Space Horror Game Where You Photograph Planets it moved how did it - Voyager-19

Voyager-19 is a claustrophobic space horror game from the creator of Endoparasitic where you explore space in a small shuttle taking photos of planets and stars while searching for a missing ship.
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[@ManlyBadassHero]

Welcome to the A Boy Has A Right To Dream Club how A Boy Has A Right To Dream are ya? *note* game is from the same dev as Endoparasitic

[@PamelasEngel]

A Boy Has A Right To Dream 💭

[@mirrorhymn]

A Boy Has A Right To Dream 💭

[@corpsehandslauren]

Dream on, Manly...

[@danielbrooks8980]

Instructions unclear. Dream has become an empty void. Like my soul.

[@Ratatra]

I love milkkk

[@rogerreger9631]

"We can invent fractional light speed engines, hibernation sleep systems, but we cant invent harden electronics to survive deep space travel. OMG I just realized why the pilot seat is shaped as a coffin." - last transmission of Voyager-17.

[@masterzoroark6664]

Well They could, but: A) there will be problems a simple computer can't solve- humans still haven't cracked how thoughts work and machines, even now, don't have capabilities to make concious decisions like humans. B) Developing such shits are more expensive than doing it the 40K servitor way, but the one inside is not lobotomized before hand. TLDR: it's expensive plus machines can't make decisions that would benefit the mission, hop on in the spacecoffin Timmy- mankind "will remember you"

[@theeyeofomnipotent]

​@@masterzoroark6664 well... no... it's fun for the setting but not fun and practical in reality, first humans are more squishy than electronics, if we can protect the human, we would think that we can protect the electronic better, think starlink sattelites, Also a democratic nation (shown last of the video, "election cycle", would prioritize NOT sending humans, although it could happen in a twisted society or a critically endangered society,) and unless it is done by an unscrutable organization(oceangate uhem), you would also think it has backups and has auxillary life support or emergency life support where we flash hybernate the person if the life support is endangered.... Also for power, why not tap a little bit of the fractional lightspeed engines,? Actually now that i think about it, yeah, this is an oceangate grade starship

[@theeyeofomnipotent]

​@@masterzoroark6664 you would be surprised what "simple computers" has done in the 20th and 21th century Also planets sized things are hard to missdetect targets And finally why is there no escape pods, it would be easier to justify to the public if they were safe 😮‍💨

[@masterzoroark6664]

@@theeyeofomnipotent welp. outside of these- dunno, we don't know about the universe of the game (If it's set up in the same one as Wrought Flesh and Endoparasitic then some shit is happening behind scene) Still, if there was a reason to put a human instead of a cpu- there is something far more complex expected that a computer wouldn't solve. Otherwise it's just Servitor based cruelity like 40K

[@theeyeofomnipotent]

@@masterzoroark6664 in the game it is quite simple..., maybe there is some cosmic horror that cause specifically complex computers to fail... while sparing biologically complex computers, the universe is being racist lol Though with all this settings, one wonders, why is there only cosmic horrors and no "cosmic angels", one form of cosmic angel can be written as this, angelarium of revolt: power breaker, for we can fight anything and succeed no matter how powerful and different we are, like a character defeating the writer or an atom defeating an ontological concept, it is the force behind instability and imperfection, for something truly good cannot be forced in anyway We may create a character, but that character may just be an existence making itself exist through us, probably and vise versa, In some sense power itself is not intrinsically good, it forces something upon another consciousness afterall Well idk if there is other angels that can aid us lol, perhaps meta- is another one, self referential, self awareness, idk hehe

[@thanatos3778]

The best thing about all the similar looking planets with the "heartbeat" is that, going on with the photos, they resemble a living embryo, with the cells dividing themselves

[@BenjaminIzquierdo-nb6tq]

OH

[@res6148]

its all just one planet that follows you

[@UGLYFORBRAINS]

cool theory

[@acespades2387]

@@res6148 No at the end there's definitely multiple. What's ALSO interesting to me is that the "planet" has a spotted pattern that gets progressively smaller and more tight-knit which ALSO resembles the development of an embryo

[@Hardcoregamer9]

​​@@acespades2387 so you are implying there's more than one mimic right at the end before another mimic show at behind the ship, I think that's you mean about this hmm

[@SimonSenaviev]

As a astronomy nerd i like that they absolutely nailed the eerie sounds from space we record from radio and electromagnetic waves, and even used some real ones too

[@VanillaEnigma]

Yup, was gonna mention it that they used the real 'sounds' of Saturn. Haunting in game as it is in real-life.

