@@someney that is true, but if you don't at least know vaguely where the intruder is (second floor, first floor, basement etc,) then you must assume they could be anywhere. Definitely grab a weapon before heading out.
Yeah, at least use the backdoor and not literally the only place where you have a picture of somebody lurking... Also does that mean that the game continues if you listen to the mom?
This gave me the exact feeling I felt when I thought an intruder was in my home. My family had gone to help my nan with a hospital appointment, I was excited to have the house to myself after school. However, as the evening went on, I kept hearing furniture being moved upstairs, footsteps creaking the floorboards and hushed whispers about the layout of the house. I was shitting myself. I spent the evening with a ladel in my hand and a knife in my belt. My eyes and ears started to play tricks on me, seeing things in doorways etc. Never been so happy for my family to come home lmao. Turns out, the neighbours had moved in a day early and we have thin walls. They were moving their furniture around and talking about where to put things. The rest of the sounds and sights were just my brain playing tricks on me. Felt like an idiot haha.
My one was knowing my mum and dad were upstairs and hearing the folding door creep open at 2am downstairs I got so fucking terrified the next morning my mum asked me why she found me asleep under the bed concealed by two large boxes with a knife and a hockey stick whilst under the covers was 3 pillows as well as the door being barred with three chairs a Yamaha keyboard and a chest of drawers Turns out it was my brother who had decided that 2am was a great time to go outside and smoke a ciggie Fuck you louis you scarred me for life
Mom: sends him a picture of a stranger at the front door, tells him to lock the door Jack: Opening the same door the man is standing in front of in the picture
The fact they are real storys immediately makes them more scary, because it immediately makes you feel like this could happen to you. You feel like your in the shoes of the character you play as.
Honestly whenever I see "this actually happened" in these kinds of game I get really skeptical, but it"# not as if this happening is super unrealistic.
I grew up in a house with three large sliding glass doors on the rear of the house. Once I was babysitting my little siblings and had put them to bed upstairs. I locked the sliding doors and drew the vertical blinds. I stayed downstairs watching tv with a sliding door to my right and the other sliding doors along the wall behind me. This was before smartphones and everyone having a flashlight in their pocket. I say that because suddenly a flashlight beam swept through the sliding door where the blinds were broken (by us kids). I was terrified out of my mind. I sat still listening for any movement or voices but hearing nothing. I turned my head and watched as the flashlight beam moved toward the neighbors yard. I crept closer to peek between the blinds. An adult man carrying a flashlight was moving through my backyard, moving in a strange pattern around the bushes and perimeter of the house. He walked off around the side of my house and toward the street out front. About 5 minutes later my parents came home to me terrified. Turns out the man and his wife were looking for a lost family dog.
My grandparents for YEARS, put those large yardsticks used for mixing paint in the little channels for sliding doors. Even if somehow someone unlocked the door or if we forgot, the stick would prevent someone from entering or at the very least, give you extra time to get away.
@@BagelBites246 I currently have a sliding door in my house, and we do that too. My father would cut wood according to the measurements and then placed it there so if someone tried to break in, they couldn't
Dude. You had 100% reason to be scared. He could have been a thief, or worse..... hell, if I was you I would have called the police on the guy. He had a flashlight, in someone else’s yard, shining lights in other people’s houses. He wasn’t saying anything(?) so who’s to say he wasn’t scoping the place..
I mean he got jump scared so badly he wanted to relax the rest of the day and if you where in his shoes you would probably wanna do the same seeing how seàn literally went into the fetal position
I've always said this. Realistic and sometimes real horror stories and games will always be more terrifying than the supernatural types. It feels much more grounded and plausible that it makes you stop and think "Could this happen to me?" This then leads to more paranoia as you put yourself in the characters' shoes and realize that this *could* happen to you. It makes things much more personal which continues to up the horror.
A piece of geniune advice, if you feel someone might legimately be in your house, don't investigate, get out or get to your family. Lock yourself in a room with a weapon if you can't leave. Don't wander and absolutely call the police
This is the main reason why I’m so happy I have a 1 story house.. because there’s really no where to hide and it’s all in safe distance.. while this game has alot of places for the intruder to hide since while your on one floor.. the intruders somewhere else completely!
Is there an ending linked to going out the back door? 😂 I probably would’ve legged it out the back door or front door and across the street the moment I saw those footsteps going upstairs.
8:52 at the exact moment Jack opened the door my phone reminder to take my meds went off and vibrated which made a really loud noise and scared the absolute piss out of me. The best part is I just recently learned how to change the default message and as a goof I put “don’t be afraid” but let me tell you I very much was.
You, a person who obviously likes watching horror stuff, put "don't be afraid" as your message reminder for pills? I don't know if that genius or masochistic
Dude, I took low level classes, and figuring this kid actually could yell at the intruder (which is an achievement) or open the door, despite your mom saying otherwise, tells me this kid was lower than that, lol. I completed my homework in like 1-2 hours, and this is secondary/high school so it ain't a matter of the amount of homework, it's how hard it is for that kid, lol. I hardly had homework, since it's a "finish your schoolwork at home" type of homework... or papers (which, again, class time was provided, since this is an era where kids my age didn't have a personal computer or the best access to computers in the library/school computer room. If you had loads of homework, congrats, you're the slow kid.
I had my volume turned up all the way and Jack scared the fuck out tof me in the intro, more than the video. I think I instantly gained heart problems from that
I knew that jumpscare was there but it seemed like he couldn't walk outside so I didn't expect it that abruptly. I jumped so hard and my heart skipped a beat.
So crazy that Jack went from now knowing anything about the series, saying that Evelyn suggested it, to voicing one of the characters in the fourth fears to fathom
The dread this builds is better than any jump scare. Then adding the one is what made this work really due to us just anticipating the inevitable. I need to give this game a closer look
@@sakana12500 I think they mean that this is horror game is not some cheap jumpscares that get you off guard and last or a moment and then it is over, but more of terror where you are terrified the entire experience as it goes on you feel more and more afraid not from anticipation of a jumpscare but fear from the unknown.
Honestly, one of the scariest parts about this is their bedroom layout. I'd never want a bedroom where I couldn't see everything from my bed. The fact that his bed is around a corner where you can't see the rest of the room is terrifying, and I don't know how anyone could feel safe in a room like that.
Worse is when I've seen layouts where no side of the bed is directly against any wall; it's just "floating," somewhere in the center of the room. I refuse to believe anyone who does that is human. They're a skinwalker or something.
"Stories are true base on the person who survived." The first episode wasn't finished sean meaning you have to find a way to know the rest of the story
@@BloodMoonCosplays He wasn't supposed to open the door. He was supposed to do what the mom told him which was lock the doors and go upstairs and hide. I can't remember exactly how it ends but that *is* what you're supposed to do to finish the story.
This really is a situation in which "ignorance is bliss" get a whole new meaning, cause you can't be scared of something you don't know exists, like jack said at some point in this video "i would be way less scared if i hadn't seen him walk up the stairs"
Imagine how horrible you would feel as Mason, declining to come over to your friend’s house and then learning that he was home alone when an attacker broke in 💔
Most of these horror games don't get a scare out of me, but that genuinely gave me a deep feeling of anxiety. The last jump scare there was absolutely terrifying.
It's probably because games like Fnaf 99.99% of the time won't happen. But this happens a lot and you know if could happen to you, I knew there was gonna be a jumpscare the moment he opening the door but I screamed like a bitch when it happened
The closest I've come to a situation like this was back when I lived in a not-so-good apartment community. Someone knocked on the door while I was home alone and one of my dogs went crazy barking, so I got up to check and no one was there. A few days later I found out a handful of apartments were robbed. The robber would knock and if no one answered they assumed no one was home and broke in. If my dog hadn't gone nuts I probably would have ignored the knock and went back to sleep (as a young petite woman there was no way I would have answered alone). What would have happened if she hadn't barked and I hadn't answered and he broke in and found me sleeping? To this day I credit her with possibly saving my life. RIP sweet Noel.
My cousin just told me a terrifying story from when she was a kid. She used to wake up a lot in the middle of the night, and she got in the habit of going down to the living room to watch tv. She told me that one time, in the dead of night, she was downstairs watching tv when a man came into the living room. She said they looked at each other for a minute and then he just turned around and left. She said she always thought it was a ghost but like….that was 100% just an intruder who saw a kid and realized he should leave.
I'm always so impressed at how he notices people and things moving in the background. I'm oblivious as all hell. 9/10 times I'm sitting here thinking everything's fine until he reacts to something and I have to go back and see what it was lol
@@Godviahh This wasnt even the end lol ive played the game it still had a good 5 mins jack just died here and wasnt suppose to open the door cause if look out the blinds closest to the door u see the person and its a mild jumpscare and ur suppose to go hide under the bed no leave and get urself killed lol so theres a another one or two jumpscares
Spoiler for the game: It's funny cause Jack doesn't know that there are three endings to that one part, one for you opening the door, one for him being in the parent's bedroom and you hiding until the cops come.
He just needs to calm down. I don't blame him for needing a break after that, especially since he's still recovering from the Rona on top of allergies.
