Scorn Is A Gorgeous Nightmare

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0:00 Intro
01:16 Premise & Visuals
04:57 The Campaign
08:23 The Gameplay
11:54 The Weapons
15:50 Critiques
18:16 Closing Remarks
18:43 Nvidia & MSI Spot
20:06 Amazingly Awesome Patrons

[@Gggmanlives]

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[@Wbfuhn]

You're from Australia?

[@TheCommanderNZ]

Sponsorship crap.

[@SCIFIGAMESFANS]

For the OLD SHOOL FPS FANS, this game is very general, not as good as AVP1 AVP2 QUAKE3 BLODD2 Kiss: Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child FAKK2 DOOM System Shock2 QUT BREAK has fun

[@SCIFIGAMESFANS]

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[@SCIFIGAMESFANS]

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[@squid11160]

"And from start to finish it's a hopeless, depressing journey through a relentless world that absolutely hates you." My experience growing up in Serbia. Devs are Serbian

[@hashen_chamal]

Thanks for the information.

[@xxxmass]

lolčina

[@IbrahiemLegoFilms]

As a Serbian, damn I'm kinda proud ngl

[@squid11160]

@@IbrahiemLegoFilms same Edit: and it's "as a Serb". Americans don't say "as an Americanian"

[@IbrahiemLegoFilms]

@@squid11160 yeah yeah I know, I was thinking Sirbin that's why

[@samuelevander9823]

I would classify Scorn as existential horror. Not scary jump scare horror. But the unease of being stuck in an unpleasant fever dream.

[@Grandmastergav86]

Just seems like inert Horror tbh, completely lacking any kind of bite even with respect to existentialism. I appreciate that this is intended to be a slower burn than your average Horror fare but (crucially) it needs to build to an apotheosis otherwise it's all for nowt as they say oooop norff. You know this'll be 3 hours of mildly unsettling wandering interspersed with subpar interactivity and an underwhelming likely bewildering finale. I do applaud the devs for trying something a little different but it just feels more like a museum piece; one that you'll only ever feel inclined to visit once. As ACG quite wisely said, this seems ideal for a Gamepass visit in favour of an outright purchase.

[@DR3ADNOUGHT]

@@Grandmastergav86 That's the point, I think. With the slow pace and it's agonizing ending, it's clear that the devs want you to play the game only once.

[@habijjj]

@@DR3ADNOUGHT but I need to be a monster and get the achievement for killing the poor door opener

[@habijjj]

@@Grandmastergav86 idk after an hour of no music and then randomly getting a music score is the most jarring thing ever.

[@piotr78]

@@Grandmastergav86 I have absolutely no problems with games meant to be played once. I'm surprised everytime it comes up again cause it doesn't even come to my mind until I hear about it. Is this a multiplayer audience thing?

[@mountainpepsi9991]

These short moments of shock when Gman straight up disrespects my mom are really the highlights of these reviews for me.

[@liamriley9816]

..Schwacked..

[@senzusensei]

His scripts are always funny and well written.

[@TastySnackies]

Schwacked

[@kpeguyebbers850]

SWACKED

[@aprofondir]

HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

[@StrawberryNUKE]

Scorn feels like a world that was abandoned by a Brotherhood Moon

[@cornocob7144]

You mean the brethren moon from dead space?

[@CrouchingTigress181]

Maybe it was a mechanical/organic world that didn't benefit the Necromorph anatomy and was sucked up and corrupted but not absorbed into it.

[@StrawberryNUKE]

@@cornocob7144 yeah I forgot the proper name

[@Kane.JimLahey.]

Oh god no... Not again...

[@StrawberryNUKE]

@@Kane.JimLahey. hey at least there is life after the destruction

[@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658]

We lived long enough to see the game finished, F in the chat for those who did not make it.

[@nosidezero]

:(

[@WatchfulSquids]

F

[@kane_underscore8432]

F

[@dominicscreativefilms]

F

[@LonelyDissonance]

F

[@Diablokiller999]

"Using a living creature like they are meaningless" - never heard a better description of an employer!

[@urkeksi4490]

Any Human Recource Department in a nutshell

[@davesprivatelounge]

@@urkeksi4490 we all really just numbers on some dbag's excel sheet

[@mkzhero]

Government*

[@ovahlord1451]

he just described Amazon

[@evilmiera]

Honestly the game really gave me feelings of, well, capitalism. Of beings exploited for their very essence, you reach a point where your body is just used up and then (spoiler) you end up never reaching your goal anyway, cut off by another predatory creature.

[@consmos]

I've always felt that body horror is the most disturbing and horrifying of the horror genre across any medium. Jumpscares do nothing for me at all. I like being disturbed on a deep and primal level, and staring at the ceiling at night because I cannot get the imagery out of my head. Also think Soma is an absolutely fantastic game, one of the best storylines in games of it's era.

[@metalmugen]

Body Horror is my shit: Tetsuo the Iron Man, Cronenberg, Animorphs, Society, I just can't get enough of that shit.

[@LionMob]

Are you a Junji Ito fan too ?

[@metalmugen]

@@LionMob I've read some and I like em a lot

[@cerebrustusbordungolski7183]

@@yellowcard8100 👍I also recommend BLAME! for some biotech / organic looking technology. Other works by Tsutomu Nihei as well. A favorite of mine, although less of a horror series and more obscure is also Franken Fran.

