This reminds me of Phineas and Ferb because in one episode they show what happens when doofenshmirtz takes over and he literally forces everyone to be named Dave.
I think Dave Dave, The Dave would be a good prequel for this game. Of course the amount of Dave would double for each Dave in the title of the Dave- I mean game
_Surreal conspiracy_ I liked the goofy weird sci-fi nature of the game. Maybe the only people who were "Daved" were the people who noticed/believed in conspiracy theories, like the guy who believed only time travellers won the Lottery. -he could be right-
I'm completely at a loss for words. I get the conspiracy theory angle (lizard people, birds are cameras, the "truth") but nothing went anywhere. From the title and the gameplay, I thought the game would be about how this guy named Dave at your work was a model worker and citizen, so you slowly turn into him in more ways than one. You belongings become more like Dave's, the things you buy are things Dave buys, and your identity slowly fades away. I like to think this was what the ending was about (with you i at a mirror, where the horoscope tells you to be wary of them) but this game is really hard to decipher.
It's hard to decipher because there is nothing to decipher. The game is a giant nothing burger that gives off the vibe of "throw a bunch of random stuff out there and let everyone else theory craft it all together."
it's as the second reply states, it's random for random's sake. I don't think there's any deeper thoughts to it, they probably thought it was a funny idea and watched a few gameplay videos with office antics to birth the nothing idea
@@Milliardo__Peacecraft The game was made for the "Fuck Capitalism Jam 2023" on itchio, so what another user (wyze7545) said is true. It's about corporation jobs turning people into zombies who are always working, just to go home to sleep and then repeating the same thing the next day. So I'd say it's a very straight forward game, if anything. The only things up to theorize about are mostly who the fuck is Dave and why is there so much conspiracy stuff, but having into account it is a game made for a jam about capitalism being bad and Dave being the only "unique" character... it's also kinda easy to see what Dave can mean.
As a resident Josh, I can confirm that is a very Josh face. A true marvel at how he pulls it off so well he even achieved not doing anything for a company. Truly a Josh moment,
There's a channel in the UK called Dave. It's a good Chanel, replay's mostly comedy shows, occasionally it has it's own original content too. A while back, as part of it's bumper's, a time traveler came back in time to stop it from taking over the world and making every one Dave. All I'm saying is that this game is clearly set in the Dave take over timeline
@@Grinningfartking6969metimes manly posts at 2-3am. I live in Florida like he does so I get these videos immediately when he posts them, which is pretty late I’d say
When you upload a video to UA-cam, you can choose to have it scheduled for release at a certain time - it doesn't necessarily mean he's actively awake at that time. I'm guessing that's what he does, but I don't know for sure. Maybe he is just up real late!
Courage isn’t the absence of fear but the will to move past in spite of it as for cases like manly he’s been through this enough times that it hardly gets him now a well crafted scare that actually gets em is a sign of respect
I think the Daves are a sort of undercover protector of humanity. The alien and lizardman head imply they hunt them for sport, and the Dave from before just appeared at your work and told you to check in on your boss. And when you do, now you know for sure that your boss is a lizardman. The entire game is the Daves preparing and training you to assimilate with them and uncover the dark conspiracies endangering mankind.
IDK if this was just not having thought put into camera angles, but you were definitely shorter than everyone else in the office, for whatever that's worth. It's kind of a weird game, though, and even though they mentioned stuff with the mirror etc, it felt like a lot of it didn't really have a payoff? Though it did remind me of finding out that everyone in my writing group has a character in their story named David. Wonder if they picked Dave based on a similar situation.
thanks for always uploading horror, interesting new games to me at the middle of the night lol. there's nothing wrong with it its just i get scared easily 😭
watching this with autism is very hard because i giggle and kick my legs at the vaguest relating phrase to my interests (example being pizza tower and the name Dave because of two fandoms..)
This game make me think of the French movie "RRRrrrr" where all the characters are named "Pierre" (meaning stone) because it is the "Stone" age (l'âge de Pierre)
Welcome to the Are You Dave? Club how Are You Dave? are ya?
