How Iron Lung Terrifies The Player (+ Lore Analysis)

[@andres201292]

I think a crucial part that everyone forgets about the game is the anomaly and the obviously unnatural structures you encounter, not only the light anomaly, twice in the game you are instantly "teleported" to another location on the seabed without explanation, knowing that the submarine implodes at the slightest contact with the seabed walls, isn't that weird? What if the whole ocean of blood and its structures got there in the same way?

[@laurelalloro]

I was thinking the ocean of blood was teleported in from the anomaly and it's weird that he didn't bring it up at all in the video

[@kinghearts4497]

On top of that, the game specifically says the blood ocean is made from human blood and just so happens to show up on four moons that had no life previously. If there was life, those four moons would be gone...but they aren't. With what we know and see, as well, new life is beginning to emerge (or when the game begins an ecosystem has already been established). Life being sustained on moons that were spared from destruction BECAUSE they couldn't maintain life, now housing creatures that can survive in an ocean of human blood? All with anomalies that bend, warp, and maybe transport you without any physical damage whatsoever? Those four moons are very suspect... (Also side theory that the animals living in the blood oceans may or may not be organisms that lived in humans to keep them functioning now morphed into those monstrosities. Mitochondria used to be their own creatures ya know...)

[@Funmotion7]

Fun fact: the Iron Lung the player was on was called SM-13, but in game you can actually find the wreck of the SM-8, and there's a terminal entry about it too iirc. Apparently, it was a genuinely highly specialized craft, piloted by a scientist of some sort and would usually be expected to return, rather than just a random convict in a hunk of iron... but now it is on the bottom of the blood ocean too, ripped in half.

[@Devilhand21]

I guess that leaves the question of where are SM-1 through 7 and SM-9 through 12? The numbers don't seem random as 13 is a higher number than 9 and there could have been other subs before both of these particular ones, just where did they go and what information did they have?

[@dracorex426]

By the way: Cthulhu was defeated in his big appearance. Relatively easily. They just smashed him in the head with an armored steam yacht and he went squish. I mean, he wasn't killed or anything, but he missed his chance to awaken and the stars probably won't be right again for a very long time.

[@marilenefernandes8620]

Bonk!

[@Lord1885]

Well, no, not exactly. The boat didn't interfere with his rise through star alligment, he was disoriented and stopped for a moment BECAUSE stars weren't in place, he wasn't even trying to fully awake

[@FilipR34]

IT wasnt cthulhu tho, it was more like his Avatar or something along those lines, not his true form and body.

[@ceinwenchandler4716]

@@Lord1885 Really? Thanksfor saying that. I thought that the stars were only aligned for like those five minutes he was rampaging, and it always drove me nuts because that's not how stars work and I know that a little too well to suspend disbelief. Your version is better.

[@logandelacruz2152]

@@Lord1885 yeah, The people apparently opened the thing he was sleeping in, waking him up.

[@captinkermit12]

could the creatures in the blood oceans possibly be mutated microorganisms that had just grown to extremely large sizes

[@insomniacloserxo]

It could be, there’s a theory that the moons are actually alive and the monsters are some sort of white blood cell killing off intruders

[@user-141N]

That’s what i was thinking of, the gigantism, since the pressure and cold temperature in the depths of oceans can cause it.

[@concept5631]

Maybe

[@scratchpad7954]

Assuming the blood in Iron Lung is mammalian, such an immune system hypothesis wouldn't surprise me one bit. I could easily equate the submarine to a pathogen and the sea monster as a component of the lunar immune system, most likely a macrophage.

[@yourneighbour3309]

@@insomniacloserxo jus wanted 2say great video, ii loved watchin dis game bein played, ii fw yo narrating n editin

[@aspen4786]

Part of the beauty to me about Iron Lung is it’s silence. Just the overwhelming silence and realization that even if you survived the expedition, it most likely wouldn’t matter. Everything is gone, humanity is slowly fading into nothing. A slow death, which most wouldn’t resign themselves to, and the hopeless struggle against this absolute fate. Something about it is just so soothing.

