When Mission Control suddenly switched up from "head back to the pod immediately" to "stay where you are, you are safe" it made me shudder just a little bit
Yeah I immediately thought *"Heck to the no, you just said go back to the pod! You are NOT the real mission control, you're an alien, and I don't trust you."* Plus, they never said to go to the pod out of safety, so when it said "you're safe where you are", I was like *"bro who said I wasn't safe- screw you-"*
the way the mimicked speech sounds unconfident with those constant pauses, yet is stubborn and insistent in spite of it. like it has to generate each new word in the sentence on the spot and keeps hesitating, but it doesn't have any better idea as to what to do so it just keeps hammering the same thing in
Yes I loved that too. Especially how the first time it says "Tranquility" it sort of gets the accent and sound wrong. It's as if it's still adjusting to mimicking the human voice.
Watch videos of apes signing. They hammer the phrases that indicate what they want insistently, ordering instead of conversing. This kind of thing seems similar. The entity is pushing a demand to stay. It just sounds like mission control to us.
Jumpscare at the end killed it a bit, but it earned a jumpscare through the atmosphere. The mimicked speech was very good, especially as it was clearly feeling out the words at first. The threat was hyped up and should've actually just been the light that was approaching; it should've just got you, instead of fading out suddenly for no reason other than a jumpscare. Said jumpscare could have felt more in-place if it happened as the light got you, instead of the weird pause in between.
games aim to scare you too literally sometimes. i think the greatest way to scare the player is by constantly putting them in that state of "something is going to happen soon! i know it i know it!" but mostly leaving it up to their imagination/basically fucking with them
Imo the fact that they hacked the hud and made you go to a specific location just to then kill you is a bit more scary because they were able to mimick voices (even if they did a poor job of it) and had the intelligence to lull us into a false sense of security before striking
I'll be honest I think Mark's whole bit at the beginning has the potential to be a much scarier game than the actual... game. Could do a lot of existential horror with the realization that the moon we see from earth has been fake this entire time.
Lost chance of having the edge be the dark side of the moon and you'd basically slowly but surely lose signal. I love it when devs include the map edge into the game design
holy fuck dude, I made this game btw and that would be a GENIOUS mechanic like god damn that idea might make me make a sequel at some point in the future. You should try making a horror game
fun fact about the dust mark mentioned: moon dust is not only super staticy and clings to a lot of things very easily, but it's also very sharp and can cut into stuff like space suits.
funnily enough, most people don't know how many apollo missions there even were, let alone the fact we have rovers on planets like venus. I'm certain with how many rocket launches there are, and how massive this earth is, it'd be exceptionally easy for people to miss just one rocket. After all, nobody notices icbm tests very often unless a government says something.
@@RaisinHook Actually NASA already has a built lunar rover ready for launch (called the VIPER rover) but due to budget constraints (and the ever-increasing cuts to NASA's budget in general) the rocket will instead be launched with, and get this, dead weight.
It reminds me a lot of Iron Lung as far as atmosphere and setting go. And yeah it is kind of a walking simulator more than a game, but so was Iron Lung in a way.
oh my god. the creature trying to mimic the command personnel's speech is horrifying. for me there is also something VERY extremely horrifying about something you cant see approaching at rapid speeds for me. it also happens with the amnesia jaw monster too(i get a strong urge to throw my hands up over the front of my head to grab my back head, like how you protect yourself from tornado drills in middle school)
Something that always seemed interesting to me is the uncanny valley. Humans have a predisposition to activate fight or flight response in reaction to things that are very similar to a human, yet not quite right. This may suggest that we are genetically predisposed to having a repulsion to something mimicking a human. It may suggest that... The only ones that survived, are the ones with this uncanny valley. For a reason.
Jaguars and other large felidae attack hominoids from behind, and often above and behind. Lots of hominoid skulls with teeth marks through the back of the skull
literally ALL they had to do was make the red orb engulf the player and then cut to black. But no, they NEEDED to do a shitty nextbot gmod png jumpscare instead. It baffles me how they mastered the build-up yet the payoff fucked up because they did too much.
@@xetra3245Yes, im not even that into horror, but isn't it actually much cooler and scarier when they (like in the game here) build up something thats actually intimidating and scares you, not the overused "face pops in with alot of screaming". Like, the part where u could hear out it wasn't the radio operator talking but the thing on the moon, this was so ridiculously cool and actually scared me
This made me think it was going to be a Jpeg image jumpscare. And it kind of was to be fair but normally the Gmod jumpscares are flat images that move forward fast. This was one that jerks around the screen.
@@mrwubs._ I mean the build up is the part that's good. Jumpscares are cheap to begin with, but still a fine way to end an experience, so I don't really get what the problem is.
everybody is talking about funny stuff but that was seriously so freaky, one of my worst irrational fears is something having the voice of someone i love 😬 horrifying, it was very well done
@@deinodinosuchus Well try not to think about the fact that every human culture on the planet had a monster that mimicked voices and the older we look back we still see humans afraid of that thing. Surely doesn't mean humans every actually had to deal with things like that...
@@Fordo007 It makes me think of the uncanny valley. Pretty much all humans have a repulsion to things that look very very similar to a human, yet not quite right. It's ok if its an anthropomorphized creature, like in Elemental or Zootopia or something. But Pixar's early baby animation shows that something can be entirely docile, yet still extremely horrifying and repulsive just by nature of TRYING to look human and failing. It makes me think there is a reason for that. That... For some reason, those of our common ancestors that lacked this "uncanny valley" repulsion. Did not survive very often.
It looked like there was an invisible wall high enough that he couldn't walk over it, but apparently the devs didn't plan for this big brain moment lmao
2:38 apollo missions had 3 astronauts. 2 would land on the surface in the lunar module while the last one would stay alone in the control module orbiting the moon.