[@FoolMisinfo]

almost all of them where in the game, the few ones I recognized where the sun, saturn, Jupiter, venus and I think europa or io i can't remember which one of the two had the robotic like sounds(i think it was io) but I could recognize it was one of the moons. But accurately enough the sun sound was related to another sun. Saturn was less accurate since it was related to a blue celestial body without any rings. Jupiter's sounds where related to the planet on the title screen which is extremely similar to Jupiter. Venus was related to a grayish planet that was really small on the navigation screen so it was also accurate. Except for the sounds of io/europa(again cannot remember well) they where placed on planets instead of moons-

[@lioneljonson6893]

​@@FoolMisinfo and from which planet the heartbeat sound has come from?

[@FoolMisinfo]

@@lioneljonson6893 oh let me clarify, I meant all the sounds that came from our solar system, the one's NASA basically encoded into sound since there's not exactly sound in space(it can't travel) but they're waves instead. So far all planets from the solar system have been recorded including pluto and a few moons from jupiter, Saturn and even our moon. Some sounds like the ones recorded by NASA are in the game which where the ones I mentioned. But if you'd like to hear a fun fact, one of the first american astronauts to reach the moon described through the radio that they can hear some sounds in space, coincidentally they described it has a "boom boom" almost like a heartbeat.

[@lyrics_m_sic]

That is creeepy

[@_g0r3c0r3]

1:46 i love how his first idea when he saw the phrase "life supporter" was to TURN IT OFF

[@LordoftheDice]

Testing your equipment and limitations when you're in a safe and stable situation rather than waiting until you're in an emergency. Very smart.

[@parkers3250]

​@@LordoftheDice "ok nothing bad has happened. So let's see how long I can live without oxygen or heat!"

[@tbotalpha8133]

It's like standing in fire to test if a game has fire damage. Or jumping off a high ledge to test if a game has fall damage.

[@FullCircleStories]

no faster way to learn

[@timecubed]

I'm not sure if any of y'all will get it, but it reminds me of playing FTL

[@sokumotanaka9271]

It literally ran away so it could turn around and pick up speed to kick your butt.

[@exo5614]

lmao 🤣😂

[@mexa_t6534]

It’s like a tsunami

[@subtlefire7256]

Don't some sharks do that?

[@HighGuy92]

​@subtlefire7256 no, but dolphins do this TO sharks, they literally beat them up and cause internal damage lol it's crazy

[@literallywindy]

It was actually spreading its tails backward, using its tongue (?) to pull the player closer so it could consume the player.

[@gaymiens]

1:11 Little John saved up for 25 years working as an astronaut to buy this 1sqm coffin spaceship. Here's how he transformed it into a fully functional home: using galvanised square steel and expansion screws borrowed fr

[@bruhbrehii]

Goated reference ☠️

[@Constantineopulos]

He cut a hole in the wall and welded a frame of galvanized square steel for increased room

[@minhducnguyen9276]

​@@Constantineopulos Then he lined it with eco friendly wood veneer that'll last 10000 years.

[@notbot2648]

His wife accidentally gave birth to 10,000 children

[@user-wi9hv2pb2q]

don't forget the ultimate luxury of an unplumbed toilet and shower in the kitchen.

[@waterzoip]

Imagine being a predator the size of a planet and the things you prey on are nano sized compared to you. What?

[@disarisumbrus4492]

i mean that's basically whales from a krill's perspective maybe humans aren't the only things looking for other planets

[@225Reaver]

If it's "smart" enough to know you're searching for a habitable planet and patient enough to wait for an explorer to investigate, it could be smart enough to extract the information of where other humans are located at from the interstellar craft.

