IMSCARED - The game that acts like a virus
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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2024
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This has to be the most unique horror game I've seen yet. It's a secret virus.
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IMSCARED is a pixelated horror game that intentionally messes with your head and puts files on your desktop. It's a unique take on "retro style" horror games. This one intentionally acts like a virus to spook you. So much so that it sometimes IS detected as a virus.
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IMSCARED: store.steampow...
OBS (what I record with): obsproject.com/
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Music:
(In order of appearance)
.Kevin MacLeod - Fluffing a Duck
.Opposing Force - Planet (Soundtrack)
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Back when this was first released there was no music, no main menu, no steam release, no explanation as to what it did. It was insane.
I loved this game for some reason when I was like 12. Something about it seemed so odd
something about no music can really bring out the creep factor. though i've always loved horror games that have really nice music; and then just the sudden stop. as something eerey just happened; and sure it could have been a jumpscare, but i just like the games that have a nice chilling factor then just outright being a cheap scare.
no explanation? like the old OLD OLD kings quest
@CallofDutyBlackOps28 I think the fear of silence mainly comes from you knowing whatever it is that's stalking you will most definitely hear you. Nothing to block the sound of your breathing or footsteps. Obviously the music doesn't play in-universe but it still has that coverage of the sounds for you. But that's just my theory.
i had this game as a kid before it was on steam and it freaked me out, revisited it a few years ago and still freaked me out just as much
White Face is strangely sympathetic. It doesn't seem to intentionally harm you, with the crashes mostly being accidents. It just seems genuinely lonely. And if you give it the flower, it manages a rather cute, warm, honest smile with a heartfelt "I love you." If I played this game, I'd want to give the little guy his own folder, a few gigs to do whatever with.
according to a theory i heard white face is like the forced fusions in steven universe
This White Face added in game Spooky jumpscare mansion with name unnamed specimen.
fangirls be saying "slenderman is just misunderstood i'd let him brainwash me anytime"
@@MrStanFungi :D
nvm "her" is lookin kinda fine
Yeah, the story is really simple, just a sentient virus that loves you and wants to interact with you via stories and characters it makes up. The 2022 remake added an additional ending that extends the lore a little bit more by connecting it to future plans for the game in a sequel to the empty house you have after killing white face. It's a really meta game, mostly just a conversation with the player in a lot of ways. One of my all time favorites, whose mechanics would go on to be seen again in games like Doki Doki Literature Club and Undertale that also talk to the player instead of the character.
Damn, that story's kinda sad
Don't forget OneShot as well
another game that did this in spots was Off! i'm pretty sure the merchant and tutorial characters talk directly to the player at times. it's a neat idea!
Off is very much another good example of this idea! The intro of the game tells you that you're just you, the player, and you're in charge of the Batter and his quest, and it plays a lot with that idea, especially throughout the ending, by having you make decisions as you instead of for the Batter.
I haven't encountered OneShot! I'll have to check that one out too!
Honestly a much better description of the game's story than the endless theories people make about it. Go to the comment section of markiplier's playthrough to know what I mean
Dont get me wrong this is an awesome and unique concept but I think its better it stays that way, the sooner people start getting inspired by this game the sooner we end up with viruses pretending to be horror games that are pretending to be viruses
And then we will have a horror gmae pretending to be a virus pretending to be a-
if the game unprompted clutters your filesystem with files (this is not necessarily a harmless thing to do) and otherwise acts the same way viruses do then it practically is a virus even if the dev thinks it is only pretending to be
the game is literally 11 years old dont worry
@@YumekuiNeru To be fair it keeps all of its files in a single folder anyway, so when your done you can just delete them pretty easily.
@@skyaero8773 oh ok that does not sound too bad then
"Please be quiet" *touches piano as loud as it can*
That right there elevated my anxiety more than anything else in this game
that sign cant stop me because i cant read
HELP
Doki Doki is actually really similar concept wise, but instead of adding files to your pc, it deletes game files.
actually, if I remember correctly, it does add files. if you check the files occasionally as you play, itll add things like drawings, and notes. been a while since ive seen them so i cant say for certain what they are but i remember youtubers showing a few of them.