Imagine if it ended with you getting back to the capsule but its just gone. Then as you look around trying to figure out where it went, or what took it, mission control suddenly says that object is 0 meters from you and when you look up a giant monstrous thing just comes slowly descending at you and cut to black
Or you see the LLM take off, with Mission Control speaking like they are glad to hear from you, because they lost contact and then start having a one way conversation with the LLM about seeing them in 4-5 days. Leaving you stranded on the moon.
the shaking is because of how the game processes location. distance from center is a number, and as you go along due to math the number gets less and less accurate as you get farther from center. eventually it will get to the point of shaking because the math says you're bouncing between two points the real fun is when the whole game really starts falling apart and you can be like meters between the points its averaging out...or even kilometers. but usually by then the game is so broken it crashes or controls stop responding
Man, the existence of this game is scaring me more than the game itself, as a Kid I had a Nightmare about Ghosts on Mars and it looked just like this, just instead of being on the moon I was on Mars. I'm really questioning the fabric of reality since its so close to my dream. I mean I couldn't move and the ghosts just moved across the horizon and chanted an Ominous song just chanting "Ghosts on Mars." Its kinda goofy but as a child I was terrified. And its kinda freaking me out right now.
There's a Jungi Ito's Manga where some scientists are studing this particular radiation that can be found only in space and inside this tunnel And at the end of the Manga is revealed that this radiation are actually Ghosts
@@nokopanda4642the buildup was personally amazing, but the jumpscare was seriously a huge let down. Could be done way better but I loved the atmosphere.
I don't know what it was about this particular jumpscare, but it REALLY got me. Reminded me of the finale to Squirrel Stapler where the buildup just KEEPS GOING.
the song that the red orb thing plays is weirdly comforting, you can actually find the song too! it's called Midnight Moon, made by the dev (using ai) specifically for this game
The build up of this game was very good. Getting to the receiver and it being seemingly fine and after resetting it have the comms tell you that they are picking up a small object heading towards you really fast and then the comms just cut off and you're left in silence with the only sound being your footsteps, breathing and your hud reminding you that something is getting closer.
Interestingly, one of the things learned from the lunar landings is that some people are allergic to moon dust, but we have too far small of a sample to know if it is common or rare
An advertisement showed up and cut mark off in the middle of the start, and it made him say “LIXIAN BLOW ME-“ and I fucking CACKLED like a god damn WITCH
Small detail, but looks like they even got some constellations right, like Taurus and star cluster Pleiades, plus the big dipper. Those are the ones i noticed but I'm sure theres more I missed
That scare really worked me over. From the distance popping up until the light I could feel the hairs on my neck standing up and anxious tingles across the bakc of my head. Hoo boy...
3:55 "I guess it's not air".... Mark, the moon DOES have an atmosphere... It's just VERY little to the point it's almost a vacuum, oh and it's almost pure helium... So there WOULD be dust floating around on the moon... It would just take a LONG time to resettle properly...
@@informitas0117 The moon's thin atmosphere also makes it so any meteorite regardless of size can strike the surface because they don't burn up, and they kick up more dust when they hit the surface
The ambulance and when Mark went off the fake moon were the best bits. So funny. The developer clearly isn't a big gamer if they honestly believed no one would explore.
Or maybe they didn't care. If it's a small project I would definitely leave this kinds of things there. You decided to be curious and go off a mile to the wrong direction? No I'm not gonna put a wall there. I'm the kind of gamer that immediately turns around and tries to do the opposite of what I'm told. It's only fitting the devs decide the prize for my asshattery is falling into the nothingness for eternity.
I feel like this game is just short of being amazing Like the set-up and the aesthetic is damn near perfect. Having something impersonate your friend to try and get you to stop running, and the fact that you know something is coming for you but you can't tell from where? This is all amazing stuff to pull off in an indie horror game But the actual scare that it leads up to is just bad. It's a lame and uncharacteristic jump scare, with the very tired indie horror fake-out trope. The existence of aliens, or whatever these things are, go completely unused outside of seeing them from miles away. Having good world building doesn't mean anything when it builds up to nothing
God this was lowkey masterful. Feel like it’s up there with Iron Lung and that creator’s work. Something about the “Tranquility. Tranquility.” A few too many times was just enough to be very eerie followed by “Stay where you are”
the one good part. seeing the faces in the distance could've been good, but they were clearly stagnant .PNGs that moved out of the way like powerpoint slides. followed by strange old timey music and a massive glowing light that felt totally disconnected from the perceived threat and then topping it off with a bunch of static scary face images and a puppetcombo screamer was a complete let down.
The buildup and tension are incredible on the first playthrough, but the payoff being a stock spooky face bouncing around your screen with a stock scream sound just completely ruins the ending. The game definitely has massive potential, and if the dev really felt like it they could swap out the ending and faces, and it would be incredible on a first playthrough
I believe that only Apollo 1 had fatalities (the fire on the launch pad tragically killed all 3 astronauts). But all the astronauts in all other Apollo missions, even Apollo 13, survived
This was VERY cool~. Love the atmosphere and the scare too. Not the most frightening thing ever but, I love the tracker showing you how close your pursuer is, how you lose contact with HQ and a fake voice says "Don't move, stand still."
Love the idea of a *secret* moon launch, as if everyone would just ignore the big-ass rockets. Plus that little girl with her telescope would spot them and try to send them Christmas presents.
someone suggested that they were multi-part launches, where you assemble in LEO and boost up, would still be noticed by any space object trackers, but at least there is slightly more plausible deniability there
@@therookiegamer2727 We had really big spy satellites (launched from the space shuttle ) that were un-tracked until they were declassified, its plausible to send a small LEM with enough fuel for a lunar transfer
Something I didn't know about till I heard recently, the worst part of walking on the moon is the razor sharp static clinging dust that can eat through a space suit.
Lixian editing in the Ambulance when Mark see's the thing in the hills had me laughing for nearly 5 minutes. I don't know why but that was brilliant lol
4:30 Welp, add this to the list of games that Mark has broken. I also love how the dialogue calls the Apollo 17 landing point "Tranquility Base" when only Apollo 11 landed there. Apollo 17 landed in the Taurus-Littrow Valley.