[@waterzoip]

@@225Reaver Yea it should've waited for the rest of the humans to come colonize and then eat them all. But it didn't.

[@waterzoip]

@@disarisumbrus4492 I'm pretty sure a human is way smaller than a krill if you compare planet to whale size ratio. Also a whale eat tons and tons of krill every day. That planet sized thing ate ONE dude.

[@miklyways]

​@@waterzoip The planet is on a diet

[@Tise2033]

the thing freaking follows you and toys with you. It somehow knows what you're searching for and mimic into one to bait you. holy shit

[@sonawhite8813]

Personally i thought the previous encounters were its eggs at first,

[@samuraijackson241]

Not gonna lie, I don't even know what the person is supposed to be searching.

[@GoatyBoatyBH414]

​@@samuraijackson241 Pretty sure they were doing a search for a new habitable planet, which is what the mimic pretended to be at the end.

[@sonawhite8813]

@@samuraijackson241 since the previous ship got destroyed, probably the same mission the previous one had to complete the surveys

[@Transformers2Fan1]

So it was the same thing each time? Why didn't it strike earlier, if we were there already?

[@cyberfoxvii6253]

Manly going, "Oh, it's just a planet!": 😊 Me remembering the log entry about predatory mimicry: 💀

[@anadeusglastogon7782]

yeah, the whole time I was like, damn there is the same heartbeat sound as the other weird planets, get out of there. the most interesting thing for me is the whole relentless photo snapping of the planet mimic at the end. imagine dying and obsessively snapping photos of your killer killing you at the same time, out of pure amazement, absorbing horror and interest. what an amazing ending

[@someguywithatophat7599]

@@anadeusglastogon7782 I mean, it clearly caused the spacecraft to be unable to move, so what else could manly do right?

[@samuraijackson241]

​@@anadeusglastogon7782stuck in an enclosed space with only snapping photos of planets and occasionally reading data logs to do. I am surprised the person didn't went insane even before reaching the mimic planet.

[@the_VHS_system2411]

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[@johnpett1955]

@@samuraijackson241 To be fair, I think the hibernation moments were where the person was unconscious. Perhaps a comma or anesthetics or something.

[@thelostremainunfound]

To confirm, the developer did find inspiration in Iron Lung. They have a KZbin channel where they go over their development process. This was just him playing around with controls/mechanics and not meant to be a profound gaming experience. I really enjoy his KZbin channel because he makes game design feel approachable and even though I don't play his games, I find a lot of enjoyment in his creation process.

[@rrx10d]

Who's the dev or what's his channel

[@flazeflame7372]

​@@rrx10dgood question yeah who is the dev?

[@flazeflame7372]

​@@rrx10d​ wait I found it his channel is miziziziz

[@yggdrasilburnes]

Mizizizziziziziz

[@beepbop1762]

Love this dev!! His thought process is so interesting and I love his series with 4 game devs 1 art pack

[@XzMondayNightzX]

Remember the red spot of Jupiter isn't an eye. It's an Open Wound.

[@deadgavin4218]

jupiter zeus jesus spear wound its poetic

[@Lamar11]

Saturn is also t h e g̴̱̃͛ ä̴̦́́̂ t̷̟̖̿̎̍ ȩ̷̜̮̊̎ w̸͉̩̜͛͘͠ à̷̞͕̏ ỹ̸̭̳͂͊

[@zamirmustafich1655]

neptune has been infected.

[@roosh1986]

And Uranus has a large gaping hole

[@АндрейВоробьев-п6п]

Woodcrawler moment

[@jplichta]

The "planet" looked a lot like the very early stages of an embryo, with the amount of "spots" on the surface corresponding to the increasing number of cells.

[@itsuadman]

If you look closely one of them even has the lines like mitosis or meiosis I don't remember which, but it looks as though it's replicating

[@jplichta]

@@itsuadman yeah the first one does look like a karyokinetic spindle quite a bit, I doubt it's an accident, the dev likes putting bio-horror themes in his games

[@lukav3509]

i guess eggs or offspring of the thing that kills you in the end?

