The problem with multiplayer horror games...
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2024
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Today I review the multiplayer horror genre, specifically my favorite and least favorite games that I tricked my friends into playing with me...
Re-uploaded due to demonetization and age-restriction
0:00 Intro
0:28 GTFO
0:59 Browser horror (ad)
2:16 GTFO
2:55 Pacify
3:54 Escape the Backrooms
5:55 Sons of the Forest
8:02 Outlast Trials
9:49 Phasmophobia
12:51 The catch
12:26 Outro
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Ok I think my horror arc is done now, back to normal starting next vid...
I LOVE YOUR CONTENT
didnt I see this before?
@@cappo1178right..?
wait a second. arent you a cardinal?🤨🤨🤨
@@cappo1178 Nah don't worry about it
and then lethal company comes along...
He had to wait with this video for 3 months 😂
Fr
mans just wrote a prophecy
That game is gold
Not a horror game. Its more like Dead Rising, where its a goofy game that takes place in a horror setting.
We need a multiplayer horror game where the monster can use your friends' character model and name and shit. Maybe even mess with their inputs and/or mirror them.
Can't wait to see AI get trained during a game to use your friends voices and mess with us. Imagine the first time you start the game the player needs to record a couple of lines, and each time you play those lines can be heard from the darkness. That and proximity chat would make everyone shit in their pants.
I know of forewarned, it's a game in the phasmophobia genre. There's a ghost/spirit that can mimic your friend's appearance and their equipment that can attack someone if it's alone with that person.
I think that's a level in that backrooms game
Theres a thing in the outlast trials that does exactly that called the mimic
Identity Fraud does this perfectly.
If you can play roblox.
From my experience with GTFO, it's less of a typical horror game, and more of an "Oh shit we're totally screwed" type of game. The fear of the game comes from how brutally it punishes you for mistakes, so when you haven't messed up yet you're terrified of making a mistake, and when you have made one you have the dread of knowing what's coming and how horribly screwed you are for the rest of the mission.
8/10 Never felt so much desperation and despair playing a video game before.
for some reason when my brain sees GTFO even though i saw the video i think of "get the fuck out"
@@miralkeremozcan1857yeah cause that’s what that means. The game is literally called “Get The Fuck Out”, cause that’s what you try to do in it
@@sandyman3070its actually named after the operatives/characters, and their designations
From what I have experienced with GTFO, it definitely does play like an "Oh shit we're totally screwed" horror game. Unlike in most horror titles where once you've messed up you usually cruise to safety, in GTFO even one small error can result in your demise. This combined with the intensity of the procedurally generated levels means that no two playthroughs will be the same, making the fear all the more real for the player. tentacles Awn7mFktpB4
me with don't starve
Even as someone who plays phasmophobia a lot, when you go in vr. You feel like you are back to knowing nothing. Flatscreen Phasmo is not scary in the slightest for me anymore unless it’s a unexpected startle. But in vr I feel like I’m gonna die because it’s vr. In vr you have to hold the radio and close the closet doors physically and hope the ghost doesn’t see you do it. While in flatscreen you hold B and click a mouse. In vr you have to physically hold the lighter and light the incense while running from a ghost that is the same height as you, while in flatscreen you just click your mouse and press the W key.
it's crazy, I can play any horror game on PC ever and I'm bored on 90%, but on VR I couldn't even play more than 5 minutes of FNAF lol.
THIS, i am like having fun on normal, mostly because i play with friennds, but on VR? OH HELL NO, THAT SHIT IS TERRIFYING
Phasmophobia is the only game on this list I've played, and I've only played it flatscreen (also I've only played it multiplayer. I don't expect it's a game I'll even enjoy in single player, but as a multiplayer game I find it most enjoyable). I don't think of myself as someone who enjoys the feeling of being afraid, and in theory the detective aspect of the game is more the reason I enjoy it, but yeah, I can only imagine VR is 10 times scarier than flatscreen
I somehow found it less scary in VR when I tried it
@@SlowDownYTH O W
I still can’t get why they demonetized this masterpiece like WTF RUclips
I have a feeling that its because of the 911 joke at 6:57
@@Ruronokehow tf would that get it demonitized
@@Ruronoke the fact it currently exists says otherwise. he likely said 1 too many nono words or something dumb like that. or maybe it was a naked cannibal somewhere
@@sweglord227It was outlast trials. He replaced it with a paper drawing
@@Ruronoke definitely not, probably cuz of nаked guys in outlast and sons of the forest. They're censored now
So brave of reuploading the same video. This is the content I subscribed for
I was so confused when I saw this video again lol
@@yoshithebear7630wdym?