( 12:20 ) I love when Markiplier goes _"OoHOHHH WHAT IS DAAT? hoOOHH WHAT IS THAAT? OOHOHHH WHAT IS THaAT? Oohhh.. OOhhh..? Hahh?? HHHOOHH... eh.. ooh.. hehe.. HOH... heyy.. hEYA... HaAHHHH.. hehh.. hoHhEY... HEYEHH... HEY! HAA---"_
Jeez, something about the music when that orb steadily got closer and closer was so eerie to me. The sight of the orb, too. I was expecting an immediate ending. But it disappeared. It's a bit too similar to my old hallucinations from when I was a child with too much pressure in my eyes + stress.
I love how whenever I hear about some random indie horror game that I'm interested in looking at but not playing. I can just type it in and Mark already has a video on it.
@@back_yard_. Markiplier made a video on his birthday saying he was old enough to become a president now. So Since then people have been calling him Mr. President.
@@jameson1239 True. but the flight director for the Apollo missions (Eugene krantz) was born in Toledo, Ohio. So, no Queen's English on the period correct Apollo Coms.
Some really excellent atmosphere and tension buildup. I honestly forgot about the faces once we stopped seeing them though, they weren't very impactful. The impersonator's speech being juuuust wrong enough to notice was very well-done! Can't say I like the ending at all, though. Sure, it got me, but I just don't like big jumpscares in general... at least this one earned it with the buildup. Other people in the comments bouncing ideas around have some concepts for the end that would make this all around fantastic. Maybe the dev will do more in the future and make something more solid.
The faces in theory are cool, they are there from the start of the game. But you really only notice them because the game keeps telling you previous austronauts kept seeing faces over the hills. It would have worked better if seeing those faces was more organic. Maybe have the player look for something with zoom feature as a part of the gameplay only to have them contemplate if they are seeing faces.
Yeah, that's the most disappointing thing about this game. Not only is the image the developer used for the 'alien' a very common scary image that's been floating around on the internet for like a decade now, but all it does is appear and bounce around the visor like the DVD logo, it would've made sense for there to be a real alien that like grabs and kills the player, not some cheap jumpscare. Everything else about this game seemed really cool actually, and the whole concept/idea of a horror game in space is for some reason not used enough, aside from Prey and Dead Space, other games may bring you to space occasionally like Half-Life but it isn't the main ordeal, or some games like DOOM are set in space but DOOM isn't really scary, it's just gory and brutal. Especially on the moon, literally the perfect place to make a horror game, and I can't think of any horror game besides this one that takes place there.
@@koolaid33 There's also (allegedly) a point-and-click horror game set on a space station. It's on steam, and it's by a guy called Script Welder. They made the Don't Escape and Deep Sleep trilogies.
the lead up was super great and I got chills at certain points but that jumpscare is such a let down:( could’ve been so much cooler if it ended on a high note
That’s true, but honestly fixing the jumpscare is, in my opinion, one of the easiest parts of a horror game to fix. Making an interesting setting, plot, building up dread and distress, that’s the hard part. And the creator nailed the setting and the dread. The creatures on the hills you never see, switching from tracking your distance from the radar to tracking an object 2500 MILES away that’s rapidly approaching…the build up was honestly masterful, I would love to see more from this creator. That being said, yes the jumpscare is pretty disappointing, but the creator got the harder parts of creating a horror game right!
"Can we get Creedence Clearwater Revival?" "We have Creedence Clearwater Revival at home." Creedence Clearwater Revival at home: "Something baa-ad is on the moon!"
i like to imagine that the person that said that this whole game is a tape they watched to learn of aliens and the tape just has mark in the corner of the screen lmao when i thought that
This is hands down a terrific horror game. The way it says there's something coming towards you, it's 2250 miles but moves faster than you can & then they say "stay where you are", this was all so good!
Finally! I can watch another Markiplier video to keep my mind off of the miserable existence that we all live in on this unfair and godforsaken corporeal realm of a planet we call Earth.
In the vast void of nothingness we call space that will go completely dark in a few billion years after Earth gets swallowed by a massive anomalous ball of hydrogen and oxygen we call the Sun
I grew up in Florida during the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions and you can't hide the launch of a Saturn 5, LOL. That said, I'm now ready to suspend my disbelief and get scared. 😱🤣
1:07 The abbreviation is LM, Lunar Module, it was also previously known as the LEM or Lunar Excursion Module (which I think sounds way cooler so I usually call it that)
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When Mission Control suddenly switched up from "head back to the pod immediately" to "stay where you are, you are safe" it made me shudder just a little bit
I think that part was done genuinely very well
I can't figure out if that's actually Mission Control or something on the moon trying to get him to stay
Yeah I immediately thought
*"Heck to the no, you just said go back to the pod! You are NOT the real mission control, you're an alien, and I don't trust you."* Plus, they never said to go to the pod out of safety, so when it said "you're safe where you are", I was like *"bro who said I wasn't safe- screw you-"*
@@chicabearit’s supposed to be the monster trying to get you to stay
especially the part where the monster made that high pitched noise while trying to imitate, creepy stuff
the way the mimicked speech sounds unconfident with those constant pauses, yet is stubborn and insistent in spite of it. like it has to generate each new word in the sentence on the spot and keeps hesitating, but it doesn't have any better idea as to what to do so it just keeps hammering the same thing in
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Yes I loved that too. Especially how the first time it says "Tranquility" it sort of gets the accent and sound wrong. It's as if it's still adjusting to mimicking the human voice.
@@generalpuggamer9336 that’s exactly what i thought too, it sounded like it was trying to get the right tone. i loved it though, so creepy
Also the way it say 'here' in 'you are safe here'. 'here', not 'there'
Watch videos of apes signing. They hammer the phrases that indicate what they want insistently, ordering instead of conversing. This kind of thing seems similar. The entity is pushing a demand to stay. It just sounds like mission control to us.
The first thing that mark does in a game is go 500 metres in the opposite direction.
Very mark move.
@@rob-ink don't question our president
It's reMARKable
I blame donkey Kong
very basic gaming move
500 meter Mark
Jumpscare at the end killed it a bit, but it earned a jumpscare through the atmosphere. The mimicked speech was very good, especially as it was clearly feeling out the words at first. The threat was hyped up and should've actually just been the light that was approaching; it should've just got you, instead of fading out suddenly for no reason other than a jumpscare. Said jumpscare could have felt more in-place if it happened as the light got you, instead of the weird pause in between.
