in one of the other backrooms games spacebar lets out a loud whistle that attracts the monster. guess it takes a particular people to make these kinds of games.
Holy shit this channel has been so good recently; Shadows of Doubt, Co-op Elden Ring, an hour-long World of Horror video and now an over-hour-long riddle bros video?? And the riddle bros video is on literally the only good Backrooms game????
The "opening door" animation is the way it is because you're not looking through Newman's eyes, but through his camera (which he lowers when opening the door). Still derpy though.
Why is the camera being lowered though? He holds up the camera every single second otherwise from what I can tell. Why is he suddenly lowering it just to open a door? Does he not have two arms? If anything I'd expect the camera *angle* to be lowered so it's pointing towards the door handle.
@@A_Ereira Given the time period, the camera is normally going to be mounted on his shoulder and stabilized with both hands. They're pretty heavy units and kind of fragile, so if you take a hand off to do anything you're going to lower the camera first.
The origin of the "almond water" is actually hilarious. Cyanide smells like almonds, so some writers mentioned water smelling like almonds to hint that it was poisoned with cyanide. Other writers didn't get the reference and decided "almond water" must be some sort of mysterious magical liquid, and began making up fantastic origins and effects for it.
Observation, a Sci-Fi horror game, uses a similar filter to great effect (only let down by the presence of human characters with "uncanny valley" faces)
I'm about halfway through the video and it's just been Tom walking around empty rooms and talking about random crap with Simon. 10/10, love this content.
i guess when all the game is, is a spoopy walking simulator, they can REALLY focus on them graphics... they really nailed that whole dream feeling, where surroundings are familiar, but fucked up in some weird way you can't really explain... i think it's even better without any monsters chasing you, just giant funko pop man wondering what you're up to... also, tom, simon, don't look now, but you are NOT alone!
Part of the reason why the door-opening animation looks so odd is that you're playing with the assumption that you're looking through Newman's eyes, but you're actually looking through a camera which is being held at about chest height, and he lowers when he opens doors. it's still a bit of an awkward choice, but it gives a bit more context to it.
The Riddle Bros are back. Any video of Tom with someone else is always a joy. Be it Ben, Simon, Lydia, etc. He just has great comedy with all of them. also, at 41:50; “it definitely won’t still be there”. Famous last words.
Wow. No one mentions the sudden appearance of '3rd researcher' at 3:44 who clearly has a skull face inside his suit? Neither the characters nor the players say anything. This place is crazy and we use at least 2-man teams to explore it. Who is that standing alone ahead of the team that just went in? Eh, probably just Gary. Let's not look too closely. Move along.
Seems more like a mask to match the suit. Also you can see a black edge as they approach the doorway, which seems to be the 3rd guy's glove (i.e. they don't appear from nowhere)
@@Dr.Death8520 I don't mean the 3rd NPC pops into existence. I mean "They show up somewhere they clearly should not be based on the rules the game/world has already established." They are going in as a team of 2 for safety. The NPC is just standing there on it's own the entire time the PC and partner are getting to the objective.
@@FrostedCreations The skull is only up for a dozen frames or so, but even that time was enough for my brain to scream at me to stop and go back because "WTF was up with that NPC's face?!" There isn't really a reason to wear a gas-mask inside a positive-pressure suit. And I have never seen a gas-mask with a triangular nose hole before. But MAYBE that is what it was supposed to be?
Simon may be known as the diggy hole man to most, but to me I’ll always think of him as a comedian. For the Greg’s is common joke alone the man should be remembered.
I think coming up with diggy diggy hole on the spot and the absolutely masterful tone of voice he used for "Oh VERY common." share about equal footing on Simon Lane's greatest achievements.
@@MrSpannners The word common has been historically used by upper-class british folk as a sort of down-the-nose insult for common people, so when she's asking if they're common (as in "are there a lot of them?") he puts on a posh accent and replies. I think the beauty of it is in the fact that theyre already talking about something quintessentially british that most foreign people wouldn't know about, and then he whips out the pun which wouldn't click for a lot of foreign people but every british person will understand. I'm yapping but hopefully this made some sense
@@TehMillionkill I think it also needs to be clarified that yes, there are plenty of Gregses, but it's so funny because they ARE ALSO "for the common folk", as in the food they sell is cheap and lower-end.
