I found a dead plumber down one of these pipes once. The monsters didn’t kill him. It was sewercide. :) Note: This is a condensed playthrough of Rodland of Pipes. Some of the later levels have been trimmed down as they're pretty large. Be sure to check out the ending. It's excellent!
The creators were absolutely amazing for adding in a song in the end that genuinely seems like the monster learned from passive songs and broken English from radio broadcast and make it sound like a banger.
If you notice, that slowly happens throughout the same with Rodland. The noises he make seem to use more and more of the voice on the radio as the game goes on, just all jumbled up
"Found the core in record time" is just amazing, the implication here is that the pipe network regenerates and we're just throwing people at it to keep it down
From what it sounds like, Rodland gets more sentient and self aware the more the pipes grow, he does say that his mind melts back into mush because the core was destroyed. The implication being that he was self aware enough to know what you were doing before you got the core, you regressed him, and now he is already back to being sentient enough to taunt you, just a few days later. He also states that he can outlast the organization that sent you, the CSMA, just by outliving them. There is also a line in the final transcript that says "No other infestations on record at the moment" So it sounds like a huge growing infestation that can only be slowed down, not beaten.
Given the gamma radiation he probably suffered from the Crail, I'm not sure just gloves would have been enough. Hope that vacation was damn worth it...
This is a really well put together game; i love the absurdity of a cryptid anomalous 'plumbing business' that, one, clearly doesn't do their job, and two, spits out endless, endless flyers from the muck to the point where entire pipe systems are just papered with them.
Imagine working a job and hearing “yah so just watch for a red bird dog thing down here if you see him just break eye contact” like what’s the pay here
I love it! The change of pace by not having a boss/manager lie to you and send you to your death by actually telling you what to do, remaining helpful, and at the end, giving you vacation time! And the big bad basically taunting you- Canadian business and healthcare really are very different from the US.
I encourage young people to work for a family business if they want this sort of experience. Form partnerships with people that you are genetically designed to form partnerships with.
I like that there’s definitely *something* bigger going on here, but the game doesn’t go into detail about it. You’re just some (under)ground level worker in what looks like a much bigger conflict and the game sells that really well.
@@alexandersichwardt3652 Depends, some jobs are equivalent to doing nothing and slowly rotting away too. Then there's those that drains you at the same time. What we really need is meaning, purpose, and direction. Jobs _can_ provide that, but they can also just as easily do the opposite sadly. Really depends on the job. And the person. Different strokes for different folks and all that.
You are right in that not having a job is a living hell i have put upon myself that is worse than anything have gone through... except working security 😂@alexandersichwardt3652
It still works. It's like point and click games and I think an animation would just slow it down too much for what those gunk blocks are trying to do, slow you down to begin with.
@@AlphaBetaGamer Its funny they can give you some fancy tech, and a complex set of tasks all while informing you how to avoid horrid monsters, but cant give you gloves for the RAZOR blades in the gunk.
"rodland of the pipes" sounds like a mostly harmless SCP that cleans out random cities plumbing systems that is friendly as long as specific conditions are met or certain actions avoided, otherwise just leaving random flyers and illegible writing around also rodland can COOK with that ending mixtape.
It's one thing for the monsters in this to just be predators, but my god why do they also have to be RADIOACTIVE!? That's horrifying to just casually see on an incident report lmao
Oh god, the Auger is so unsettling to me - you can hear it breathing, but you never actually SEE it. Even when you chase it away, it just kind of….explodes? Then runs away. And the worst part? The fact that you don’t even notice it until it’s breathing in your ear heavily implies that it is physically ON YOU.
In the end song you can see multiple clips of all cryptids. There is also the clip where several long arms appers. The arms are the same colour as a goo that appears after Auger's explosion. Maybe this is what you will see if you let Auger attack you.
@@legionbeast I was looking on the Rodland of Pipes wiki earlier, and I'm pretty sure the jumpscare is the Auger either using, or sprouting little purplish blue hands and wrapping them around you.
@@bluboi99 Can confirm. Purple hand-things wrap around your vision. The readout shows that your entire lower half has been "liquified" as if by a blender while several intense lacerations are across your upper torso.
I like how when encountering Rodland In the pipes you can already hear them copying the voice of the guy on the radio, but it sounds messy like they haven’t got the hang of it yet
so we have at least 3 cryptids who are advertised for some kind of service related to the pipes and yet all these pipes are clogged to an absurd extent...so the fuck they all doing?