[@metalmugen]

@@yellowcard8100 oh hell yeah, I'm a huge Carpenter fan, I love The Thing

[@leinadreign3510]

One of the main influences for that game wasnt giger, but also beksinski. If you leave the creatures alone and retreat from time by time, they will crawl out of the way. So you can avoid almost every encounter

[@emersonawesome3778]

It's sad that the market has become so saturated with shit that "Horror game=Jumpscares so no Jumpscares=Not a Horror game" has becomes a common mindset. Scorn is 1000% a horror game.

[@Relhio]

It's not a horror game for people that are used to gore and weird shit, just clever and artsy.

[@Me-bj4uf]

Same thing with horror movies too

[@mrjtfang2]

@@b4u992 Idk, much as I don't like the idea of limiting the horror genre to jumpscares (Which I dont think Gman meant, by the by), it also seems a bit too broad to call something truly horror just because its a game where everything is made out of meat and looks painful. Scorn doesn't seem like the game that makes you feel dread, like any GOOD horror game usually incorporates.

[@brickbusters1940]

I see it as more of a surrealist art piece, it's not really a game so much as it is an experience. It's gross and horrific, sure but even a guy like me, who's never gonna touch the game, isn't horrified by it. It's not trying to hide its cards, so nothing really shocks you and I do think something being disturbing is far different then horror.

[@Haitch_Kay]

Hard disagree, the lack of any context or narrative saps the horror potential out of the game. It's "gross", and gross alone does not make horror.

[@rosskwolfe]

Gman: "No jump scares means it's not horror." Darkwood: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@happinessstudios3889]

He say that he was glad that the game didn't have jumpscares :/

[@matthew1882]

You mean Darkwood?

[@rosskwolfe]

@@matthew1882 I do, thank you for correcting me.

[@FABIOZITO11]

talking about Darkwood,it's free on Epic Games right now.

[@aminhakimi654]

Yes mate that game is full of dread

[@Aion1os]

"Not every game needs to have weapon swapping, dashing and glory kills." Tell that to Under The Mayo

[@marcosdheleno]

i agree, not every game needs that, but you know what they actually need? being more than just graphics and setting. which this game really isnt. its a painfully boring experience, unless you are one of those people who dont actually care about the gameplay.

[@gordonfreeman8109]

@@marcosdheleno It's more of a tribute to HR Giger and similar artists than le ebic shoot shotgun at le funni mean guy

[@marcosdheleno]

@@gordonfreeman8109 so? its a game, not a question in a test with multiple choices. you are allowed to make the game a tribute to giger AND make it fun TO PLAY as well. its the same way you can have action and horror in aliens. its not an "either or", you can do both, and more importantly, you should do it..

[@Aion1os]

@@marcosdheleno Just because it isn't fun to you doesnt make it bad. Atmosphere IS a component of gameplay, you're gatekeeping the very concept of a video game, a game isn't all about action.

[@ms.greywolf8228]

@@marcosdheleno I had fun with it. I didn't walk in expecting a funky adventure with scores and epic scenes. I went in expecting a decaying world, hard to understand, with beyond questionable conditions of whatever they consider life. I got even more than that, and I've been following this game since the first screenshots and pretty basic trailers. This is a niche title. Less than half the player base will appreciate how much effort, detail and love went into compromising to it. I can already see that. But it did a good job, despite all the offsets, rather than forcing itself to mutate into a betrayal of the atmosphere, aesthetic, and mood. I wouldn't say it is a game to be completed in a single sitting. This is their first game. They've already done much better than plenty shits out there that blindly stuck to the average desires of the average player.

[@DandyDook]

I have only really died like once while playing. You can actually avoid a lot of the fighting(especially early on) by simply keeping your distance from the enemies, a lot of the times enemies are going to a specific spot to enter a hole or crawl away or otherwise leave the area. Scorn is definitely a very weird and pretty unique game. I just kinda wish there was more of it, and I don't mean like "Ugh, it's too short!" but more like "wow, that was something special, can I get another dose of this shit? Straight into my veins, please and thank you."

[@bendovahkiin8405]

I hope they make Scorn 2 with a lot more mechanics, guns, enemies and fleshed out world. 😁 The wasteland is a missed opportunity to showcase different buildings that could be stepping stones for each other, but i don't think they had the man power or the time/funding to do that

[@_Jay_Maker_]

He makes a point of saying he doesn't like when you have to play these games and avoid every enemy. It's obvious he was going into it under the assumption he'd be shooting a lot of shit all the time.

[@bendovahkiin8405]

@@_Jay_Maker_ Well in RE2 and RE3 you can run and avoid most enemies and it's just collecting items and solving puzzles yet it's not criticised like this

[@artistanthony1007]

The 2016 build shows it is that, I have criticism that the current AI are just violent and will attack you no matter what, you even have in the old build one of the small guys just walk by you and do turn to face you but doesn't do anything.