Completely agreed, could not have said it better
I agree, although credit where it’s due the atmosphere was pretty scary imo
games aim to scare you too literally sometimes. i think the greatest way to scare the player is by constantly putting them in that state of "something is going to happen soon! i know it i know it!" but mostly leaving it up to their imagination/basically fucking with them
i remember using that jumpscare image for a jumpscare in a scratch game i made as a kid lmao
Imo the fact that they hacked the hud and made you go to a specific location just to then kill you is a bit more scary because they were able to mimick voices (even if they did a poor job of it) and had the intelligence to lull us into a false sense of security before striking
“Uh come in earth, I fell off”
Earth- “You what?”
The moon is flat, i repeat, the moon appears to be flat.
@@RubixCuber66 Pim, buddy, we cannot let this get out, we have to keep this secret!
I think it was theorized that if you jump hard enough you could jump off the moon.
@@flamingskull7185 The escape velocity of the moon is 2.4 km/s, or 5,300mph, so there's no chance you would be able to jump off the moon
@@wyattd087not with that attitude you can't
"Moon's haunted."
"What?"
*pumps shotgun* "Moon's haunted"
thats what happens when you question our dear president
DESTINY 2 MENTIONED WTF IS PROPER GAME MONETIZATION
They're on the moon... **blasting** THEYRE ON THE GODDAMN MOON
BFG 9000 music kicks in.
d2
I love how it hypes up the monster the whole time and then at the end it just throws you a rave and gives you a fatal epileptic seizure
And a fuckin heart attack
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Yeah, that was pretty poor effort for what'd otherwise been a good ride.
@@tomisabum Instead of the jumpscare they should have just had the orb playing old music engulf you.
its sorta just a generic walking simulator... This type of game is getting so boring
I'll be honest I think Mark's whole bit at the beginning has the potential to be a much scarier game than the actual... game. Could do a lot of existential horror with the realization that the moon we see from earth has been fake this entire time.
Nah
A whole easter egg just for people who get distracted and wander off instead of playing the game, that would be awesome! 😂
The Moon is flat!
Lost chance of having the edge be the dark side of the moon and you'd basically slowly but surely lose signal. I love it when devs include the map edge into the game design
like subnautica where you have to survive the monsters. you can actually swim a lot further before hitting the real edge wall
I mean, Earth wasn't in the skybox, so they were already ON the "dark side" (which is a misleading name for it in the first place)
Shh
holy fuck dude, I made this game btw and that would be a GENIOUS mechanic like god damn that idea might make me make a sequel at some point in the future. You should try making a horror game
Entering ecological dead zone. Detecting multiple leviathan-class life forms nearby, are you sure whatever you are doing is worth it?
fun fact about the dust mark mentioned: moon dust is not only super staticy and clings to a lot of things very easily, but it's also very sharp and can cut into stuff like space suits.
Also, it reportedly smells "like death."
@@leXie1337_chan And apparently space itself smells like "burnt steak"
And it's toxic. Portal 2 did not lie.
I just learned this from Thor today.
Soooo, it's like hopping through tiny razors blades?
I like how they are like: yeah there were 8 more moon landings. In secret. We just hid the massive rockets behind a McDonalds sign
No no, they were multi-stage rockets, hidden alongside satellite launches, and assembled in orbit for the lunar trip. ;)
funnily enough, most people don't know how many apollo missions there even were, let alone the fact we have rovers on planets like venus. I'm certain with how many rocket launches there are, and how massive this earth is, it'd be exceptionally easy for people to miss just one rocket. After all, nobody notices icbm tests very often unless a government says something.
@@NPCDoomer not rovers, landers since they couldn't move, a Rover has been proposed but hasn't even been built yet
@@RaisinHook the venera 7, a soviet lander, was the first manmade device to land on another planet, specifically, venus in 1970
@@RaisinHook Actually NASA already has a built lunar rover ready for launch (called the VIPER rover) but due to budget constraints (and the ever-increasing cuts to NASA's budget in general) the rocket will instead be launched with, and get this, dead weight.
The idea of an astronaught just casually walking off the surface of the moon is so funny
Flat moon theory
@@haabyalexis but only the moon
@@ashikjaman1940 of course, everybody knows the Earth's a cube
@@haabyalexis wrong-the earth is obviously a tetrahedron
I love how Mark accidentally looked at an actual face when he was trying to make a silly
Face where?
5:05
Lixian putting in an ambulance just about sent me.
WAIT THOSE WEREN'T FROM LIXIAN?!
This isn’t much of a game, but it’s a hell of a proof of concept. That was incredibly unsettling.
It reminds me a lot of Iron Lung as far as atmosphere and setting go. And yeah it is kind of a walking simulator more than a game, but so was Iron Lung in a way.
@@beedoesthings8037 so what you're saying is that this is Mark's next movie
@@ashikjaman1940 they both could use a full game
oh my god. the creature trying to mimic the command personnel's speech is horrifying. for me there is also something VERY extremely horrifying about something you cant see approaching at rapid speeds for me. it also happens with the amnesia jaw monster too(i get a strong urge to throw my hands up over the front of my head to grab my back head, like how you protect yourself from tornado drills in middle school)
Something that always seemed interesting to me is the uncanny valley. Humans have a predisposition to activate fight or flight response in reaction to things that are very similar to a human, yet not quite right. This may suggest that we are genetically predisposed to having a repulsion to something mimicking a human. It may suggest that... The only ones that survived, are the ones with this uncanny valley. For a reason.
@@alexandergreene461(or corpses but it’s cooler to think that(could also be our other species counterparts like the neanderthals))
@@icelord2593 some creatures can also mimic human noises, but not perfectly. namely tigers, one of the few things that is a natural predator for us
Jaguars and other large felidae attack hominoids from behind, and often above and behind. Lots of hominoid skulls with teeth marks through the back of the skull
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literally ALL they had to do was make the red orb engulf the player and then cut to black. But no, they NEEDED to do a shitty nextbot gmod png jumpscare instead. It baffles me how they mastered the build-up yet the payoff fucked up because they did too much.
