One time I was walking are w/ my family and me and my brother saw a sign that said “Press shift to run” in the middle of the woods on a random sign on a tree. It was awesome
This is literally how I feel when I'm on my last step at the top of the stairs and have to flip the light switches and just run to my room closing the door as fast as possible to not let the dark hallway behind me seep into my room.
to this day, I would much rather splurge on keeping a bulb on than to do this. I also have the fear of opening curtains because my kid brain is convinced someone is definitely outside staring in. Also worked around it by never fully opening or closing my curtains
Yes, unironically. I lived in far worse, it's really funny when Americans act so scared of a normal apartment. The rest of the game is creepy, yes, but the map? Not at all, it feels like home. "Devastated" yeah sure
@@Hanna_Stefanowska We can't really blame americans or call them stupid though since they just don't know it and haven't lived in apartments like this. Sure it's kinda funny seeing them call it super scary but it's fair enough.
@@Hanna_Stefanowska Yeah. If anything, I think the feeling of home adds to the game. That it seems normal at first, calm, and then things start falling apart. That "home" is quickly corrupted. But seeing him talk about that stairway like it was something obviously super uncanny was pretty funny, and "the setting of the Soviet apartment building is eery by default," as though that's just a universal truth.
The script of this video felt like something ChatGPT could've wrote. I felt my brain glazing over his sentences. They just sound painfully surface-level.
@@bugjamsI'm so happy I'm not the only one who finds this droning over-describing of everything straight out of chatgpt explaining a video. It's so weird.
Nothing about this game stands out as scary. It sounds like just another indie horror game. This guy’s telling-rather-than-showing made me feel like I was listening to a used car salesman.
I feel like the ultimate fear most of this is capturing on is: Home. It doesn't even need to be your own but your apartment, your flat, your home, your buddy's home, your grandma's home. They're safe spaces. When you are surprised by odd things, odd sounds, bad lights, possible strangers...that's an ultimate nightmare. Who CARES why the strange man is in my house or my grandfather's house or even what my grandfather did. HE. SHOULD. NOT. BE. THERE. and i think that is why, when we bring the horror closer and closer to home it's so terrifying even if the story or reasoning isn't explained or perfect...we all fear something in our own space that should not be there.
YES! Its the same reason why the horror short film “Lights Out” was so effective. Having something intruding where you think is safe is an unsettling thought
I agree. As someone who has suffered home invasion, having an uninvited and potentially violent person or thing in your home when you are unexpecting is *terrifying* and an experience I would wish on no one. That kind of fear is one that truly sticks with you.
you think like me - ive always thought that when people were in their cars, they felt like it was a safe space, customized and decorated the way they wanted it, just the right temperature, listening to what they wanted, then BAM their world is disrupted and their moving little home experience ruined and that's the sociological cause of Road Rage... or at least my theory for it.
Yeah this is what makes Visage so terrifying. That's literally my friend's house and I remember falling asleep in front of that TV in the basement when we were kids. Somehow the normality of it all cranks the fear up to 11.
This game is another proof that relying in jumpscares won't make your game scary(althought using jumpscares in a limited quantity and frequency can still be effective).
Stephen King wrote about jumpscares in Danse Macabre. He spoke of approaching a door that you know something horrible is on the other side. And how the dread of observing the closed door is so much stronger than the quick shock once it’s opened. Whatever is there will cause fear and relief, because no matter what it is it’s now exposed to be dealt with. While the door is closed, it’s still an unknown, making it much scarier
Yup. This itself is a very old principle, basically fear of the unknown. It's why people seek closure on things. Even if you know something horrible happened, you need to know exactly how it went down to find peace. The anticipation of something, the not knowing something, it's terrifying. Interestingly, it's been theorized this is a primal instinct that has helped humans survive. The idea being that fearing the unknown keeps us alert and on the move. Seems to be common in other species, too.
A builing in ruin? Brother, that's an average living building in Russia. If anything it's in a rather good condition. Sure the elevator isn't working and ghosts are rather loud but hey, working pipeline, relatively clean, electricity, hell you won't feel alone and depressed all the time since there is that funky spectre. Feels like a rather nice place to live
How do we tell this guy that this is the nicest Soviet era building we’ve ever seen? There isn’t a single chip to that paint, or drunk guy asleep in the hallways.
yeah the atmosphere is stellar ofc but man... im from latvia, besides the creepy lighting this is such a normal apartment for a poorer old person it's insane. ive been to many that are like this. and the hallway? 💀💀 there's literally nothing wrong with it besides the broken elevator its so clean....
> Perfectly clean stairway of regular Russian apartment building < “THE PLACE LOOKS DEVASTATED” Dude… this is the cleanest Soviet era apartment building ever. Paint job looks fresh which means local authorities used government funds right. And people who live there are not complete pigs. Usually those hallways have broken railing, chipped paint, swear words graffiti and uncle Vasya laying drunk on the floor.
@@kindlingking хз, я живу в Подмосковье, от нас через подъезд живет конченый агрессивный алкаш, на стенах граффити (правда их с годами стало заметно меньше), «закладки» и в подъезде всякие нацарапаные послания матерные.
@@kindlingking Живу в Подмосковье. В нашем доме есть сумасшедший аклкаш, граффити, грязь, мусор. В других подъездах видела сломанные пандусы, сколотую краску внутри подъезда. Не так плохо, как было в моем детстве 25 лет назад. Но все равно не идеально чисто.
@@oroontheheels не знаю, у нас в Ростове-на-Дону такого уже давно не видел. Может где-то и найдешь старое здание с разбитым подъездом, но в основном сейчас везде евроремонт или новострой. У последнего, правда, есть и свои проблемы.
9:00 It looks like the picture is from the tall guys pov? You can see his torso and arms at his sides standing just within the room. So when you go get the tape he’s literally RIGHT there in the darkness inches from you.
What this game does so expertly well, is subvert expectations built up by other horror games to generate tension. It constantly implies you must take action to survive in this game. Like having to close the doors in FNAF to survive animatronic attacks. However, everything is out of your control, as the game is actually scripted. A dark room, potential danger -> You’re unable to explore the room. You can only watch and listen to the monster as they observe you. You’re constantly told to “RUN AWAY” -> You’re unable to actually run anywhere. Going under the bed implies you must hide from the monster -> The game won’t progress until you come out from hiding. Even when the monster was out in the open, looking around the corner, all you can do is watch it return to the dark room. What’s confusing, is that even though you could be killed at any point in the game, nothing ever decides to attack you. You are entirely at the mercy of something that you do not understand.
Technically they do kill you, but you don't notice it because it's communicated in the form of a scare, but it's in the plot/lore. As you progress in the game, your character in the mirror looks mroe and more zombified, and after getting the eye from the doll, when you look in the mirror, you can see the zombified character lying on the ground with an axe in the face. We definitely die in the game, but we were already succumbed into the darkness at that point.
I think the giant in the doorway "jumpscare" is possibly the best jumpscare ive ever seen executed in a game. You've seen that ominous, obviously creepy doll sitting on the bed, and you just KNOW it's gonna do SOMETHING eventually, right? So you hear a baby crying, and you're like, oh no, here it comes, the doll has moved. You turn to face it and- boom, giant standing in the doorway that you only get a brief look at before you're immediately plunged into hopeless, defenseless darkness
The background atmosphere IS music. There's a genre called dark ambient which is long droney sounds and atmosphere often with sound recordings to add depth and a sense of place. The label Cryo Chamber is dedicated to dark ambient artists. They have a YT channel with loads of artist videos on and a live 24/7 video with a dystopian monorail ride and a non stop playlist of dark ambient tracks.
I think "press shift to run" was scarier in this game because you can clearly see, THERE IS NO SPACE TO REALLY RUN usually if those instructions pop up in a forest or any other games with huge map, I don't get scared, but this one, I was like, "BUT..THIS MAP IS SO SMALL WHAT DO YOU MEAN"
The sign by the elevator in the hall described the missing boy as wearing a white t-shirt, red sneakers and red shorts. So was that body in the apartment toilet...also one of those red sneakers was in the hallway by the demon door.
