UNHOLY - Stealthy Survival Horror in a Brutalist Post-Soviet Town & An Unholy City of Monsters!

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  • Опубліковано 29 вер 2024

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  • @AlphaBetaGamer
    @AlphaBetaGamer  Рік тому +62

    Note: I covered a short vertical slice demo of UNHOLY a while ago, but the full game has just been released and I was really impressed with it.
    The game alternates between 2 different locations with different visual styles and play styles. The brutalist post-Soviet apartment block focuses on surreal psychological horror and the Unholy City focuses on Stealth and Survival Horror.

  • @DerAua
    @DerAua Рік тому +3

    New intro! It's awesome.

  • @michatuodziecki2079
    @michatuodziecki2079 7 місяців тому

    Meblościanka z tapczanem, dywan i grzyb na suficie... Oh... I feel so related.
    This game looks more Polish than Poland itself.

  • @TheWaterdog6
    @TheWaterdog6 Рік тому +5

    Id be more into this game if it didn't just copy other games parts.
    1. Parent looking for child.
    Heavy Rain, Silent hill, Resident evil, Evil within.
    2. Cultic group of fanatics.
    Bioshock 2, Evil within, Silent hill.
    3. Hellscape ruined world.
    Silent hill, Metro 2033, S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Doom, Darksouls, Bloodborne, Gears of war.
    Sure it has a little original spin on it but it just falls into the generic grimdark world that everyone is doing these days. Scorn at least tried an original sort of take. This just feels like someone just wanted to make a new take on Silent hill, but without the monsters. I wanted to like it, but it's just been done better in other games. And honestly, there are better ways to communicate despair and stagnation other than just making dilapidated slums. I can forgive a lot, but the copy paste "Its a ruined city" every game uses shows they don't really have any kind of originality or art direction to offer.

    • @Necrowolf81
      @Necrowolf81 Рік тому +12

      LMAO. do you honestly think any of your examples are the first ones to do those things?

    • @GregoryTheGr8ster
      @GregoryTheGr8ster Рік тому

      I think that this game just needs more puzzles.

    • @ChoirOfBallas
      @ChoirOfBallas Рік тому +7

      Imo when games bite off from another game. It's like, why bro, you couldn't be original?? But then you see a game that tries its best. This is one of those games. Imo, I like it.

    • @TheWaterdog6
      @TheWaterdog6 Рік тому +2

      @@Necrowolf81 And? Does that invalidate any of my points? This game will be shuffled into a bunch of games people vaguely remember, but nothing about it really stuck out or was unique enough to be remembered. Even the name is generic.
      Do you know how many games take places in dilapidated cities? How about ones that have an evil pseudo christian cult? How about ones that shift into another world?
      How about games that are the protagonist looking for their kid?
      Do you see how unremarkable and how well this describes TONS of not overly memorable games?

    • @AntipaladinPedigri
      @AntipaladinPedigri Рік тому +7

      This is a brainwashed CinemaSins way of thinking that tropes are inherently bad and "clichés".
      You can't make anything without a trope and trying to reverse a trope is already a trope.
      The thing is this game is a perfect metaphor for how religiously fanatical people in Poland are, for how the government basically melded with the church, for how they claim to protect children but ultimately just abuse them.
      Come to live in Poland, you will see.

  • @Scytherman
    @Scytherman Рік тому +53

    I'm very impressed by the game's environmental design. The areas look great, with a lot of detail.

  • @vadimsharanda1052
    @vadimsharanda1052 Рік тому +36

    It's really strange. During the whole video, I kept thinking - "ok, this needed more polish" and "well, that's not a major studio, what can you expect". Yet somehow all elements blend together and work surprisingly well. Maybe this game was _not_ rushed, or maybe developers simply knew what they were doing and cared about their creation, but... It's good!
    Also - soundtrack is great, especially during final segments of the game.

  • @FiksIIanzO
    @FiksIIanzO Рік тому +13

    With stories that revolve around fanatical cults, usually the second thing you learn is that they ostracize, if not kill, sinners. It's refreshing to see a more forgiving and superficially benevolent one. Makes it more believeable.

    • @BumboLooks
      @BumboLooks 3 місяці тому

      Nothing about it is believable sir.
      It's a video game for children.