[@eagle_llama]

Iron Lung was pretty horrifying, so I am glad to see what your analysis of it and what makes it scary.

[@insomniacloserxo]

Playing it for myself, my heart dropped at the ending since I forgot what happened. I genuinely love this game :)

[@VEPOX-2th_acc]

@@insomniacloserxo The four moons might be the moons of Saturn. Since it says that planets quote unquote "disappears".

[@adamizz-warith1540]

@@VEPOX-2th_acc So you're saying the planet we might be in this game is Saturn?

[@Magma-Idiot-2001]

@@insomniacloserxo We may get information when Markiplier does the movie. He's working with the creator of Iron Lung.

[@purplehaze2358]

I'd just like to point out that, in Subnautica, you can fight back against most of the threats in the game. Whether it's practical to do so is up to personal opinion, but you still indeed can.

[@hampter3927]

Haha stasis rifle and thermoblade go brrrr

[@n.c.pictures]

​@@hampter3927 the reapers never stood a chance

[@xd-xt2cn]

Idk why but I'm pretty sure it has something to do with Lovecraftian horror, I think the Quiet Rapture was caused by some kind of entity/ies and it/they created the blood oceans for some kind of purpose way beyond human comprehension and the blood oceans are made to feed something like in Dead Space, idk but that's the feeling I get from everything, something beyond human comprehension that has a greater purpose behind it

[@insomniacloserxo]

It might lead up to something similar to that, don’t know if the creator is going to create a sequel or an update so we may never know

[@WillieManga]

It has quite a bit of its themes. Though more futuristic than his works, it still has dark themes of hopelessness, cosmic horror and OP monsters. After all, this isn't an expedition; you know you're screwed.

[@parkerwebb3470]

​@@insomniacloserxo correction on 30:57 they knew the earth was round for thousands of years but they didn't know that there was a continents on the other side of Europe they thought that they could go from Spain to India without landing on another continent.

[@DiegoEzequielGuitar]

Pretty sure the creator didn't think about such complex lore behind it, but it is so creative that leads to people to invent hundreds of theories, I feel that's the purpose, to create a random non-sense lore, and let the players give a sense to it

[@omn1cr0ngaming66]

Or Cthulhu could just be a really messy eater and that’s what made the blood oceans

[@marcorodriguez8792]

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." - H.P. Lovecraft

[@Gander6309-KranchTheDestroyer]

Honestly the idea of being trapped in a rusty old ship being expected to die on this post apocalyptic universe on a bleeding moon is terrifying. And the idea of something out there to kill you is even worse.

[@phosspatharios9680]

My hypothesis is that habitable planets may have some kind of relationship with some supernatural entity or mechanism that caused the Quiet Rapture. One way of explaining it is imagining habitable planets to have been "magically enchanted" to become habitable, because some kind of Lovecraftian god was actively trying to create life. So this god "seeded" the galaxy/universe with habitable planets in some far past, and then waited for some time and then "harvested" what they "planted", causing these planets to be taken to another dimention, for who knows what to be done to the raptured lifeforms and people. The blood oceans could be some byproduct of this supernatural process. This is a properly Lovecraftian idea, because it would imply that everything was just some kind of game or experiment by beings completely out of our comprehension. A proposition even scarier than life having no purpose.

[@insomniacloserxo]

This definitely has some ties to love craft and that’s a really unique take on what this could be, thanks for letting me know!

[@aircraftcarrierwo-class]

Alternatively: The god you describe died, and as they died, so too did their gift of life-harboring worlds. And the planetoid with the blood ocean is what's left of their corpse, infested with the parasites that killed them.

[@thebreadbringer]

This to me seems a more likely explanation than the space stations and moons being the ones that get displaced. Given that planets are naturally occurring, if some eldritch ritual or awakening made them disappear, there's a good chance said event does not take man-made independent structures like space stations into account.

[@MarquisLeary34]

That only makes my hunger for more games within this narrative more voracious.