After Simon's explanation of the back rooms, it kinda sounds like an SCP (no surprise I suppose) I remember reading about ages ago. Plenty of people have mentioned the infinite IKEA, but the one it reminds me of is the statue recovered from a fortress-city that would create more rooms in whatever house it was in. That one also went wild when somebody tried to hide it, and created a seemingly endless amount of iterations of the same home that got increasingly distorted over time (I think one of the "logs" described climbing a vertical hallway made entirely of jade that had been stretched as if someone had grabbed a corner of the room and ran 2 kilometers away with it). I don't entirely understand why people are so fascinated with the backrooms, but that's probably because I was so into SCP when I was a teen. I guess the ol' SCP-wiki might feel a bit dusty and insular nowadays, so people wanted a new flavour to their weirdness.
afaik backrooms is mostly for people who cant get approve to write for scp, but to be fair scp has evolved into a weird fucking "my scp is classified as alksdjosaif and its the entire u n i v e r s e and obama is a lizard person" thing and i honestly cant be arsed to read any new articles on that website lol, theyre all way too self-important now and site format fuckery, like you have to be a full on web developer to make an scp article nowadays because all that matters is "oooh it feels like a real government database websiteee" when it mostly just looks like cringe 80s/90s "this is the future of computers" stuff
Glad to see others who feel weird towards the fascination with the backrooms as well. Maybe it's because I look at these liminal spaces through a nostalgic lens, like "man, those days are long gone. No more will we see them again" rather than a "oh dear this place goes into a different world filled with spooky things". Nowadays, I can't enjoy these empty places without someone else forcing their scary ideas into the place. I understand the fascination with scary things, but not when they're just "this weird thing runs up to you, screams in your face, then kills you".
@@redv.7686yea, what's up with weird scary things just minding their own business somewhere in the corner and not giving a damn about the protagonist?
SCP 184: The Architect is the one you remember. And while there's a bunch of sub par SCPs, there's a lot of gems nowadays that explore different facets of story telling in general. The days of "spooky monster that kills people and thats kinda it" are gone, and i think that's for the best. The backrooms is clearly a creepypasta by people who had a cool idea for an SCP but couldn't communicate it effectively. Any SCP worth its salt that sends a team of fodder into an extradimensional location always sends the guys in with like a week's worth of rations, basic firearms for self defence, multiple kinds of navigational aids, and some sort of constant communication with base camp (either back in the real world, or a FOB at the entrance). These guys literally just wander in with nothiing
@@redv.7686 The original backrooms was much better IMO. It was just a strange space you noclipped into, it never said anything about monsters other than if you hear "something" walking around you're probably screwed. The new one with all that extra backstory and SCP rejects explains and shows too much so most of the mystery is gone.
I think a game with "the forest" type of gameplay set in the backrooms could be cool. Pulling apart shelves, doors and stuff for material. Monsters etc. I would play that.
Super cool! Drives home to me that most of good horror is just nailing the vibe. The fact that a whole section of it looked like my childhood home's basement definitely added to that 😅
Dude the upstairs in my house is unfinished but we have a couple finished rooms up there that look completely identical to the wood floor room they entered where you could see the ceiling pitch at a weird angle, where in real life it's the roof on the other side. That was trippy
Hey guys, reporting in from the future, I have a comment for you for time stamp 46:30! You're a camera, not a head. The opening door animation is awesome because the guy is putting the camera down for a sec to open the door. We're playing "found footage" and it's great! Edit: I'm pretty sure it's ONLY the camera that fell at the end, and was recovered then played back on the TV monitor you're staring at the whole game. You two like this sort of story-telling so I'm pretty sure you only missed it because you were together having fun ^_^
riddle bros? an hour long video? i think i died and woke up in heaven! JUMP WARNINGS BELOW: 41:10 Barely 54:45 Slight 1:05:15 Slight thats kinda it and none of them are really jumps at all its just more overall spooky
Love this!! Nothing really happened yet I feel so spooked! I love exploring strange places like this, it feels like a bad dream. I actually screamed a little when the interloper showed up. 😅
Its ok Simon, Myself and my wife will never forget you. Its because of your original minecraft series that we spent so many hours talking together in middleschool. We love you man and miss your MC with Lewis series.
