PYLONS - A Freaky MS-DOS Styled Pylon Safety PSA Horror Game That Teaches You The Dangers of Pylons!

[@teebowahgames]

Thanks for playing through our game ABG! We really appreciate you taking the time to educate everyone on the dangers of PYLONS.

[@AlphaBetaGamer]

Haha, you're welcome! It's a fantastic game. Glad to do my part helping spread highlight of the importance of PYLON safety. They're the number 3 cause of death in my local town (just behind littering and smoking at gas stations) They really are a menace! :)

[@GregoryTheGr8ster]

Thou hast captured the minimalist beauty of MS-DOS EGA era games so well. I can feel the poetry! Be sure to see "The Wind".

[@teebowahgames]

I think we have the premise for our next two games now hahaha. Be careful around those gas stations Bobbert!!

[@GregoryTheGr8ster]

Also, thank you for reminding me of how underground cables are well worth the extra expense to install and maintain. It's utterly appalling that in our advanced society, we still allow PYLONS and other exposed electrical infrastructure to exist. We might as well be using lead pipes!

[@nome9752]

@@GregoryTheGr8ster this game also captures the danger of pylons

[@AlphaBetaGamer]

Just a heads-up. KZbin seems to be deleting perfectly good comments for some reason. Not sure why and they aren't showing up in my spam folder. So if your comment disappears feel free to write it in again. The only comments I ever delete are from the bots that link to spam websites.

[@GrandHighGamer]

big pylon won't silence us!

[@Piratefoxyfox]

I really didn't expected the jumpscares

[@fashbasher2120]

@@mmmayocide KZbin's comment sweepers are AI that are known to accidentally delete comments even if they aren't spam or hate content. This is because AI are unable to fully grasp the nuance of human language and so are given general guidelines as to what is to be considered spam. It isn't because of some secret plot against you. Although if *your* comments are being deleted then it's probably because you're an openly racist trash-person.

[@tribemaster101]

@@fashbasher2120 found the chew

[@rainmannimets4787]

so evil youtube delete bad ( good) swear comments? sound like oppresive capitalism! long live revolution!

[@xtrafries123]

"Ok, Pylons are dangerous, I get your point, so now-" This game: *"But I'm not done yet!"*

[@stalkerrandom8513]

*Noo*

[@tihoprskalo7719]

*Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan*

[@demetriajones3231]

"But wait, there's more!"

[@michaelmaniachanical7918]

"Safety PSA Horror Game" is DEFINITELY a genre I can get behind.

[@sheridannagley7257]

We need way more games like that

[@nottelling8129]

@@sheridannagley7257 One should be based around Trains.

[@thesfsguy6248]

@@nottelling8129 *dumb ways to die plays in the background*

[@demetriajones3231]

@@thesfsguy6248 it could've been if it chose to do se

[@zedc6072]

This is a pretty creepy game, but I think we can all be grateful that pylons aren't real.

[@alexk8792]

Or rather the imitators aren't real

[@collinrogers4742]

boy do i have news for you...

[@pktrainerpk5supersus459]

they are real fool beware

[@caz8135]

Sike

[@gonnacry442]

Yeah pylons ain't real! They're just a hoax to make the government control us easily! 😤😤😤

[@chengyiq3066]

Once I have children of my own, I'll let them play this game to learn the d̶a̶n̶g̶e̶r̶ wonders of pylons

[@markcullimore1]

Found the Pylon Cultist.

[@toothpasteman3400]

@@markcullimore1 hey man pylons are cool

[@epochii2756]

@@markcullimore1 what do you mean cultists? Pylons are the one true lord

[@nebulisnoobis102]

@@epochii2756 the moon lord

[@AleZ-zn9ui]

The bible doesnt says that

[@IvailoStoychev]

0:10 The pylons are pretty much normal, although somewhat menacing 3:25 The pylons have moved closer to the proximity of the house 7:15 A third pylon comes from somewhere, and they are now surrounding the house

[@elgatochurro]

Never noticed, ty

[@thenotsoamazinggracetnsag3463]

You got good eyes!

[@ianfinrir8724]

Uh oh

[@MarcoAntonioColioGallardo]

*Details*

[@agenteckswhy4169]

At first I was unsure about a game about pylons. But now you've convinced me. Pylons can be dangerous, but they're incredibly helpful! They provide energy. They keep us safe. They are our gods. Worship the pylons. They're coming for us all.