Re uploading? What did I miss?
@@julian117xdread the description
Thats what im here for
lethal company is by far my favorite multiplayer horror game
it's incredibly effective at making you feel like you're playing a funny moment generator until it comes out of nowhere and punches you in the neck and watches you try to slowly crawl your way home (and of course, your friends either get to laugh at you when you freak out and die or pop off when you pull off a huge escape and save the run)
It's weird for me, it is just like backrooms with the voice chat and phas with the truck and camera, but ive never been scared while playing it
*Hex Haywire* Timestamp for Quildrens and Sicklings who are here after Ike’s stream! 1:08
He is a member as well, so cool lol
OMG TYSM! POG U!
Can we agree, that no matter what multiplayer horror game comes out, you will bet your money that youtubers will say it's "The Funniest Horror Game." Until the next game.
For a week until they never play the game again lmao
@@TheReZisTLust and they miss 3/4 of the game's mechanics, classes, cool tricks, maps etc
@@no3ironman11100 and then get irritated and passive aggressive to the comments who were making fun of them missing th e simplest of things.
Lethal Company comes to serve this statement true.
@@voxelheart LC is actually awesome tho, been playing it with my friends. My favourite multiplayer horror game rn and more than worth its price
The only thing missing from the scatter situation in "The Backrooms" is a monster that captures audio during play so when common phrases like "Hello?" are said, the monster can use that audio clip to mimic and lure you in with your friends voice
litteraly the skin stealer?
if it takes your voice then yes, if not, I dont like you@@jesusfilosofo6385
I feel like these backrooms games that are riddled with monsters are just the devs using the backrooms themselves as a boost of some sort cuz they all feel the same as other horror games
@@jojobizarrelivingstone594 Escape the backrooms uses info from the backrooms wiki (like the levels and entities), so it isn't just "riddled" with monsters because the creator is pretty much just turning the backrooms wiki canon into a game which imo is why it became so popular, it's the first high quality one to do that
@@jojobizarrelivingstone594 fr mostly just effortless cash grabs
1:11 "bf cuddles and comforts you after a bad nightmare" yeah I'm gonna need that after playing horror games
Labyrinthine is one of the best. Proximity voice chat, forced unpredictable separation, scary monsters and ambience, with the occasional cheap jump scares. All while being very affordable.
It's one of the games that makes me hate getting separated from my friend because of the proximity chat
Labyrinthine was an absolute sleeper hit that we didn't expect much from going into. We got addicted pretty quick, and the loudest I've ever heard my friends scream was in Lab. The pig specifically is especially startling.
Y’all would really like escape the back rooms
@@xGeneralRex the pig is soooo horrifying haha anytime we heard a peep of the ambience sound the pig creates everyone went dead silent in fear
Somebody NEEDS to make a game where you and your friends get split up and you have to communicate via some radio or stations that appear rarely
E: (Lethal company)
You might like the 'we were here' games
Yoink
SCP Multiplayer does that
Omg yes
Lethal company
Lethal Company is so fun yet scary when you are by yourself. With friends its not a horror game. but when they die? Fear
I remember when I was new to phasmophobia and I played it with a friend that wasnt good at the game too. We went in the house and we were taking too much time finding out the ghost. And it started hunting so we hod in a huge closet (in the smallest house). And we were just hearing her constanly sing. We were absolutly terified. Honestly best 48 minutes in any multiplayer horor game ever.😂
note: remind that in phasmo, the "responds to people who are alone" is about the spirit box. it means that the ghost will only respond to spirit box questions if the person is alone IN THE ROOM, not in the house.also, as scruffy said, the radio in phasmo is also great because during a hunt, it actively hinders you as it alerts the ghost to your prescence and location, which can, and will, lead to your death.