@@narstietokez3713 Obviously, I would too, but being there *with them*, and not knowing if they’re going to hurt you or not, or if they know you’re there
For me it’s worse knowing the likely hood of being robbed as I have been whilst out with family so then there’s the constant fear of if they’ll come back. Absolutely horrifying
ikr? Like, if im away, cool. break in, take what you need, I'm just glad no one's got hurt. If I or someone else is in the home, too, that adds a new level of scary. Like, you're completely at ease in a comforting environment. you're at your most vulnerable, and some stranger violates that safe space and puts you in danger.
I love how jack interacts with us like when we got jump scared he talked to us about his fears and asked if we got scared too AND I WAS TERRIBLY TERRIFIED
Having someone attempt to break into your house while your parents are gone stirs the worst feelings of dread imaginable, and this game perfectly replicates that.
@@JeloOW Yeah, same here. I wasn't alone, (and probably sleep deprived) but I thought I could hear people in my house go through the door and walk around the hallways.
if you see the intruder at the front door, you can start locking all the doors as your mom advised, especially the back door and then hide. By doing so, it delays the intruder from trying to get in and Paula will be rushing towards the front door, enough to scare the intruder away. She'll be ringing the front door as usual and soon after, the cops arrive. It saves you the stress of dealing with him indoors.
i couldn't imagine accidentally leaving the back door open, or even just unlocked, like that. if this was me at that age i'd be checking the locks every thirty minutes, closing all the blinds and locking myself in the bathroom the second i was paranoid
If I left the doors unlocked and the windows and I knew someone one was in my house I would just get out of there as soon as i can and stay at a friend's house
None of the doors in my house (except the front and back doors) lock and We don't have any blinds or curtains yet, so this is actually once of my biggest fears
No dead ass I get made fun of for instinctively locking the door every time I go in my house, even if I’m leaving like 2 minutes later I lock every lock because I’m terrified of something like this
That’s probably why Jack didn’t think there were any other endings though, like there was just one linear path in the code to the “right” ending. He did want to just wait under the bed but, you wouldn’t know how long you’d have to wait to see if that’s a viable option in the game.
We must change that, imagine you sit in corner thinking if i dont move i wont trigger that thing so im cool, then you see eyes from the darkness watching you, waiting - next moment that thing rush you and disapears, complete silence. So after 10 - 20 s you are feeling like - ok now i can move and than jumpscare with loud scream and lights go out completley but you dont lose you must get out..
I’m a general fan of any type of horror game but one of worst personal fears is anything home invasion related, just from childhood experience. Haven’t started the video yet but I recognized the thumbnail so I’m sure this will be a good one lol
The thing that makes this game even better is that the player knows that there’s a person in the house but they can’t do anything about it, and the actual character doesn’t know so it causes so much more suspense because the character is doing normal things like getting a glass of water at night whilst the player is freaking out about running into the intruder. Such a great game! *edits under here, read if you wish* Edit: this literally blew up overnight, wtf 💀 EDIT EDIT: YALL STOP LIKING THIS I DIDNT EXPECT THIS TO BLOW UP, it’s just me badly explaining dramatic irony 😔
Seriously. Especially considering this happened to a real person apparently so it's more unnerving to know that they is what they actually went through.
As someone with anxiety this game was incredibly horrifying, because of how this could happen to anybody and how real it is, the second the sun sets when I’m home alone I’m terrified and extremely paranoid
Anyone with wooden floors knows the pain of sitting there trying to sleep and hearing the floorboards creak as they naturally lose tension or whatever, so you’re sitting there for a second trying to figure out if it was a footstep, how far away it was, and if you should whip your covers off.
you know how much of a good person Sean is just by the fact he says sorry for allergies when realistically he has done so many videos and brightened so many days that he could stop uploading if he just felt slightly off. Thank you.
i feel like the key to this genuinely being scary is that is so much more connected to the real world and isn’t made with some monster you know is fake. And i like how it’s programmed so when the player has lost all good and so much fear is built up that they try to leave this house is when they release the jump scare, perfect
I think another factor is the difficulty of the game. Like if you keep failing an objective over and over again and have to keep replaying it, it kinda loses it’s scariness
The best horror stories are those grounded in reality. The more realistic, the scarier it becomes. One of the best examples is Junji Ito's 'The Bully'.
Jack convinced himself that somebody is already in the house *so hard* that he just straight up walked out to the guy still trying to break *into* the house.
This is honestly one of the scariest games ever. The quality and background noise and how dark it is really makes it feel so real. Something Jack didn’t know is after you get the message from the mother saying to lock the doors, if he went over to the window next to the front door, he could peak outside and see the intruder at the door. Then when he hides under the bed, you can here a constant knock at the door and glass would break. It is honestly such a terrifying scene.
The fact that he was listening for footsteps is something I feel scared doing.I sometimes go downstairs and hear the dishwasher and listen for steps the entire time.
No matter what, humans will always be the most dangerous creature that has ever existed on earth, sure a demon could be terrifying, but could a demon kill one of it’s own kind just for a piece of land for them to control?
I mean. When you think about it. Humans ARE the reason why horror creatures exist. Think about it. Any story, Any movie, Any drawing or any game that has a horror creature. That Horror creature exist because a Human created it.
Definitely is, I’d say part of the immense horror is that it’s real and the fact that it can happen to anyone, even you, even me, all of us in one day perhaps? The horrors of a true story is something that will always outweigh fictional horror, no matter how much more threatening or twisted a fictional horror creature or entity is from the fabric of reality itself within our own grasp of comprehension and understanding, because you never know when it may happen to you in your own comforts of home or safety, once it has been invaded. Anyone got any ideas thoughts or replys for this comment i made :D
4:27am here, i am not trying to fix the schedule anymore, every time i try i give up during the day and sleep, im nocturnal now PS: of course i am on vaccation, so yhea, for now i don't really have alot of pressure to stop being nocturnal, but truth be told, i was supposed to have training this week in the morning, but none of the guys texted in the group confirming the time, so im kind of confused, wonder if i was supposed to know the time and be there
When I was younger I was followed home from school by a van. I literally went and hid in some bushes then went to a house nearby to stay. I was scared, but the people in the house were so warm and welcoming. If they had not been home idk what would have happened to me.
As someone who is watching this while they are home alone, while it is dark out with dogs constantly barking at something I can’t see this was highly entertaining
This made me sweat so badly from just watching because it somehow unlocked a memory of mine. My parents house was set up to where a mirror was on the landing for our stairwell. So if you were at the top of the stairs you could see the kitchen and if you were at the bottom you could see the upstairs bathroom. My mom had a nightlight in the kitchen for us that was always on. One night I came out of the bathroom and I looked in the mirror and could see a figure at the bottom of the stairs and I just assumed it was my dad and went back to bed. A few nights later I was waiting in line for the bathroom and my brother came out and we both saw the figure in the mirror then my dad snored loudly from his bedroom so we ran into my brother's room and the door knob started to jiggle. Nothing was ever missing and no doors were broken and our alarm never went off. To this day we have no idea if it was something paranormal or what.
If you notice the footsteps going up the stairs, it’s a defining moment in this game as well as the main reason why it’s such an anxiety inducing experience. Because the in game character doesn’t notice it and it puts us in a position of power because we are aware of the intruder’s presence. Dk if that made sense but I hope you get my point Edit: The slow, dragged out and almost serene walk just adds to the fear factor
@@soundwavesuperior28 knowing someone’s in your house is a lot more scary than being oblivious to an intruder’s presence. It’s not that hard to understand.
We had a man walk into my family’s apartment once. We were all sitting in the kitchen, chatting, so we didn’t even hear the front door open. Then a man walked in on us. Granted, he looked just as surprised as we did. My dad jumped to his feet, the man apologised and backed out into the hallway, grabbed his things and left. We figured he was drunk and mixed up the floors (the doors all look the same). Weirdest thing is, it didn’t cross his mind that something was wrong until he saw us. He took off his shoes, put his coat on a hanger. Like he was just coming home from work or something. I don’t think he had an ill intent, but it still freaked me out. It felt… gross? Like when someone walks in on you in the bathroom. You don’t feel secure in your own space after that. And that’s considering I was with people then, if he tried anything my dad would beat the shit out of him. What if I was alone then though? I’m very small. Gives me chills just thinking about it. The game captures this feeling really well.
I’m very paranoid about strangers knowing where I live in general, actually. For example, as much as I like the convenience of to-door deliveries, they kinda make me uncomfortable. It’s not hard to push your way into someone’s home when they’ve already opened their door for you. It’s not hard at all to do something horrible if you have the intention, really. That’s the scariest part.
As a kid, I had bad anxiety and would feel paranoid while in my own home. This game captured what I felt perfectly... looking both ways before turning a corner, going up stairs and not being able to see behind you, thinking you saw movement from where you want to go, knowing that you don't know... It's bringing back apprehension that I thought I had finally escaped.
Hope all is okay man. Easy to say from someone without that level of anxiety, but it’s easy to imagine things when you’re thinking so deeply about it. No shame in going to see someone about it, family, friends, a psychiatrist, etc. it must have an affect on your daily life to not feel safe in your home. Hope all is good otherwise ❤️
Oh my god I relate so much. For a very long time I was totally the exact same, couldn't even go down the hallway without having my back against the wall. This is bringing it all back
same. in middle school i would stay up late scared someone would break into my window. when i was babysitting my siblings the slightest noise scared me
When Sean started narrating the written text I COMPLETELY missed the fact that it was him talking and thought the game had recorded dialogue and I was like "Oh that's weird, the voice actor sounds like Sean".... took me a min to realise....... I feel stupid now...
