During the video premier, enough people logged on that we actually broke the player peak record: https://twitter.com/JoshStrifeHayes/status/1670156752170393600

I'm not surprised. I was already forming a battle-plan in my head to round up some trailblazers and explore this world in full

If U want a cursed mmo, try project gorgon. The developer is a diehard trump fan, and if u mention anything negative about trump in global chat, u get an instant permaban. It also has something like 90% upvotes, enjoy the curse.

@@undertyped1 I love Project Gorgon. It’s a surprisingly competent mmorpg for a husband and wife team.

@@undertyped1 To be fair, I don't think a developer's political opinions necessarily make a MMO or any game bad, but it's unfortunate if they let that influence their moderation decisions.

@@onekun5233 I don't think its a bad mmo, just cursed.

Hey! Tarpit here, one of two Animyst devs. This weekend has been surreal! We had moved on creatively years ago, taking a huge amount from the experience of making Animyst, and contentedly assuming that a very few people would ever go into the world. Our pre-Josh upper limit was 14 players on a PvP event (going back to 2018.) The game is designed and balanced for an average of 5-10 players constantly, a number that still ended up being overly ambitious for us to attain. Josh was absolutely right pointing out that a multiplayer game without a community literally never gets experienced, no matter how good (or scuffed.) All that to say, we are so thrilled that people are playing Animyst! We both adore the video. Writing this on the Monday after it dropped, we have patched 6 times since the video came out. (All of the glory for that goes to Ded; I made the game worlds but can't assist with programming labor) Lag, and other issues resulting from these hitherto unseen server loads are much better than they were feeling Saturday. The game is built for group PvP, and we will keep turning the screws on networking and optimizations to make that as possible as possible. Neither of us thought we would ever update again. We are still disoriented and need to think deeply about what the future holds. Josh, you made instant fans out of the both of us. The video is hilarious, awesomely done, and perhaps overly generous.

The game looks awesome dude. If my pc wasn't dead I would cjeck it out!

@@Telepathic_Snail_Overlords thanks a ton! It is not the most optimized game of all times so even people with good rigs aren't performing like they should

All I could think while watching this video was how fucking awesome this game looked. You guys did a great job ❤

The tab thing really does make part of the text, doesn't it? Anyway, I will call some friends and try to play it, my morbid curiosity got the better of me

I cannot believe I am saying this about a game that shows up in this series, but I think this games has massive potential. It's creepy, intended or not, and honestly, I'd love to see more out of it.

Started playing the game right after the video was posted. Managed to gather all 8 pages in about 6-8 hours. Now the real grind begins! The 2 guys who made the game were actively in the game communicating to players, answering questions, replacing items lost by server resets, and just general being cool dudes. They’ve dropped at least 2 performance patches in the 48 hours since the population has boomed. Super awesome to be a part of!

Patch 2.0. Grass is now green, instead of red. 😂

Even if this game doesn’t really go anywhere, the new players gave these 2 guys motivation and a spark. This game may not be it, but maybe the next attempt they will carry that spark with them to something amazing. They clearly have a passion!

Wholesome af

What happened when you found all 8

@@parcol576 Josh said that you unlock flying and the last boss.

"This is the Afterlife, but it is not eternity... But then where does the soul go next?" Come on, this line alone has give this more character than all of Ubisoft's games over the last decade together.

All of the weird cryptic musings of the npcs voiced in that horrible uncanny TTS threw me into a state of complete awe at just how atmospheric it all is. That's dark fantasy done right.

@@SadBrazilianNoises What the developer was going for with the voices is actually pretty good but could've been executed a lot better.

@@SadBrazilianNoises They put the Mork and the Borg together--

as a professional writer, that is a bit of incredibly haunting writing given the setting

tons of those lines were genuinely great writing imo (considering the overall theme and atmosphere). i would be proud to have come up with this weird stuff

Out of all MMOs he reviewed, this one is the anti-thesis of the usual aftermath. Instead of shutting down a dying game for good, he breathed life into it.

