Fears to Fathom: Carson House (Who's Watching Me?)

[@user-ud7gv3br5d]

1:17:08 notices the stool knocked over, doesnt notice that the entire room is completely trashed

[@Xathian]

I came to comment the same lol

[@Local_Lich]

I think this is undeniable proof Librarian would 110% be the first to die in any horror movie

[@FranciumBoron]

Not if he has his *_Safety Glock!_*

[@genericwhitekidthesecond4330]

Nah not at all.

[@PersonaKing32]

*S A F E T Y G L O C K*

[@mr.fantastic7756]

@dhshhsebe9909 How so? Should I be watching someone else?

[@LethalByChoice]

@dhshhsebe9909 I personally agree. He plays the game so wrong somehow and it gets him killed.

[@The13thGhostBunny]

The scariest part was listening to the character eat the pizza.

[@generatoralignmentdevalue]

Yeah, I hope I didn't miss anything big while I skipped that whole part.

[@lemius6154]

18:20 I'm just now realizing the "smell of wet clothes" was Cara hiding after coming in from the rain. She was there the whole time.

[@TheLibrarianYT]

O.O

[@DanzGmod565]

OHH HELLLL NAWW

[@theantinatalismzone234]

Smell of fish

[@theantinatalismzone234]

@@TheLibrarianYT I NEED BLEACH. BLEEEEACH

[@DanzGmod565]

@@theantinatalismzone234 nahh 😭

[@genericwhitekidthesecond4330]

Lesson learned: if I wanna piss off Librarian I need to make a horror protagonist who's so unbelievably oblivious to his surroundings that it's comedic but then force the player to walk into the line of danger or say something they shouldn't. Infact not only will they have to, but I'm also going to put in dialog reinforcing the illusion of free choice at play "no I HAVE to do it." "There's no other choice this is a requirement"

[@lebitelexie9350]

Alternatively: If you want to get his character killed off easily, design a game where the killer / monster ambushes when the player interacts with a dog!

[@jonaw.2153]

Y'know, I hadn't seen the previous videos in this series and... This was such a cool atmospheric game to watch. Seriously, that part where she went around saying "Noah" as she knocked on all the doors and you had to keep silent? Chills. Well, until game mechanics happened, that is.

[@Chosinn]

This kind of hits home. When I was in highschool, I met this girl for like a flash of a second when passing by my friends in the hallway. I was introduced to her and said hi but didn’t strike up anything after that. Like a week later I get bombarded with hate texts from her saying I’m a horrible person for not talking to her, almost exactly like those texts from Cara. I never gave her my phone number either, which made it even creepier. For the next 5 years or so, I’d get these texts and calls from her at random stints in my life, well after highschool. So much so, I told her I was going to contact the police if she continued. Luckily she stopped and it never gone any further than that, but this shit right here is scary and very real.

[@TheElectricCheeseProductions22]

You kind of have to imagine what it must be like to be someone like that. Imagine what sort of a life you're living, what mental experience you're having where that infinitely banal interaction lasting for no more than several seconds becomes of such terrible significance to you that it permeates your life to such an extent for that long.

[@Secretcodrin]

@@TheElectricCheeseProductions22no you don't. Leave crazy live their lives but stay away from all of that none of your problem.

[@TheElectricCheeseProductions22]

@@Secretcodrin I dont know why you seek to invalidate my thought but whatever. I guess you just dont do a lot of thinking.

[@Secretcodrin]

@@TheElectricCheeseProductions22 if that is the only thing you understood from the comment, they you are the one not doing the thinking

[@TheElectricCheeseProductions22]

@@Secretcodrin I was giving a thought about what it must be like to be someone like that. You said "No, you dont have to" have to what? contemplate such things? as if there's no value in it? And you say "that none of your problem" as if I was saying it was? I was not saying that. Clearly you are somewhat illiterate. How dare you sit here and speak to me as if I am the one struggling with comprehension. Maybe you should reattend pre school and develop some level of literacy and critical thinking.

[@MildManneredBen]

This had a mediocre ending, but the journey to get there was really immersive and full of tension. It seemed like the gameplay became frustrating as it neared the end, which is a shame, but most of it was really enjoyable! A great watch as always, thanks Librarian!

[@MildManneredBen]

@@oboroth51 Agree to disagree! I think it did well until the end. I don't have high expectations of these sorts of games, which I think allows me to enjoy them more.