Yo I think ppl agree with you
Jumpscare horror has made a devastating dent in the horror game environment.
@@xetra3245Yes, im not even that into horror, but isn't it actually much cooler and scarier when they (like in the game here) build up something thats actually intimidating and scares you, not the overused "face pops in with alot of screaming".
Like, the part where u could hear out it wasn't the radio operator talking but the thing on the moon, this was so ridiculously cool and actually scared me
@@xetra3245holy sht i wrote alot...
@@Stridsvagn-ph7sf master of yap
SOMEHING
SOMEHING IS HAPPENING!
BAD
@@Where_My_Lime_Juice_At INDEED
SOMEHING IS BAD
SOMEHING REALLY BAD
"Where are these signals coming from?" "...JOHN MADDEN! AEIOU AEIOU"
"john madden! john madden! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiioooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
damn, moonbase alpha memes are 10+ years old at this point and people still remember them
"JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN FOOT BALL"
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
football 🥰
All that build up for a 2012 gmod horror map jumpscare
And you can still move during it 💀
makes me respect the game way less and just see it as a bs gimmick one off. hate that type of stuff
This made me think it was going to be a Jpeg image jumpscare. And it kind of was to be fair but normally the Gmod jumpscares are flat images that move forward fast. This was one that jerks around the screen.
@@mrwubs._ I mean the build up is the part that's good. Jumpscares are cheap to begin with, but still a fine way to end an experience, so I don't really get what the problem is.
I mean it's a good atmosphere, but if you know it's coming it kills the vibe
the song in the beginning and during the red light chase scene is being released to spotify!! its called midmight moon, incredibly beautiful song
I love you
@@cooperschmidt1594 ur welcome 💀
Thank you! I was looking for this
Who is the song done by?
The creature repeating voice lines through the radio really brought the ending all together
everybody is talking about funny stuff but that was seriously so freaky, one of my worst irrational fears is something having the voice of someone i love 😬 horrifying, it was very well done
@@deinodinosuchus might I suggest that one SCP that mimics voices?
@@deinodinosuchus Well try not to think about the fact that every human culture on the planet had a monster that mimicked voices and the older we look back we still see humans afraid of that thing. Surely doesn't mean humans every actually had to deal with things like that...
@@Fordo007parrots and crows/ravens do that still
@@Fordo007 It makes me think of the uncanny valley. Pretty much all humans have a repulsion to things that look very very similar to a human, yet not quite right. It's ok if its an anthropomorphized creature, like in Elemental or Zootopia or something. But Pixar's early baby animation shows that something can be entirely docile, yet still extremely horrifying and repulsive just by nature of TRYING to look human and failing. It makes me think there is a reason for that. That... For some reason, those of our common ancestors that lacked this "uncanny valley" repulsion. Did not survive very often.
"Moons haunted"
“What?”
@@zanderbacon3822gets nearest double barrel 8 gauge. "It's haunted"
*distant gunshot*
What is this from
Witch queen dlc
4:14 the way mark casually falls off the map expecting there to be an invisible wall 😭😭
It looked like there was an invisible wall high enough that he couldn't walk over it, but apparently the devs didn't plan for this big brain moment lmao
That was really well done, I love the "tranquility? stay where you are"
Every time I see a notification I think Mark might officially announce his running for president 🇺🇲
He has my vote
I see that as an absolute win
Can't wait to check his name on the ballot
When the time comes.. I will vote for him 🫡🇺🇲
I instead hope for updates on the movie
12:44 Such a neat concept ruined by "le scary face.jpeg"
I know right, mark should make this into a film too
Literally imagine how great it would have been if you got back to the craft and it was just gone
pyro fan
@@prettyandfallen it was the "le" wasn't it? 😭😭
Would’ve been a million times better if the face was just kinda visible in the distance
2:38 apollo missions had 3 astronauts. 2 would land on the surface in the lunar module while the last one would stay alone in the control module orbiting the moon.
Maybe NASA was ceaping out on repair missions?
Imagine being that guy I would be so angry
@@strayorion2031 they all have different roles, pilot, engineer, and scientist. Usually.
@@jordonboring3729 Well sure. But having an important role wouldn't take the sting out of not getting to walk on the moon.
Imagine if it ended with you getting back to the capsule but its just gone. Then as you look around trying to figure out where it went, or what took it, mission control suddenly says that object is 0 meters from you and when you look up a giant monstrous thing just comes slowly descending at you and cut to black
make this game pls
Or you see the LLM take off, with Mission Control speaking like they are glad to hear from you, because they lost contact and then start having a one way conversation with the LLM about seeing them in 4-5 days. Leaving you stranded on the moon.
It seems like the creature was trying to escape from that giant monster
would make a better ending!
“Somehing bad is on the moon” should be Mark’s presidential campaign slogan.
With music by Credence Clearwater.
Dying is the next step in evolution :3
already milking a joke that was created 35 minutes ago is geniunely insane
@@imag3ry The President joke thing was created much longer than 35 minutes ago my friend 😂
*I agree*
I’m glad that Mark’s posting things regularly again. Missed you, buddy.
That's Mr.president for you civilian
@@Secure-sea7117 Of course. My apologies. 🤣
I’m just mad I just found out about this man a few months ago. At least I got loads of content to go through 😂
@@TheGangMakesAUA-camChannelDamn where have you been for the last like 10 years?/lh
@@TheGangMakesAUA-camChannel on the bright side Mr. President is now a part of your life!
I love how only at the end of his E rampage did he recall the Lord Farquiplier E meme 10:12
Lord Farquiplier😭🤣
the shaking is because of how the game processes location. distance from center is a number, and as you go along due to math the number gets less and less accurate as you get farther from center. eventually it will get to the point of shaking because the math says you're bouncing between two points
the real fun is when the whole game really starts falling apart and you can be like meters between the points its averaging out...or even kilometers.
but usually by then the game is so broken it crashes or controls stop responding
Floating point error
Getting a floating-point error on a map this size implies an oddly high precision in calculating player's location 🤔
@@carcharoclesmegalodon6904 that is fair. idk maybe the guy scaled the map design too big, or the integer character length too small.