1:09 HEX HAYWIRE???? I DIDNT KNOW THIS MAN WAS A VTUBER FAN
Time to rewatch this
Wow! 2 stellarjay videos in one day!
and then lethal company came out
SCP Secret Lab is scary when you are alone or with a small group, especially ironically without mics. Listening for the sound cues of what SCP is getting closer, are those footsteps friends, an undead horde, or a soldier ready to kill you since they all sound the same. It's a good horror game when it wants to be, otherwise it's more focused on combat
Me watching this right now
My mind : lethal company
Phasmophobia is probably my favorite game to play with friends, so scary, yet with such insane amounts of depth to figure out what ghost it is
For those looking at Outlast trials, while it may fail as a horror game and becomes less scary the more you play it, it is probably the best coop game on this list (next to gtfo) and should be considered a standard for what a coop game should be.
I disagree, did not care for outlast trials at all. all my friends insta refunded it before I could even try to convince them to give it more time. Giant fetch quest simulator
@@TheStellarJay to each their own i guess. Me and my friend got addicted playing from just the handful of maps, exploring mechanics, the coop experience ect. Especially interesting if you're a outlast fan. Calling it 'fetch quest' can be the same as any game like phas for example (another game me and my friend enjoy). But you're right to have your opinion.
@@TheStellarJay I can somewhat understand where you are coming from, but you were blatantly wrong at some points, like you can fight back against NPC's with rigs or throwables and if there are enemies camping your objective, that is because one of your friends have led them there. I respect your opinion anyways
@merluzo8269 I mean, how were you playing it?
Lethal Company. Buy it right now.
THE scariest multiplayer game and also the funniest. It's in early access and is already great. It released a few weeks ago.
It's scary because the graphics are so degraded with a pixel filter. The creatures are also horrifying. You barely see the monsters because they always kill you in one shot or multiple attacks while you're running away. Using the in game proximity chat makes the game so much more fun. You do have walkie talkies, but they take up an inventory slot, and you only have four. The battery on all your electronic gadgets is limited and must be recharged manually in the ship.
One of the unique strengths I find that multiplayer horror games have is the ability to separate players from each other. Normally having others with you creates this sense of safety by having a group, a support system, around to help. Suddenly cutting off one player from another inverts this, making a unique feeling of vulnerability.
Take Labyrinth for example. While navigating its maps and mazes various 'cave-ins' can occur separating players from one another, forcing them to suddenly travel alone. Combine this with the in-game proximity chat and you have a good recipe for horror.
HEX HAYWIRE LMAO 😂😂
I wonder how lethal company would fit this video
Hex Haywire and enstars mention
Damn I have complete opposite feelings about outlast trials. Its scary the first time you get introduced to each trial but that effect goes away after a while for sure, and basically turns into a game of optimizing your runs. The rig system and perks add more depth for "fighting" back against the invincible mobs. Learning how each monster acts differently, and learning map objectives and layouts to be more effective in runs. The modifiers are also fun and I think theres a lot of replayability. Communication is pretty important for strategizing in the game especially if you want to get a good grade. It's more of a co-op scenario game with the outlast/horror theme. Personally I found this gameplay loop pretty fun compared to most other horror co-op games I've played in the past.
Nah I agree Outlast Trials goes hard
1:05 for the vtuber fans
1:08 I wouldn't be brave enough to subtly promote my Vtuber Oshis while casually coming out of the closet. I always knew you were a king but huge props!
i think one of the most genius part of GTFO is that the scariest thing isn't the monsters... it's you or your teammates fucking up
Ewok hunt is the ultimate multiplayer horror game
The hex asmr is SENDING ME
we're. we're gonna ignore the vtubers? the vtubers boyfriend asmrs? we're all gonna ignore it? okay then, just making sure
Just like our instinct has trained us to feel more comfortable in groups, fear is contagious and grows exponentially in groups.