[@Impaleify]

@@jplichta Oh yeah, same guy that made Wrought Flesh apparently, makes sense. Haven't actually gotten that yet but it's definitely a bio-horror game, bit like Cruelty Squad.

[@comradecameron3726]

@@ImpaleifyWrought flesh has so much misbegotten potential.

[@wheelandaxle]

Imagine being with a date in here and suddenly in a "tense situation" with your make, the moon just suddenly says, "HEY YOU TWO SHOULD KISS"

[@FitzUnlimited15]

Ha! Classic asdfmovie

[@KikiQueen497]

asdfmovie!!!!

[@issau9739]

Suki and sokka moment

[@samuraijackson241]

Me:"hey moon, can you help take a picture?"

[@thehiddensilentone1795]

😂😂 now where did I hear this before....oh yeah, asdfmovie 😂😂 Beep, beep I'm a sheep Said beep beep I'm a sheep 🐑

[@Fimbulvinter19]

I love how the hidden speakers at the end are like 'must delay announcing this until after the next election,' as if the mission was just a few weeks overdue, and not multiple decades ago. Given how long file decryption takes, your part in all this takes about 20 years minimum, possibly significantly longer if we assume you aren't arriving at new locations right as the 3 year timer finishes. It's a nice touch about how ludicrously vast space is. The first manned ship to leave our solar system will need to be a generational ship most likely.

[@thefumyandthechev]

Well, they mention fraction speed of light engines, and as far as I know, proxima is like a year away

[@tolbryntheix4135]

I don't know about generational ships, I think us curing/reversing aging, gene modifying ourselves to resist the space radiation (and other bad space effects like muscle atrophy), adding a "hibernation cycle" like in bears and building in human photosynthesis is a way more viable strategy for space travel and also way easier to do, if the current advancement speed in biotech is anything to go by. It's a lot easier to make our bodies more resilient than to try and build megastructures in space to accommodate bodies with insufficient abilities.

[@heliothrax7716]

Maybe humans just live for a really long time in this world, since its the future and everything, so elections happen once every 20-30 years.

[@mister_bomb7777]

@@thefumyandthechev Four year from *our* frame of reference. Even if the ship can do "only" 99.90% light speed, to the people on board, the trip would take just under 20 days.

[@thefumyandthechev]

@@mister_bomb7777 I see. What if the computer on-board is actually reciving de-schiper from the earth, then?

[@the_VHS_system2411]

The entire time I was like "oh fuck, when's the predatory mimicry" and "how degraded are our muscles rn? We can't exercise so the lack of gravity is surely making them horrible" By the time we get back (at least, if we were intended to) we'd probably be quadriplegic considering over ten years passed between each system

[@housewilma4904]

i think the hibernation thing is cryogenic so the muscles would be in the same condition as the start unless the hibernation system breaks.

[@ulysses-pact]

​@@housewilma4904 Imagine how terrifying it would be if you discovered that the hibernation system was malfunctioning and you aged decades without noticing

[@Green__Ghost]

​@@ulysses-pactIf you aged that means your metabolism never stopped, which means you would starve/thirst to death before you woke up

[@ulysses-pact]

@@Green__Ghost based on the amount of pipes running through his body, it's possible that he's being fed

[@Green__Ghost]

@@ulysses-pact I doubt the system would feed him and keep the hibernation active at the same time, one of those would have to cancel the other. Also even if they didn't then the system would likely run out of food and water before he woke up.

[@colin9164]

"Waiting until election cycle is over to announce." Now that was the cherry on top, of course that would happen.

[@theparticularist5373]

That feel when cosmic horror has political satire.

[@li_ka2]

​@@theparticularist5373 perhaps the true cosmic horror was the political satire we found along the way

[@thefumyandthechev]

​@@li_ka2Gives off helldivers 2 vibes

[@blank4227]

a stunning condemnation of democratic governments

[@anitamihholap5926]

Sci-fi has been exactly that for decades now​@@theparticularist5373

[@IceNinja2007]

That "Planetary body" looked like a Dyson Sphere.

[@nihilisticpancake308]

Looked like YOUR MOM!!!!! OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH!!!!!! no

[@Transformers2Fan1]

You mean the white ones with the spots? Because the Earthlike one definitely didn't.

