writer. Manly referred to the "trees" on the northeast section (just near the star, before getting knocked off-course) as 'souls' and that's also a very deep thing, pun aside. I immediately thought of Dante's Inferno, specifically the part where the souls of the dead are buried upside down with only their feet on the ground; and The Mystery of Amigara Fault, where human-shaped holes appeared INSIDE a recently-split mountain. They seemed to have formed naturally, yet the people investigating fit perfectly inside said holes/formations. Once you go inside, you slowly fall deeper and deeper, slowly being distorted until you reach the other side as a sticky mess of distorted limbs, dead. What if the star left behind was the "Hope" the note talked about? The "hope" of freedom, not through death, but through transcendance? Sure, but why? How? And hidden where nothing but beasts can find it? What's the point?
It doesn't matter how much I think about it, nothing makes sense in a logical sense. Even if I were to write a story based on this theory, it could very well be as far from the truth as humanly possible, and we would NEVER know, because my theory is simply a baseless theory created through the misleading images. That "star" could very well not be a star, but rather one of those white stones growing from the ground (white stones? Growing in an ancient blood sea? What if those are bones? Whose bones? Perhaps the moon is a living being?) with some sort of space radioactivity.
At 16:50 you can also see what seems to be fallen buildings. What the hell happened here? Where did all that blood come from? An average human (therefore humanoids as well) only has 5L of blood in their body. To fill an entire fucking moon with blood would mean a massacre of BILLIONS would have had to take place in that place.
edit: I'm glad I gave y'all food for thought. Nothing makes me happier than seeing people writing and putting their minds to work nowadays, especially in a world where none of my friends read books, and most of them have the memory of a fucking goldfish. Don't turn into people like them, y'all. train your minds even if it's just theorizing about an indie game on Manly's channel.
That sound is really haunting
Lovecrafts quote about man being on a island of ignorance and we were not meant to venture far from it always comes to mind in such situations.
It's possible that "star" is meant to represent all the stars of the galaxy disappearing and being absorbed onto this moon?
dam
Even then the blood wouldn't remain water cycle all that shit the heat would evaporate it (unless i dont know how blood and water cycle works) so this isnt normal blood something much much worse might have happened. So we see our fishy friend right? It blew through a submarine withstanding an insane amount of pressure with ease and it also knew where the camera was so this thing is intelligent we dont onow how intelligent but it is the buildings mean some people were there since we arent given any real information only a theory but life cannot exist on the moon the moon does not have bacteria and such to then continue and grow evolve yada yada so the fish should not be able to exist on the moon right? It couldnt have been there unless someone brought it (which couldnt happen since things like this dont exist on earth) or something was made into it, okay so the sea of blood? couldnt realistically happen but what if we arent being realistic? Cthulhu mythos does a lot with the sea and cthulhu likes his fish people so the whole souls thing helps support this what if cthulhu made a sea of blood on the moon and turned the people into fish and such? There were bones which mean things have been here a while but anyways. Its a wild theory but hey no real lore to disprove or prove it
"Something weird is going on."
You've been piloting a blind sub by paper charts and still photos in an ocean of blood on a dead moon for 30 minutes, and this just occurred to you MBAH?
The perfect recruit for the job.
In a universe without planets or starts
33:05
Although it isn't a clear view since Manly was surprised, going frame by frame, you can see that it kinda looks like a giant fish head getting closer
I didn't even think when I clicked that timestamp and jump scared myself a second time XD
yeah, just in the last frame before it cuts to the tittle, there seems to be something with two eyes shiring at you, it's so creepy
Yeah, I saw it too. I kinda think it resembles the fish/monster face you see at 12:25
I am fairly certain it’s a crab
looks like an octopus or squid to me
I liked how this game actually had a reason for a completely untrained person to be piloting a submarine. Also had a reason why you would be doing this at all! Good story, good gameplay, and good atmosphere! Very well done. Thanks for the video Manly! 🙏
Good gameplay?
