Surviving The Abyss - Deep Trouble

[@QTeaFunny]

I love that, the whole reason you are underwater is the public outrage about inhumanity of cloning people, that live only a few weeks, so you try your best to perfect the technology in secret with this huge base... and then Gerard just does it within like first week of the experiment.

[@nobodyspecial7895]

Gerard is dead. Long live Gerard.

[@SpoopySquid]

Horatio approves

[@MadTurnip]

Oh my god, Jon deals with alarms exactly like Wheatley from Portal 2. By yelling at them and punching the light until it goes out.

[@antisocial-gamer7293]

This further proves my theory that Jon is indeed Wheatley

[@peterclarke7240]

Isn't that how you're supposed to deal with alarms? 🤔

[@Mirality]

That's how you deal with fusion alarms in persona 5 as well.

[@Techstriker1]

"The clones personality was entirely erased, he is a blank slate." He was alive for like 24 hours, how much of a change could that have been?!

[@the_Book_778]

Love that edit to the trailer, it gave me a good laugh.

[@VAULT-TEC_INC.]

The darkness, red lights and alarms… really does have the ability to put you in a panic state that a daytime above ground builder can’t really do.

[@PoisonInc]

So it's Frostpunk meets Subnautica? And fish-people?! Okay, I might have to give this a go.

[@tank2045]

"Everyone's always in favor of saving Hitler's brain, but when you put it in the body of a great white shark, oooh, suddenly you've gone too far." -- Professor Hubert Farnsworth, Futurama

[@lukeskymaster]

I was jokingly calling this rapture at first, but after i heard evil scientist, apparently it just straight up just rapture

[@mothfoot571]

I would definitely love to see Jon play more of this. It went exactly as well as I expected!

[@antisocialjusticecourier9156]

Jon, The Darkness believes in a thing called love, so no, it won't leave you alone.

[@Wrecker014]

Finally, a true sequel to Deep Sea Tycoon.

[@captainscience2732]

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time...

[@Pyro627]

Oh maaaaan. I thought I was the only one who remember that game...

[@heartbeatcity23]

Frostpunk surely Call it hydropunk

[@captainscience2732]

@@Pyro627 I had it as part of a 4-pack of tycoon games, was my least favorite of the bunch tbh. But wild to see people remember it.

[@BS-nw1qr]

Jon: "We're under the sea. Like, *really* under the sea. Down where..." My brain: "Down where it's wetter?" Jon: "... it is dark." Me: "God damn it, Jon, you had one job!"

[@starvr]

Damn it! You got that song from the Little Mermaid running through my head now. LOL

[@rhysnoble3128]

I wa looking for this comment

[@FailcopterWes]

Jon's description of the backstory makes this sounds like a Bioshock AU fanfic. Then he went and called it Rapture directly. That's not a complaint, this looks really interesting.

[@starvr]

Yes, it's definitely Bioshock from a different perspective.

[@thereforedragons]

It turns out Vitamin D Deficiency was the true eldritch horror all along. XD

[@snazzyfeathers]

Matt: *works in a power plant for a living* Jon: "Alright Matt, you've been promoted! Go ahead and hop in this submarine by yourself that you barely know how to pilot and head off into the deep darkness!"

[@connosaurus]

14:20 It took less than 15 minutes for Jon to go full on Blade Runner villain.

[@seanmcloughlin5983]

The cloning humans from marine DNA is fun. But inviting people to live in your ocean city also sounds fun. I want a game that lets you be Andrew Ryan and build a diverse libertarian utopia away from the THE PARASITE Edit: also it would be a great twist if it turned out it was all a trap, and that the military guys who started the program were actually cultists who wanted to create an army of sea people to help Cthulu conquer the world.

[@xSaintAngelusx]

Hybrid fish man? Ocean abyss? Don't let the lights go out? Military black site? Oh, yeah, I can already tell you where this is going. This game is going to end in being The Rizen (great movie btw) just with clones not psychic powers.

[@campbellenious9163]

Oh I'm early for once. Been watching you for several years now Jon. You and Claire are a fantastic duo. Thank you for all the entertainment through the years.

[@clockworkgiant9070]

Would love a series on this from you. Preferably where it takes more than a day for everything to implode

[@alexanderhammil6754]

ah, yes, naturally occurring concrete deposits

[@MakunaRGBIC]

Anytime anyone is breading humans with anything it's all about creating a Super Solders!

[@lucasteles3574]

1:05 "I'm just going to leave the darkness alone and the darkness is hopefully going to leave me alone right back" Game has "abyss" on its name. I see what you did there, Jon.

[@colmcorbec7031]

Reminds me of Frostpunk somehow. And I like it.

[@kingcynic5669]

You beat me to it. Is it the same developer?

[@colmcorbec7031]

@@kingcynic5669 it's not. This one is rocket flair studios / paradox and Frostpunk is 11 bit studios.

[@problempal5395]

It seems like the light acts pretty similar to the heat, from my limited understanding of the games

[@Xecryo]

I feel like you tried to expand too fast too quickly and tried to build the top of the tower before the foundation. Food and water always come first and you need power for both of those. Then housing to get new people in. Then clone workers to work in other sectors. It seems like after you got cloning up and running you didn't account for or put off things like increased power/oxygen/food use and it spiraled from there.