Although it's a few years old, I only recently discovered and watched the original Backrooms videos. Now I'm fascinated with liminal space spookums. Well timed, Riddle Bros!
The carousel immediately made me think of devotion. Then I realised how much more fun it was to watch devotion. I think the problem with the backrooms is that the initial concept wears thin fast and there’s nothing underneath, whereas Devotion had a detail-rich environment that told an incredibly moving and well-written story. If your gane idea is ‘AI generared space spooky’ then you immediately run into the truth that AI generated anything boring.
So Simon kind of conflated two different versions of the Backrooms lore. The "an organization wanted to create infinite housing" thing comes from Kane Pixels' "The Backrooms" video series (he's the guy who's making the licensed Backrooms movie for iirc Blumhouse, and also recently started a new series "The Oldest View"), and in his version (so far) there are only two known 'levels', the Suburbs and the Office Complex (the classic yellow walls, fluorescent light hum, damp carpet). Then (actually predating Kane's version) there's the Wiki/4chan version, which is the one with the thousands of levels with different themes and effects. Those are two different unrelated things. (And don't even get me started on the knockoffs of Kane Pixels' version, such as the unofficial, as far as I know - and almost 100% certainly, because it uses monsters from other media like Trevor Henderson's "Siren Head" - "ASync Research" UA-cam channel) EDIT: Correction, 3-4 known layers in Kane Pixels' Backrooms, the two I mentioned plus the 'unsettling house' and the 'Holiday Inn London Airport'.
Had to pause very early to make sure I heard correctly. Simon "Give Honeydew 46 64" "Diggy hole man" Lane got upset at Tom for cheating in minecraft? Truly a changed dwarf.
I checked to see what the speedruns for this game were after they mentioned 30 minutes and still being on the first level and I was shocked how fast it was, it was sub 23 minutes.
riddle bros return! praise be! always love the banter these bring. interesting game, less spooky but definitely a "wouldnt it be fucked if this happened".
I looked all over the place and I found out that the game is The Complex: Expedition. It is made by the same people who made The Complex: Found Footage and they're both on steam :)
The scariest part is that someone picked space-bar as the torch button. You could be sat next to them on the train and you'd never know!
Even worse, Tom actually orders prawn crackers from a Chinese 🫣
"You'll never know the psychopath sittin' next to you"
in one of the other backrooms games spacebar lets out a loud whistle that attracts the monster.
guess it takes a particular people to make these kinds of games.
Holy shit this channel has been so good recently; Shadows of Doubt, Co-op Elden Ring, an hour-long World of Horror video and now an over-hour-long riddle bros video??
And the riddle bros video is on literally the only good Backrooms game????
We need a Fromsoft backrooms game
And here I thought the Roblox game Shrek in the backrooms was the best one
Dont forget mystery quest! Some of the best content so far in my opinion
It's been back to back gold
@@lysetsfyrste lol I've been watching the Mystery Quest videos religiously, no idea how I forgot them
The "opening door" animation is the way it is because you're not looking through Newman's eyes, but through his camera (which he lowers when opening the door). Still derpy though.
Yup, was looking for this comment... was going to say, it's a separate camera that I guess they didn't pick up on at 5:05
Jerry?? Are you in here? -Newman
Hello... Newman.
Why is the camera being lowered though? He holds up the camera every single second otherwise from what I can tell. Why is he suddenly lowering it just to open a door? Does he not have two arms? If anything I'd expect the camera *angle* to be lowered so it's pointing towards the door handle.
@@A_Ereira Given the time period, the camera is normally going to be mounted on his shoulder and stabilized with both hands. They're pretty heavy units and kind of fragile, so if you take a hand off to do anything you're going to lower the camera first.
The origin of the "almond water" is actually hilarious. Cyanide smells like almonds, so some writers mentioned water smelling like almonds to hint that it was poisoned with cyanide. Other writers didn't get the reference and decided "almond water" must be some sort of mysterious magical liquid, and began making up fantastic origins and effects for it.
Yea, anytime i hear almond water or something smells of almonds, I think cyanide.
That VHS effect strangely makes this the most "photorealistic" game i've ever seen. Large portions of this looks real.
