Fear Underground - A Very Weird Side-Crawling Spelunking Horror Game Full of Freaky Creatures!

Fear Underground - A Very Weird Side-Crawling Spelunking Horror Game Full of Freaky Creatures!
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[@jack0lantrn]

Whole new meaning to the term "dungeon crawler"

[@nemesisurvivorleon]

I didn't know how to react to your joke, so here's a sheep 🐑

[@NumbDigger22]

crawling simulator

[@sukamadik5983]

In real life actual explorers would go into much tighter spaces inside massive caves. Many of them would go so far they would get wedged in between rocks and die or they wouldn't have the energy to make the long trip back out and also die. I always found that to be a horrifying concept so it's pretty cool to see a game like this. I hope the final product ends up being good.

[@AlphaBetaGamer]

Yeah, I don't have many fears, but underground caves is definitely one. After seeing The Descent, the thought of being in an underground cave system and running out of light really freaks me out!

[@MiguelMartinez-pw9op]

The real worst is that some people would explore underwater caves with tight and narrow space. Crazy daredevils😶‍🌫️.

[@CrimsonCrux]

I went caving a few times and the networks we went in (in my native Wales) were considered beginners but we're prone to rain constantly and I've never felt terror like crawling through U-shaped bends while they fill up with rain water visibly.

[@davideassis87]

That's why I hate cave exploration with all my might and soul. I can't comprehend why anyone would voluntarily risk getting stuck alone in the dark.

[@DarkZeroHero]

The Nutty Putty incident: absolute nightmare. A man crawled into a terribly tight space and got stuck. He died, and rescuers cannot retrieve the body as it was dangerous to do so.

[@jorgemigueltavares6041]

0:50 _"What is that nasty smell of dead bodies?"_ My brother in Christ, you just answered your own question.

[@jhojansegura]

Dude is absolutely stoic for the situation he’s in

[@Bluerivalofjumpman]

It's either that or die honestly.

[@meh.7640]

maybe just a bad voice actor but still it's way better than a screeching coward for a protagonist. i've played games where i actually wanted the main guy to die instead

[@MegaMerdeux]

@@meh.7640 it doesn't have to be a screeching coward. Things arent black and white, making the character react a bit more worried or frightened would be more realistic. Without having to turn him into a crying panicking mess....

[@sukamadik5983]

If you are claustrophobic you'll just love this game.

[@Xport9]

☠☠☠

[@TheNapster153]

I'm not claustrophobic, and I hate this game!

[@asterlofts1565]

Imagine this with VR... :(

[@ZeoHidra]

The part with the raising water was particularly hard for me to sit through.

[@onerxowns2202]

No, for claustrophobic it should go for First Person view

[@sweepingtime]

This has really nice artwork. It's a good example of what you can get away with if you can narrow the game play a bit to emphasize mood and storytelling.

[@Ultrasound700]

I don't see enough horror media that takes place outside of modern or close to modern times. It's good to see a game exploring this underutilized area of the genre.

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

Because the idea of a horror protagonist is to be as close to an everyday Joe as possible so the viewer can project themselves onto them. As much as you wanted to believe it, there is always that voice that it can't happen to you, because you aren't a medieval knight (though I guess getting stuck in tunnels sucks tho). I agree tho that it is nice to see a change, and started to write fantasy horror for myself because there isn't much of it.

[@Ultrasound700]

@@AntipaladinPedigri Do you post your stuff publicly? I'd like to read some of it.

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

It's all in Polish except one Czech translation. And sadly I didn't get to publish the most fantasy-like horror yet as I was collecting shorts for a collection and my tablet broke.

[@bo-dine7971]

The guy deadass calls himself a "labrat" lol, there were no labs in them days!

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

Not in the modern sense but there could be an alchemist's laboratory.

[@DrFerazza]

"Think we should hire a Witcher to clean out the cave thing under the town?" "Nah, nah, nah everyone knows not to fall down the hole, it'll be fine, save your gold."

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

5:31 ABG immediately backing up for some improvised backside acupuncture, before the knives aiming for his butt even pass.

[@Xport9]

Ah yes...The Cube, as if that movie didn't gave me a seething phobia, now it is in a form of videogame. Thanks!

[@vadimsharanda1052]

It's The Cube + creepy insectoid creatures.