Do keep in mind that this is what I got from just one watch If you want something more concrete then rewatch the video a few times 1 a nuclear power plant in Canada had a "leak" that caused nuclear particles to spread throughout the pipes This presumably caused wired monsters to appear in said pipes Along with ruining photos (Wish was why the photo company filled a lawsuit against the powerplant) The song at the end suggests that the monsters are not only aware of their surroundings , but are also intelligent enough to have learned words and the basis of language from a radio With the monster addressing you specifically , and telling you that you WILL meet again The monster spoke on behalf of all the cripteds which insinuates that they are all in cohorts and not independent from each other Most interesting of all though is the fact that while being well aware of the monsters and the danger they pose , the company treats them like some rabid stray dogs They give you warnings about them along with ways to counter them but that's it , they treat them like a minor inconvenience and nothing more So while these monsters may not have been made intentionally and are out of the pipe company's control , the higher ups seem to be interested in them and are perhaps looking for a way to control them
@@JebJebster-ej5cc From what I understood, Pipes are a separate living organism that is able to generate other cryptides and is the "main" among the other cryptides, on one advertising poster you can see that some pipes end with fingers and the second and fourth classified pipes are able to move, Rodland also sings "Can you even imagine that The Pipes would birth?" adding that the pipes are capable of generating even more cryptides. On advertising posters, you can see that the products they provide (washing machines in particular) are the same color as the pipes in which we are located, this may mean that either Rodland simply does not know what washing machines look like, or that through these products there is an infection of ordinary pipes to spread live pipes and generate new cryptides
@@Dark-darkerthat's interesting I thought that they were born out of mushrooms in the pipes since rodland said "my mind going back into mush" in the song I thought that the nuclear particles infected the mushrooms in the pipes and created the cryptids thus "could you imagine what the pipes would birth" part of the song I like your interpretation
Adding to the weird fact manmade pipes, literally made of metal, spew mucus on our poor protag who has to shower every time coming out the pipes, happen. My theory is the "phantom" is somehow responsible for Roland and Mr. Nuke Dragon turning into monsters as well as harassing our protag. If this got a prequel, maybe the phantom is a magical projection of an invading demon of some kind?
Interestingly, the red bird thing seems pretty passive at first, it doesn't seem to actively seek out the player, it's only when it spots you that it's eyes widen and it's jaw starts clicking uncontrollably. You have to break eye contact for it to go away. Which makes me think it's scared of the player and prolongued eye contact makes it act out of self defense
Ok, so the concept is that you're a top-secret Canadian plumbing service employee exploring radiation-affected sewers filled with cryptids? Is that a decent description?
it feels so out of character for a protagonist in a game about doing an incredibly dangerous job to get any amount of appreciation by higher-ups, let alone a vacation
It *is* an awesome ending. Also Craig is almost certainly sterile now and can microwave eggs from a distance. The bare arms and general lack of PPE makes me honestly wonder if there's some cryptid-related ban on clothing down there and he's been crawling around naked the whole time...
As soon as I heard the contact say there were sharp hazards, I was wondering why they couldn't give their poor employees any cut proof gloves. Expensive GPS and audio mapping equipment, sure, but 15 dollars for a box of 12 A6 rated gloves is too far.
The sounds from clearing away the deposists of fat/hair give me the ick. xD But this is really claustrophobic, nightmarishly so in fact. Real good fit for the horror game of this type.
It's fascinating how much FNAF DNA you can feel in this even though its gameplay barely resembles it. This is like the video game equivalent of one of those All Tomorrows human descendant creatures.
So from the newspaper and the song this is what i got 1- a nuclear power plant situated in canada named red rock had a "leak" that resulted in radioactive particals spreading 2- said radioactive particles damaged thousands of photograpic plates of silver salt which leed them to file a lawsuit against the powerplant And presumably these same particals contaminated the rivers and flowed into the drains cuasing monsters to be birthed in the pipes 3-we are a man who saw an ad for rodlands pipes and dicided to take the job due to the pay 4- rodland pipes are aware of the abominations that now ihabit the pipes and of the dangers they pose , yet they still keep their existence a secret . Going so far as asking you to even remove any flires you find so that no one stumbles into them The following comes mainly from the song at the end funny enough The monsters are not only self aware , but also intelligent enough to have learned your language from a radio and sent you a mixtape where they make it apparent that they whant you back becuse they enjoied your little matches Also by saying "melting my mind back into mush " it implies that the mosters are mutations of fungus
@@Ultimatum881 honestly, I don't know My best guess is that they're just petty I mean they literally learned an entire language and wrote a song as well as sent it to your damned mail just to tell you that there will be a next time A more reasonable guess would be that since they were born of fungi they naturally share a hive mind and wish to consume other life forms to add them to the hive mind so that it can grow and evolve The fact that they learned language is proof of their ability to learn
Someone also said that the pipes regenerate every now and then, so all you did was basically put a temporary fix on the situation? The company's basically throwing bodies left and right down there to fix *their* problem for them, and you just happened to be "faster" than the others, since you *"Found the core in record time."* Pretty cool lore, something deeper and bigger seems to be happening down there than the player is aware of. I really wish they'd expand the lore of the game more, it's really intriguing!