@@fatchins9126 For what the game is doing? Yes, absolutely. It's simple and monotone, or it would be if the horror aspect wasn't stopping you every now and then. The simplicity itself is limiting, which only serves to amplify the effect.
@@bluethunderbolt9631 tbh might just be a me thing, i find it incredibly boring
man don’t you just hate it when you’re attempting to navigate the depths of an alien moon in your rinky dink rusty submarine and a fire just randomly shows up behind you?
A fire?
@AgustinBre 20:00
Relatable
If I had a nickel for every time that’s happened to me, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice
@@twomours6198 idk, it happen to me only once, how did it happen twice for you?
While I do like the design of this game, it really scratches that horror element of the unknown. The more I think about the lore of this game, the more it makes no sense. They have spaceships and spacestations, so they're advance pretty much to travel the stars and survive in space stations for some time, considering they have the ability to send a submarine to a moon (for what reason would you have a submarine in space? Unless you could travel to a unexplored planet that has water). However, the subarmine they have is rusted, uses portholes to see and they have an old camera to transmit images. They're capable of putting a camera on the outside to transmit images, but can't put a video camera to feed directly inside so he could navigate like that instead.
The subs are a form of punishment and disposable analog. They go in and die and they're supposed to be able to recover you but in this case there was no tangible remains.
@@ManlyBadassHero aah ok, I guess in that case it makes more sense to give these prisoners the shitiest bare minimum equipment to at least do their job.
The intro mentions a resource problem, so maybe that's why?
Well the technology to traverse space and the technology to traverse the bottom of the oceans are complete opposites.
@@Deadman6 They're actually more similar than you might think.
1 - Both space and the ocean are environments that humans can't survive in without special gear, like suits and a portable source of oxygen.
2 - Both environments render a person weightless, which is why astronauts are often trained on Earth in underwater settings.
3 - Submarines and space shuttles are both compact (relatively) and airtight, with only the walls of the vessel separating a person from near-certain death.
4 - To even become an astronaut, you can't be claustrophobic. You have to stay level headed even if something goes horribly wrong with the vessel, because it's literally a matter of life-or-death. The same thing applies to aquanauts, just with water instead of a vacuum outside.
Granted, launching a space vessel is (I assume) different from deploying a submarine, but the technology to explore space and the technology to explore the ocean have a lot in common.
As for the game, well, the intro does mention that they're starved for resources. Why waste the good stuff on a disposable test subject?
The Quiet Rapture is definitely a very scary idea ngl. Reminds me of "Lets Go, Stuck In the Sound" but like 100% scarier.
For real tho I love how this gam perfectly encapsulated Low Res Lovecraftian horror, the fear of the ocean, claustrophobia and all sorts of fears and terrors in one simple-loonibg but very tight package.
Plus, small space!!!
I had a dream like that once. The light from the stars all faded out over a few nights and the news was freaking out about it. I've practiced lucid dreaming a lot to the point where even when I'm not lucid (like in this dream) I can often retain a lot more of my normal intellect without falling prone to weird dream logic stuff. I was so scared because if the stars' light vanishes that means the star itself vanished ages ago (for example, if a star is 500 lightyears away and goes out it means the star actually died out 500 years ago). If the light all stopped around the same time it means the stars died out at very different times. You would need to strategically snuff them out to time it like that so that Earth would perceive it this way. A universe wide star extermination apparently done to bother Earthlings specifically. It doesn't make any sense. Even if the universe ended except for us it should be like in this game, with the stars' ghost light. There was no answer to explain it. This incomprehensibility is what scared me so much in the dream, in a very cosmic horror sort of way, only instead of us being small and insignificant we have a huge spotlight being shone on us and can't see what is operating it. Not sure if I explained this well but yeah.
@@Silvercanth that’s a really well written comment, I love it! I got shivers just reading through your scenario because alone the thought of having something so unexplainable of this scale happen is extremely terrifying.