[@thomasvarney5758]

I’m honestly not too bothered by the length. We’ve got too many 3 billion hour open worlds filled with “content” or loot filled grindfests so a focused 4 hour experience that makes for a good evening or two of moody gameplay during the Halloween season seems pretty dope to me. I love a game that actually ends

[@kaj7135]

For real. I mean, I love Elden Ring, but I’m sick and tired of crafting systems and massive open worlds where it’s too easy to miss like 50% of unique characters, weapons, and items.

[@kaj7135]

@@cubanreal7857 No shit, detective, there’s 6 different endings. They still could’ve at least improved the pacing of it with a better map. Elden Ring has the absolute worst map in the history of open world games, even after you find all the pieces to it. lol it’s embarrassing how horrible it is.

[@dezzywikins]

@@kaj7135 that's easily one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. I can't take you seriously after that garbage take.

[@kaj7135]

@@cubanreal7857 yea… open world games can have good and bad pacing too. jfc ur hopeless.

[@cardmossdn8058]

@@kaj7135 That is the most fucking ridiculous statement I've ever heard. Elden Ring is one of the best open world of the past 5 years. If you ACTUALLY think that it's the WORST MAP in the history of open world games, you're either trolling or braindead. Fuck off

[@Mankey619]

Can we imagine if this game comes out in VR in the near future. That alone will make an awesome experience,and makes us feel that we’re in this surreal nightmarish world of Scorn.

[@Vprod.]

Man, Scorn VR would be INSANE. It has to be done! Even though i imagine implementing some of the puzzle controls wouldn't be that easy, i'm sure it could be done somehow.

[@evil_cupcake2386]

Jeeeeeesus, that would be terrifying and cool

[@goldzior1128]

Honestly, with how the gameplay is, VR would be perfect

[@johnsmithjr.9321]

Hopefully it sells well enough for that to happen.

[@jaketerp500]

The modding community could totally pull it off!

[@VenomSnake00]

As a fan of Zdzisław Beksiński’s paintings this game world looks absolutely amazing. I definitely want to try this out

[@wrightcarl1181]

Excellent reference, I was thinking the same thing

[@cerebrustusbordungolski7183]

Wayne Barlowe has some amazing artwork too.

[@lordfriedrick7911]

The devs published a lore/artwork digital book about the game I think you would really like it

[@nem3732]

Finally some recognition for that man. I hate how everyone just acknowledges the H.R. Giger inspirations while completely ignoring Beksiński.

[@aaaaaaaa12225]

It's sad how much was cut from this game. If you look at the digital artbook, there was meant to be an additional two areas, between the initial 'crater' and the temple area. One would have been a labyrinth that would have had those little gnome looking dudes in some kind of perpetual war with another race, engineering all sort of oddities, and then the next area before the temple, would have been a tower area with a focus on cancerous out of control growths and monsters. The final product and art is amazing, shame not all of it was realised.

[@Roler42]

Given it's price on Steam, I'd argue 4-5 hours is about the sweet spot. I'm happy to see how over time you keep changing and evolving, and also appreciate that you're embracing more and more of a mentality of "gonna be fair to this game even if I don't like it or isn't for me", instead of the "I didn't like it, therefore is hot trash that I will burn" many youtubers had a terrible habit of doing for far too long.

[@SpartanChief2277]

And it's on gamepass

[@oliveboi1474]

Idk about that I might still wait for a sale.

[@fire_drake12.arc.24]

Based on the gameplay i watched too, given its about a 40$ game; it also seems to be quite well made. I didnt see many things that looked like bugs beyond 1 i noticed; and in general the game doesnt come across or feel like an unpolished & rushed piece of shit like most games that come out now. Its 40$ for a seemingly polished, relatively short but welcome 4-5 hour game with a very interesting world and artstyle.

[@FortressLordJP193]

Eh I respectfully disagree, I don't think 4 hours for $40 is the "sweet spot", especially for a game that had gameplay when I was in school and comes out when I've been an adult for almost a decade. I respect the visuals, I think the environments and modelling are amazing, and I can see it being like Soma in that I both take screenshots and reinstall and replay it again every few years. But I think what I said will make sense to many.

[@austin2774]

that is not the sweet spot considering you can get games with 80 hours of content for 30$. i really like the game but def should lower the price that just aint worth it. its really bad. its 5 bucks less than doom eternal but has like 90% less content . doom can get you like 80 hours of content. dont defend prices like this. they would have probably would have made more money if game was 15$ to 20$ becuase i seenve alot of people say 8 hours for 40$ bucks and not even try the game wont get.

[@bluballs3329]

Had the pleasure of playtesting this game. The art direction of it is honestly amazing.

[@jimherold7827]

That's basically the only amazing thing about it. The visuals are amazing and the ambient soundtrack (if that's what you want to call it) is perfectly appropriate. Aside from that, the puzzles are repetitive, and the combat is godawful. This game had potential, but the actual game mechanics severely lacked.

[@bluballs3329]

@@jimherold7827 Unfortunately, i have to agree. The game only started being fun when i acquired the guns. Also didn't get to try the grenade launcher part of the game, as that wasn't done yet at the time of the playtest.

[@mediocri5y]

On a comment section with replies talking about the actual problem with the game and no pretentious toxicity. Bravo!

[@strafer8764]

You should have told them how unintuitive it is and how easy it is to get lost because of the uniform coloration. It seemed like no one tested it.