[@MarquisLeary34]

@@aircraftcarrierwo-class What if there are other "corpses"? The door's are pretty wide open for all sorts of nastiness...

[@zephyrmurphy9464]

I’m so glad I’m finding more content being made about Iron Lung, it’s been a hyperfixation for me for a couple years and it kills me that there’s basically no content

[@thesidneychan]

8:44 "we hear a loud bump that can be heard". People die when they are killed. 💀

[@depressoespresso8958]

An underrated horror game I'd love an analysis of is Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion. Nobody really talks about it, but I personally think it's one of the best horror games out there. The descent from a cute, slightly spooky game to actually encountering the monsters and backstory of the mansion is very effective. Not to mention all of the lore from the Dollhouse and Karamari Hospital DLCs. I could go on and on about this game, it's one of my absolute favorite games in general.

[@insomniacloserxo]

I might do a video about that soon! It’s surprising bc I loved that game when playing it, not a lot of games would go make a “comedic” horror game but they did it pretty well

[@sanicboi9187]

Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion is absolutely horrifying. Also suprisingly gruesome as fuck in some of the deaths in that game.

[@vipahxxx7640]

@@insomniacloserxo awesome

[@dracorex426]

People did not think the Earth was flat. They thought Columbus was an idiot with a map based on awful math. And they were right. He got extremely lucky that there happened to be two continents barely in range of his bad preparations. He thought Cuba was Japan.

[@asteroidrules]

Yeah, people knew Earth was round, they just thought that from Spain to China was all open ocean. Columbus thought Earth was narrower than it is at certain latitudes.

[@silent_stalker3687]

@@asteroidrulesctually they believed the earth was breast shaped, with a. Nip at the top. Yup. The top man of the field believed that and that nip was eden. And he followed that logic in summary. And the reason they needed the trade route was because muslims were blocking the ports.

[@duncetheman]

@@silent_stalker3687 Total bs from adam ruins everything. East was usually drawn as up on maps and ppl thought eden was there. They somehow managed to interpret the wording of the article they chose as eden being a nipple and him thinking the earth was smaller (therefore less wide) as being pair shaped.

[@silent_stalker3687]

@@duncetheman not really as ‘mother earth’ is known as that because it births plants and so on as alchemy described it as, even such as Cicero who had influence on the American revolution and a few people did describe it in that shape who were of credit and had connections to what may have influenced Columbus.

[@jakebrooks7481]

@@silent_stalker3687reject flat earth embrace boob earth

[@richardryley3660]

At one point in the game, there is a glowing ball of light, which could be some sort of wormhole or gateway. This could be a hint that the survivors are in another universe.

[@Cruncher_Of_Cookies]

I think it could be coming from that monster (is it called the frog correct me if I'm wrong) like an angler fish, a light bulb in it's body to loure prey

[@ssadow7020]

It's so interesting to read different opinions! My first thought when hearing about the Blood Oceans was that all the life was blended ig and turned into the Blood Oceans hence the human blood

[@toalutoriangaming]

@@Cruncher_Of_Cookies no like, it’s a bit ol ball of energy that shakes the sub when you get close to it

[@Cruncher_Of_Cookies]

Oooo

[@Cruncher_Of_Cookies]

Idk then I think it could be a part of the frog

[@egwithoneg8021]

3:37 "and why i hate it" "Proceeds to do a 41 minute video about it"

[@insomniacloserxo]

I have a love hate relationship with this game don’t judge me :)

[@egwithoneg8021]

​@@insomniacloserxo judges

[@awetistic5295]

Iron Lung is one of the most terrifying games I've ever played. Admittedly, I have both claustrophobia and thalassophobia, so the experience hit especially hard for me. I once read that we know more about space than about the deep ocean, and even though it's probably oversimplified, the sentence stuck with me. Iron Lung has an ocean. Of blood. In space.