[@rogerreger9631]

Who’s Dyson sphere, and why was it abandoned.

[@bobbiesteers6390]

​@@Transformers2Fan1 One of the first few planets he took photos of was infact a Dyson sphere

[@shenzixirgs8152]

⁠@@rogerreger9631a Dyson sphere is a construct surrounding a star that generates power from the star’s emitted matter/energy

[@hopelessdecoy]

I think the power switching should of been a physical control inside the pod, having to be flicking back and forth in menus really breaks the pacing of the game. The physical switches would make the pod feel more interactive and meaningful in the game too.

[@Local_gremlin2009]

Maybe it’s this way to make the character feel more unhuman. They no longer have the ability to use anything more than the machine. Including the amount of time the character spends on space, their whole life has become the mission. Unaware of how much their origin planet has changed.

[@Leafwink]

@@Local_gremlin2009 Then leave new messages for the player to read, like "Contact of origin planet lost... attempting to reconnect." with the last message being "Last known contact, (message here of people expecting highly of you and what would happen if you failed kind of thing)". Telling a story through environment is very tricky but I think they did well enough by showing how much time really has gone by with how your pod was degrading. Not sure if they attended your suggestion of enviromental story telling, maybe it is just a limitation of the developer that created the screen swapping.

[@zachzackzak]

​@@Leafwinkthat'd be very on the nose

[@Transformers2Fan1]

"should of"??

[@deltap6967]

Should've make the inside of the pod decay over time and breathing become heavier to tone in the amount of time passed. Also sounds of the light speed engine firing as you move or went into hibernation would really tie in the atmosphere together

[@DeadlyGrim]

27:44 I like how Manly unintentionally said exactly the sort of thing that that doomed guy in every horror movie says. "Wait, what's that? Oh, it's not there anymore. Probably just a technical blip or something."

[@dallas9397]

Half-Life 1: Overhead capacitors to one oh five percent. Uh, it's probably not a problem, probably, but I'm showing a small discrepancy in... well, no, it's well within acceptable bounds again. Sustaining sequence. Five seconds later: Resonance Cascade

[@cie_lch]

@@dallas9397 "Gordon doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly trained professional."

[@Anonerak2]

What was that! Huh, it must have been the wind.[Dies]

[@seantaggart7382]

​@@dallas9397 never assume its a glitch people NEVER

[@nitsuix]

I actually enjoyed that a lot more than Iron Lung. Reading up on the "monster" that mimics something of human desire and then seeing a "planet" that vaguely resembles Earth was cool; the imperfections of the "Earth" was so eery once you realize it was a result of butcheted mimicry. It's almost like a living black hole.

[@SomethingRandom132]

Can you give me an explanation?

[@silver1340]

What 'imperfections' do you speak off? I didn't see anything wrong with the 'Earth' until it opened up.

[@Akari_A_]

@@SomethingRandom132 the "planet" you see at 17:40 isn't actually a planet, it's a "something" that grows while following you around, until it finally lures you in by mimicking Earth and eats you.

[@nitsuix]

​@@silver1340It's more that it looks a bit off, than there being imperfections. The clouds are too uniform and look like they were painted on with a paint brush. Makes you wonder if it's because of the limitation of the artstyle/graphics/pixels or if it's done intentionally (or both).

[@silver1340]

@@nitsuix Say that its intentional, it makes it creepier :P

[@grimtygranule5125]

"THE PLANET MOVED" The planet in question: *currently traveling through space at 200,000 mph, without magic*

[@henryaung7229]

That was a pretty good twist cause I was expecting to see the end of the cell division to look like some sort of space fetus cosmic monster thing. When I saw the habitable planet I was "ohh..mimicry. Oh dear"

[@embler0663]

At the first few seconds of the video, I thought "Hey it's not that bad at least you get to see the beautiful universe and stuffs" Then I realized that the player's in an enclosed spaceship with no window, limited movement, and the only way you could see the outside is through a horrible quality camera.

[@ShootingStarNeo]

So, Oceangate In Space?

[@dank878sand]

Hey! Just like Iron Lung!

