REACTOR - Stylish Sci-Fi Horror Game with a Happy AI Buddy Who Helps You Research an Alien Lifeform!
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- REACTOR - Stylish Sci-Fi Horror Game with a Happy AI Buddy Who Helps You Research an Alien Lifeform!
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I'm sad now :(
Feelsbadman
sadge
This felt as sad as it was horrific. I felt bad that you, the player, wasn't fast enough to escape, but I feel even more sad for L.O.L.A., that was just the AI.
It's sad that they didn't even noticed the body of the protagonist and even thought that they were on a different planet
Yeah. She showed genuine concern when the lifeform almost hurt the main character and when she was losing her free will and suffering from memory loss.
@@jhonnoilcringeincarnato8593 And that body was left trapped in the strange fauna for millennia, as the protagonist is left to be stuck until he passes away.
Bruh I always see these top comments spoiling the game even when didn’t press comments
damn this guy can't get a break, first their wife divorces them and now their AI wife gets taken over.
I think it's really interesting how everything but the AI is black and white. It kind of gives me that feel that the AI is the only thing that gives "chuck" some kind of semblance of normal. It actually made me think and wonder if we would end up with AI's as a second companion because no one else is there. It doesn't seem like a new concept but this game just made me think about it some more.
The base should have had more plant life, besides the single one in the middle. Humans like a natural environment. There are different ways to make things more comfortable when you're stuck on a lonely gray rock for a year.
I always thought that would be an obvious step in human advancement; imagine a world where you're never alone and you have an artificial "mirror" entity that perfectly matches all of your tastes, behaviours and fits your ideal partner perfectly. You'd never be lonely, you'd have a best friend, life partner and lover all rolled into one. Everyone would have one. No-one would ever be alone.
A horror game revolving around someone losing this soul mate / partner, or their mysterious disappearances leading to alien / eldritch / biomechanical / whatever mutations happening to people that could set up something pretty shocking and disturbing.
I flip between robots with sentient A.I. or otherworldly "guardian angels" / "higher selves" being the best candidate for such a setting.
Imagine you're born into a world where your higher self is tangible and there to keep you company, has done since the day you were born, then one day other people's start disappearing with no reason or warning and they begin to... _transfigure..._
@@Brandon-1996 Yeah. And the strange red entity was the only thing other than L.O.L.A. that showed any kind of colour, but not the happy kind, sadly.
Where I live, care centres for the elderly have experimented with giving robotic pets out to residents and have noted an increase in mood (And suspected increase in life expectancy because of improved mood). And that's just the result of having a robot around that resembles a baby animal like a dolphin which can only wag its tail and make a few cutesy noises every now and then. So it's not a foreign concept :)
I really like LOLA. It doesn't happen often that an AI isn't evil and is likable at the same time.
I didn't read "horror" in the title and was completely caught off guard by that ominous intro.
Alien Blob monster destroyed and tainted Artificial Intelligence GF, ANGRY.
GO GET EM BRO
GO GET EM, DRIFTER
i haven’t even gone to the scary part but i imagine the ai is gonna betray you because there’s not a single sci-fi horror that doesn’t involve an ai betraying you
It would be much more scarier if the AI tried everything to save you and then it apologizes
@@Monarch_Prime it would be much sadder
MOON subverted that trope really well.
I forgot where I read it, but there is a story about a robot who dismantled its human friend because he is sick.
The robot thinks he can just replace human's body part just like robot. More sad/tragic than horror.
@@hafirenggayuda broooo what is it
Why do these childish horror games... work so damn well? It was like the game submission 2 days ago. Squiggly killing a donkey in a church under a :-) Sun.
Seriously WTF?
I think a lot of them are inspired by games like pony island, as that seemed like a pretty innocent puzzle game at first, but then it had some really strange horror elements later on.
I guess the bait and switch never gets old.
Those primitive art style tricks your brain to see hidden meanings that's not really there. And horror is all about connecting the dots.
Submission was awesome
That's the theme of DreadX 3: spoopy (cute/spooky) horror games.
I kinda wish she stayed helpful throughout the entirety of the game. It would have been more unexpected, and she could have been the one to call the rescue crew at the end! Even if it was too late.
Agreed, I hate this "AI on other planet bad" trope that's somehow become so common.
That would’ve been a great plot twist
@@combineshotgunsoldier7761 Moon is great because the AI is confronted with a very difficult set of conflicting orders but chooses to help the protagonist anyway
@@windermelon9567 Where can you find it?
Did you miss the fact the AI got corrupted by the alien life form? Is not the same than a "evil AI" situation.