OMG!!! I'm so glad I wasn't the only one.. I had this on in the background to listen to and literally thought "hang on, has Sean narrated this game and he is now just "passively" promoting his own work?"
This story isn't necessarily creepy, more just scary in a "holy shit this kind of stuff happens" kind of way. My uncle and his family were travelling in a motorhome. While they were sleeping, someone came knocking on the door really aggressively, even throwing rocks at the vehicle. My uncle went outside. There was a visibly disturbed man who was absolutely convinced his daughter was being kept in the motorhome, and demanded that they released her. My uncle tried to explain to him that the man's daughter wasn't there, even showing him the inside, but the man grabbed a brick and hit my uncle in the head badly. He ended up running away. Apparently he's a patient of a mental insitution who had escaped. My uncle is fine now, but his vestibular system has been permanently damaged. He worked renovating houses, but now that his sense of balance has been messed up, he can't safely stand on a ladder anymore.
"Horror" is too simple of a description like this is anxiety, panic, paranoia and holy shit that type of fear is just different. Very cool game. I can't imagine if in the near future we could get something like this game on VR...
Assuming you have VR, I don't know if you've tried VR Chat. It's got worlds that player themselves create and some of them are horror worlds. I haven't found any that's more anxiety and paranoia based. But there's one where it has my lowkey phobia of mannequins. I forgot the name of that specific world but there's another one (with mannequins as well) made by OfficialSayon called Unshattered Destination. Super creative and great content in my opinion. You should give it a try!
@@dull_demon4717 the back door being open was earlier on in the game, the back door being open was when jack was in the kitchen after putting the lasagna in the oven (i think). He ended up closing that door
I don't why but it happened to me too when I was rewatching, but it was fine the first time around. Apparently whenever I had the video quality set to 720p it cut a part of the video idk why which made the audio seem faster. I switched it back to 1080p and it was fine.
I was so confused, why isn't anyone talking about the audio being weird? edit: It was around 8:20 in the video, so I switched it to 720p like the comment above and it started working correctly. Any reason that the quality affects the audio?
This is such a creative idea! Taking people's actual stories and recreating them so the player can have an in depth experience of what they went through is just extra spooky. Not surprised Gab recommended this. She's the queen of indie horror.
I’ve been a very paranoid and weary person my entire life and I’ve had this exact same feeling in my own home alone, seeing and hearing things,mistaking normal household ambience and shadows for figures and breathing,it was the purest primordial fear I have ever felt in my existence like a helpless sheep being stalked and preyed upon by a wolf
well as a paranoid person too cause of some trauma! your brain knows that it is alone, and with the “empty” feeling of being alone, your ears and eyes compensate for it which causes a feeling of dread and haunting or someone being there, and what you see is your brain trying to wrap itself around everything! hopefully this kinda helps? or u might just have some cool ghosts with you hehe
I find as I’ve gotten older I’ve gotten less cared of the paranormal and more of actual people so this game completely freaked me out. Especially since I’ve started to listen to murder podcasts.
I believe in ghosts, but the only bad ones are at abandoned places, as they're abandoned for a reason. People can be anywhere though and that's terrifying
Yeah the more I've been listening to true crime podcasts and true crime shows I've been more scared of people and less of ghosts and monsters, especially as a girl.
Alternate story: you are sitting on the couch, eating burnt lasagna. You glance at the stairs, then freeze as you see a pair of footsteps step up them, one at a time. You think it's your friends pranking you, or maybe a hallucination from lack of sleep, so you go to investigate. You find nothing, so you try to go to sleep. You end up staring at the ceiling, willing yourself to close your eyes, but you can't shake the feeling that somethings wrong. That's when you see it. A shadowy figure standing at the foot of your bed, staring directly at you. You are gripped with fear and can't move. The figure crouches down next to your head and that's when you hear: "I've been trying to reach you about your cars extended warrenty."
i don’t know, there’s something about the way this clueless 14 year old kid is texting back and forth with a mother, helpless to do anything to help her child due to the fact that she’s away from home that is ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING. this kid just has an entire house to himself, something that he considers exciting (because he gets to have friends over!) yet, for a mother who has a neighborhood where this freak is roaming around stalking houses with the lights off, it’s the most terrifying feeling in the world. the text conversations with this mother, who loves her child so much, has to be the most haunting part of this game.
the anxiety this video and game gives me is insane like holy shit like i had to pause the video so much just so i could cool down and then unpause it god this still gives me chills
@@kobblestone I'm pretty sure they meant that this playthrough is unfinished. What the game wanted you to do was see that there is someone at the front door via the text message, then for you to go check it out by peeking through the blinds and locking the door, then the game continues until it finishes the actual narration. The "you died, try again" ending is if you open the door, like jack did.
My heart DROPPED. I have two houses and one is really huge and the other is really small and in a shady neighborhood in the middle of nowhere, right by a highway. And when my family comes home without telling me, it’s the most terrifying thing when I hear them trying to be quiet or I hear a knock from the mailman. Thankfully, we haven’t had any break-ins, but boy did I have to grab my pocket knife and meter long phone charger. Literally almost anything can be used as a weapon as long as you know how to use it and make it deadly.
@@Boomshteck okay, thanks? Never really had that intention anyways, but you do you, interpret my story however tf you want ^~^ I don’t necessarily care if you think this is a “story” that’s cheesy or fake. So please be more respectful in the future, thank you.
The suspense built and built until that ending. And I was watching this with my mom sleeping in the next room, so I was trying not to make any scared sounds. So creepy!
This makes me wish there were more horror games with realistic themes: home invasion, murder, robberies, shootings. I kind of get tired of seeing the same supernatural stuff attached to some of them. Sometimes the event of the crime itself is as horrifying as it needs to be.
This is something I keep repeating regarding any sort of media. Why bother with something that is impossible, such as paranormal or magic, if it cannot exist in real life? THEIR real life will not support it either therefore it is in vain. If it's magical, paranormal, nonsensical and has little to no background work, you'll never be able to get as immersed into it as you would with something realistic. Something developers and writers need to focus on is a realistic setting, something that makes you feel like the environment is a part of you and you are a part of the environment. It needs to feel REAL. The ability to immerse you as the player is an element of utmost importance and more people should focus on real, stable, physical horror and a slow buildup with a lot of silence to achieve true, absolute terror.
As Jack said it sends chills down your spine to think this actually happened to someone and could happen to you. Supernatural horror gives you the benefit of doubt that you will ever get eaten up by a monster, but when its simply a human that is the nightmare fuel then you just arent safe.
you’re right. personally i always found ghost\paranormal related media creepy but real stuff like stalking and kidnapping? that sh*t chills me to the bones and makes me uneasy. real world stuff on the other hand is hard to come by because it’s difficult to pick up real stories with a realistic product. people nowadays keep nit-picking things like these regardless of the source IMO
Yes! I think this exact thing every time I watch a new horror film and it gets paranormal. That stuff can be interesting when done right, but if you wanna keep me up at night then make it more grounded in reality. I'm not scared of the thought of a ghost being in the house, I'm terrified of the thought of a person being in the house.
“Don’t open the doors, no matter what.”
Jack: To the front door I go!!
for real , i was thinking the same thing he ignored mom's texts v.v
Well he thought the guy was already in the house
@@someney that is true, but if you don't at least know vaguely where the intruder is (second floor, first floor, basement etc,) then you must assume they could be anywhere. Definitely grab a weapon before heading out.
@@Acc12000 my comforting knife collection... cuddle my knives at night
Yeah, at least use the backdoor and not literally the only place where you have a picture of somebody lurking...
Also does that mean that the game continues if you listen to the mom?
This replicates the feeling of running up the stairs after turning off the lights as a kid
As a kid? It’s supposed to go away?👀
I stil have that as a young adult.
HAH I still have that now
Well, u r right. I'm a teen and I'm scared of the dark, yeah.
your telling me i was supposed to grow out of it???
Game: don't answer the door
Jack: "I'm gonna leave through the front door"
omg this game iS sO sCaRy AaAh
game: **facepalms**
Honestly the first time I watched this game the person did everything as instructed and just hid and nothing happened.
the back door would have been better-
big brain here
This gave me the exact feeling I felt when I thought an intruder was in my home. My family had gone to help my nan with a hospital appointment, I was excited to have the house to myself after school. However, as the evening went on, I kept hearing furniture being moved upstairs, footsteps creaking the floorboards and hushed whispers about the layout of the house. I was shitting myself. I spent the evening with a ladel in my hand and a knife in my belt. My eyes and ears started to play tricks on me, seeing things in doorways etc.
Never been so happy for my family to come home lmao.
Turns out, the neighbours had moved in a day early and we have thin walls. They were moving their furniture around and talking about where to put things. The rest of the sounds and sights were just my brain playing tricks on me.