[@josephmatthews7698]

This game did tension perfectly. You never knew where or what the threat was going to be. The only problem is when it made it blatantly obvious it was the ex the protag took too long to catch up. He should have been silent or they hire a writer. All the problems with this game came in the third act with mechanics but the tension and immersion was absolutely top notch.

[@josephmatthews7698]

Dude I know you were getting frustrated with the grocery but you played this PERFECTLY. It's like the old Alfred Hitchcock saying about filming a ticking bomb. You turned every mundane action into a possible detonation. Beautiful work sir, one of your best ever.

[@argonianguy6226]

in my opinion, fears to fathom strikes a perfect balance of "comfy and scary" you go for in your channel. I was waiting for the 3rd ep on your channel

[@carcaohtar]

I think the convenience store segment was brilliant. Having a brightly lit, well-populated place with pleasant ambient music in it, paired with a menial task, gets the player into such a relaxed state, and then the anxiety is re-heightened when the player leaves the store into a dark, quiet, empty street. I love horror games in which these little "breaks" are employed to keep the horror fresh and prevent the player from becoming immune. Absolutely brilliant psychology at play here.

[@KNullHypothesis]

Yeah I definitely see how the devs dropped the ball on this one tbh. I can imagine it being frustrating that there aren't any checkpoints and that you have to guess what to do exactly. Plus, the whole story actually fell apart by the end and Cara was no longer scary because they didn't allow her to be. I agree 100% that the end line was also nonsensical "what freaked me out the most, is that my psychotic ex who broke into a house looking for me didn't actually steal anything, not the fact that she broke into the house looking for me in the first place"

[@MadisonRamanamabangbang]

I think that line was supposed to imply that since she didn't steal anything, that it wasn't some "trying to freak him out and getting something out of it", I think the point is that that meant she specifically was there to find and get to him directly

[@gabriellamint]

or the ex threatening to kill him and that girl

[@KusunokiSG47]

This game series (Fears to Fathom) is essentially the western equivalent of Chilla Art games I just feel like it... the atmosphere and execution of the scares, the short length, the relatability, the mundanity, the helplessness... Both of them are almost parallel to each other I suppose

[@LukynkaCZE]

It is like no sleep stories because they technically are no sleep stories. On the main menu screen there's email that people can send their stories that happened to them to and the devs always pick one of them

[@MrDanTheCreative10Z9]

Worse than not cleaning up after using the toilet is not washing your hands after. Scariest part of the game.

[@SnailHatan]

If you wash your hands after every pee, you’re either doing it wrong or you’re a woman

[@theluigibro656]

I've watched this game like three times from other KZbinrs and the way that the librarian narrates his videos. It connects so well with me and makes it even scarier just by already Knowing what's going to happen

[@nol9946]

Holy heckin' poo this game is amazingly scary. The tension is being built up so well. The first jump scare comes so late but so effectively. Man, my heart stopped for a moment!

[@vicooficial]

Just found what music is playing in the laundry dream scene and in the radio in the dad's car (a variation also plays in The Complex: Expedition) - it's a reinterpretation of Rainbow Resort from Kirby's Adventure. Incredible how different an 8-bit music can turn to be changing its arrangements and adding lyrics.

[@Asenagami44]

Librarian: **Doesn't close the door after seeing someone outside-** Me: CLOSE THE DOOR-

[@MadHatter015]

Your videos really bring out the creepy and comfy vibe, so much so that I watch them before if go to bed.

[@Cosmosis401]

Ooh another Fears to Fathom episode! Hopefully another banger like the last 2

[@butteryrat9418]

For some reason all my favorite KZbinrs play all the games at the same time. Not complaining cause then I get to see all their reactions and how they play the game. Great video btw, always love checking my subscription page and seeing your name.

[@HamazuraGOD]

The game just came out. That'd probably explain it!

[@outfromtheleft546]

I don't understand the fear of basements, it's a one way in and out location, that is safe enough for some to survive tornadoes, and the lack of light can be corrected with more light sources. Attics on the other hand, are big nope energy.

[@zeebeeplayz]

The "creepy and comfy vibe" of your channel is especially heightened when the video is really long.

[@MyMelinaaa]

I agree 100% I love it

[@Sam-go3mb]

Yeah that 3 hour Viscera Cleanup Detail video had me hooked the whole time lmao - weirdly enough. Honestly this channel is something special.

[@laurenf.7922]

I'd be pretty scared to be in CallMeCarsons house as well.