It's a simple thought process just like most instinctive behavior:
Group=Stronger=No Threat
Group scared=Threat stronger than group=Threat way stronger than you.
One feels fear.
Two feels nothing.
Three feels excitement.
You are wrong. The group does not get scared. Just having another person by your side is enough to nullify your fear. Having a third person makes it fun.
@@drifter2391 Until someone gets scared anyway. Why do you think it's forbidden to yell fire in a theater? Panic spreads faster than fire, causing people to be consumed by fear and lose all sense of reason no matter how big the group.
"Groups never get scared" -drifter2391, 2023
r/confidentlyincorrect
@@axios4702 Not in horror games!! Because the fear is irrational.
I can't help mentioning how much I love the sound tracks of these videos, not only do they sound great and go with the video, but they also give me a dopamine rush just hearing music from all my favorite games
The thing about phasmophobia though is that after like 10 hours of playing it is no longer scary in the slightest, its just feels like your speedrunning the game every time you play and the fear factor is removed if you know what to do in every situation.
yeah but its still fun. i have over 600 hours in phasmo and im still not tired of ghost looping and challenges
Phasmophobia is really a puzzle game with a horror theme, most of the enjoyment I get is from identifying ghosts correctly especially on 2 or less evidence modes
In beta phasmo one of my friends was trying out VR. He died, but for some reason he kept his head cam. So we sent our spy ghost inside the house to solve all of our problems.
And then along came Lethal Company
Thank goodness you reuploaded the video after forgetting the "..." at the end of the title 🙏🙏
im here because of ike mentioning hex here lmfao
There was this fun game called "We were here", free too. Not the most scary, but I love it's use of communication. See, you're both trapped in a castle on complete opposite ends, and can't see what the other is doing at all. All you have is a walkie talkie, which seems like it would ruin the scariness, but it kinda doesn't. See, only ONE of you can talk at a time, if both of you try to talk, all you get is silence. So in some of the scarier sections, all you can hear is the other person's terrified ramblings and pleas for help (that was mostly me) while all you can do is listen and try your best to help. And you can't turn them off either so you are forced to listen
Thus the phrase:
*"Horror with friends is comedy."*
lethal company heh
Labyrinthine is another multiplay horror game tha I really enjoy. The scare kinda goes away once you play for a while, but the pigs in the tunnels in chapter 4 are terrifying.
i play laby too and honestly don't even enjoy it for any horror-related stuff, i just think doing mazes with friends and proxy chat is fun, and there's more to getting good at the game than what meets the eye too (stuff like baiting rush monsters, keeping a monster "agro stunned" to help a teammate slip by, hiding around corners to reset dying teammates, taking good lines to reach safety, looping for teammates to do puzzles or get a revive, etc.)
@@kalidoesart For sure, that is way is has a concurrent playerbase. The mechanics are just fun.
welp, here comes lethal company
I’m currently working on a game that’s basically Escape the Backrooms, but better. The plan is that almost every level splits up the players at the start so you have to find each other. There’s proximity chat, but due to this being developed on Roblox (yes I know it has a bad connotation but it’s going really good so far), there’s bubble chat for players who haven’t been verified for proximity chat. The entities consist of a main entity designed solely to disorient and split up the main group, and supporting entities that slowly kill off your crew when you’re separated. It also has survival elements such as hunger and sanity to contrast the horror and make it harder to stay in one place. I think the game will be really fun and also horrifying once it’s done.
this video aged...
poorly ? well ?
I don't know but it aged with the release of lethal company
there's definitely some new things to say now ! I love how lethal company is scary af when you're alone
LETHAL COMPANY WOOOOOO
SCP Secret Laboraty is mostly a game to have fun with random people all doing their own thing and usually saying dumb shit (if not spamming "funny" soundboards, the proximity voice chat being great)
And yet there's still a few time here and there where you get scared for real and man do I both hate and love these moments. You spend 10 minutes having fun (or not) doing stuff peacefully, you think everything all right, then you hear someone talking behind a door so you approach to say hi, open the door and and there's SCP-939 pouncing at your to eat your face as you scream like a baby for the very little time you had to react and now 939 has stolen the last thing you said and he *IS* going to spam you screaming like a baby for the rest of the game and there's nothing you can do about it while you hear other spectator laughing at 939 spamming it and mocking your baby scream.