Felt like an idiot haha.
dude something similar happened when my mom went shopping and my dad was gone and my dog kepted randomly barking and growling. its so scary lol
Plot twist: there was really a stranger in your house
pov: you have the ghosts of employees to extreme home makeover in your house
My one was knowing my mum and dad were upstairs and hearing the folding door creep open at 2am downstairs I got so fucking terrified the next morning my mum asked me why she found me asleep under the bed concealed by two large boxes with a knife and a hockey stick whilst under the covers was 3 pillows as well as the door being barred with three chairs a Yamaha keyboard and a chest of drawers
Turns out it was my brother who had decided that 2am was a great time to go outside and smoke a ciggie
Fuck you louis you scarred me for life
@@genericorochimain7027 LMFAOO 😭
The 2 horsemen of when a "scary game" gets Scary:
1: "press 'Shift' to run"
2: "press 'C' to crouch"
3: "press 'F' to hide"
4: "press v to use flashlight"
5: "Autosaving..."
7: "press 'g' to pick up melee"
8: "press 'E' to emote"
Mom: sends him a picture of a stranger at the front door, tells him to lock the door
Jack: Opening the same door the man is standing in front of in the picture
Mom literally told him not to open the door no matter what and it’s the first thing he does. 🤦
@@me4lyfe54 Straight up lmao
He should have vaulted out of the window and sprinted across the street
There was more to that game.... He just died cause he opened it...>
I mean, kid's 14.
Mom: "Keep the doors closed, don't open them no matter what!"
Jack: *Immediately goes to leave the house and is grabbed*
Dont reply to the bots, they seek attention just ignore them
UPDATE: THE BOTS ARE GONE
Yeah, I was yelling for him to go to the room and hide under the bed for the proper ending
@@xxtL can we report the bots or something?? Getting sick of seeing these sh*t
@@misssquiggles7449 is there a different ending?
We don't talk about bruno
This would be crazy to play on VR.
Oh god, please don't say that it might actually happen (I'd 100% play it though tbh)
@@adamkeltner7450 me too. Haha
Don't give them idea
That would be terrifying
Heart attack any% speedrun
Mom: WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T GO OUTSIDE
Jack: I need to go out the front door…
bcoz he saw the footsteps he thought that the creepy dude was already in the house, so he decided to go outside. then he got jumpscared
@@neooalterte8106 but he got the picture from mom of the guy just outside the front door too...
@@preguim1000 ah, yea.guess there's also that
@@preguim1000 true but they said he was getting in through windows you could assume he went around to get in by then
@@connormessenger4756 Creeping through windows not getting in.
The fact they are real storys immediately makes them more scary, because it immediately makes you feel like this could happen to you. You feel like your in the shoes of the character you play as.
i mean theoretically this can in fact happen to you irl. Always does some where.
Well yeah, but this puts it in your head right from the beginning.
I ain’t gonna lie I’d panic
Honestly whenever I see "this actually happened" in these kinds of game I get really skeptical, but it"# not as if this happening is super unrealistic.
i wasnt thinking about it but now i am and im scared
I grew up in a house with three large sliding glass doors on the rear of the house. Once I was babysitting my little siblings and had put them to bed upstairs. I locked the sliding doors and drew the vertical blinds. I stayed downstairs watching tv with a sliding door to my right and the other sliding doors along the wall behind me. This was before smartphones and everyone having a flashlight in their pocket. I say that because suddenly a flashlight beam swept through the sliding door where the blinds were broken (by us kids). I was terrified out of my mind. I sat still listening for any movement or voices but hearing nothing. I turned my head and watched as the flashlight beam moved toward the neighbors yard. I crept closer to peek between the blinds. An adult man carrying a flashlight was moving through my backyard, moving in a strange pattern around the bushes and perimeter of the house. He walked off around the side of my house and toward the street out front. About 5 minutes later my parents came home to me terrified. Turns out the man and his wife were looking for a lost family dog.
My grandparents for YEARS, put those large yardsticks used for mixing paint in the little channels for sliding doors. Even if somehow someone unlocked the door or if we forgot, the stick would prevent someone from entering or at the very least, give you extra time to get away.
@@BagelBites246 I currently have a sliding door in my house, and we do that too. My father would cut wood according to the measurements and then placed it there so if someone tried to break in, they couldn't
Dude. You had 100% reason to be scared. He could have been a thief, or worse..... hell, if I was you I would have called the police on the guy. He had a flashlight, in someone else’s yard, shining lights in other people’s houses. He wasn’t saying anything(?) so who’s to say he wasn’t scoping the place..
Oh... That's sad that they lost their dog, but I would've just not moved and try to hide under the couch, like an idiot.
Did they find the dog
Jack: *gets jump scared*
Jack: *talks about how good the game was*
Jack: *doesn't finish the game*
Doesn't elaborate further
Gigachad
ikr
I mean he got jump scared so badly he wanted to relax the rest of the day and if you where in his shoes you would probably wanna do the same seeing how seàn literally went into the fetal position
yes i was wondering too the video just came to an end he didnt even play the ending
☝🤓
i love how jack goes from hiding under the bed to " i need a weapon "
Wassup
Hmm, nice pfp…
botted channel lul
LMAO x 100
fear does things to a man
In this episode of Jacksepticeye:
Sean forgets how to drink water, gets scared of lasagna, and does 4 hours of homework
i'm surprised he didn't try for another ending
the most scary part is doing homework for 4 hours
And doesn’t finish the game🤣
Why do i immediately think this is a grand tour reference
Just a Friday night
When he started narrating I was like “hey this guy kind of sounds like Sean”
Me too, I thought the voice was a part of the game lol
Sameee
I literally thought it was Sean
lol. I was so confused. it makes sense he voiced over.
same lmao
I've always said this. Realistic and sometimes real horror stories and games will always be more terrifying than the supernatural types. It feels much more grounded and plausible that it makes you stop and think "Could this happen to me?" This then leads to more paranoia as you put yourself in the characters' shoes and realize that this *could* happen to you. It makes things much more personal which continues to up the horror.
this is very true
fax
Jack, you didn't get the ending. You got caught. You got a game over that wasn't part of the actual story but part of the game.
I thought that to
You and I both know Jack isn't coming back to this game after he went through all that lol
@@amirj5232 understandable, I wouldn't have been able to get through this hsjxbsjxnsjxn
What's the ending?
@@ImpartialMindForU Yeah im curious too
A piece of geniune advice, if you feel someone might legimately be in your house, don't investigate, get out or get to your family. Lock yourself in a room with a weapon if you can't leave. Don't wander and absolutely call the police
And more importantly call the police.
thank u i really neede that legit thanks man
This is the main reason why I’m so happy I have a 1 story house.. because there’s really no where to hide and it’s all in safe distance.. while this game has alot of places for the intruder to hide since while your on one floor.. the intruders somewhere else completely!
@@sam8404 that's what they said
@@MayMissYumi That's why the original comment has an "(edited)" tag
Gotta go back and finish this one! There’s multiple “endings” to this, along with the ‘true’ ending. Which is how they’re able to tell the story now
Do you think Sean has the sanity to try to get the other endings?
Is there an ending linked to going out the back door? 😂 I probably would’ve legged it out the back door or front door and across the street the moment I saw those footsteps going upstairs.
wait there's multiple endings?
@@rononmaddaluno8012 0
Bro that wasn't even an ending he died
8:52 at the exact moment Jack opened the door my phone reminder to take my meds went off and vibrated which made a really loud noise and scared the absolute piss out of me.
The best part is I just recently learned how to change the default message and as a goof I put “don’t be afraid” but let me tell you I very much was.
That's one of the most ominous things to be messaged with, next to "i see you" and "i know"
🤣
I am to lazy to read
You, a person who obviously likes watching horror stuff, put "don't be afraid" as your message reminder for pills? I don't know if that genius or masochistic
Lmao you should change it to “BE NOT AFRAID” or some cryptic typa shit
i rarely get legitimately scared by horror games, but this game made me so anxious i jumped when my dog farted
be like your dog
💀
@@Rickyjackson2100?
@@Zaque-TV he speaks language gods, you know the drill...
@@SkyPearlzG bruh
Jack being confused about a 14 year old doing homework for 4 hours tells me that American homework IS uniquely abundant.
uhhh he wasn't confused about the work, he even said "for 4 hours, that's how long he was in your house for."
pretty standard HW time here in AUS as well, its ridiculous how much they give
I had AP classes, so I used to do homework from 2:30 in the afternoon to midnight, and sometimes I still wouldn't get it all done.
Dude, I took low level classes, and figuring this kid actually could yell at the intruder (which is an achievement) or open the door, despite your mom saying otherwise, tells me this kid was lower than that, lol. I completed my homework in like 1-2 hours, and this is secondary/high school so it ain't a matter of the amount of homework, it's how hard it is for that kid, lol.
I hardly had homework, since it's a "finish your schoolwork at home" type of homework... or papers (which, again, class time was provided, since this is an era where kids my age didn't have a personal computer or the best access to computers in the library/school computer room. If you had loads of homework, congrats, you're the slow kid.
I think he freaked out about the fact that someone's been in his house for that long, and yeah sometimes my math takes me 2-3 hrs to finish
We're lucky Jack doesn't have any heart problems, this game would've ended him on the spot
I don't have heart problems and it almost ended me
I had my volume turned up all the way and Jack scared the fuck out tof me in the intro, more than the video. I think I instantly gained heart problems from that
I knew that jumpscare was there but it seemed like he couldn't walk outside so I didn't expect it that abruptly. I jumped so hard and my heart skipped a beat.