[@Exile_Sky]

To be clear about prior peoples. Humanity didn't think the world was flat. It's just no one in the civilization at the time had traveled west, and most assumed it to just be a giant ocean. An endless sea in an era where death at sea was much more common was a waste of men, money, and time.

[@kindredlychaotic4458]

Fun fact: by going into the data files, you can see the name of the monster's file is "frog." (edit bc I got it wrong lmao) Also, by going to the alcove under the final objective you can see the remains of a previous sub that was sent down here. (The SM-8) You can find it in the logs as a legit science sub that was very valuable to COI that they sent down to the moon for study. So, technically, the Iron Lung was sent down there for study, as they never got the results from the first trip. They just didn't mind losing this one...

[@thefinalboss2403]

I think it was some sort of experiment with teleportation and it caused every planet with any sort of living organisms to all be teleported at once and mixed together like a large scale version of the fly. When they reappeared the mass of earth and gore formed into moons with oceans of liquefied creatures. Some things returned in enough shape to actually survive in the gore. That's my opinion.

[@snepping1885]

first of all people in medieval times knew earth was round but thought it was impossible to reach india cuz its too far away but columbus thought it was 3 times smaller so he thought "i can do this shit"

[@Fluffkitscripts]

Your script could’ve used another draft. “You hear a noise that can be heard”

[@dotsdot5608]

3:22 i dont fear the ocean when my nautilus buddy is vibing there with me 😊

[@croatianguy4208]

I know what happens in this game but you still make this interesting good job mr. Insomniac

[@theREALexpiredBanana]

I’m pretty sure you can kill the creatures in Subnautica, I don’t know though, I haven’t played the game in awhile. Edit: yes, you can pretty easily kill Reaper Leviathans and other creatures with a status rifle and knife.

[@tredausmaxima]

Yeah. And I think for Subnautica Below Zero they noticed that and did not include the Stasis Rifle altogether so that it's not easy to kill the leviathan creatures

[@Ashacarlosalbert]

Your videos are awesome, don't ever think about stop making them! How good is that you made this channel!

[@insomniacloserxo]

We won’t be slowing down so stick around :)

[@lelakurayami3727]

You're a new channel and I really like your voice explaining horror games keep up the good work and get big!

[@bonafide5364]

30:50 people did not think the earth was flat in the 1400s... it was pretty common knowledge that the world was a globe

[@cha0tix581]

"You will never have a reliable way of killing any of the predators withing this game" ever tried picking a full inventory of gas pods and the stuned gun those leviathan die incredibly quick if you do that anyways neat video

[@concept5631]

30:50 This is wrong. People have known that the Earth is round for thousands of years. As early of Ancient Greece. The point of contention between Columbus and the crown wasn't the curvature of the Earth, but its size.

[@Skywolve1998]

I was in another tab when you introduced the photo mechanic and the sudden loud sound scared me. Truly the most frightening part of the game.

[@zealtqwerty3083]

You mentioning subnautica just made me think.. what if there was an iron lung subnautica mod. Imagine playing submautica. But on the blood ocean moon... now thats chilling

[@WillieManga]

And Markiplier is making a movie of sorts out of it! The fan support for this Lovecraftian lore is quite cool!

[@panthekirb7561]

Its a shame that this goofy relatively low effort game overshadowed the absolute goated greatness of Dusk

[@That-random-dog]

Thankfully it wasn't controlled by a controller

[@kerpjosales1615]

thanos probably thought erasing every planet that is habitable was funny:

[@sleepyrizzler]

I’ve been trying to find a good analysis video to learn about this game and once again you put out a great video. Keep up the good work man!!

[@psionic_chromago]

Might I point your interest towards The Russian Sleep Experiement? I believe it might be related to the whole suffocation thing, with your parallels to the soviet union. If you're not familiar, it's an urban legend where the soviet union made a gas stimulant for soldiers so that they wouldn't have to sleep. This led to soldiers to harming themselves, others, or even entirely offing themselves. I think it fits in pretty snug, even if it's not confirmed.