    • @FiksIIanzO
      @FiksIIanzO 3 місяці тому +2

      @@BumboLooks Holy shit!! For real???

    • @BumboLooks
      @BumboLooks 3 місяці тому

      @@FiksIIanzO Aha, goo goo gaa gaa...
      It isn't "more believable".

    • @FiksIIanzO
      @FiksIIanzO 3 місяці тому +3

      @@BumboLooks Man, you are so incredibly cool! Whatwith calling a piece of fiction a piece of fiction on the internet, so based! Better yet, saying that a horror game is for children! Man, so real and edgy, down to the hard hitting facts! I wish I was like you, can you teach me?

    • @BumboLooks
      @BumboLooks 3 місяці тому

      @@FiksIIanzO It isn't "more believable" ok?
      In fact it has absolutely zero relation to reality ok?
      Ask mummy and daddy about it ok?
      Maybe they can help you?

  • @robertpanek5944
    @robertpanek5944 Рік тому +19

    I can confirm, that the depiction of a post-Soviet city is accurate. I was raised in one.

  • @thecinemagician
    @thecinemagician Рік тому +4

    Say what you want, the voice actor's got coughing and hacking down to a science😂

  • @kitosjek9541
    @kitosjek9541 Рік тому +28

    Average neoliberal shock therapy experience.

  • @grogg4372
    @grogg4372 Рік тому +6

    The Soviet feel is kinda lost on me tbh. This game is an admirable effort, graphically it's impressive, I really liked the simulated fabrics and the attention to detail in every room, but it feels like it can't stick to a coherent style. The Soviet-era buildings only appear so often, and they are the scariest part. The rest of the game is not that scary, it's less horror and more just tension and stealth.
    Also the story pacing feels weird, like it's skipping whole chunks.
    Nice game though, thanks for your walkthrough as always. I love your puns at the end!

    • @vurhn2009
      @vurhn2009 Рік тому

      I agree this feels less scary I haven't started the game but looking at reviews I guess there is good reasons I agree with them.

  • @pyrosnineActual
    @pyrosnineActual Рік тому +8

    I only skimmed through this because I wanted to play this, but the game looks amazing AND has all the feels of a good Amnesia/Half Life mod game, and looks amazing.

  • @alexhodson6342
    @alexhodson6342 Рік тому +6

    Wow. The game looks great, I prefer action games myself but there are so many things going for this one I'll have to get it. 👍
    The atmosphere/environment is definitely the game's strong point, reminded me of the Dishonored games.

  • @generalsheer8442
    @generalsheer8442 Рік тому +23

    Really appreciate that you cover full versions of released games. I like to give it a quick look and decide whether I should play it or not. It's a bit harder with demos, and I sometimes forget about them, because there's so many of them. Hope to see more full games on your channel!

  • @Sebastianmaz615
    @Sebastianmaz615 Рік тому +9

    Those two women sitting on the bench talking about her made me think of Scientology. 🤪😆😊 9:15

  • @Xgamer022
    @Xgamer022 Рік тому +7

    Ahh i forgot I watched this as a demo gameplay before and remember saying ”I was looking forward to the full game version”
    Now i can enjoy CONTINUING with no nostalgic cliffhangers😆

  • @sweepingtime
    @sweepingtime Рік тому +18

    Don't you just hate it when a cult sacrifices your child?
    I remember the demo to this! It certainly looks very impressive now.

  • @c.m.6487
    @c.m.6487 Рік тому +2

    Some fantastic criticisms of the promises of communism/Marxism in this game!

  • @franciscoguzman8004
    @franciscoguzman8004 Рік тому +1

    I liked the graphics and the art but the story is very bland and the characters aren't likable. The cuts between cinematic and gameplay in the Eternity City is very bad. The phasing with that final boss battle is one of the worst thing that i have seen in a while, i hate the trope when both the villain and hero suddenly become inept to stretch the duration of the media(movie,videogame, etc).