[@rockit2475]

Glad I'm early on this one. Your videos are so relaxing and I'm excited to watch

[@demon-goat]

I love how ironic it is that a horror-oriented youtuber is the relaxing one lol

[@firstreality3867]

I feel like if you're suspecting someone has entered the house, you would grab the dog and run to one of the neighbors or a gas station or something and then call the cops.

[@SkeleTonHammer]

The atmosphere of this game is really great. I would implore devs with this much talent to do some better research on good game design with regards to AI and what players expect to happen because this game could have been stellar for a short little experience if the ending wasn't marred with overly touchy omniscient AI leading to surprise failures unless you stick to a procedure that you can't know without rote trial and error.

[@postminchoppa]

Less than 5 min in and absolutely love the graphics and as a sitting in the rain aficionado, i agree i could sit in game right there for ages. Also *throws frisby* *dog immediately lies down* i see they used my old dog as a model haha

[@kiwicami287]

Omg.... That jumpscare was too much for me, i jumped so high off my chair

[@wallet_]

im so impressed with how you do scary. i watched another YT play this and just didnt have that same impact. i realyl jumped outta my chair when you got scared xD

[@bird9188]

these people in horror games need to get better light bulbs, how is every room only very slightly lit and it's a thing I started to notice in every single horror game, somehow their lights are always placed in a way where it's a very moody light instead of actually properly lighting the room jokes aside, great video as always

[@theantinatalismzone234]

Law of attraction works. I was sending mental energy for you to make this video

[@Aurwenn]

Amazing cadence of content, there is always something up when i feel like watching your channel edit. what are the odds this is just what I wanted you to check sometime, the holy algorithms works in mysterious ways

[@thecommentingt34]

Finally! Just what I wanted! A new Fears to Fathom video!

[@Troopertroll]

As someone with an unhinged ex named Kara, this one deeply frightens me. It's scary because it's real. Other people are the scariest thing on Earth.

[@RedanianRed]

My names Noah, when she started whispering his name it really got to me

[@mr.realistic1014]

The 4 am adult swim comment on scaring stoners was not what I was expecting to hear, gave me a good laugh Librarian XD

[@PersonaKing32]

Once again another amazing video, thank you so much for the content you put out.

[@The_Ministry_of_War_Network]

one of the best horror youtuber ever Dont ever give up im spporting you anyway needed :) keep it up!

[@ayzhol9620]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!!! I would put Fears to fathom 2 playthrough on every night and listen to your duclet tones. Now I have a whole new Fears to fathom to do it to two of my favourite things combined again. I

[@Miss_Loving]

I love that you take your time to look into and analyze everything. You've got yourself a new subscriber my friend. 😊👍

[@lebitelexie9350]

The eating noises were the real horror for me. I hate it with every inch of my beeing in real life and when games make these exeggrated semi-fake eating sounds it makes me rabid!

[@ChorfTV]

I like how Librarian took more caution answering the door for a pizza guy than he did sweeping the house for a murderous psycho.

[@TheOneAndAlways]

When I first saw the title I thought it was a gmod map of the house from the music video for somebody's watching me and got excited because that house is a really cool location and fits well in your thing.

[@AleaIactaEst2009]

The problem with this is that the threat is just a single female. Okay she has a knife, but that alone is not enough to make her as intrinsically scary as the typical "monster" horror character. Any guy would probably be the one to threaten her and/or confront her (if feeling aggressive), or just stay in a room and call the police (if feeling logical), when he understood what was happening. The thing that makes her scary is the jumpscare; the noise when you are caught. Which isn't based in reality, why is there a freaky noise that comes from the supernatural realm when she catches you? It's like the game is trying to half portray her as a human and half portray her as demon, which no longer makes sense when we realise she is just a jilted girlfriend, even if pyschotic. As always the threat is in the unknown, the build to the conclusion holds the power, the what is it; it is more scary until that unknown is declared and you know it is a just an ex, a weaker female who you would actually have some chance of overpowering being male if a fight became the only option, and the logical thing to do is just stay in a room and use your phone to call the police. The game's answer is to still imbue her with some extra demonic quality to artificially continue the heightened scare, despite it not quite making sense any more. I still enjoyed watching however. :)

[@LethalByChoice]

I disagree because there's a reason why you can only die after she grabs a knife. Watch some videos on knife defense and you'd be surprised how hard it is to defend against a knife against someone trying to kill you let alone against a girl who's a drug addict, probably blasted on meth or cocaine and is stalking you outside your house and sending you crazy messages appearing nice and sweet one moment then a murderous psychopath the next. Gender really doesn't matter, its the fact that she's crazy, drugged, and has a knife. You'd be surprised how deadly women can be with a knife. Plus the guy could be skinny or not that physically or mentally strong so he would rather just run away, which most people would. I guarantee you most men will not try to fight back against someone with a knife. They might say they will, but that's bravado, the smart thing to do is to not risk getting sliced and diced and just run away. When you have no self defense skills in order to have a good chance at defeating your attacker. I'm just trying to explain how its very plausible that she would be dangerous with a knife, the fact that she's drugged out and crazy with a knife makes her very dangerous. Either way, trying to fight back against a woman who's drugged, crazy, and has a knife and wants to kill you, even if you could fight back, is not a smart risk to take my friend.