[@insomniacloserxo]

That story was just a creepypasta that was proven to be a hoax, the Soviet Union did a LOT of messed up experiments but that wasn’t one grounded in reality. It still is fun to relate that into this kind of game due to the gas used being horrific

[@psionic_chromago]

@@Boygremlin-bogthing I’m autistic, so I’m pretty gullible, oops,,

[@deceseze]

yeah and sonic.exe was an FBI experiment

[@chattycatty3336]

@@psionic_chromago lol you're fine 😂 we all have those moments (I used to think it was real to 😅) but uh...there is definitely quite a few of screwed up experiments that have been done throughout history, so if you're interested in learning the evils of man, there's no shortage

[@R.G.O.T.I.]

I'm gonna be honest that is the most genuine thank you I have heard from a video talking about iron lung

[@hekati7889]

Wait, if the blood content from the moons are sufficient, couldn't they extract Iron from the blood moons?

[@GRasputin91]

I like the theory that the space stations were sent into a parallel universe, it actually reminds me of Stephen King's story the Langoliers where the plane flew through a time rip and ended up in the dead and fading world of the past, which was devoured by mysterious creatures. I cant help but think this is what happened here

[@Aqua_Hoshino929]

I have a theory of my own about the Blood oceans basically the giant eye we see is not the creature that attacked us in the submarine instead its the apex predator of the blood oceans and it is most likely hunting down the creature that attacked us and the creature that attacked us most likely caused the ocean to become blood red because of the bone which most likely belonged to the long gone herbivores that were eaten and the creature with the lizard like eye didn't attack us its because either it knew we were not a threat or it continued its mission meanwhile the creature that attacked us was most likely very hungry and percived us as food and my theory is called the great starving bascially all herbivores were eaten by all the hungry predators who were really hungry because the ecosystem of the blood ocean was collapsing and those 2 creatures were the only ones left that were not eaten by other predators and they fight each other to death to eat each other or the one with the different eye is the last herbivore and is trying to hide from the preadator but idk thats just my theory.

[@dracorex426]

Well there was the time Russia had it's first ever post-USSR naval exercise, they immediately sunk their own submarine and then bungled the rescue so bad that the survivors burned to death days later.

[@awetistic5295]

...and here we have today's nightmare.

[@maniacmohawk5513]

While the Soviet Union didn’t killed prisioners of war by lack of air they did indeed killed several test subjects from this way or worse during the space race, which I think our protagonist perfectly fits, you’re alone exploring a completely unknown place with little to no hope of returning, kinda fits with the cosmonauts life

[@DerpDerp3001]

I think that the Quiet Rapture was caused by a deity from one of Skemanski's other games, specifically God from Squirrel Stapler.

[@jamesgroccia644]

The lore update also includes the wreck of research sub SL13, which was lost sometime before the Iron Lung was deployed

[@rertar4499]

The "only the stations got teletransported to other dimension" theory couldnt be right because of the light of the dead stars, they are in the original universe because they still recive the light emited by the stars that disapear, if they where in another dimension, that light wouldnt have been emited at all because the stars didnt exist

[@newyorkertx7024]

It could be a parallel dimension where its exactly the same except the rapture just happened.

[@GabrielSouza-jq3lz]

The third foto shown on 6:35 shows the Angler Fish Creature on the background, that thin was watching the submarine WAY BEFORE the attack.

[@-tyrese-7931]

I watched a play through of this game and i was waiting for the scary part the entire time

[@TheTTTtv]

People did not believed that the Earth was flat. 30:50

[@mrhorrorface]

Yeah, the people in Columbus’s time knew that, however, they didn’t know that the americas existed, so the question was, “How far west do we need to go to reach Asia?” When Columbus landed in America, he thought he had landed in Asia, they only learned later that they had discovered a whole new continent

[@swordcat4018]

6:45 ooh i see the frog

[@silly_on_]

Bro really said "Chapter 1: What is Fear?"

[@Bludtired]

Recently some guys did iron lung roleplay

[@illuminaticomfirmed6948]

People did not believe the earth was flat, they’d known it was round for thousands of years. Columbus was trying yo find new trade routes to the Orient, China and India by sailing West.

