This Game Doesn’t Want You To Play It | 100 Days Game Review

[@ITNODove]

"Early access first-person survival crafting game" makes me feel like I've gone back in time.

[@Graeldon]

You used to hear it for every other game that was announced. Now the common phrase is "Live service third person hero shooter/battle royal with a battlepass".

[@stigmaoftherose]

​@Graeldon there should probably be a "for a modern audience" somewhere in the word salad.

[@JB-fd4qq]

Someday you will hear "AAA live service" and feel the same for now

[@doibantikov2486]

CURSED RUNES

[@democracy_enjoyer]

that sentance can allways be rearanged into "curse"

[@heraditestreamingarchive1100]

The hand. The lazer beam you shoot out. The "immersive" crafting system you pointed out is common in VR games. The little cursor. To me this all screamed a project that hoped to one day be a VR game. But we'll likely never know.

[@Zift_Ylrhavic_Resfear]

As somebody that had a small formation about VR game development, i can confirm that rays and disembodied hands are what you start with when you do something in VR.

[@newtybot]

first “member comment” on youtube ive seen that isnt drool eater drivel. you’re onto something, got a good feeling youre entirely correct

[@zapdomanic]

I chose E because it was the stupidest possible option. I was not disappointed.

[@GeorgeDCowley]

I was thinking sticks until he proposed "nothing".

[@ruskah0307]

i chose E cus i thought it would be funny and the game is clearly held together by spit and band-aids

[@apani7348]

I chose F.

[@colorgreen4999]

I love how now the number of games recommended was massively inflated by the 100 hidden games

[@Graeldon]

According to some rough math, I've now played 0.12% of all the games on Steam. Progress!

[@sanshrayvinesh5167]

Yeah I expect it back to around 33% good

[@JustAnotherSomeDude]

@@GraeldonMore than most!

[@ineophobe]

​@@Graeldonhow could you possibly get through the hundreds of down bad games???

[@keythealien]

I thought it was the secret option G) You fall through the ground trying😂😂

[@Graeldon]

To be fair, that was entirely plausible.

[@uhohgecko505]

That’s what I was waiting on too 😂😭

[@SrCheetoss]

the craft sound on the beginning may be a conceptual detail indicating that your character has been craft when it spawn, he is like an item craft by god.

[@chrismanuel9768]

Too much faith in the dev. Likely two items collide on start and craft when the world loads

[@alexanderchippel]

My theory for the "rocks make planks" is that the dev made the tree object and just copy and pasted the code to spawn an item after being hit, and just didn't change the object it spawned. As for the clipping through the floor, I think instead of the camera being on a pivot/its own separate object, it's tied directly to the cylinder that acts as player collision.

[@MetaBinding]

This game genuinely interests me, and not for the gameplay. It makes me wonder what happened to the developer, did he just forget the game? Did he get burnt out at the starting line, did something horrible happen to him, was it all just a scam?? Is it possible he knew about all the issues with the game and that's why he abandoned it? I suppose we will never know - or it could all just be an asset flip :p. I would like to imagine it was an actual passion project, just too ambitious for a brand new dev who burnt out too quickly.

[@planescaped]

I am assuming it was started by an ambitious 16-19 year old who started out on fire and quickly burned out.

[@patum3588]

I think that he fall through the floor. Never seen again

[@CoolMagmar]

I think they thought that the sales would fund the game but quickly noticed they just wasted 100 USD for little to no return and got discouraged to continue with the project, I still from time to time see new game devs thinking that by just putting their game on Steam they would generate money fast

[@atomictraveller]

how many rich guys who can develop and meet at a particular lodge do ya think are going to have a blast filling the consumer expectation world with disappointment letdown crap making people go hollow? plus then you never find anyone who really tries for you do you because everyone's going crazy with stupid garbage from lodge members.

[@thezackast2752]

It's probably a young developer who wanted to make a "100 days" type of game to fund their other games. This was published around the time that minecraft and ark 100 days games were popular.