I think one of the reasons pixelated things are inherently scarier than realistic monsters is because with pixelated monsters your mind needs to actively fill in gaps left by the lack of details. Realistic monsters leave nothing to the imagination, and it makes them worse for it because you're more than capable of understanding it just at a glance. With a character like White Face you are forced to try to interpret what you're seeing instead of being able to look at it and go "Oh its a face" with no further thought about it.
it's like how good horror movies tend to not show the monsters until usually the end because nothing is scarier than what the viewer could imagine. making it low resolution and a representation of something keeps that fear intact while still having something that comes for you
I agree BUT it is not an inherent property of the pixelated style, it is something that works in any design that's not super HD and leaves room for the imagination, blurred images of monsters, retro filters like VHS, polygons in the style of silent hill, it works in all those styles.
@damsen978 Fnaf 4 does this amazingly, it does show you them, but your forced to confront them, or they will get you anyways (like opening a door, and not knowing if something is there.
This is why lowres style horror games are starting to make a comeback, or from the era of older playstation games.
Silent hill series, half life mod Cry of Fear, ps1 graphics slasher style games of Puppet Combo, the list goes on...
it's also a bit because you're mind can't exactly relate for this to the real world
Jumpscares are like salt to a meal. A little goes a long way, and can genuinely help in the setup and payoff of tension and suspense. But, like salt, its easy to overdo and ruin what you started with.
this is a :speaking_head: moment.
@@caledonia123🗣️
Nigga spittin 🔥🔥🔥
And yet, just like how some people really enjoy jumpscares, I just eat salt on it's own sometimes.
Also
Not all jump scares have to jump at you
Sometimes it can be a subtle reveal that slowly but surely become more noticeable… and it can be utterly terrifying …
I think it's an amazing idea to unlock the entire map in broad daylight once you've done everything. You can go around and see the places where you were completely terrified in a non-scary context.
Almost feels like a metaphor for someone who went through trauma and finally healed and are able to see those dark scary places the way everyone else does now.
@@Mr.Despair. I like to think it's because there's no more White Face, no puppeteer to mold and play with the world in the game.
I really want a horror game that SAYS it's a horror game, but nothing deadly is in it. No jumpscares, just a creepy ambiance and unsettling map.
Edit: I've played Jims Computer many times, I know about GMod, I know about LSD Dream Emulator, and I know about Iron Lung.
thats actually a pretty good idea
@@charastar_ There's a roblox game that does this.
@@gdplayer19 really? which?
@@gdplayer19 please answer 😔
@@gdplayer19 rooms by nicorocks perhaps?
it does have entities but they're not jumpscares and the game is just mostly creepy ambience
I've spoken to the dev of this game a number of times due to the fanbase being relatively small. he's genuinely an extremely cool guy, he even said he wanted to map out an area based off of an image of my backyard (not specifically for Imscared, although he is actively still working on new content for it to this day more than a decade after its original release)
That's cute
imagine playing a horror game and you see a replicate of your backyard
this reminds me of "my House"; a DOOM WAD.
ok no way I was watching this and I felt like it reminded me of the guy who made my house and now this just makes me think it was definitely him.
Cuz something about the feel of it, people's personality and signature delectably leaks into their work!
I have weird relationship with horrors. When I watch a playthrough, I don't get scared, at all, even sudden jumpscares don't quite get me.
But when I play ANY horror game by myself, I become really nervous, paranoid, and scared. I am a long time fnaf fan and when my friend suggested I should play the game in front of her, with her being close, I was still nervous, even though I've watched countless videos on AI, know the perfect tactic, it still scared the shit out of me and after a couple of nights I begged to stop.
I don't know how that works... Maybe I should play more horror games instead of watching them?
I have a similar reaction to horror games. I think it’s that when we watch someone else, we aren’t in any “danger”, but when we play them ourselves, we put ourselves in a more “dangerous” position, and thus comes the fear. Just a theory tho.