I think I have developed heart problems just watching him play, my god..
Its you again
So crazy that Jack went from now knowing anything about the series, saying that Evelyn suggested it, to voicing one of the characters in the fourth fears to fathom
The dread this builds is better than any jump scare. Then adding the one is what made this work really due to us just anticipating the inevitable. I need to give this game a closer look
Yeah the end scare is almost relieving because you know it's over
Agreed
@Serendipity don't read the comments before watching the video
@Serendipity dumdum💀 who reads the comments before finishing the video
He is right you see it regardless
This is not horror- this is terror, the deep feeling of panic and anxiety that doesn’t end quickly but grows and grows.
such a perfect explanation bro
@@kai1ey no they are quite definitively not. if that were the case then terrified and horrified would mean the same thing. but they don't.
@@sakana12500 k
@@sakana12500 I think they mean that this is horror game is not some cheap jumpscares that get you off guard and last or a moment and then it is over, but more of terror where you are terrified the entire experience as it goes on you feel more and more afraid not from anticipation of a jumpscare but fear from the unknown.
When you check the comments before seeing the video… well do I wanna watch it now?
Honestly, one of the scariest parts about this is their bedroom layout. I'd never want a bedroom where I couldn't see everything from my bed. The fact that his bed is around a corner where you can't see the rest of the room is terrifying, and I don't know how anyone could feel safe in a room like that.
PLS /nm
@@beesbrownies what was that? “Plz no mammoths”? Your lack of basics English and loss of brain cells confuse me .
Worse is when I've seen layouts where no side of the bed is directly against any wall; it's just "floating," somewhere in the center of the room. I refuse to believe anyone who does that is human. They're a skinwalker or something.
@@Aimu1 /nm is a tone indicator meaning "not mad", in this instance it means that they shouted "PLS" in a playful way.
@@Aimu1 it's a tone indicator, i'm guessing you don't spend much time on twitter.
“We’re all fixing a sleep schedule”
Yep mines been in tatters since 2013
Lol
So since we were born 2000
I love how he goes from “Mommy help me!” to hiding under the bed, then to “I need a weapon!” in 5 seconds
Nice Reupload
murca
Actually tho the moods switch so easily but I’m here for it 😂
@@sarastpaul3861 i think it’s just his ADHD activating 😂
@@sydney3731 yea maybe I still think it’s funny tho 😂
"Stories are true base on the person who survived."
The first episode wasn't finished sean meaning you have to find a way to know the rest of the story
Wait I’m confused, how isn’t it finished?
@@BloodMoonCosplays He wasn't supposed to open the door. He was supposed to do what the mom told him which was lock the doors and go upstairs and hide. I can't remember exactly how it ends but that *is* what you're supposed to do to finish the story.
@@fairypotater7476 yeah i think the neighbour from across the street or the police eventually come at the end
@@fairypotater7476 I KNOW LMAO
@@fairypotater7476 I THOUGHT HE MEANT SOMETHING LIKE THE GAME WASNT DONE
This really is a situation in which "ignorance is bliss" get a whole new meaning, cause you can't be scared of something you don't know exists, like jack said at some point in this video "i would be way less scared if i hadn't seen him walk up the stairs"
12:01 Yeah it really is true, paranoia is a strange thing
huh? well duh, if you dont see a creepy man crawling up your stairs, you arent scared
True, but honestly I would want to know if a guy was in my house so I could protect myself.
@@ewa8253 but you know he's In the house it's just better to see them go upstairs
@@ewa8253 yeah if you don't see him going up there you won't be scared.
Imagine how horrible you would feel as Mason, declining to come over to your friend’s house and then learning that he was home alone when an attacker broke in 💔
Fr, i felt bad for mason as soon as he declined to come over
Most of these horror games don't get a scare out of me, but that genuinely gave me a deep feeling of anxiety. The last jump scare there was absolutely terrifying.
It's probably because games like Fnaf 99.99% of the time won't happen. But this happens a lot and you know if could happen to you, I knew there was gonna be a jumpscare the moment he opening the door but I screamed like a bitch when it happened
@@vaughan57s52 Reality is life's greatest horror.
the 2nd episode is even worse...
@@ronnoc404 Looking forward to watching it then lmao, that properly scared me and I'm not a person who gets scared by games. This one is terrifying
thanks for the heads up xD
The closest I've come to a situation like this was back when I lived in a not-so-good apartment community. Someone knocked on the door while I was home alone and one of my dogs went crazy barking, so I got up to check and no one was there. A few days later I found out a handful of apartments were robbed. The robber would knock and if no one answered they assumed no one was home and broke in. If my dog hadn't gone nuts I probably would have ignored the knock and went back to sleep (as a young petite woman there was no way I would have answered alone). What would have happened if she hadn't barked and I hadn't answered and he broke in and found me sleeping? To this day I credit her with possibly saving my life. RIP sweet Noel.
Oh jeez! You got super lucky!
luck has reached 100
awwww rip Noel
Dogs have a sense for danger and things man, I swear.
Noel was an Angel in disguise...
May God bless her sweet soul... 🙂🙂🙂
My cousin just told me a terrifying story from when she was a kid. She used to wake up a lot in the middle of the night, and she got in the habit of going down to the living room to watch tv. She told me that one time, in the dead of night, she was downstairs watching tv when a man came into the living room. She said they looked at each other for a minute and then he just turned around and left. She said she always thought it was a ghost but like….that was 100% just an intruder who saw a kid and realized he should leave.
Professionals have standards
Yeah f that 😱
@nigmode445 wtf
@nigmode445 what.
@@authenticskyrat its a bot, idk which sick fuck would make a bot just to tell hateful comments smh
I'm always so impressed at how he notices people and things moving in the background. I'm oblivious as all hell. 9/10 times I'm sitting here thinking everything's fine until he reacts to something and I have to go back and see what it was lol
Same here😂 when he saw the footsteps going up the stairs, I was so confused as to how he noticed
I love the way that this isn’t about jumpscares, it literally just builds up the fear and it is making me die lmaoo
Jumpscare at the end afterall. But yeah it is not about it
@@pioneeringworks the jumpscare isnt overused. thats the best part. its only at the end once the game has riled you up and got you shitting yourself.
if it was me in the game, I probably would have shot that intruder through the door from the inside
1.5k likes with only 3 replies? Lemme hwlp you :)
@@Godviahh This wasnt even the end lol ive played the game it still had a good 5 mins jack just died here and wasnt suppose to open the door cause if look out the blinds closest to the door u see the person and its a mild jumpscare and ur suppose to go hide under the bed no leave and get urself killed lol so theres a another one or two jumpscares
As long as I’m not full screen, everything will be alright
I literally half clicked off the video
and also if my volume is at 10
Pretty relatable. Also, idk how that works
@@Rogue_Sniper I don’t know either 😂
i watch horror videos with fullscreen 😈❗
Spoiler for the game: It's funny cause Jack doesn't know that there are three endings to that one part, one for you opening the door, one for him being in the parent's bedroom and you hiding until the cops come.
@Instagram User do you think you are funny?
@@Jinxanator66 its a bot, do not engage
@Instagram User you tried but the other guy got you beat. he has a way longer paragraph to copy and paste then you do.
@Instagram User bro wtf
The fact UA-cam lets that happen, amazes me. But then they get banned and all they'll do is challenge the ban and then get unbanned.
SPOILER:
For people hiding in the comments there's nothing that really happens until the jumpscare at 15:33 (LOUD)
you are truly the best.
@@rahbeat9785 lol thank you I do my best
You are a life saver
Thank you
I literally love you
Jack: This story can’t be real!
Also Jack: *doesn’t finish the first episode properly*
He just needs to calm down. I don't blame him for needing a break after that, especially since he's still recovering from the Rona on top of allergies.
Properly? Huh, I oughta find a diff playthrough to see if there's a different way it's supposed to go
@@GreatFrostHawk there is if you just stay under the bed for awhile you get the real ending
@@GreatFrostHawk it's free to play u can try it urself
Yea, he needs to finish the game properly. Hope your comment makes it to the top
I swear, finding out someone broke into your house while you were gone would feel so much less scary than having someone enter with you *in* the house
Ikr
I’d be shit scared thinking they were still in my house
@@narstietokez3713 Obviously, I would too, but being there *with them*, and not knowing if they’re going to hurt you or not, or if they know you’re there
For me it’s worse knowing the likely hood of being robbed as I have been whilst out with family so then there’s the constant fear of if they’ll come back. Absolutely horrifying
ikr? Like, if im away, cool. break in, take what you need, I'm just glad no one's got hurt. If I or someone else is in the home, too, that adds a new level of scary. Like, you're completely at ease in a comforting environment. you're at your most vulnerable, and some stranger violates that safe space and puts you in danger.
I love how jack interacts with us like when we got jump scared he talked to us about his fears and asked if we got scared too AND I WAS TERRIBLY TERRIFIED
Make funny skits and have to make u laugh or my mom will send me back to Africa 👀!