  • @phthisis
    @phthisis Рік тому +2

    This intro has extremely heavy Amnesia vibes, but the plot is nonsensical and disjointed to the point that I can't handle viewing more than 7 minutes of this before my brain ejected out of my cranium and traveled to a parallel dimension. The game should have started @ 1:53 and completely skipped the intro - maybe bring it back from some exposition, but for me, it only served to confuse. So there was a prophecy in this 312-year-old church that someone would usher in a new world, and that "fortunately" (not prophesized?), some random dude showed up and showed them the way to...immortality? An emo world? Creationism? I have no idea. It starts out as a pitch for utopia but ends in an insane rant about shaping worlds with emotions, thanks to random Prophet Man who wasn't prophesized to come, except he totally did. Oh, and there's Holy Fire that does things, and if you truly believe, Holy Fire can do ANYTHING.
    The game starts by being trapped in a room, with a narrator that says, "faithful shall not leave their cells at the hour of prayer," so of course we leave our room, because we have no idea why we're here in the first place.
    3:06 I really despise anyone that posts subtitles that don't match exactly what is spoken. After all, people aren't supposed to leave the building complex before THE 4pm. This is THE official announcement of blah blah blah. It's really nice that this PSA pops on when we reach the main atrium, especially since the primary thoughts that we should be having is - where are all the receptionists? Maybe they're praying in their rooms, or maybe it's after the 4pm? Did we get locked in our prayer room for praying so long that everyone already went home from work? Mixed messages.
    3:27 So glad that everyone got the memo. "By the order of the Prophet, all that would disrupt the 'Ascension' are to be caught and interrogated." There's only one thing left to do in this room, which is to disrupt the Ascension, so clearly this is foreshadowing, right? Not to mention, there are strict rules and money spent on the most frivolous of hallway flags, so surely there are security guards to prevent random housewives from entering and disrupting something as all-important as the "Ascension," right?
    4:10 Oh, I guess anyone and their mom can just waltz into the all-important room that doesn't even have the common decency to have a locked door.
    4:18 Random woman opens the big, heavy door and appears on the other side of a 30ft-long hallway in full view of the dozen men and women standing by the altar; no one cares in the least when she walks all the way up to the altar, bitching and whining and touching things that don't belong to her, telling her son that she will somehow remember how to use her arms to pick him up from the glow-y blanket that shields him with will-o-wisps. The priest is all, "Oh, hey, go ahead and interrupt us. It's not like I'm doing anything important," then some random practitioner is all, "Zer muh gerd, there's an interloper interrupting our shenanigans! Stop her before she does the thing she already did!" Holy fire apparently does what it wants and kills all the random cultists off-screen. Big Bad reveals his Scooby Doo plot, smoke arises, and we will never speak of this event again...even while the church burns and Obi-Won appears.
    5:36 WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF, what is this random Star Wars moment while Gabriel (and a random assortment of cultists) is apparently burning to death 10ft away, smoke is so thick that this woman should've blacked out by now, if not have her woolen sweater/skirt on fire from all those embers scattering about, and Darth Vader is apparently already gone? Or something? Why is it suddenly safe to have a chat with an old woman inside a burning church, and why is "Who are you" the first question out of this woman's mouth while Gabriel's burning corpse is...like...10ft away? So the old woman is all, "...your son is alive. His body may be lost, but his soul still lingers..." Wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Which religion believes that the soul has a life cycle, same as the body? When we leave our physical, corporeal bodies behind, doesn't that technically mean we're dead, and that our "eternal" souls are free to wander? How is someone "alive" without a physical body? Woman is bringing up some MAJOR existential questions, in the middle of a burning church, where we, as human beings, understand object permanence, and that there were no visual or audio symbols that signified the Prophet, Gabriel, or any of the cultists have left the building - they should all still be behind the smoke, listening to everything that's happening (or they should be dead from smoke inhalation). Then she's all, "I will train you, right frickin' NOW! Come with me..." with a blazing fire literally right behind her. I guess she's offering double burning suicide? One month later....never mind how they got out of the burning church, or any of that stupid interrogation nonsense for disrupting Ascensions.
    Pretty much all of this screams ChatGPT/AI-controlled dialogue. That, or "cocaine is a helluva drug."

  • @reubenstarsky7328
    @reubenstarsky7328 Рік тому +6

    Lol nowadays games starts like u wake up from the bed. Lmao. Every damn time.