@@LVZKV bozo

I was gonna say I'm about to try this shit lmao

There's something poetic about it given the concept and setting of the game.

this game almost perfectly captures a genuine feeling of early gaming, something that is extremely rare to come by now due to how fast people take games apart to the last file and share their findings online. just look at how Mario 64, early Pokemon or Zelda used to have all these rumors, some innocent, some very creepy. and the endless gaming creepypastas back in the hayday. early Minecraft was the last game i really ever experienced this subtle horror in: the fog, the endlessness, the loneliness, the lack of online resources and your young self's inability to think very critically and so you soak up the scary rumors and try to figure this game out by yourself while you feel watched. i think Animyst channels this exact energy: there are no resources online, you can't apply some long standing gaming knowledge just like when you were young, the endless empty world, and this inability to really make sense of it paired with the low graphics and fog, the loneliness with structures made by someone but there's nobody there. this feels like a game i could've played in 2006 and share rumors with friends on the school yard as we collectively shit ourselves. and i think that's beautiful.

You captured it perfectly. I couldn’t put a finger on what this game made me feel, but I think that’s it. A sense of wonder and curiosity that can’t be answered as easily as games that have been picked apart.

The early Minecraft part is so true , thanks for putting into world I love u

A little over a day of this gem being posted, Animyst playercounts skyrocketed to a staggering 94 player 24 hour peak at the time of writing, may those brave soldiers find all the pages

funny, for me it reads 86 all time peak

I actually like the voicelines, it feels so wrong and raw exactly what you would expect from someone who has been dead for 10.000 years. It adds to the uncomfortable atmosphere

Agreed, it feels unnatural and forced. Which I guess is what would happen if a pair of reanimated bones tried speaking

You expect dead people to sound like broken robot children?

Same, it's really fucking creepy and fits well

Samies. It was so damn weird it made me think of that one twisted MMO Josh did the series on. It definitely set the mood and made it so much more creepy than what an actual voice actor could have done.

I concur. If that was a deliberate design decision, it was exactly on point.

"Made by 2 mortals" Keeping the server up for 5 years is an accomplishment in of itself and shows their dedication.

The consistently weird portrayal of the game, intentional or not, is one of its greatest strengths. It's like the player is experiencing the game in an actual state of undeath - you can't properly comprehend the world and its characters, you can't interact, everything is *wrong*, like a fever dream that never ends.

A tiny interesting thing about all this: I love the subtle storytelling and worldbuilding that all the fancy magic you get pales in comparison to the weapon the first boss drops, which is just an ACTUAL WEAPON, made of steel and wood. The rest of Animyst deliberately makes very little sense, but that one detail speaks so clearly and loudly that I adore it.

I don't even know if that's intentional, but it so much captures the feeling of being in a dying, fading world.

Fancy magic : - throw bouncy rock - sends flies bothering your foes - chute of flaming material Regular weapon : Big, deliberate, hammer strike to the face. It all makes senses.

Makes me think of what Conan The Barbarian was taught by his father.

The voice over is not a failure, it's a triumph.

This feels like a creepypasta/ARG come to live. A mysterious and disturbing game, long forgotten, in which lies a secret that no one knows about since most people weren't able to finish it, and those few who did were never seen again. Except now the game has a small player base, so happy ending.

Josh... this needs a series... we need to form a group and find all pages.... there is no other way....

I'm in

@@richardfrederick6009 You have my femur for the expedition fund!

Lets overload this guy's only server!

This is the way.

I have a life mission now

This cursed game has evoked something in me, the desire to tame the desert and venture through the tombs of the undead... What have you done to me, Josh? Why have you shown me this cursed piece of the internet? Why could you not stop, when there was a part of your humanity left?

Such a cringe comment

​@@NotAClankerAnd yet, your reply is somehow more cringe.

@@NotAClankerI am begging you to read a single book.

Thanks to you the game is alive again. You can't imagine how much joy you bring to the creators with your work. You really did something great with this

On top of the eerie atmosphere everyone has discussed, "Resource Mode" is positively psychedelic. Seeing those infinitely tall beams of multicoloured light stretch all the way into the distance across that bleak and barren landscape makes me think of 2001: A Space Odyssey, or maybe End Of Evangelion.

