Lobotomy Corporation Review | Peak Insanity Edition

If you're looking for a maddening experience then you've come to the right place. Lobotomy Corporation is a grueling war of attrition against your sanity as you manage an increasing horde of abnormalities of various lethality and functions. It doesn't help that each abnormality has unique maintenance requirements that adds to the convolution! Survive 50 days in a corporation of dubious ethics and provide power to the denizens above. Uncover secrets that are sure to ruin your day and let your mind meld into a cacophony of death!!!

[@Ehksoduss]

I love how every time a small KZbinr uploads a LC review, the entirety of the Project Moon Fanbase is immediately summoned

[@hollowhusk5166]

That's because we are legion

[@aki7246]

W

[@WakkaMadeInYevon]

Even should the day come when Lobotomy Corp is a household name, I will still gasp whenever someone mentions my niche little suffering simulator.

[@panzerldr5724]

We arrive to celebrate the initiation of a new cult member

[@Pandoruu]

We are starved for content

[@Fireball7428]

For such cute artstyle the lore isn't even dark, it's freaking grim.

[@Karak-_-]

There is a lore reason for that cutesy artstyle. It's a filter that make's things more bearable for managers. There are moments when it crashes.

[@forgetfullsanity]

​@@Karak-_-day 20 is when it failed but only like briefly but i would 100% smash angela with or without the filter

[@thefumyandthechev]

@@Karak-_- And then you look at cencored. Though, there is a funny comment at one video that says the Angela will distract you in a way when it breaks

[@bobhill-ol7wp]

meh, it's run of the mill horror at this point

[@krzystajer5485]

...im afraid to ask random guy from a year ago but whats the lore?

[@draaxus2969]

SPOILERS FOR DAY 21 ONWARDS I like how for as traumatic as the Asiyah Sephirahs backstories are, their mental breakdown on company time boils down to the most passive aggressive shit like Yesod fucking with the cameras. That's it. Dude got PTSD that makes him incessantly scratch at himself, and his revenge is fucking with the wifi. And then Gebura said fuck it, we ball

[@edgufibot8669]

You deal with traumatised man children and then deal with the manager of violence, who is literally called the red mist

[@Fireball7428]

And then you get to Atziluth, where we have Binah, the one to actually defeat Red Mist. Oof.

[@Mehfia]

​​@@Fireball7428 *Weakened Red Mist who still beat her

[@anothenblue2630]

@@Mehfia no, she beat the real deal back when both were alive (she just got too verbose and got killed as well, she otherwise wasn't bothered at all), then her stronger robot version while being weakened herself.

[@anothenblue2630]

Hod is way harder than Gebura though. What a big surprise that lowering stats in a game where high stats are necessary is such a huge hurdle.

[@sadyeeter4829]

Zayin: It's fine just don't touch it Teth: No My dog doesn't Bite He: Uhh it escaped but i do have a response team on my way Waw: Okay we may have a problem Aleph: *Restart Day*

[@LarryH4879]

First run got me to day 39 when I got double teamed by the Queen of Hatred and Big Bird (with his extended family). Second run, I picked up the Plague Doctor on day 11, and he immediately recruited 6 apostles. I can see it will not end well. He's up to 8 apostles now. Haven't played it to the end (yet), but get the impression the world is dead but Lobotomy Corporation continues to lurch on by auto pilot.

[@josephespiritu1255]

Sometimes KZbin throws you a gold nugget of content every once-in-awhile, but today it brought me to a gold mine. Liked and subbed, keep it up!

[@ratenthusiast4000]

Man it is always such a treat to see this game get recommended and expand. I LOVE the universe Project Moon has developed. Definitely check out Library of Ruina to anyone who completes Lobotomy Corp and wants more of the verse. After the huge time sink it takes to complete L Corp, I'm sure you'll be invested lmao

[@suspiciouslurker3826]

Insanity at its finest

[@vyckygy6626]

The editing is so good! Thank you for the review.

[@crazyknight5474]

Every player after the Lobotomy: 🤭

[@NattyNuke]

Within my second week I was having constant meltdowns that I had no idea how to manage, usually resulting in a daily wipe of my entire informations department. Really fun game!

[@alyssafayenacional3545]

That's my babe! That's my babe! 🤘🤘

[@somethinginventive153]

Do NOT fuck with skullbro, he is a bro too everyone.

[@shirleyjenlion187]

Don't listen to everyone Yesod is the best anime wife not Hod

[@TomimokaDiyuu]

Me after the lobotomy

[@thekingofravens4322]

450 subs, 30k veiws,

[@RicardoMenson]

Of course. CaPiTaLiSm. It strikes again. if only we could all live in north korea where there's no pesky capitalism, i bet it's heaven on earth!