  • @jeremytitus9519
    @jeremytitus9519 Рік тому +3

    Y’all need better security for your dark rituals. Letting the sacrifice’s guardian reach the altar is real amateur hour stuff.

  • @MicMacPaddyWak
    @MicMacPaddyWak Рік тому +6

    You saying no to the dark basement made me laugh. 23:13

  • @Gamescook
    @Gamescook Рік тому +1

    Yikes, that translation and grammar is ROUGH.

  • @Willchannel90
    @Willchannel90 Рік тому +1

    Cult of unholy, it tells the unholy Nun and priest based on movie.

  • @st.edstatue2700
    @st.edstatue2700 Рік тому +2

    This looks amazing! Very well done. Also, I too remember getting my solid teeth as a human child.

  • @DarkVBA
    @DarkVBA Рік тому +3

    Artwork is 10/10, but the whole game is undone.

    • @DarkVBA
      @DarkVBA Рік тому +1

      Or are some scenes been cut or shorten?

  • @xaahd
    @xaahd Рік тому +1

    This, unfortunately, is what happens when you don't give your voice actors any context.

  • @Luian-PR
    @Luian-PR Рік тому +1

    I liked the game but the ending is pretty bad, has no sense.😖

  • @suffering9668
    @suffering9668 Рік тому +1

    well it looks good but i didn't expected yet another Hide n seek walking sim

  • @JulianUccetta
    @JulianUccetta Рік тому +1

    Love the full game playthrough! Just wondering, were you going for a pacifist run or something?? You are able to kill enemies, but one good example is around 1:30:00 you let the infect guy just wander around, taking aim at him but instead laying down distractions or something... And because of it, you couldn't pull the lever saving the guy locked in the room.

  • @Siamath
    @Siamath Рік тому +1

    The game is kinda pretty, yes, but it's also slow and boring. I couldn't watch more than one hour of this.

  • @BigFella117
    @BigFella117 Рік тому +2

    Sorry, but if I saw a creepy old lady alone in an elevator, I’d take the next one

    • @AntipaladinPedigri
      @AntipaladinPedigri Рік тому +2

      The reverse of closing the elevator before the nose of someone running to it

  • @pinheadsrealm
    @pinheadsrealm Рік тому +3

    _AH YES, UNHOLY NIGHTMARES AND DARK RITUALS_
    _THIS GAME HAS IT ALL_

  • @Toasterloaf
    @Toasterloaf Рік тому

    Uh... that intro in the beginning moved way too fast. Doesn't build-up mean anything?

  • @podcelebclips
    @podcelebclips Рік тому +2

    where do you even find these obscure games? it’s insane

  • @tinytank999
    @tinytank999 Рік тому

    so you do a 3 hour game play of this but don't follow up the other really intresting demo releases ???

  • @jacobthompson7813
    @jacobthompson7813 Рік тому +1

    Man i was hoping you would save that guy in the gas room. Oh well

  • @injuringflea727yeet
    @injuringflea727yeet Рік тому +1

    Game yes game good

  • @UniDeathRaven
    @UniDeathRaven Рік тому +14

    Loving old ass architecture. Still waiting for soviet era open world action/rpg with 50 million $ budget.

    • @vincere_
      @vincere_ Рік тому +6

      It's called East Europe - Albania, specifically. Or former Yugoslavia, but that one's a bit buggy with landmines still hiding around.

    • @No-longer1
      @No-longer1 Рік тому +4

      Come and visit the post commie camp countries.
      Everything from Poland to Kazakhstan to post-yugo countries, and you can experience it all with mindblowing graphics!

    • @UniDeathRaven
      @UniDeathRaven Рік тому +4

      @@No-longer1 Nah bro, I want video game series Fallout style but in a commie wrap up. I already live in a post-communist countries. I see it everywhere. But seeing is not playing amazing video game, right. By the way, I am socialist/communist too.

    • @TheTiredTortoise
      @TheTiredTortoise Рік тому +2

      ​@@UniDeathRavenThere's Atom Rpg and it's sequel but they're isometric like fo1+2
      Good games doe

    • @UniDeathRaven
      @UniDeathRaven Рік тому +1

      @@TheTiredTortoise I know, I am happy for their success with such indie game, but I really want super high AAA+ budget open world. I want to get lost 1000+ hours like in Skyrim.