Now I know in which type of evil Josh turned after playing this cursed game, cause now it has a hundred players peak and 50 playing right now, it was brought to live it had never seen before. Truly a work of Master Necromancer, hats down.

I saw this game on steam like yesterday.. I downloaded it because of the good reviews and interesting art style. And I was surprised how many players there were. I now know why.

Just so you know, this video almost singlehandedly brought this game back from the dead. After watching, I downloaded it and played and we had about 60 players on the server. It got enough attention that the two devs who made the game even pushed out a new update to help with the lag that having that many people on the server caused. This game is awesome and now that there are a few people playing, it's one I'd recommend people actually look at.

The video was just released a day ago

​@@professor0reo700thats how powerful this video is, it effects things retroactively...

As of 7 PM/19:00 on June 18 2023, Steamcharts says it has 61 people. Because of the surreal and empty yet disturbingly interesting potential this game has, I hope this game actually is carried by these people.

@@EJ_Red there is a fair chance it will, since they are a lot more prepared for the game, after this video, than if they had stumbled upon it randomly on steam.

It's all those homeless Tera Online players...

Gotta be honest, I’m diggin the text to speak. It has a detached eerie sound, perfect for reanimated beings. It’s just intriguing to me and I like it. Id love to see you do a small series on this 😅

Yeah you gotta think that any voice they had would be surreal and detached being that they have no lungs or vocal chords. It would almost be a property of the landscape more than the character. So it does fit. It's like something that should never be able to speak struggling to do so.

At least it’s not as bad as AI voices.

Congratulations. You've officially transcended the format of the show and discovered a true piece of cryptic internet mystery.

This game is coming back, josh. Simply by creating this video, you have brought it back. The devs are patching things, fixing bugs, and i think they have plans down the road to finish it.

I don't know why but your personality is so comforting. You make me feel like I'm sipping on a warm cup of hot chocolate while being hugged. It's like your videos take the edge off my depression somehow

I don't know why, because I see similar comments on various creator's videos all the time and usually don't perceive them as particularly sincere; but this one made me feel less like it's a bot farming likes, and more like a real human, a struggling one, saying something genuinely heartfelt. Iunno, maybe it's just my own MH falling off a cliff and a case of projection, but I feel for you. And if you're out there, I hope you're doing okay.

​@@MononymousM I think it's a real human commenting. I hope so (:

Please go see your friends and family. I know we all got homestuck since the pandemic, but go out and talk to some real people. Josh is just a youtuber

It may be a little rough but they managed some pretty great creepy ambiance and they definitely made you feel something lol!

90% sure this game's dev had glimpsed beyond the veil and was compelled to create it after witnessing the eldritch truth underneath and enveloping our reality

He has seen the far future. the realms beyond time that will overcome our earth after humans have gone. and that future is Animyst.

They have seen beyond the veil, a horrific truth, they found it there and in that moment of brainblasting realization they ceased to be man.. and become a herald.. an avatar of the crawling chaos..

​@@luisernestochaconguerrero778so...a typical Tuesday.

That is a high degree of certainty. I'm with this man.

I find the idea of playing through an abandoned arthouse MMO that few people have ever discovered and finding arcane secrets fascinating but don't think I'd ever actually want to try it. It would be an interesting premise however to do something like this intentionally and make it increasingly competent, higher quality and deeper mechanics for those who make the effort. Obviously it wouldn't be worth the investment to make that but it'd be an interesting art project.

The ending here was exactly what an MMO adventure should feel like. Hats off to your playing and writing

This was so bizarre and so fascinating. You gave it more love than it deserved...or maybe exactly the love it deserved. To tell its own very, very strange story to more people. I love that because of this video, this strange game found so much love all of the sudden and people willing to give it a shot. How cool! It's amazing that you helped resurrect it for awhile just like your character in game was. Mad props to the devs too!

Best video of yours, period. Not for its content, per say. But for your diatribe against yourself and against quitting this one. And for what happened with the community afterwards. Good freiken job dude. Seriously. I won't forget this game I've never played.