You, weird? I even more weird, I can see ghost and got uses to them but still sacred of playing horror game or something full emptiness. Perhaps when playing we barely had control that why is scary, basically we fell total hopeless.
Litterally me
This is EXACTLY what happens with me. Watching people play horror games make me feel pretty calm and happy, but I can't do it myself. I could barely even play Dishonored when weepers were nearby because they scared me so bad
i am exactly like this, i will be watching a horror game for fun then the moment i play it myself despite knowing every single thing there is to know about the game i will still just get scared as hell
I like how LamWarp managed to stay deadpan hilarious while still taking the game with sufficient seriousness.
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Just like my fourth grad teacher 😂
@@youaresamYOO bear enjoyer
And also somehow miss every small detail the game shows.
This is awesome. Everyone who's grown up with computers has an innate fear of "viruses". I can remember them being nightmares even sometimes - it's this fear of losing control, being under the mercy of someone you cannot see, smell, touch or feel, even anticipate; and the fear of utter destruction. It's absolutely perfect to make a horror game with such elements. Bravo.
First time i see someone describe the same fear i have, just having scary stuff pop up on your screen constantly without being able to do anything about it
I've had nightmares where a stranger is trying to communicate with me through a virus on my computer... It's super creepy
Cyanimagomortiphobia describes the fear of bluescreens and Virocyberphobia the fear of malicious files. I have both and this game would be a pretty terrifying experience for me
Never once got a virus, what were you trying to access??
i once got a virus and they remote controlled my computer and it was horrifying to me and i had to factory reset my computer, but it was really scary knowing that someone was controlling my computer all the way from Russia but i kept trying to set them up for rick rolls even though they probablyleft my computer by then
I just really wanna see an actually scary game that starts off as a Jump-scare game.
Then about 1/3 of the way through it flips to becoming nightmare fuel.
Spooky's Mansion pretty much does this
Spookys house of jumpscares dude
Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion.
spooky's is is spooky's does
Finally, someone else who gets that being startled and being scared are two very different things
I'm easily startled, but almost never scared.
I think a lot of horror buffs on the internet know the difference. At least from my experience.
Who doesn't know that?
@@fourstones1860 apparently 80% of horror game developers
@@bruninjkI think horror game devs do know, but they figured out that it’s way faster and cheaper to make asset flip games with occasional jump scares than it is to make a well-crafted, truly horrifying game. Lots of UA-camrs and streamers will make content on games with jumpscares because it’s an easy way to provide entertaining content, which in turn, encourages their fans to buy the game even if it’s not that good.
It’s an incredibly easy way for devs to make money with as little effort as possible. Garten of Banban is the prime example for this. If UA-camrs stop playing these games and casual gamers stopped buying them, you’d see a lot less of them.
ONESHOT is also a game that breaks the fourth wall by adding files to your computer and comunicating to you as a player constantly
The files tend to be messages to you or solutions to puzzles, so you always have to check every now and then
yeah
I was gonna comment about this. ONESHOT was the first game I saw to do that and it stuck with me. It’s a darn good game.
oneshot is such an incredible game. anyone reading this that hasn't played it, go check it out, it's genuinely one of my favorite story games I've ever played.
Its been a full decade and OneShot’s still my favorite game of all time.
I find it so inherently funny that after running around for ten minutes, not letting the entity catch you, then after LETTING the entity catch you, hereby progressing the game, the game stops and opens a 'How to play IMSCARED' video. Comedic genius.
If you want an actually good horror game that doesn't break the 4th wall. "It Steals" is a good horror game. Although it might come across as another stereotypical "ohhh spooky monster hunting me down game". The execution is what absolutely sells it.
But to be honest, some people just don't like horror games no matter how well done they are and that's fine.
Yea for example some people hate all frictional studios and red barrels games for NO reason
It is a great experience
What about Darkwood. It's the most unique horror game I've ever played. The only downside imo, is that it becomes just an interesting survival-horror game after your first playtrough
@@sadge0 Thats not a downside lol. Every horror game eventually stops being scary, similar to how every video game eventually gets boring.
i second this comment it scared me so much lol
Im honestly impressed how you managed to miss literally every detail in the moment.