Totally agree! I could've mistaken a section of it for a photo of my childhood home's basement
Observation, a Sci-Fi horror game, uses a similar filter to great effect (only let down by the presence of human characters with "uncanny valley" faces)
I was 100% on board with Toms logic of “they showed the monster moving, there’s no way it’s still there” and I nearly died when he still was
"it's horrible how it almost feels like a snuff movie or something" -simon "diggy hole man" "honeydew" lane, snuff film expert
There's a reason he knows so much about digging holes
I like to think of him as 'Simon "Diggy Diggy" Lane'.
I love Tom and Simon collabs!!!!!!! I rewatch all the Cthulhu play through all the time!!!
A man of fine taste.
I´m rewatching all their Horror and "Horror" Game playthroughs all the time. Its like comfort food for me.
Literally best duo .also yeh the cthulhu play through is awesome 👍
@@gemodorgon and culture
I think Tom & Simon playing Dark Pictures style games are my favourite things on UA-cam.
YESSSSSS THE RIDDLE BROS!
hoping for a wooden boy appearance
The real wooden boy was the friends we made along the way.
"What naan are you getting?"
This is the peak Riddle Bros experience right here.
Oh that beginning music brings up some real Sinking City nostalgia
Did we ever find out the name of the tune?
@@mstchmshrms9214 Detective Work by V.V. Campos
@@mstchmshrms9214 Detective Work by Gunnar Johnsen from a Scotland Yard boardgamr or something
its detective work by v.v. campos@@mstchmshrms9214
Someone did on one of the Sinking City videos. Probably one of the latter ones@@mstchmshrms9214
I'm about halfway through the video and it's just been Tom walking around empty rooms and talking about random crap with Simon. 10/10, love this content.
Oh my god 1hr of Tom and Simon, This is a dream come true.
Basically just get to listen to them talk shit the whole time, I love it.
That running animation kept reminding me of "Lose her lunch" Lydia
i guess when all the game is, is a spoopy walking simulator, they can REALLY focus on them graphics... they really nailed that whole dream feeling, where surroundings are familiar, but fucked up in some weird way you can't really explain... i think it's even better without any monsters chasing you, just giant funko pop man wondering what you're up to... also, tom, simon, don't look now, but you are NOT alone!
god the "made by a single man" line just filled me with nostalgia
Waited a long time for the Riddle Bros to be back 🥳
Part of the reason why the door-opening animation looks so odd is that you're playing with the assumption that you're looking through Newman's eyes, but you're actually looking through a camera which is being held at about chest height, and he lowers when he opens doors. it's still a bit of an awkward choice, but it gives a bit more context to it.
I loved the immediate switch from loving the ballroom to hating it. Perfect timing
The Riddle Bros are back. Any video of Tom with someone else is always a joy. Be it Ben, Simon, Lydia, etc. He just has great comedy with all of them.
also, at 41:50; “it definitely won’t still be there”. Famous last words.
0:27 Not only do we get the Riddle Bros back, we also get a teaser for Tom and Simon back in Minecraft?
I’m guessing it’s the Gartic Phone series, but I hope it’s more.
27:00 Simon taking us back to one of my favorite YogPods
Wow. No one mentions the sudden appearance of '3rd researcher' at 3:44 who clearly has a skull face inside his suit?
Neither the characters nor the players say anything.
This place is crazy and we use at least 2-man teams to explore it.
Who is that standing alone ahead of the team that just went in?
Eh, probably just Gary. Let's not look too closely. Move along.
It does look like a skull but I assumed it was maybe a gas mask since no-one reacts
Seems more like a mask to match the suit. Also you can see a black edge as they approach the doorway, which seems to be the 3rd guy's glove (i.e. they don't appear from nowhere)
@@Dr.Death8520 I don't mean the 3rd NPC pops into existence. I mean "They show up somewhere they clearly should not be based on the rules the game/world has already established."
They are going in as a team of 2 for safety.
The NPC is just standing there on it's own the entire time the PC and partner are getting to the objective.
@@FrostedCreations The skull is only up for a dozen frames or so, but even that time was enough for my brain to scream at me to stop and go back because "WTF was up with that NPC's face?!"
There isn't really a reason to wear a gas-mask inside a positive-pressure suit. And I have never seen a gas-mask with a triangular nose hole before. But MAYBE that is what it was supposed to be?