5:10 love the timing of him cracking jokes about faces and accidentally stumbling on them
Man, the existence of this game is scaring me more than the game itself, as a Kid I had a Nightmare about Ghosts on Mars and it looked just like this, just instead of being on the moon I was on Mars. I'm really questioning the fabric of reality since its so close to my dream. I mean I couldn't move and the ghosts just moved across the horizon and chanted an Ominous song just chanting "Ghosts on Mars." Its kinda goofy but as a child I was terrified. And its kinda freaking me out right now.
There's a Jungi Ito's Manga where some scientists are studing this particular radiation that can be found only in space and inside this tunnel
And at the end of the Manga is revealed that this radiation are actually Ghosts
Destiny Dreams are one of the strangest and scariest experiences. But do not be swayed by them they just happen to be coincidence
There's an X-Files episode about the exact idea of Ghosts on Mars.
The funny thing is that the dream was triggered by that old phone ring tone called UFO or something
Honestly scary concept. I really wish they elaborate more on the story and game.
Hugely disagree. It is creepier not knowing anything. This tiny experience is the scariest thing I've seen all year because of how tight it is.
@@tournesol99it was incredibly underwhelming to me. A lot of buildup for a jump scare that felt kinda out of place
@@nokopanda4642the buildup was personally amazing, but the jumpscare was seriously a huge let down. Could be done way better but I loved the atmosphere.
Mark’s fellow astronauts watching him bunny hop off the moon within five minutes of beginning the mission: You had *one job.*
We all know how Mark loves the moon. Especially high definition pictures of the moon, those are his favorites.
I don't know what it was about this particular jumpscare, but it REALLY got me. Reminded me of the finale to Squirrel Stapler where the buildup just KEEPS GOING.
the song that the red orb thing plays is weirdly comforting, you can actually find the song too! it's called Midnight Moon, made by the dev (using ai) specifically for this game
It actually is very much not comorting
@@theimpostorafungus1213 well that's the distortion making it sound scarier, they also have the non-distorted version up
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I came to the comments just to see if I could find the name of the song. I am very appreciative of you commenting this lol
@@Veshicg3202 no problem! i really love the non-distorted version of the song, it's very good
Midnight Moon on the Matthew Ager channel. It's made with A.I. (the developer said so in the song's comment section)
The build up of this game was very good. Getting to the receiver and it being seemingly fine and after resetting it have the comms tell you that they are picking up a small object heading towards you really fast and then the comms just cut off and you're left in silence with the only sound being your footsteps, breathing and your hud reminding you that something is getting closer.
Interestingly, one of the things learned from the lunar landings is that some people are allergic to moon dust, but we have too far small of a sample to know if it is common or rare
7:55 “Wade is that you?” I can’t- 😭😭
furry 💀
@@GeneralKenobi69420I’m sorry General Kenobi but you have fallen to the dark side
@@GeneralKenobi69420 people exist, get over it
@@GeneralKenobi69420Jedis don't discriminate
@@_Tesseract who said he did?
🎶We're whalers on the moon, we carry a harpoon. But there ain't no whales so we tell tall tales and sing our whaling tune 🎶
Reference! Reference!
You know those whalers were the first people on the moon
Wait, what’s the original
They better not sleep with one of my three robot daughters
John Madden
An advertisement showed up and cut mark off in the middle of the start, and it made him say “LIXIAN BLOW ME-“ and I fucking CACKLED like a god damn WITCH
Strange that it's taken me 12 or so years to realize that Mark cannot catch a break when it comes to extraterresrial/alien moons wanting to kill him.
Moonus Annus. Moonmento Mori.
you miss spelled moonshine dose
Thanks youtube
Moonshine Dose. Moonmento Mori.
See original (Translated by Google)
🥀
it's the dance of lunar base, owoaoaowoooo
Hey now don’t try this at home…
Poor Wade, even in absence bald jokes still won't escape him
Small detail, but looks like they even got some constellations right, like Taurus and star cluster Pleiades, plus the big dipper. Those are the ones i noticed but I'm sure theres more I missed
12:25
Mark: WHAT IS THAT?
Me: "Its the unmatched power of the sun ociffer"
nice reference
MINIONS!!! MAYBE WE DONT TAKE THE MOON!!!
I don't think whatever that thing was would be shrunk along with the moon
TODAY WE STEAL MARS!!!!! DESTROY ELON MUSK'S DREAM IS THE MOST DESPICABLE THING EVER!!!
@@Pite7419 No you fool, haven't you seen Ghost of Mars?! It's also haunted!
@@Fordo007 oh gosh how could i forget!! Maybe we should steal.... The earth?
@@Pite7419 nah bro this place ain't worth stealing with all the Karen's on it
10:05 i love how he holds on to the meme even after all these years😭
I don't think he holds on to it, I think it just permeated his brain forever
*E*
@@ApDiErkind of like a lobotomy 😭. E is seared into his brain. i bet hes going to be well into retirement telling his caretaker “E… E… E!!!!!”
That scare really worked me over. From the distance popping up until the light I could feel the hairs on my neck standing up and anxious tingles across the bakc of my head. Hoo boy...
mark is in space again
Frisk
Lets hope he doesnt make any more wormholes that he never made
And watching we're with him
@@DaMartian Chara better
We are, once again, in space with markiplier
3:55 "I guess it's not air".... Mark, the moon DOES have an atmosphere... It's just VERY little to the point it's almost a vacuum, oh and it's almost pure helium... So there WOULD be dust floating around on the moon... It would just take a LONG time to resettle properly...
The moon has been there a long time though.
The moon gets hit with a lot of meteors all the time, hence all the craters and all the dust in the air.@@informitas0117
@@informitas0117 The moon's thin atmosphere also makes it so any meteorite regardless of size can strike the surface because they don't burn up, and they kick up more dust when they hit the surface
4:13 ~Space is so-o, coo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ool...~
furry 💀
@@GeneralKenobi69420 nerd
jk but anyways I legit read this as space sol which mean space sun in Spanish and I was like uh yeah the sun is in space???