[@cubablue602]

The opening hour and the final hour are the best thing about this game. The middle section is overloaded with progression puzzles and repetitive rudimentary combat in monotone corridors. The puzzles are actually excellent in this game but it's unbalanced, there's just too many of them with no other purpose than allowing you to move forward to the next one. That first hour though, with ZERO handholding, letting the ominous aesthetic seep into your bones was superbly done imo. The last hour, specifically after you reach the STUNNING visualisation of the 'Temple' area was unlike anything I've felt in gaming. Truly ALIEN. Disturbing but fascinating at the same time. I also appreciate the fact there's no exposition here. Nobody is walking you along like a tour guide with info dumps about everything you're seeing. You have to try to piece things together and the developers are respectful enough to trust you with that. Even then there's no real answers, you have to look outside the game into what other people are piecing together to try and make sense of everything. Oh boy! If you don't think this is a horror game, then you don't know what horror even is (hint: it isn't jump scares. Horror is a feeling NOT a series of actions).

[@gabrielloko30000]

This game thrives acheiving the Oddwordly aesthetics of this desolate realm. It has a HEAVY influence of Shadow of the Beast here, and looks gorgeous

[@jurtheorc8117]

Those are two very classic titles, from before my time. We need more creative, uncanny valley (and uncanney ABYSS and everything in-between) non-human fantasy worlds like those.

[@TheScrootch]

It's more of a H R Giger influence if you'd ask me. It reminds me of the Alien movies

[@DissonanceEngineer]

@@TheScrootch Yeah it's definitely mostly Giger by volume, they just picked the green-grey murky aesthetic of Giger as opposed to the black-blue palette people associate with his work due to the Alien series.

[@Cshepard]

not really. it trhives achieving the world of Alien, and the creator of the xenomorph

[@corncobjohnsonreal]

Oddwordly lmao great new word

[@mr.pointman1930]

Another FPS hero added into the list of your collection, Sonny Jim.

[@mr.pointman1930]

@@bldontmatter5319 I have been follow him since 2013.

[@BlackringIII]

98% art 2% effort on gameplay

[@eastoniscool0681]

The game not having jump scares is a good thing because this game obviously relies on its atmosphere and body horror

[@RenegadePandaZ]

This looks like the kind of game I'll enjoy infinitely more in screenshot form.

[@boarfaceswinejaw4516]

or watching a no-commentary playthrough by someone who already knows all the puzzles.

[@TheMC1102]

This game is like Agony, but actually good.

[@PlaidSuitPinstripeWorld]

Not good, just slightly better.

[@anecro]

@@PlaidSuitPinstripeWorld It's successful in what it aims to do. It is good, it's just not the masterpiece many people wanted it to be. You don't have to pick one of the two extremes, there's a middle.

[@chillhour6155]

I always got the two mixed up..until I saw the Vagina monster

[@chillhour6155]

@Salt Maker idt he cares enough to cope, *opinions

[@DianaTaffie]

it is better, but Agony is still a good, if misunderstood and pretty underrated thing. It's beautiful in its horrifying existence of hell, just looking at it fills me with emotions. It may not be as solid in terms of gameplay, but it also provides more with it, mainly thanks to additional modes, especially The Succubus, and it was so good that they eventually made a full game out of it. I haven't played it myself yet, but Agony's Succubus mode really was fun, great stress reliver after finishing the main campaign.

[@blinded6502]

It's really impressive how artists are able to come up with an entirely different world from our own With it's own alien, yet detailed, architecture and culture

[@HisMagnificence]

The mind can span infinitely inward.

[@dondamage2803]

"Its kind of ironic how this world feels so alien and hostile yet believable and lived in" Bro i genuinely had the same exact thought while playing this game and i sat there for more than an hour thinking about it

[@kugelblitz5229]

I remember in the original trailer in the comments someone called it "Sphincter Cell"

[@gustavosantos106]

Amazing how well captured HR Giger's art is. Conglaturations to the developers and artists.

[@piotr78]

I need the ability to stow my weapon to take screenshots! During some point in the game you actually have an opportunity to walk around without a weapon or tool and i took full advantage haha

[@Sun_Downer]

Ah bruh you gotta give SOMA another chance, its got one of the darkest endings in all of media ever.

[@dlotte2050]

Deluxe Edition purchaser here, this game had so much put into it and yet so much more it could have had. After having read through and admired the art design book of the game I can't help but applaud the amount of thought that went into the setting design, and even more that was thought about that we didn't get to see in the game. Without giving away too much in the art book, there were two potential Acts that were intended to be put into the game that were left out, each playing more into the story and the motivation of the people that once lived in the Scorn world. I think at least one of these Acts could have been implemented into the game with a few tweaks to their concepts to make them fit as I was really starved for lore when playing the game, although I know that wasn't necessarily the intended purpose. If nothing else the art speaks for itself and if you do buy the game at full price, you might as well get the Deluxe Edition for the soundtrack and art book which are both beautiful and eerie. *Spoilers (Kind of) Below* As for my personal review, to be honest I think Scorn under-stayed it's welcome and just as I was getting into it, it abruptly ended and left me wanting in a bad way, as in an unfinished game kind of way. On top of that the (few) puzzles that were there felt forced and sometimes even out of place, The Crater puzzle being the worst offender where despite it being beneath a giant creature that births horrible abominations, the puzzle itself was a literal maze puzzle, and it honestly made it impossible to suspend my disbelief. Also, as most people have noticed the game intentionally lacks a sort of story in lieu of its detailed environment and contextual storytelling, but I still believe it needed a stronger "explicit" story element given how linear and short the game was. Or if they were gonna stick with contextual storytelling then it should have had a more free-form aimless style of gameplay where you slowly connect the dots over a longer period of time, as it truly was hard to digest and synthesize any cohesive theories just playing through the game. The game is beautifully designed and crafted, and even the combat was fine in contrast to what others might say about it. That being said it did NOT feel like a complete experience and like how others have described it, it's fine as a game pass game but the full price feels like a little too much. I hope the money they received from sales goes to some form of additional content because I feel this game needs some more fleshing out.