  • @stanstnstn
    @stanstnstn Рік тому +4

    Always appreciated those who choose their own path and created new worlds instead of following limitless sequels & remakes

  • @koroplays3200
    @koroplays3200 8 місяців тому

    shouldn't you have the good voice actor play the protagonist?

  • @AntipaladinPedigri
    @AntipaladinPedigri Рік тому +5

    3:45 I think the statue is answering your question of the whereabouts of your son with a "beats me" pose.

  • @enexprod
    @enexprod Рік тому +1

    Terrible naration voice at the beginning..

  • @KlingonGamerYT
    @KlingonGamerYT Рік тому +5

    love the game...on my wishlist

  • @axelhobrecht2321
    @axelhobrecht2321 Рік тому

    The game is pretty good, great atmosphere and the plot is very good too. But I feel that the game still needs some optimization on his engine, because it had several FPS drops during all the game.

  • @Switcher1972
    @Switcher1972 Рік тому

    That "creepy old lady" trope version is the way I have always seen the Agatha Harkness character in the Marvel roster.
    Impressive game.

  • @AzidHouse
    @AzidHouse Рік тому

    Basically Half Life in hell!

  • @markdodson8570
    @markdodson8570 Рік тому +1

    Evil cultist's in a nutshell.

  • @leticiallime
    @leticiallime Рік тому

    the mc makes some sus noises

  • @mapleleaves5556
    @mapleleaves5556 Рік тому +4

    so glad horror games based in post soviet countries are emerging! thanks for the gameplay ❤

    • @Switcher1972
      @Switcher1972 Рік тому

      Sovietpunk is now a sub-genre, the whole "post-soviet" thingy is becoming a trend.
      There is so much to do with all the culture facets involved.

  • @OrionTheHunter337
    @OrionTheHunter337 Рік тому

    New intro is better

  • @nations69
    @nations69 Рік тому

    No therapy

  • @AntipaladinPedigri
    @AntipaladinPedigri Рік тому +6

    14:11 guess that explains what's for dinner: a tube of superglue
    14:31 as insane as it is, letting kids play with lead-based oil paints is basically how little we knew of adverse effects of lead on health.
    15:45 you unlocked your new black metal band logo
    16:48 a true artist: hated the sketch of his daughter, still put it up on display
    20:59 welp, guess you have onlynseven business days to live now
    24:23 damn, I knew bums were throwing illegal drinking parties in people's basements but a black mass is a first.
    33:13 that's no gas. Those are just soviet-era-made cigarettes.
    34:48 because during occupations all we had left was resistance
    34:56 sorry, this is my room. I wasn't expecting strange cult women looking for children, and hadn't had the time to clean.
    38:58 Fear Factory logo?
    41:18 thankfully the city seems to have Skyrim guards
    43:48 "No one must learn my secrets! Better write it down and leave the secrets out innthe open!"
    45:10 apparently the effect of the plague is retrograde amnesia: it makes you forget how to crouch
    47:40 DarwinnAwards 2023: ABG crouches innwater and shoots electric slingshot at it
    54:57 "stepping into broken glass will alert nearby guards"
    ABG: Butt slide (it is, then)!
    1:00:59 now is not the time to admire your manicure
    1:14:52 reversed POV: you are a deer that sees co2 emissions from ticks in the grass.
    1:30:03 apparently merely looking at art is strictly forbidden. In this dump, no wonder.
    1:34:32 "look out for the gas!"
    ABG: *jumps straight into the gas*
    Technician: good!
    1:44:09 note: "I'm gonna run away and never come back! Mom and dad priest will be sorry!"
    ABG: *slowly looks at the corpse next to the note*
    Me: gee, I wonder if he ever made it out...
    1:44:22 don't! That's a vibrator!
    1:46:12 he lusts for that wall. Slender, tall, mysterious. She will break... brick him if she wanys to.
    "My duty is to protect the faithful!"
    *immediately slacks off and fukks off to lust at the luscious wall*
    1:51:34 guy: clearly beaten and lying down, unable to move
    Also guy: "come at me, bro!"
    1:57:27 "I shan't bear the sight of hair assy!"
    Then shave it.
    You sure did restore the monument to its previous magnificent look, ABG!
    2:06:30 I think he is fukking the elevator door
    2:19:04 oh no, it's the serial boobah groper with his hands already up and ready and fingers twitching eagerly!
    Granny didn't destroy the most vile of the books: the college textbook on calculus!
    3:12:29 I think henisngoing to award fifty points to Gryffindor
    3:14:07 *wants to be god*
    *shoots at his own machines*
    "My goals are beyond your understanding.png"
    3:16:19 Grandma should put on a little make up, why'd you put the kid upon the sacrificial table, YOU WANTED TO!
    I cry when prophets deserve to die!🎶
    3:31:18 so if he is a god, someone like their mothers is bound and doomed to become their devil counterpart?