@@fireflieer2422 You have no idea how happy that makes me. I'm normally thrilled to see even one person liked my posts so such an awesome compliment is gonna keep me smiling for days. I'm glad it was comprehensible at all, dreams can be very hard to convey in words.
@@Silvercanth that makes me equally happy! Personally I love reading through comments that express a feeling like fear in such a clear way and give them a body through words, especially since dreams are so (like you said) hard to grasp and fleeting. So I had no other choice but to appreciate your comment.
Fun fact, the game's NOT lying to you, it actually has a 3D world you're exploring and taking pictures of. Though for the most part the only interesting parts are marked on the map, the rest are cavern walls and tree thingies. Look up "iron lung outside bounds"
The game is excellently designed, considering it's "low budget"
I love how he notices that he got moved by a lot from the hit, and went like "must've been the wind, let's keep going"
Nothing better than a daily dose of Manly playing horror games
I honestly agree
You got that right mate
This is your *daily dose of internet.*
his voice is calming tho
Something better would be two daily doses in one.
“that’s just a void-we should be good”
relatable
In a void, you’re unable to escape, because there’s nothing to escape.
@@anti-usernamesaltaccount3623 what are you running from?
There’s nothing to run from. So therefore, I’m running from nothing. The void is inescapable.
@@anti-usernamesaltaccount3623 then why do you keep running?
@@vbgvbg1133 I am not running. There’s nothing to run upon. I’m simply floating around and questioning my phone’s battery.
This is an extremely extremely interesting game. Definitely tickles that unique itch. A lot of people go for new and unique and make some weird failure of a game. They actually achieved something with this one
Yeah
Boredom
The setting is good and all but nothing is actually done with it
I can't believe it's becoming canon now
I love the idea of the thought, or detail here, that all the stars tgey see still aren't actually there anymore. Not just not in this position, but gone completely. Only their light is still there, traveling through the void, until we see it. Until it too is gone.
This is genuinely one of THE most unique post-apocalyptic horror settings I have ever seen! I couldn't even contemplate living in such a horrible world!
"This is gonna be immersive I think"
Me: "you mean, SUBmersive"
Then I have the quiet realization that I'm alone in my room, making puns at a UA-cam video with no one but my lizard to hear me.
U r slaying queen girly pop bestie dont let anyone tell u otherwise
Plot twist, the lizard is imaginary
Poor walter
I’m sure the lizard appreciates the jokes
wait you have a lizard pet?
I wish there were more horror games that had this sort of environment. It seems like underwater horror games are just not very common, or atleast if they are. They arent really represented, talked about or shown.
I really love this type of horror game, where you are trapped underwater, something else is there, but you dont know what. Watching you, something much bigger then yourself, and you are helpless to do anything. Nowhere to run, trapped.
I love these types of games.
Like SOMA
Plus, you get the existential crisis dread 😁
Subnautica does this pretty well.
Barotrauma
Monstrum was a good candidate of the practice. A pool of monsters that are randomly picked with each having a different set of ways to detect you, chase you, find you and kill you. Banger of a game although a bit old.
this game hits all of my worst fears honestly. At least the guy's death was quick at the end so I can't add 'drowning' to the list of horrifying shit this game brings to the table o_o
It's honestly just a question of what killed him first: the impact, the fish, the pressure, or drowning
@@BGame46MIt would definitely be the pressure, especially with the liquid being blood instead of water.
@@atlev It is thicker after all.
@@The_Bird_Bird_Harder heavier, more pressure. Thicker isn’t really part of the equation.
I've drowned before, in a pool. Fell in, horrible feeling. No one saved me until my face was purple and blue and I had stopped swimming. It burned a lot, but that's drowning in chlorine, can't even imagine drowning in space, on a moon, in a bloody ocean. Literally a bloody ocean. Imagine what the water or whatever taste like. Good riddance.
Damn I can't believe they made Iron Lung real.
You're not funny kid.