Damn, this is excellent content. That game feels very reminiscent of the early days of 3D and it’s interaction with the design philosophies of old 8 but games. Secrets, Easter eggs, the constant sense there might be SOMETHING around every corner

Somehow this "worst mmo ever" turns into "forgotten world explorer" type of series and honestly, this is what I am here for!

You might be interested in Josh's "Otherland" series (it's in his playlist section).

@@amixofgeekcontent This is how I found Josh way back when. There was something about it that seemed similar to dot hack, an incredibly in-depth reviewer who outlined his time with the story, characters, and a legitimate enthusiasm that didn't feel forced or self-absorbed. I remember reading a comment at the time where some one was complaining "You should put these into 15 minute chunks. You don't have the charisma and the game isn't interesting enough to be given this much time. If you do fix your style I could recommend you to..." And so on and so forth. Oh, it was so nice to see how quickly Josh's channel grew, and how varied his wheelhouse really became.

@@amixofgeekcontent Thanks! Will check it out :)

@@amixofgeekcontent That series is the stuff of legends.

@@amixofgeekcontent I half expected this video to turn into "Otherland 2"

This was an interesting , hilarious and fascinating look into your descent into the afterlife in a Tim Burton and Morrowind love child of an afterlife without any answers , this definitely needs a series or even a live stream to collect the pages, I loved the video Josh , and i hope we get more .

I actually quite like the visuals, particularly due to its sense of scale. Places somehow feel like actual places due to the scale, draw distance, skybox and lighting. I also like the asset choice and colors. I also like the voice-acting (yes, even with the TTS being awkward; it helps the atmosphere and honestly sounds awesome to me) and writing. Environment sound design is great too. It's a game with a strong atmosphere and vibe that I really like.

This video made me a fan, not only did you singlehandedly revive a dying game, but you also gave these devs a much needed boost to get their game to be the best it could be. I was inspired today, and at my age and how jaded and cynical I have become that is a huge achievement.

I love the idea of playing a reanimated bunch of bones. I can't think of many games off the top of my head where you play as a skeleton! The creepy disjointed voices work really well, too, and I like the way the settlements are named. It looks like it plays like a lot of broken old MMOs, but they get a few extra points for style. It feels like they had something in mind more intriguing than the usual generic overcomplicated fantasy pet world.

Watching this video and reading the comments has been one of the most heartwarming experiences I've had in a while :)

Josh Strife Hayes is officially not the MMO Grim Reaper, but the MMO Necromancer. He commands them to die and to raise from their graves in equal measure.

I hope the Devs get to develop other Games in a more realistic scope. They seem to have a good vision. Would love to see that

You can play as a skelly. Absolutely bone-rattling choice. 10/10

Animyst is, I think, not having played it, one of those pieces of media where you seem to get it, or think it's the worst thing. I don't see an in between. Either you love the dank desolate world, confusion, and hopelessness of it all, or you focus on how barren and barely functioning it all is. I kinda love that.

This feels like another Otherworld, a game that has the potential to actually be good or at least entertaining enough to keep you busy for a couple of hours a day, but it just needs the support from it's community and devs to go on.

I played Animyst a long time ago (roughly around the time covid happened) and I remember being entranced by how enormous it was. It reminded me of a mmo version of Yume nikki, where it's about the allure of the silent desperate exploration.

The text to speech madness oddly fits in this game, sounds like a transmission from a hellish dimension or something.

My honest first thought about it was; this is so bad, it can't _not_ be deliberate. And I agree with you - it's fitting in an odd way.

Yeah it has a definite "Black Lodge" vibe to it

Yea, and its definetely done on purpouse. Fits the game perfectly

This is totally an indie horror trope, the archaic text to speech voices used for an unsettling effect. and it really does work

Yeah, it’s jarring but I dig it! Ofc I haven’t experienced it firsthand, maybe it gets old quick, but it’s kinda cool to me!

I can totally see hords of players starting to explore that game to uncover all its mysteries. Some people are drawn toward old, obscure and bizarre mysteries online.