By the way, the reason that so many Soviet-era apartment blocks look the way they do is because they were intended to be temporary housing for residents displaced by World War II while new replacement homes were built. It was only due to the escalating conflicts with the West and the rise in corruption that the funding for home construction ended up constantly diverted and put on hold, until eventually it was abandoned entirely due to the dissolution of the Union in the early 90's. The fact that "temporary" housing is still standing, let alone largely intact over 40 fucking years later is an insane testament to their quality of construction.
The speed at which these buildings were constructed is also very impressive, especially when considering that Russia was still a feudal country not long before.
Let’s be real here, when governments say something is temporary, it very rarely is. The early post-war housing put up in Britain, for example, is often still lived in. Those were just prefab homes. In Soviet Russia, a lot of people took the opportunity to make these “temporary” buildings into experiments in cheap, bland, and efficiently spaced living cubicles. The construction wasn’t quality (a lot are falling apart, though that is also half the fault of a lack of proper maintenance), it was just serviceable, and the speed of construction (though impressive to a European, is very common for us Americans who have to build out of different materials than y’all) was the main purpose. Not to denigrate Eastern Europeans, but those building complexes are slums to the rest of the western world, largely because that was what they were meant to be.
Weren't a lot of the apartment blocks built under Khruschev, hence the name khruschevkas? Were there still major issues with post WW2 population displacements by 1953 and onwards?
"quality of construction..." - me while staring at the corner of the crooked ceiling in my soviet era apartment and listening to my neighbours arguing in the adjecent apartment through the cardboard wall..."yeah, sure..."
@@bwatever *Me staring at the patch where the water drips onto the ceiling because the roof wasn't secured properly in a house that allegedly took eight months to build.* "Well at least I paid for this fourteen times what someone in a country with guaranteed housing paid..."
@jettsett9354 shit had my head spiraling on making sure I don't die lol. I'm not even sure if you can die in this game but it does a helluva job making u think you can lol.
Fuck this game man. From The Darkness is one of those games that made me phobic of being alone in the home or even during the WC while washing my hands i won't dare look in the mirror.
This game makes me so stressed out(In a good way) I have to get under my covers rn to feel safe but then I feel not safe under the covers like I need my cat rn but they are not present and I don't want to disturb her because she is an old lady
“I don’t want to call it music…” Yeeeeah man, that’s music. It’s quiet, it’s subtle, it’s sparse, it has an ambient drone, but it’s music. I mean there’s a guitar playing lol.
It's funny. When I clicked the video, I didn't pay much attention to the thumbnail, and so, didn't recognize it. As such, when you started talking about recent horror games right at the beginning of the video, all I could think about was "huh, I think the only recent game to actually scare me was From the Darkness." Lo and behold, seconds later you name drop it, and I feel like an idiot for not actually looking at the thumbnail. This game scares me at a primal, intrinsic level. It makes me uncomfortable in such a deep, pervasive way, and I honestly don't understand why. It's such a shame it's not more well-known, it's genuinely one of the scariest games currently out there. This dev deserves way more credit, the way he sets the atmosphere is impeccable, and even his jumpscares are more effective than usual (and the quiet jumpscare? Ooh boy. That's the most effective type of jumpscare there is, and this is a hill I'm willing to die on. It doesn't scare you, it waits for YOU to notice it and scare yourself, and that's much more effective than jumping out and yelling "boo".)
@@naranara1690 one of my most memorable experiences in gaming was when I was playing Fallout: New Vegas, exploring a Vault. There were plants inside, everywhere, and further down, I found some terminals explaining how there were spores turning the Vault inhabitants into plant monsters capable of perfectly blending with their environment. It is only after you read this terminal entry that the plant creatures start to move and attack you when you come across them. I have no words to describe the chill that ran down my spine when I realized I had been walking right past these bastards THE ENTIRE TIME ever since I set foot in that Vault. Delayed horror is, in my opinion, one of the most effective forms of horror out there. I wish more games, and media in general, would use it.
2:30 "the building looks devastated" Building: literally cleaner and newer that 90% of Soviet buildings You know it's gonna be scary if you spawn in Russia
I mean as an American it does look shitty compared to our quality of life here. Although that's not to say we don't have just as bad but not nearly as common here. At least in my state
I feel that the doll jumpscare puts you in the shoes of the protagonist better. The doll is staring right at you and would take anyone off guard when exploring an abandoned place with no sign of life. It would be hard to scare the player by noticing the doll on its own but the jumpscare gives you a similar fright to the uncanny atmosphere the doll would bring in real life
Something related to the doll that I haven't heard him mention (at least YET, I'm only up to the hiding section) is that: In the jumpscare, the doll is looking right at the player. When it disappears, though, the doll has typical dead unmoving doll eyes staring blankly forward. If you slow it down when he talks about hiding, though, you can see that the doll is DEFINITELY looking at the player then. It's super subtle, but kind of a nod to the decaying sanity of the protagonist if not an outright sign of the Something Wrong in the space.
Thats what i wanted to mention too. Because in real life a person would immediately focus their attention in the doll and scare themselves by the unexpected and that jumpscare conveyed that feeling really well .
@@thegoodluckranger5129 Wym?? I thought my weird af typing style made it pretty clear I'm a real person. Can't vouch for the other two but yeah I'm at least human.
When people say this building is scary and nasty I finally understand what chinese people felt when everyone was afraid of the flat in "devotion" lmao. To me it looks nostalgic, which in a weird way makes it even scarier. It's like visiting your grandparents but something is very very wrong And yeah, this building doesnt look ruined at all, I used to live in a block of flats that had an elevator with cracked mirror and flickering lightbulb, scratches and scribbles on every corridor wall, broken door, rat poison in every corner, and I lived in a middle class neighbourhood lmao. Nowadays its clean and modern, fully renovated, but man, 90s in poland were a vibe, I bet there are still some places around here like that, let alone in russia
It’s strange because this game scares so many people and I didn’t realize until I read reviews and comments. I got through it like any other horror game. Shows how subjective horror is and that everyone has something scary that makes them feel dread in their own ways.
A while ago I went on a bingewatch a bunch of horror (micro) games of itch, Steam and the like. This one stood out to me particularly. Can't recall if I saw anything scarier, although many of them were amusing too.
True For me the most uncanny thing about the game is that were stuck in a pretty small space with an unknown threat Kinda if the childhood paranoias id have whenever i was left home alone at night came true.
Yeah, i think its pretty awesome the variety between humans. Coming from so many variables, we see the same thing yet get completely different outcomes. I think thats cool
Agreed. Everyone finds Visage really scary, I thought it was boring. I highly recommend Dead Secret if you’re looking for something that was (in my opinion at least) really scary.
22:30 JFC, from the crying to the turning around in anticipation to the horrific lean of the bloody man… it was all put together so perfectly that it is what I consider to be actual nightmare fuel.
What I like about the doll jumpscare is that it pretty much depicts exactly how anyone would normally be taken aback by getting a first glimpse of something they find scary and getting yourself together again. You just jump because it's unexpected, but instantly calm yourself down, because it isn't anything that could do you harm.
yeah not to be mean to the creator, but the quality of the analyses is.. well he tried his best i dunno its far from the ""quality"" (i dont want to be mean i swear) from other content creators (i have wendigoon and nexpo in mind wich might be unfair, not everyone can actually be like them in the deep analyses genre). But his walkthrough is good!
@@munbrazeh6700 I'm legit wondering if an AI wrote this script because of how strangely he worded everything. It's extremely hard for me to follow. I couldn't finish this video. Though the walkthrough and subject are super interesting.
English isn't my mother tounge, and I don't seem to comprehen what's wrong with this phrase and the wording.. I understood him perfectly. Is there something wrong grammatically? I'd like to know
@@starieye I think it's mainly strange grammar. The phrase I time stamped, is grammatically weird because it's repetitive. A more correct sentence would be "You'll make a shocking discovery." Or "You'll discover something shocking."