Rolling a 0 on perception consistently is impressive.
i absolutely love dnd jokes and the people who do it
@@bruninjkreal
The main is brainless and it's actually driving me crazy watching this
@@alecsarcade555 same dude. he was driving me up the wallllll
dnd jokes are 10/10
Hi scared, I'm dad.
why did they named it that way? why? why? WHY?
You not funny plus You are stupid
dad jokes
Hi dad, im dad dad
@@P1X3LV1B3S hi mom, IMSCARED
To me, a good horror game (or movie, whatever) isn't the one with the scariest jumpscare, but the one who plays with your mind, cranking up the paranoia, leaving you scared of anything.
That's why I recommend Skinamarink to every horror fan (it's a movie)
That's the magic of phycological horror,toying with your mind,being terrified even when there's no threat.its truly odd how how the smallest details make the biggest difference,but then again all phycology is odd.
Emesis blue?
I usually find it being like that due to each being a different _kind_ of scare.
Jumpscares? Shock-type, they make you jump and release a lot of tension.
Gore/scary images/descriptions? Disturbing horror. It makes you unsettled on prinicple, but it isn't really _scary,_ just makes you feel Ick.
But the stuff that creeps up on you, the stuff that makes you feel like there is something horrid you don't quite understand? _That's_ the strong stuff, the dread that good horror instills.
Psych horror is great :)
Just so you know, THERE IS STILL MORE TO THIS GAME!!! they added more content after the game's ending hidden in the 2022 test build, which then by extension allows you to view even more hidden content within the base game itself. it's really cool, and honestly if you wanted to, could have it's own dedicated video if you ever wanted to cover it. just thought you should know.
The game has hints to it too if you keep an eye on your folder as you move around during loneliness
I love how chill this guy is about this 😭
Scariest thing was after i played the game, i kept finding myself playing or watching games that have iamscared referenced
i felt like i was haunted
You are.
You are hunted
It's all your fault
It's all my fault
I'm scared
Like Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion for instance since it had Ghostface in it in the endless mode
@@karisasani7006I love being chased by that fella even if I get killed by it
Stay with me.
I like to watch you.
But you don't deserve to be touched.
if you're bored of constant jumpscare horror games, just play psychological horror games, the only issue with them is its not scary if you're incapable of experiencing literally any emotion
Me, who hyperventilates whenever I’m in trouble:
(Any suggestions?)
@@Manderinzthis is a pretty basic one but i love ddlc, i always find myself going back to replay it
@@Manderinz ddlc is a great one one, But it has sensitive content like depression and suicide, so please don't play it if you're sensitive to it. (This not a spoiler, there is a warning at the start of the game as well)
@@Manderinzomori rendered me unable to sleep at night once after I got to a certain point of the game, I recommend it greatly
that and also I think it's one of the main ones that people will point to for a good psych horror
I want to see if anyone recommends any more obscure psych horrors here as well
hello fellow hat kid
i really appreciate you including really good captions within your videos. they're both very useful but are good for adding a little extra humor. i'm autistic and have trouble understanding words when they're spoken aloud sometimes so i really appreciate it
I think one of my favorite horror games are ones that make you scared about whats going to happen when nothing actually does but it keeps you scared the entire time
STALKER games are like that but with a lot of shooting
There’s a horror movie like that. It’s called Skinamarink. Of course there’s a couple jumpscares but very little, less then 5ish if I remember.
@@brevenewing9742 yea, i know of skinamarink
Imo thats what made the Benevento section in RE8 so scary. People always mention the baby, but the 20 minutes of tension building up with no relief before that are way way way scarier.
Why does Subnautica fit in here so well but nobody mentioned it 😂
I remember back when Markiplier played this game, he was surprised that the game was doing things to his computer, not to mention that this game is turning/already 10 this year, cheers to nostalgia!