[@douhwufwef5207]

I love how you aren't too harsh to a clearly bad game and laid out all the problems with it. I always get a bit of dread when game reviews demolish someone's game made by 1-2 people. Whoever made this shouldn't of charged money, but it's not like they're a bad person for making a bad game. If I was mixazbos this would be a great video for finding out what is wrong with the game, even though scrapping this and starting over would probably be a better idea. This is probably some project someone worked on for a week till they gave up lol.

[@Graeldon]

I agree, it's likely just an abandoned project, and I'm just thankful it wasn't $15. Or more. It's fun to explore these abandoned games and see what interesting ideas they may have had, even if they never eventuated into anything. Still wouldn't recommend playing it though.

[@bungiecrimes7247]

it's a paid product, he should have ripped into it more.

[@douhwufwef5207]

@ shit your right idk what i was thinking writing this

[@forkstaf1918]

if you ever worked in unity then all the bugs are even funnier because it's really easy to guess what's causing them. The hunger not working correctly? Thats because they're using the string value of the display number (the one you actually see) turning it into an int or number, decreasing it by one and then sending it back to display. Eating doesn't help because that's changing a different irrelevant int that never gets used. And they simply forgot to add an if statement that checked if the players hunger is too low. Anyone who's touched unity can explain every single bug and fix them quite easily, which again makes the incompetence at display even funnier.

[@Graeldon]

Thank you for the great explanation!

[@francesgardner7070]

“The early 2020s” oh god oh jeez oh god oh jeez oh fuck

[@Birdsflight44]

at least 2020 ended

[@francesgardner7070]

@@Birdsflight44 hearing someone call it the early 2020s when it feels like yesterday 👎👎👎

[@skunko1871]

I don't want to die time is moving too fast

[@rarkevil]

@@skunko1871 at least most of us will go out together

[@GeorgeDCowley]

@@francesgardner7070 It's still only a couple of years ago.

[@koni.K]

im guessing the crafting sound effect that played on spawn comes from the dev forgetting to tick off "play on start" on the sound effect, really shows the effort put into the game

[@ndt_dynamite2247]

Either that, or there’s an item on the ground that collides with another and gets crafted into something without player input at the start of the game, every time.

[@zawarudo497]

ok I think I can explain the weird hunger behavior, i'm pretty sure they made a variable for hunger that constantly decreases and then sets the number on screen to that, and then when programming the food made it increase the number on screen... and not the actual variable, meaning when the variable decreases again it'll drop to slightly below whatever it was at before

[@tomas_esconjaureguy]

That, combined to the hunger going below zero doing actually nothing lol

[@GeorgeDCowley]

@@tomas_esconjaureguy Wonder if that's because they failed to make food sustain you.

[@Ganmue]

I am so impressed with your ability to narrate events and keep a flowing story through a video and game in which.... well... there's practically no content. Huge kudos, you are great at this!

[@Graeldon]

Thanks! I love being able to tell a story and share an experience like this haha

[@liamodynsky4871]

Clearly the sound effect at the game's start was the crabs crafting you

[@Graeldon]

🤯

[@DestroyMario_1992]

100 Days, the only game where you can pluck a bird out of the sky as it violently spazzes out.

[@stigmaoftherose]

I have not played 100% orange juice since january 2020 but that doesn't mean I am not super excited to see someone else experience it for the first time, especially if it isnt from a recomendation from a close friend.

[@SomeGuy712x]

Yeah, I'm looking forward to 100% Orange Juice as well, and I'm hoping I don't somehow miss when Graeldon inevitably streams it live.

[@disquettepoppy]

@@SomeGuy712x What is the death count?

[@SomeGuy712x]

@@disquettepoppy I'm not sure why you're asking that to me here. This isn't where I would typically track deaths.

[@NightSkye27]

I guessed E because the fact you were asking in the first place made me think the answer was going to be really stupid. F was my secondary guess because the game is so broken, I wouldn't have been shocked if nothing happened.

[@nockcone]

OCD haver here Immediately had 7 panic attacks when you said that (real and true and this is not a huge misrepresentation of OCD)

[@silkdust8069]

I think this community will eventually turn into a void worshipping cult. Lovecraft style.