[@xxunpure-vesselxx3817]

Worship the pylons,sibling.

[@jasonquiver6907]

@@xxunpure-vesselxx3817 Tell me where the nearest volcano is

[@ships437]

THE POWERLINE GODS ARE POWERFULLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Vladi306]

I had an irrational fear of sentient pylons as a kid. Walking around and whatnot. Although this is well beyond anything I imagined. Pretty original and creative!

[@TheHipHopCat]

Sentient pylons sound terrifying for some reason.

[@squidcultist0022]

"irrational" Who's gonna tell him

[@astroboots3189]

I was scared of pylons too and also windmills

[@Tsathoggua616]

I was afraid of dredges.

[@rand_yt_acc]

Entity 1001 of the backrooms

[@dvdbox360]

If you see a pylon like this run and tell an adult *quickly go home for dinner without telling anyone*

[@markdaniel9657]

Fun fact: In Hungary, some pylons are shaped like clowns

[@drowned309]

Okay, but how exactly?

[@visionofsolace8961]

I am so confused, but, interested

[@ianfinrir8724]

Explain

[@markdaniel9657]

For those asking: They make the upper half of the pylon look like a simplistic clown (4th time commenting this, because it wouldn't show up :/)

[@-0rbital-]

Oh fuck that!

[@partyboi9082]

i love these ms dos style games! its all the "unintentionally scary graphical limitations used to purposefully scary effect" of the playstation style games but in 2d :) it really lets you focus on the art even moreso than the gameplay. im somebody who plays games like these for the narratives and cutscenes so thats my jam :D

[@TheCivildecay]

I grew up with obscure DOS games, and I really like these new DOS inspired indies.

[@rotisseriepossum]

there’s smth so unsettling abt the black void

[@ships437]

Does this game have jumpscares?

[@vaporatorthemoist5715]

The "I don't want to bury any more children" hits hard

[@andrewrainey4192]

I mean to be fair, his parents did move into a house within a few feet of pylon so they were kinda asking for it.

[@PuissantAlgernon]

I feel like this game is a reference to the unnecessarily frightening videos a lot of people were traumatised by at school. I don't know how it is in the other countries, but almost everyone in the UK under the age of 35 has horrible memories from Social Education videos on either: - Pylons / Sub-stations - Alcohol - Solvent abuse - Fires - Heroin

[@vadimsharanda1052]

Duh, you can _never_ traumatize schoolkids enough.

[@prisuners6275]

Sometimes, terror is the best deterrent against violators.

[@PuissantAlgernon]

@@prisuners6275 My experience was that the videos terrified the wits out of all the kids who were too sensible to do it in the first place (and often made them temporarily phobic of, say, the smell of strong glue or their mum having a glass of wine with dinner) and all the kids who were at risk didn't pay attention or just found it funny.

[@0_dearghealach_083]

Don't forget safety PSAs about farmland and stuff. Remember Apaches?

[@ralpbeez8414]

To this day this game makes me think. *Why* is letting the Pylon Man capture you/failure not an option? Is it that you are meant for the Mettel Mother herself, and the Man & Hermit are unworthy? The newspaper implies the mayor is either oblivious or in on the pylon cult.

[@mistertililing5933]

Damn, is this Super Fly Requiem?!

[@imcowboy420]

Was thinking the same thing!

[@jacextreme6432]

Dammit you’re right

[@ErectCock]

Now the super fly can walk

[@user-yd1kd5le4e]

Oh no, is that a JoJo reference ?! :0

[@seraphimzero6612]

finally, another JoJo fan

[@seriousnorbo3838]

Kid's logic: I woke up in the middle of the night and can't find my parents, i think i'll go to a creepy forest where people make human sacrifices for pylons.

[@Ksussybaka]

honestly if i noticed my parents are missing i'd go check too

[@RainyWRLD.]

@@KsussybakaWild 💀

[@DeoMachina]

When I was a boy a police officer took my class to a local substation where you could see various items like balls and bags strewn around And he asked us who could count them all first, any child that pointed to an object but let their hand go beyond the fence was suddenly scared shitless when he let off a capgun near their ear What I'm trying to say is British people have an instinctive fear of pylons and associated infrastructure that is drilled into them at an early age

[@ianfinrir8724]

We always had a guy from the nearby power company come out to teach us the dangers of electricity and specifically power lines. He even brought a small model with working power lines along with him

[@nuggman4896]

man, as some one who loves both early video game graphics and British PSAs for the 70s/80s, this is absolutely phenomenal.

