A Dark Apocalyptic Survival RPG With Some Wild Ideas - Railgods of Hysterra

[@careydavenport3889]

Celery as a snack reminds you that life can't get much more bleak. Fitting food for the apocalypse.

[@rottenapple_]

But it tastes awesome, especially with some 100% natural nut butter. The real apocalypse is going to happen if people don't stop eating all this processed shit and balloon up like fat fucking whales.

[@rottenapple_]

The real apocalypse is going to happen if people don't stop eating processed food and die from eating all of those chemicals. Celery is amazing, especially with some natural nut butter.

[@another_blacktomcat]

.......that comment just send me on a weird 15 minutes search for a video i saw about a decade ago.....because it was bleak and there was celery involved....."to claire; from sonny".

[@daviru02]

Peanut butter with Raisins is fantastic though!

[@plumbthumbs9584]

@@daviru02 ants on a log, baby!

[@AntExe-ey5my]

Really like the premise of this game. I'll be keeping one of my many, many eyes on it.

[@Maniacman2030]

Eyes for days?

[@slimeplort]

straight to area 51 for you

[@charles_teak]

@@Maniacman2030 Years.

[@daviru02]

You had me at Cthulhu and The Yellow King. Now if we only had a good RPG with these two.

[@Maniacman2030]

Hastur... Hastur... Hast- *HURK* _thud_

[@absolutfx]

Skald Black Priory is cool

[@TreguardD]

Important to note: There is a public playtest running from now until 12/11. I got into it immediately, but it may be short lived.

[@ExtraTrstl]

A LOT of really interesting ideas here. Thanks, Splatt!

[@TheYashakami]

The style and presentation of this game is awesome. The concept is amazing.

[@gsofficial]

Man I love your style, like when you picked up a bandage and said "Looks like we got a BANDAGE here!!" that helped me as a viewer because it let me know that there was a bandage.

[@plumbthumbs9584]

For when you have a bandage on your eyes! (but not your ears)

[@ishotmyboss]

Mike Stoklasa's secret game review channel.

[@willbbwluvr]

Love it, bonus points for the little shop of horrors reference

[@Alwaysmoving1]

That's hilarious yesterday they were crying everything's post Apocalyptic so my man's on the ball with a current Apocalyptic lol love it

[@-Slinger-]

I'm pretty sure eating celery actually costs more energy to digest than it contributes.

[@matthewconstantine5015]

Well, now I want to put together a Call of Cthulhu campaign based on this.

[@pbsixgun6]

Maybe make the 'basic tools' made out of a skeleton and it's dried sinews.

[@Ash2Flame116]

1 celery by itself is calorie deficient… that means you would starve eating it 2 could use some polish 3 looks fun I can’t wait

[@ninebreaker6438]

The "doo doo butter" game you're talking about is void train. It's was a neat concept but definitely got a boring repetitive game loop.

[@MarkDeSade100]

I'm pretty sure he played that game, I remember watching a video about it.

[@vforwombat9915]

@@MarkDeSade100 he did, the problem w splatt is that he is almost always positive in his videos. so if you watch the void train video, you won't get the impression he thought it was doo doo butter.

[@colesontaylor1231]

Could I perchance get a timestamp for the doo doo butter comment?

[@adriancoleman2876]

Why start with flint as your basic tool. Why not petrified coral that looks like a screaming face or a human bone.

[@Legather]

Celery's high in vitamin K, good for coagulation and strong bones. In short, don't undercelery it.

[@owensthilaire8189]

In the Dream Lands, one usually goes down the thousand steps of sleep, meets the guardians and give a visitor a dagger, a robe and a loaf of bread. There is no modern technology in the Dream lands. An aficionado once stated there was likely a thousand year time lag between waking and dream. And so, making a stone axe ain't so out of place. Standard ghoul technology. Otherwise I agree. It needs more splat and shriek and hideous wailing.

[@mohammadsinan7537]

We seriously need more top-down rpgs like this, but unfortunately can't find anything similar.

[@charles_teak]

Woah. This has that _odd,_ *grotesque* vibe to it. However, I'd be more stoked if they upgrade the current combat feature. Wishlisted for now!