I've seen a few of these recap comments now, and something is bothering me. I might have understood it wrong, but it seems our character does NOT work for or is involved with Rodlands Pipes. The letter at the end highly implies that we work for the CSMA, which seems to be actively working against RP, and that RP is like an anomalous organization controlled by the cryptids? (Like Marshall, Carter, and Dark from the SCP universe.)
I just want to point out how ludicrously Canadian it is that this is basically the only "workplace horror" game where the ending has your boss recognizing and rewarding your achievements. Normally with this kind of game it ends with you getting nothing or getting fired but here the supervisor says you're one of the best they have and gives you a well deserved vacation.
Same! The introduction of the Auger was what sold me on buying the game, and it was great! The difficult puzzle at the end that is reasonable to figure out was a real surprise to me.
Haha, that's kinda a mixture of editing and learning the layout of the maps before I record. Otherwise the video would be 2 hours long! For the napkin one the valve handle numbers have to add up to the numbers at the side of the napkin like a mini soduku. So 6+2=8, 3+1=4, etc.
The puzzle solution is very similar to "skyscraper sodoku" if you're familiar. Rodland of Pipes is pretty great in that it's puzzles are well put together and have a good difficulty curve. That final skyscraper sodoku puzzle is very difficult to grasp but is one of the better final puzzles I've ever seen in non-puzzle games.
@@Church-of-Tingyun Lol, it's okay. I'm sure you could figure it out if you tried. I played that puzzle section for like 20 minutes before it clicked. You're reading a text solution without the napkin right in front of you. Either way, have a good day friend.
@@AlphaBetaGamer The explanations were quite confusing and lacking so far. It’s unrelated to Sudoku. This is just four sets of two summands adding up to four sums. It’s akin to a magic square, where numbers are arranged in a grid and each row and each column of numbers add up to something; in this case, the diagonals are irrelevant and the sum is not the same. The sums are 8, 4, 7, and 5. The summands are 6, 2, 1, and 3. Each summand is used twice: once in a horizontal sum, once in a vertical sum: 8 = 6 + 2 + + 4 = 1 + 3 = = 7 5
To be honest I almost skipped over this one because it looked like another soulless FNAF-esque turd, but I'm glad I didn't. This one has a lot of charm and some pretty creative game play ideas. If the dev reads this, good stuff, I can see this becoming the next big thing.
Okay, this has been bugging me for a while, there was a playthrough of a game on this channel that I started watching, and when I went to look for it again, I couldn't find it. It had a hand drawn anime artstyle, it was a sidescroller, you were a yong boy who used a bat, at one point, your friend even throws cans at you to practice your batting. You were walking around a small, japanese-inspired town doing tasks for people, at one point, you go out into the woods and meet a ghostly girl who I think your character kind of falls in love with. Later on, you end up going to school and you and your class end up trapped inside when the building gets attacked by a storm of dark creatures. Can anyone think of the name of this game??? It's driving me crazy.
And this time on “jobs you couldn’t pay me enough to do,” we’ll be essentially going cave diving, but this time in gross torso-width pipes with all sorts of gross gunk, debris, probably a terrible smell, and a big red bird dog monster!
@@TheOneTrueClogger That's weird. I can hear it quite easily. Must be a difference in the headphones or something. That's how you detect the Auger though. Solely via the breathing. :)
This was freaking awesome to watch! Holy crap, Justin and Tyler both deserve a whole bunch of recognition for making such a cool concept wrapped into this game! And of course, ABG, you deserve credit for sharing all of this for people like me who haven't known about it until recently! Cheers for the video, and remember: T H E P I P E S W I L L A L W A Y S W I N .
How does The Phantom work? Is it just a hazard in the final levels? Or just how the game handles your temperature going too low? I also am curious what happens if you keep going after your boss tells you to escape.
I found a dead plumber down one of these pipes once.
The monsters didn’t kill him.
It was sewercide. :)
Note: This is a condensed playthrough of Rodland of Pipes. Some of the later levels have been trimmed down as they're pretty large. Be sure to check out the ending. It's excellent!