[@demon-goat]

16:08 “do not disturb for any reason” *immediately opens door*

[@KrissVector-et3sq]

Thanks for another video! We have been blessed on this Friday.

[@arabidllama]

Whenever I see a voice-meter in game, driven by your real microphone, I want to see a game make you speak softly - not stay quiet, but speak as quietly as possible. Perhaps to lull something to sleep, that kind of idea. Being silent is scary, but being forced to whisper is scarier.

[@christophercathcart881]

Then “dont scream” is a game to watch if you havent already. Even him gasping ends the game.

[@Bestplantever]

You are so lucky you checked by the garage after turning the power back on

[@Payt1502]

It took him so long to notice that these are real stories almost word for word(it’s why they’re so linear) like I’ve been waiting for him to mention it lmfao

[@Pfalzgarage]

1:14:29 did you ignore the ransacked recording room on purpose or just cut it out? Also, I don't think we never even heard of the ex girlfriend as you claimed in the end. I think the two schoolmates talked about her in the store.

[@IkinBBfromAnthologyOfTheKiller]

The way you act when you see a cute thing in a game is the same way i act in my thinking when i see one

[@hauntedgamingpc]

didn't even realise these games were based off real accounts until i watched someone play this one lol

[@Gear_Snack]

28:29 I'd actually be more alarmed if I saw an offer for an antivirus program on an otherwise blank internet browser. Quite a few viruses do that to trick the user into installing further viruses...

[@rasheedpalma2959]

I was turning on the lights around my house when the jumpscare happened. I am dead now.

[@brianburkhardt3692]

This one is the most believable to me so far. They may very well all be true stories, but this one really rung true for me.

[@brianburkhardt3692]

I can understand the gameplay issues though.

[@cattusfattus6369]

If it's not too much of a personal question is there a reason you don't swear? Is it a personal choice, or is it just so you don't get demonetised lol

[@theatomicdudes681]

It was very jarring hearing my name over and over again, high af watching this lol ~Noah

[@fruitsalad5036]

Spoilers: I like how it baits you into thinking it's Carsons ex until it reveals it's yours

[@Luc_ienn]

Ahhh it’s really cool seeing you keep up with the F2F games! These games are really good honestly. They’re a little campy sometimes but they have a lot of effort put into them with all the variety and the way it’s paced. Just…surprisingly good games. Ok unrelated entirely, but I’ve been thinking it’ll be something you’d like; I know you subscribe to Shudder (at least some of the time) and so I wanna mention that a movie is gonna be coming out on it soon that I think you should see. It’s called Skinamarink, you may have heard some buzz around it. Don’t let anyone spoil it for you! (I did, I regret it, but I’m gonna still see it). I also won’t spoil anything for you but just know 1: it’s a slow movie apparently, and 2: it’s gonna be about stuff you like. It came out today in theaters too so maybe you can catch it somewhere soon. I think its Shudder release is March, or so? It was gonna be October but it got pushed forward because someone leaked the movie last year >_> hence why people know so much about an unreleased film (outside of film festivals). Anyway I hope you’ll watch it!

[@scally8432]

This is the exact sort of thing I dream about all the time, only you know way more surreal and less logical

[@Xathian]

Huh, your end game credits said she started using meth. When I played it just said “hard drugs” in that place, it didn’t specify Also the English was worse in multiple places. Seems the game must have gotten a very quick patch out for the dialog

[@ryukun4713]

So what I've gathered, what librarian wants is horror game that builds tension, doesn't have scripted scenes so all scares are random, then jumpscares you, but doesn't immediately kill you and if it kills you, spawns you 5 seconds before you died.

[@ArchonZach]

damn this was the first game you've played that actually made me jump out of my skin lol

[@kirbcake]

the librarian's reaction to seeing dogs or cats is simply incredible.