I know it's probably too late but, there's actually more to this game. At that final part, there's a secret and it's pretty wholesome tbh lol
what is it and no i dont care bout spoilers
@@thecoolestofthe834s21. If you give the flower to him he'll call you kind and say he loves you
2. Theres a character called the 'restorer' and another entity called 'castlekid' who appear in an ARG which involves the restorer recreating imscared on mobile ports and also potentially killing her cat and turning it into data......
Tell us more!! The story is incomplete
not the same guy but I think you need to go to the 2022 test build and look around until you find a staircase, then find 5 moons and after that, the game tells you what to do
I love how he manages to still sound sarcastic yet serious while playing a horror game. Never fails to make me laugh
Ambient music/soundscapes are seriously underrated parts of video games. Games like IMSCARED and F.E.A.R pretty much nail it perfectly. They add so much to the atmosphere and are usually pretty fun to listen to even when not playing the game.
Good ambience is a key feature of quality horror
Try Darkwood) You'll be very pleased by it's sound design, also scared af from every unkown sound you hear
@@sadge0 oh yeah Darkwood is fucking scaaary. It's also really hard though
@@alexwhite6554 idk, for me it is very easy, I guess it was a mistake to hoard loot in each location
@@sadge0that sense of relief when the morning hits is just something else after being minutes in a corner scared on the edge of quitting the game
the funny thing with the "Mortuary Assistant" game; i had more goosebumps from embalming/cleaning/taking care of the dead bodies then *ANY* of the damn jumpscares just about. really well done on that aspect, i'm guessing they wanted to add some spoopy horror into the game when all there was; was just cleaning dead bodies i guess.
1:01 Finally, someone agrees that pixels are scarier. The True Lab portion of Undertale was the only time I’d been really traumatized by horror, and now nothing is scary to me anymore.
Same. I wasn't expecting Undertale to be one of the only games to actually scare me in recent years lol.
How about "FAITH"?
@@suddenchangeabil993a gun with 1 bullets
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@@ziompn9647 why did i put it in the plural form idk?
The "mess with your computer to make it seem like a virus" was actually pretty common amongst indie horror titles in the 2010s and this game was definitely not the first to do it. I remember thinking of Imscared as pretty bog standard and boring at the time because of it.
you wouldve played the gamejolt version, the full version on steam is fantastic
Can you give other examples?
@joris4235 I'm familiar with the full version. Haven't played it, but have watched let's plays. To be clear, I realized a while after playing the old version that imscared does do some interesting things and I was wrong to dismiss it so quickly.
@doromizu. See, the problem is that most of them were extremely short, free experiences found on game jolt or hidden away on some random website. They tended to blend together a lot, so I can't name many. I can at least say the first time I remember seeing it, though, which was the old My Little Pony horror game Luna Game from I think 2011. The trick there ended up so successful that the MLP fansite that initially popularized it thought it actually *was* a virus and deleted the post about it soon afterwards.
I think maybe Sonic.exe or one of the other many sonic creepypasta games from that period might have done it too, or maybe I'm just remembering the rumors of it being a virus. It was also a common theme amongst video game creepypastas at the time, like with Ben Drowned, Jvk1166z.esp, etc.
@@anosmibell6473 very reasonable response, you are right about it not pioneering that main idea.
"or cry in the corner like I do"
I have a feeling I'm going to enjoy this
God, I’m loving the fact that there’s always subtitles, or an underline of what’s being said.
The way he stays so calm playing this is beyond me
For me, 4th wall breaking is what makes games special, the feeling of knowing that the inhabitants inside the game are aware of everything, comunicating to us through the other side of the screen, now that is a true masterpiece of a game to me, and imscared is one of the best games I've ever seen.
Edit: Also you never heard of other games that uses the game files to proceed the story and breaks the 4th wall?- You need to check oneshot and doki doki literature club asap.
Fun fact oneshot has a similar idea to I'm scared! OneShot is a puzzle game where it changes files around your computer to solve puzzles. If you play it on console it basically makes it where your interface is a computer screen
i love how once you open the game when it ends for real for real, it just plays the "your wrong, sulfuric acid!" scream but distorted
You realize the scream from the sulfuric acid meme… comes from this game right?