I don't see a skull, it looks more like a ventilator (like in the Avatar movie). It is weird that Greg is just A-posing alone though.
The camera movement makes it feel like a home video, really cool vibes
The ending shot seemed like a callback to the ending from *_Cloverfield_* which especially emphasizes that found footage style.
Good god, Lydia would probably perish from the combination of Tom's signature camera work and the built-in wobble.
Has anyone else noticed that whenever anyone describes drinking from the toilet they always describe going to the bowl, and not the tank?
Or even better; Flushing the toilet and using the inlet like a drinking fountain.
Tom at 1:06:52 is where you started its the section you 1st crawled under, they must of blocked it off as unsafe when they lost contact with you
A riddle bros video and it’s over an hour!!! Genuinely so happy rn!
Lydia’s really let herself go
She’s never looked better
I’m pretty sure Lydia would be dead if she were there watching this game with all the camera movement.
she takes good care of her beard tho
Simon may be known as the diggy hole man to most, but to me I’ll always think of him as a comedian. For the Greg’s is common joke alone the man should be remembered.
I think coming up with diggy diggy hole on the spot and the absolutely masterful tone of voice he used for "Oh VERY common." share about equal footing on Simon Lane's greatest achievements.
I have seen that clip so many times and still don't understand the Greg's joke. Can I get an explain?
@@MrSpannners The word common has been historically used by upper-class british folk as a sort of down-the-nose insult for common people, so when she's asking if they're common (as in "are there a lot of them?") he puts on a posh accent and replies. I think the beauty of it is in the fact that theyre already talking about something quintessentially british that most foreign people wouldn't know about, and then he whips out the pun which wouldn't click for a lot of foreign people but every british person will understand. I'm yapping but hopefully this made some sense
@@TehMillionkill I think it also needs to be clarified that yes, there are plenty of Gregses, but it's so funny because they ARE ALSO "for the common folk", as in the food they sell is cheap and lower-end.
@@vegladex dunno about the cheap swear a flat white is like 2 quid now
Mystery Quest and Riddle Bros are back. The absolute dream.
After Simon's explanation of the back rooms, it kinda sounds like an SCP (no surprise I suppose) I remember reading about ages ago. Plenty of people have mentioned the infinite IKEA, but the one it reminds me of is the statue recovered from a fortress-city that would create more rooms in whatever house it was in. That one also went wild when somebody tried to hide it, and created a seemingly endless amount of iterations of the same home that got increasingly distorted over time (I think one of the "logs" described climbing a vertical hallway made entirely of jade that had been stretched as if someone had grabbed a corner of the room and ran 2 kilometers away with it).
I don't entirely understand why people are so fascinated with the backrooms, but that's probably because I was so into SCP when I was a teen. I guess the ol' SCP-wiki might feel a bit dusty and insular nowadays, so people wanted a new flavour to their weirdness.
afaik backrooms is mostly for people who cant get approve to write for scp, but to be fair scp has evolved into a weird fucking "my scp is classified as alksdjosaif and its the entire u n i v e r s e and obama is a lizard person" thing and i honestly cant be arsed to read any new articles on that website lol, theyre all way too self-important now and site format fuckery, like you have to be a full on web developer to make an scp article nowadays because all that matters is "oooh it feels like a real government database websiteee" when it mostly just looks like cringe 80s/90s "this is the future of computers" stuff
Glad to see others who feel weird towards the fascination with the backrooms as well. Maybe it's because I look at these liminal spaces through a nostalgic lens, like "man, those days are long gone. No more will we see them again" rather than a "oh dear this place goes into a different world filled with spooky things".
Nowadays, I can't enjoy these empty places without someone else forcing their scary ideas into the place. I understand the fascination with scary things, but not when they're just "this weird thing runs up to you, screams in your face, then kills you".
@@redv.7686yea, what's up with weird scary things just minding their own business somewhere in the corner and not giving a damn about the protagonist?
SCP 184: The Architect is the one you remember. And while there's a bunch of sub par SCPs, there's a lot of gems nowadays that explore different facets of story telling in general. The days of "spooky monster that kills people and thats kinda it" are gone, and i think that's for the best.