[@stewrat0420]

nice review that pretty much summed up my feelings as well

[@antonakesson]

This game looks like a functional Agony. A sub par game with fantastic visual value.

[@Onlyicedmilk]

Just finished the game. Absolutely superb. These are the type of games I’ve been craving. I get why most people won’t like it, short length, no real story, sluggish combat, confusing at times, heavily puzzle based etc But the positives outweighed the negatives for me. It was such a visual treat to explore this world, I’d find myself checking every nook and cranny, often staring at amazing structures off in the distance for several minutes at a time letting my imagination go wild. Really one of the prettiest games I’ve played in recent memory. The sound design and score of the game were also brilliant, and even the lack of sound at times. I also loved the fact I would get lost, and confused on some of the puzzles, it was satisfying to finally figure it out for myself, unlike the hand holding all modern games do now. What a surprise this game was, 9/10 for me. A nice treat this October on game pass.

[@Lacuna1122]

I've been super interested in this and watching everything that comes up about it. Was blown away to see this in my feed!

[@Craft2299]

This is... definitely a horror game. It does get spooky, does not have to have jump scares. Lots of horror genres out there.

[@rustyshackleford1508]

"The game's kinda monotone" I mean, it looks kinda drab in terms of palette but- "I'm red-green colorblind" Oh, that explains it.

[@Feasco]

also it's all the same brown fleshy colour which would fit the term

[@rustyshackleford1508]

@@Feasco it's drab but monotone would imply all he sees is grey, which he does

[@Kabodanki]

demon souls remaster on PS5 was like that for me, every scene looked like a moving concept art

[@Legion849]

Demon Souls ps5 was a remake not remaster.

[@HeyKyle]

@@Legion849 🤓

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

From an aesthetic standpoint the game looks really good, the devs did a good job at making you feel uneasy as you look at this world but from a gameplay standpoint, most of its meat is in its puzzles.

[@Majima_Nowhere]

My mom, of all people, has been waiting for this game a long time. The slower pace and focus on visuals is a big plus in that department 😅

[@Shamax0]

Come on Gman, a game/movie whatever doesn't need jump scares in order to be horror! But I get what you're saying, although I got to say the short play time is a plus to me, as there are plenty of games already waiting for me, so being able to enjoy Scorn as a sort of very malformed appetizer Great video!

[@morkgin2459]

16:57

[@brandonrowley2922]

Plague tale!

[@wille84fin]

I started playing this recently, and i would describe Scorn as "it's just not a scary game". If you have watched any of the good bodyhorror stuff like Re-Animator, Fly, Slither, The Thing, Event Horizon, Cronenberg films and so on, Scorn is like some baby shit in comparison.

[@RollerOfEyes]

@@wille84fin its the same shit wym

[@wille84fin]

@@RollerOfEyes True. It's just not scary at all for some reason. I wanted it to be scary, or at least give me a feeling of dread but no. It's just bland. It's just missing something on a fundamental level.

[@mis8866]

Scorn is a gorgeous fucking mess that is completable in under 6hrs. Imagine taking 6 years to make a game, thats 1 hr of gameplay PER YEAR, and they still put it up for THAT price, absolutely fucking insane im happy i played it on the xbox gamepass and not buying it on steam and getting swindled like everyone else.

[@Skybreaker1337]

This game hits a weird spot for me. The art and the general feel are EXACTLY my type of jam, but this is something I would 1100% call art, but would not call a game. Literally if you asked me are video games art I'd point to Scorn as the dividing line between one and the other.

[@MrGoodCat8]

Downloading right now! Can't believe you got this out so quick. Can't wait to come back and enjoy your video while comparing to my fist experience!

[@FOVoid]

Jump Scares are not what makes something horror. Atmosphere is. That´s why Alien Isolation is so good.

[@Roler42]

Agreed. Atmosphere + Dread are the true core of horror.

[@piotr78]

Hell even outer wilds made me feel dread at times. Floating through space away from your ship...brr

[@XBullitt16X]

It’s a shame it’s so short, for such a unique game.

[@TheSniper2477]

developers said back in 2019 that to get the game out by this year, the story needed to be divided into at least 3 episodes, so hopefully theres plenty more of this otw. 🧐

[@LloydTavner]

@@TheSniper2477 Pretty certain they dropped that when they got Microsoft backing.