[@memelord9899]

Im glad i wasnt the only one who thought about that movie during the final shot

[@lasagnatheory9108]

The concept is so good I hope they make something majestic out of that. The one thing that I could add is the movement is way too smooth and cyclical. If the animation showed struggle with some variations here and there, it would really help the atmosphere

[@neurothrall5314]

So this is what the Whiterun guard does in their spare time

[@darkninja136]

I always thought it was so fake how in any metal gear game you could just turn around in a vent while crawling lmao. This seems more realistic and terrifying

[@IamBlackToast]

Definitely unsettling, but it looks good and the sound design’s on point.

[@yohanhandoyo6950]

Damn medieval nutty putty cave incident 😩

[@judsongaiden9878]

5:27 Just like "the Cleaner" from 'Labyrinth'!

[@MNiTFTW]

The dialog is unintentionally hilarious in this I stg "What are those sharp knives-- --now I understand. Back off!"

[@static2223]

From Walking simulator to Crawling simulator.

[@phthisis]

Ha, wow. This is triggering some nightmares I had as a kid about crawling through tunnels that got so narrow that I was forced to wiggle like a worm. That, and some locations in Turkey...

[@xxxSaiyan228]

Not gonna lie, the game graphics and animations are done well

[@SirKolass]

The animations are horrible, you have to be joking right now 😂

[@xxxSaiyan228]

@@SirKolass ofc I'm joking, even on unity the animations are better

[@the_primal_instinct]

Don't think "lab rats" were a concept during times he seems to be from.

[@johnnymonzon7148]

Fuck it we ball

[@catkilled]

This is one of the most unique horror games I’ve ever seen. I could happily watch another three or so hours of gameplay

[@RAPEDBYBLACKS]

Get a life

[@The-Man-On-The-Mountain]

My dad telling me how he went to school every day:

[@Lucivius27]

It's like the dev saw the crawling section in Mortal Shell and thought "Hmm I could turn that into horror."

[@MinersLoveGames]

This is a pretty unique concept.

[@lucascoval828]

Indie scene, man. They put out some cool stuff.

[@manuelmatos4322]

This chanel is legendary every day one, and any of then are Diamonds.

[@AlphaBetaGamer]

Thank you very much! Glad you like the vids! :)

[@manuelmatos4322]

@@AlphaBetaGamer Every time, and forever 🦾

[@BuggingonBeeroids]

It looks like an interesting experience but some of the sound design is just a bit too extra, perhaps if the sound mixing for squelches anf monster noises was reduced slightly, it would sound alot less goofy

[@andreypatogenov5695]

One of the weirdest and creepiest games so far. Not so much horrors play on gamer's feeling of unease - Being small like in Little Nightmares or Among the Sleep, or being hapless creature like in almost semi-horror game Rainworld. -Fear Undeground remind me old obscure PS2 game - Hungry Ghosts or something like that - same medival setting and total helplessness. But in this game feeling tripled and increased by tight spelunking-like horror vibe. Would like to see more sections - not just "all fours crawling", maybe some uneasy combat or hiding. But so far game struck right in my own feeling of uneasy fears and scaredy.

[@AverageWagie]

The artstyle and the (implied) death scenes from the traps remind me of House of Velez. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the devs from Dark Room Games were involved in this project. In any case I expect the finished game to be very gory. And I mean EXTREMELY gory, the kind you need to see on bitchute to get a full playthrough because it gets age restricted to hell and back on yt.

[@szabolcsmolnar352]

This game is probably pure horror for someone who has claustrophobia and arachnophobia at the same time.

[@joshuamohlman]

Seeing the player crawl through the tunnel reminds me of the stories of Tunnel Rats from Vietnam I read about

[@zanthimos]

This is indeed a horror game. My poor sensitive knees are screaming in terror at all that crawling!

[@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319]

That reminds me. I really need to revisit The Descent.

[@JousCroe]

I love how monsters eat ABG for his bad jokes

[@jack0lantrn]

Sound design is amazing, would definitely benefit from subtitles though lol

[@MoogMonster554]

3:12 That's handy!

[@AlkoTanko]

This game has just about all the phobias I have: narrow spaces, bugs, underwater, dark. I kinda want to play it but I would probably get too overloaded by all the phobias.

[@TheKrazybomb]

very curious of this. I think the voice acting/dialogue could be improved somewhat, along with the animation like some people said, but it is alpha so that's understandable. I'm excited to see more!

[@sonnyobrien]

why is it understandable if its in alpha? thats not understandable bro... games were once upon a time released when they were done. You are naive and young to remember better times..

[@sonnyobrien]

sorry for your loss

[@MoogMonster554]

@@sonnyobrien This game hasn't been released though. It's not for sale in any form. This is just an in development alpha demo for the developer to get feedback.

[@sonnyobrien]

@@MoogMonster554 oh. sorry.