I'm still in panic mode. 🤣
dude read my name
I felt it in my whole body.
Same for both things you said QvQ
I know it's a 'spooki game for fun', but this is any parent's absolute worst nightmare, right down to the core.
can confirm
Jack should have played this with a heart rate monitor on screen, that would have been interesting
That would be very cool
It would have imploded
50…50…50…150…150…200…999999999bpm
nice idea
@@pinchylobster7392 😂😂
Mom: “Don’t answer the door no matter what he does”
Jack: “that sign can’t stop me because I can’t read”
Haha
Same thing happened to me once.
I was playin a horror game and screamed you cant kill me, I'm already dead inside
That the poppy playtime vid
Having someone attempt to break into your house while your parents are gone stirs the worst feelings of dread imaginable, and this game perfectly replicates that.
bonus points for no siblings
it was probably just my mind but when i was home alone i thought that i heard someone going into my house and that happened many times
Panik
@@JeloOW Yeah, same here. I wasn't alone, (and probably sleep deprived) but I thought I could hear people in my house go through the door and walk around the hallways.
Yes because its a real story
This is exactly why I am over vigilant and even paranoid when it gets dark out or I’m home alone. But I feel better knowing I’m always strapped haha
if you see the intruder at the front door, you can start locking all the doors as your mom advised, especially the back door and then hide. By doing so, it delays the intruder from trying to get in and Paula will be rushing towards the front door, enough to scare the intruder away. She'll be ringing the front door as usual and soon after, the cops arrive. It saves you the stress of dealing with him indoors.
I knew I had seen other gameplay of this where you take mom's advice 😂😂 Sean could have saved himself a day of spoops if he had just listened to her.
Yeah, I don't know anything about the game but I assumed he just got jumpscared for essentially playing the story wrong
i couldn't imagine accidentally leaving the back door open, or even just unlocked, like that. if this was me at that age i'd be checking the locks every thirty minutes, closing all the blinds and locking myself in the bathroom the second i was paranoid
every 5 minutes would work for me
@@avigarg7859 if I was paranoid till I did that every 5 minutes I'd be sending videos of me saying goodbye and I love you to all my friends HAHAHAHAHA
If I left the doors unlocked and the windows and I knew someone one was in my house I would just get out of there as soon as i can and stay at a friend's house
None of the doors in my house (except the front and back doors) lock and We don't have any blinds or curtains yet, so this is actually once of my biggest fears
No dead ass I get made fun of for instinctively locking the door every time I go in my house, even if I’m leaving like 2 minutes later I lock every lock because I’m terrified of something like this
The scariest part of horror games is waiting for something or someone to attack you but you have to move around to trigger them cos its a game
Yep the suspense gets me so paranoid of every little detail.
That’s probably why Jack didn’t think there were any other endings though, like there was just one linear path in the code to the “right” ending. He did want to just wait under the bed but, you wouldn’t know how long you’d have to wait to see if that’s a viable option in the game.
That’s why dread is my favorite type of horror
We must change that, imagine you sit in corner thinking if i dont move i wont trigger that thing so im cool, then you see eyes from the darkness watching you, waiting - next moment that thing rush you and disapears, complete silence. So after 10 - 20 s you are feeling like - ok now i can move and than jumpscare with loud scream and lights go out completley but you dont lose you must get out..
YES
*4:37* *_"You matter, unless you multiply yourself by the speed of light squared, Then you energy."_* Is a quote on a poster in my science class.
I’m a general fan of any type of horror game but one of worst personal fears is anything home invasion related, just from childhood experience. Haven’t started the video yet but I recognized the thumbnail so I’m sure this will be a good one lol
Guys chill thats not something to joke about is his dad
@@Cmaherman they know, that’s why they’re doing it
@@Cmaherman I don’t think they care, unfortunately
Me too. I used to have panic attacks at night when i was a kid because i kept imagining someone breaking into our house and killing us
What a bunch of freaks
“Don’t answer the door”
Jack: Yea time to leave
no he said “time to leave” because he thought the guy was still inside the house
Jack: “did it get you? did you get scared?!”
Me: *literally having just shit myself* “yeah no I’m great”
when’s the jump scare it’s too late for this
@@ianmancuso7244 lol just watch it, theres only 1 jumpscare near the end
Lawl same
@@Tippy555 i did and i peed myself and now i am doing my laundry
I just saw it and i literally shit my pants and killed my neighbour
i’m watching this while in a hotel alone, as a lone female traveler. I’m horrified
Well In the second one you will be scared for life
Wait 'til episode 2
@@demonprincess9680 what
@@SteampunkHorse The second episode of this game? Norwood Hitchhike
@@demonprincess9680 ah thank you! watched a bit of it, got the story from the comments and yeah, that ones way worse
The thing that makes this game even better is that the player knows that there’s a person in the house but they can’t do anything about it, and the actual character doesn’t know so it causes so much more suspense because the character is doing normal things like getting a glass of water at night whilst the player is freaking out about running into the intruder. Such a great game!
*edits under here, read if you wish*
Edit: this literally blew up overnight, wtf 💀
EDIT EDIT: YALL STOP LIKING THIS I DIDNT EXPECT THIS TO BLOW UP, it’s just me badly explaining dramatic irony 😔
Well put
Seriously. Especially considering this happened to a real person apparently so it's more unnerving to know that they is what they actually went through.
Hitchcock's suspense eh?
dramatic irony at its best
Whoa ur pfp is so pretty I want it
Jacksepticeye: *Plays game called Fears to Fathom*
UA-cam: Thats basically Five Nights at Freddys in my eyes
lmfao im glad im not the only one who noticed that.
I saw that too and thanks for telling me the game name :)
You have a year of likes 365
About the same thing
i mean two words in the title start with f so clearly they're one in the same
As someone with anxiety this game was incredibly horrifying, because of how this could happen to anybody and how real it is, the second the sun sets when I’m home alone I’m terrified and extremely paranoid
Anyone with wooden floors knows the pain of sitting there trying to sleep and hearing the floorboards creak as they naturally lose tension or whatever, so you’re sitting there for a second trying to figure out if it was a footstep, how far away it was, and if you should whip your covers off.
The worst is when you’re paranoid during daylight.
My window faces to the West, so I get to watch the sun go down every day...
Welp...guess what I will be thinking about when the sun sets tonight?
0_0
@@dharmeshmistry342 if u hear it three times then rip
Same
you know how much of a good person Sean is just by the fact he says sorry for allergies when realistically he has done so many videos and brightened so many days that he could stop uploading if he just felt slightly off. Thank you.
i feel like the key to this genuinely being scary is that is so much more connected to the real world and isn’t made with some monster you know is fake. And i like how it’s programmed so when the player has lost all good and so much fear is built up that they try to leave this house is when they release the jump scare, perfect
the game tells you to stay in the house though, leaving the house was Jack's fault. also he didn't finish the game
I think another factor is the difficulty of the game. Like if you keep failing an objective over and over again and have to keep replaying it, it kinda loses it’s scariness
The best horror stories are those grounded in reality. The more realistic, the scarier it becomes. One of the best examples is Junji Ito's 'The Bully'.
What's that
@@ThatOneGuy3430 a manga
This one is especially grounded in reality because the Fears to Fathom games are stories from survivors of the incidents in stories
@Sound City (the real god of UA-cam) shut
@Sound City (the real god of UA-cam) you need an actual life
Jack convinced himself that somebody is already in the house *so hard* that he just straight up walked out to the guy still trying to break *into* the house.
Did a quick browse for more info on this, with one of the possible variations, the intruder does get you while in the house, instead of at the door.
@@ericbambach3222 yea in the parents bedroom sad that jack decided to end it there
@@ericbambach3222 The problem is that he didnt get inside YET. Jack essentially stopped playing when the game finally started :/
@@DrakeHurley but he did see someone walk up, so there are many variations to the game?
@@DrakeHurley
Whatchu on about?
The intruder literally was seen walking up the stairs.
Last thing you want to see in a horror game
“Objective: HIDE”
This is honestly one of the scariest games ever. The quality and background noise and how dark it is really makes it feel so real. Something Jack didn’t know is after you get the message from the mother saying to lock the doors, if he went over to the window next to the front door, he could peak outside and see the intruder at the door. Then when he hides under the bed, you can here a constant knock at the door and glass would break. It is honestly such a terrifying scene.
The fact that he was listening for footsteps is something I feel scared doing.I sometimes go downstairs and hear the dishwasher and listen for steps the entire time.
I kind of hope he replays it
@@revilno I know, like I always get that feeling that someone is watching me when I’m alone in the kitchen
@@codyglisczinski8680 yeah definitely, I hope he plays all the stories
@@chaosteller just ignore this guy getting hate is what he wants
The scariest part is that this is something that could actually happen. Sure, horror creatures are scary, but humans are scarier
exactly what i thought. Like home invasions happen. People are freaky man
No matter what, humans will always be the most dangerous creature that has ever existed on earth, sure a demon could be terrifying, but could a demon kill one of it’s own kind just for a piece of land for them to control?
@@Deutsch_Clerkor I mean, they probably could yeah, Demons don't exist so you can't say whether they would do that or not lol
@@Deutsch_Clerkor yeah they COULD idk if they would really need to tho
I mean. When you think about it. Humans ARE the reason why horror creatures exist. Think about it. Any story, Any movie, Any drawing or any game that has a horror creature. That Horror creature exist because a Human created it.