28:33 You missed the woman standing outside of the gates
Not a horor game, but ONESHOT also breaks the 4th wall, with it being self aware, speaking to YOU idrectly, placing files, and making you open multiple windows on your desktop to solve a puzzle. Would reccomend. Again, not a horor game, but it does send chills as you can only play the game once, normaly
yes!! the first time i played it i sobbed so hard i skipped class the next day (or maybe i was just sensitive at the time 💀)
@@eli-omgreasonable crashout
found this game wayyyyy back on gamejolt and the way it was presented on there genuinely made me think i had downloaded a virus, one of the most reality breaking and unsettling experiences i've had with a game
Glad someone brought up the fact that horror games tend to be vague as a disguise for poor writing.
Like how interesting would FNAF be if it handed you the details.
I'm so glad people are talking about this again. I remember playing the original back in 2013, and playing the steam version when it came out in 2016. It's a great game and a testament to how much potential horror games have
There's another game that is pretty similar to Imscared called "A Dark Place" It's also pixelated, but it messes with you computer a bit more than just adding files (changes your background) and you can even use your webcam for a part of the game (you don't have to though).There are more puzzles, it's a bit longer and (in my opinion) scarier.
as of its state when I saw it (that being Markiplier playing it) it felt rather shoehorned and frustrated me quite a bit, especially with the "white face but frog shaped" antagonist. but I don't know if it has or hasn't been updated since
As an explanation beforehand, I think of breaking the fifth wall as a work of fiction attempting to manifest itself in the real world; not so much acknowledging the audience as joining their world (like how the game doesn’t stay contained, but places files onto the player’s computer.) awesome.
I think that pixelated monsters are scarier because it leaves more to your imagination, while something lifelike is already imagined out leaving nothing to your imagination.
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5:53
so,
whiteface opens a tutorial for you because he wants to help you and to play with you cause he's lonely...
it's actualy kinda sad
"That's what makes it pretty unique,, I've never heard of any other games that do this"
OneShot: 🫥
Doki Doki: 👺
That one game based on ben drowned that had a link chatbot that would crash with the windows sayung link is not responding (because the chatbot wasn't responding):
i love when ppl play horror games and are just chill abt it. its annoying when the person is constantly trying to play up the spookiness but i can actually enjoy the game like this
NO WAY
I was not expecting you to cover this game lol
It's one of my favorite horror games of all time, seriously, there's only a few games nowadays that can replicate the feeling I felt when playing IMSCARED
It's a timeless classic for me and I hope more people get to know this masterpiece with this video
( If you're reading this and never played IMSCARED I highly highly recommend it, trust me, it's a experience like no other )
i remember playing this game back a few years ago, it's the only horror game that i've played where i genuinely felt disturbed to the point where i had to walk away from my PC after i was done playing
i love this kind of horror game playthrough. no other bgm aside from the game, a commentary that keeping the viewer gets what's happening, no big edits, just pure content. subscribed. and looking for more horror playthrough.
Damn I remember seeing Markiplier and Pewdiepie play this so many years back and I'm glad to see that people are still being fascinated by how it interacts with your computer. I wish we got something similar down the line but honestly it's for the best now that the idea is pretty much a one and done
Yeah same! I used to watch Markiplier play this game.
3:27 "Weirdest font I've ever seen"
It's just cursive though.
0:30 British Foxy shook me to my core. I will not be able to sleep tonight /_ \
You should try the remaster version of this game, it adds a whole new section that's a teaser for a sequel-ish new game
Jumpscares are 100% overused, but they're really fun for trolling. Like putting in a jumpscare to relieve some tension only for the real horror to begin shortly after
IMSCARED is an AWESOME game im glad this video exists, the creator is also a really nice person
This is honestly golden, I can't deal with horror games but your style of content and humor makes it bearable. At least for me.
I was expecting a video essay and I was pleasantly surprised. This is significantly more chill and cool than a video essay!