The same developer of this game also worked on Welcome to Kowloon, which has a very similar feel. Both From The Darkness and Welcome To Kowloon are my 2 too favorite indie horror games!
I'm surpised I haven't seen anyone mention the body in the bathroom at 5:16 when the light goes out. Looks like a dude is there with his throat cut open
Did you know that from the start all along, you can see the eyes and a super vague shape in the dark room? He walks by it a lot and every time you can see the eyes a little bit
If u notice that the sign about the missing boy says that he was wearing red shoes when he disappeared, right outside the room where the big dude is, laying on the floor is a single red shoe.
I finished it but I never focused on the hints to try to understand the background of the place because I was busy being stressed. I didn't even see that note about the missing person in the beginning. You really provided great analysis.
When the TV changes from the flashing to the hallway image, the POV is almost from the "thing", looking down at the book. At 9:05. It shows what looks like a stomach and the arms of "it" standing on the very edge of the darkness. Bro I cannot imagine seeing that and willingly approaching it. It is standing RIGHT THERE.
There are red sneakers by the door, which are noted in the missing person flyer. The player is the elderly man. The monster is the revenge of red sneakers boy. Edit: my theory was on the right track, but incorrect. Explanation in a reply by Sharkmillian91.
Not quite right. The player is the grandson of the old man who lived in the apartment (who is now dead). The Monster is a giant cannibal who is now squatting in the apartment and kidnapped the missing boy. His mangled corpse can be found on the toilet (next to the bathroom). That's what the monster had been eating
it's so funny to see that americans find typical eastern european buildings scary, when i literally grew up in an apartmen like this in hungary. ig i'm undestructable. i won't lie some parts of the game inside the apartmen were pretty spooky!
You should have seen the turkish apartments of 90s. They also had underground cellar to store wood/coal. My childhood trauma was lagging behind my dad before timed lights go out
I mean I'm a bit extreme because I lived in poverty most of my life, but this is just a regular building. It can be depressing, but it feels familiar, normal, a bit nostalgic. Obviously the scary stuff is unusual lol, we don't really live with body parts or ghosts.
The architecture is so ugly and awful it becomes part of the horror. People are gaslighting themselves into thinking being poor and living in a commie block makes them cool. It’s the equivalent of the kid who brags about only getting 65% on his assignments because he doesn’t care and is “cool”. It’s pathetic.
I understand the feeling when the power goes out perfectly well. I immediately had a sinking feeling in my stomach. It's the same feeling that something, anything in either one of those dark rooms could be right behind you as you're standing in the middle of that hallway in the dark.
Old building? That's an average commercial building in my country as long as it has electricity and water. Broken elevator? At least I get to exercise. Ghosts? As long as it doesn't hurt me physically then I'm good.
The background noise at 14:25 is genuinely horrifying. It's almost reminiscent of a siren. I think it works so well because it's like a noise you'd hear in a horror film, so when you hear it while you're actually PLAYING, it just induces dread.
I dont know it is intentional but that part where you hear something eating and see through the door someone's back gave me major "Saturn Eats His Son" vibes.
Just realized that during the "surveillance cam" screen you can see the belly of the monster. 😬 Edit: Also the corpse in that small room is wearing red shorts and sneakers. You can even see one of the sneakers by the broken noose room. Which i assume is how the grandpa died. The monster itself is weird.He appears in a different game the dev made. I havent figured out the connection yet.
You're talking about Wrong Floor right? I believe he was simply reusing an asset that he had access to, it is common in indie game development. I don't want claim that that is for sure the case though, there is always room for speculation with this type of stuff 🙂. I remember watching a video of someone playing this and they mentioned the dev reusing assets as well. I don't remember for sure but I believe it was either Outside Xtra/Xbox, or Eurogamer, they were my first exposure to this dev and have great playthrus of these games
this sounds more like a retelling of what happens in the game than an explanation as to what exactly sets this game apart from others. every horror game has atmosphere and audio effects, but what makes THIS one so different?
_"When the game starts, you find yourself in an old Russian appartment building from the Soviet era."_ I bet that fact alone is already extremely terrifying. xD Seriously though, the appartment looks like a typical Soviet/post-Sovient Russian appartment. As a Russian myself, I find it funny how that atmosphere is so terrifying to so many non-Russians. This game is pretty much a normal day in Russia, just replace that bloody giant with a drunk dad - and you're good to go.
General atmosphere, a few well placed jumpscares, encroaching dread, and the mental game it plays with the "Hold shift to run" midway to enforce the threat despite there never being one there. Another game I like that does this really well is Elevated Dread.
The doll actually comes and looks down under the bed if you hide under there too long. You just see it staring at you under the bed but as soon as you come back out from under the bed, it goes back to where it was sitting on top of the bed. That was creepy. It’s like trying to tell you your not as safe hiding under the bed as you think if it is in the room with you, it’s eyes follow you in the room and will look for you if you hide out too long. There is no place of rest in that apartment.
14:15 btw if your kitchen light is off you can see him standing in the kitchen but if you turn it off, he disappears. Also, earlier when you look inside the "albums" box, when you turn around you can see someone standing in the corner of your screen for a split second but then it disappears. This isnt really a confirmed information, but i saw this happen to caseoh when he played it, but he didnt really react cause he second guessed himself if anything was really there.
Can't say I've played this yet, but I'm intrigued. I think what makes this game so special, and other games like it such as silent hill, pt, evil within etc... is the concept of "Death drive". The Freudian notion that one seeks out death in traumatic instances. I see it here as us "player" being involuntarily forced to experience it. Thus creating the dread and horror. It's steeped in morose dread, and a constant reminder that there is something in the dark. Hungry for you. Sure you can turn off the game at any point in time, but because of that "Death drive" you are pulled to push further. To see what is behind the curtain, even though we know we'll find something we don't like. Great video as always.
The hiding under the bed is a great subvert of expectations The dev clearly know that hiding place=chase scene or roaming monster. But there's never any use to hide under bed except for puzzle or just to progress.
3:21 this actually sounds like a usual sound of a house echoing the highway sound - some old soviet buildings were poorly sound isolated, and placed near active highways at the same time, even when laying on the bed at night and being awared, not dreaming yet, you can hear the cars' tires rub the threadbare shabby asphalt surface causing the old air vibrate and create that ghost'ish sound.
The missing boy is the dead body on the toilet. The description of the boy and what he was wearing matches perfectly. Loved this video! Would happily watch you describe everything in this video - your voice makes me feel safe in the horror
I have a few parts where I debunk the theory. The first is that the 15 year old is not the killer. Remember the missing poster in 18:51? This describes a 15 year old boy that had brown hair and was wearing a white t-shirt and red shorts. Then, going to 16:20, you see a body in a room that has the same description. Also, he is missing an eye and you can collect an eye from the doll in 20:16. Second, the Grandfather isn't the killer either. The entity, let's call him Bob for now, isn't the grandfather, but some other person. In the game, Wrong Floor, [SPOILER ALERT!!!] there is a wanted poster warning about a m*Iestr/killer who was kidnapping people. It shows a photo of Bob that is in Wrong Floor and Into the Darkness. It's description says "Homeless, may hide in abandoned buildings and basements." and this game takes place in an abandoned soviet apartment building. [Your safe now] Now why would the Grandfather not be him? The reason why is because Bob is wearing black gym shorts similar to the 15 year old's. This is way ahead of the Grandfather's time because the Soviet photos look from the 1910s or 1920s. The Missing poster is from 2006, which is at least 80 years apart. I'm sure that the Grandfather was long gone before Bob. I don't think that he's alive either because he has some supernatural powers (It could also just be the ghosts of past victims). The Grandfather had little to nothing to do with the game besides cause the objective. Sorry about the rant, but what are your thoughts? Here is Wrong floor gameplay that is from Coryxkenshin: ruclips.net/video/b5epdr0kWd8/видео.html
9:10 but, I don't know if you've noticed that when on TV you see it as if. there was a camera before you took the scrapbook, there is literally a naked body full of cuts inside the room, you can see the torso and arms, am I the only one who can see it clearly?