@@GeneralKenobi69420General Kenobi!
@@GeneralKenobi69420wut 'bout me am I furry
The big head poking over the hill is silly yet terrifying
"Wade is that you?" - got me so hard
got you WHAT? 😰
i freaking can't get enough of this guy. I literally grew up watching him. Love this guy
The president?
Absolutely, the president aka mark aka greatest UA-camr there has ever been.
@@Off_Topic-u3jbomboclattt
The ambulance and when Mark went off the fake moon were the best bits. So funny. The developer clearly isn't a big gamer if they honestly believed no one would explore.
Or maybe they didn't care. If it's a small project I would definitely leave this kinds of things there. You decided to be curious and go off a mile to the wrong direction? No I'm not gonna put a wall there.
I'm the kind of gamer that immediately turns around and tries to do the opposite of what I'm told. It's only fitting the devs decide the prize for my asshattery is falling into the nothingness for eternity.
The ambulance had me wheezing
I feel like this game is just short of being amazing
Like the set-up and the aesthetic is damn near perfect. Having something impersonate your friend to try and get you to stop running, and the fact that you know something is coming for you but you can't tell from where? This is all amazing stuff to pull off in an indie horror game
But the actual scare that it leads up to is just bad. It's a lame and uncharacteristic jump scare, with the very tired indie horror fake-out trope.
The existence of aliens, or whatever these things are, go completely unused outside of seeing them from miles away.
Having good world building doesn't mean anything when it builds up to nothing
God this was lowkey masterful. Feel like it’s up there with Iron Lung and that creator’s work. Something about the “Tranquility. Tranquility.” A few too many times was just enough to be very eerie followed by “Stay where you are”
the one good part. seeing the faces in the distance could've been good, but they were clearly stagnant .PNGs that moved out of the way like powerpoint slides. followed by strange old timey music and a massive glowing light that felt totally disconnected from the perceived threat and then topping it off with a bunch of static scary face images and a puppetcombo screamer was a complete let down.
@@noah.8534 Yeah the end scare was a bit of a letdown. Tho I liked the faces. They were subtle and creepy imo. But that’s pretty subjective.
The buildup and tension are incredible on the first playthrough, but the payoff being a stock spooky face bouncing around your screen with a stock scream sound just completely ruins the ending. The game definitely has massive potential, and if the dev really felt like it they could swap out the ending and faces, and it would be incredible on a first playthrough
@@StillActuallyCharlie Definitely agree with that
Love how his first instinct is to throw himself off the surface of the moon
He just wants to know, if his body can take it 😂
Flat mooners
0:02 December 19, 1972, Mark E
😂
Mark E Moo
Mark finna buy Chuck E. Cheese and call it “mark e cheese”
@@sinedenoskyyou ruined it
Why
I believe that only Apollo 1 had fatalities (the fire on the launch pad tragically killed all 3 astronauts). But all the astronauts in all other Apollo missions, even Apollo 13, survived
The challenger?
Loved the game, kinda feel like it could have been put in a 3 scary games, but i think it was definitely unique enough to be on its own
This was VERY cool~.
Love the atmosphere and the scare too. Not the most frightening thing ever but, I love the tracker showing you how close your pursuer is, how you lose contact with HQ and a fake voice says "Don't move, stand still."
Love the idea of a *secret* moon launch, as if everyone would just ignore the big-ass rockets. Plus that little girl with her telescope would spot them and try to send them Christmas presents.
You underestimate both the vastness of the earth, the vastness of the moon, and overestimate the strength of a basic telescope.
@@arandomcommenter412 Nah, all it took was one little girl with a basic telescope to spot the old guy in his house on the moon.
someone suggested that they were multi-part launches, where you assemble in LEO and boost up, would still be noticed by any space object trackers, but at least there is slightly more plausible deniability there
@@therookiegamer2727 We had really big spy satellites (launched from the space shuttle ) that were un-tracked until they were declassified, its plausible to send a small LEM with enough fuel for a lunar transfer
Something I didn't know about till I heard recently, the worst part of walking on the moon is the razor sharp static clinging dust that can eat through a space suit.
as a person living on the moon, i can confirm somehing bad is on the moon
Is it you? Are you the bad moon object?
as the bad something that lives on the moon i confirm there is nothing here , stay here , youre safe here
As the moon, I can confirm that there is something bad on me. You're probably safe tho.
sorry your neighbors are so noisy. can't imagine how loud that music must be to get heard thousands of miles away
Is your name somehing bad?
Lixian editing in the Ambulance when Mark see's the thing in the hills had me laughing for nearly 5 minutes. I don't know why but that was brilliant lol
4:30 Welp, add this to the list of games that Mark has broken. I also love how the dialogue calls the Apollo 17 landing point "Tranquility Base" when only Apollo 11 landed there. Apollo 17 landed in the Taurus-Littrow Valley.
12:37 y’all this ain’t small this is it 50 MILES AWAY
After letting down (literally) Bob and Wade in Chained together, Mark fled to the moon.
Not all was as it seemed, however.
( 12:20 ) I love when Markiplier goes _"OoHOHHH WHAT IS DAAT? hoOOHH WHAT IS THAAT? OOHOHHH WHAT IS THaAT? Oohhh.. OOhhh..? Hahh?? HHHOOHH... eh.. ooh.. hehe.. HOH... heyy.. hEYA... HaAHHHH.. hehh.. hoHhEY... HEYEHH... HEY! HAA---"_
lmao, perfectly captioned 🤣🤣🤣🤣
underrated
The way youtube is offerin to "translate this [comment] into english" 😭
@@hetaakerman6272 Literally all it does is remove the italicized font. Apparently Italicizing your words means they are no longer in English.
@@koolaid33checkmate, Italians
Jeez, something about the music when that orb steadily got closer and closer was so eerie to me. The sight of the orb, too. I was expecting an immediate ending. But it disappeared. It's a bit too similar to my old hallucinations from when I was a child with too much pressure in my eyes + stress.
