John, I know it probably gets annoying when a lot of people request the same games, but I honestly really appreciate you playing this series. Just wanted to say thank you for always keeping your videos interesting and authentic.
For anyone wondering why he didn't see those tiny black dots he has mentioned it before how hard it is to see obvious things sometimes because he has lights pointing right in his face. Just for those who are wondering what's up.
i would understand it if he missed it the first few times but after like 20 times and missing the big white light in the middle i think he needs to see a doctor XD. After 5 whole times i was like: ok somethings going on, because your not that stupid... RIght?
@@bananaperson6616 Current John might be quicker to pick up on these now but in exchange he also has become more cynical about everything. Tbh I don't know if that's even worth it.
C s I just got chills reading this comment because it’s a year later and I’m also watching this while knitting. It was a bit painful watching John give her the needles and no yarn lol
"As I understand it, you can play this game after Rusty lake... but you can also play it slightly before." As long as you play it slightly before, or slightly after, but not WAY before. And lord help you if you try to play it at the same time.
These were meant to be played before Hotel, since that was the release date; everything in Hotel was added to the lore after The Mill. And I can't imagine they'd be too hard to play at the same time, since they're just point and click games. Maybe not the Cabin section of Case 23, but these two games are intended to occur at the same time, so playing them together is quite feasible!
Just a heads up, after you play Cube Escape Birthday and Theater, you should play Rusty Lake: Roots, then play Cube Escape: The Cave, and then finally Rusty Lake: Paradise (the way the developers recommend playing it). P.S. The secret code you got in Rusty Lake: Hotel can be used in Cube Escape Birthday (it doesn't give you a different ending (like Cube Escape The Lake) it just gives you a little something special ;) )
This series of games is absolutely intriguing. I never know what to expect! And your genuine happiness and excitement in playing it adds to the fun of the video.
You should rip the photo of Mr. Crow and his Wife. Its about Dale and his purpose. Also get ready with that code in Hotel it will be used in Birthday. Also theater has a secret called "Bad Egg".
Great to see you again John! Funny you mentioned Twin Peaks - I've been watching it when you don't post new vids (definitely not getting on ya for not updating - life happens). Really enjoying it so far Agent Cooper is so zany.
I JUST started watching Twin Peaks! It's been on "my list" but since you started playing the Rusty Lake/Cube Escape series a couple weeks ago, I subconsciously started it. Thanks, John.
My grand parents had a phone like that and I loved it. It felt really satisfying to dial the numbers. Btw John you are amazing at puzzle solving. Keep up the great work. :D
I was actually a Librarian for several years, and there was a rotary phone in the "breakroom" of the library. They actually gave me the rotary phone as a gift when i left.
My house still has a rotary phone stuck to the wall. Of course it doesn't work because we had our landline disconnected several years ago, but it remains as an artistic fixture in our kitchen area.
John! If you enjoyed the Rusty Lake games, you would **love** the Submachine games! It has the same atmosphere as the Cube Escape games and it's got such a good story to it, too!
omg, "Harvey!! Heyy.....*thousand yard stare*" even though I've seen most/played some, I still enjoy these playthroughs. Thanks for the plays and edits.
Yeah, I know. But this is also a game where stag beetles have keys inside them and corpses unleash hordes of flies out of their mouth that rearrange into a safe code lol
😂😂Was falling asleep during this vid (not cause it was boring just tired) and I woke up to see John playing with the utters and saying 'I don't understand why they're acting like that' 😂 idk why that cracked me up so much
My theories so far. The black humanoid figures are those who were harvested. At the end of mom, the future is the detective. After he put the cubes in he said he saw his memories floating in the lake then we saw mr owl with him. I think we actually are mr Crow in the mill, that's why he said to the figure that they were already harvested. Don't know who the shadow with the horns is. But you're right about the cubes being memories. I'm not sure about Harvey's role but maybe he killed the guests at the hotel for mr owl because with memories it was shown you could change your past. He wants the woman to come back to life perhaps. And maybe the horned shadow dude is the killer then?
Dark Static I thought horny dude was Mr. Deer from Hotel, since iirc he shows up in the forest with all of the shadow folk of the other critters. Might be wrong though.
So excited for you to get to birthday...it was my personal favorite out of cube escape. Great video as always! I also never noticed the dots on the wall when I played it, and thought I just had to tap randomly.... hell I didn't even know until I watched this vid. But well, random tapping got the job done eventually so nbd.
Yay! I'm so glad you're playing more of my favorite series. The first one I played was Birthday, and I've been hooked ever since. Can't wait until you play that one
Just wanted to say, thank you SO MUCH for playing this series. I love it! Also, spoiler, the next game, Cube Escape: Birthday is all about Dale Vandermeer.