[@spaceman9599]

Trains of Chaos! Rails for the Rail God! Heresy!

[@TheKnightBringer]

Not everyone will get the crazy house of horrors reference But I'm here for it

[@XShrike0]

I would love it if the player could focus on exploring and have NPCs do the harvesting. Maybe the player needs to pacify the area so the NPCs have a safe path.

[@TheVigilante2000]

I recommend they remove the three line tag above the main-centerscreen-character.

[@DigitalVortexEntertainment]

Thank you!!!

[@aarons.8161]

So, I get that the game likely won't let you capture enemies (at least on a more permanent basis) until you build a cage, but the fact the capture prompt keeps popping up each time time you get them to half health makes me think you can at least capture them temporarily. Like capture and drag a living enemy to the train to feed it that way. Also, as far as leaning more into the eldritch horror theme. I get the feeling this game will likely lean more into it farther in, but instead of fighting against the horrors (like in most games with such theme) you fight with, and maybe even become part of the eldritch horror. After all, you accumulate madness and feed it to the train to level up. Imagine eventually getting eldritch powers that have you corrupting/destroying the various towns you travel through. Or in the very least, corrupting and commanding the creature you capture and have them fight for you and/or do other tasks (gathering, mining, wood cutting, ect).

[@5Poisons]

Game's style reminds me of VRising. It looks intriguing and not many lovecraftian games out there so that's a plus.

[@ThatReplyGuy]

Should point out, the King in Yellow is not Lovecraft, but it did likely inspire his god Hastur.

[@gpagr1914]

I allways watch your vids to get some what game is worth buying tips

[@Harold035]

I saw it being refered as snowpiercer! Nice!

[@ohdubwest7533]

They're playing with some cool ideas. I'm curious to see where this one goes.

[@johnnymetonymic]

"You've got Path of Exile 2 to play" Me with a controller in my hand playing POE2.

[@488Knight]

I believe celery is actually a caloric neutral food or actually requires more calories to process than it provides.

[@StarlasAiko]

0:33 I have seen the yellow sign and bathed in the lakes of Hali.

[@happywombat]

So far a little bare bones in content but a solid foundation, ill definitely be keeping an eye on this one

[@plumbthumbs9584]

excellent!

[@brooklynfloyd6428]

Hey splat, great video as usual! Would love to see more Stalker 2 if you feel up to it :) thanks!

[@Tattersail]

graphics look like i need to put the glasses on that i already have on. everything is so soft around the edgets.

[@heckzotica]

I'm sold.

[@cameronbaughman2090]

Forgive me for this, but hp Lovecraft was horrified of stuff that lived in the ocean. So In short if the old ones did take over, I hope you like sea food because thats about what your gonna be eating.😅😂

[@NinjaWolf-ue3si]

a train game know who i got to send this to

[@ATZag135]

ThankYou SirSpla77!

[@AtrakKarta]

4:15 Mmm...ants on a log. I'd even just take the log.

[@agentAR67]

I hope it gets steamdeck compatibility on release or soon after iv been looking forward for this

[@Baraz_Red]

Wait, why are Humans not "proper meat" : speciesism I tell ya ! ( for real, the word speciesism is hard to write. I originally wrote just specism. The populist in me might insist on the simpler spelling.)

[@Lurksmore]

Human mush? I want a steak. Hamburger, passable. Puree of Man, not for me.

[@andymeh499]

Premising premise of the premisoning premesiry......

[@GothicDragonX]

This reminds me of the game Victor Vram; it shares some similarities, such as the art style and the characters' moves. The colors are more muted here.

[@fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

The concept is fantastic; but I'm not sure it yet connects to the actual game that much. Eldrich flesh-train of blasphemous industrial might I'm totally here for; but if every time I get off it's just Grim Dawn from Wish with a hunger bar I might as well just browse the concept art. Hopefully the connection will become clearer as time goes on.

[@CallMeMrChainmail]

You're being throttled

[@Michael.Virtus]

This looks cool. Thanks for showing it. Wishlisted.

[@phm6834]

It is a Chuggoth!

[@Blue_Jasmin]

I gotta say, while I don't hate crafting systems I'm kind of tired of them. Just give me cool loot.