[@agustinamagpie]

30:51 actually it's been a well known fact that Earth is spherical, AND its approximate size to an astonishing degree of closeness to the actual number, since the time of ancient Greeks. Pythagoras knew it, for instance. The whole "hurr durr Colombus discovered the Earth was round" thing is bullcrap. Actually Colombus was considered crazy for thinking the Earth was pear shaped. We used to think there was just ocean all the way around until you hit Asia again, and, through calculations, determined it wasn't worth the trip, as going by land or by sea having a clear knowledge of what landmasses were nearby was safer. Just wanted to point it out. I'm tired of Colombus being praised as a brave explorer and brilliant mind. He was a disgusting monster, AND bad at math.

[@TheRicardobtc]

At 6:38 and 19:33 the monster actually shows up on the photo. So the thing's been chasing the sub much earlier than when you take a photo of its eye.

[@JosefinaQB]

All I know about iron lung is Jerma985 played it and I rewatch it sometimes to sleep and the creator of the game was trying to help Jerma solve parts of the game lmao

[@Rookster97]

The iron lung is basically the gulag of the future

[@captinkermit12]

Nice video. Keep up the great work!

[@insomniacloserxo]

Thank you!

[@acobraquefuma8776]

One of the best and most detailed videos about iron lung, thank you very much! Also the c.o.i is the union of multiple space thingies (Just like Soviet Union) and the Eden is just one big boi (Like America)

[@OneCanOfSoda]

I found you from the ONaF video and I already love your videos so much

[@insomniacloserxo]

Hopefully you’ll enjoy the future content too :)

[@Lunarcreeper]

3:03 sadly, this is only the statistic for what's been explored by humans, and the places that haven't been explored or scanned with sonar are usually like the deepest depths with no plants or anything to support lifeforms. or is that a good thing?

[@Oogasra]

Greed is ultimately the demise of humanity, not the Quiet Rapture.

[@DreadnoughtDT]

One thing this video doesn't address is something you can only find if you go to the final waypoint first. To the far right of the map is a wrecked submarine labeled "AM-5", and searching that designation in the database reveals something pretty shocking. AM-5 was made for extreme depths, and for research. It was armored, fortified, and equipped with a full team of actual researchers, not convicts. The database entry says that they hope what they have to say hasn't been redacted yet, because AM-5 was meant to return, and didn't. All they found was wreckage. So the C.O.I. *knew* there were monsters or something capable of destroying a fortified research submarine down there, and continued to send convicts into the depths of AT-5 anyway.

[@MouldedMind]

No it doesn't mean they knew anything, accidents are very capable of destroying any subamarine.

[@SirZaroque]

"trillions of lightyears away would mean they take hundreds of years for the light to completely disappear"

[@nevermind3421]

i would die from a panic attack before i even take the first picture 🤣🤣

[@HazopGaze]

I'd like to make one minor note about 'cheap jumpscares' - Specifically what makes them cheap in the first place. Cheap jumpscares are, by my definition, only such because they are the payoff to no buildup. This was what made the first FNAF so darn good, because it executed on atmosphere and anticipation, at least for much of it's run time. After the aggression was ramped up, the jumpscare was payoff not to player dread, but panic. Iron Lung handles BOTH of those feelings at the end, for a masterful and well earned jumpscare.

[@ssryle]

Your vernacular is fine when regarding a Submarine a Ship, Submariners IRL, like my Dad called Submarines the Ship or the Boat, so your use of Ship is completely within reasonable vernacular.

[@awkwardukulele6077]

33:51 quick nitpick, if a star was trillions of light years away, it wouldn’t take hundreds of years to see it die, it would take trillions, because the light from the star is trillions of light years way. That’s what the term “lightyears” means. Also, the universe is only about 13.7 billion years old to the best of our knowledge, so it hasn’t been long enough for anything to even become visible from that far away.