The concept of playing someone’s real life story and things that they went through is a really good and fucking scary idea for a horror game
There's a movie called The Bunny Game that is basically just a retelling of the director's own experience - shit she actually went through.
What happened in the true story?
@@mattterra9303 did you not watch this video?
@@Invalidationcoded im gonna keep that in mind sounds hella interesting
Definitely is, I’d say part of the immense horror is that it’s real and the fact that it can happen to anyone, even you, even me, all of us in one day perhaps?
The horrors of a true story is something that will always outweigh fictional horror, no matter how much more threatening or twisted a fictional horror creature or entity is from the fabric of reality itself within our own grasp of comprehension and understanding, because you never know when it may happen to you in your own comforts of home or safety, once it has been invaded. Anyone got any ideas thoughts or replys for this comment i made :D
“This is the point where you go out”
Good advice bud, leave when you just got sent a picture of a guy right outside the front door
"we're all trying to fix a sleeping schedule these days"
Me watching this at 3am knowing I'm probably not sleeping tonight
Bruh tell me bout it
Same
right.
Same i don't sleep much already due to someone almost coming in my house,only thing between him and my husband was my glass sliding door.. ughhhhh.
4:27am here, i am not trying to fix the schedule anymore, every time i try i give up during the day and sleep, im nocturnal now
PS: of course i am on vaccation, so yhea, for now i don't really have alot of pressure to stop being nocturnal, but truth be told, i was supposed to have training this week in the morning, but none of the guys texted in the group confirming the time, so im kind of confused, wonder if i was supposed to know the time and be there
I think the fact that Jack didn't even consider that wasn't the actual ending really shows how freaked out he was
Fr
He probably knew but again freaked out
@@Sadaaaaf what was the actual ending?
@@yannipika kid is rescued (obviously since this is a true story the narrator would be alive)
When I was younger I was followed home from school by a van. I literally went and hid in some bushes then went to a house nearby to stay. I was scared, but the people in the house were so warm and welcoming. If they had not been home idk what would have happened to me.
I'm so glad you're safe!
I was definitely not the one in the van.
@@BillCipher_OG I was definitely not with this man in the van
@@BillCipher_OG I was definitely not in the trunk of this man's van
@@BillCipher_OG I was definitely not on the roof of this man's van
As someone who is watching this while they are home alone, while it is dark out with dogs constantly barking at something I can’t see
this was highly entertaining
I've played this game a bit ago and this isn't the ending yet, but just a point where you could die if you opened the door like Jack did
I was thinking that the ending DID seem a bit anticlimactic
@Sound City (the real god of UA-cam) the fuck is wrong with u
@Sound City (the real god of UA-cam) still on this really? You’re obviously 12 and think you’re quirky.
@@Liv-kg7vj make sure you report these kind of spam comments asap
What’s the ending?
Replay it, Jack and stay hiding this time. You get a different ending.
well what is the ending
@@andrijabencun5358 the cops come to the house. Pretty underwhelming of an ending.
@@hochimichi But it’s realistic
i was wondering who was going to say that
MAKE THIS THE MOST LIKED COMMENT!!! I WANT JACK TO REVISIT THIS GAME AND DO THAT ENDING!
Me: wow the narrator of this game sounds a lot like jack and he isn’t mentioning it
Me (10 seconds later): oh he’s reading
Lol same I thought it was someone with his same voice
@@ahmed4363 so, to clarify, he edited himself reading it? The narration isn’t part of the game?
@Sound City You're an embarrassment
@@TheSuperblade7 yup. He was just using a voice filter. Had me fooled for a second too
same
This made me sweat so badly from just watching because it somehow unlocked a memory of mine. My parents house was set up to where a mirror was on the landing for our stairwell. So if you were at the top of the stairs you could see the kitchen and if you were at the bottom you could see the upstairs bathroom. My mom had a nightlight in the kitchen for us that was always on. One night I came out of the bathroom and I looked in the mirror and could see a figure at the bottom of the stairs and I just assumed it was my dad and went back to bed. A few nights later I was waiting in line for the bathroom and my brother came out and we both saw the figure in the mirror then my dad snored loudly from his bedroom so we ran into my brother's room and the door knob started to jiggle. Nothing was ever missing and no doors were broken and our alarm never went off. To this day we have no idea if it was something paranormal or what.
If you notice the footsteps going up the stairs, it’s a defining moment in this game as well as the main reason why it’s such an anxiety inducing experience. Because the in game character doesn’t notice it and it puts us in a position of power because we are aware of the intruder’s presence.
Dk if that made sense but I hope you get my point
Edit: The slow, dragged out and almost serene walk just adds to the fear factor
it does…omg it does and thats horrifying to think about
No, it makes no sense at all, and you have 0 point
@@soundwavesuperior28 knowing someone’s in your house is a lot more scary than being oblivious to an intruder’s presence. It’s not that hard to understand.
@@Warzulu77
Didn’t ask. Completely illogical to me.
You're right, I felt my heart drop at that point...
We had a man walk into my family’s apartment once. We were all sitting in the kitchen, chatting, so we didn’t even hear the front door open. Then a man walked in on us. Granted, he looked just as surprised as we did. My dad jumped to his feet, the man apologised and backed out into the hallway, grabbed his things and left. We figured he was drunk and mixed up the floors (the doors all look the same). Weirdest thing is, it didn’t cross his mind that something was wrong until he saw us. He took off his shoes, put his coat on a hanger. Like he was just coming home from work or something. I don’t think he had an ill intent, but it still freaked me out. It felt… gross? Like when someone walks in on you in the bathroom. You don’t feel secure in your own space after that. And that’s considering I was with people then, if he tried anything my dad would beat the shit out of him. What if I was alone then though? I’m very small. Gives me chills just thinking about it.
The game captures this feeling really well.
I’m very paranoid about strangers knowing where I live in general, actually. For example, as much as I like the convenience of to-door deliveries, they kinda make me uncomfortable. It’s not hard to push your way into someone’s home when they’ve already opened their door for you. It’s not hard at all to do something horrible if you have the intention, really. That’s the scariest part.
Keep a gun hidden somewhere in case you need it
i’m small too, so this is a big thing for me as well. i hate going anywhere alone because of how small i am.
Do you guys not lock your front door?
@@cynister7384 I do
As a kid, I had bad anxiety and would feel paranoid while in my own home.
This game captured what I felt perfectly... looking both ways before turning a corner, going up stairs and not being able to see behind you, thinking you saw movement from where you want to go, knowing that you don't know...
It's bringing back apprehension that I thought I had finally escaped.
Hope all is okay man. Easy to say from someone without that level of anxiety, but it’s easy to imagine things when you’re thinking so deeply about it. No shame in going to see someone about it, family, friends, a psychiatrist, etc. it must have an affect on your daily life to not feel safe in your home. Hope all is good otherwise ❤️
thats literally me and i dont know what to do\
Oh my god I relate so much. For a very long time I was totally the exact same, couldn't even go down the hallway without having my back against the wall. This is bringing it all back
Literallyyyy
same. in middle school i would stay up late scared someone would break into my window. when i was babysitting my siblings the slightest noise scared me
I almost had a panica attack at every moment during watching this.
When Sean started narrating the written text I COMPLETELY missed the fact that it was him talking and thought the game had recorded dialogue and I was like "Oh that's weird, the voice actor sounds like Sean".... took me a min to realise....... I feel stupid now...
OMG!!! I'm so glad I wasn't the only one.. I had this on in the background to listen to and literally thought "hang on, has Sean narrated this game and he is now just "passively" promoting his own work?"
@@Nerdchacho yeah i was like "wait what the fuck??? why does this narrator sound exactly like..." *_looks at face-cam_* "...oh."
Same lol
i did the same lol
You're not alone on this lol
This story isn't necessarily creepy, more just scary in a "holy shit this kind of stuff happens" kind of way.
My uncle and his family were travelling in a motorhome. While they were sleeping, someone came knocking on the door really aggressively, even throwing rocks at the vehicle. My uncle went outside. There was a visibly disturbed man who was absolutely convinced his daughter was being kept in the motorhome, and demanded that they released her. My uncle tried to explain to him that the man's daughter wasn't there, even showing him the inside, but the man grabbed a brick and hit my uncle in the head badly. He ended up running away. Apparently he's a patient of a mental insitution who had escaped.
My uncle is fine now, but his vestibular system has been permanently damaged. He worked renovating houses, but now that his sense of balance has been messed up, he can't safely stand on a ladder anymore.
That must have been so terrifying :( I wish the best to your uncle and the rest of you family
hope hes ok
I’m so sorry that must’ve been horrible I’m so sorry hope he is doing well now 💖
Bless.
I'm so sorry that happened to your uncle.
It’s become a ritual to watch Jack’s scary games before sleeping
I can handle horror like resident evil and stuff like that but personal stories that have actually happened scare me so much.
Probably because you can relate to them and subconsciously think they could happen to you
Same here. If it happened to someone, or is very realistic that can happen to anyone, terrifying
U call Resident Evil horror??? LOL
At the jumpscare I legitimately jumped and my right arm jumped up as well and now my shoulder hurts while I shouted out loud at 1030 at night
Yeah same.