If every fledgling developer posted their graduation project on Steam, this is what it would probably look like. Props to the devs for actually having a finished game and not just an ambitious start. This is what gathering experience looks like as a game dev.

From the start, you had me intrigued...or really the creators did. But then you shared the "voiceover", and I unironically love that aesthetic decision.

Fun fact: Steam Charts reports that Animyst has a playerbase increase of +2644.54% since June this year, no doubt thanks to this video. It went from 4 to 86.

This game looks incredibly atmosheric and I kinda like the voicelines, they are eerie and somehow it fits :)

the idea of a character being formed from the reconstituted bits of a variety of people in a mass grave is horrifying and inspired.

The idea is incredibly horrifying yet they are friendly(I think). I am going to use them as a basis for a type of undead.

I am frantically taking notes tbh

So basically Espada from Bleach?

@@GrimSawyer52 I guess it would be hard not to be friendly when you're made up of other people

i think the TTS makes this game even more atmospheric and, in some places, spooky

Whenever i feel down, lonely, sad.. i just put your worst mmo or was it any good series for hours, thank you

Ok the skeletons being called "friends" and talking like aliens from 1940 had me dying

Of all the games Josh has played, this is the only one I REALLY want to play. Maybe it is cursed 😂

I tend to watch these videos with zero intention on ever playing anything. But as the video went on, I slowly started finding it all quite interesting. Charming. Now I'm curious what the sky area looks like. Very fascinating

i have to say, with every passing minute this video became more entrancing, and looked like a 10/10 creepypasta. And after watching the video, i'm 100% sure that this game is a memetic agent.

It could definitely be played as a skeletons war meme generator

It is absolutely an SCP

Thank you Josh, because of you, I've gotten back into Runescape and started Albon Online. and now I'm going to take on the task of findind the secrets of Animist. I love the feel of the world and your tenacity has inspired me to find and defeat the SkyBoss. See you Cursed Ones in the hot sand.

The atmosphere and aesthetic has a ton of potential. Would love to see a game like this but fully featured and polished

Animyst is legit a good game because I can check in on it once a year, meet a dev and be completely blown away about how weird it is every time. I can't get anywhere near the same memorable experiences from something like WoW or Destiny.

This is one of the most impactful videos I have watched on youtube. This game intrigues me in ways that I didn't know possible. Josh - excellent storytelling and presentation man! You made me genuinely interested in this world.

I have never played any MMO's and have zero interest in doing so... but this series is treasure trove of entertainment. Glad I found it cuz I'm binging it like a mf 👍🔥

Josh played up the voiced dialogue like it was going to be unbearable but then it played it was the most genius thing the developer could have done

It's so unnerving, it's Perfect

it kinda reminds me of twin peaks. In terms of unsettling on a budget, im inclined to agree

Glad to see everyone agrees. The voices match the atmosphere extremely well. The game has a few good designs/ideas it just plays like an alpha. Got some potential

Typical josh... I mean i'm enjoying the series, but there's a lot of "THIS IS THE MOST INSANE/ANNOYING/STUPID THING EVER GUYS, LOOK!!!" Thing: *Just below average or even somewhat good. (like in this case)*

The way their bones creak and scrape against eachother as they talk makes my skin crawl... I love it.

It's not something I have any plans on playing, but I'd be lying if I didn't say it didn't have some interesting ideas. I'd love to see something like this done a bit better in the future. Edit: Saw one of the devs commented and they said they had updated it a few times since this video so maybe I will check it out

These are the chronicles of a frontier's man in a new world... Uncovering new locations and artifacts, new people and dialects. Twenty first century exploration at its finest

Man this takes me back. When I was a teen in the late 2000s I used to go to websites that listed MMOs and check them all out. There were some really interesting ones that would definitely make for a good episode of this series.

the whole theme of this game being some afterlife / purgatory and the way its interpreted is extremely rich and thought provoking, i like it!

this is honestly a really cool setting, and if fleshed out as a single player game, could be really promising. I love this janky cursed aesthetic and the massive unsettling scale. There's an air of mystery about it. Totally untapped potential

"fleshed out" good one

that game already exists, it's called Amnesia.