[@lunarkomet]

WILL

[@gabrielultrakillreal]

No way, it's literally Item Asylum

[@narkle9723]

The way they got so many employees to join lobotomy corp is by offering free dental... Thankfully for the corp they nearly never have to deliver on that promise because dental isn't all that effective when given to a pink gooey slime thing.

[@retrokon]

Is this canon??? How did I miss it!!!!!!! Damn, I'll join any company if it offered me free dental!

[@pro_cap]

@@retrokon It's not, unfortunately. Hokma says, that they just hired random people with letters. Further explanations are spoilers. But i can tell, that in this world working for a Wing is God's blessing, and common people would kill for it.

[@LordDaret]

@@retrokon IDK IF THIS IS SPOILERS in terms of the outside world according to the intros of two other games in the same cannon universe (I have played through them all) the outside world is a bit of a dystopian nightmare, so you can imagine offering a well paying job at a high end laboratory would be incentive enough to keep receiving clerks and employees. Details of the hiring process is explained in Lobo Corp.

[@forgetfullsanity]

​@@LordDaretnot spoilers its actually just how the ruins work

[@runic3063]

At least we know the city is not in Britain

[@fluffy7358]

“The number of casualties over days without incident” You can’t divide by zero, though

[@kalimatronix]

*Laughs in being an expirienced player, reaching 0/48, then 5/1* (Clerks do not count as casualties, because they were terminated by the execution bullet)

[@LaurenceLestrange-bv5ts]

Gee, I wonder how you got such specific numbers there. (Also, I'd add another 12 due to a specific fetus).

[@Anty_Praza]

​@@kalimatronixI feel a weakness in you. Merely a child who needs execution bullets.

[@BuckBlaziken]

“Memorizing an entire encyclopedia of abnormalities.” It’s time for my ADHD brain to shine

[@Aceleo209]

All will succumb to THE BALD No seriously, this is a great vid! I'm never tired of Pmoon content and glad to see more coming

[@retrokon]

Thanks for the kindness! I'll look into LoR next perhaps. My brain might not be able to handle it however!

[@BongBong-Gaming]

Where is my hair

[@lovingmurclock6952]

For those who are going to play the game may the BongBong be with you

[@BongBong-Gaming]

I can confirm.

[@minib4762]

You also get a free lobotomy for playing

[@retrokon]

Wow! Free! Give me twenty please! 😆

[@the_fenix_3247]

It's a good day when someone new talks about a Project moon game

[@Crisjola]

I’m only saying this because my brain is _supremely_ dumb, but do you know long it took my both literally and mentally dyslexic butt to realize that Project Moon and Type Moon weren’t the same team?! I was _dreading_ the insanity of just wholesale _throwing_ Fate lore into this cluster of a reality as yet another reality split. I still pause when I see someone say Project Moon and panic just a little. (Debating picking up Library of Runia and LC even if LC isn’t normally my cup of tea game play wise, the lore sounds so amazing thanks to one existential crisis of a video on how the Warp Trains work in “Love Town.”)

[@the_fenix_3247]

@@Crisjola Don't worry, the game show awards guy is with you with calling it Project type moon (creators of Legend of Ruina) xD And we may get a fate / limbus company Collab in an indeterminate future...

[@Crisjola]

@@the_fenix_3247 wait, wait wait wait… REALLY????? … oh noooo. I do not even want to begin to think about how… oh no. I’m just imagining the King of Heroes, the World, the Throne, and etc, let alone the _moon_ merging into the world of Lobotomy Corp. Though maybe as a Lost Belt in GO? That wouldn’t do much justice, however. And Fate can spin off however it wants with its endless universes. Not to mention Servants are basically Eldritch Abominations anyway. And the Association could probably slide right in there, effortlessly. I was in the middle of writing a Fic/AU and suddenly realized that all the Mages’ Association was just… magical organized crime. And I think that might fit in really well, especially if, thanks to what I sort of know of the plot, (I can feel myself falling down a rabbit hole already and this is… not going to be pretty) there might be a chance that other places might have survived. If the Clock Tower aspect made it, or Chaldea did-since it exists outside of time-you could probably drag Chaldea into a Lobotomy Corp, Limbus Company, Fate mashup. Though, I personally, enjoy the concept of the HGWs as proxy wars, and not just how Grand Order is structured. Would be fun to watch Gilgamesh be a Eldritch abomination, though. Actually I think divorced from their Mage counterparts, and summoned into somewhere actively corrupting like LC (and what I’ve seen of Limbus) any servant just… _is_ an Eldritch Abomination. So I’m kinda glad to know that, so it doesn’t jumpscare me in the near-ish future. XD

[@brucehalden6148]

This game is great. Its actual lore that all of your employees get their paid leave after 2 months of working for the Corporation(Your nuggets will say this when idle), but none of them actually get it because the game ends in 50 days.

