Fractal Sailor - Fractal Sailing Horror Game in a Fractal Sea with an Eldritch Monster! (Tech Demo)

[@AlphaBetaGamer]

This is very early in development, but it's already very promising. Looking forward to seeing more of it. It is possible to evade the monster if you turn off your lights soon enough (I wasn't too bothered about that because I like getting chased by giant monsters).

[@playful_banter]

giant seggsy monsters? uwu

[@ScientistCat]

Another monster lover. Men and women of the finest culture.

[@everythingsalright1121]

You tryin' to tell us somethin' by saying you like getting chased by giant monsters? ;) Great video as always, love your channel showing lesser known games

[@abrahamjimenez1957]

Chased by what ? AYOOOOOO!! 💀💀

[@ericep7117]

have the artistic design look up Elric Graphic Novels (trade paperbacks) that feature the Chaos Engineers, because it will give an avenue to allow for sailing through fractal environments to chaotic limbo (not trapped in a cavern yet floating rocks to land on or avoid, to sailing over hell in D&D Spelljammer type stuff, Chaos on Deponia)

[@Sigurther]

Scientists: we have discovered a domain that is beyond human comprehension and full of unimaginable terrors Politicians: yes but can we extract oil from it?

[@jamjar1726]

what else would you use it for? vacations?

[@benjaminmunoz3112]

​@@jamjar1726well, a fractal space Is infinite, so if it isn't just a "place" and instead Is like a weird pocket dimension you could use it to store things or just to get rid of trash

[@benjaminmunoz3112]

If that dont work paint it yellow and make a cheese 🧀 theme park

[@acrazyweeb7225]

@@benjaminmunoz3112 fractal Cthulhu: Ayo why tf are those monkeys throwing shit in my home?

[@gamingchinchilla7323]

That's essentially what started the plot to the DooM series. "Oh look, we found a portal to hell or something..." "Oh, very nice indeed! Now, what sort of resources can we extract from it?"

[@grimgrahamch.4157]

Most Lovecraftian horror focuses more on the tentacles and sea and not enough on the impossible eldritch geometry. So this has me interested.

[@Flairis]

Dude seriously, I wanna see more abstract geometrical math physics cosmic based horror

[@TheDweeb002]

Yeah most Lovecraft inspired games are soulless cash grabs with a big Cthulhu reveal

[@jharju2352]

@@TheDweeb002 The most recent COC being a glaring example. Lots of promise and good characters but casual and generic game design all over.

[@Zakaarus]

@@jharju2352 corruption of champions??

[@naingaung2748]

This is what traversing the warp feels like if you somehow manage to not get turned inside out by warp entities.

[@shawnguala1670]

Papa Nurgal somewhere in here I bet

[@LeGuardImperialis]

Wheres the gellar fields?

[@LorenzoCassaro]

@@LeGuardImperialisWotz thiz Gelly Fings youz talking about?! If Weird Fings bother youz so much, just put some spikez in ya ship, ya git!

[@TheCrimsonZombie]

You hear the voices too!?

[@mcgibs]

@@LeGuardImperialisThe gellar field is probably what's parting the fleshy stuff as the ship plows through.

[@jeremytitus9519]

*Perspective:* your fave streamer let you peep the horror one too many times

[@michaelhaydenbell]

?????????????

[@nimexwolf]

​@@michaelhaydenbell jerma985 sings peep the horror by imagine dragons but fails

[@jeremytitus9519]

@@nimexwolfTone Deaf Andy

[@everythingsalright1121]

That guy isn't funny...

[@WebPoster420]

​@@everythingsalright1121 Ok Stupid Stewart

[@cvrrionmusic]

Is anyone gonna talk about the sound design in this game? Like holy shit those sounds are gorgeous

[@elbraunis]

incredibly well done, very immersive, very unnerving

[@myparentsaredivorced4573]

Gives off mechanical intestine sounds, I love it. Good sound design makes a good horror experience into an amazing one.

[@WilhelmRillhelm]

…and absolutely flicking terrifying!

[@d3vvy]

Fr

[@grogg4372]

I like how the monster isn't some random ooga booga but a kraken, in tone with the sailing theme. This boat needs a harpoon!