@@spamuel98 Amnesia wishes its aesthetic was actually this interesting, lol

Kinda reminds me a bit of Wrought Flesh vibes wise, big desert, gorey aesthetic, ominous places and undertone, weird but interesting jank both visually and gameplay wise (which is quite hard). Though of course that one is more of action sci-fi

Take a look at Lunacid. It got the same vibe but is a real game. It's like the King Field games.

This game looks so interesting, I like the idea of an ancient, decaying world where everyone in it is a corpse, the weird low-poly models, the way the sky is just billowing endless clouds, even the text-to-speech, it is really fascinating and weird looking. I really want to try this game now

the sky is great

Gotta say, this video is one of your best. imo your most fascinating content are the videos that showcase dead worlds full of bizarre things almost nobody will ever see. Thanks so much for putting in the time to strange janky games like this and otherland, to preserve these worlds in some way.

What a treat! Lol i love finding out about obscure games like this. Makes me wish i still had a pc. This game gives me a creepy, uncanny feeling. Kinda sad too. Id love to see this worked on again. The sky is really stunning!

This entire games feels so... I can't even put it into words that will do justice, it feels like a creepypasta game irl everything is empty but that adds an uncanny feel, the audio and voices give it such an Erie and unsettling tone and by far the most interesting part are the player structures that are years old it makes you wonder about their story what did they do? Where did they go? When did they stop? You feel alone but you know that its possible you aren't, and theres proof you weren't the first, its terrifying kinda resembling the feel i had when playing early Minecraft with that dense fog and quiet world or when i played castleminerZ with the empty yet big world with an almost alien or apocalyptic feel to the world and uncanny enemies, honestly this game seems like something that would be definitely a unique experience

Some games are just truly awful, but I admit this one really picked my curiosity. I love the mystery, I love when games aren't entirely figured out and maxed by it's community.

Josh’s ability to find cursed gems is legitimately unmatched, these videos provide something invaluable, recording small forgotten pieces of gaming history that are more than worth preserving and for that im incredibly glad to have found his channel

Seriously curious how he came across Animyst

​@@Tarpit_I'm sure the community helps. He probably has a long list of emails with good suggestions

Right? Think of how many projects never see the light of day. They either get shared in private only communities, are never shared period, or like Animyst they just get forgotten. Lost to the sands of time. The world of low budget, indie games is fascinating.

this is a gem. From the environment and character design, to the lore , to the text to speech. I love this series too. MMO's have a strange aura about them, they're the most "raw" experience of many developers since their scope more often than not vastly outweighs their skills. I dont know if you played it yet, but the one MMO i played a lot as a teen that is arguably garbage is Fallen Earth

every single one of your worst mmo ever videos makes me want to play the MMO in question. amazing work youve given a gift to the devs who wouldnt get the respect youve given them otherwise. great stuff

The atmosphere here is SO appealing. I literally do not care one bit about any visual jank, it's lovely and appeals to me. Whatever nightmare these devs are having, I want in. Seeing one of them in the comments as recently as (at most) 6 days ago, checking out the massive amounts of updates on the steam page...yeah. Fucking. W. I'm going in. And I hope I see some of y'all watching this four months later in there too. eta: would love to see swappable controls. I play lefty and would rather be on that IJKL shit than trying to WASD.

I like how after this video the all-time high of player count has risen to 61. Three score and 1 souls taken by the Animyst.

Now it has a small almost constant playerbase, wonder how long it will last, for me, ill keep logging on for a while

This game and your fascination with it reminded me of The Beginner's Guide. A meta-game where a narrator takes you through the strange games made by a mysterious "Coda", who he has grown obsessed with.

I think this game is deserving of a mini series. This has to be the most interesting MMO you’ve done as of late and it’s absolutely worthy of more attention

Same actually. Having watched the video, I really want to see more of it. It's obscure enough that I can't find anything like it.