Again, get out for that terrible pun. Or at least let a monster bite your head off.
bro 💀💀
The voices in his head didn't pipe down.
lol
poor mario
The creators were absolutely amazing for adding in a song in the end that genuinely seems like the monster learned from passive songs and broken English from radio broadcast and make it sound like a banger.
That Rodland cryptid is talented alright.
The pipes will always win!
Reminded me of Men in Black's intro for some reason. Lol.
If you notice, that slowly happens throughout the same with Rodland. The noises he make seem to use more and more of the voice on the radio as the game goes on, just all jumbled up
I just noticed that the gibberish that he says when you interact him in the levels
That gibberish were the lyrics jumbled up to sound unintelligible
Oh no, a horror game. How dark is the ending going to be?
The ending: "Here's my mixtape"
They don’t call him Rodland of pipes for a reason. He was gifted with em
"Those are his singing pipes."
"Found the core in record time" is just amazing, the implication here is that the pipe network regenerates and we're just throwing people at it to keep it down
From what it sounds like, Rodland gets more sentient and self aware the more the pipes grow, he does say that his mind melts back into mush because the core was destroyed.
The implication being that he was self aware enough to know what you were doing before you got the core, you regressed him, and now he is already back to being sentient enough to taunt you, just a few days later.
He also states that he can outlast the organization that sent you, the CSMA, just by outliving them.
There is also a line in the final transcript that says "No other infestations on record at the moment"
So it sounds like a huge growing infestation that can only be slowed down, not beaten.
@@bahamutdragon1754 i interpreted it as he was sending you this in his death throes but he or something like him will eventually return
The way the Auger was introduced was absolutely fantastic, gives an immediate sense of panic and unease.
Gotta say the audio cue for it is pretty hard to notice though, especially with all the ambient noise you're already hearing in the lower pipes.
@@asteroidrules ABG turned colorblind in exchange for super heightened hearing. Pretty cool new lore.
8:32 is the Auger introduction if anyone would like to hear again.
All of that gear and they cant just give the man some gloves
too expensive!!!
Accurate to a government agency.
Given the gamma radiation he probably suffered from the Crail, I'm not sure just gloves would have been enough.
Hope that vacation was damn worth it...
@@TheMrMayo I think they’re referring to sharp objects in the debris
@@thedbdentity2102 Oh right, somehow forgot about that over the radiation. Whoops. XD
This is a really well put together game; i love the absurdity of a cryptid anomalous 'plumbing business' that, one, clearly doesn't do their job, and two, spits out endless, endless flyers from the muck to the point where entire pipe systems are just papered with them.
And I have a guestion
Who the hell supplies some obviously monstrous creature with THAT amount of paper
@@Stolen_skeleton_tf2 Fineline
@@Stolen_skeleton_tf2 Honestly? I think the more interesting answer is that they just spontaneously generate them with the pipes
That ending song was a straight BANGER
THE PIPES WILL ALWAYS WIN BABY
the pipes grow
Imagine working a job and hearing “yah so just watch for a red bird dog thing down here if you see him just break eye contact” like what’s the pay here
Forget the pay, I'm just doing it for experience at this point
Better be more than $20 a week. Can't believe I even agreed to that pay.
@@GhostfaceRocks there’s non lethal 20/hr jobs out there lol
@UlfhednarAxe it was meant to be a refrence to another game.
@@GhostfaceRocks check
I love it! The change of pace by not having a boss/manager lie to you and send you to your death by actually telling you what to do, remaining helpful, and at the end, giving you vacation time! And the big bad basically taunting you- Canadian business and healthcare really are very different from the US.
True for once the advisor is helpfull
Not realistic. Canadian employer and Healthcare system would've just told us to off ourself, lol.
Nah they don't have a nitrogen tank for you to breathe.
I encourage young people to work for a family business if they want this sort of experience. Form partnerships with people that you are genetically designed to form partnerships with.
I like that there’s definitely *something* bigger going on here, but the game doesn’t go into detail about it. You’re just some (under)ground level worker in what looks like a much bigger conflict and the game sells that really well.
The fact that you can't turn around makes this feel so much more claustrophobic than it otherwise would.
This is certainly my worst nightmare, having a job
Not having anything to do and slowly rotting away is much worse
@@alexandersichwardt3652 Depends, some jobs are equivalent to doing nothing and slowly rotting away too. Then there's those that drains you at the same time.
What we really need is meaning, purpose, and direction. Jobs _can_ provide that, but they can also just as easily do the opposite sadly.
Really depends on the job. And the person. Different strokes for different folks and all that.