7:15 They should NOT have put the extra effects on that. They could have had the Doll facing you right off and just let you discover it naturally and it would have had a MUCH greater effect.
The fear of the unknown and nothing happening yet building up the tense/spooky atmosphere is the best way to make horror. Just little tidbits to make the mind overwork itself with imagination. Claustrophobia and tiny hallways--Brief moments of respite before throwing the person back into fear is also a good way to finish it off. Unfortunately, most horror games nowadays tends to use jumpscares too much. I truly believe that nothing is scarier than the quiet jumpscares--the ones where you, yourself end up looking at it and it looks back at you. I believe that's why Visage worked well--Well, some chapters. The start of this one was indeed scary! I got spooked watching the video even and that's not usually a thing for me haha! I even had to look away at times and was glad I wasn't the one controlling the character 😂
One day I want to make a horror game where it says use shift to run, but it doesn’t do anything, it just raises the fov and makes the camera shake. Also, stamina bar.
I love the theory that in between the Shift To Run moment and the first time the TV went all red, whoever else is in that apartment with you kills the player. Because after that is when the supernatural or unexplainable stuff starts to crank up.
This game was masterfully done! I've played a lot of horror games and this was one of the scariest. Its able to scare the crap out of you quickly and relentlessly all while avoiding scares that feel cheap.
As an eastern european this "really creepy" house just looks like my grandparents place, kinda the opposite effect when the place a horror game takes place in looks all to similar to a place you gather with family for christmas
The Theory that he was a killer could fit because of the moment where you can see yourself in the mirror lying on the ground with a exe inside your back. You need to be close to the mirror to see it. So i guess the character you play was killed very early in the game
I like long play vast world games but this game though shorter and in one small cramped apartment, I’m still trying to work up the nerve to finish it. I got stuck round the part of having to walk back down that hall from the front door after knowing some large man is in that one room to the left at the end of the hall but can’t progress through the game until I force myself to walk back down the hall after actually seeing the dark man slowly creeping his way out to the hallway. It’s just too unnerving. Not to mention the feeling you get when you do stand next to the door, it feels really bad to stand there starring into a dark room where somebody is in there!
13:40 Imagine if there was a slight cracking before the bulb was crushed, that would fuel the eerieness and clue into the figure's deliberate strength.
6:55 "the design of the apartment looks so insane and genuine that it makes you convinced that you should be scared for no reason" bitch that's the funniest thing I've heard this month
"The place looks devastated" (The place in question being a clean and functional Russian apartment building, which is quite rare from what I've read in the comments)
does it look old as hell? Yes! But it is far from ""devastated"". Its a regular lived in russian home. Yes it could be in a better shape but like not only it was an elderly man's home (to old to care or to be able to redo the walls and what not) but also looks a bit left out (for maybe a week, a month?). The setting is quite a regular and normal situation really.
Telling the player they can hold shift to run is probably one of scariest things to pop up.
especially when it gives you a stamina bar
@@dripsndropsinn and even more when there's no room to run
One time I was walking are w/ my family and me and my brother saw a sign that said “Press shift to run” in the middle of the woods on a random sign on a tree. It was awesome
@@leiaanderson8859 Honestly, I would just immediately give up right then and there.
Just lay on the ground. Let the earth consume me.
or to hide
2 scariest things that can happen in a horror game:
1. “Press Shift to run”
2. Random autosave
And, like all good horror, there is a secret third rule:
3. When the game lags for a split second
This actually sums it up perfectly 😭
4. Sudden hide features
3. Slavic appartment 😂😂
5. camera suddenly zooms out
This game is the embodiment of running up the stairs after turning the lights off in the basement
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Bro I did not need to be reminded of how scary the basement was in the house i grew up in ☠
This is literally how I feel when I'm on my last step at the top of the stairs and have to flip the light switches and just run to my room closing the door as fast as possible to not let the dark hallway behind me seep into my room.
to this day, I would much rather splurge on keeping a bulb on than to do this. I also have the fear of opening curtains because my kid brain is convinced someone is definitely outside staring in. Also worked around it by never fully opening or closing my curtains
For real, I always wonder why some basements has switch at bottom of the stairs level instead of being near to the door.
Devastated? That's an average slavic apartment building
That's the average middle class apartment experience
Yes, unironically. I lived in far worse, it's really funny when Americans act so scared of a normal apartment.
The rest of the game is creepy, yes, but the map? Not at all, it feels like home. "Devastated" yeah sure
@@Hanna_Stefanowska We can't really blame americans or call them stupid though since they just don't know it and haven't lived in apartments like this. Sure it's kinda funny seeing them call it super scary but it's fair enough.
@@Hanna_Stefanowskamy apartment in America is worse. Lots of us live in poverty, unfortunately the snooty ass folks are just the loudest voices
@@Hanna_Stefanowska Yeah. If anything, I think the feeling of home adds to the game. That it seems normal at first, calm, and then things start falling apart. That "home" is quickly corrupted. But seeing him talk about that stairway like it was something obviously super uncanny was pretty funny, and "the setting of the Soviet apartment building is eery by default," as though that's just a universal truth.
Scariest jumpscare in any horror game
"Shift to run"
Or "Autosaving..."
Or boss music starts playing and a health bar appears at the top of the screen
Or when the game supplies you with unusual amounts of ammo boxes or lack thereof
@@memelord8769No, just no.
the scariest thing in every horror game is having no guns
''you'll discover a shocking discovery.''
maybe the scariest game was the proof-reading we didn't do
😂 I laughed a bit too much reading this.
"There you stumble upon a shocking discovery"
10 dollar plz
The script of this video felt like something ChatGPT could've wrote. I felt my brain glazing over his sentences. They just sound painfully surface-level.
@@bugjamsI'm so happy I'm not the only one who finds this droning over-describing of everything straight out of chatgpt explaining a video. It's so weird.
Nothing about this game stands out as scary. It sounds like just another indie horror game. This guy’s telling-rather-than-showing made me feel like I was listening to a used car salesman.
That’s it- Grandpa is no longer allowed to have roommates from Craigslist
Lmao underrated comment
god damn it grandpa
Sho'nuff!
He does get lonely sometimes
XD
I feel like the ultimate fear most of this is capturing on is: Home. It doesn't even need to be your own but your apartment, your flat, your home, your buddy's home, your grandma's home. They're safe spaces. When you are surprised by odd things, odd sounds, bad lights, possible strangers...that's an ultimate nightmare. Who CARES why the strange man is in my house or my grandfather's house or even what my grandfather did. HE. SHOULD. NOT. BE. THERE. and i think that is why, when we bring the horror closer and closer to home it's so terrifying even if the story or reasoning isn't explained or perfect...we all fear something in our own space that should not be there.
YES! Its the same reason why the horror short film “Lights Out” was so effective. Having something intruding where you think is safe is an unsettling thought
I agree. As someone who has suffered home invasion, having an uninvited and potentially violent person or thing in your home when you are unexpecting is *terrifying* and an experience I would wish on no one. That kind of fear is one that truly sticks with you.
you think like me - ive always thought that when people were in their cars, they felt like it was a safe space, customized and decorated the way they wanted it, just the right temperature, listening to what they wanted, then BAM their world is disrupted and their moving little home experience ruined and that's the sociological cause of Road Rage... or at least my theory for it.
You should try the horror game Anatomy. It's environmental horror that preys on the safety we feel inside our homes.
Yeah this is what makes Visage so terrifying. That's literally my friend's house and I remember falling asleep in front of that TV in the basement when we were kids. Somehow the normality of it all cranks the fear up to 11.
This game is another proof that relying in jumpscares won't make your game scary(althought using jumpscares in a limited quantity and frequency can still be effective).
I like what Red Letter Media says about jump scares. You can have them, but they need to be earned.
@@micknat7665 they're right. You can't just go putting a jumpscare here and there.
Jumpscares are scary most of the time but cheap scares, any idiot can do it, and not creative!.
jumpscares are fun for me, i get a little surprised but i laught right after.