[@happinessstudios3889]

Well, with the type of gameplay it had I think been short was better, it doesn't feel unnecessary long

[@markbaker4425]

Short horror games are better experiences

[@DissonanceEngineer]

@@markbaker4425 They just are - it's very very hard for something to be scary and STAY scary, most people inadvertently give themselves exposure therapy and what once was scary is now a nuisance. It's like walking too slowly through a haunted house, it ruins your suspension of disbelief when you take your time and soak in the sights of what appear to be Best Buy associates waving you through with the same goofy glowsticks they land planes with.

[@BagazZ123]

I played this one in one sitting and that night I had weird dreams about an assortment of weird humanoid looking demons that looked like they were made of different types of animal carapaces. I guess I can say this one left an impression in me even though it was kind of a slog to get through, but damn if the aesthetic of everything isn't a 10/10.

[@ShenDoodles]

I'm more than happy to suffer through the horrors. I never wanted proper fun from this game, I want to be freaking out constantly. Beautiful suffering.

[@marcosdheleno]

i dont think you understood it, the game isnt fun, in the sense that its just not fun to play. all of its mechanics are boring, the gunplay is atrocious, the combat is depressing, and not in a meta kind of way, but in a, "oh god, i think being tortured is better than continuing to play it". ALL the game has is presentation, its literaly the complaint of modern games made real.

[@leonskennedey6082]

@@marcosdheleno git gud?

[@Gameprojordan]

@@marcosdheleno yeah it just looks like an interactive tech demo with the most bare bones combat elements spread out here and there. These games bore tf out of me. Like, I'd have much more fun watching a single full playthrough of the game than I would actually playing it, and I'd feel like I wasted money buying it because there's no replayability whatsoever + a short campaign

[@notfunnydidntlaugh8621]

You sound insane

[@badasstasticusbadass4908]

I dunno, the only thing that comes to my mind when i think about this game is "Meat guy, grabs meat gun and shoots at meat thing!"

[@believeinmatter]

This game looks insane

[@deanchur]

Congrats on hitting 600,000 subs! That's 600,000 people that are eagerly waiting for another Together B'nB review

[@Feenix102]

It looks very unique. Giger's influence is obvious, though its different enough to give it its own feel. My feeling with games like this is that its about the atmosphere - you say the shooting is a bit ordinary basically and I can believe it, its not the primary point by the look of it. The puzzles, the cruelty, the body horror, it sounds like this is a world designed to give you an emotional, artistic experience as much as a gaming one, and the short play time sounds like it backs that up. Is it Doom Eternal? No, and it isn't trying to be and that is most assuredly a good thing. If its not too expensive I might look it up - cheers for the review, man. :o)

[@Simte]

I was waiting so eagerly for your video on this game. Being a huge fan of HR Giger one can only dream of such thing. The last videogame I played with thar aesthetic was Dark Seed II back in 99.

[@GearOfDarkness]

If you haven't: Try "Inner Chains". It's not quite the same, but has similar aesthetics. Maybe it's something for you.

[@Simte]

@@GearOfDarkness I'll check it out. Thanks.

[@DCGMatthew1]

Lust for Darkness and Lust from Beyond are inspired by Giger, Lovecraft and Beksiński, so they are very similar in visual style, they go much deeper into the weird gross stuff though. Beyond is much better than Darkness though.

[@Simte]

@@DCGMatthew1 Hey many thanks. I in fact, adore Zdzisław Beksiński. I'll check it out. :)

[@jadenbowers4607]

Seriously the last couple hours have been the longest wait I've felt in so long I've been waiting for sooooooooo long and it's definitely worth the wait so far ❤️

[@kommiekoathanger1418]

When I freed the little guy from the pod at the start of the game I was so excited to have a buddy I even named him Gregory but then I discovered that he can’t come along with you and I was damn near ready to cry.

[@fjoa123]

There was this old game named Cyberia which was a few cool 3d rendered video cut scenes inbetween ages of solving horrendous puzzles. You'd still put yourself through the pain just to see the cutscenes which were something mindblowing for that time.

[@hashen_chamal]

It is finally here. Literally years of waiting.

[@Lord_Deimos]

Glad to see Scorn turned out good, been watching it since its announcement 3000 years ago.

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

You’d think, after three thousand years, that proper grammar would accompany your opinion.

[@randomexile2926]

@@ghfjfghjasdfasdf get lost, nerd

[@anonymoususer208]

Literally scorn and Agony were both being developed at the same time, it just that Agony decided to Jump the Gun as scorn took a long while for it to. Im happy This Game finally came out and wish they give it a DLC to expand

[@DrLicuid]

It is one of those rare games you just can't believe you're playing. That that faraway teaser or announcement with a couple of concept art-screenshots and two second rendered video that rarely reminded world of its existence is finally out. Not cancelled, not just lost or even remade so hard from its original concept that the game is completely different, but actually out, in line with initial identity and playable. You just get so used to it being forever in the workshop and belonging to the time when you first heard about it that it is more about a mix of nostalgia for the time when you discovered the teaser and reminder of years cruelly passing with it finally out. Time moves. Things change.

[@GeminiWoods]

2 games I've been waiting for: Scorn and Routine. The day has finally come.