[@Graeldon]

ALL HAIL THE VOID

[@plebisMaximus]

ALL HAIL THE VOID

[@ZellyTheFangirl]

ALL HAIL THE VOID

[@MegapiemanPHD]

The Void beckons and we shall all join it in time

[@tooies]

my theory is that the gravity system in the game is messed up so it constantly pushes you further and further into the ground so if you stand still in one place for too long then it will eventually push you all the way through the ground and you fall through

[@danielyoutubechannel407]

spend 100 days in the void game beat!

[@Graeldon]

I considered it, but it actually causes a weird bug with the UI, where it vibrates with increasing intensity until it's literally unreadable, so I wouldn't know if I actually reached 100 days. Sadly, I found this bug after finishing the video, so it didn't make the final cut.

[@TheMamaluigi300]

@@Graeldon Yeah that would be the result of floating point precision loss Basically floating points are represented by a fixed amount of digits, and the higher the number gets, the less digits become usable for decimals, so the positions of vectors become less and less precise and thus increasingly become like a PS1 game, and even worse than that.

[@GeorgeDCowley]

@@Graeldon Guess it would go up a digit.

[@NivMizzet89]

I'm going to interpret this as not actually being a playthrough of Larry surviving on the island. Instead it's playing through the fevered recollections of a traumatized Larry, dreams haunted from their 100 days on the island. Randomly falling through the floor and waking up. Logic that doesn't quite make sense. Track of time being lost to the void (All Hail The Void!). Terrifying unearthly nightmare creatures that may just have been normal birds in reality. Still undecided if at the end of the 100 days they'd be rescued or peacefully pass away.

[@thisisnotaustin1]

8:42 lol i guessed wood before it even appeared as a choice

[@Graeldon]

You are well versed in the way of jank indeed

[@4dragons632]

How the heck does falling through the floor happen that often? I wonder if its a problem with the game engine they used? How did the developer not fall through the floor themselves and figure out a fix?

[@Graeldon]

My theory is that objects bumping into the player shift the players y-axis position down as the object tries to get on top of them. The player is shifted slightly below the surface, and the game logic then pushes the player downwards. The dev was probably aware of the issue, but never got around to fixing it (or maybe didn't know how)

[@4dragons632]

@@Graeldon That's clever, I think you might be right although its hard to know without playing the thing for myself. (no thanks). In any case it's an unusual bug even for these sorts of games to fall through the floor at such little provocation.

[@D.KlWA-aG]

It seems to happen everytime they rotate.

[@Galvatron102]

Bold of you to assume they play tested this

[@anthonyapm]

I'm guessing it's a Unity game and it sounds like they forgot to uncheck the Play on awake -checkbox on the crafting sound effect. 😊

[@roeboatwade]

My guess was going to be that because crafting occurs when two objects collide, some objects at spawn happen to randomly collide and thus craft.

[@zrazghost]

i knew it was planks, its always planks

[@Graeldon]

Even the game planked. Incredible.

[@darkoZeon]

this might be the best video i’ve ever seen in 2024, im laughing my ass off every 20 secs 😭😭

[@kornsuwin]

1:24 it's noto sans, get it right /lh

[@TheJacklikesvideos]

it's impressive i've never seen a game before where literally nothing at all was remotely functional.

[@shinyagumon7015]

The 100 Days counter does seem random, like what happens afterwards? Although I do think the idea of a survival game that is a bit more linear is a fun twist on the formula

[@4dragons632]

I expect a popup appears which says "CONGRATULATION" and then the game continues exactly as it was before.

[@shinyagumon7015]

@@4dragons632 Probably triggering the player to glitch through the floor

[@Jacob-Sophia]

You should try the Lost In Blue series

[@MasonTheGamer2022]

The reason why the crafting sound played at the beginning of the game is because Unity automatically sets sounds to play on startup. The dev seems to have forgotten to turn that option off.

[@TheRealVenusian]

Grael returns! Praise Be! and what a trainwreck of a game to come back to lol

[@0hBee0ne]

The hunger bar updates but lowers from it's previous position. Oh my God the dev of this game doesn't even understand pointers.

[@enterprisekid]

Never thought the world would get “We have Stranded II at Home” but here we are.

[@shiftypenguin472]

That's exactly what I thought too. At least it reminded me that stranded II exists again.