SCP Secret Laboratory is the both the funniest (not "fun", funny) and most horrifying game because it has cyber bullying guaranteed
Secret laboratory isnt really scary its more fun tthan anything I'd put it in A tier on my version of his list
sucks that northwood is ruining it, even for my computer that's less than 4 years old and is of great build sometimes it struggles to keep the game running without a game crash, and all the bugs and shit too. like how sometimes the ball is completely invisible and makes no sound so you can just die to nothing and it be completely not your fault (this has happened to me like 3 times all in entrance zone about to escape as D-Class, makes my blood boil)
@@Photom101 You mean when jumping could randomly kill you ? (especially after taking 914) ?
Yea, if he's looking for actual horror, then Scp: containment breach would be a lot better.
@@nediacheese9989 they removed the horror from scp lab
1. Proximity
2. Individual tasks
3. Boom you’re alone at some times while being vulnerable
Now i know most of you wouldn't want to try this; but i think an amazing way to re-live horror games in a completely different way is to roleplay them. Try to actually pretend you're your own character, and if you can; even voice act your character's fears & feelings. Once you get into that role, they feel scary all over again; as if you were on danger. Specially if the games are good, of course. Project Zomboid and Escape the Backrooms sure did work like a charm for me when trying that. And having friends makes it so much more magical. %100 recommend.
I watched it before the re-upload and liked it so I’ll just watch it again and like it again because the content can’t get worse if it’s the same thing 😤
HEX HAYWIRE??!!
SCP is more spread out panic moments that make your heart beat fast rather than being spooky for being an horror genre game, and thats why i like it more than phasmo, because its so random and unpredicable that one second you can be laughing your ass off on 914 by shooting the scientists and the other you hear larry's muddy footsteps coming from the gate, is extremely enjoyable and its community is absolutely nuts. So i can see why you dont like it very much, but i do recommend you try private servers with your friends, it makes it more intense since less people.
1 view after 4 seconds he fell off
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Fr
You should try Lethal Company
It's been blowing up and for good reason
Here from ike evelands shoutout XDDD
Good points, only thing is with phas is when you try to get good at it and be a better detective, it slowly becomes less scary. Once you know whats happening behind the scenes, you know what it all is, it doesnt scare you as much
i hope you make a video on lethal company. i think they fucking killed it with everything you said in the video
1:36 man of culture
HERE FOR THE HEX SIGHTING
Lethal company both makes me laugh till I can't breathe, AND makes my heartrate go mad every time I hear footsteps that aren't mine
You seriously make some quality content dude. Always a pleasure to see that you've uploaded!
Yea yea talk about the game and stuff but what flashbanged me is..HEX?
So real for all the hex stuff
Ready or Not even though not a horror makes me nervous because whenever you shoot someone and they aren't dead, they will disengage and come at you at a later time. At certain maps, they can pretend to be a helpless civilian or even hide, always making you feel unsafe. If these elements were to be adopted in a horror multiplayer settings, I can imagine it to be very, very scary.
SCP is not a horror game, it is a roleplay server with monsters on the side
It is a horror game, sl is not but cb is
escape the backrooms is so fun... with friends, by yourself it's terrifying af
SCP and Phasmo are two of my most played games and I 100% agree. The potential of Phas is only limited by server issues and poor optimization (not to mention the truly awful item shop, I would pay THEM money to let me design a new UI for that abomination). Phas is so fun though even if you only have 1 other person to play it with. SCP can be scary if you're playing on a private server with friends but even then you need to have a large group of people and the more familiar you get with the mechanics the more it feels like a multiplayer PVP game instead of a horror game. The horror only shows up in the split second instances when the parameters Stellar has laid out are met. Great video man, really hit the nail on the head here.
SCP is more spread out panic moments that make your heart beat fast rather than being spooky for being an horror genre game, and thats why i like it more than phasmo, because its so random and unpredicable that one second you can be laughing your ass off on 914 by shooting the scientists and the other you hear larry's muddy footsteps coming from the gate, is extremely enjoyable and its community is absolutely nuts
Phasmophobia is a gem, and we should start a cult around it.