[@_TheShowStopper]

I've been waiting for you to play/review this!Let's get it! Im making this comment as I start watching the video! I already know your gonna give me a dope video as usual! Keep it Up my G! You literally one of if not my favorite gaming creator, especially FPS Titles!

[@Xathian]

I can see where they were going with the combat. The idea that you're armed and can fight to get where you need to go, but it's all just as hopeless and unforgiving as the world around you. Sadly that's one of those things that makes a lot of sense on paper but when it come to actually being played it's pretty hard to pull off in any way that doesn't just translate the envisioned frustrated struggle of the main character into the players mind. Honestly I love the show-not-tell approach to the world "lore". It's nice to have an open ended interpretation rather than endless spoonfeeding, directly from the man who wrote a diary about his thoughts on the world while a monster was eating his legs, complete with the "Ow, oh god it hurts" on the last page. While this approach definitely doesn't work in every type of game, it's perfectly on point for the type of world this game was, and some good amount of sight seeing and viewing of the murals starts to paint at least some vague picture of what happened to this civilization. With the depictions of worship changing focus, tentacles beings and pregnancy, space fungal rot and the brain. Have to say though, your double takes on both horror games being bad if they aren't jumpscares + horror games are bad if you don't have a gun to blow away every enemy instead of ever having to run or be cautious has put you in the "don't ever listen to horror game opinions" category for reviewers for me now though. Luckily this isn't your primary content type I guess. You don't want horror games, you just want shooters with loud sounds

[@Jameston]

I was just wondering the other day if this ever came out. I remember reading about it years ago, glad to see it finished and it really does look impressive, truly is concept art in motion. This seems like a you have to play it yourself kind of thing to understand though

[@lordfriedrick7911]

1:27 "A hopeless, depressing journey trough a relentless world that absolutely hates you" Is Gman describing my life?

[@Leo.Dhas.]

Hope you're ok

[@apexarmada1419]

Damn, I’ve been looking forward to this game and it came out on my birthday and we get a video from the Gman, what a treat.

[@axelprino]

I've been curious about this game for so long, it's good to hear that it's actually an interesting experience.

[@Chuck_vs._The_Comment_Section]

This kind of mysterious dying world would be a perfect fit for the Warhammer 40K universe.

[@KnishG]

man i remember seeing trailers for this in early high school and i’m graduated from college now… wild

[@XBOXINHERITOR]

“RUNNING ROTISSERIE CHICKENS” LMFAO. This is why your videos are great gman your commentary is top notch and hilarious. Great review

[@taeveo9471]

This game looks awesome! I hope experimental titles like this pick up popularity.

[@mackinblack]

I am literally playing this game right now on Series X! Its 6am in Texas, it just released an hour ago!

[@MascletaTheFirst]

I played it for about an hour an half and at some point I started asking myself what the hell I'm doing because I'm just walking around clicking buttons. It's neither scary nor gross. It's weird, sure. But when I realized that I have no idea where I am, who I am, what, this world is, what happened here, what I'm doing here, or what my end goal is, it just completely removed any and all reason to continue wasting my time on it. There is no story, no progression, no goal, no reward, nothing of interest whatsoever. It's just a visual walk through of a world that is supposed to gross you out I guess. But in my opinion it even failed at that. Watching saw is more entertaining than this and that's a C list movie at best.

[@timd729]

Your take on this was basic

[@djtoxicdhg]

O shit congrats on nearly 600k subs bro you definitely deserve it you bust your ass for are entertainment thanx for all the years of chill osum content bro.

[@Entikai]

Looks very cool. I'm looking forward to playing this.

[@LetoShade]

Gotta admit those weapons look awesome to me. Just so unique in style that you almost look past the gruesomeness of them.

[@jbeverley67]

It just sucks that this game is so short. But it's art style is absolutely stunning.

[@popcorny007]

I've been waiting 6 years for this video

[@vitalixy3578]

I just wish it was longer but aside from that Im in love with it.

[@RebelWvlf]

16:30 - Personally I deeply hate how jumpscares have become so normal in horror genre that every title which doesn't include them is not deemed "horror enough". And sure, jumpscares can be scary if you are either 9yrs old or playing horror games for the first time. But for me who is into horror genre since early PewDiePie days, it has become so utterly annoying, cheap and shitty to see for billionth time a game featuring some abandoned house/mental hospital/Cold War era lab with killer toy/ghost child with shit-eating grin destroying your eardrums with high-pitched scream and stabbing you to death. It's even shittier and cheaper when developers don't bother to model the character that is chasing you, but give you a PNG creepypasta picture with screaming sounds instead. And I am so glad that Scorn devs didn't go the jumpscare route. Haven't seen the proper slow-burn horror since Alien Isolation.

[@N4CR5]

I'll gladly give this a go, looks like a real trip and one of those game experiences that's an absolutely unique feeling and vibe.

[@tonybippitykaye]

Thank you for reviewing this! I’m glad this game finally got released and we can experience it. It’s always been an interesting yet unsettling game that’s been on my radar. I don’t know how much the walking or confusing puzzles will effect my playthrough, but I’m definitely wanting to play this! However, I think I disagree with you in this not being a horror game. Horror is usually defined as an intense feeling of fear, shock, and disgust (not trying to be pretentious, I’m just adding context to my point) and I think this game from what you’ve shown is full to the brim of that in terms of its setting and atmosphere. There’s probably nothing more terrifying than waking up in a cruel, unforgiving, alien-like world that feels desolate and grotesque and fills you with dread. Slow burn horror can be just as effective, if not more, than cheap jump scares.