☠️
If you ignore the unnecessarily dubious plot veil, this was quite good. The atmosphere alone carries it. I think there was a lot of room for more interesting "anomalies" to be seen, as well as some additional minor occurrences in the open water between certain distant points to build more tension. I loved the shock ending, but I feel the payoff for all of it just being a big fish or whatever was a little lackluster. Despite that, very cool feel and smooth execution. David's always improving with various aspects of his games which is great to see.
more type of sea life would have been great for this game. Have u you seen mermaids by david romero? its an animation on youtube and pretty creepy, if the game added some creatures like that i feel like it would increase the scare factor so much.
There are more anomalies, but they aren't marked on the map.
The thing living in the trench should have been a literal demon instead of just some weird fish.
People are actually finding stuff in the open ocean that aren’t marked on the map
@@Nafinafnaf That's interesting, got a link?
The backstory might not be strictly necessary, but it gets you into the right mindset for this kind of game and adds to the atmosphere.
EDIT: Hang on, if it's an ocean of red blood, maybe they could derive iron from it? It's not much but it would be something.
EDIT 2: Also, the creator should make more games set in this universe, it's just begging to be explored!
A blood refinery sounds metal as hell.
I hate to be a fanboy, but that just sounds like Ultrakill, which is actually kind of funny
@@PALMA06 pun intended
I’m sure metals and iron isn’t a waning resource in the far future, if anything it’d probably be the lack of any kind of fuel in the known universe which would cause spaceships to stop functioning and humanity to slowly die out
Manly’s survival instinct when he saw the fire was to start reading. I respect his confidence.
"They will have their execution.
I will have my freedom."
Two meaning:
- The criminal (you, the player) will get to be free from the suffering of space, by death of either drowning in blood or sea creatures in the bloody depths. Meanwhile, the survivors' "execution" is the continuous suffering, probably later of turning on eachother one day. If the survivors don't find helpful resources in soace sooner or later, their life will be quite...disatrious. Either that, or
- When the criminal finishes their mission and heading back home, I think the criminal can finally be free of service from the survivors, since they don't want the criminal back in their life again. I mean, would you, even if they used up their second chance already? Besides, I'm sure both sides are satisfied anyway, considering one side gets on with life without criminals and the other doesn't want to see the ending outcome of the survivors.
Pretty sure dwindling resources means no sunlight for plants, no food. And that just means one thing. Honestly you(sub pilot) get to die swiftly in the pressure depths or by that sea monster, while the survivors would probably turn on their own just to survive.
Or it could mean that the prisioner gets freed by death and the survivors get the execution of the prisioner
Oxygen critical, fire in the compartment, strange environmental acoustics not resulting due to pressurized differentials. Manly, discovers a diary entry, calmly finds a moment to read it.
I wonder if this - and other _Iron Lung_ playthroughs/Let's Plays - have had a spike in views over the last few days?
They absolutely have had an increase. Iron Lung had now been getting people playing in multiple languages, countries and communities. Some have had 900k views and are posted after Titan. So some are already close to a million views and it's only been a few days, and that's for new ones. I wouldn't be surprised if some of these have gone up a lot in watch time. I'm sure analytics could tell us.
Call me a psycho but I love it when manly uploads a horror game video right before bed. Ironically, it helps me sleep
i know how you feel, it works for me too
HUHH???? HOWW???
His voice is hella soothing
Same here,
They're most often not scary so I get what you mean
28:00 I was waiting for that exact trick the entire video.
21:42 I believe those may be ribs and a skull of another whale fall, just laying on it's side. It looks half buried in silt and I can see how the rips are formed, but I can see how the ribs look like tentacles, It's quite a haunting angle.
I... I like looking at skeletons for inspiration.
looks like a big crab for me
This game is certainly an unnerving one, I feel this one would be amazing for one of those vr horror games, given how cramped and somewhat intense it tends to be.
It's honestly kinda merciful and nice that the game teleports you out of the really tight spots just so you don't have to navigate them a second time to go back.