[@davelewis8270]

Subscribed and eagerly awaiting your arrival at the first level of the alphabet.

[@michaelgamel5915]

4:19 you forgot to pay your existence tax

[@abcd-vn2sg]

I'm glad to see your still making content!

[@Graeldon]

No plans to stop any time soon, just taking a bit more time between videos!

[@km5405]

this is actually a survival horror game where earth has become hollow and a thin layer of planks is all that remains of the earths bedrock

[@AltFromTheLimbo]

3:00 It's a metaphor on how Inent and Thoughts ( Words ) become actual things as you create them. Amazing.

[@NikoKuehne]

12:40 that one ark glitch. ark is so unstable but so fun even on singleplayer

[@hollowknightenjoyer]

Muck> ark

[@erinzaharris2162]

as a former unity user I bet the crafting sound effect was set to autoplay so it just played as you loaded the scene lol

[@idontknow.1080]

My favourite part of this video was when i glitched through the video into the comments and fell until the video deloaded. I've tried watching it 17 times but i keep falling into the comments. Plz fix.

[@Graeldon]

Have you tried liking and subscribing? I heard that creates a buffer underneath the video to stop the page from scrolling down, allowing you to get past the bug

[@CainXVII]

Maybe the dev is swedish and confused wall and vall 😂 bc a vall is often piled up dirt like that

[@sihiri_kabari]

3:15 what triggers my OCD is when people use OCD the wrong way. THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH OCD

[@bagaboo4746]

You are very nice to these games Subscribed

[@DatScharger64]

Ah beans, I wanted to vote for G): an express way into the abyss. :(

[@Birdsflight44]

I guessed "a banana" because it seems juuuust strange enough. but no, that would improve the experience

[@CtrlAltDestroy]

I chose planks because it just seemed like a really weird option tbh I was kind of surprised I was right lol

[@CassiusZedaker-pr7kc]

It's a wall for CRABS!

[@Graeldon]

🤣🤣🤣

[@zaukr]

i like this 4 days game Review, good job!

[@Graeldon]

😂

[@GreiH]

Well, time for me to go play Minecraft, I guess 😂

[@AlfredoGomez-kp4cf]

Wow, this might be the first time in a long while that I've felt secondhand feustratio from a video.

[@eastcoast34]

I feel like you should review a game from every letter because there are lots of games starting with the same letter, don't know it might be repetitive at times. Great idea keep it up 💯

[@eastcoast34]

I mean a game from the next letter the next video and so on

[@SwitchyWitch_]

I'm genuinely so curious as to what even causes the player character to just, clip through the floor, since I could only come up with one idea, and even that is something that's so easy to fix with just default unity code that it surely can't be that

[@pixelbucket2256]

for a second I thought the rock wasn't gonna give anything, that you'd just fall through the ground again xD

[@Yelsuk]

Reviewing Steam games in an alphabetical order? What the...? I guess I found my next binge watch ❤

[@Graeldon]

Welcome! Just be warned, the older content is a bit rough! Thanks for checking out the channel though =)

[@Ma55L89]

Game should be renamed to "Fall through ground simulator" with a bonus level: The backrooms.

[@barrylemington]

5:14 love how you can just see the optimization through the reflections 😭

[@KeppyPants]

3:56 I’m guessing that rather than the game checking if an object is crafted before playing the sound, it just plays that sound when an object is created. This would make it so that when you load in, it plays that sound for every. Single. Object. Luckily, since they are made at the same time, it doesn’t sound like hell and just overlays to make the crafting sound sound like a single sound.

[@__psin]

that was such a cool edit i loved that 5:09

[@entothechesnautknight1762]

I can't believe you quit right before discovering the 100 days ARG in that chest. (The ARG takes place entirely within the VOID)

[@CainXVII]

I am still amazed you got to 1. This one was real fun

[@aglavraowl4932]

I'm curious about what exactly happens there on a technical level, I mean, what triggers falling through the ground. As the hunger meter does not work, have you tried to wait it out in a safe place, not moving to avoid falling through, to find out, what happens on the 100th day?