[@SadTown99]

I’m really disappointed there wasn’t more survival horror elements added to the game 😢 Would’ve made it more exciting during the slow puzzle solving

[@chaosclg]

Most immersive game I've played in years, despite being short it got a lot more out of me than much more in depth and longer games. Also you can shoot the enemies in the face and the end of your gun implants their face you get a mini animation its tricky to pull off though

[@kemanorel3110]

I also can't really agree with Gman that it has barely any story, there's a lot of story there in the tiny details of the environment. It's like real world archaeologists diving into a ruin and figuring out things about a civilization just from how a structure is put together.

[@chaosclg]

@@kemanorel3110 I mean there's absolutely no dialogue and I have nothing but questions, if they continued this or made another game about a different life process or something I'd love that

[@hairyknuckles]

Haha fuck me, worth stickin' around through the ending for that Chocolate Rain reference. Good work, ol' chap.

[@I.____.....__...__]

- Finally indeed. It's been a long several years. 😬 - The early footage made me worry it was a puzzle-walking-simulator in a nearly-empty environment, more of an art-piece than a game. I guess I was right. 😕 At least they clearly wanted to make a real Giger-Cronenberg game, not just make money. - For those like myself who don't have the horsepower and/or space to play _Scorn,_ you can get a Giger-Beksiński fix with the game _Tormentum_ and its eventual sequel. 😉 - The morality confrontation is probably the best part of the game. There should be more of that. - The HUD doesn't belong in a game like this, it should have been omitted entirely, like in _Dark Corners of the Earth,_ where you don't know how much HP you have and how many more hits you can take. That heightens the tension and is very apt here. I imagine someone might release a mod to remove the HUD… - A game that has absolutely ZERO jump-scares is _Penumbra: Overture,_ that game is 100% tension and nothing else because [spoiler]it has no monsters-you keep waiting for a monster but they never come, so you spend the entire game in a state of suspense, especially if you've played it after the previous two Penumbra games that did have monsters-I thought it was cheap when I first played it, but retroactively, I think that was pretty amusing and effective[/spoiler]

[@piotr78]

You can disable the HUD. But seeing as the dying animation is slow + the checkpoints are few ..I wouldn't

[@lucasbrucas9632]

if you like how this game looks, look into zdzisław beksiński's art

[@justabunny999]

The horror legend. And yup same with aliens they also had good art to go by. And looks how sometimes art gets complimented by games and movies.

[@RichWilco]

That's why I'm looking forward to Nazralath: The Fallen World. Hopefully that will have a bit more depth than Scorn did.

[@DyaMetR]

Holy shit I almost forgot about this game being in development. Hope it was worth the wait.

[@H1KE]

The ending was absolutely horrifying and left me absolutely hurting inside. About 6 hours all up because I couldn't stop just standing around and looking at the world and the details. Nailed it, mate.

[@Savra]

After the ending i was in the same mood. With a feeling of emptiness inside.

[@Xyabra]

2:55 Seeing that thing in the middle of room made me think of Concept art... and not 2 seconds later G says it. Don't know if we think alike or he hinted at it, like an author giving pointless clue that will reveal the secret at the end But not the less I like that I thought about it before he said it

[@mrfilcritic]

love the artsyle in this game. Will check it out on gamepass.

[@buzter8135]

Heh-heh, artsyle...

[@jamesmclemore9123]

Just wait until the sequel where Scornguy makes it home only to find out that the flesh chickens killed his pet rabbit.

[@aidansmith1446]

Just recently finished the game. Took me around 4-5 hours, yet felt like a bizarrely enjoyable exploration through a world that has clearly collapsed. All throughout the game, I had this creeping feeling that I was on the precipice of something in equal parts terrifying and esoterically beautiful. I honestly might just load up certain chapters in the future to soak up that Giger ambiance. Definitely a good game to try out if you want some body and existential horror in October to go along with your regular Halloween spooky stuff.

[@MauR1CEnl]

I really like soma. That ending is something that I still think off. Haunthing ending.

[@Ckoz2829]

I’m getting strong Soma vibes from this. I’ll definitely pick it up this weekend. Even if it’s just 4 hours, the game is just too unique to pass up. I gotta play it!

[@Cronama]

There's an audio cue that plays to let you know when it's saved your progress.

[@brad7957]

That mum joke caught me off guard lmaooo, man i love your videos - the perfect balance of serious critique/review and edgy humour :D

[@orchid9]

That's the one guy I didn't expect to understand Scorn... to feel it. it's existential dread game that has everything designed to make you feel. Like you see how the character you play is - ain't an outsider, he knows how machinery works, and he's brutal as fuck, annoyed and angry at creatures. Like when that jackhammer stucks in the head of a creature you FEEL how annoyed the protag is by that weapon and those creatures. The combat makes you feel the protagonist. And, dude, after Soma, you really REALLY surprised me.

[@buttertool6211]

I was a bit hard on the trailers but seeing it finished it's absolutely amazing this game looks sick as hell