I would highly recommend Labyrinthine. My friends and I used to play a lot of phasmaphobia but after a long time we started looking at it too much as a game and its scare factor wore off. Labyrinthine continues to freak my friends and I out fairly consistently. Wandering through mazes, being separated from your friends by either the monsters that hunt you or by shit like vines growing to block your path all while you desperately try to solve a puzzle as you hear some shit approaching you and your friends voices fade away due to the proxy chat is very entertaining. According to what you said here I think it is the kind of multiplayer horror game you would enjoy. Definitely worth a look.
I would love to see you take a peek at the many, MANY games that spawned from Phasmophobia's success. 'Multiplayer Co-op Investigative Horror' became its own sort of sub-genre, with some games just repeating what Phasmophobia did but worse, and others taking the idea to a new locale. Forewarned sits are a particularly special place in my heart because it does everything Phas does but leans a bit more into the gameplay side of things with more mechanics than simply hiding when the monsters are coming to get you. You don't just cower and survive, you have to actively look for an escape whilst the monster closes in, each of them doing something different.
One monster requires you to sneak around, yeah, but he is blind. He is constantly and loudly stomping around, and there are multiple butt-clenching moments where I have to press myself to a wall and watch as he presses mere inches past me, unable to even vocalize my discomfort for fear he would turn and chew my face off. And the best part is seeing my friends do the exact same thing across from me! It's great!
PLAY LETHAL COMPANY
Secret laboratory isn't really a horror game, it's more focused on beign fun and just happens to be set in a horror franchise, scp containment breach though, that oneis terrifying
I love phasmaphobia at a casual level, but I hate playing it. Cowering in a closet or (worse) behind boxes is the most terrifying thing I’ve encountered in video games.
The creator of escape the backrooms also made a monster that looks like a player (skin stealer) echo your voice and is planning to use AI to mimic it and say the opposite of what you say to disorient your friends and even mute you on voice call
Guys I think this person likes Hex Haywire from Niji En
Aged like milk with lethal company, that stuff has me freaked out and having fun at the same time
PLEASE MAKE A VOD CHANNEL. or a gaming channel I wanna see more of you gaming with friends
And than lethal Company came out smashing every other coop horror game
bro this outlast hate is not fair its the best game to come out in years i love it with my whole soul
Lol should've waited another 3 months to make this video and capitalize off of Lethal Company's popularity. Tough break
1:12 ready steady by ado, very nice. I also saw overdose thats a banger too.
The best part about the backrooms multiplayer is that there is a monster that will mimic one of your friends and even use clips of their audio from earlier in the game to trick and lure you
It doesn't do that,fancy did say that he plans on using ai like that but right now its just a pre recorded sound
Ohhhhh come on outlast trials’s is pretty good
The issue with sotf is is can be startling to get jumped but once you know how to defeat the enemies or just find a gun it’s just a shoot ‘em up
8:45 the music made PTSD kick in
The thing that scares me the most in Phasmophobia is the sound design. They really nailed it.
I LOVE phasmophobia so i am so glad it is S tier
Out of all the horror enemies the outlast ones are the most simple to defeat by someone who's somewhat trained in combat/self defence martial arts or someone who has previous fighting experience. And i bet some of them would suddenly and conveniently become (Somewhat) sane after getting their teeth caved in.
I am glad you did reupload, cause i would miss out on this damn good video otherwise
8:44 the ddlc music
The most terrifying experience is playing any board game designed by Valefisk.
You forgot to mention how sometimes in Outlast Trials the npcs can pretend to be your friends
Outlast trials does limit the amount of options you have to fight back too much... Except for bottles, bricks, and the OP rigs. I think the point is valid until late game, when using a blind or stun rig can save nearly every run. It flips very quickly from too little defensive options to becoming nearly untouchable in any mode under X Trials. I enjoy Outlast Trials, but it is extremely repetitive and does need some new scares.
Time to rewatch and give you your time back