Case 23 is the hardest cube escape game for me but I find it really fun except for the last chapter because I'm slower than a turtle XD😂 cube escape the mill is extremely easy for me:)
Hey john! There's also a game made by the Rusty Lake devs that was way before the cube escape series, but still has the same style. It's called Samsara Room and its a trip and a half.
john clicks on the wall where the black dot is, wall crumbles, john: "i guess its just random?" watches john click ar0und the black dots that pop up lol
Still watching this series in 2019, it's my favourite of all your playlists. For some reason I always laugh hardest when John gives that brief look to the camera when he knows some Rusty Lake bullshit is about to go down XD
The corrupted human from the earlier games was the woman. She was trying to remember herself. She died, I think from that green pill, or from being murdered from a corrupted human, and the crow collected her body for the lake. The crow takes dead people, their good memories (white) and bad memories (black). But if you extract bad memories, you can corrupt the body, which is why the woman became black. The corrupt become killing machines, desperately seeking their lost memories that they can never have back, only fragments. This is just my interpretation. I have no idea what the owl did to the detective, though.
jade smith I think Mr. Owl was trying to corrupt Dale's good memories (like in the birthday episode in which he sends him a gift, his family murdered and dale has to find a way to reverse it) and turn them into bad ones so he would join them, in their killings I assume?
If you write CROW into the typewriter at the end of doing the typewriter thing zou get an achievment "dark wings". I discovered it bc in the newspaper in chapter 1 there is an add for a typewriter and there is CROW written on it.
Case 23/The Mill @ 35.52 mins - When you are breaking down the wall, look for the little black glowing 'motes'. That's telling you what spot to click next to knock out wall sections
My guess is the lake is named such as it's probably a frequent spot for red tide ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_tide ) where the waters take on a red brown (rusty) color due to algae. Shrimp is a frequent animal featured in the game which makes sense as shrimps are one of the type of edible foods in red tide waters as the toxins from the algae are not absorbed into their edible tissues
I grew up with rotary phones, and my grandmother had one of the real old ones that clicked as it rolled back after you entered the number. I loved that phone. And it was heavy enough to brain someone with.
![CUBE ESCAPE [Rusty Lake] - THE CAVE](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/jVGiyhZFh80/mqdefault.jpg)
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John: Harvey! Hey!
Harvey: *shits*
John: ...
Me: What a beautiful reunion.
Ellis Island lol yup I loved that look 🤨 “thanks for the bird shit Harvey!”
46:30
Help my friend rocksanne roxanne
John, I know it probably gets annoying when a lot of people request the same games, but I honestly really appreciate you playing this series. Just wanted to say thank you for always keeping your videos interesting and authentic.
Thanks!
@@JohnWolfe hair is actually very strong. It's similar to the strength of carbon fiber when it comes to pulling
@@gustafandersson237 💀💀
@@ayanesak89hes not wrong
For anyone wondering why he didn't see those tiny black dots he has mentioned it before how hard it is to see obvious things sometimes because he has lights pointing right in his face. Just for those who are wondering what's up.
I really hope you noticed those pulsing black dots in post-editing. ‘‘Twas a bit silly
i was screaming internally for that part
Eh, I don't blame him for not noticing. These games love to put random particle effects everywhere, so he probably didn't think anything of it.
I was cringing whenever he didnt notice those black dots...XD Still love him doe
It doesn't quite hold up when he fails to notice the person on the boat shining a big white reflection at him from the exact center of the screen.
i would understand it if he missed it the first few times but after like 20 times and missing the big white light in the middle i think he needs to see a doctor XD.
After 5 whole times i was like: ok somethings going on, because your not that stupid...
RIght?
Lines mentioned in multiple games:
"All that you touch, you change"
"There will be blood"
"The past is never dead, it's not even past"
@Kio Ater by mr. Crow actually
@@PrimordialKrishna nope. *your* memories belong to the lake now, speaking to the corrupted soul of The Woman.
@@PrimordialKrishna yeah, I think mr crow sounds exactly the same as the corrupted soul bc his mouth is sewn
I'm getting the past is never dead tattooed on me
@@nilahfay1650ok???
58:28
i like how mr owl is just t-posing on dale
you don’t know pain until you watch john ignore a pulsing black dot for 45 seconds
I was screaming at the screen for a solid 20 seconds, then called him rude names for the next 25 seconds
@@bananaperson6616 Current John might be quicker to pick up on these now but in exchange he also has become more cynical about everything. Tbh I don't know if that's even worth it.