[@TomaszRyszkowski]

Sometimes you fall through the ground even without moving. I think that is because the ground js literally paper-thin, so whenever anything touches the player and nudges him even a few pixels into the ground, they lose grip on it and because part of the player is under the floor, they fall all the way down. This means that crabs walking into you can trigger a fall, and building blueprints also seem to have their own hitbox that can make you fall down. Im not sure if there are 100% safe places in this mess of a game

[@Graeldon]

In theory, I believe you could find a safe space and stand perfectly still to wait for day 100. Unfortunately I did not have the time to invest in such an endeavor, but I would be curious to know if they actually programmed and end correctly. My guess, is it would be a pause screen with a "Congratulations!" message, and then you'd be kicked back to the title screen.

[@Surr3alD3sign]

Bro i legitimately guess E 😂 the fact that planks were an option in that multiple choice was too sus

[@Pomodorosan]

Lmao even before the multiple choice question was asked, i assumed it would give planks because it would be the default resource to spawn, and i was right

[@shiftypenguin472]

This game's style actually reminds me of a really old survival game called stranded. That game was actually good though.

[@SparkySummers]

Why would text alignment trigger OCD? That has nothing to do with OCD.

[@Graeldon]

An excessive need or desire to be tidy can be a sign of OCD behaviour. It could also be a sign of something else, and it's not always a sign of OCD. OCD manifests in a broad variety of ways.

[@belob6922]

As our great captain Happy Wolf said: "Выпал за уровень, а так и надо."

[@vitaliykormov1266]

As a game dev of a survival game, this makes me proud that my game is at least somewhat playable lol

[@atomictraveller]

seeing you grind every production aspect (geez, i figured no one cared about the text bg animation quality..) kinda of makes me feel glad that no one ever finds my game that i spent a lot of quality time working on :/ bouncing beauties on itch you'll be instantly offended and angry that i tried to pass myself off as a respectable person.

[@lydiazap7243]

think you can get away with passing yourself off as a respectable person, eh? hah! to the stocks with ye!

[@atomictraveller]

@@lydiazap7243 except i have an emergency passport and a friend with a headwound who was a congresswoman :p 😭 however, west papua is the heartbreaker of the age. oh it's sad.

[@Graeldon]

Gameplay and mechanics definitely are the most important, followed by sound design and then presentation. Presentation just happens to massively impact first impressions which can drive players away from a game before they've even experienced it

[@SandwichGamesHeavy]

The question is: did it have a "made in unity" intro?

[@mauricioalvarezpino1818]

Around 1:17, while the game is opening, you can barely see it was made in Unity

[@Anonymous-Vibe]

I ain't a cheater, nor a regular viewer but consistent with the game planks would make the least amount of sense but not so much for an extremely early dev environment where the one "resource" is used for all resource nodes until the actual resources are ready (Edit: which were ready but forgotten about?) So I guess that makes me a wizard :D

[@Graeldon]

Yer a Wizard, Anonymous-Vibe! And your father was too!

[@Anonymous-Vibe]

@@Graeldon Hurray, luckily he wasn't of the disappearing kind🥳 (bad joke I know lol)

[@fandomperson2437]

I honestly wonder if falling beneath the ground isn’t a ground issue and more of a general coding issue? My personal guess is that their method of despawning unneeded entities is to let them fall into the void and they just,, forgot to make it to where that doesn’t also affect the player. The jump below the ground feels to abrupt to be a simple clip below, if you were just clipping through it it would be seamless without any jumps.

[@mauricioalvarezpino1818]

I choose F), for final answer

[@mauricioalvarezpino1818]

aw dang it

[@alexalbuquerquerodriguesal108]

Most likely thing to happen, to be honest.

[@mastergame1311]

I respect the game's will and won't play it.

[@Impending_Doom]

you gotta respect the jank

[@Graeldon]

But the jank doesn't respect me 😭

[@degariuslozak2169]

Can't wait for the "Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion" video🎉

[@gemwolfz2860]

that bird is truly avant garde

[@Surr3alD3sign]

12:35 truly a water vegeta moment 😂

[@Jaypeapolaris]

Look who commented thrice.

[@demoman_the_n]

I for sure guessed it right, somehow...

[@mouse-ib8wk]

EMBRACE THE VOID! FEED THE ALGORITHM!