I hate hollywood jump scare
Stephen King wrote about jumpscares in Danse Macabre. He spoke of approaching a door that you know something horrible is on the other side. And how the dread of observing the closed door is so much stronger than the quick shock once it’s opened. Whatever is there will cause fear and relief, because no matter what it is it’s now exposed to be dealt with. While the door is closed, it’s still an unknown, making it much scarier
Yup. This itself is a very old principle, basically fear of the unknown. It's why people seek closure on things. Even if you know something horrible happened, you need to know exactly how it went down to find peace. The anticipation of something, the not knowing something, it's terrifying.
Interestingly, it's been theorized this is a primal instinct that has helped humans survive. The idea being that fearing the unknown keeps us alert and on the move. Seems to be common in other species, too.
and that is way 99% of horror movies nowadays are pure shit. Jumpscares only, usually cheap due to terrible timing and bad CGI
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
@@julianantoniocatino455 no it's not
Yeah, that's some psychology for ya.
A builing in ruin? Brother, that's an average living building in Russia. If anything it's in a rather good condition. Sure the elevator isn't working and ghosts are rather loud but hey, working pipeline, relatively clean, electricity, hell you won't feel alone and depressed all the time since there is that funky spectre. Feels like a rather nice place to live
The friendly cannibal next door thought so too
I was looking for a comment like this, this is your average Eastern Europe block
Hell now way 😂
Damn man. I feel sorry for the people who live in Russia. And I thought it was tough here in Jordan.
Funky Spectre
"Shift to run" Man this is place isn't big enough for me to comfortably stride, let alone run.
Mystery solved: there was vodka and some snacks on the table. Our ghost is simply grandfather's drinking buddy.
That would be the most Slavic thing a game could do.
Understandable, have a nice day ✌️
How do we tell this guy that this is the nicest Soviet era building we’ve ever seen? There isn’t a single chip to that paint, or drunk guy asleep in the hallways.
fr
Tbh, it looks cleaner and better maintained than several apartment buildings I've delivered to in Texas.
yeah the atmosphere is stellar ofc but man... im from latvia, besides the creepy lighting this is such a normal apartment for a poorer old person it's insane. ive been to many that are like this. and the hallway? 💀💀 there's literally nothing wrong with it besides the broken elevator its so clean....
> Perfectly clean stairway of regular Russian apartment building <
“THE PLACE LOOKS DEVASTATED”
Dude… this is the cleanest Soviet era apartment building ever. Paint job looks fresh which means local authorities used government funds right. And people who live there are not complete pigs.
Usually those hallways have broken railing, chipped paint, swear words graffiti and uncle Vasya laying drunk on the floor.
Can't forget about someones uncle! 😆
Уже давно такого нет. Даже в маленьких городах.
@@kindlingking хз, я живу в Подмосковье, от нас через подъезд живет конченый агрессивный алкаш, на стенах граффити (правда их с годами стало заметно меньше), «закладки» и в подъезде всякие нацарапаные послания матерные.
@@kindlingking Живу в Подмосковье.
В нашем доме есть сумасшедший аклкаш, граффити, грязь, мусор. В других подъездах видела сломанные пандусы, сколотую краску внутри подъезда.
Не так плохо, как было в моем детстве 25 лет назад. Но все равно не идеально чисто.
@@oroontheheels не знаю, у нас в Ростове-на-Дону такого уже давно не видел. Может где-то и найдешь старое здание с разбитым подъездом, но в основном сейчас везде евроремонт или новострой. У последнего, правда, есть и свои проблемы.
9:00 It looks like the picture is from the tall guys pov? You can see his torso and arms at his sides standing just within the room. So when you go get the tape he’s literally RIGHT there in the darkness inches from you.
Holy Molly, you're right.
Holy molly reporting for duty sir
@@TeaMollie11 but... but.. you are tea molly, not holy molly :O
@@KazzaGamesTVyour chatgpt video over explaining somehow missed it
@@DorrajOhh, that explains a lot actually.
What this game does so expertly well, is subvert expectations built up by other horror games to generate tension. It constantly implies you must take action to survive in this game. Like having to close the doors in FNAF to survive animatronic attacks. However, everything is out of your control, as the game is actually scripted.
A dark room, potential danger -> You’re unable to explore the room. You can only watch and listen to the monster as they observe you.
You’re constantly told to “RUN AWAY” -> You’re unable to actually run anywhere.
Going under the bed implies you must hide from the monster -> The game won’t progress until you come out from hiding.
Even when the monster was out in the open, looking around the corner, all you can do is watch it return to the dark room.
What’s confusing, is that even though you could be killed at any point in the game, nothing ever decides to attack you. You are entirely at the mercy of something that you do not understand.
That's a really good rundown. That last two sentences especially.
Yeah I was wondering how you’d run and hide in such a small environment
Thank you for this! You explained it so much better and more concisely than the video.
Technically they do kill you, but you don't notice it because it's communicated in the form of a scare, but it's in the plot/lore. As you progress in the game, your character in the mirror looks mroe and more zombified, and after getting the eye from the doll, when you look in the mirror, you can see the zombified character lying on the ground with an axe in the face. We definitely die in the game, but we were already succumbed into the darkness at that point.
That's... shit
I think the giant in the doorway "jumpscare" is possibly the best jumpscare ive ever seen executed in a game. You've seen that ominous, obviously creepy doll sitting on the bed, and you just KNOW it's gonna do SOMETHING eventually, right? So you hear a baby crying, and you're like, oh no, here it comes, the doll has moved. You turn to face it and- boom, giant standing in the doorway that you only get a brief look at before you're immediately plunged into hopeless, defenseless darkness
The background atmosphere IS music. There's a genre called dark ambient which is long droney sounds and atmosphere often with sound recordings to add depth and a sense of place. The label Cryo Chamber is dedicated to dark ambient artists. They have a YT channel with loads of artist videos on and a live 24/7 video with a dystopian monorail ride and a non stop playlist of dark ambient tracks.
cryo chamber has some great artists, I love their various Lovecraft/Cthulhu-themed compilations too (Azathoth, Nyarlathotep etc.)
Cryo Chamber is an amazing channel. love the genre
Yup ❤
Look up Lustmord. Master of Dark Ambient
Thanks for sharing this. I am a brand new fan!
I think "press shift to run" was scarier in this game because you can clearly see, THERE IS NO SPACE TO REALLY RUN
usually if those instructions pop up in a forest or any other games with huge map, I don't get scared, but this one, I was like, "BUT..THIS MAP IS SO SMALL WHAT DO YOU MEAN"
Bro I need more people to talk about this cause that was such a good moment to give the 'shift to run' tip 😭
RUN WHERE???
Not to mention that the only hiding spot in the game is in the back of the apartment with a dinky little bed.
The sign by the elevator in the hall described the missing boy as wearing a white t-shirt, red sneakers and red shorts. So was that body in the apartment toilet...also one of those red sneakers was in the hallway by the demon door.
By the way, the reason that so many Soviet-era apartment blocks look the way they do is because they were intended to be temporary housing for residents displaced by World War II while new replacement homes were built. It was only due to the escalating conflicts with the West and the rise in corruption that the funding for home construction ended up constantly diverted and put on hold, until eventually it was abandoned entirely due to the dissolution of the Union in the early 90's.
The fact that "temporary" housing is still standing, let alone largely intact over 40 fucking years later is an insane testament to their quality of construction.
The speed at which these buildings were constructed is also very impressive, especially when considering that Russia was still a feudal country not long before.
Let’s be real here, when governments say something is temporary, it very rarely is. The early post-war housing put up in Britain, for example, is often still lived in. Those were just prefab homes. In Soviet Russia, a lot of people took the opportunity to make these “temporary” buildings into experiments in cheap, bland, and efficiently spaced living cubicles. The construction wasn’t quality (a lot are falling apart, though that is also half the fault of a lack of proper maintenance), it was just serviceable, and the speed of construction (though impressive to a European, is very common for us Americans who have to build out of different materials than y’all) was the main purpose. Not to denigrate Eastern Europeans, but those building complexes are slums to the rest of the western world, largely because that was what they were meant to be.