[@watergamer6446]

"Our pylon celebratory squad is now inbound towards your location." wait nO-

[@LCRequiem]

The ending was really creepy and cool at the same time

[@alwaysangry2232]

bit predictable though

[@whitehorse8832]

@@alwaysangry2232 not exactly, at first it seems that the hermit was the only one who knew of the pylons true danger and was the only one who actually knew how to stop it, then he turned out to be the bad guy

[@kingofthepod5169]

@@whitehorse8832 I think he means the jumpscare. The scary part is mr. Pylon sharing the face as all the bad guys, and the celebration squad heading to your location. The pylons are the top of the creature, the body is underground.

[@MrGamernova]

...Why did they need the kid to do it though? I mean even before he was posesed the hermit wanted that to happen anyways, maybe he was slowly already going crazy? I dunno it still doesn't make too much sense to me. I guess the cult was just too lazy to do it themselves so they got a kid to do it, even though it'd have probably been less trouble to do it themselves anyways. Good for you if you got hopelessness out of that, but it didn't really do much for me.

[@avramnovorra]

Creepy indeed.. was this based off a book or something tho?

[@AlphaBetaGamer]

I think it's based on surprisingly grim 70's pylon safety PSA's like this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaPcgIyYqteffKs and this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4XCqKqheNR1gpo

[@cant5864]

I think the Sirenhead games/creepypastas also inspired this

[@Handhandme]

I think big pylons can look creepy. Especially if you're standing near one. At night.

[@BruceForte]

You have one of the coolest intros out of all the youtubers, I just realized how much I love your intro.

[@binarypench]

"Our pylon celebratory squad is now inbound towards your location." Out of context those words do not feel like much. In context, however...

[@ebicthings123]

Oh god

[@thecheezer093]

I actually live in a a place called Sussex so its even more creepier.

[@nicksanchez3796]

I think good storytelling can turn the mundane into something interesting, which has been done here

[@jopar00]

games like this one create a genuine sense of living fear.

[@pyrosnineActual]

Dude says "hey, if you see something wrong with a Pylon, tell me immediately!", a bit later, main character sees a bad Pylon, and says "remember to tell an adult if you see a bad pylon!"....then decides to ignore all that advice and go home for some dinner.

[@ianfinrir8724]

That sounds about right for a kid.

[@allisonpierce3899]

I think Mattel should really make a Metal Mettel Mother for the kids

[@toainsully]

Let's hope they don't butcher it like they did to Thomas the Tank Engine

[@JaiLeafe225]

This was very simple, yet creative and unsettling at the same time. I really like it.

[@bumblerinteractive1554]

I love how this game almost feels like propaganda of some sort

[@ianfinrir8724]

I think it's based off an old PSA

[@saje5821]

Not saying that it is related, but it gives me anti-5G conspiracy vibes.

[@boomerangmonkey8263]

Pylons are kind of like entertainment during road trips, right? Think about it.

[@SamsonScorpio]

This is brilliant!!! Using the MS Dos sounds and animation styles to present a perfectly told horror tale! Perfectly done. 10/10

[@user-sh6hn9cl6f]

This gives me local 58 vibes

[@user-sh6hn9cl6f]

Like u feel liker they're in the same universe

[@frog9311]

@@user-sh6hn9cl6f same

[@prisuners6275]

That feeling when you gotta construct additional pylons..

[@mayangel5315]

*I love when you update your channel and bring us another epic gameplay.*

[@cxvghf93387u]

Stand Name : SUPER FLY Stand User: Toyohiro Kanedaichi

[@EvernightTown6969]

H- How did he ended up here?!

[@prisuners6275]

@@EvernightTown6969 as always, Araki forgot

[@ThePinkRubber]

Superfly requiem

[@collinrogers4742]

could he really be considered the user though? i though the pylon was both the stand and the user.

[@richiesahlin6409]

Note: Not actually a fly.

[@TheCivildecay]

I love this channel for showing us all these crazy creative indie games

[@-0rbital-]

I knew something was up with the Pylon Man!

[@orbitaloutcast9878]

I loooved this! Good old horror games like these are what we're missing!

[@ああ-x8e8n]

こういう凄まじいレトロ感あるホラゲーめっちゃ好き

[@andyzhang7890]

Such a unique concept. Gives me a certain type of dread

[@lordfriedrick7911]

When you constuct too many additional pylons...