[@sonnyobrien]

@@MoogMonster554 I didn't mean to offend you sorry for hurting your feelings you were right

[@overratedprogrammer]

Do you do this exclusively for a living? Playing niche horror games is my dream. No commentary let's plays are kind of comfy too. Honestly it's impressive how usually I discover a game from your channel. Do you regularly monitor the indie scene to find the newest game?

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

0:38 "I will show you the way" ...slimy, shivering, spelunking Tell me, princess, when was the last time you let your inner voice decide...

[@bunnybazooka]

Youre tellin me this dude was drinking in a tavern with a suit of armor on, including a full face helmet? Lol

[@MrMoronDark]

Through the straw obviously

[@bunnybazooka]

@@MrMoronDark haha I was picturing the same thing

[@cfields8507]

Its got some "as above so below" vibes. I dig it

[@yourmother78910]

This is quite creative idea for crawling horror game as a theme, but R.I.P to the Knight's knees lol

[@story-mode]

How does a medieval guy know at a lab rat is, and know that we force them through labyrinths or mazes?

[@juusolatva]

he's a time traveler, duh

[@ZzVinniezZ]

it one way to tell a story and world building from a small confined space

[@GameBooAdvancePlus]

cool concept but I think the protag talks too much instead of letting the environment talk for itself. Kind of a common issue with games nowadays.

[@The-Man-On-The-Mountain]

Good observation. I thought I was alone in this issue. I can't stand when the character talks and talks, telling everything that is obviously happening, or when there is too much dialogue, especially when the protagonist (us) is constantly chatting with the typical radio sidekick who seems to know where we are all the time and sees everything, somehow.

[@FragileBitch]

The sound design is beyond.....Goodness!!

[@The1of1000]

This is neat. I really like this.

[@AtomicStateDelivery]

Me trying to crawl from my bed to the bathroom and back when I'm hammered. It's a perilous journey.

[@alfaayed6262]

nice game, i hope they make different animation for crawling backward since reversing it looks weird in the hand movements

[@CinnamonToastKing]

For the risks and style this game took, it also felt completely immersion breaking at points. The dialog felt silly, especially talking about lab rats. I don't have to be an archeologist to know lab rats weren't a thing in his time. Also, the creative angle and presentation made a lot of the set pieces make zero sense. It should be made more clear that he's in a confined single line tunnel and not this wide, low ceiling cave. It's great for the presentation of how things were shown, but if it looks like he can clearly go over there as well, it makes his linear crawling odd at points. This can be fixed by making the start off enclosed kinda fade out. Start with the tunnel completely enclosed and hardly able to see the character and then fade it out to say, "all of this is just on the other side of the wall." Also, are the cutscenes needed every time you change a direction? I understand you don't want to clip the camera through the environment. I would take a camera pan over those any day. Just add a super vignette that focuses on the character to hide the stuff while keeping the transitions smooth and gameplay constant.

[@Eisenwulf666]

Wonderful game with a rather simple but effective concept. I fear it could get old after some hours, but maybe not, seems like there's always something new or weird happening.

[@gittonsxv126]

>Knight looking dude. >Mentions "lab rat" implying that this medieval dude knows scientific experimentation?

[@YourFreund]

I feel comfortable that we/this guy is wearing armor and a full face helmet. Better than going in there with rags.

[@shaihulud4515]

Gives me "the cube" vibes for some reason - I like it so far!

[@MrDebanane]

Medieval Dude in armor: „Im a lab rat.“ Maybe secret addition to the Warhammer franchise? 😬

[@twisteddevotio2456]

Horror version of splunky meets the cube. Interesting and nice. Also nice outro.

[@Sebastianmaz615]

Game is great looking; diff. 😊 Kinda reminds me of The Cube at the end.

[@sonofeyeabovealleffoff5462]

The builder of the cube from the movie The Cube: "Whaddya MEAN "someone" did this already?!!!" Antisocial wizard who builds puzzles within hyperspatial impossible structures to torture people in: "You heard what I said."

[@dvdemon420-ud2xe]

This looks very unique and creeoy I dig it

[@maboilaurence8227]

For some reason a medieval soldier looking so weak and defenseless when crawling through tight spaces is a weirdly scary thought to me.

[@DGneoseeker1]

That music about 7 minutes in sounds oddly familiar. Anyone know where else it was from?

[@Drake47830]

Okay this was very unique ngl. 😊

[@Algasaldi]

awesome concept

[@FrostSoul-qs6kq]

So funny story , There's a Island where this game can be played for real , if you get hurt , killed or lose a limb , well hope you had fun doing so ... Survived because of having to go through enough training and military drills crawling through shit , piss , mud , shallow waters and on one occasion through blood to toughen up . It is isane how useful the training came in handy to survive .