Fr, especially the fact that this job prolly only accept fresh grads with min 5 years of working experience
You are right in that not having a job is a living hell i have put upon myself that is worse than anything have gone through...
except working security 😂@alexandersichwardt3652
@@alexandersichwardt3652 thank God we have billionaires to bestow upon us our purposes in life 🙏
The monsters were so happy that you cleaned their home up they made you a pimping ass mixtape
I like to imagine that the video tape with the song is canon, and the CSMA is very confused about it and how the monsters made it
I know the PS1 aesthetic works but an hyper realistic hairy hand grabbing congealed fat would help the horror in this case
Oh god. You wouldn't need the cryptids in it then. Just digging your way through congealed fat and lumps of hair would be all the horror you need!
@@AlphaBetaGamerthe real horror is the tax taken from your paycheck
It still works. It's like point and click games and I think an animation would just slow it down too much for what those gunk blocks are trying to do, slow you down to begin with.
@@AlphaBetaGamer Its funny they can give you some fancy tech, and a complex set of tasks all while informing you how to avoid horrid monsters, but cant give you gloves for the RAZOR blades in the gunk.
"rodland of the pipes" sounds like a mostly harmless SCP that cleans out random cities plumbing systems that is friendly as long as specific conditions are met or certain actions avoided, otherwise just leaving random flyers and illegible writing around
also rodland can COOK with that ending mixtape.
Severely autistic plumber with social anxiety
It reminded me of that colonoscopy game I saw on New Year's Eve.
Thank you, ABG, for enriching me culturally!
Did someone make a colonoscopy game? Dang, why didn't I think of that? Did you get to extract polyps?
@@GregoryTheGr8ster Haha, the game is called Revenge of the Colon. Things get VERY weird! ua-cam.com/video/oRetFtNZKG0/v-deo.html
@@AlphaBetaGamer south park gay guy game
It's one thing for the monsters in this to just be predators, but my god why do they also have to be RADIOACTIVE!? That's horrifying to just casually see on an incident report lmao
I love how the whole screen shakes when the enemies run away! I'd love to see what their models look like outside of the dark pipes
I would imagine there's nothing beyond what is immediately shown. All but one of them are 2d images.
Oh god, the Auger is so unsettling to me - you can hear it breathing, but you never actually SEE it. Even when you chase it away, it just kind of….explodes? Then runs away.
And the worst part? The fact that you don’t even notice it until it’s breathing in your ear heavily implies that it is physically ON YOU.
It busts a nut
I just wish we got to see it's jumpscare. Apparently no one has ever been killed by it since I can't find any vids of it happening.
In the end song you can see multiple clips of all cryptids. There is also the clip where several long arms appers. The arms are the same colour as a goo that appears after Auger's explosion. Maybe this is what you will see if you let Auger attack you.
@@legionbeast I was looking on the Rodland of Pipes wiki earlier, and I'm pretty sure the jumpscare is the Auger either using, or sprouting little purplish blue hands and wrapping them around you.
@@bluboi99 Can confirm. Purple hand-things wrap around your vision. The readout shows that your entire lower half has been "liquified" as if by a blender while several intense lacerations are across your upper torso.
I love this style of point and click games. I'm Glad to see their comeback.
loved the death reports, really cool worldbuilding.
I wouldn't even be mad, no wonder the pipes will always win if they can jam this hard
I like how when encountering Rodland In the pipes you can already hear them copying the voice of the guy on the radio, but it sounds messy like they haven’t got the hang of it yet
This is one of the greatest games I’ve ever not played. Especially that killer song. This really is a work of love. Great job to the devs!
so we have at least 3 cryptids who are advertised for some kind of service related to the pipes and yet all these pipes are clogged to an absurd extent...so the fuck they all doing?
Sleeping on the job apparently.