[@retrokon]

Lol that's hilarious! I didn't know that!

[@stardust9470]

And they may end up dying or becoming pink goo before that

[@aaamogusthespiderever2566]

10 days before pay 😔

[@commanderminh7402]

At glad you review Lobotomy Corporation because Project Moon are famous for *Making good and hard game* *A very dark and very good story* I hope that Project Moon will reach mainstream media.

[@retrokon]

Yes, I love the narrative, it's a complex and deep story with many twists and turns. If you like gritty dystopian hellscapes these guys are your guys.

[@plasmaguardian21]

Part of me does wish it was more mainstream but another part of me hopes it stays a bit obscure. Not because the games are bad or anything, they are fantastic. But because if they get mainstream, a bunch of clickbait KZbinrs will introduce it to little kids and you’ll get another cringe FNaF fan base around a gritty and dark game.

[@Kromergamer]

​@@plasmaguardian21 tbh I don't care if kids start playing the game, as long as PM starts getting the money they deserve it's ok, that also means new games and content for all Sadly I don't think big youtubers would play the game nowadays, most of them don't like to read, once they see how much they need to read to not die at day 3, they'll leave it. Only Jacksepticeye played long time ago, maybe we can try to tell him to play again

[@checkmoth6402]

Honestly I can't see this getting mainstream anytime soon, most people don't like games that are hard and take a lot of effort to finish. Now it could become popular purely through youtube and such, but I don't see most people wanting to watch hours of gameplay for a few bits of lore. However I do think it should be more widely known, I never heard of it untill recently, which is a shame, because this is exactly my type of game and I'm loving it so far.

[@Crisjola]

@@checkmoth6402I… legitimately think the popularity of FromSoft games (never mind Cup Head) disproves that “people don’t like hard games.” I don’t think there is even an argument to say “people don’t like hard, unfair games” (though less do). I think what gets Lobotomy Corp in trouble and has a barrier of entry is you have to like that particular style of game. I’m only seriously considering picking it up, because I really, _really_ want to know the lore/story behind all the different corps, how they got a hold in the City, how the world basically ended, and etc etc etc. But as a rule? I don’t like playing this kind of game. I’m not an Oxygen Not Included or Fallout Shelter fan. And the gameplay of Library of Runia is much more up my alley but I feel a bit weird not at least attempting the original first (unless they’ve written books, then I’d read them for the lore, but I believe the only “books,” or massive reading, is in game, which is fine). I completely understand why Lobotomy Corp is structured as it is, and why it’s built as resource management Eldritch horror capitalism “survival” game. That makes the most sense for the kind of thing LC is in universe, and it’s _the best_ way to get across what is going on via environmental story telling. So I probably will bite that bullet soon enough. I usually can only go so long with lore tempting me before I say “screw it” and decide to play through it myself. Unless there is a known issue of running into a broken mechanic/gameplay loop like the absurdity of needing to harvest and kill bargest in The Witcher (first one) to get the alchemical ingredient needed to both progress and also properly kill bargests and if you can’t, you will get soft locked. >.

[@darkindragon]

I spent 120 hours on this game and man its the definition of playing a game out of spite. But its so worth it for the sheer fact of how much of a banger Library of Ruina is, its genuinly becoming one of my favorite games ever, its a joy to play and see the story and hey you dont even need to finish lobotomy corp to understand it since they talk about the story in there too, although lobotomy corp is nice to play too, to see more of the characters and such.

[@retrokon]

Yes, after around 120 hours I also kept going because I didn't want to be bested. This is a very hard game under a rather simple foundation which is great!

[@darkindragon]

@@retrokon the game is a rts disguised as a monster management sim

[@anusaukko6792]

I believe playing Lobotomy Corporation is necessary to fully appreciate the story, but at minimum you should watch a video on youtube with all the story from Lob. People who start with just Ruina instead of Lob and have 0 info about anything will misunderstand important characters *cough* Ayin *cough*

[@foqthisshet]

I understand how listening to the same two tracks for several hours can become annoying, but damn those tracks are gold! They always give me this cozy familiar PTSD feeling. I finished the game and I still go back to the same two tracks whenever I feel like I need the adrenaline for my day or while working out.