@@theotv5522wtf you talking about
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Ik
Actually knitting while watching this. I wish I had some grilled food and warm milk.
C s I just got chills reading this comment because it’s a year later and I’m also watching this while knitting. It was a bit painful watching John give her the needles and no yarn lol
@@Giantkiller130-t what a coincidence lol
I was sewing and when I got scared stabbed myself with the needle ahahah
Ayo me too
Grilled Food?
Head on over to Rusty Lake Hotel!
John: I did the code, secret code, and nothing happened.
Man on the boat: 😒
John saying “I don’t understand why they’re acting like that” in reference to udders while trying to milk a cow, may be my favorite thing ever.
Obvious black dot is obvious... Nice vid John always love your vids.
I was surprised he never noticed it
That part hurt so much.
I was pointing at my screen, screaming notice it NOTICE IT! XD
I sometimes think John is really blind he's not see obvious things >,
Hahah I legit was waiting for him to be like “oh im dumb it’s the black dot” but he never diiiiddd
"As I understand it, you can play this game after Rusty lake... but you can also play it slightly before."
As long as you play it slightly before, or slightly after, but not WAY before. And lord help you if you try to play it at the same time.
These were meant to be played before Hotel, since that was the release date; everything in Hotel was added to the lore after The Mill. And I can't imagine they'd be too hard to play at the same time, since they're just point and click games. Maybe not the Cabin section of Case 23, but these two games are intended to occur at the same time, so playing them together is quite feasible!
You solved the matching pictures puzzle so fast!! :O Impressive!!
THANKS, FINALLY SOMEONE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT IT INSTEAD OF BANGING ON ABOUT THE BLACK DOTS ON THE WALL PUZZLE FML
Glad to be that someone today (yesterday?)! :)
Just a heads up, after you play Cube Escape Birthday and Theater, you should play Rusty Lake: Roots, then play Cube Escape: The Cave, and then finally Rusty Lake: Paradise (the way the developers recommend playing it). P.S. The secret code you got in Rusty Lake: Hotel can be used in Cube Escape Birthday (it doesn't give you a different ending (like Cube Escape The Lake) it just gives you a little something special ;) )
I gotta say, the comedic timing at 46:30 is *exquisite.*
Fun fact: Dale’s last name roughly translates to ‘From the Lake’
And Vanderboom is "from the tree"
@@Jupiter_ur_on_mymindHuh. I wondered why Dale’s last name was so similar to Mr. Crow’s. Had no idea they both translated to almost the same thing.
This series of games is absolutely intriguing. I never know what to expect! And your genuine happiness and excitement in playing it adds to the fun of the video.
That look John gets after being so excited to see Harvey, but Harvey just squawks & shits
XD
black spots indicate where to break the wall
John: "I think this is at random"
man in the boat starts glowing white
John: "I guess that did nothing"
Yooo This game LOOKs GoooooD man!!
POiiSED Congrats on 1 million!!
POiiSED yoo man whatsaaap👍✌
POiised, are you high?
Hi POiiSED Please Do A Shoutout To John In Your Channel
John over poiised gang fake screams allllll day
At the wall part at 36 min, you click the black dots ;-; I thought I was gonna lose my damn mind
omg same
bee kaumeyer yeah that got me triggered too ahaha
now i know what that meme john posted on twitter yesterday was about lol
I was like how the fuck are you not seeing that?
@@tonizamboni7362 what meme? Urgh it's to late for me to find out
"We burn the cobwebs with the flashlight.." - John as he uses matches to burn the cobwebs
You should rip the photo of Mr. Crow and his Wife. Its about Dale and his purpose. Also get ready with that code in Hotel it will be used in Birthday. Also theater has a secret called "Bad Egg".
Their were black floating things that you were supposed to press on the cracking wall.
I question my self if he painted his computer screen with black color/colour lol.
My favorite part is in The Mill when Mr Owl hits us with the T pose
John, you should shave your beard to see if you get a cardinal!
Kya- Ken! Art well I just spit my water out
Seela Oudt Sorry 😂 *hands napkin*
if you want to see what he looked ( notice I said looked, not look) like, then watch his 200000 subscriber special.
there's a letter behind the old couple picture,too.
Love these games,heard their going to make short movie and another new game now !!!
OMG THE DOOR PART.
Great to see you again John! Funny you mentioned Twin Peaks - I've been watching it when you don't post new vids (definitely not getting on ya for not updating - life happens). Really enjoying it so far Agent Cooper is so zany.
I JUST started watching Twin Peaks! It's been on "my list" but since you started playing the Rusty Lake/Cube Escape series a couple weeks ago, I subconsciously started it. Thanks, John.