Do keep in mind that this is what I got from just one watch
If you want something more concrete then rewatch the video a few times
1 a nuclear power plant in Canada had a "leak" that caused nuclear particles to spread throughout the pipes
This presumably caused wired monsters to appear in said pipes
Along with ruining photos (Wish was why the photo company filled a lawsuit against the powerplant)
The song at the end suggests that the monsters are not only aware of their surroundings , but are also intelligent enough to have learned words and the basis of language from a radio
With the monster addressing you specifically , and telling you that you WILL meet again
The monster spoke on behalf of all the cripteds which insinuates that they are all in cohorts and not independent from each other
Most interesting of all though is the fact that while being well aware of the monsters and the danger they pose , the company treats them like some rabid stray dogs
They give you warnings about them along with ways to counter them but that's it , they treat them like a minor inconvenience and nothing more
So while these monsters may not have been made intentionally and are out of the pipe company's control , the higher ups seem to be interested in them and are perhaps looking for a way to control them
@@JebJebster-ej5cc From what I understood, Pipes are a separate living organism that is able to generate other cryptides and is the "main" among the other cryptides, on one advertising poster you can see that some pipes end with fingers and the second and fourth classified pipes are able to move, Rodland also sings "Can you even imagine that The Pipes would birth?" adding that the pipes are capable of generating even more cryptides. On advertising posters, you can see that the products they provide (washing machines in particular) are the same color as the pipes in which we are located, this may mean that either Rodland simply does not know what washing machines look like, or that through these products there is an infection of ordinary pipes to spread live pipes and generate new cryptides
@@Dark-darkerthat's interesting
I thought that they were born out of mushrooms in the pipes since rodland said "my mind going back into mush" in the song
I thought that the nuclear particles infected the mushrooms in the pipes and created the cryptids thus "could you imagine what the pipes would birth" part of the song
I like your interpretation
Adding to the weird fact manmade pipes, literally made of metal, spew mucus on our poor protag who has to shower every time coming out the pipes, happen. My theory is the "phantom" is somehow responsible for Roland and Mr. Nuke Dragon turning into monsters as well as harassing our protag. If this got a prequel, maybe the phantom is a magical projection of an invading demon of some kind?
Interestingly, the red bird thing seems pretty passive at first, it doesn't seem to actively seek out the player, it's only when it spots you that it's eyes widen and it's jaw starts clicking uncontrollably. You have to break eye contact for it to go away. Which makes me think it's scared of the player and prolongued eye contact makes it act out of self defense
the fact that there's a banger song at the end of the game makes me think of sir, you're being hunted.
awesome game! ^^
Ok, so the concept is that you're a top-secret Canadian plumbing service employee exploring radiation-affected sewers filled with cryptids? Is that a decent description?
I can confirm that jobs here are that dangerous while being paid little for it.
average canadian Job
it feels so out of character for a protagonist in a game about doing an incredibly dangerous job to get any amount of appreciation by higher-ups, let alone a vacation
World's first ethical shady organization
The rare horror game with a good ending
i love games that has simple gameloops like these but is interestingly replayable and enjoyable
It *is* an awesome ending. Also Craig is almost certainly sterile now and can microwave eggs from a distance. The bare arms and general lack of PPE makes me honestly wonder if there's some cryptid-related ban on clothing down there and he's been crawling around naked the whole time...
Or if they have some way of taking care of the radiation.
Its charlie work. Slippery, naked and honest work
As soon as I heard the contact say there were sharp hazards, I was wondering why they couldn't give their poor employees any cut proof gloves. Expensive GPS and audio mapping equipment, sure, but 15 dollars for a box of 12 A6 rated gloves is too far.
@@CrowSkeleton Craaaaawling in my skiiiiin, these wounds they will nooot heeeal*...! 🎵(*No sunlight underground = no vitamin D)
Maybe he himself is also a cryptid.
If they can talk they can be reasoned with.
Rodland, please come out there and stop eating trash
The sounds from clearing away the deposists of fat/hair give me the ick. xD
But this is really claustrophobic, nightmarishly so in fact. Real good fit for the horror game of this type.
the sound design is so good, I watch this as asmr at times
Why are these games more pleasing to the eyes
Many games are about closure: your imagination fills in the spaces where the fidelity of the game fails. Like animations.
I NEED THAT SONG ON SPOTIFY ITS SUCH A BANGER!
Dunno why, but there's something incredibly charming about this one. I liked it :)
It's fascinating how much FNAF DNA you can feel in this even though its gameplay barely resembles it. This is like the video game equivalent of one of those All Tomorrows human descendant creatures.
Even the game's sense of humor is similar to Scott Cawthon's, it's quite charming.
0:36 Makin' my way down the pipe, crawlin' fast, cryptids pass, and I'm hole-bound 🎵
So from the newspaper and the song this is what i got
1- a nuclear power plant situated in canada named red rock had a "leak" that resulted in radioactive particals spreading
2- said radioactive particles damaged thousands of photograpic plates of silver salt which leed them to file a lawsuit against the powerplant
And presumably these same particals contaminated the rivers and flowed into the drains cuasing monsters to be birthed in the pipes
3-we are a man who saw an ad for rodlands pipes and dicided to take the job due to the pay
4- rodland pipes are aware of the abominations that now ihabit the pipes and of the dangers they pose , yet they still keep their existence a secret . Going so far as asking you to even remove any flires you find so that no one stumbles into them
The following comes mainly from the song at the end funny enough
The monsters are not only self aware , but also intelligent enough to have learned your language from a radio and sent you a mixtape where they make it apparent that they whant you back becuse they enjoied your little matches
Also by saying "melting my mind back into mush " it implies that the mosters are mutations of fungus
But what are the monsters endgame? Why he wanna win so bad?