"Horror" is too simple of a description like this is anxiety, panic, paranoia and holy shit that type of fear is just different. Very cool game. I can't imagine if in the near future we could get something like this game on VR...
Assuming you have VR, I don't know if you've tried VR Chat. It's got worlds that player themselves create and some of them are horror worlds. I haven't found any that's more anxiety and paranoia based. But there's one where it has my lowkey phobia of mannequins. I forgot the name of that specific world but there's another one (with mannequins as well) made by OfficialSayon called Unshattered Destination. Super creative and great content in my opinion. You should give it a try!
this game would be terrifying in VR
i would just stay under the bed that sht was scary in a computer imagine in virtual reality that's an immediate no no for me
Btw what’s the name of this game?
@@edvinkarlsson9368 did you even watch the video cause you would've known if you did
I like how the mom says “DONT OPEN THE DOORS”
*Jack proceeds to open the door.
the door was already open
@@dull_demon4717 none of the doors were open
@@GrizzlyGamer404 i thought it meant the back door
@@dull_demon4717 the back door being open was earlier on in the game, the back door being open was when jack was in the kitchen after putting the lasagna in the oven (i think). He ended up closing that door
So..... Connecting this to my TV was an awful idea
I- you- why? For what?
True masochism
Worst decision ever
I did that too 😭
The audio was faster than the gameplay. Jack was still walking around when the scare came... I was scared and confused 😅
I don't why but it happened to me too when I was rewatching, but it was fine the first time around. Apparently whenever I had the video quality set to 720p it cut a part of the video idk why which made the audio seem faster. I switched it back to 1080p and it was fine.
I was so confused, why isn't anyone talking about the audio being weird?
edit: It was around 8:20 in the video, so I switched it to 720p like the comment above and it started working correctly. Any reason that the quality affects the audio?
@@struckboot6987 for me it was 20 seconds
@@tired247 It happened to me too, thats a super weird glitch, what the heck
@@tired247 Tried doing that and it hasn't fixed :( Big sad cuz it's hard for me to watch with the audio delayed
This is such a creative idea! Taking people's actual stories and recreating them so the player can have an in depth experience of what they went through is just extra spooky. Not surprised Gab recommended this. She's the queen of indie horror.
E
Who is Gab?
@@eternalvibe9083 Jacks girlfriend
@@Gabi-vt4ex Thanks
@@eternalvibe9083 you're welcome
me: can't sleep cuz i'm always paranoid
also me: yeah this looks interesting
Yeah pretty much sums it up
Not me watching this before I go to bed 💀✋
Saame I couldn’t watch without skipping though I already have insomnia & paranoia 😩
Me rn
lmao same
I’ve been a very paranoid and weary person my entire life and I’ve had this exact same feeling in my own home alone, seeing and hearing things,mistaking normal household ambience and shadows for figures and breathing,it was the purest primordial fear I have ever felt in my existence like a helpless sheep being stalked and preyed upon by a wolf
well as a paranoid person too cause of some trauma! your brain knows that it is alone, and with the “empty” feeling of being alone, your ears and eyes compensate for it which causes a feeling of dread and haunting or someone being there, and what you see is your brain trying to wrap itself around everything! hopefully this kinda helps? or u might just have some cool ghosts with you hehe
I find as I’ve gotten older I’ve gotten less cared of the paranormal and more of actual people so this game completely freaked me out. Especially since I’ve started to listen to murder podcasts.
I believe in ghosts, but the only bad ones are at abandoned places, as they're abandoned for a reason. People can be anywhere though and that's terrifying
yeah same dude, I'm now more afraid of creepy people more than ghosts nowadays
Yeah the more I've been listening to true crime podcasts and true crime shows I've been more scared of people and less of ghosts and monsters, especially as a girl.
There is a simple solution, just hate people.
That's what I do.
@@vitkien like your fridge, bit of an awkward conversation with your neighbor after that happens
Alternate story: you are sitting on the couch, eating burnt lasagna. You glance at the stairs, then freeze as you see a pair of footsteps step up them, one at a time. You think it's your friends pranking you, or maybe a hallucination from lack of sleep, so you go to investigate. You find nothing, so you try to go to sleep. You end up staring at the ceiling, willing yourself to close your eyes, but you can't shake the feeling that somethings wrong. That's when you see it. A shadowy figure standing at the foot of your bed, staring directly at you. You are gripped with fear and can't move. The figure crouches down next to your head and that's when you hear: "I've been trying to reach you about your cars extended warrenty."
The horror...
How dare you burn lasagna. Fiend.
They had us in the first half not gonna lie
I love how the tone in my head for this is mysterious and breathy in a way, then immediately switches to a happy jaunty circus ringleader tone.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! NOT THE CARS EXTENDED WARRANTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would’ve been like just kill me now 😂
i don’t know, there’s something about the way this clueless 14 year old kid is texting back and forth with a mother, helpless to do anything to help her child due to the fact that she’s away from home that is ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING. this kid just has an entire house to himself, something that he considers exciting (because he gets to have friends over!) yet, for a mother who has a neighborhood where this freak is roaming around stalking houses with the lights off, it’s the most terrifying feeling in the world. the text conversations with this mother, who loves her child so much, has to be the most haunting part of this game.
If I was a kid I just hide under my bed until the parents get there
I hate it even more because this can happen so often and has happened so many times, often times this will end horribly wrong and I hate knowing that.
the anxiety this video and game gives me is insane like holy shit like i had to pause the video so much just so i could cool down and then unpause it god this still gives me chills
Jack: this was a good game can’t wait to play the next one
Actually unfinished game:….
it comes out in a few days (Sorry if I misunderstood)
@@kobblestone I'm pretty sure they meant that this playthrough is unfinished. What the game wanted you to do was see that there is someone at the front door via the text message, then for you to go check it out by peeking through the blinds and locking the door, then the game continues until it finishes the actual narration. The "you died, try again" ending is if you open the door, like jack did.
@@1bnbnbn That’s exactly what I meant, thank you.
@@kobblestone that’s alright I didn’t word it all that well, but I was meaning that Jack didn’t finish the story lol.
whats this game called?
i love how he got the absolute worst ending he could on the first try
Are there multiple endings?
@@cobalt4966 Yes. If he had stayed hidden, the cops would have shown up and gotten the guy.
@@thechampion2430 what about the escaped the house ending (not official)?
@@Levyyoman the w h a t
@@justaperson4656 you can glitch out the invisible walls
I was not expecting the intruder to be in the house that early, seeing the feet walk up the stairs was terrifying
My heart DROPPED. I have two houses and one is really huge and the other is really small and in a shady neighborhood in the middle of nowhere, right by a highway.
And when my family comes home without telling me, it’s the most terrifying thing when I hear them trying to be quiet or I hear a knock from the mailman.
Thankfully, we haven’t had any break-ins, but boy did I have to grab my pocket knife and meter long phone charger. Literally almost anything can be used as a weapon as long as you know how to use it and make it deadly.
@@viab.5040 I feel like this is a "hurr durr I am badass hurr durr" type of story but eh, cool
@@Boomshteck how?
@@mariopokemon955 Sounds cheesy as hell
@@Boomshteck okay, thanks? Never really had that intention anyways, but you do you, interpret my story however tf you want ^~^ I don’t necessarily care if you think this is a “story” that’s cheesy or fake. So please be more respectful in the future, thank you.
The suspense built and built until that ending. And I was watching this with my mom sleeping in the next room, so I was trying not to make any scared sounds. So creepy!
This makes me wish there were more horror games with realistic themes: home invasion, murder, robberies, shootings. I kind of get tired of seeing the same supernatural stuff attached to some of them. Sometimes the event of the crime itself is as horrifying as it needs to be.
This is something I keep repeating regarding any sort of media. Why bother with something that is impossible, such as paranormal or magic, if it cannot exist in real life? THEIR real life will not support it either therefore it is in vain. If it's magical, paranormal, nonsensical and has little to no background work, you'll never be able to get as immersed into it as you would with something realistic. Something developers and writers need to focus on is a realistic setting, something that makes you feel like the environment is a part of you and you are a part of the environment. It needs to feel REAL. The ability to immerse you as the player is an element of utmost importance and more people should focus on real, stable, physical horror and a slow buildup with a lot of silence to achieve true, absolute terror.
As Jack said it sends chills down your spine to think this actually happened to someone and could happen to you. Supernatural horror gives you the benefit of doubt that you will ever get eaten up by a monster, but when its simply a human that is the nightmare fuel then you just arent safe.
you’re right. personally i always found ghost\paranormal related media creepy but real stuff like stalking and kidnapping? that sh*t chills me to the bones and makes me uneasy. real world stuff on the other hand is hard to come by because it’s difficult to pick up real stories with a realistic product. people nowadays keep nit-picking things like these regardless of the source IMO
YESSS EXACTLY
Yes! I think this exact thing every time I watch a new horror film and it gets paranormal. That stuff can be interesting when done right, but if you wanna keep me up at night then make it more grounded in reality. I'm not scared of the thought of a ghost being in the house, I'm terrified of the thought of a person being in the house.