[@wyrmblade]

Yet another survival crafter where you start the game having to make an axe out of wood and rock. How is everyone not tired of these yet?

[@lamezorlord]

Oh I straight up say I hate crafting. Outside games like Minecraft where it's the key element, crafting never works. It's nearly impossible to balance for. Either it's too good making everything else pointless, or it's good enough making it pointless. In survival games it's always so by the numbers, you may as well replace it with unique world loot and it would make the game more exciting.

[@AmaryInkawult]

Snowpiercer vs Hellpiercer, which train is more badass?

[@Skenjin]

If POE2 was free in its EA I would certainly be playing that. But i dont have 30 to spare.

[@igorthelight]

Let people betatest PoE2 for 30$ for you ;-)

[@ericconrad8854]

nobody cares that you are a broke joke, and Grinding Gear Games doesn't owe you a free video game.

[@hanswurst2923]

​@@igorthelightThe game is already better than most AAA poop.

[@igorthelight]

@@hanswurst2923 100% agree! But it will be even better after a few months! I am planning ti buy something from the store just to support the devs. But not in Early Access ;-)

[@hanswurst2923]

@igorthelight Fair enough ;)

[@paulberry5750]

I am a sucker for anything Lovecraftian.

[@vforwombat9915]

well, anything lovecraftian is full of suckers.

[@davidsulc90]

This gives me Last train home vibes, but lovecraft; and diablo style RPG instead of Commandos/XCOM like strategy

[@MrDavidMoyer]

1:55 PAUSE here for a moment. One of my least favorite quirks of the English language occurs in this intro paragraph. "Secreted" has two forms, spelled the same but pronounced differently, with very different meanings. Kinda like the Chinese language it depends where you put the emphasis in the word. And I've never liked the word "secrete" or what it stands for. Secreted (SEE-kret-ed): quietly hid away, retreated from sight, associated with the base word "secret" Secreted (se-KREET-ed): oozed forth, produced and discharged some liquid or gel, associated with the base word "secrete" Okay, thanks for your time. carry on.

[@JanderStrahd]

A lot of sources _insist_ the former pronunciation doesn't exist, and it's really annoying. I remember hearing James Randi say it that way and was like, "...Why?"

[@MrDavidMoyer]

@@JanderStrahd Oh, it very much exists. But I intentionally refuse to use it in order to avoid any confusion with the second form.

[@another_blacktomcat]

....aaaand wishlisted.

[@brandondeakins564]

Arkham horror is a great game, i just wish it wasn't so convoluted to play

[@PropheticHaze]

Why does the mele sound like a full on slap

[@GigawattFox]

I got into the playtest as well, and while it has a lot of potential right now it's so unfinished that there's barely anything to really comment on.

[@lemusketeer3232]

No, you managed to get a little shop of horrors reference into your commentary. Awesome❤

[@JanderStrahd]

_Indie devs, after reading a Wiki for 15 minutes:_ *"I am now ready to make a game on this."*

[@TroglobytesGames]

We are all Lovecraft fans since we were kids, we played Call of Cthulhu campaigns, we published several other games and have been in the industry for the last 30 years. Hope we are qualified enough to create a game INSPIRED by such amazing works. Thanks! :)

[@rareraven]

You seem young.

[@narcisbolog7825]

I'm surprised you didn't do PoE2 today.

[@mbielcik]

🖤

[@Mr_Quimper]

Little game of horrors.

[@TheAxebitten]

Can you checkout Mythic Battlegrounds - Demonic Siege? Im curious

[@GhostofJamesMadison]

We really need to have a talk with the game industry about what the acronym "RPG" means because its startingto get out of hand

[@chrisstokoe3169]

This game is sooo cool and has some serious good mechanics and I don't like Lovecraft stuff ever not a fan but umm I need this

[@me36391]

This looks awesome

[@michaelkreitzer1369]

Anyone else think stop frames are overused?

[@JayB9137-abc]

comment for the comment god!