Weren't a lot of the apartment blocks built under Khruschev, hence the name khruschevkas? Were there still major issues with post WW2 population displacements by 1953 and onwards?
"quality of construction..." - me while staring at the corner of the crooked ceiling in my soviet era apartment and listening to my neighbours arguing in the adjecent apartment through the cardboard wall..."yeah, sure..."
@@bwatever *Me staring at the patch where the water drips onto the ceiling because the roof wasn't secured properly in a house that allegedly took eight months to build.*
"Well at least I paid for this fourteen times what someone in a country with guaranteed housing paid..."
I was never able to finish it. This is the first horror game that literally made me afraid of walking in the dark as if it's in real life.
I definitely felt that watching gameplay at 3 am! And I live alone!
I just beat it rn so I could watch this video lol. It had me so stressed the whole time
@@dyingwaffle95 I just finished beating it too
@jettsett9354 shit had my head spiraling on making sure I don't die lol. I'm not even sure if you can die in this game but it does a helluva job making u think you can lol.
@@dyingwaffle95I literally cant stop beating it
10:33 When you do something in a horror game and see "Saving..." you know you're cooked
Fuck this game man. From The Darkness is one of those games that made me phobic of being alone in the home or even during the WC while washing my hands i won't dare look in the mirror.
Living alone while watching gameplay of this was terrifying when it was time for a bathroom break!
I like watching horror at night before sleep so I can be paranoid all night long...it's an adventure
The fear i feel whenever i pass a dark room in my home afraid that ill actually see something in the darkness
@@soujiokita6062REAL
This game makes me so stressed out(In a good way) I have to get under my covers rn to feel safe but then I feel not safe under the covers like I need my cat rn but they are not present and I don't want to disturb her because she is an old lady
“I don’t want to call it music…”
Yeeeeah man, that’s music.
It’s quiet, it’s subtle, it’s sparse, it has an ambient drone, but it’s music.
I mean there’s a guitar playing lol.
No way bro called an average eastern european household terrifying 😭
Bro said "literally" and "surprise" and "annoying/terrifying/actually" so fucking much it gets on my nerves man
Yeah. It's like "I see it every day. Wtf?"
Sounds like they need better standards of construction
for real, commie blocks > american suburbs
@@sekarmaltum1695 NPC livin' at it's finest
"place looks devastated" - cleanest most intact slavic country apartment building i've ever seen
It's funny. When I clicked the video, I didn't pay much attention to the thumbnail, and so, didn't recognize it. As such, when you started talking about recent horror games right at the beginning of the video, all I could think about was "huh, I think the only recent game to actually scare me was From the Darkness." Lo and behold, seconds later you name drop it, and I feel like an idiot for not actually looking at the thumbnail.
This game scares me at a primal, intrinsic level. It makes me uncomfortable in such a deep, pervasive way, and I honestly don't understand why. It's such a shame it's not more well-known, it's genuinely one of the scariest games currently out there. This dev deserves way more credit, the way he sets the atmosphere is impeccable, and even his jumpscares are more effective than usual (and the quiet jumpscare? Ooh boy. That's the most effective type of jumpscare there is, and this is a hill I'm willing to die on. It doesn't scare you, it waits for YOU to notice it and scare yourself, and that's much more effective than jumping out and yelling "boo".)
Who hasn't stared at a bizarre image, only to notice something horrifying about it moments too late?
lmao same bro
@@naranara1690 one of my most memorable experiences in gaming was when I was playing Fallout: New Vegas, exploring a Vault. There were plants inside, everywhere, and further down, I found some terminals explaining how there were spores turning the Vault inhabitants into plant monsters capable of perfectly blending with their environment. It is only after you read this terminal entry that the plant creatures start to move and attack you when you come across them.
I have no words to describe the chill that ran down my spine when I realized I had been walking right past these bastards THE ENTIRE TIME ever since I set foot in that Vault. Delayed horror is, in my opinion, one of the most effective forms of horror out there. I wish more games, and media in general, would use it.
9:07 - It's clearly not "surveillance camera", but POV. You can see the belly and hands, plus as you noticed later, you can see the eyes in darkness.
2:30 "the building looks devastated"
Building: literally cleaner and newer that 90% of Soviet buildings
You know it's gonna be scary if you spawn in Russia
I mean as an American it does look shitty compared to our quality of life here. Although that's not to say we don't have just as bad but not nearly as common here. At least in my state
@@mrplayfulshadethe apartment itself looks a bit dilapidated but the rest of the building looks cleaner and better maintained than most I’ve seen irl
"You know it's gonna be scary if you spawn in Russia" is such an american thing to say
@@munbrazeh6700 dude I'm Russian Чики брики
@@munbrazeh6700 It's a russian thing to say, because the people who LIVE THERE know better than ANYONE ELSE how much of a shithole it is.
this apartment is so nostalgic
i have a grandma that lives in croatia, and the apartment looks very similiar to this
it makes me feel uneasy
cirno fumofumo
Get out of that house now
@@Ultra-MazinoYou’re the wife of that John Yakuza guy right ?
@@babayaga9805But…the demon brought pizza since its sitting on the table in front of me… :(
I feel that the doll jumpscare puts you in the shoes of the protagonist better. The doll is staring right at you and would take anyone off guard when exploring an abandoned place with no sign of life.
It would be hard to scare the player by noticing the doll on its own but the jumpscare gives you a similar fright to the uncanny atmosphere the doll would bring in real life
Something related to the doll that I haven't heard him mention (at least YET, I'm only up to the hiding section) is that: In the jumpscare, the doll is looking right at the player. When it disappears, though, the doll has typical dead unmoving doll eyes staring blankly forward. If you slow it down when he talks about hiding, though, you can see that the doll is DEFINITELY looking at the player then. It's super subtle, but kind of a nod to the decaying sanity of the protagonist if not an outright sign of the Something Wrong in the space.
Thats what i wanted to mention too.
Because in real life a person would immediately focus their attention in the doll and scare themselves by the unexpected and that jumpscare conveyed that feeling really well .
I can't tell if this is an AI conversation or not... 🤔
@@thegoodluckranger5129 Wym?? I thought my weird af typing style made it pretty clear I'm a real person. Can't vouch for the other two but yeah I'm at least human.
@@SaltyBlueSea Oops, sorry, my mistake
When people say this building is scary and nasty I finally understand what chinese people felt when everyone was afraid of the flat in "devotion" lmao. To me it looks nostalgic, which in a weird way makes it even scarier. It's like visiting your grandparents but something is very very wrong
And yeah, this building doesnt look ruined at all, I used to live in a block of flats that had an elevator with cracked mirror and flickering lightbulb, scratches and scribbles on every corridor wall, broken door, rat poison in every corner, and I lived in a middle class neighbourhood lmao. Nowadays its clean and modern, fully renovated, but man, 90s in poland were a vibe, I bet there are still some places around here like that, let alone in russia
It’s strange because this game scares so many people and I didn’t realize until I read reviews and comments. I got through it like any other horror game. Shows how subjective horror is and that everyone has something scary that makes them feel dread in their own ways.
Agreed. There are other horror games scarier than this.
A while ago I went on a bingewatch a bunch of horror (micro) games of itch, Steam and the like. This one stood out to me particularly. Can't recall if I saw anything scarier, although many of them were amusing too.
True
For me the most uncanny thing about the game is that were stuck in a pretty small space with an unknown threat
Kinda if the childhood paranoias id have whenever i was left home alone at night came true.
Yeah, i think its pretty awesome the variety between humans. Coming from so many variables, we see the same thing yet get completely different outcomes. I think thats cool
Agreed. Everyone finds Visage really scary, I thought it was boring. I highly recommend Dead Secret if you’re looking for something that was (in my opinion at least) really scary.
22:30 JFC, from the crying to the turning around in anticipation to the horrific lean of the bloody man… it was all put together so perfectly that it is what I consider to be actual nightmare fuel.
What I like about the doll jumpscare is that it pretty much depicts exactly how anyone would normally be taken aback by getting a first glimpse of something they find scary and getting yourself together again.