@@flame4864 cruelty squad

​@@Methdemonthat game is definitely not obscure

The "fake ending" to the video is a very nice touch. Great storytelling, Josh

Thank you so much for making a video on this game. Downloaded it today and I’m absolutely having a blast. Met several players who found all 8 pages and they have all been so helpful. The world is amazing the combat as actually super fun once you get some cool spells and the dialogue is superb. This game is loaded with charm and is absolutely worth a playthrough for anyone who is into surreal sandbox quirky fantasy games.

The fact that this video breathed new life into this game makes me feel so happy.

Had already given up hope that you'd continue this series, but now that I found this I see there are plenty of new episodes I've yet to watch. Best day of my life :p

Josh! I want you to know you are maybe my favorite comfy YouTube channel. Nothing better than watching a couple vids under the covers with the lights off and then dreaming of weird MMOs

This series has been an adventure, thanks for taking us along on this quest of yours Josh.

PLLEASE DO THE MMO FLY FOR FUN

@@107olivier Ask Josh, not Zed!

Okay, immediately I'm extremely interested by the mechanic of being able to swap between factions when you die. That is genuinely very cool.

Honestly, I feel like the TTS voice stylistically fits the game world *really* well.

Would totally love seeing more forgotton mmos on here just to see them come back to life

See, unlike a lot of the trash MMOs that make it to any review channel... this one has thoughtful worldbuilding and a definitive atmosphere. You can tell passion went into it! Glad it's getting recognition.

This is one of the most eerie games I've ever seen...yet it also intrigues me and actually tempts me to play it... I'm already a masochist when it comes to games already and it scares me that I want to play this...

I just love how Josh becomes increasingly more intense in his tone throughout the video. It really makes it feel like there's an obsession with the game slowly building up and adds beautifully to the vibe of the video over all.

Man's an actor and it bloody well shows :P

@@Poldovico oh damn, I didn't even know that. Yeah that makes sense lmao

We listened in real time to a Lovecraft protagonist experiencing some Events

@@AuricomSystems Damn you're so right with this. Also Lovecraft is my favourite author so thanks for reminding me to read some of his stories again!

I adore how this one slowly shifted from 'review' to 'narrative descent into madness with uplifting if flawed finale'.

The "No I kept going" gave me chills and I liked the video. Bravo I love this series

Baffling seeing this game on my recommended when I was asked to stream this game back in my twitch days by the devs. They held events and such and were very kind. Tarpit was a cool guy. I unfortunately, just didn't have the time and fell out of streaming then. Great video and happy to see Tarpit is still updating the game!

I didn't play this game for very long, but I've always been impressed by its creativity. Never seen anything like it.

Wow, what a trip. Thanks again for these bits of history saved. This game looks simply incredible, I will not play it but I would watch someone do it for hours for sure. It is a piece of art no matter what people could say.

This is like someone made a mmo based on an idea for a video game creepypasta. Its... Very endearing. This actualy looks like something that could develop a cult following if its fun to play and has a few unique mrchanics.

If anyone is curious, that jittery effect on the weapons is floating point error. Towards the end of the video you can see a lot of jittering. Basically the player character is so far from the center of the world that you start getting math-rounding errors in the vertex position of 3D models. Fun stuff! Modern engines (or modern systems) sometimes (not always) "re-center" the world coordinates periodically to avoid this when traveling very long distances.

Wow, interesting

This man speaks truth; If you play FF14 this is also why your furniture shifts slightly after modelling your apartment sometimes. The decimal points are rounded off to a certain position meaning it'll shift a few pixels randomly once in a while.

Floating point errors, the bane of every programmer. So incredibly hard to debug.

@@oliver_twistor Just make everything a double and pray nobody notices.

Yep, I expect when the game engine devs created it they weren't expecting a continuous coordinate system across enormous distances. Eventually the number of bits in the mantissa gets stretched thin as numbers get very large. It's the same reason on your average scientific calculator if you add 1 to 10^99 you still only have 10^99.

I've actually fallen in love with this game, it has a unique atmosphere that reminds me old stuff like old ps1 games and even castleminerZ. IDK why but i'm hooked anymore lol

This game looks fascinating... it's like playing after the end has come. The end has come, gone and come again, and then you get to play.