[@TomaszRyszkowski]

YEAH LETS FEED THE ALGORITHM

[@CassiusZedaker-pr7kc]

@@TomaszRyszkowski Comments no longer feed the algorithm. :(

[@TomaszRyszkowski]

@@CassiusZedaker-pr7kc THEY DONT???

[@SomeGuy712x]

Wow, it's silly how the game kept arbitrarily deciding to remove all floor collision every so often, sending you helplessly into the void. At least you won't ever get zapped by invaders, or even starve down there, because the hunger meter is broken.

[@emmaccode]

I gotta hurry up and publish my game that starts with an E so you get to play it Also, on the topic of E, I did guess E -- planks. I think this dev was trying to make some money, probably okay at programming and terrible at the rest.. figured they could make a scam game like this pretty easily. Seems like a cash grab. You don't want to have an open cull on one side of a physics mesh -- that's why you're falling through the world, the ground is a plane instead of a real 3D shape. They should have modeled the bottom of the island and had it clip into the ocean. The reason why, by the way, is because colliders are *convex* meaning their shape needs to be going outward -- this mesh is basically an inward shape on the bottom. Usually when I do this it's like 4-5 verts. Really not hard to do -- you know, as you typically would with environment modeling you just drop the vertices when away from the player. The vert cost is pretty low to make collision work, is my point. In blender just go into edit mode and grab one edge, extend it and face to the rest of the verts. Literally so easy, broke their entire game. It's a shame. Edit : sorry for calling them she

[@anon9469]

Ah dammit, I need to hurry up and learn how to make a game before Graeldon hits the 9s.

[@BanXxX69]

D) Iron Ore? Edit: WTFFF😂😂😂😂

[@kierankirkpatrick1614]

Hey their graeldon,I was wondering when ur gonna review soda dungeon 1 and 2?you might like them, they're kinda like the game ten million, where it's better to play them on and off, it's also and idle game with a lot of charm,you might enjoy it!

[@rookiedriver6672]

it almost looks like you fall through the map every time you stand in one place for too long

[@bluesadventures880]

Looks like a funny comfort game honestly

[@Polygonetwo]

Well I’m not a cheater or a long time viewer, so I guess I’m a wizard. I’ll have to grab my wizard cap whenever I manage to stop falling into the endless void.

[@cloudshifter]

They should make a "try not to fall through the ground challenge (impossible)"

[@C-Rex1]

It's like an even shitter version of Jurassic Park Trespasser.

[@ippo4502]

It's actually only 46 cents per feature listed. So it's a good deal!

[@AkorBestoff]

17:16 did Tai miss the Polish joke there? xD

[@TomaszRyszkowski]

Oh yes i did oh no

[@solouno2280]

3:39 a loading screen for another loading screen? This is PSX era

[@connordarvall8482]

Is this the first survival game in this series?

[@Graeldon]

Technically 001 Earth was the first survival game. This is the first 3D survival game though

[@lapinte8136]

Leaving this for the algorithm.

[@Graeldon]

Leaving this to say thank you!

[@CassiusZedaker-pr7kc]

@@Graeldon Leaving this to say that, according to KZbin, comments no longer affect the algorithm :(

[@julienandrus4169]

this is giving worst MMO ever vibes, cool to see!

[@Graeldon]

I'm pleased to hear that, JSH is a big inspiration for this channel - he makes great content!

[@Russian_engineer_bmstu]

Josh is such a great guy His later mmo videos are a little stale, but his other channels are easily compensating that

[@GeorgeDCowley]

I wonder if the buttons are in ariel to be sure it's clear what they say. 15:00 Couldn't you just wait in the void?

[@Highretrogamelord]

There was this early 2000's (I think 2003) free-to-download PC game called Stranded. That was better than this...

[@Graeldon]

Those were some wild times when we just trusted random software downloaded from the internet.

[@Nalehw]

The early 2000s were a treasure trove of free games, especially Flash games. I miss it...

[@Highretrogamelord]

@@Graeldon And yet many of such games (and also flash games) were better than Steam shovelware (especially the bottom of that).

[@aleanddragonITA]

But i am really curious to know what happens after 100 Days?