The backrooms is clearly a creepypasta by people who had a cool idea for an SCP but couldn't communicate it effectively. Any SCP worth its salt that sends a team of fodder into an extradimensional location always sends the guys in with like a week's worth of rations, basic firearms for self defence, multiple kinds of navigational aids, and some sort of constant communication with base camp (either back in the real world, or a FOB at the entrance). These guys literally just wander in with nothiing
@@redv.7686 The original backrooms was much better IMO. It was just a strange space you noclipped into, it never said anything about monsters other than if you hear "something" walking around you're probably screwed. The new one with all that extra backstory and SCP rejects explains and shows too much so most of the mystery is gone.
I love Tom so much that I have just watched over one hour of empty corridors footage for him.
Simon's idea of a layer dedicated to institutional hostile architecture seems very on brand for this
A game so terrifying they started talking about food allergies 😁 love this, keep it up!
over an hour of riddle bros? my prayers have been answered amen
Josh starting out with the fun Simon Lane edit and then getting the well-earned call-out from Tom. Thanks for all your excellent work!!
The comedic timing in the Ball Room was perfect
We can never forget you Simon. Hell your collabs with Tom are what got me hooked on his channel
This is so quintessentially British, playing a horror game whilst having a delightful chat about delicious takeaway foods.
They open the doors like that because your pov isn't the character's head, it's the camera they're holding
Love the detective music in the intro/outro! Reminds me of the Sinking City playthrough, so good!
I love the yogpod spacktacular callback with the coffee machine SCP
Tom and Chauncey, back at it again!
They solved the Torch Button Riddle and the 'hug the left wall' Riddle!
Not only am I incredibly unsettled, I'm now absolutely starving. Thanks Riddle Bros!
Watching Tom and Spooky Simon playing weird little horror games like this always feels so cozy.
When the world needed them the most… they returned
Gotta love some spooky Riddle Bros action!
Spooky sexy riddle boy on riddle boy action!
Amazing, been wanting a riddle bros thing for a while :]
Man, I think a riddle bros comeback would cure my depression
I think a game with "the forest" type of gameplay set in the backrooms could be cool. Pulling apart shelves, doors and stuff for material. Monsters etc. I would play that.
Super cool! Drives home to me that most of good horror is just nailing the vibe. The fact that a whole section of it looked like my childhood home's basement definitely added to that 😅
Dude the upstairs in my house is unfinished but we have a couple finished rooms up there that look completely identical to the wood floor room they entered where you could see the ceiling pitch at a weird angle, where in real life it's the roof on the other side. That was trippy
Hey guys, reporting in from the future, I have a comment for you for time stamp 46:30!
You're a camera, not a head. The opening door animation is awesome because the guy is putting the camera down for a sec to open the door.
We're playing "found footage" and it's great!
Edit: I'm pretty sure it's ONLY the camera that fell at the end, and was recovered then played back on the TV monitor you're staring at the whole game. You two like this sort of story-telling so I'm pretty sure you only missed it because you were together having fun ^_^
Man I'm happy I had a burger around to eat while watching this video, with all that food talk.
Honestly, I'm quite impressed with the Riddle Bros knowledge of Indian cuisine.
Tom and simon, one of the best yogs duo
They're pretty hard to top. Lewis and Simon and Tom and Ben are the only ones I can think that do.
@@MrSpannners OG Lewis and Simon before Lewis' mental breakdown.
@@skarloeythomas5172before he became a weird vegan hipster wimp
riddle bros? an hour long video?
i think i died and woke up in heaven!
JUMP WARNINGS BELOW:
41:10 Barely
54:45 Slight
1:05:15 Slight
thats kinda it and none of them are really jumps at all its just more overall spooky
High five for listing out the timestamps. Always an appreciated service.
ur a saint, ty!
Seeing those funko pop looking dudes just take me back to watching top scary videos, forcing that man to eat some noodles/soup
Yeah blank room soup! I was wondering if anyone else thought of that too
You can only drink the toilet water in the backrooms if it tastes like almonds.
If this kind of content is coming back on a semi regular basis, the recent Sherlock Holmes: the Awakened game would be right up their street
So good. The Tom and Simon collabs are my absolute favorite. More please!!!
More Riddle Bros, please!
Struggled to get through that but glad I did. The Backrooms are great but sometimes can be a right old chore
Happy to see the riddle bros back at it. You and Simon have such a good dynamic and it's always entertaining to watch ^^
I WAS. about to go to sleep but now I'm compelled to watch this first.