[@Fawxo]

Well, pokemon. You’ve already made Pokémon such as “iron bundle” “iron moth” “iron valiant” and more. Time for a Pokémon called Iron lung?

[@thegermanfool8953]

I absolutely love the parallels between iron lung and subnautica. Subnautica is filled with worst dangers but all of the equipment and vehicles you need to escape the hostile planet are at your disposal. However, you have an extremely dangerous disease that will kill you very soon if you don't find a cure so it's basically forcing you into these dangerous environments in search of it. Iron lung on the other hand is humanity on its last legs. Hope seems like a distant prospect, as you are inside of a rusty and cramped submarine that's obviously not meant for the task it was given. Your job is simple: take pictures and try to survive. However as we know your death was inevitable the second your submarine was lowered into the blood oceans. You have no equipment apart from a terminal and camera, given you are in a less dangerous environment. (Ironically) One is filled with hope, the other is deprived of it.

[@newyorkertx7024]

33:50 "Now for stars that are trillions of light years away, it would take hundreds of years for them to completely dissapear" wouldn't it take, ya know, trillions of years for them to dissapear? because light travels at the speed of light?

[@huldanoren951]

Just a little correction. Back in the middle ages, people didn't believe the earth was flat. It had already been proven that the earth was round all the way back in ancient Greece, if not earlier. Heck, the earth's circumference had even been calculated with impressive precision! The real reason basically no europeans (after the vikings) explored the Atlantic was because there simply was no reason to do so. They already had access to all the resources from the east they could wish for thanks to the silk road. It wasn't until the Ottomans took over Constantinople and blocked all trade that the portuguese and spanish tried to find new routes to asia.

[@IronSink]

Iron lung reminds me of how it used to mean 12-16yo smoking cigs at school with no visible health problems from it.

[@snr8yd1o]

Interesting fact: Space don't have an temperature. Temperature is a property of matter. But space is emty. How literally void can have temperature? The mid temperature of universe IS 2-3 K or -270 C. Not space.

[@LunasBiscuits]

My think hurts

[@Mikesstorygalleey]

It's not pixelated, it's more akin to a quake mod

[@rivetsquid8887]

Riiight? I heard him say that and felt like a dinosaur. These were pretty good textures in that era... Actually Iron Lung does kind of make me feel like Unreal did as a kid, a prisoner on an alien world, empty except for structures and machines that mean nothing to you, nature, hostile creatures.

[@prince_of_cats]

Lmao watching this after the Titan submersible's wreckage was discovered hits different

[@agentemiojo4796]

yea

[@thelion2751]

1:15 haunting grounds is still sometimes the thing that most disgust me,is so real so aghh i couldn't even finish the game when i was 12 because of how i feel playing that and years later it was the same I couldn't completed the game because of how much of the theme the game is base i know now

[@gAnims1-archive]

0:50 what do you mean everyone knows this game is absolutely terrifying

[@L1nkware]

I was looking for a video about lore/gameplay before watching a playthru after seeing marks vid and ur video makes me very excited for it

[@lau_taro0037]

A theory I think doesn't have much value would be that all inhabitable worlds disappeared the moment, the instant people in the starts stopped for a small instance of time looking at them, and as such, every inhabitable planet, as it wasn't witnessed by any conscious being, vanished

[@BasementDweller_]

This video is very groovy.

[@insomniacloserxo]

Out of all the descriptions people called this video, groovy is definitely the most unique one, thank you!

[@LunasBiscuits]

@@insomniacloserxoI mean, they’re right.

[@ForgedinPrint]

I always find indirect horror is much more effective for a few reasons. 1: once you know the beast (if the beast directly attacks you for example, or is a blood storm that hounds the mc) you can start to understand the beast, which means methods of dealing with it 2: The more indirect approach allows the player to come up with what is in that scenario more than a more direct approach, and that horror of course is more personal. 3: The the more indirect approach, even if you deal with the initial threat, it's not entirely clear that ALL threats had been dealt with. Done right indirect horror is so much more effective but it is very, very difficult to actually pull off.