  • @guy38853
    @guy38853 Рік тому +2

    49:56 okay gonna stop here😅to avoid anymore spoilers. Love the themes so far in this game. Can't wait to play it for myself.

  • @AntipaladinPedigri
    @AntipaladinPedigri Рік тому +3

    1:45 "open your eyes... Open your eyes... Open your eyes..."
    Just five more minutes, moooom! *turns to the other side of bed*

  • @Necrowolf81
    @Necrowolf81 Рік тому +3

    An hour into the video and not seeing any survival horror. Reminds me of Thief or Dishonored. I didn't bother trying to read any of the letters you found. They need to have a text overlay of them to make them easier to read. It may be fine if you're sitting at your pc but not so much for someone sitting on a couch several feet from a TV,

    • @AntipaladinPedigri
      @AntipaladinPedigri Рік тому

      They are barely legible on a tablet at fullscreen sjdeways in 480p. Devs never learn.

    • @Shizn0id
      @Shizn0id Рік тому

      those letters all had overlays the idiot just didnt click to activate them for about half the game.

    • @9Godslayer
      @9Godslayer Рік тому +1

      It was 55 minutes in, which isn't even 1/3 of the game, let alone half. The letters before that had massive lettering so you could still read them unless you were blind or low vision.

  • @Kapt_Klaw
    @Kapt_Klaw Рік тому

    Another banger!

  • @berniekatzroy
    @berniekatzroy Рік тому

    The opening just became chainsaw man

  • @cioccolatamania3622
    @cioccolatamania3622 Рік тому

    The slingshot mechanism is so weird.

    • @MrTrixton
      @MrTrixton Рік тому

      Nah its a trick to slow down the player from rushing through environments, abusing the stealth mechanics

  • @Мидгард-ц4н
    @Мидгард-ц4н Рік тому +1

    СССР ☭

  • @AntipaladinPedigri
    @AntipaladinPedigri Рік тому +2

    12:16 goodie, I hope Kurm Frog Teach ABC is on

    • @AlphaBetaGamer
      @AlphaBetaGamer  Рік тому

      Haha! Kurm Frog needs to be a full TV series! :)

    • @AntipaladinPedigri
      @AntipaladinPedigri Рік тому +1

      Yeah, a full progression from ABCs like Kurt Frog Teach Making Meth/Hotwiring Cars. You know, the basics every child needs!

  • @AntipaladinPedigri
    @AntipaladinPedigri Рік тому +1

    9:00 *
    SNEAK increased to 100 *

  • @alejandrobrown1499
    @alejandrobrown1499 Рік тому

    😂😂😂 your son is dead 😂😂😂 game 🎯 over I still had to watch ⌚

  • @markusmac8230
    @markusmac8230 Рік тому

    201:01

  • @ChoirOfBallas
    @ChoirOfBallas Рік тому

    0:46 spelling errors. So weird to see a game make those mistakes.

  • @hcohic9884
    @hcohic9884 Рік тому +1

    resi 7 but better ?

  • @JDoubleG
    @JDoubleG Рік тому

    BAD AI

  • @End-Result
    @End-Result Рік тому +1

    Thank you for your intelligent description of this game, and for uploading this content as per usual : )

  • @monkezballs
    @monkezballs Рік тому +1

    Goddamn 3 hours

    • @UniDeathRaven
      @UniDeathRaven Рік тому +2

      better grab cold energy drink and some burgers for maximum experience!

    • @hazzmati
      @hazzmati Рік тому

      Or you know play the game yourself