Zack did you see it!? There was a message in that man's coffee!
2 years late, but nice Deadly Premonition reference
You are literally the first person who I've seen make a reference to that game. GG
@@AGnar0k we always pay our respects to the Oracle
Just commenting to say I seriously appreciate you playing this series 😊👍🏽
My grand parents had a phone like that and I loved it. It felt really satisfying to dial the numbers.
Btw John you are amazing at puzzle solving. Keep up the great work. :D
So did you like when you see it or your grandparent told about that
But what game? The mill or case 23
I was actually a Librarian for several years, and there was a rotary phone in the "breakroom" of the library. They actually gave me the rotary phone as a gift when i left.
"We spawned life out of our beard, fantastic,,, so we got a screwdriver,," I love how perplexed he gets about the stranger plot points
Surprised the John doesn't overthrow Fire Lord Ozai with his firebending powers that can distort time and space itself
My house still has a rotary phone stuck to the wall. Of course it doesn't work because we had our landline disconnected several years ago, but it remains as an artistic fixture in our kitchen area.
John! If you enjoyed the Rusty Lake games, you would **love** the Submachine games! It has the same atmosphere as the Cube Escape games and it's got such a good story to it, too!
*investigates a murder*
*doesn't collect evidence, instead works on solving the victim's crossword on the newspaper.*
Detective of the year.
The mill is one of my favourite cube escape games
omg, "Harvey!! Heyy.....*thousand yard stare*" even though I've seen most/played some, I still enjoy these playthroughs. Thanks for the plays and edits.
Lol the painting lady's reaction at 30:15 pretty much reflects my reaction through this series
30:07
Does that mean Mr.Crow is Dale's grandpa because in Cube Escape Birthday the grandpa looked exactly like Mr.Crow's human form...
I'm really loving this series John!
Twin Peaks was awesome. Quite reminiscent.
So I'm like "JOHN !!! Pick up the paper, YOU MISSED THE PAPER !!! ARGH !!! John !! " LOL
WHAT? A grilled duck is to fucking hot to grab! But you can touch and use the Liquid Gold???
What the F?
Yeah, I know. But this is also a game where stag beetles have keys inside them and corpses unleash hordes of flies out of their mouth that rearrange into a safe code lol
John Wolfe its definetly a unique game. I do enjoy your content alot john :)
Thanks for the laughs~
Keep it up👍
Yesss!!! I was so bored til I saw this notification! And my pizza came 😂 perfect timing
You have such a great memory for these games! I wait patiently for your next cube escape video :)
These games got me through a long flight. I'm glad you're playing them; I figured you and your audience would enjoy these. Cheers from Canada.
Man I love this series of Cube Escape
😂😂Was falling asleep during this vid (not cause it was boring just tired) and I woke up to see John playing with the utters and saying 'I don't understand why they're acting like that' 😂 idk why that cracked me up so much
My theories so far. The black humanoid figures are those who were harvested. At the end of mom, the future is the detective. After he put the cubes in he said he saw his memories floating in the lake then we saw mr owl with him. I think we actually are mr Crow in the mill, that's why he said to the figure that they were already harvested.
Don't know who the shadow with the horns is. But you're right about the cubes being memories. I'm not sure about Harvey's role but maybe he killed the guests at the hotel for mr owl because with memories it was shown you could change your past. He wants the woman to come back to life perhaps. And maybe the horned shadow dude is the killer then?
Dark Static I thought horny dude was Mr. Deer from Hotel, since iirc he shows up in the forest with all of the shadow folk of the other critters. Might be wrong though.
Doesn't one of the notes say that harvesting the bad memories corrupts the body, leading to the fuzzy black spirit thing?
Perhaps we need more of the story to determine for sure. But this definitely is starting to bring more things together
Notifications only work for John's videos. Thank you Illuminati and FBI guy, you get me.
So excited for you to get to birthday...it was my personal favorite out of cube escape. Great video as always! I also never noticed the dots on the wall when I played it, and thought I just had to tap randomly.... hell I didn't even know until I watched this vid. But well, random tapping got the job done eventually so nbd.
Glad you're enjoying the series! I've never seen these shorter titles, so glad you're playing through them in order.
Yay! I'm so glad you're playing more of my favorite series. The first one I played was Birthday, and I've been hooked ever since. Can't wait until you play that one
Just wanted to say, thank you SO MUCH for playing this series. I love it! Also, spoiler, the next game, Cube Escape: Birthday is all about Dale Vandermeer.
1:01:30 they explained that the cubes were memories earlier...
I love both atla and twin peaks and john mentioning them made me so happy
I could watch John play Rusty Lake games all day. What a series.