Dave
Very Dave ig
dave
Dave
Dave
As someone who isn't named dave, i can confirm that i am dave
Are you from the Republic of Dave?
Hello, Dave who isn't Dave, I'm not Dave but am a Dave who isn't Dave too!
you mean dave the rapper?🤔🤔🤔
I can confirm I am also dave
I, too, am a Dave who isn’t a Dave, yet isn’t a Dave who is a Dave.
Aw man, here I was hoping it was going to end with a bunch of Dave's working together going, "I love my kids but not as much as I love lasagna."
When you meet a business man...
you must shake him by the hand
When you meet the family man
you must shake him by the hand
When you meet the choo choo man
This reminds me of Phineas and Ferb because in one episode they show what happens when doofenshmirtz takes over and he literally forces everyone to be named Dave.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t it Joe?
@@skellington8090 Oh yeah you’re right about that, my mistake! At least it still gets the point across.
@@TheEeveeModder No problem!
the real horror is when you're the same name as someone you're talking to and forget their name
A very Dave game, just wish it had more Dave. Hopefully they make I am Dave 2 with even more Dave content
As a Dave i can confirm
As a professional Dave who Dave's very often, I have to agree with you, this game had too many missed Dave opportunities.
I think Dave Dave, The Dave would be a good prequel for this game. Of course the amount of Dave would double for each Dave in the title of the Dave- I mean game
Dave 2: Dave ja vu
Dave 2: The Rise of the Other Dave
This is what happens when you don't buy the non-radioactive TV.
Gotta get my daily Dave dosage
Ah yes, the Davely dose
Daily davage
I feel like Dave wasn’t featured enough, more Dave’s needed.
Edit: thanks for all the likes I’m literally more famous than Elon musk now lol
Needs more Davebell!
surely the dave watching this feels very called out rn
There are many Daves watching
Speaking as a Dave who once had a class with four other Daves, I can safely say that yes, it was a popular name at one point
2:08 one of my fav songs from the garden!! i didn't even recognize it was a reference till i realized it had 3 of the exact same lines ahaha
2:07 wasn't expecting a reference to The Garden in an indie game about being Dave lol
omg i didn't notice the "just do yourself a favor" but i can't hear that phrase without thinking of the song
exactly what i was thinking! i got so excited when i saw it
I WAS LIKE HOLD UP LEMME PULL UP THE VID
Came here to comment this lol
I was thinking the same ahahah awesome ref
"These are the Daves I know" plays in the distance.
There wasn't much game play with this one. The art both visual aesthetics, music and sound effects were very good.
_Surreal conspiracy_
I liked the goofy weird sci-fi nature of the game. Maybe the only people who were "Daved" were the people who noticed/believed in conspiracy theories, like the guy who believed only time travellers won the Lottery.
-he could be right-
"noticed" huh.
I'm completely at a loss for words. I get the conspiracy theory angle (lizard people, birds are cameras, the "truth") but nothing went anywhere.
From the title and the gameplay, I thought the game would be about how this guy named Dave at your work was a model worker and citizen, so you slowly turn into him in more ways than one. You belongings become more like Dave's, the things you buy are things Dave buys, and your identity slowly fades away.
I like to think this was what the ending was about (with you i at a mirror, where the horoscope tells you to be wary of them) but this game is really hard to decipher.
It's hard to decipher because there is nothing to decipher. The game is a giant nothing burger that gives off the vibe of "throw a bunch of random stuff out there and let everyone else theory craft it all together."
I think it was satire, how corpo jobs turn ppl into the same zombies, doing work everyday, when your only "free time" is when you sleep
And the protagonist "Dave" in the end, realised, that he isn't different from other "Dave's", and in fact, he became one
it's as the second reply states, it's random for random's sake.