29:29 exactly what happened
Nobody could ever forget Simon, guys a beacon of light 💡
BAM THEY'RE BACK!!!
Tom and Simon are always a treat! Love the banter!
Love this!! Nothing really happened yet I feel so spooked! I love exploring strange places like this, it feels like a bad dream. I actually screamed a little when the interloper showed up. 😅
Its ok Simon, Myself and my wife will never forget you. Its because of your original minecraft series that we spent so many hours talking together in middleschool. We love you man and miss your MC with Lewis series.
I love you guys! I hope we get to see more Riddle Bros!
Although it's a few years old, I only recently discovered and watched the original Backrooms videos. Now I'm fascinated with liminal space spookums. Well timed, Riddle Bros!
The carousel immediately made me think of devotion. Then I realised how much more fun it was to watch devotion. I think the problem with the backrooms is that the initial concept wears thin fast and there’s nothing underneath, whereas Devotion had a detail-rich environment that told an incredibly moving and well-written story. If your gane idea is ‘AI generared space spooky’ then you immediately run into the truth that AI generated anything boring.
They nailed that AI weirdness that makes you slightly uneasy.
So Simon kind of conflated two different versions of the Backrooms lore. The "an organization wanted to create infinite housing" thing comes from Kane Pixels' "The Backrooms" video series (he's the guy who's making the licensed Backrooms movie for iirc Blumhouse, and also recently started a new series "The Oldest View"), and in his version (so far) there are only two known 'levels', the Suburbs and the Office Complex (the classic yellow walls, fluorescent light hum, damp carpet). Then (actually predating Kane's version) there's the Wiki/4chan version, which is the one with the thousands of levels with different themes and effects. Those are two different unrelated things. (And don't even get me started on the knockoffs of Kane Pixels' version, such as the unofficial, as far as I know - and almost 100% certainly, because it uses monsters from other media like Trevor Henderson's "Siren Head" - "ASync Research" UA-cam channel)
EDIT: Correction, 3-4 known layers in Kane Pixels' Backrooms, the two I mentioned plus the 'unsettling house' and the 'Holiday Inn London Airport'.
Yay! The riddle bros are back! And I've just finished rewatching Witch Hunt too :D
very nice touch that the player camera is an actual camera, that the player is carrying around
over an hour of riddle bros?!
incredible
a halloween miracle
Had to pause very early to make sure I heard correctly. Simon "Give Honeydew 46 64" "Diggy hole man" Lane got upset at Tom for cheating in minecraft? Truly a changed dwarf.
very happy to see the return of the Riddle bros
I HAVE MISSED THIS SO MUCH RIDDLE BROS FOR LIFE
Not being able to trust the ground is some kind of A Catcher in the Rye stuff
Sooooo this is what the memes were all about, I now know thanks old man and beard man
Yay! More Riddle Bros! Some of my favorite content of all time
Oh my god! Riddle bros we love you!
I love watching the Riddle Bros together! Miss ya Simon.
Always love a good riddle bros episode!
Almond water..? Isn't cyanide sometimes described as having a slight almondy quality to it? :D Glad to see Simon back again with Tom! Classic duo.
"But all your friends wear Cool Kids shoes, son!"
NOBODY wears Cool Kids shoes, mum.
"That's right, son..."
That giant... thing... looked like the weird mascot costumes from "Blank Room Soup.avi"...
Love when you guys try horror games, you have good taste in them
I checked to see what the speedruns for this game were after they mentioned 30 minutes and still being on the first level and I was shocked how fast it was, it was sub 23 minutes.
So great to see you and Chauncey together again Tom!
The Riddle Bros poster edit is top notch
The Riddle Bros? Over 1 hour episode? The fricking Sinking City Intro music? I have to change my underwear...
I haven't watched a single second of this I'm just listening to Simon and Tom's conversation
Wohoo, they're back! Have been holding off on watching this game in hopes y'all would explore it!
riddle bros return! praise be! always love the banter these bring.
interesting game, less spooky but definitely a "wouldnt it be fucked if this happened".
The scariest part about this game is trying to find the real version searching around for it.
I looked all over the place and I found out that the game is The Complex: Expedition. It is made by the same people who made The Complex: Found Footage and they're both on steam :)