I just imagine the ai saying something like; I'm going to eat your brains, sorry about that! I had a malfunction...error.
Too predictable
Its just malfunction
The enemy design would have worked better if they hadn't gone too far to make it traditionally "scary." For instance, logic dictates that whoever built this robot must have deliberately designed an angry fang mouth icon to show that it's angry. It would have been better to have this alien possessed robot going after you while maintaining a cheery face and voice.
You know what scares the shite outta people? Children's laughter.
There is nothing cuter than a child laughing.
But in the right context, makes the hairs stand up on the back of the neck.
Exactly. I think that the possesed AI chasing the player down while keeping the same cheerful voice and appearance would've been much more unsettling
It's possible that it had that face in order to cow intruders or misbehaving occupants. It's also possible that it generates its own faces and the lifeform made it generate a few that it wouldn't have otherwise.
Disagree. It would have been cliche. The creepy child's laughter thing has been done to death. I loved the sort of loopy no-nonsense British voice with the pink gnashing teeth. Worked far better for me (but that's just my personal opinion).
The child laughter thing was just just an example I think
As for logic, the meltdown wouldn't have happened, and we would have escaped under logic.
Fusion/Arc reactors just stop and cease to function on them being damaged. They don't 'meltdown', just overheat and stop reacting.
Which means, the alien would have had no energy to grow and encase the planet, like in the ending where they got an entire bomb's worth of energy (and even uranium reactors don't go off like a bomb, it's heat and steam with radioactive waste).
We could have lived and escaped
I love the implication that the mental health AI who fell in love with its patient is the reason this guy signed on for 20 more years of this. After all, its a field therapist AI. He's gotta be in the field for her to take care of him
Thought this was a sci fi horror game with a stylish ai companion.
*Same*
*Same*
I just started it and now I’m scared, is it not a sci fi horror game with a stylish ai companion??
@@Browneyedbakedpotato theres a alien parasite wich alters and consumes objects ,it alters the bot
Its just sad tbh
I know in my bones the lil AI pal is gonna go evil, but dammit I have known her for all of 5 minutes and I already love her.
Me at the start of the video: okay, this is going to be a "friendly helper robot is secretly evil" game, isn't it
Me five minutes in: If anything bad happens to Lola I'm going to destroy everyone in this room and then myself
Already done in-game.
With that style of emote and voice
I thought it's gonna say "konnichiwa"
This ain't japan, and just because it's emotes and styled AI voice doesn't mean this is going to be vocaloid, get over it weeb
Lol did i put a bad comment or something?
Ah yeah you're right
@Jackson Tripi well it’s robot a non organic being and therefore has no gender but has characteristics associated with femininity
I like the artstyle and the music of this game, and the ending somewhat reminds me of short cosmic horror story "The Creeping Mold" given how quickly it grew. I agree with the notion that the angry face at the end was overkill though, especially for reasons of in-universe logic. I also have to wonder how the pilot at the end noticed absolutely nothing amiss even if the base was gone.
Yeah, it was odd that their response was just "this isn't a desert planet, we must have the wrong coordinates". Not going to remark on how weird it is that everything's covered in meat? Is "meat planet" a documented astrogeological phenomenon in this setting, common enough that nobody finds it worth mentioning?
And how the reactor wouldn't go off with a bomb and give it infinite energy to kill us and encase the planet.
It wouldnt even meltdown, regardless if it was an arc reactor like the name said, or uranium.
@@bloodstormwolf9512 Yeah, from little I "know", an even remotely futuristic reactor would just shutdown instead of suffering a catastrophic, explosive meltdown. That part at least I will handwave, however, given modern fiction seems *always* to get that wrong and given it could have been something alien lifeform, malfunctioning A.I., or even the company cutting corners did.
This guy wants to stay on some hell hole planet instead of going back to Portland, lol
🤣
Understandable, lesser of two hellholes.
Portland? Ok, yea. Completely understandable.
Yeah no you don't want to come back yet.
Lmao understandable.
I actually like how it ends! very eerie !
Poor AI. She really loved him.
yep also Alien Parasite infected A.I Robot girl is very painful scream beg shut down CPU ;-;
"happy AI buddy"
*Something is wrong, i can feel it*
EDIT : SPOILER
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Jesus fucking christ, its the Assimilator alien type (like the movie Annihilation) but more OP as it can take over AI
You know your life sucks when you'd pick an isolated position with a robot rather than go back to your wife and kids.
Or you know, dream job and money
I love how the reactor buddy is the only color in the game.