4:36 a similar game that does this (to a much lesser extent, however utilises many other fourth wall breaking concepts) is OneShot. puts files in your Documents folder, your username is grabbed directly from your windows account name, etc.
sidenote: not a horror game
Oneshot mentioned 👍
Also that one catto boy adventure game
Whenever im bored, i always watch people play IMSCARED, i just love how the game does everything, you never know whats gonna happen next and see people get scared at it is like, peak fun.
"I don't think i ever heard of any other game that done this"
*meanwhile oneshot breaking every the fourth wall in every possible way*
I noticed my word mistake but now that I got a heart I ain't editing it (editing a message removes the heart)
11:01
That is the most emotion i've ever heard in this man's voice.
i like this little genre of gaming that makes the game feel more alive by interacting with your outside of the game itself, like it gives the game some sort of sentience that it shouldn't have, to where it interacts with the player rather than the character you're playing as, one-shot and OFF are good examples (although both games have you play as a character that interacts with the world within the game, they both break the 4th wall in a way that makes the game feel like more than just a game, especially one-shot)
We need more horror games that have the primary goal of just messing with you
no because then some idiot makes a back door to your computer like welcome to the game 2 or the blacklight club or what ever where if you try to beat the game before the devs want you to they mindcontrol your characters and steal all your xp (for blacklight club) in wttg the main dev just kills you if you get too far
0:38
two words: psychological horror.
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If you’re looking for something with ambience, constant chills, an actual game with it and NO jump scares, Darkwood is my all time favourite horror game, and it is the embodiment of all of this, that game will stay in your head for a long time after you finish it.
Edit: looking further people talking about all the game breaking the 4th wall and messing with files, Darkwood may not be that kind of game, but it’s still amazing.
I tried this game, at the start I thought it was boring due to the amount of stuff that you needed to read/find but it ended up being really entertaining!
Had a blast playing it and I actually got hooked into it.
I know this pertains mostly to horror, but in the concept of games breaking the 4th wall using outside files, the game Oneshot uses this idea really well, with the plot of the game dealing with the world “corrupting”. It was released before Undertale but has the similar mechanic of the game “knowing” it’s being influenced by a player, and knows if you make multiple play throughs. Part of the game is finding clues from outside files and is just overall really neat.
My opinion:
Horror indie game developers think that jumpscares would scare ppl. Actually no. It only gives us surprise. Not fear. Tension is what gets the job done. Because it makes you feel like something is gonna happen to you. Now you can't build up tension by adding scary ass music or anything like that but by using the uncanny valley OR the fear of the unknown. It builds up the tension more because the less there are, the more that people are to believe that this type of stuff can happen. Well what if it's another type of horror game like a serial killer game or a monster game? You have to have an ambience. Like the fog at 6:49. When you have an ambience like foggy air or wind blowing it makes it a better experience and making it a little more realistic. Then the sound effects are what's next. You see when developers use sound effects they use more fictional sound effects. Say for example your making a Wendigo so you use Wendigo sounds or sounds that are supposed to sound like one. You have to use something like a kazoo or a keyboard then low pitch or high pitch it.
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When you said there arent many games that give chills down your spine and wont let you fall asleep for the next 10 hours and keep you constant on edge . I think Lost in Vivo is a really good example for this.
I still remember when Lamwarp was completely emotionless
8:20 bro became submissive.
I love how subnautica does this unintentionally, just causing you terror at all times without stop
who said it was *unintentionally*
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@@gkygny It is, the devs just didn't thought people would fear the deep ocean
how can u play this game with such a chill voice. I was trembling with horror just by watching this.
The subtitles are a great addition. Thank you
If you want more non-traditional horror games, I'd recommend Yames's games, ESPECIALLY Growing my Grandpa and Water Womb World. Yames has a very unique approach to horror, with the characters you play as taking delight in what you, the player, dread.
I love Yames's games too, is he cooking something new? Wanna play again...