Case 23 is the hardest cube escape game for me but I find it really fun except for the last chapter because I'm slower than a turtle XD😂 cube escape the mill is extremely easy for me:)
Hey john! There's also a game made by the Rusty Lake devs that was way before the cube escape series, but still has the same style. It's called Samsara Room and its a trip and a half.
You know a game is weird when you're surprised you can't pick up cat shit
34:47
John, the black dot
The black dot John
John
John the bl
the black dot
THE BLACK DOT JOHN
I love your content. you always play the coolest games.
Dale. Another Twin Peaks similarity. I love this!
2:26 Boy I sure am glad we have the ability to levitate couch cushions in this game. That's a really neato mechanic! :D
These games are such a huge part of my childhood, so glad you're playing them.
john clicks on the wall where the black dot is, wall crumbles, john: "i guess its just random?" watches john click ar0und the black dots that pop up lol
I'm absolutely loving this series and can't wait to see you tackle the next installments!
I was about to study for my exams but ...... what can I do? I’m weak when John releases hour long videos :(
I promised myself to finish this game without watching youtube but now im here
John Wolfe has a cute baby face
black dot Of course xD
Oh god.. it's the black dot
아리 yee
Still watching this series in 2019, it's my favourite of all your playlists. For some reason I always laugh hardest when John gives that brief look to the camera when he knows some Rusty Lake bullshit is about to go down XD
This series is so freaking interesting! Thanks so much for putting in the effort to play these!
glad im not the only one that A) thought you were supposed to draw what was on the note and B) didnt see the dots
I'm really glad John took awhile with the book part, I was doing it and I felt really dumb trying to figure it out lol
"Harvey!"
*Shits*
Your facial expressions are gold😂😂😂
The corrupted human from the earlier games was the woman. She was trying to remember herself. She died, I think from that green pill, or from being murdered from a corrupted human, and the crow collected her body for the lake. The crow takes dead people, their good memories (white) and bad memories (black). But if you extract bad memories, you can corrupt the body, which is why the woman became black. The corrupt become killing machines, desperately seeking their lost memories that they can never have back, only fragments. This is just my interpretation. I have no idea what the owl did to the detective, though.
jade smith I think Mr. Owl was trying to corrupt Dale's good memories (like in the birthday episode in which he sends him a gift, his family murdered and dale has to find a way to reverse it) and turn them into bad ones so he would join them, in their killings I assume?
Started watching this series so late , what a great series !
"It seems like I'm just RaNdOmLy clicking."
*clicking on blacks spots on the wall*
Favorite series so far, definitely eager to see the rest
That AD placement at 21:10 though scared the bajeezus outta me
If you write CROW into the typewriter at the end of doing the typewriter thing zou get an achievment "dark wings". I discovered it bc in the newspaper in chapter 1 there is an add for a typewriter and there is CROW written on it.
hey john, remember the secret code from rusty lake hotel? in certain moment, u will be able to use it in the cube escape birthday...
I can't believe you played the Rusty Lake series! How did I not know this??? I love these games!
You were not Dale during The Mill. You were whoever the backwards voice is.
I thought I was playing Mr. Crow in The Mill? I don't remember saying I was Dale.
John Wolfe Maybe I missed you saying that
This game series is amazing! Great stuff John
Awesome just starting the video thanks for coming back to the series John
When he yells eat the food at the cow... EAT THE FOOD TINA
Spawning life from beard... Detective Dale, manliest guy ever. Also, just answering the question, I did have a rotary phone. I loved dialing in them!
I can’t wait to see them all with you playing them!
Case 23/The Mill @ 35.52 mins - When you are breaking down the wall, look for the little black glowing 'motes'. That's telling you what spot to click next to knock out wall sections
John: *burns the cobweb with matches*
Also John: Ugh we burn the cobwebs with a flashlight..
Is the lake rusty thou, that's the real question
JCgaming Yes, from the blood.
My guess is the lake is named such as it's probably a frequent spot for red tide ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_tide ) where the waters take on a red brown (rusty) color due to algae. Shrimp is a frequent animal featured in the game which makes sense as shrimps are one of the type of edible foods in red tide waters as the toxins from the algae are not absorbed into their edible tissues
Kiyoshi Hitoare Wow, neat info!
only really just found this series both game wise and video wise, fully making story notes
I grew up with rotary phones, and my grandmother had one of the real old ones that clicked as it rolled back after you entered the number. I loved that phone. And it was heavy enough to brain someone with.
Very cool! Loved it. Great to see the story unravel. Thanks John
Hi john! So excited to watch your video!! Its 1 hr video love it 😍
:Burn the cobwebs with the flashlight" lmao XD