[@Zminator1986]

What heresy is this!? You can never have enough PYLONS!

[@SUPBUG-o7m]

Hey man I just wanted to say that you are one of my most favorite youtubers idk why I love your content so much but I just do. I think it’s just the gameplay without commentary but all I just love is the gameplay😁

[@lunatic0verlord10]

I remember my elementary school having these MS-DOS edutainment games despite *NOT* being MS-DOS computers. They were pretty tame.

[@kazoocommander4911]

13:06 when this scene happened, some BBQ commercial played in another tab and I thought it was in the game. *fucking priceless*

[@trubyas]

Oh boy one of my worst childhood fears turned into a game, I can't wait to play!

[@kingberrycake]

Most of the horror games are scarier with this kind of graphism, I like it

[@Ray-qb2cj]

"Our pylon celebratory squad is now inbound towards your location." *OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT*

[@ZeroCrits]

you see a decapitated body, what do you do? a. call the ambulance b. call the police Boy: "oh no, I gotta call the pylon repair man" Biggest *BRUH* Moment

[@karii2145]

God, I love how this plays into the style of scaring the shit out of children in old British PSAs.

[@paganusagi6199]

-Mom, can we have earthbound? -no, we already have earthbound at home. Earthbound at home:

[@missskypie1403]

The real reason why Toyohiro wanted to lure Josuke into Superfly.

[@normalperson2637]

"Remember Kids! Dont play near pylons *OR YOU'LL BE THE NEXT SACRIFICE* "

[@LarryXLR]

I just picture some lineman getting high on LSD when coming up with the plot of this game.

[@ianfinrir8724]

You think a lineman from Kansas wrote this?

[@CrypticForests]

I didn’t even notice the first time watching that the mechanic’s face changes on the second day.

[@uzulim9234]

It's a very interesting concept! Would be cool to have the gameplay and the horror elements extended further.

[@dolphin6756]

really cool, I really like the pylon monster's designs. my only critisism would be theres too much dialogue. I think it would hit the 'unintentionaly scary' vibe more if things were shown instead of told more. Like I feel the Hermit's talk in the cave could have been cut in half or removed, with the frequency scrambler being found instead of given so theres not a moment to rest/not feel alone. Just an idea.

[@loganh4642]

I saw a safety pass about pylons before. It was unintentionally hilarious. It did get the point across though

[@ouij]

I can't see any reason to distrust a character named Possessed Hermit.

[@breakfastboii]

Reminds me of that youtube video from 13 years ago where one of the pylons broke free from the wires and started walking towards the cameraman

[@seriousnorbo3838]

It was called "tower of power" or something like that.

[@breakfastboii]

@@seriousnorbo3838 yeah

[@seriousnorbo3838]

"They're not Pylons, just imitators." So, are they... *Impostors?*

[@BlueRGuy]

Impylon

[@BlazingRoman]

When the pylon is sus!!! 😳

[@Desyx14]

Wait..... That last line at the end is totally a reference right? (20 minutes of not remembering the games name later) Yes it is! System Shock 1's SHODAN has a line almost identical to that one at the end of the video "Thank you, human. You have saved my cyborgs the effort by initiating the destruction of Earths faulty civilization yourself. Please wait where you are and a cortex reaver will be along shortly to escort you to the celebration."

[@DoktorKrovh]

Thank you, now I have a new phobia for Pylons!

[@neves5083]

I find this game really cool, kinda remembers me of siren head in nature. A personal note: Here on Brazil we have this pylons everywhere including inside our cities etc... I don't remember of they making any sounds whatsoever.

[@serigneo]

I saw that coming. Never trust reptilians. Also, Diamond is Unbreakable vibes.

[@hersheedenwerf]

Super fly

[@blisk7571]

What makes you distrust reptilians?

[@oyeh8908]

@@blisk7571 They control the government.

[@blisk7571]

@@oyeh8908 Oh?

[@xxunpure-vesselxx3817]

HEY WHATS SO BAD ABOUT _US_ THE REPTILIANS??

[@clippy-132]

Thank you for making this Game😊😊😊

[@danolantern6030]

Pylon man is so kind! I wish to be like him one day!