@ to my knowledge, he's working on developing Discover Our Bodies, a full-length game based on Discover My Body
A game with similar mechanics to IMSCARED I really loved was "a pet shop after dark". It was really cute, weird, dark and clever. I suggest everyone who reads this comment to play it if haven't already, it's a magnificent game :D
I love this video!! The calmness of you matched with the scares from the game and the chaos of the editing is amazing! Please make more videos on horror games! I’ve watched it twice in one sitting!!
Horror games with constant jumpscares aren't fun, but there's at least one exception to this in my opinion, and that's Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion. Rather than trying to scare you with constant jumpscares, it's literal main focus is the jumpscares, and really add to the experience rather than subtract from it. And funnily enough, the game's bonus endless mode actually features White Face as one of the things you can encounter in the endless mode
You deserve all the support in the world.
P.S: No matter how much subs you get or sponsorship offers. Do not. Never ever remove the chill comfortable sense in your videos. And your way of presting the video! That's your special power!
4:35 I know the games “One Shot” and “Kinito PET” play with your desktop too
I came across a play through of this when I was younger. It’s unsettling nature stayed with me all these years and actually inspired a villain in a story I’m writing. Thank you for bringing back a chilling but fun memory of times when I probably shouldn’t have been watching scary games late at night! Haha
The screaming at 27:17 is the same as the screaming from the “You’re wrong! Sulfuric acid!” meme.
i’ve somehow managed to watch this multiple times lmao, because the fact that you sound so nonchalant despite playing this nervewracking, spine crawling game and still be ridiculously hilarious.
i also love the fact that there are the subtitles in the video! pretty helpful, and the editing of the video is awesome. props to you lamwarp d(￣ ￣)
Honestly this is prolly one of my favorite horror games right alongside I See You, a game with a different premise, but similar tricks and vibes
Thank you so much for covering this game! Imscared is a great horror experience, despite I dislike horrors, but this one is really special. I also love the way you do your reviews on other games, and the way you covered this game, the thing that you pointed out some real special features, which make this game so cool
I would like to add that I absolutely love the monsters from the LISA series, which originally was inspired by Yumi Nikki. While LISA isn't really a horror game, the Joy Mutants are some of the creepiest looking things I've ever seen in a game... and they are done with sprites. Dingaling, the creator of the series, just knew exactly how to use them to make them scary. They act as incredibly powerful and strange bosses that block progress, they often show up unexpectedly and can take out your party even if you felt overpowered five seconds ago, and there's several fantastic moments where you simply transition to the next screen - and they are there in all their paranoia inducing creepiness, ready to fight you with a boss theme that is closer to the SIlent Hill 1 final boss than it is a normal RPG boss theme.
I have thought about them for a literal decade because of how well he presented them in his game. Monsters created by overwhelming passion, incredibly memorable and unique.
Shout outs to my favorite indie dev, I am not being paid to tell you to check out the definitive version of his game - you just should.
He didn't even let me pay him for the definitive edition because I bought his game a lifetime ago, how dare he!
4:24 *insert monika from doki doki literature club crying in the corner*
Boeing reference
Theres also a similar game to this named OneShot, its not a horror game but it does use the same mechanics
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it adds folders and files in your desktop and at some point even changes the wallpaper messing around the files is actually an important part in the gameplay since you have to do some puzzles outside the game and onto the computer itself..
(Another Spoiler warning)
One of the most insane features this game had is that once you finish your the game, you can only play it once, even if you delete the save file, if you DID delete the save file it results into another route in the game named "Solstice" which is basically the True ending
OneShot is a really underrated game and needs more recognition
was hoping someone mentioned oneshot! so good!
I still get chills thinking about that one .mp3 of White Face screaming.
Hey man, idk if you're gonna read this but if you enjoy games where you interact with the game outside of the game, OneShot is a fantastic game for that. It's a pretty small game, with getting every achievement taking about 15 hours, so I highly recommend picking it up at some point.
i support this message
Also there's OutCore.
If you think about it, White Face is technically a Nextbot.
i wouldve never watched this game without you playing it, you seem so calm and collected while also failing miserably