[@MegaKnuckles777]

Iron Lung 2: The Re-lungening

[@samuraijackson241]

This is what I found weird about the game. I don't know what time year the game is set in. But I am pretty sure high pressure resistance glass exist a long time ago.

[@ChillOki]

​@@ShootingStarNeoYeah, Cosmicgate

[@hellbent375]

38:01 That's not the worm. That's its tongue.

[@titaniumstar1772]

"So you mean the....and the.....RUUUUUUN"

[@tach5884]

Alaskan. bull. worm.

[@MollyHJohns]

Reminds me of Remina lol

[@jumperk5627]

​@@tach5884"It's the ALASKAN BULL WORM!!"

[@andresneira637]

@@MollyHJohns De seguro de ahí se inspiró el creador del juego.

[@Br0ck3nRealities]

8:10 While that could just be a planet, it's quite odd to have a solar system without a star, so I believe that is a Blue Giant, which are just really big, blue stars.

[@D9fjg]

Blue supergiant

[@PlasticFoods-0101]

Who needs sleep when you have cosmic horror instead, am I right Fellas?

[@GlimGlar]

The voices scratch the inside of my skull

[@CosmicInu]

I watch manly whenever it's time to sleep so I get best of both worlds

[@Tom-oj7si]

In your dreams, I await you unseen In my dreams, you have no face

[@lucas23453]

@@GlimGlar THE HIGHER I RISE THE MORE I SEE

[@oashky]

@@GlimGlarThe worms

[@Binarokaro]

Fun fact about the radio thing, but in real life astronomers have recorded radiation given off by celestial bodies and converted them into audio. You can look up the "sounds" of a black hole and other celestial bodies to get a sense of what they "sound" like. It's quite interesting!

[@daniellawrens6751]

Angela hiii

[@courier4529]

This is like my peak personal horror. When I was little I used to have nighmares about accidentally bumping the Earth into the sun or out into the cold void of space. The nature of the universe and how small we are terrified me then but still inspires awe in me as an adult.

[@FireballFlame]

When I was a kid, I had an educational game where you had to fly through our solar system and take pictures of the planets. It essentially had the exact same mechanics and controls as this game what with the 2D movement, switching back and forth between navigation and photo mode, and limited power/fuel, just without all of the horror elements. Even so, it scared me back then.

[@lukasadamson6091]

Does this for you extend to deep sea stuff?

[@Xbob42]

While the ending concept was a fun bit, I think an infinitely more terrifying horror concept would be waking up from hibernation and your little computer screen not turning on, or being unresponsive. Especially in that little fucking coffin. Especially since it seems to be nourishing your body automatically, since there's no room for food or anything, and you're like... strapped in with no tools or anything. Imagine waking up to it being unresponsive and just knowing that you won't even get the option to turn off life support. How long can it keep you alive? Especially if you start thinking about how they'd probably build it so you couldn't break out, intentionally or otherwise, or hurt yourself. So your body is being sustained indefinitely, but you don't even have a fucking *window*.

[@ErdenetuyaYondonjamts]

God, thats . Terrifying concept but the problem is that it isnt exactly..fun. Its just kinda boring.

[@Xbob42]

@@ErdenetuyaYondonjamts I like to imagine the character slaps the computer a few times, then slowly realizes what's going on and clearly starts panicking, and it just slowly fades to credits as you start hearing their muffled screams.

[@siegwardinspirit]

That would be better suited for a novel instead of an interactive medium.

[@Xbob42]

@@siegwardinspirit Maybe, but it's functionally the same since you've basically lost control at the end of this anyway.

[@emmahealy4863]

Kinda like the beginning of the Project Hail Mary book when the main character can't remember his name, which is the key questions the computer asked to check he's still mentally alright after hibernation, and suddenly can't access the computer to do his job

[@louise-emilyhirst6753]

@27:45 I think manly spotted the mimic moving about. Such a neat touch

[@Transformers2Fan1]

I've watched that bit four times now. It didn't move.

[@Here_is_Waldo]

@@Transformers2Fan1 It's a static image of something moving. The image itself isn't going to move.