@@Ultimatum881 honestly, I don't know
My best guess is that they're just petty
I mean they literally learned an entire language and wrote a song as well as sent it to your damned mail just to tell you that there will be a next time
A more reasonable guess would be that since they were born of fungi they naturally share a hive mind and wish to consume other life forms to add them to the hive mind so that it can grow and evolve
The fact that they learned language is proof of their ability to learn
Great analysis
Someone also said that the pipes regenerate every now and then, so all you did was basically put a temporary fix on the situation? The company's basically throwing bodies left and right down there to fix *their* problem for them, and you just happened to be "faster" than the others, since you *"Found the core in record time."*
Pretty cool lore, something deeper and bigger seems to be happening down there than the player is aware of. I really wish they'd expand the lore of the game more, it's really intriguing!
I've seen a few of these recap comments now, and something is bothering me. I might have understood it wrong, but it seems our character does NOT work for or is involved with Rodlands Pipes. The letter at the end highly implies that we work for the CSMA, which seems to be actively working against RP, and that RP is like an anomalous organization controlled by the cryptids? (Like Marshall, Carter, and Dark from the SCP universe.)
I just want to point out how ludicrously Canadian it is that this is basically the only "workplace horror" game where the ending has your boss recognizing and rewarding your achievements. Normally with this kind of game it ends with you getting nothing or getting fired but here the supervisor says you're one of the best they have and gives you a well deserved vacation.
As a Canadian who has worked in several different fields, that's not what it's like at all
You know it's good when the devs make a song about their game before CG5 does
Really hope the game pops off after this, it deserves it
The in-game YTPMV brought this from memorable to unforgettable
1:11 minutes deep and I bought the game. Playing it right now, what a gem!
Same! The introduction of the Auger was what sold me on buying the game, and it was great!
The difficult puzzle at the end that is reasonable to figure out was a real surprise to me.
those kill animations are so cool
finally, a game where I can experience the fear of being stuck in a pipe system
The song had no right being that good at the end, i was genuinely hyped
ABG how do you know how to read these maps and such, especially the napkin one! I couldn't make heads or tails of what you were looking at!
Haha, that's kinda a mixture of editing and learning the layout of the maps before I record. Otherwise the video would be 2 hours long! For the napkin one the valve handle numbers have to add up to the numbers at the side of the napkin like a mini soduku. So 6+2=8, 3+1=4, etc.
The puzzle solution is very similar to "skyscraper sodoku" if you're familiar.
Rodland of Pipes is pretty great in that it's puzzles are well put together and have a good difficulty curve. That final skyscraper sodoku puzzle is very difficult to grasp but is one of the better final puzzles I've ever seen in non-puzzle games.
@@jenispizz2556 This game is out of my league then. XD
I'm too smooth brain. XD
@@Church-of-Tingyun Lol, it's okay. I'm sure you could figure it out if you tried. I played that puzzle section for like 20 minutes before it clicked.
You're reading a text solution without the napkin right in front of you.
Either way, have a good day friend.
I... was not sure what I was expecting for the ending, but it certainly wasn't that.
Oh man, this game's premise has to be one of my biggest fears lol
Having a job
Let those silly little guys plumb. It’s all they wanna do. :(
That ending song got me good ngl
I'm coming back every couple days just to hear the song.
This is a really unique game! Thanks for sharing this!
Wow the ending was such a banger!
The most terrifying thing is doing all this for a minimum wage
That death screen was genius. Very criative.
Such a banger by the pipe fellas! I love it so much!!!! Such an amazing end to a great game!! Thanks ABG for always bringing us amazing content ❤️
That ending is awesome!!!
Okay, I need to have something explained to me. How did you know which number corresponded to which valve in Classified Pipe 1?
I've looked over the map and where the GPS said you were, but I can't make heads or tails of it.
I found out from another playthrough that it's a game of Sudoku.
@@TheOneTrueClogger Hi! Yeah I was just about to reply. 6+2=8, 1+3=4, etc. :)
@@AlphaBetaGamer The explanations were quite confusing and lacking so far. It’s unrelated to Sudoku. This is just four sets of two summands adding up to four sums. It’s akin to a magic square, where numbers are arranged in a grid and each row and each column of numbers add up to something; in this case, the diagonals are irrelevant and the sum is not the same.