[@THEGLOIPER]

tbh if i broke into a home and saw them watching Jeffrey i would leave immediately and put back everything that i stole

[@theantinatalismzone234]

I think he means it was hard to prove anything illegal because nothing was stolen

[@RealRoboKnight]

She wanted nothing then him, it scared tf out of Noah.

[@theantinatalismzone234]

@@RealRoboKnight Right

[@bloxxer420]

1:15:00 this is the only scare that has ever gotten me watching youtube

[@xxshadowzxx0091]

1:14:42 😂 I used to be scared of games like that but with people like you, you hold enough fear for everybody watching😂 also you have some really good hearing power, I hope there's more videos like this.😂 1:15:45 you got beat up so badly the screen started to shake intensely this is the first playthrough have you seen something like this happen.

[@brianburkhardt3692]

Welp, that death scare woke me up.

[@hagancompton]

Fears to fathom is my favorite series

[@Cocc0nuttt0]

I got ABSOLUTELY OBLITERATED pouring up at the KNUCKS

[@phaeste]

The stories feel like they come from r/nosleep because they are just stories taken from reddit and exagerated.

[@urielwitchcraft3620]

It very clearly says that the stories are submitted by people through EMail, and of course some of them will be exaggerated, because even the good stories might not translate to games properly otherwise.

[@phaeste]

@@urielwitchcraft3620 And when did i ever say that wasn't the case? The stories that were sent in and accepted just so happened to be old reddit posts. Literally all 3 of them come from posts on the confessions subreddit from about 8 years ago. I simply explained why they feel like nosleep stories, which is because they basically are

[@urielwitchcraft3620]

@@phaeste Really? Oh shit, sorry then.

[@LaCazaLP]

Bro you became my 4am Adult Swim to scare my stoner ass lmao.

[@DarkwaveMistress]

I suppose the inflexibility in the script is due to the games being stories told in game format. But yes, in terms of gameplay it doesn't work out very well sometimes.

[@fruitsalad5036]

the devs of fears to fathom know how to make a true horror game

[@picuco]

Know

[@fruitsalad5036]

@@picuco shit you right

[@DanzGmod565]

And to think these are supposedly based on real life...

[@picuco]

@@DanzGmod565 OH TRUE

[@fruitsalad5036]

@@DanzGmod565 oh god i forgot!

[@Stromek85]

Well.

[@stateberg7208]

11:41 the biggest dad game of the century homeowner simulator and yes, I am using the term coined Yahtzee kosher

[@TheSnekDen]

Loved the malk reference

[@lordnautilus6519]

Still like the first one the most but this is great too. Kinda weird putting every episode in it's own game but I love Fears to Fathom

[@Riccardo_Mori]

Considering what happens next, it's too bad you can't actually invite pizza guy to stay in the house… //Rick

[@mw00295]

Windows XP is still quite common in IT so it's not that weird.

[@Secretcodrin]

Wow I thought I had scares under control. Until the first scare and second and the tension. Man this game is so well. Also what's up with americans not locking the doors? You leave doors open at night? You go get groceries and you leave the door unlocked? What? You get downstairs you don't grab a knife at all?

[@pepethefrog1492]

This was AMAZING!!!

[@torment4723]

59:40 he's with a damn CAR!

[@mikestion4629]

*the hand merchant*

[@JCC1004]

I got an Uncle Ben's ad on Facebook after watching this. WTF.

[@tostergaming]

hello librarian, i just want to say that im proud of you. (:

[@7zQs]

eating a pizza while watching this was not a great idea, i just jumped and threw a sllice and it landed in my bed 💀

[@NoTalentCreator]

Breakfast in bed is wonderful

[@raymondmurdock8603]

27:40 so Mr. carson was an analog horror youtuber

[@Cringe_Dispencer]

Damn bro CallMeCarson lore is craaazyyyy 💀

[@stateberg7208]

31:31 a true drew Durnil prodigy I see

[@devilsorchard1449]

Nothing could be scarier than a teen girl.

[@Tyulenin]

Just a couple of days ago I was wondering when the third episode will come out.

[@Tyulenin]

Well, this episode came out on 9th of January, so it was more like a week ago, I guess. Since at the time I haven't found anything on "episode 3". Also time flies.

[@nazicatboy]

Here's a cookie 🍪 :3

[@hagancompton]

I thought the inspiration it had on missing hiker was cool

[@frost273]

But what happens when you let that pizza guy in? Will Cara get him first?

[@maemeamy]

i waited to watch this in hopes youd play it

[@quadrooffive]

36:20 *Yoshikage Kira has entered the chat