[@dynomite463]

WHITE WHALLLEEEW

[@petergriffin3796]

HOLY GRAILLL

[@norka5185]

I think it'd be cool if the monster would morph from one sea monster shape into a different sea monster shape as the player moved around it, similar to how the environment shifts depending on how/from where you view it.

[@GregoryTheGr8ster]

After all these years, fractals are still way cool!

[@AlphaBetaGamer]

Yeah, we need more fractals in video games!

[@Pleasestoptalkingthanks]

After all these years, since 1976 when they were discovered.

[@ohnothepossum]

@@Pleasestoptalkingthanks or since 1943 (I'm quite sure hofmann discovered them earlier even tho he didn't call them fractals himself lol)

[@Pleasestoptalkingthanks]

@@ohnothepossumOh, I actually didn’t know when they were discovered, I just thought the way OP phrased it sounded funny. Thats pretty interesting that they go back so little.

[@hakuzoable]

man the warp looking kinda calm this time around.

[@baitposter]

That's because it's just the webway

[@FlameOfRoyeca]

So venturing in the warp huh

[@NintendoDude360]

Damn. Beat me to it

[@baitposter]

Traversing the webway

[@Stargazzer811]

Not just the Warp. The Deep Warp.

[@dog-ending5224]

The atmosphere in this game is absolutely incredible. I think this is one of the most unsettling game settings I've ever encountered, maybe even THE most. As far as I'm concerned it doesn't even need the monster, I was on edge the whole time before it even showed up.

[@Flannel-Channel8837]

Pov: *your an ork traveling through the warp and the daemons are avoiding your ship like the plague*

[@baitposter]

We need a 3D Barotrauma style game set in this fractal nightmare space

[@crystalclearchaos5387]

We just need a warhammer ship game set in the warp

[@UserRedZero]

Imagine this with VR support

[@redundantqwail9088]

Imagining this gave me chills

[@provaricus627]

Uh, fuck that

[@RoyalStarlord]

Complete with haptic suit and smell-o-vision Now you know what it's like being inside of a cancer clam

[@littledragon4792]

😂 "I don't like fractals. They are so full of themselves." 🤔 Well, I can't really disagree with that. 😁 VERY witty! I'm taking notes here.

[@namelessking8905]

So this is what chaos grunts need to go thru to get fuel for the fleet.

[@BelugaChonky]

Who tf would choose to be Chao's optionaly if you had to go through that daily

[@namelessking8905]

@@BelugaChonky -= Lol. You think you get to choose.

[@DemstarAus]

This feels like when I was younger and rubbed my eyes too hard.

[@lizi1936]

Bro forgot to turn on Gellar Field 💀

[@someoneunknown6553]

This is very cool and trippy. I'd love if the monsters were some incomprehensible shape too

[@paulkirjonen1226]

this is like subnautica but on all of the drugs

[@jingalls9142]

Salvianautica.

[@planescaped]

What a neat game idea, needs harpoons you chuck from the deck though, lol. And more spotlights mounted on the ship you can manually adjust and point would be cool.

[@EGRJ]

Fractal patterns with lots of holes always trigger my tapophobia. It's really frac'ed up.

[@kurtyb7565]

Do you mean trypophobia?

[@ZarHakkar]

Reminds me a lot of Yedoma Globula, another game you covered 4 years ago, to the point where I thought it was the same game just further along in development.

[@Nopperabou]

It would be cool if you had a device that pierced a hole in the fractal soup.

[@elgringofeo9348]

Well idk if you noticed but you can sail through everything, the walls just open up when you get close enough, nothing is actually solid there

[@NeostormXLMAX]

@@elgringofeo9348it feels like some 5d enviroment but we cant see it, just like how a 2d person cant see a 3d sphere passing through they would just see an expanding circle

[@gregoryl.3594]

I could see this being a tie-in game for the Mystery Flesh Pit National Park.

[@umomo1947]

This is the kind of horror the genre needs. None of that jumpscare crap.

[@provaricus627]

Screw horror games, we need terror games.

[@subpar_hydra3808]

Pov: you are driving in the Warp.

[@PickleForHire]

I like the odd cracking sound the walls make. It makes if feel like your inside some kind of organism that is warping and changing.

[@kuromameshiba4418]

8:08 and 8:17 - Family resemblance?

[@AlphaBetaGamer]

Haha, yeah I think that's why the big one was chasing me. It's fed up of me shooting its kids in the outro!