[@Viper6332]

Looks decent but i agree not having a sprint is an instant no thxs

[@AlterSack-m2o]

Breaking pots fills my heart with joy.....dang, like my ex-wife....^^

[@aronseptianto8142]

idk, maybe it's because it's early in development but it really do just feel like a generic survival crafter. The lovecraft aspect itself is rather lacking even considering the nice visual. There is no imminent threat, there's no rush to do anything other than the madness. The vibe in the overworld is weirdly calm and dare i say clinical

[@Baraz_Red]

There are so many survival games, that those typical mechanics are a turn-off... but I will watch to see the rest of the game. EDIT: the Madness system is interesting and nice.

[@chaosordeal294]

"5.0" damage? Why?

[@bigminigame]

I'm sorry but with poe2 out, having just one void ball as your only spell + slow ennemies/combat mechanics, it wont cut it for most of us. Add diversity to combat mechanics, less dumb ennemies,...

[@THAC0MANIC]

password for a single player game is something i dont see much these days use to be common back in the 90's and such why coz alot of single player games had coop but it required a password system back in the day to make it work im woundering if maybe this game is doing something like that, just first thoughts in my head could be something completely differnt mind you but still

[@Wiedadde]

It's a bit weird to see a mechanical train on the inside and a tentacle monster on the outside. I don't know why, but the immersion isn't there for me. The style of the game looks great though! Must be a personal thing with the train...

[@mr.strugglesnuggle6668]

I think that the symbiote can grow when you build up your train

[@cheyennecartwright7244]

Yeah, this goes on the wishlist with some hopes. I want to add to your comments about theme here, with something that kinda gets under my skin about eldritch horror stuff. Lovecraft isn't some rando, he was a dude, he had thoughts and opinions (some of them egregiously, almost cartoonishly horrible, see what he named his cat for example), and the idea of bringing him in as a figure who is gathering people to fight the horrors... I don't know, man. It's like the name itself too, "... Hysterra", like, that's taken from "hysteria" which refers to a Victorian notion, left over from Plato long before, that the uterus caused bad health, and bad mental health especially, for women. It isn't really a generic word for "madness". It's hard to get into the horror if the aesthetic here is only surface.

[@PersonaSlates]

Appreciate the little shop of horrors and trailer park boys references lol.

[@wigwagwook6883]

Morning

[@HeathenSWolf]

It's a crime to have such huge maps, require backtracking and have run speed this slow. A combo that will never make me want to play any game.

[@alexbrannam3460]

"SAY-TEE-ITY???" I say "SAH-TAI-ITY." I'm gonna have to un sub. Can't believe I've loved you for so long. J/k of course and according to google we're both wrong. "Suh-tai-uh-tee" I guess. "we wiv in ah satiety" is what that makes me think of for some reason.

[@Skullogk]

Hahaha, still playing Path of Exile 2 :)

[@silverbackhayabusa]

"Orientated" or just oriented.

[@ianallen738]

Celery exists solely to garnish a Bloody Mary.

[@pauperslament3467]

I dont know. I guess i am an Old Tymer who's gamed for so long but, i am tired of the flash and pizazz that every game has to have now. Massive, blinding, fruity colored strobe lights in every element of the game? No thank you.

[@rottenapple_]

This game looks pretty cool.

[@semajin]

Satiety is pronounced SAY-shu-tee or SAY-she-uh-tee

[@JanderStrahd]

"[ suh *tahy* i tee ]" Derived form "satiation" is "[ sey shee *ey* shuhn ]."

[@ohnoitisnt666]

No public demo is a little annoying.

[@Endlave]

Yet another survival crafter. Getting real tired of those

[@zedcunningham6975]

I got hairy legs!

[@pmcollectorboy2929]

Path of Exile or Caves of Qud.

[@zarddin]

Caves of Qud was 15 years in development by one guy.

[@SquidGains]

Path of Exile 2 is beautiful and smooth. Just started yesterday and even though my expectations were high, I'm still surprised how good it feels. I didn't really play path of exile 1. I got Caves of Qud in my wishlist for the next time it goes on sale.

[@sloopadoodle]

STOP DROPPING VIDEOS!! IM PLAYING POE2 AND HAVE NO TIME LEFT!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

[@rajarshisamaddar4300]

second

[@thecannuck7579]

First