You just jump because it's unexpected, but instantly calm yourself down, because it isn't anything that could do you harm.
9:46 "You'll discover a shocking discovery." I felt like I had a stroke during this whole video. I'm so confused.
yeah not to be mean to the creator, but the quality of the analyses is.. well he tried his best i dunno its far from the ""quality"" (i dont want to be mean i swear) from other content creators (i have wendigoon and nexpo in mind wich might be unfair, not everyone can actually be like them in the deep analyses genre). But his walkthrough is good!
@@munbrazeh6700 I'm legit wondering if an AI wrote this script because of how strangely he worded everything. It's extremely hard for me to follow. I couldn't finish this video. Though the walkthrough and subject are super interesting.
English isn't my mother tounge, and I don't seem to comprehen what's wrong with this phrase and the wording.. I understood him perfectly. Is there something wrong grammatically? I'd like to know
@@starieye I think it's mainly strange grammar. The phrase I time stamped, is grammatically weird because it's repetitive. A more correct sentence would be "You'll make a shocking discovery." Or "You'll discover something shocking."
The same developer of this game also worked on Welcome to Kowloon, which has a very similar feel. Both From The Darkness and Welcome To Kowloon are my 2 too favorite indie horror games!
Thanks for giving me another game from this talented developer 😁
Oh that's interesting, I was so scared and invested in Welcome To Kowloon, it was truly good horror game, might replay it (if I'm brave enough lol)
Oh it makes sense
I'm surpised I haven't seen anyone mention the body in the bathroom at 5:16 when the light goes out. Looks like a dude is there with his throat cut open
Did you know that from the start all along, you can see the eyes and a super vague shape in the dark room? He walks by it a lot and every time you can see the eyes a little bit
Вечно можно смотреть на 3 вещи: как горит огонь, как течёт вода и как Американцы пугаются совершенно обычных чистых подъездов
in the video footage you can see someone standing there too
Where can you see it? Can you give me a timestamp? My brain isn’t working properly right now
@@derpleyew8:48 You can see their torso, as if they were looking down at the book.
@@poorboy819oh yeah I see now! Thanks ;)
If u notice that the sign about the missing boy says that he was wearing red shoes when he disappeared, right outside the room where the big dude is, laying on the floor is a single red shoe.
I finished it but I never focused on the hints to try to understand the background of the place because I was busy being stressed. I didn't even see that note about the missing person in the beginning. You really provided great analysis.
5:15 if you pause just before the lamp explodes, you will see a dead body lying against the wall in the room.
Yeah. It’s spoopy!
16:21 the same body appears again. Which is cool, if only this happened more. (Generally this game seems to rely on kind of cheap jumpscares.
KazzaGamesTV: Even the environment gives the spooky vibes...
Every single russian in comments: А-ха-ха, я здесь живу!
Also a fair few going 'So clean and freshly painted, I'd love to live there!'
I'm Canadian and was thinking I'd like to live there lol. The inside of the apartment is so cozy, especially the kitchen
When the TV changes from the flashing to the hallway image, the POV is almost from the "thing", looking down at the book. At 9:05. It shows what looks like a stomach and the arms of "it" standing on the very edge of the darkness. Bro I cannot imagine seeing that and willingly approaching it. It is standing RIGHT THERE.
There are red sneakers by the door, which are noted in the missing person flyer.
The player is the elderly man. The monster is the revenge of red sneakers boy.
Edit: my theory was on the right track, but incorrect. Explanation in a reply by Sharkmillian91.
16:22 also he is wearing white T-shirt and red shorts. I think it is the missing child
@@thesloth3699 Good catch!
@@Super.Whimsy yours too my friend!
Not quite right. The player is the grandson of the old man who lived in the apartment (who is now dead). The Monster is a giant cannibal who is now squatting in the apartment and kidnapped the missing boy. His mangled corpse can be found on the toilet (next to the bathroom). That's what the monster had been eating
@@Sharkmillian91 Thank you for the clarification! Also, somehow even scarier! 😅
2:30 My dude implies that these kinds of buildings are the thing of a past and not actually a places where millions people live right now.
maybe in shitholes like ruzzia😂
it's so funny to see that americans find typical eastern european buildings scary, when i literally grew up in an apartmen like this in hungary. ig i'm undestructable. i won't lie some parts of the game inside the apartmen were pretty spooky!
You should have seen the turkish apartments of 90s. They also had underground cellar to store wood/coal. My childhood trauma was lagging behind my dad before timed lights go out
Exactly.
I mean I'm a bit extreme because I lived in poverty most of my life, but this is just a regular building. It can be depressing, but it feels familiar, normal, a bit nostalgic. Obviously the scary stuff is unusual lol, we don't really live with body parts or ghosts.
The architecture is so ugly and awful it becomes part of the horror. People are gaslighting themselves into thinking being poor and living in a commie block makes them cool. It’s the equivalent of the kid who brags about only getting 65% on his assignments because he doesn’t care and is “cool”. It’s pathetic.
I dont think this dude is american
Spamming jumpscares in horror games/movie is like that person who repeat their joke just because someone laugh at it once.
I understand the feeling when the power goes out perfectly well. I immediately had a sinking feeling in my stomach. It's the same feeling that something, anything in either one of those dark rooms could be right behind you as you're standing in the middle of that hallway in the dark.
In terms of the setting itself, these places still exist. About a decade ago, both my great grandmothers, very elderly women, lived in similar flats.
Saying PT came out “a while ago” feels like a severe understatement lol game is 10 years old now (and still amazing)
Fuck you, i feel old now
Old building? That's an average commercial building in my country as long as it has electricity and water. Broken elevator? At least I get to exercise. Ghosts? As long as it doesn't hurt me physically then I'm good.
The background noise at 14:25 is genuinely horrifying. It's almost reminiscent of a siren. I think it works so well because it's like a noise you'd hear in a horror film, so when you hear it while you're actually PLAYING, it just induces dread.
7:20 " it may look like a cheap jumpscare to you..."
Brother i have 3 heart attacks at the same time
Yeah, If I hadn't already played it already this wouldve sent me flying. He shouldve added a warning
I have finished that game, it was so good. You never get attacked or killed
I dont know it is intentional but that part where you hear something eating and see through the door someone's back gave me major "Saturn Eats His Son" vibes.
tbh, the "monster" made me less afraid of the game when it was revelead, as it usually happens with most horror indie games :(
"the building looks devastated". bro it literally looks better than my house
Just realized that during the "surveillance cam" screen you can see the belly of the monster. 😬
Edit: Also the corpse in that small room is wearing red shorts and sneakers. You can even see one of the sneakers by the broken noose room. Which i assume is how the grandpa died.
The monster itself is weird.He appears in a different game the dev made. I havent figured out the connection yet.
You're talking about Wrong Floor right? I believe he was simply reusing an asset that he had access to, it is common in indie game development. I don't want claim that that is for sure the case though, there is always room for speculation with this type of stuff 🙂. I remember watching a video of someone playing this and they mentioned the dev reusing assets as well. I don't remember for sure but I believe it was either Outside Xtra/Xbox, or Eurogamer, they were my first exposure to this dev and have great playthrus of these games
your character looks tough as nails so makes sense he's casually exploring this haunted premise
Oh my god, the doll "jumpscare" scared the shit out of me, and I'm watching this video on my phone with no headphones! 😬
this sounds more like a retelling of what happens in the game than an explanation as to what exactly sets this game apart from others. every horror game has atmosphere and audio effects, but what makes THIS one so different?
_"When the game starts, you find yourself in an old Russian appartment building from the Soviet era."_ I bet that fact alone is already extremely terrifying. xD
Seriously though, the appartment looks like a typical Soviet/post-Sovient Russian appartment. As a Russian myself, I find it funny how that atmosphere is so terrifying to so many non-Russians. This game is pretty much a normal day in Russia, just replace that bloody giant with a drunk dad - and you're good to go.
I think to those of us who experienced similar settings, it‘s more the nostalgia that drags us down. 😅
damn yall in Russia have hulking brutes of beings and literally haunted homes? neato.