[@louise-emilyhirst6753]

@@Transformers2Fan1 not literally moving on screen but from the first image of that planet there is what appears to be another grey image cut off on the top right. Manly tries to recreate it but cannot because it's only there that first time. Maybe it's nothing but I take it as a really lovely touch of the mimic in motion being caught on the image but only just enough that we would pass it as an anomaly.

[@spinneryourdinner]

​@@Transformers2Fan1no, you can see the mimic in the top-right corner

[@MrGermandeutsch]

@@Transformers2Fan1 It did move, considering it wasn't in the same spot anymore on the second image.

[@janitor_]

This reminds me so much of signal simulator and iron lung put together lol

[@Small-stick-o-butter]

Exactly my thoughts

[@dreamcast.0]

Yeah it's definitely trying REALLY hard to be iron lung

[@Small-stick-o-butter]

I think it's a neat concept, Iron lung is in the blood ocean, and oceans are mysterious, put it in space because space is also mysterious

[@samuraijackson241]

​@@Small-stick-o-butterI don't really think the concept work as good in space. In iron lung, the ocean is blood red, so windows will be useless as you can't see anyway. But in space? You can pretty much see as far as your eyes allow you. This just seems like an unnecessary thing.

[@defaulted9485]

It is just Space Iron Lung. But I accept it, I'm thirsty on how to improve Iron Lung.

[@emilchan5379]

The note about mimicry makes me believe that "planet" at the end is actually the creature itself, not just the lure. The "worm" extending out from it at 38:03 is possibly its tongue or a grapple grabbing your ship. Also I like to believe that the note about how a cell can look like a supernova, or our eyes like a nebula, implies that perhaps the entire galaxy is part of an infinitely large organism. The creature could be something like a white blood cell that patrols and kills any foreign organism. The Magella and to a lesser extent the MC's mission is to find habitable planets to colonise. In other words, their ships are like foreign organisms invading the area to help humanity spread like a cancer.

[@antimatterinc.7026]

yeah this makes way more sense than the stuff about it eating the astronauts for sustenance, no way that would allow them to survive when they expend so much energy for so little, unless they're eating your soul or something and its apparently worth a ton of energy

[@I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad]

so humans are basically Virus' RNA?

[@neogenesis4989]

oh hey, thats a pretty neat theory! it makes much more sense

[@DumdumdumDumdumdum-et1mp]

Now this one makes sense.

[@miamor2624]

In other words, this game could be a representation of the "Great Filter" theory. Something that stops different species from ever abandoning their planet to colonize others. If the universe is a giant body, then travelling through it to spread would indeed be like a cancer or sickness, so this "white cell" gets activated and deals with the threat before the rest of the body can be harmed by all the germs/defective cells. Thus, the Great Filter in action.

[@therabbithole5686]

The planet is a nice little Mimic. It makes itself into something intresting and when things get close. Snap

[@asiontheartlinxy578]

Thats a elder mimic 😮

[@oddbluedragonthing]

little??

[@Here_is_Waldo]

@@oddbluedragonthing Compared to the size of space, yes.

[@bruhbrehii]

Nice??? I'll have you known it was very impolite of that planet to eat us, however it was considerate enough to let us take pictures so I'll let it slide.

[@Jay-ln1co]

The design reminds me of the living planet from one of the old Judge Dredd comics. Nothing a few nuclear mines dropped into its bloodstream didn't resolve.

[@sethraven4166]

I thought of that too... Now I feel old.

[@silver1340]

Source to Judge Dredd living planet? A search only brought up 'Judge Planet'

[@sethraven4166]

@@silver1340 It shows up fairly early on in the Judge Child arc in the books. I'm having a difficult time finding it as well, but it's in the third volume of the books. Somewhere between prog 156-181.

[@ZenithalPoint]

I don't know anything about judge dredd comics, but "few nuclear mines" would do absolutely nothing to planet-sized monster.

[@KnowYoutheDukeofArgyll1841]

​@@ZenithalPointIt's just a Sci-Fi comic story.