[@checkmoth6402]

So I bought the game after watching this. I'm currently finishing the last few days of the middle layer and my last play session involved only one day, where I desperatly hunted Airune (or whatever is the name of that teleporting flower lama) 5 times in order to comlete the waw hunting mission and hoping neither parasite tree, nor army in black screw me over. So yeah, maybe I did lose my sanity, but it was completely worth it in the end. Edit: I can't belive how innocent I was, now that I supressed 5 sephirot at day 42 or so, I realise I had no clue what insanity was. Still worth it though ;)

[@retrokon]

One of us!

[@harmoniousdiscord7411]

The production quality and editing of your video does not deserve such low views and subs

[@retrokon]

Thanks for the kind words! They'll keep me going on my next project!

[@awkwurdtalke-gamesandgamer8236]

Yeah, I was utterly shocked to see the sub count.

[@blacklight683]

I thought i knew so much, This video showed me i was wrong considering i dont know 8/9of whatever you're talking about

[@GoodSmile3]

Fuсk yeah I love that Project Moon games become more and more popular! Now waiting for Library of Ruina and Limbus Company!

[@TeeQueueSA]

8:20 I would just like to point out that our Skelly Boi has been framed for this murder, it has done nothing wrong.

[@snas_creature]

I’d listen to 2nd warning whenever i get the opportunity to, even if it does mean having literally everyone die

[@DarkVeghetta]

Very well made review, especially given the sub count - quite reminiscent style-wise of Sseth and Mandalore. Should the uploads continue at regular intervals, the Holy Algorithm will surly bless this channel one day.

[@hastur2905]

Great review man, way better than the most famous one. Love how you added some "spoilers" that only those who know will understand

[@Argenomius]

We do not talk about Hod suppression

[@artsyvids2563]

Is it weird even though i got to 26 while S ranking each day I just kind of stopped for now mentally drained? I guess even if managers were like me and perfect, they'd still eventually get tired and then.... replaced.

[@Syapaaye]

1:30 what do you mean we have Enoch and Lisa well, had

[@CesarTheWelfareCaptain]

Queenie my beloved

[@ilovemywhiteshoes]

censored no longer scares me

[@godoflag3289]

I got the game after watching this and my god I feel like I was being thrown into the pits of hell burning alive whilst being eaten away 10/10 would do again

[@wingdingfontbro]

700 hours of lob Corp was so worth it

[@Morty143]

Yes yes yes a small youtuber making videos about obscure games while making degenerate jokes is always a treat for me Good job

[@neptunia_counseling8419]

Its called Lobotomy Corp for a reason

[@baconatortapeworm]

Yea the name of E.G.O name makes no sense lol

[@Curseofculture]

7:55 hokma vibe check

[@Gurnium]

Bring the project moon legion

[@spazzmaticus7784]

exceptional quality video sseth-cells seething and coping

[@lovisericachii4503]

lcorp i.e. my life in shambles

[@stuckerfan2563]

I also love the story of this game

[@anonymousfox4620]

13:03 I see that the Viper has yet to learn what a JPEG is...again

[@angryfishmutant66]

im here to give you ptsd.

[@Crisjola]

Ohhhh dear. This video is going to convince me to buy it. I wonder how mad I’ll go if I buy both this _and_ Sunless Sea? (Already playing Fallen London, and am actively stopping myself from going down the insanity route of Seeking Mister Eaten’s Name. I am a lore hound. None of these are good for me long term. >.

[@olivebun6536]

Heheheh, birds go brrrrrrr

[@LimitPro1]

Now that I look at this video, and playing Limbus Company, these facilities are huge.

[@MarshmallowRadiation]

lobotomy corporation ost

[@lilalk2003]

Thanks for Lobotomy!

[@emilianoizanagi2245]

I’m losing my mind just by hearing the name. Mission accomplished i guess.

[@kopan77]

EYYYYY ANOTHER VID THAT BLEW UP!!!! Congrats bro!

[@PinkOrangeOrangePink]

The beysment

[@hindoto5691]

The most insane part of the lore is the fact that cannonicly it took 1 million years

[@WendigoRin]

I just save scummed to win.

[@nickbooze9766]

Hell yeah dude.

[@Q-Hatred]

Haha, arcana slave goes brrrrr :)

[@Gustav_Kuriga]

Insanity is giving the same wrong definition over and over again, expecting it to be correct.

[@chucklebutt4470]

is dis discount Sseth? Still enjoyed the video but the cadence of speech is uncanny lol.