Sign me up
9:52 "You'll discover a shocking discovery"
Lmao 😂
General atmosphere, a few well placed jumpscares, encroaching dread, and the mental game it plays with the "Hold shift to run" midway to enforce the threat despite there never being one there. Another game I like that does this really well is Elevated Dread.
The doll actually comes and looks down under the bed if you hide under there too long. You just see it staring at you under the bed but as soon as you come back out from under the bed, it goes back to where it was sitting on top of the bed. That was creepy. It’s like trying to tell you your not as safe hiding under the bed as you think if it is in the room with you, it’s eyes follow you in the room and will look for you if you hide out too long. There is no place of rest in that apartment.
This game NAILED horror absolutely NAILED it. I've watched multiple playthroughs. The first time I seen it I was legitimately scared.
14:15 btw if your kitchen light is off you can see him standing in the kitchen but if you turn it off, he disappears.
Also, earlier when you look inside the "albums" box, when you turn around you can see someone standing in the corner of your screen for a split second but then it disappears. This isnt really a confirmed information, but i saw this happen to caseoh when he played it, but he didnt really react cause he second guessed himself if anything was really there.
Can't say I've played this yet, but I'm intrigued. I think what makes this game so special, and other games like it such as silent hill, pt, evil within etc... is the concept of "Death drive". The Freudian notion that one seeks out death in traumatic instances. I see it here as us "player" being involuntarily forced to experience it. Thus creating the dread and horror. It's steeped in morose dread, and a constant reminder that there is something in the dark. Hungry for you. Sure you can turn off the game at any point in time, but because of that "Death drive" you are pulled to push further. To see what is behind the curtain, even though we know we'll find something we don't like.
Great video as always.
7:41 lmao love this part of the recording where you see "get out" and frantically nod and head towards the door XD
The hiding under the bed is a great subvert of expectations
The dev clearly know that hiding place=chase scene or roaming monster.
But there's never any use to hide under bed except for puzzle or just to progress.
3:21 this actually sounds like a usual sound of a house echoing the highway sound - some old soviet buildings were poorly sound isolated, and placed near active highways at the same time, even when laying on the bed at night and being awared, not dreaming yet, you can hear the cars' tires rub the threadbare shabby asphalt surface causing the old air vibrate and create that ghost'ish sound.
The picture near the bedroom of the "old woman" and a child, looks more like an old man to me. I wonder if that is the grandfather.
You discover a shocking discovery - c’mon dude
I kinda feel he just asked chatGPT to do some irretations of a script, glued the "best" parts from them it into one and called it a day.
The missing boy is the dead body on the toilet. The description of the boy and what he was wearing matches perfectly.
Loved this video! Would happily watch you describe everything in this video - your voice makes me feel safe in the horror
22:25 Oh my fucking goodness. I literally find silent jumpscares farrrrrrrrr more effective than loud ones.
I have a few parts where I debunk the theory. The first is that the 15 year old is not the killer. Remember the missing poster in 18:51? This describes a 15 year old boy that had brown hair and was wearing a white t-shirt and red shorts. Then, going to 16:20, you see a body in a room that has the same description. Also, he is missing an eye and you can collect an eye from the doll in 20:16. Second, the Grandfather isn't the killer either. The entity, let's call him Bob for now, isn't the grandfather, but some other person. In the game, Wrong Floor, [SPOILER ALERT!!!] there is a wanted poster warning about a m*Iestr/killer who was kidnapping people. It shows a photo of Bob that is in Wrong Floor and Into the Darkness. It's description says "Homeless, may hide in abandoned buildings and basements." and this game takes place in an abandoned soviet apartment building. [Your safe now] Now why would the Grandfather not be him? The reason why is because Bob is wearing black gym shorts similar to the 15 year old's. This is way ahead of the Grandfather's time because the Soviet photos look from the 1910s or 1920s. The Missing poster is from 2006, which is at least 80 years apart. I'm sure that the Grandfather was long gone before Bob. I don't think that he's alive either because he has some supernatural powers (It could also just be the ghosts of past victims). The Grandfather had little to nothing to do with the game besides cause the objective. Sorry about the rant, but what are your thoughts?
Here is Wrong floor gameplay that is from Coryxkenshin: ruclips.net/video/b5epdr0kWd8/видео.html
Him: "The apartment is so creepy!"
Me: "My, what a cozy little apartment!"
9:10 but, I don't know if you've noticed that when on TV you see it as if. there was a camera before you took the scrapbook, there is literally a naked body full of cuts inside the room, you can see the torso and arms, am I the only one who can see it clearly?
There's also a terrifying jumpscare where if you hide under the bed enough, the doll will peak down at you.
"The game starts in a Russian apartment building, which usually indicates that we're not going to have a great time" lol
Kind of bigoted & prejudiced thing to say
7:15 They should NOT have put the extra effects on that. They could have had the Doll facing you right off and just let you discover it naturally and it would have had a MUCH greater effect.
The scary part is the apartment is clean, it's abnormal
"The building looks devastated"
Screen literally shows my подъезд (apartment stairway hall) as it currently looks 😂
The fear of the unknown and nothing happening yet building up the tense/spooky atmosphere is the best way to make horror. Just little tidbits to make the mind overwork itself with imagination. Claustrophobia and tiny hallways--Brief moments of respite before throwing the person back into fear is also a good way to finish it off. Unfortunately, most horror games nowadays tends to use jumpscares too much. I truly believe that nothing is scarier than the quiet jumpscares--the ones where you, yourself end up looking at it and it looks back at you. I believe that's why Visage worked well--Well, some chapters.
The start of this one was indeed scary! I got spooked watching the video even and that's not usually a thing for me haha! I even had to look away at times and was glad I wasn't the one controlling the character
😂
One day I want to make a horror game where it says use shift to run, but it doesn’t do anything, it just raises the fov and makes the camera shake. Also, stamina bar.
I love the theory that in between the Shift To Run moment and the first time the TV went all red, whoever else is in that apartment with you kills the player. Because after that is when the supernatural or unexplainable stuff starts to crank up.
2:35 "the building looks devastated" you sweet summer child😭
You will discover a shocking discovery
Glad I'm not the only one
That the door is closed
😱😨
19:15 no.. he's the dead body by the bathroom... it should be obvious, i mean you literally read out his details on the poster.
This game was masterfully done! I've played a lot of horror games and this was one of the scariest. Its able to scare the crap out of you quickly and relentlessly all while avoiding scares that feel cheap.
As an eastern european this "really creepy" house just looks like my grandparents place, kinda the opposite effect when the place a horror game takes place in looks all to similar to a place you gather with family for christmas
The Theory that he was a killer could fit because of the moment where you can see yourself in the mirror lying on the ground with a exe inside your back. You need to be close to the mirror to see it.
So i guess the character you play was killed very early in the game
I like long play vast world games but this game though shorter and in one small cramped apartment, I’m still trying to work up the nerve to finish it. I got stuck round the part of having to walk back down that hall from the front door after knowing some large man is in that one room to the left at the end of the hall but can’t progress through the game until I force myself to walk back down the hall after actually seeing the dark man slowly creeping his way out to the hallway. It’s just too unnerving. Not to mention the feeling you get when you do stand next to the door, it feels really bad to stand there starring into a dark room where somebody is in there!
13:40
Imagine if there was a slight cracking before the bulb was crushed, that would fuel the eerieness and clue into the figure's deliberate strength.
6:55 "the design of the apartment looks so insane and genuine that it makes you convinced that you should be scared for no reason" bitch that's the funniest thing I've heard this month
That last frame with the creature is like "Ya got games on your phone?"
"The place looks devastated"
(The place in question being a clean and functional Russian apartment building, which is quite rare from what I've read in the comments)
does it look old as hell? Yes! But it is far from ""devastated"". Its a regular lived in russian home. Yes it could be in a better shape but like not only it was an elderly man's home (to old to care or to be able to redo the walls and what not) but also looks a bit left out (for maybe a week, a month?). The setting is quite a regular and normal situation really.