[@fantomas1770]

that warcraft3 peasant death sound in the end tho!

[@johnathan1506]

Bro, at 5:11 was the funniest thing ever😂 "Mmmn, what are these sharp knives?" *knives begin moving* "Now i understand, back off :)" (turns around)

[@rateater1857]

I'm pretty resistant to horror, I handle the games well, and the only movie that ever rattler me was Haze (2005). This game is a certified fucking nightmare. Wishlisted.

[@billedefoudre]

What the... hell is that ?! I LOVE IT ! I really like a game that surprises me, in its pitch & mechanics. Spot on!

[@Endymion766]

dude has a bag of holding full of puns.

[@sjr2116]

it actually looks reaaally good and interesting

[@zefellowbud5970]

can't wait to see more of this. also sort of like different to follow a character in this way in a horror. rather than it placing you on the character its more like your hoping the character doesn't get harmed?

[@IIIOldSchooLIII]

Well this doesn't bode well with my Claustrophobia... ~Keeps watching anyway~

[@CommissarChaotic]

My curiosity makes me keep watching, I wanna know the whole story about the place. I hate it and I love that.

[@pupi-pupi]

this is such interesting and fresh concept

[@direwolf47]

i instantly thought of that movie "crawl or die" where the mohawk girl in panties and combat boots is being chased by a creature through increasingly smaller and smaller tunnels until she has to crawl like a worm.

[@MGoogle3146]

Random Warcraft 3 Human Peasant death sound at the end there lol

[@sip3947]

this reminds me of a certain movie similar to this but sci-fi instead of medieval, it's old, not too old though the main character is a woman waking up to be in a room after a car accident with some psycho killer and as seen at the beginning of the game, the room have a seemingly ventilation system which is basically the only possible way out made me claustrophobic despite not being one

[@germanalfaro6342]

02:09 now thats a big azz sipder!!!!!

[@dechmusic]

Very nice concept! But the character looks a bit plastic. Some looking around animations, hard breathing and more twitchy movements animation during panic events, some screams or sighs could make him more alive. Crawling isn't easy, you know...

[@thesecondsilvereich7828]

So basically the merto dlc were your trap with them spider things 🤔

[@SwatKingAk]

haha mans fell into the well in majula

[@Akumeitakai]

I do enjoy that you get just what you deserve for cracking those puns!

[@octacon8]

2:58, how does a medieval knight know what a lab rat is....

[@querpmuerp]

Looks great. I hope it has enough gameplay wise!

[@Szederp]

"This hands subtly sent me a code to go fuck myself". Crawl back my ass.

[@hustle_simmons]

Looks like at the end its a paradox or something cause it looks like the person at the top is you or something dressed like you.

[@azeloth_archfiend]

for some reason the character and the voice remember dark souls. very cool!

[@vladimirserpov6773]

This game provokes knee pain just from watching it 😢

[@rave6577]

The cube in like a middle age setting

[@Piratefoxyfox]

having a knight like armor while exploring a wet cave might not be a good idea for the explorer

[@biddybatnana5029]

Awesome game 👌🏽

[@hatisfull]

I don't think this character should know what a lab rat is

[@bonefetcherbrimley7740]

This game looks good! Not my cup of tea, but I love unique games like this.

[@GregoryTheGr8ster]

Crawling around on all fours is what infants do, not grown men. This game really puts the player in an uncomfortable situation. I sure hope that it has a happy ending!

[@r3dr4te963]

I already feel the knee pain watching this

[@RazielBR]

Did a guy in full medieval armor just used the term "lab rat"?

[@knowwon3658]

Basically me working under my house...

[@sonnyobrien]

how do you make your puns? they are hit and miss, do you look up a thesaurus or something?

[@modernoverman]

How does a medieval knight know what a "lab rat" is?

[@shifunoodo]

When Little Nightmares' Hero is the Normal Human.⭕️😫❌️

[@grimgrahamch.4157]

The idea for this game is genius but it all feels kind of janky. Why did we need that tiny cut scene at 2:29 for example. Or any other changes of directional axis for that matter. And after that, there's no reason why the protagonist can't stand up. The dialogue as well feels a little cheesy at times too. "What's that stench of death" he says as he's passing a rotted head. At times as well it feels as though the voice actor is simply narrative from a 3rd person perspective. If I were stuck in a drowning tunnel, I'd be making much more hysterical noise.