[@ДанькаШаблонов]

This reminds me of Yedoma Globula so much.

[@kuritho5903]

yedoma globula fans REPRESENT 🤍

[@dr_saibot1327]

Finally now i can roleplay being a navigator from warhammer

[@GreatNaturalStupidity]

This game reminds me of Yedoma Globula, another fractal exploration game

[@saebelorn]

I would say this is directly based on it

[@p0ng_w33n]

this game is very similar to Yedoma Globula but without the eldritch monsters; despite that, it still has the same creepiness factor

[@giangtruong3974]

Brought to you by Fractal Design

[@gamersquad6874]

This is almost exactly like the game I suggested a long while back. But it ain’t in space

[@TheWretchedOwl]

The art and sound design are spot on but I have no idea what’s going on in most of this.

[@ghb323]

reminds me of the mandlebulb 3d exploration of the depths video I watched.

[@redsnowleopard]

This is incredibly unique, I love it

[@CrowSkeleton]

I don't think a squid that's about the same size (if much chunkier) as known specimens is quite an 'eldritch monster', though it is a fun antagonist. It would be terrifying if it did dart quickly at times like a real squid, or floof out its mantle the way vampire squid (which I don't think are actually either) do.

[@Chaosian]

Great concept and environment.

[@annormal1414]

Looks nice but a bit repetitive. I don't really see a point in playing more then 5 minutes .Hope they'll ad something regarding this in full game.

[@AlphaBetaGamer]

Hi! Yeah, it's an early tech demo, so more gameplay elements will come during development.

[@Olothur]

Watched short; searched for full! Thank you.

[@GretgorPooper]

Of all settings for a cosmic horror story, sailing a sea of fractals somehow feels like the one that makes the most sense.

[@hamishthomson3646]

Similar to Yedoma Globula

[@jacobdoeslife8283]

What I thought of immediately

[@icui4cu891]

Thought the same thing!

[@AlexisSanchez-ss3il]

I'm so interested on what was the approach to make the refueling pìpe at 01:49. It was procedurally animated? How is it made?

[@Flannel-Channel8837]

Just looking at it makes me squirm i cant tell what its made of whether its flesh, fabric, paper, or metal It looks likes it made of solid liquid and gas all at the same time Not knowing is what makes it so bad

[@TheLetterB123]

i hate playing this game but i love watching it

[@francoalmiron5107]

This is great, i hope this can be played in VR.

[@Sebastianmaz615]

Looks amazing, great audio. Just please let there be something to do other than what I saw here in the final version. 😀

[@yeetrepublic9142]

This is just a demo right now, there's definitely more to come

[@Sebastianmaz615]

@@yeetrepublic9142 Good to know. 😀

[@believer69420]

Way too cool. It's gonna be fantastic, such an awesome idea.

[@onceuponatimeonearth]

Huh. Reminds me of Iron Lung

[@MrSolvaring]

ABG: They're so full of themselves. Monster: YOU RIGHT, N-

[@TheMrPyros]

Hum I see a lot of potential, yet Im scared this can take wrong turns making the beast defeatable and something that bothers instead of to be feared. I think something more on the FNAF gimmics might be cool, so you need to do X to prevent it to get closer. So you can have several horrors, each one with a different gimmic. One that requires you to stop and turn ligts off, and might pass next to you and u hear it scratchign the boat, another u have to outrun, other ring a bell to scare it... I will focus more in Iron Lung the game than in a horror multi (or that maybe later)

[@OddlyMantis]

The environment of the game gives me mystery Flesh Pit vibes. anyone else?

[@FangiGqngi]

Ye same. I does have that vibe to it

[@slaik3088]

Wait so you can just go through the walls freely? Why not just go directly at the target?

[@BlackPaladinV]

Is this inspired by the other fractal sailing tech demo from a while ago or it's the same dev?

[@AlphaBetaGamer]

Yedom Globula? No, the dev had actually never heard of that game until the similarity was mentioned to him. It's just a coincidence.

[@asdf30111]

@@AlphaBetaGamer Oh though this must of been a more updated form of the that other game I tried, but it felt different from the game I played and not like an update so it made things extra immersive in way.