[@danolantern6030]

To clarify,i mean the guy in the game over screens,not the repair man

[@lunaticafuntimefoxy]

​@@danolantern6030XD

[@ClauGAnimateZ]

11:23 "it's not safe to go alone.. ..Take this!" - an old Wiseman from an old Zelda game

[@GarthTheDestroyer]

Wow. This is almost disturbing enough to be a regular Canadian PSA.

[@Inseticidacontrahu]

british psa

[@thiskid990]

What a great concept, I’ve always had a strange fear of these things

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

10:36 who will win: kid who has pants pulled down over his shoes or pylon man who walks sideways like a crab. 11:18 hermit: it is dangerous to go alone, take this to defend yourself against the danger Also hermit: *is the danger*

[@elitaylor8710]

This reminds me of an Arma 3 mod that added a pylon that would stalk you when you weren’t looking

[@maikha8963]

I always KNEW that there was some strange cult behind those pesky towers!

[@SaltheSalleyface]

01:42 Day 1 03:18 Day 2 06:15 Day 3 07:18 Day 4 08:49 The Mettel Monster

[@psychoblagger]

seeing the dozens if not hundreds of pylons come barreling over the mountaintop in short pursuit of the Mettle Mother herself was terrifying but also cool asf

[@yigakong1187]

I currently live in the corn states area of the Midwest and where I live it’s mostly wooden poles carrying them and also only go along the road. But then say two or three miles out you begin to see the metal ones stretch on for miles in the grass. Well, they WERE in the grass.

[@BinBintheRiceCake]

Starcraft players: "Since when are pylons that dangerous?"

[@mokecreator3482]

Dunno why, but I keep coming back to this video time after time, something about games atmosphere is really mesmerizing to me

[@georgeofhamilton]

Thank you for the video chapters.

[@brownboi6785]

I would never think to mess with pylons, but now every time I see one I think of this

[@tantejunko]

0:25 Oh god fucking damnit The newspaper title

[@olegultra5672]

hta You must construct additional Aya's newspapers kk

[@marc3122]

I didn't expect this to freak me out so bad

[@vanitymirrorss]

At first I was going to say as much as I dig the style, it felt a little too obvious it was trying to be a "scary game" but now that I think about it, this exact premise would of made a really really cool late 70s or early 80s horror movie. Standard slasher mystery but takes a twist into cosmic horror. Imagine all the late 70s practical effect electrocution gore deaths in the film.

[@RizGBlue]

this makes my electrician brain happy

[@John_Souls]

That Pylon is a stand user for sure

[@ALE199-ita]

WHAT DOES THIS JOKE MEAN!?!?

[@saturnknight4573]

I had a nightmare about a pylon breaking its wires and then start walking

[@Graknorke]

this is what Sussex is actually like btw

[@Crystalitar]

a storm last night wrecked a Pylon. even nature is fighting them.

[@Sowilo-Dagaz]

This makes me feel comfortable. I live near a pylon.

[@samuraijackoff5354]

I'll be honest, I havent seen a pylon in like... years really. I don't even think I've seen one in my whole life.

[@nugrost94]

I still don't why i loved ms dos, nes style game so much... Could it be the next SCP?

[@tweetugwe1270]

I felt like we do have an SCP like this.....can't remember it though.

[@nugrost94]

@@tweetugwe1270 is it? I could remember siren head 😂

[@tweetugwe1270]

@@nugrost94 not a pylon but it's about radio transmiter or something that covers over a certain place. Can't really remember.

[@ced1106]

This reminds me too much of Serial Experiments Lain. Thanks for the videos!!!

[@captain_legend7551]

Why the hell did I jump at the "Staw Awy From Pylon Ghost"!? I never jump at pixelated horror 😄💀

[@jvukovic4]

He comes in so fast

[@Xizilqou]

THIS is why you put cables underground.

[@MCVessels]

That just makes the pylons grow downwards. Is that what you want? If you fall into a pylon you never stop falling.

[@UniversesUnited]

“Heed the warnings to prevent more mournings” Dang that is so threatening to me tho

[@mskpvl612]

Everybody gangsta untill ELECTRIC PYLONS start walking

[@NickMortuus]

This is some really good Gameplay bro

[@Pitte84]

i use to see most scene in this game in my childhood nightmare that make me ptsd every night when i was young . it recall my fear memory

[@evapo7]

The beginning sound just made my brain go “DING DING DING DING DING DINGDINGDING BOM BOM”

[@remembernavarro5344]

This one reminds me of that promotional game for The Wind.