The sums are 8, 4, 7, and 5. The summands are 6, 2, 1, and 3. Each summand is used twice: once in a horizontal sum, once in a vertical sum:
8 = 6 + 2
+ +
4 = 1 + 3
= =
7 5
To be honest I almost skipped over this one because it looked like another soulless FNAF-esque turd, but I'm glad I didn't. This one has a lot of charm and some pretty creative game play ideas. If the dev reads this, good stuff, I can see this becoming the next big thing.
Now you know never judge a book by its cover
This game just hits different and i love it for that
really liked this one keep the amazing work up ABG 💜
Okay, this has been bugging me for a while, there was a playthrough of a game on this channel that I started watching, and when I went to look for it again, I couldn't find it.
It had a hand drawn anime artstyle, it was a sidescroller, you were a yong boy who used a bat, at one point, your friend even throws cans at you to practice your batting. You were walking around a small, japanese-inspired town doing tasks for people, at one point, you go out into the woods and meet a ghostly girl who I think your character kind of falls in love with. Later on, you end up going to school and you and your class end up trapped inside when the building gets attacked by a storm of dark creatures. Can anyone think of the name of this game??? It's driving me crazy.
Sounds interesting, keeping my eye on this thread
I wanna know too
Didn't think the game was gonna end with a YTPMV but I'm all for it.
I hope new entities are added into the game, maybe a secret entity for the custom pipe
What an awesome ending !
Yay Force claustraphobia after the siren-head and the rooms
just the concept of this game is diabolical
Let me get this straight, the monsters made a literal music tape for the ending?
simple yet effective survival horror!
Suddenly I want to play Sewer Shark on the Sega CD
The pipes may always win, but what if you just... win better?
>Rodland
IS THAT THE BLACK SILENCE?!?!?!?!?
Finally
I found it!!!!
The most terrifying cryptid of all: Soggy Flyers!
That youtube poop ending was amazing
And this time on “jobs you couldn’t pay me enough to do,” we’ll be essentially going cave diving, but this time in gross torso-width pipes with all sorts of gross gunk, debris, probably a terrible smell, and a big red bird dog monster!
Somehow those things made a dope ytpmv and managed to put it into a VHS.
Man is this game cool, it has me wanting more!
The pipes will always win baby!
Yiu know what..fighting for my life in the pipes is horrible but also the most unrealistic thing is vacation time
How can you tell where the auger is? I've been listening for sounds and looking for cues, but I can't make heads or tails of it.
Hi! You can hear the Auger breathing (it might be easier to hear with headphones).
@@AlphaBetaGamer I have headphones on. I cannot hear it.
@@TheOneTrueClogger Try at 08:26. You should definitely hear it breathing in your right ear.
@@AlphaBetaGamer Only barely if I press my right headphone cup to my head. It's really faint.
@@TheOneTrueClogger That's weird. I can hear it quite easily. Must be a difference in the headphones or something. That's how you detect the Auger though. Solely via the breathing. :)
I love this kind of game ! This one look so amazing and terrifying !!
i had a dream much like this today
Praise be to his lordship Rodland, great king of the depths below and lord of pipe.
This game is cool as heck wow
This was freaking awesome to watch! Holy crap, Justin and Tyler both deserve a whole bunch of recognition for making such a cool concept wrapped into this game!
And of course, ABG, you deserve credit for sharing all of this for people like me who haven't known about it until recently!
Cheers for the video, and remember:
T H E P I P E S W I L L A L W A Y S W I N .
like something out of the old Goosebumps horrorland game
0:30 where did you get that third hand when both of your hands stayed in view??
All that radiation must be having an effect!
@@AlphaBetaGamer Teenage Mutant Nutjob Tunnelers (x 3) heroes in a hard hat, tunneler power 🎵
I am choosing to watch this as a Descending sequel lol
35:47 for the banger
No need to thank me, i did it only because i wanted to go back to it
How does The Phantom work? Is it just a hazard in the final levels? Or just how the game handles your temperature going too low? I also am curious what happens if you keep going after your boss tells you to escape.
It is about the temperature. It's basically your incentive to not take too long, since it only appears when you're fully out of heat
@@WD_Gaster66 That's way more metal than the screen fading or turning blue or something. I dig it.
holy crap the company actually somewhat cares about you for once in this type of game
Send us back down, we need to have a chat with ol' Roddy.
Whoo new ABG upload! 🖤
Very inspiring!