They still give you a bump to scare you though, you don't get those teleports for free.
Horror rarely bothers me anymore but frick this one was effective.
Is it true you’re a piece of pie?
God damn there NEEDS to be more of this setting/universe in the future, what a good experience. I should have picked up this game for myself instead of watching a let’s play of it…
Manly: "OH NO, FIRE! FIRE!"
Also Manly: *proceeds to calmly read while burning alive*
Game aged well, ten outta ten, gotta reskin with billionaires and a Logitech wireless controller.
hello from the future- they made a real life simulation of this!!
Sadly, Iron Lung only has one ending, really wish there was a couple more alternate endings.
Like find a alien building ending?, Would be cool if you could dock inside It and explore it
I would love to have "diving in to the bright star at 25:22" be an option. You will die anyways but at least on your own term (neither eaten by the fish nor succumbed to the commands given) while getting to have a glimpse at the eldritch unknown.
@@corneliusocachorromanteiga5931 you literally cant dock the submarine, you are welded inside of it, there was no true intention of freeing you, they sent this Convict to their death
@@corneliusocachorromanteiga5931 the sub was sealed tight, there was no exit to disembark.
@@corneliusocachorromanteiga5931 subnautica moment
"Ah fire fire!" *proceeds to read the random note on the ground and ignores the fire*
Game: By the way, the proximity sensors will tell you if you're getting close to something.
Game: Proximity sensor goes off.
ManlyBadassHero: Oh hey, what's this.
Wow, even the first few minutes of background is horrific.
...Well, actually, for me that was about the only horror content. It was _interesting,_ but I was more curious about what was in that ocean and what was going on with the universe then I was scared or anxious about the situation. So I was disappointed we didn't really learn anything. Jumpscares did make me jump though.
To me the most unbelievable thing in this game is that they had some ancient mini-sub lying around on a space station. That thing looks like it would already be obsolete in modern times.
Well i mean it is made for prisoners who they probably would rather see di so they don't have to waste any other precious resources. So giving them armored exploration coffins sounds about right.
@@fenrirsrage4609 Maybe, but that thing -- the incandescent light bulb especially -- looks like it was made in the 20th century.
Though I do question the wisdom of throwing away resources like that as well. The convict may be expendable, but if he smashes into a cliff face and sinks the sub, they might not even get their precious pictures back, let alone a sub capable of being repaired.
Well the sub was actually basically just cobbled together out of random shit, just the complete bare minimum necessary for a convict with a death sentence to do a task or die trying, killing two birds with one stone.
they could be fishing the remains of the sub, cobbling it back together, and sending another down. hence the rusts and meatal patches. they also would be able to get the photos this way. they must have used cheap, sturdy(ish) bulbs to last any hul failures.
@@corbsshas2811 That also makes sense with the note from someone else falling out
We don't know how horror it's gonna be until we sea the horror ya know?
LAAAAAAME HAHAHAHAHAHA
@@terribletito11 L + no wenches + marooned + you have scurvy + no booty
Love how when the fire happens on his sub he decides to read the letter while his legs are on fire
Fun fact: iron lung is an irl thing too, but it was more of a medical thing. It was one of the earliest machines that were used to help a criticaly ill patient breath.
Idk if it has anything with some small lore of the game or not, my thinking is that the sub is somewhat shaped like this medical instrent
Once stricken with lung failure(like in polio) the iron lung is with you for life. You are stuck in the machine, unmoving, every day until you die regardless. There is something to be said there.
I think you’re absolutely right, but it’s probably more so a metaphor.
Iron lungs were giant, claustrophobic tubes where only the patient’s head would be outside the machine. Typically, they were used in people who’s respiratory muscles were failing, and they couldn’t breathe on their own. Therefore they needed manual respiration via the machine’s pressure pumping mechanism. It would be the only thing keeping the patient alive but also would usually be where they died.