[@fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Aside from the risk of aqueous grues I'm getting some heavy frostpunk vibes.

[@TimTeboner]

The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very very brightly, Gerard.

[@mtwerner2112]

Yes, if you were to, yes, take a shot every time, yes, Jon says yes, "yes," you'd, yes, be dead before, yes, the video ended. Still love these.

[@peterclarke7240]

Yes. *drops dead as liver explodes*

[@PerfectTangent]

In fairness, you don't KNOW that the Cthulhu Mythos isn't a metaphor for vitamin D deficiency.

[@problempal5395]

I keep thinking this is a surviving mars sequel based on the name alone

[@LunaryonSunborn]

Pretty sure it's the same developers

[@gregconen]

@@LunaryonSunborn Surviving Mars, Surviving the Aftermath, and now Surviving the Abyss are all by the same publisher but different developers. I assume some degree of inspiration/continuity is intended, though.

[@laxmastiffgaming6351]

I miss how you used to have one or two long-form series and the rest of the week was dedicated to mini-series. With these one-offs I always end up wanting more. The livestreams are based on a vote, meaning that it's unlikely many of the games get time. I miss the little short dives.

[@Biscotum]

It's a consequence of doing this kind of thing full time. The channel money-makers are usually things like Fallout, Total War, big RPGs and such. Compare their viewcounts to the city-builders, the random one-offs, et cetera, and they just can't compete. And since the viewcount on Part 2 and 3 always drops off, a one-off can only realistically become a miniseries if it performs on the order of a Fallout video, otherwise the inevitable low viewcount will genuinely hurt the channel. For all his little quirks and such, Jon does have a long career in marketing and seems to know how this kind of thing works, for better or for worse. It's a shame, but blame KZbin, not Jon.

[@leolion960]

This trailer cut in with vit.D - awesome!

[@bombadilo4276]

For me, this has huge Frostpunk vibes. The central "pillar" of your settlement, the (light) radius around it that makes things work, ressources scattered around it...

[@JeffKelly03]

I was just thinking yesterday how much I want Jon to get back to Subnautica. This just makes me hope for it even more.

[@fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

The Subnautica 2.0 patch just dropped recently; hopefully that might tempt him. I haven't had a chance to prod it yet but I understand that it's a mixture of technical improvements and some backports of some base bits from Subzero. Looks pretty neat.

[@enclave6982]

@@fuzzyfuzzyfungus I'm playing it right now it's good

[@Deamon93IT]

As a Star Wars fan I can imagine Kaminoans working there, as they weren't exactly fussed by morality as we understand it

[@lmno567]

16:50 congratulations, you survived the process and are getting a promotion.

[@fallouthirteen]

Oh, the Surviving Mars developers are doing another game? Man, I really liked Surviving Mars. Oh, also is reminiscent of Frostpunk, which is also a great game.

[@ssrrrbiiijaaaa]

Maybe they wanted to create mermaids. I'm just not sure what half was top and what bottom

[@Rateus_Johanson]

I saw an ad for this and thought it looked right up Jon's street. Be interesting to see how it measures up (and how quickly it ends up in my Steam library...)

[@MusicVideoTrioS1]

A city builder that says maybe it isn't better down where it's wetter

[@hardticket123]

Bioshock Base Builder. I like the alliteration. This legit sounds like a Bioshock prequel.

[@Worgrunner]

I like how the first 15 minutes of the game could literally be made into a movie. With this flawed clone of a scientist in a panicked rush to cure himself of his deformities before he dies, deep beneath the sea.

[@wolfqueen137]

I was just waiting for the inevitable fall of this city and as usual Jon did not disappoint XD livestream??

[@NewLegacy93]

This game seems a lot like frostpunk except... yeah no, this is underwater frostpunk and I'm here for it.

[@kareningram6093]

I'm sad that Jon died before we got the spider crab soldiers, but what can you do.

[@VATROU]

I think there should be a Dock in the tech tree which means you just need subs to transport people long distances for jobs. It does mean that you'll probably need local power and oxygen but it would cut down on excess powerlines and light towers just to reach an area.

[@fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

There was a mention of number of oxygen grids and number of power grids in the UI for oxygen and power(both were 1 in this case; but you'd not have a field for that unless it could be something else); so it appears that there is some mechanism for creating non-linked habitat areas.

[@TheNzFox]

@@fuzzyfuzzyfungus you send a scouting team out to a location and their use a at flare it, you can then build there for the next 3 days. There is a stand alone building that gives a little power and oxygen which is really good to set up for mines

[@kylelewis4685]

So your basically creating Deep Ones.... Father Dagon would be proud of his children.

[@sergeymelkumov9232]

I think this game was made by my mother. She always complaints I don´t get enough vitamine D.

[@AgentofChaos315]

If you're interested in any games that came out last year, Chained Echoes, an indie RPG in the style of Chrono Trigger (or so I've been told, haven't actually played Chrono Trigger) came out back in December, I'm enjoying so far and I think you might too

[@almightyk11]

I would like to see a take 2 of this game

[@randomsandwichian]

This is just like Banished, but Cthulhu decided to welcome you to the neighborhood. Edit: By 25+ minutes, most people would have built more light and energy buildings at this point.