I don't think there's any deeper thoughts to it, they probably thought it was a funny idea and watched a few gameplay videos with office antics to birth the nothing idea
@@Milliardo__Peacecraft The game was made for the "Fuck Capitalism Jam 2023" on itchio, so what another user (wyze7545) said is true. It's about corporation jobs turning people into zombies who are always working, just to go home to sleep and then repeating the same thing the next day. So I'd say it's a very straight forward game, if anything.
The only things up to theorize about are mostly who the fuck is Dave and why is there so much conspiracy stuff, but having into account it is a game made for a jam about capitalism being bad and Dave being the only "unique" character... it's also kinda easy to see what Dave can mean.
9:54 as someone who is named Josh i take this as a heavy insult and know that it's all too true and that is indeed a Josh
as a Dave myself, I can definitely confirm. He is Dave
Manly really is a vampire! Love the late night posts tho jokes aside
As a resident Josh, I can confirm that is a very Josh face. A true marvel at how he pulls it off so well he even achieved not doing anything for a company. Truly a Josh moment,
Surreal for the sake of surreal can be hit or miss, but this is definitely a hit. Weird in a good way, I liked this.
Dave is the second best funny name after Steve.
And yes, they did a pretty good adaptation of Mob Psycho 100
instead of the game dev its just the Game Dave
My name is David. I feel very represented. Thanks, Manly.
There's a channel in the UK called Dave.
It's a good Chanel, replay's mostly comedy shows, occasionally it has it's own original content too.
A while back, as part of it's bumper's, a time traveler came back in time to stop it from taking over the world and making every one Dave.
All I'm saying is that this game is clearly set in the Dave take over timeline
I knew like 28 Daves when I was going to school and have several relatives named Dave so yeah, it's a pretty common name.
I dunno why, but I really like the sound of the Dave’s voices. Sounds like a funky beat.
Does Manly ever get sleep? Timezones are thing of course but goodness the late night uploads are endless!
He posted it at 1am est. That's not very late
@@Grinningfartking6969 well it is
@@Grinningfartking6969metimes manly posts at 2-3am. I live in Florida like he does so I get these videos immediately when he posts them, which is pretty late I’d say
When you upload a video to UA-cam, you can choose to have it scheduled for release at a certain time - it doesn't necessarily mean he's actively awake at that time. I'm guessing that's what he does, but I don't know for sure. Maybe he is just up real late!
@@YourFavTessa true..
The "good for you" has got to be my favorite MBH saying.
Call this # now poster is a very niche nod to the garden, two jester twins.
i recognized that it was a garden reference and immediately scrolled thru the comments to see if anyone else noticed haha
I love how he has an instinct to say “like my soul” every time someone says empty
Metallic Gears Liquid was definitely a classic from Dave Kojima!
I'm watching this with a single earbud (with bass) and the kick drum has my right ear THROBBIN'. 😅 Love this music!
I don't think this game has enough Dave, like seriously they need more characters named Dave.
You play these horror games like it’s nothing omg I wanna be strong like you 😭
Courage isn’t the absence of fear but the will to move past in spite of it as for cases like manly he’s been through this enough times that it hardly gets him now a well crafted scare that actually gets em is a sign of respect
This *FEELS* like Japanese work based
Only people called dave can have the real dave experience
this channel has a interesting variety of content, visual novels, horror games... very cool
:)
I think the Daves are a sort of undercover protector of humanity. The alien and lizardman head imply they hunt them for sport, and the Dave from before just appeared at your work and told you to check in on your boss. And when you do, now you know for sure that your boss is a lizardman.
The entire game is the Daves preparing and training you to assimilate with them and uncover the dark conspiracies endangering mankind.
IDK if this was just not having thought put into camera angles, but you were definitely shorter than everyone else in the office, for whatever that's worth.
It's kind of a weird game, though, and even though they mentioned stuff with the mirror etc, it felt like a lot of it didn't really have a payoff?
Though it did remind me of finding out that everyone in my writing group has a character in their story named David. Wonder if they picked Dave based on a similar situation.
They warned you about mirrors, bro
I'm not a Josh, but that was definitely a Josh.