Similarly, the only thing keeping this person alive in the sea of blood is this giant metal coffin of oxygen.
Hope this sub didn't cost you 250.00$.
At least he wasn't stuck there with 4 billionaires
Getting caught just before reaching safety is such a common horror trope, but for some reason it got me good in this. You're so ready to take that last picture and get done as your sub is filling up with blood, and BAM. I think it caught me off guard because the last photo isn't just safety, but you're also expecting to get one last clue
I wonder how many critical resources could be obtained from blood. After all, it's possible that the blood ocean itself could be very valuable without even considering other resources on the planet.
Considering what lives in it, and the general eldritch nature of a ocean of blood that seems to have nothing living in it other than, what best can be described as, horrors unfathomable, I think its safe to assume you don't want that blood. Just saying.
Free iron+water+possibly edible+habitable environment(I mean the big fish seems fine living there)+whatever resources are on the seafloor like bones and concrete buildings+big edible fish. The place seems like a treasure during a resource shortage and all they do is send a death row convict to snap pics
@@DarkArtistKaiser its just a big fish
Pretty fathomable
Do like how the game just casually refers to the creature killing you as "hope" because it'll give you freedom from your depressive world
Current events have brought me here again
See you in the Coffin Dance comment chain next?
"Current events"
So to speak.
youtube, why are you suggesting this video again?
oh... OHHHHHHH
I think you’d like this game called Kholat. It’s based off the Dyatlov Pass Incident where 9 experienced Russian hikers died in mysterious circumstances
@@georgeofhamilton Probably cause it’s a creepy unsolved mystery. At least that’s why I like it.
Was that the story that also inspired until dawn or whatever that wendigo game was called
Fast forward to today and Iron Lung is trending on Twitter because of three rich idiots trapped in a submarine
5 people in the sub and the pilot is none other than the CEO who skimped on the safety measure
Not trapped, the hull rapidly failed. They're fish food now.
Crushed like a can of soda. Happened before they could even blink
I wonder, in a sea or pool of blood, do things float or will they drown in it? Can fish survive in it or will they die? What's the closest living things that can survive in a pool of blood?
Edit: Thank you for the answers, it's been years and my brain sadly isn't sharp enough to understand science anymore ig 😭😂
blood is more friendly to live in then salt water, drinking blood hydrates so its less salty then salt water. this means its properties outside of life is between fresh and seawater. blood is more nutrient rich so it will support more life. the only thing that might kill fish is the shock of being put in a different salinity so quickly but that doesn't stop a native monster from living in it.
Probably unicellular bacteria? Haemoglobin latch to oxygen, but I don't know if sea animals like fish can live off it...
Well, Blood is basically rust water, so all that oxygenated iron will be caustic and void of free floating O² that Fish would breathe. So no gilled fish.
Amphibians and Lungfish can breathe above the surface, but blood being so thick, it would be impossible for anything to swim in it the way one would expect in normal water.
This is all on the assumption that Heme Iron would behave like Iron Oxide - It doesn't.
Blood is an Organic Material that thickens when exposed to air outside its host body.
An Ocean of Blood would just become one giant scab on the surface, with countless microbes putrifying it just below.
Just what sort of animal is massive enough to drain an Ocean's worth of Blood?
Maybe the first question that we must answer is. Whatever is this Ocean of Blood and How it was created. And maybe whose blood is it
@@Vergil_Sparda it might not even be blood, it could be some sort of natural phenomenon
This is now a canon event
"Whale fall??.. yeah"
yeah my favorite whale is the one with MOLARS
The fish on 12:29 reminds me of a dragon goby. They're native to Brazil, I had a few as pets as a kid. They're pretty cute once they grow on you.
11:07 mild panic, takes some pictures of open water, revealing no nearby walls, insert “must’ve been the wind”
Cool. There's two Lovecraft stories that this game seems to derive heavily from. One is about a guy who gets lost at sea and finds an island of flesh and monsters hiding beneath it, the other is about a German submarine crew who lose power, begin to go mad, and eventually find Atlantis.