[@jaywerner8415]

Oh god i remember those trailers. Also illegal human cloning, im sure that might have something to do with "do not turn off the lights".

[@comyuse9103]

the game is really good, but i will say it feels a bit too tight. like, there is a very specific way you are expected to do things to not run out of resources before you can actually set yourself up. although your mistake was expanding without thinking about power usage.

[@MrOneWolfe]

Having very strong Frostpunk vibes at the start of the video

[@robyntimmons839]

Your videos are always a highlight to my bedtime routine!

[@Miedeth1]

This looks like a fun game, I'll have to give it a try thanks for showing it to us.

[@Howie2810]

This was great, hopefully get to see it again on the channel!! 🙏😁

[@TheFerry7791]

“Let’s just dive in”…. Ha!

[@thetruecrystalvixen]

Maybe that is why Cthulu is angry, not enough vitamin D.

[@remimaloney2028]

A city under water of fish people?! Are you just creating the underwater civilisation that is partnered with Innsmouth?!?

[@jonsmith5058]

So Frostpunk meets Surviving Mars. I’m sold 5 minutes in, I want to purchase.

[@Ancusohm]

Ooh, I finally get to fulfill my dream of building my own rapture!

[@becausereasons8507]

This is Frostpunk levels of interesting.

[@seancarroll9849]

Never expand rapidly in the early stages of anything that purports itself to be a bit hardcore. This game would qualify on general theme alone.

[@juliajs1752]

Someone played Frostpunk and thought "That can be harder!"

[@Puremindgames]

Humans: can't breath under water, need sunlight, etc Also Humans: Lets live under water.

[@neverleftpallettown]

This game looks fun lol

[@omegatheta1701]

oh god, your going to make the innsmouth people nooooooo

[@swimmingcat1275]

I like te Abyss.

[@Zargkhon]

Where do People come from? From the Mermaids of course! John really droped the Ball on that one :D

[@alexisauld7781]

"Matt didn't mess everything up." ...Matt is sus

[@sweepingtime]

You're in deep trouble mister! - clare to MATN

[@tylerufen]

"the fussy plebs"-i know, right..? humans are the worst...

[@XMarkxyz]

Oh man, this is going to be interesting, also welcome to Rapture

[@spencermarchant9098]

John Dory is the fish that Jesus fed the 5,000 with, there’s to spots one on each side said to be his fingerprints, haddock is the fish the devil tempted Jesus with in the dessert- has one spot on it.

[@dinosdaniel3508]

Feels like underwater Frostpunk

[@leanderdegoede5598]

Frostpunk, is that you?

[@timothy8428]

Oooo! Evil science. Excellent, excellent.

[@nicewithacupoftea]

A very odd looking sequel to Frost Punk

[@megamihestia4049]

So it’s basically Frostpunk but instead of heating you provid lighting.

[@samspielmann7704]

Wow I love frostpunk, I mean water punk

[@gamecube80]

This game gave me very heavy frostpunk vibes.

[@BigShmilkies]

This is kind of random. I perused through your Playlists and didn't see a Bloodborne playthrough anywhere. I know you really loved Elden Ring and of course its a little dated but it's well worth playing! It's one of my favorite games all time and the story is fantastic. I was late to the party on souls game so this was my introduction to them, needless to say I was hooked right away lol

[@TigerXGame]

There was definitely something swimming in the darkness that got Matt. Pretty sure vitamin D deficiency is the least of your problems in the dark. At least I hope so or they really overhyped that trailer.

[@jamesmaclennan4525]

Oh a game about creating Artificial Deep Ones..as if the real thing wasn't bad enough.

[@spooky_basil202]

John Dorys are delicious so if it goes wrong you can always eat your clones 👍

[@ninstar8165]

Something fishy going on...

[@TigerXGame]

So the story is BioShock and the gameplay is Frostpunk, got it.

[@quintonconrad5745]

Is it just me or is this under water frost punk

[@athuik]

Radar Use radio wave and the fact that they reflect of certain things, sonar uses sound. and ping for things that can't be seen, and since sound travel faster the more dense a medium is well... sorry .... it was stronger than me ...

[@Endlessly_Nameless]

Yes! I hoped this was incomming

[@iaminhere6022]

Ngl vitamin D deficiency is was scaryer. At least I understand a Eldredge horror, but what the fuck is a vitamin?!

[@brianp3570]

Long live Gerard

[@Ikcatcher]

Vitamin D deficiency is a very scary issue

[@darthbader6506]

From today I shall mostly be identifying as a fussy pleb

[@spooky_basil202]

Reminds me of Frostpunk

[@johnmartinez7440]

Now you need to play Subnautica 2, please.

[@ethanwilson1001]

Oh so the grues can scuba dive now, and Jon is going to overreact; how is this news?

[@soulsearcher9620]

this game is scruffy, but has potential. once they fix the bugs.

[@jeffr5221]

Ooo it's rapture