And the red alien in the meteor
@@thepillarmen2960 and the door button
so, the protag got stuck working in that lone observation post for a very long time with just a friendly helpful ai buddy as companion.
no wonder protag only sees gray colors everywhere. except the ai buddy's purple face due to it being the only lively thing close by for who knows how long.
then the unknown and suspiciously dangerous alien element invades. and turning every colors into red haze of madness & hate.
no happy endings here.
I know that the reason why it showed a body at the end was to show us that the meltdown didnt work (although the entire planet being red was proof enough of that) but i guess it did destroyed the base since the rescue ship didnt find it, if the base was destroyed shouldnt the body be destroyed too? I know that i am overthinking this since its a 10 days game but i still wanted to comment about it.
Eh probly before the explosion reached him the alien has already covered his entire body?
Probably just that the astronaut got to a survivable distance when the reactor exploded. Any tiny bit of the organism that survived would be able to expand until it eventually consumed him, regardless of whether it attached to his suit during the escape.
I think the sheer heat caused by the explosion made the organism grow at extreme rates
Although, aren't arc reactors unable to explode? They just sorta shut down.
There could’ve just been more in the meteor that spreaded out
@@bloodstormwolf9512 That’s what got me as well. It should’ve just shut down, not melted down.
Book: Trust your AI!
Me: Now I'm not gonna do it >:(
*When the night is dark and you fear the monsters around, remember this one thing:*
:)
🔫🍌
Banana gun.
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Maybe
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I think this was masterfully done, the soundtrack perfectly sets the atmosphere of dread and urgency, and ending on a cliffhanger was a nice touch. Would love this to be fleshed our in a longer format and more detailed worldbuilding, although this itself shines as a finished product.
2:53 Him:*Remembers wife left*
*looks at robot*
Also him: "I'm bouta risk it all"
I had to remind myself that the robot didn't really wanna hurt you. They told us to purge them, so it was the parasite that made em hurt us... right?
Man the tension throughout the game really was different.. I just knew something would happen to poor LOLA, and somehow I cared for the AI despite bring initially put off by her behavior at the beginning
It’s slightly unnerving how the robot’s head always rotates to face you and can be in so many places at once, even if it makes perfect sense
Love the art style, reminds me of notepad and 90's black and white photos
Is it weird how I felt more sorry for the AI than for our main character?
Yes
nah
Yeah. She was probably screaming while possessed.
She's cute; he doesn't talk or express himself. : ' )
For a moment, I thought the title says Happy Al Bundy.
and thats how the nether was made
it's a good game, but I'm so sick of the evil AI trope
I was expecting something more like the movie Moon tbh, where the AI stays helpful while other things happen
The AI wasn’t evil you goober, it was obvious she was trying to fight that weird red organism that became attached to her.
@@ceoofceos5219 for a bit, but it didn't look to me like she kept resisting
@@demonbot6617 I’m saying that this is less of the evil A.I trope and more of the Alien Parasite trope
@Jackson Tripi Exactly.
they should've built a more secure lab for new samples
yes
24:19, At the last frame there was a spooky face.
Who knows what she mean under "I call shotgun"?
4:49
Usually refers to having the seat next to the driver seat
I love this channel so much. No extra thing, and just jumps into game
" You're such a great driver! "
Is literally driving at an angle
“This is so sad, Alexa pla- oh wait...”
So do you come into these games knowing what to do what its about or do you just grab a game and hit record be you start
Think theres edits if it takes ages on puzzles
Definitelly he walks like he knows what he is doing, which it "may" seems he record the game during second playtrough. But, it could be that he does edit on over some parts where he is stuck for longer than expected.
@@sportakus3 that makes sense I know I almost fucking die on these
2:46 Single frame of red with a skull face, usure of significance but it was real hard to catch.
7:00 another flash, same image, single frame.
The part when that AI buddy went rouge made me feel sad. It reminds me of Void Terrarium, where two AIs loyal to mankind ultimately destroyed each other. Such a tragedy that while their modus operandi are different, they both meant the best to us, and the more laid-back AI is very adorable as well
Of all the games in the Dread X collection, I like this game the most. It's stylishly made, graphics are simple yet captivatingly beautiful. And the music effectively builds up the sense of impending doom as the game progresses. Kind of expected that the environment and the AI will take a turn for the worse and turn on you. But the fateful journey as a space astronaut in a foreign and unknown planet is just amazing.
I particularly like the AI, with its pink emoji face and it doing half-squats while conversing with you.
It's that Depeche Mode video growth
Eh. Looks more like that one robot from smile, Doctor who.