I low-key think this game is cursed. I sleep during this and have proper spooky nightmares.
stop bc why is the music so good??
thanks for always uploading horror, interesting new games to me at the middle of the night lol. there's nothing wrong with it its just i get scared easily 😭
"you see that Zach FK in the coffee." I love deadly premonition. One of my favorite games.
@ManlyBadassHero
Your videos always cheer me up when you upload!! Thanks for everything!! ☺️
Roses are red
My name is Dave
This poem makes no sense
Microwave
MOB PSYCHO REFERENCE!!!
I am dave
This game is my fave
I should probably shave
Cuz I've been livin in a cave
I had a good day
goodbye
I gotta admit the background music for this game is pretty fire!
“Are you feeling the *Dave* Mr. Krabs?”
*Insert "Office Work is Hell" joke
As someone who isn’t named Dave, I can say that this is the accurate Dave experience.
5:49 it's not always that I get to see a Disco Elysium reference. Nice one
Scrolled for a good 5 mins to see if anyone else caught it too 😭
watching this with autism is very hard because i giggle and kick my legs at the vaguest relating phrase to my interests (example being pizza tower and the name Dave because of two fandoms..)
Nice Deadly Premonition reference
I love that there's a The Garden poster at 2:06
so glad you’re up when your fans are! keep doing what you love!!❤
This game make me think of the French movie "RRRrrrr" where all the characters are named "Pierre" (meaning stone) because it is the "Stone" age (l'âge de Pierre)
It's going to be one of those Daves, isn't it?
IM THE REAL DAVE
Love the deadly premonition reference
2:08 THE GARDEN REFERENCE SPOTTED!! CALL THIS # NOWWWW
I'll probably come back to this one, if only because the soundtrack was an absolute bop
2:07 a reference to the song call this # now by the garden, jaw dropped on seeing that.
What a Dave ending to a game. Dave really is in all of us
Love your content! been watching for about 8 months now :) your angels of death series and liminal space stuff is what attracted me
These are the Daves I know, I know, these are the Daves I know
As always I appreciate Manly's references
Manly's Deadly Premonition reference made me do a lil scream of happiness
Sameee
it's funnier when you realize the original is FtK in the coffee, which was later changed bc FtK is a bad acronym lol
He is indeed dave
I have a stroke reading all of ur Titles man 😭😭😭
Can confirm as a josh that's me right there.
i like how vague it is honestly
The radio only plays Dave Matthews Band, David Bowie, and the Monkees
5:18
Normal people: Bro, it's just pizza boxes, what's wrong with you.
Me: ~Hello There!~
"You're cold blooded. You're inferior to me."
-ManlyBaddassHero circa 2023
"call this # now
just do yourself a favor" gotta be a the garden reference dawg 🤨
Most Everyone Else: _talks about Dave_ (or the conspiracy angle)
Me: Yes! A lizardman!
These are the Dave's I know I know, these are the Dave's I know.
8:53 DEADLY PREMONITION REFERENCE
thank you for making me cultured @totallypointlesstv
this game had no business bringing such a great soundtrack
Here i thought he was going to turn into a rubber ducky.
My dream is that I make a horror game one day so that manly plays it
Go for it!
Will watch it if someday Manly decide to play your game
I've said this before and I'll say it again, the horror is working in a officer, everything else is fine
I love these horror games of office main theme, because I work in a office
I almost missed the F.K. Deadly Premonition reference. Nice callout
Don't know if this was picked up on, but the "Call this number now, just do yourself a favor..." poster was a reference to a song by The Garden.
I know this feeling.. growing up, my circle of friends had several Daves in it, including myself.
Im really feeling the dave with this one
The are the Daves I know I know, these are the Daves I know.
I was half asleep when you said David. That scared me
These are the Daves of Our Lives.
These are the Daves I know I know, these are the Dave's I know....
Before watching this, I ever had a thought; "Was I a Dave?" But after watching this. Now I know that I AM a Dave!!
And then John was a Dave.
Hi I am actually named Dave and can confirm I am feeling the Dave.
Corporate horror is getting more popular it seems.