I know the second one ("The Temple"), but which is the first? It kind of sounds like Dagon, but only vaguely?
@@OnyxIdol i believe so, at the end he sees a fish god come from under the sea and then he ends up in a psych ward
Time to conquer Atlantis
Für Reich und Führer Gott mit uns
Manly is ON IT I just looked at this game on steam and was looking forward to watching it on this channel
28:02
I don't think I ever heard Manly sound so scared or frightened.
*People:* The ocean is scary.
*These Devs:* Ok, but deep space ocean. Full of blood.
For a vessel that's falling apart, the Iron Lung can maintain a remarkably steady course, down to 0.01°. If there are future updates, a simple but cool thing to add would be random sway, increasing as the sub deteriorates.
Oh great make it even more tedious
Good idea
,,,I think a good idea to keep in mind when designing a game is if you’re going to add to the difficulty of a game, the change should not be needlessly frustrating.
Let me tell you, this game has one *loyal fanbase*
"oh no! fire!"
"Ooo a note"
I have never seen someone casually start reading the note on the floor _before_ putting out the fire. Not that I think it really matters, but wow. He wasn't even speed reading!
19:02 "Maybe just cave walls" Manly is one of the few people who didn't realize the tunnels weren't natural in Halo CE until Cortana said it XD
that ending was genius, you get to the final spot and as you go to take a picture i hits you with the jumpscare, 10/10 for buildup
So the red lake and grey grass(?) combined with the convict tasked with exploring an anomaly part makes me think the game might have been inspired of SCP-354 "the Red Lake"
Which is super cool, I've wanted to see a game inspired by that particular SCP for quite some time now.
Edit: it could of course just be a coincident that it just looks similar
There's also some weird book with a similar idea. I forget what it's called. The idea is... for some reason all men are gone and the entire human race is now space lesbians.
Also there's a planet or moon with a blood ocean. There are horrible parasitic and highly intelligent lamprey type aliens in that blood ocean. They get inside people and take over their bodies. Also they drink blood.
I thought it was an SCP-inspired game too
reading thru the scp entry the pool had the power to cause psycic phenomenon, manipulate the area around it and summon monsters, even grow with time you would be able to make a connection there
Man, the opening paragraph sounds like a really cool setting to be explored. A universe with no stars or planets left, the remnants of humanity trying to survive and find out what happened...
I think the reason why this is so terrifying is that you know something is with you, but your not sure what. And you can't run away from it too. And also the atmosphere, if you thought scary music was bad, *_silence is way worse._*
This game, was indeed very immersive.
I particularly like how Manly started seeing things and making assumptions to try and rationalize some of the objects in the photographs. You can really tell it was getting to him.
and no I'm not just talking about the eyeball, All over this he was just trying to give some kind of name to things that just couldn't really be explaned.
FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
but lets chill first and read that note
I love the lore of this, and I hope the dev does more "Quiet Rapture" stuff. It seems like a beautifully unnerving setting a la Duskers.
What makes you special when playing horrors games is the that your voice keeps calm and normal as with you having an conversation.
This trend of 90s-esque looking horror games coming out recently is really exciting to see. Creativity seems and atmosphere is being put above graphics as it should imo
It's so nice to see a person play a game and not scream and overreact at everything that happens
Manly, I doubt you will see this but PLEASE do more ocean horror. Great vid love ya
Manly didn't get to see the fish face on 11:52, but thankfully he got another view of it later on
Holy Moses, that was incredibly anxiety inducing, probably one of the most dreadfilled video games I've seen in quite awhile! I legit just wanted it to end and that was 100% a face in that picture! Maybe it's the ghost of the previous person!
Manly, you played this so well!
Truth be told I would've been running into every other cliff face, forgetting where I was, etc. You're a natural! 😄
Well.... you were until they or "it" blew open your sub and you died.
Rip Manly x(
He’ll come back to life soon enough