[@crystalclearchaos5387]

@@AlphaBetaGameris this game a work in progress or is it a finished tech demo

[@crystalclearchaos5387]

@@AlphaBetaGamer is this game a wip or is it a finished tech demo

[@233lynx]

Eldritch monster: now we are gonna have a long talk about why you thought it was a good idea to dump radioactive waste where I live...

[@Jjgm69]

imagine that in a tour of events, they put mermaids that are good.

[@Elshiki]

I would play Minecraft if this was the Nether

[@lukecola7250]

3:17 Thats a weird way of telling you that one of your lights are broken

[@Samueli2235]

This what navigating through warp in warhammer 40k is look like

[@volchonokilliR]

this is an absolute nightmare... Wow

[@bighotman805]

Almost feels like the environment is in 4D

[@_.-.]

Is that a shifting fractal flesh sponge dimension?

[@shinda-santhere6546]

The U-2 sub is clearly fit in this. And that "scan" sound... need to be replaced.

[@georgeofhamilton]

*Lyrics* What will we do with the Fractal Sailor? What will we do with the Fractal Sailor? What will we do with the Fractal Sailor Sailing Fractal Seas? Thankfully, there are no monsters Thankfully, there are no monsters Thankfully, there are no monsters In the Fractal Seas Oh, crap, there’s a monster! Oh, crap, there’s a monster! Oh, crap, there’s a monster! I’m too young to die Who put that thing there? Who put that thing there? Who put that thing there? Now I’m going to die

[@Dubs22005]

these intros are getting more interesting

[@enmanueljaco9756]

Like a lucid dream.

[@suburbantimewaster9620]

This game looks really cool!

[@hazmat2823]

This seems really similar to an older game based around something similar but you navigated through a bunch of handheld tools... Edit: The game in question I remember now was called Yedoma Globula I believe

[@cupoftea3499]

I would absolutely love to play this while binge listening to Portals by Melanie Martinez.

[@Po0PYBLOX]

now i am paranoid of Fractal still

[@owlcacone]

Wasn't there a game on itch with this almost exact same premise, but without the horror elements?

[@jadesaber99]

Nice math pun at the end my guy

[@AstralTempest]

Damn I love everything about this but for some reason it makes me unbelievably itchy 😭

[@AloisAgos]

If Subnaitica was 100% horror.

[@caramelly7199]

as someone who has trypophobia, this is truly scary and quite unnerving.

[@killerqueen2096]

This feels like a sequal to Yedoma Globula if anyone remembers that

[@non-applicable3548]

Just like my nightmares!

[@MarquisDeSang]

This would be better in VR

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

Fractal horrors: the horrors beyond human computation

[@provaricus627]

I wonder what would happen if you fall overboard. Would you just fall forever?

[@alpacaofthemountain8760]

Looks awesome

[@haraldhwick]

Reminds me of a different unfinished game. Memory of a broken dimension 😂😅

[@zenithquasar9623]

I love it!

[@shadowkiller4000]

We will watch your career with great interests

[@leviathan8890]

So this is what the astropaths see sailing through the warp huh.

[@shadyone6620]

Feels like Subanutica, when you swim your Cyclops into the void and suddenly hear "Creature attack!"

[@sovque1990]

listen to TOOL a when you play this game fr

[@null6209]

Man am sorry I just can't, why did the Dev feel the need to add Cthulu's 3rd cousin? I don't get it. The game was extremely creepy until HentaiTentacleMonster#546 Appeared

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

I don't remember this from my colonoscopy. Were they augmenting me into a six-billion-dollar man?

[@sundown6806]

This is where everyone who got raptured went in Iron Lung

[@BigFella117]

It looks like a sea of meat honestly

[@AlphaBetaGamer]

mmmmmm, tasty meat sea!

[@abrahamjimenez1957]

Bro: dont worry bro, that black stains in that bread aint nothing, just eat it, its ok... Me, bad trippin after eating that moldy bread: 💀💀💀💀💀

[@netslav3328]

where the gain enemy crabs at? only 1 monster? looks like missed opportunity

[@tricky_guy1]

steam?

[@StickySli]

KZbin's compression is having a stroke with this footage

[@mhc706]

Well I’m 3:30 minutes in and this looks like my worst nightmare or hell made in video game format. Doom has nothing on this game

[@MusicoftheDamned]

This is...possibly interesting but when I look at the textures all I can think about is imagining how nauseating this would be to play in those stupid VR headsets.