Cute robot, might die alongside it in some major virus outbreak that ruins the AI and corrupts the planet itself
I wanna hug LOLA!
Question is...why man even needed to be on this station? AI registered meteor itself and extracted sample without any help or command to do. I pretty sure it would drive baggy to crash-site too without problem.
In the end they’ve called the same robot actor who voiced SHODAN in system shock
There is a very precise frame at 2:46 that shows a pretty spooky image. Time your pause with the "safe-TY" part of the sentence.
fusion reactions don't cause a massive overload when they fail, they fizzle out and are nowhere near as volatile as fission reactions
When the main character doesnt run even when the reactor is literally melting down as the controls and main systems were shutdown while it is unstable
2:46 fking hell I knew I saw something
Colours left from chat:)
True
green, pink and red: bruh
Ooh. That Dies Irae in the beginning makes no bones about what this game really is.
You know it's going to be a good game when ABG calls it stylish.
This reminds me of the movie called "life"
Simple low poly game that schools modern games and shits on it.
This kinda gave me POD (Planet of Death) vibes...at least in some aspects.
I liked the implication that Chuck left his wife for the AI, it made the corruption that much more of a gut punch
Is the music released anywhere for download or purchase? It is excellent.
That station would need three, full-time light bulb replacement technicians.
It seems more just sad than horrifying (Especially the ending)
I can't even begin to comprehend how horrible it must've been for Lola when she turned on the player though
Which by the way, it's surprising how similar her "face" is to my icon
Infact she even reminds me of the superintendent from Halo 3 ODST (Which my icon is based on)
Guess it just goes to show how often AIs have similar "faces"
Damn interesting,and thanks for finding this game!
No commentary, good play through, and interesting games I’ve never seen? You sir have a new subscriber. I’m going to actually watch the adds in your videos so you get full revenue for it?
damn rip my dude
19:38
Oh hello SHODAN, its been a while.
I dig the artstyle
RIP Lola :(
;-; Alien Parasite Infects Robot girl is very painful scream will beg Shut Down CPU
This game was very nice.. simple but with nice atmosphere.
The ending was wow..
Want more rogue ai/robot games like this and Sato Wonderland, ngl
music is ominous and one 👨🚀 and one 🤖. Only 2 on planet🌚. Am I one odd about this??
I wonder what's the meaning of the one-frame jumpscare at 2:46.
what jumpscare?
@@vamppanic you need to go frame-by-frame using the . and , buttons on your keyboard. The screen flashes red for a moment, that's the frame you need to look at. It looks like a skull on a red background, fairly scary if you don't expect it.
Probably to give you an image of the impeding doom. Also the skull may represent the protagonist fate
Hope the developers add more endings
I really want a Good one
23:27 I CAN'T FUCKING TAKE IT ANYMORE
So fair the only other colour I seen is pink and I hope it stays that way
The AI is always evil, or at least ends up evil.
It would not if the alien has no parasite ability in the first place
4:08 LOLA "A true companion." *Moon walks in the back ground*
and another intresting game showed to us by ABG
*interesting
I bet the the sequel will be named O2
No sequel. It's just a mini horror game, as part of a collection of 12.
@@ianmitchell5979 man imagine criticizing a joke with facts
@@thepillarmen2960 I wasn't criticizing, dude. I just legit though he was expecting a sequel. It's hard to tell if it was a solo project or a collection if you don't check the link.
There ia a "buddy" in video's title.
*scream*
2:46 what is that red thing
Some aliens would experience time at a dilated or contracted rate compared to us or plants; if time experienced were dilated too much a plant would seem to be a rapidly flailing all consuming biomass that spreads over everything faster than a sprinter: if time were contracted too much the rate of a fly's flight would seem to be a stationary levitation.
Really nice game, I love the mood and the idea for the ending. :)
The fact that everything in the end was useless, is what makes this game sad
Cute and horrifying
Cool smol game
That was pretty cool.
Starts instantly with Dies Irae
Dies Irae has lost it's meaning ever since Frozen 2 using it out of the real context. Dead by Daylight and other death, funeral, and horror related stuffs are still on the same context
Nice game
10:00 Pass me the aux I'm playing the REACTOR sound track
Damn that ending
though
Anyone else see the red skull at 2:46
"THE SHINING" theme playing.....
I meanz it was originally cane from Dies irae so..
System Shock 2 much? Alien entity infects on-board computer system? Pretty decent but Looking Glass did it better in 1999. Still, nice art and nice atmosphere.
watching these games keeps me working on my small side projects I hobby on when i have time.