[@hkayakh]

33:51 while you’re probably just using trillion for a big number, if a star was a trillion light years away, it would take a trillion years for its light to reach us

[@CarlosSilva-bh4bi]

wait a moment, when you get jumpscared it is because you stop moving, I think you are supposed to get to the final cordinates by then

[@Sithari_XAOS]

2:45 The "Only 10% of the ocean has been explored" bit is constantly misused. We know what the ocean is like. On continental shelves, the shallow bits of the ocean on continental plates before the drop off to the ocean plates, is where 90%+ of ocean life is. This is where the majority of photosynthesizing life in the ocean also is, because its shallow enough to let light in. The bottom of the ocean is akin to a desert. There's no plants at the bottom of the ocean, no corals, no massive schools of fish. The only food comes from "marine snow", decaying matter particles that fall from where the food actually is at the surface. You could spend hours, days even, and see 1 giant isopod or crab in that whole time because other than creatures with an insanely low metabolism who can go for months without food nothing else can survive there with the scarcity of resources. You also said "only 10% of the ocean's depths have been explored, so we don't know whats at the bottom". This is just blatantly wrong. We've seen the bottom of oceans, we've seen the bottom of the Mariana's Trench. Sure, we don't have every inch mapped. Sure, we don't have every species catalogued. But it's not the massive mystery everyone makes it out to be.

[@anoblebender]

I really like this form of video you go in depth and a great job at explaining things keep up the great work

[@LunasBiscuits]

This game doesn’t rely on cheap jumpscares- it spends the entire hour building up to that one major scare. The feelings of dread and fear of the unknown during the game are horrifyingly top-notch. That is not a cheap jumpscare. That is an expensive jumpscare. :)

[@akshatpratapsingh1160]

Subnotica as confirmed by its devs in multiple interviews isn't a horror game it is similar to Iron lung as its also a terror based game

[@MouldedMind]

That's not how this works, games are horror games based on their contend not what what the developers say.

[@omn1cr0ngaming66]

30:50 they didn’t actually think earth was flat back then, in fact people had known it was round for centuries at that point

[@kingofbirds]

i always thought there were multiple creatures, i was more confused when i started seeing video essays on the game and people addressed it as a single creature

[@GTvsForza]

This game is basically an SCP-354 simulation

[@snowikitt1558]

Is it still too early to make a submersible joke about Iron Lung?

[@wiktorgezorzek4670]

What if? The blood oceans are portals for when a Universe starts collapsing That would explain why there was A FRICKIN DRAGON UNDERWATWR and why it CHanged into fesh BIG FESH maybe we got teleported to another Universe with a blood ocean

[@ienjoyoranges]

well thats horror as a verb or whatever. such as: "it filled me with such horror that..."

[@asteroidrules]

I'm unaware of the Soviets forcibly drowning people, but the concept of executing POWs en mass, and disguising executions, are both very common in Soviet history. A common form of punishment for dissidents in the Soviet era was the gulag, a system of forced labor camps, this system actually still exists in China to this day where it's known as Laogai and prisoners are explicitly expected to not survive. In these camps the euphemistic description given to the public was that convicts would be "reformed through labor" typically performing hard labor that benefitted the government. Depending on just what someone had done and where they were sent to, this can be thought of either as a form of torture or an execution.

[@Exile_Sky]

"Uneventful" meanwhile the spacial distortion in the corner warping reality.

[@Lockz1111]

Correction with one aspect of your conspiracy theory, which is ironic in hindsight. People have known the earth wasnt flat since around 500 BC, nearly 1000 years before the America's were officially "discovered" (In quotes because there were people there long before Columbus) for the most part though they didn't know or believe there was anything of much importance on the other side of the ocean and it was a costly and dangerous endeavor to make it across the ocean to potentially find other landmasses so no one really bothered.

[@Qoulaxit]

I do not have fear of the ocean, but I do fear death even if it just a game

[@zhnigo]

cold takes and factual errors: the video