I love how whenever I hear about some random indie horror game that I'm interested in looking at but not playing. I can just type it in and Mark already has a video on it.
This is basically the Hills have Eyes, but in space!
i was expecting maybe something like the 1980's film Moontrap.
THE SPACE HAVE EYES
madcom pfp........... icu
mark when he actively tries to break the game: :D
mark when he successfully breaks the game: D:
Lmfao. Also meow is crazy
5:15 the ambulance got me 🤣
8:54
Markiplier's watched The Lighthouse confirmed
4:16 I always knew the Moon was flat!
How many other lies have I been told by the Council?!
@@GalakStariwe can’t trust them anymore. We can only trust Mark and ourselves. Be wary of the Council…
It’s just a jpeg in the sky 🤯
Sigh… 🤦♂️
Ah, Mr. President in the moon, yes.
What is the story behind the 'Mr. President' thing?
This is my favorite comment.
@@back_yard_. Markiplier made a video on his birthday saying he was old enough to become a president now. So Since then people have been calling him Mr. President.
@@alienozomspace9124 Ahh, thanks
Theres nothing that Mr. President cannot do
Nice to hear that an English Cockney is working for NASA in this alternative timeline.
I mean NASA doesn’t exclusively hire Americans
@@jameson1239
True.
but the flight director for the Apollo missions (Eugene krantz) was born in Toledo, Ohio.
So, no Queen's English on the period correct Apollo Coms.
Huh? You mean Sean Cockney?
Some really excellent atmosphere and tension buildup. I honestly forgot about the faces once we stopped seeing them though, they weren't very impactful. The impersonator's speech being juuuust wrong enough to notice was very well-done! Can't say I like the ending at all, though. Sure, it got me, but I just don't like big jumpscares in general... at least this one earned it with the buildup. Other people in the comments bouncing ideas around have some concepts for the end that would make this all around fantastic. Maybe the dev will do more in the future and make something more solid.
The faces in theory are cool, they are there from the start of the game. But you really only notice them because the game keeps telling you previous austronauts kept seeing faces over the hills. It would have worked better if seeing those faces was more organic. Maybe have the player look for something with zoom feature as a part of the gameplay only to have them contemplate if they are seeing faces.
12:45 that's a half-ass jumpscare
Yeah, that's the most disappointing thing about this game. Not only is the image the developer used for the 'alien' a very common scary image that's been floating around on the internet for like a decade now, but all it does is appear and bounce around the visor like the DVD logo, it would've made sense for there to be a real alien that like grabs and kills the player, not some cheap jumpscare. Everything else about this game seemed really cool actually, and the whole concept/idea of a horror game in space is for some reason not used enough, aside from Prey and Dead Space, other games may bring you to space occasionally like Half-Life but it isn't the main ordeal, or some games like DOOM are set in space but DOOM isn't really scary, it's just gory and brutal. Especially on the moon, literally the perfect place to make a horror game, and I can't think of any horror game besides this one that takes place there.
@@koolaid33 There's also (allegedly) a point-and-click horror game set on a space station. It's on steam, and it's by a guy called Script Welder. They made the Don't Escape and Deep Sleep trilogies.
@@koolaid33 you should check out observation. It takes place in space
the lead up was super great and I got chills at certain points but that jumpscare is such a let down:( could’ve been so much cooler if it ended on a high note
That’s true, but honestly fixing the jumpscare is, in my opinion, one of the easiest parts of a horror game to fix. Making an interesting setting, plot, building up dread and distress, that’s the hard part. And the creator nailed the setting and the dread. The creatures on the hills you never see, switching from tracking your distance from the radar to tracking an object 2500 MILES away that’s rapidly approaching…the build up was honestly masterful, I would love to see more from this creator.
That being said, yes the jumpscare is pretty disappointing, but the creator got the harder parts of creating a horror game right!
Me: *sad*
Mark: *posts*
Me: *Happy*
I feel like it’s only fitting that right after turning old enough to run for president he starts playing games about the moon
Damn the buildup was masterful and then the payoff felt like it was made by a middle schooler lmao
"Can we get Creedence Clearwater Revival?"
"We have Creedence Clearwater Revival at home."
Creedence Clearwater Revival at home:
"Something baa-ad is on the moon!"
Was not expecting a CCR reference here.
@@addison_v_ertisement1678Neither was I, but one is always appreciated!
i like to imagine that the person that said that this whole game is a tape they watched to learn of aliens and the tape just has mark in the corner of the screen lmao when i thought that
heres the timestamp for when the game says its a tape 0:15
10:34 i got jump scared by an AD
Sameee
Samee
That’s positively adverted!
4:40 "and so we lost an astronaut because he just ran off"
10:07 was a missed opportunity to us the E meme
This is hands down a terrific horror game. The way it says there's something coming towards you, it's 2250 miles but moves faster than you can & then they say "stay where you are", this was all so good!
Finally! I can watch another Markiplier video to keep my mind off of the miserable existence that we all live in on this unfair and godforsaken corporeal realm of a planet we call Earth.
That’s… oddly specific, but cool
In the vast void of nothingness we call space that will go completely dark in a few billion years after Earth gets swallowed by a massive anomalous ball of hydrogen and oxygen we call the Sun
Uh-hum, president Markiplier
I don't disagree but maybe you need a hug and a cat?
🥰🥰🥰
12:29 "AAA EEE AA OOO" he's singing in a disaster?
12:41 “-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AHAHAHAHAAHAH-“ bro ate an television 💀
Man I never thought I’d see the day he’d play a game about the moon
He played prey moon crash DLC in 2017.
he played To The Moon a long time ago
Distractable joke, Mark hates the Moon
Mark likes space? That's preposterous!
I grew up in Florida during the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions and you can't hide the launch of a Saturn 5, LOL. That said, I'm now ready to suspend my disbelief and get scared. 😱🤣
1:07 The abbreviation is LM, Lunar Module, it was also previously known as the LEM or Lunar Excursion Module (which I think sounds way cooler so I usually call it that)