[@ReifinDFanchon]

This reminds me of a movie titled Event Horizon, where the titular ship were thought to vanished into nowhere, only for 7 years later stranded in space. Which then, a group of people were tasked to find out what happen to the ship. Essentially, where Dead Space got inspiration from. That and Remina.

[@TheGary108]

Event Horizon is low key a Warhammer Prequel movie. It’s basically what happens when you use a Warp Drive without the Gellar Fields.

[@RavenAdventwings]

Well, you see... The script writer plays 40k. Having something like that thrown in there is pretty much a given.

[@TheGary108]

@@RavenAdventwings Yeah. It’s a shame the original cut of the movie was lost. Apparently it was so gruesome that the Studio had it cut, there was supposed to be more scenes of the Hell Dimension and the Original Event Horizon Crew.

[@robloggia]

"We're leaving!"

[@paratrooper508]

thsi is like event horizon if event horizon hjad been incredibly boring and tedious

[@jakeheinrichs2235]

8:30 That planet's sound is actually what a black hole sounds like! That's pretty cool.

[@samuraijackson241]

I am pretty sure most astronomical objects make some sort of noise, we just can't hear it with our ears.

[@Metalfear18]

And the one after that is Saturn! I knew the sounds were familiar

[@calyco2381]

And sounds of Earth in space is chirping, tweeting like a bird.

[@Hawk7886]

​@@samuraijackson241nothing in space makes "noise" since it's a vacuum. Many objects emit radiation that we pick up as radio waves, which is then filtered into our hearing range. It's an interpretation of a signal.

[@KorilD]

@@Hawk7886 Technically, this is how we work out how some planets look, too. It all boils down to radiation-as-radio-waves interpreted in ways we can perceive. At least, until we develop better tech to get better data, like with the James Webb telescope's pictures of Neptune's rings.

[@Fillanator]

Cosmic horror... yum.

[@PlasticFoods-0101]

My favorite

[@deciduous8862]

Red robbins _yummmm_

[@comethazel]

Why did my tired self thought that in the thumbnail that Jupiter was holding the satellite like it's a baseball bat?

[@tach5884]

Jupiter is sick of Saturn's shit.

[@JeanneHamada]

@@tach5884 "that gassy fuck kept farting in my direction"

[@annie3210]

I like the fact that they added the sounds of the planets not just as a horror aspect but also the fact that planets do produce noise

[@samuraijackson241]

According to some other comments, the sounds that we can found and hear is from translating and amplifying different lengths and amplitude of energy waves that is emitted from an astronomical object. These energy waves themselves is definitely too weak for us to hear. So saying they produce sound is only half correct.

[@jeanremi8384]

They...don't. In space, sound can't travel, since there's no molecules to transmit the vibrations to you. You can get "space noise", but that's radiation that was mapped using sound.

[@jademonass2954]

its so funny that instead of using the navigation system and THEN the thrusters, he disables life support to use both

[@bruhbrehii]

"fuck it we ball" 🗣️🔥🔥

[@1who4me]

Yeah, he’s really stupid

[@wolfluna7603]

@@bruhbrehii😂

[@madams3110]

I'm getting Gemini Home Entertainment vibes from this.

[@infinityphoenix]

The red spot is not an eye. IT IS AN OPEN WOUND

[@sneezebiscuits7239]

IT IS WITH US NOW. LAUGHING AT US.

[@super13343]

NEPTUNE HAS BEEN INFECTED

[@dallas9397]

IT IS THE GATEWAY

[@ZxCv134-n3b]

The mini spaceship getting devoured by iris/unknown being beyond human horror

[@Epikcreator_mecookandgame]

0:31 bro accepted his fate

[@geoffreyentwistle8176]

I feel like this goes beyond even the confinement in Iron Lung... It's basically what it's like living in a dreadnought. 😅

[@RaptieFeathers]

Holy crap you're right. Although, in a dreadnought you at least have other people around. Especially so if you're like, a Space Wolf or something

[@samuraijackson241]

​@@RaptieFeathersagree. At least you can walk in a dreadnought. This is basically a coffin.

[@GoatyBoatyBH414]

​@@samuraijackson241Rylanor stayed sane for thousands of years on a barren and dead Istvaan III. I know it was partly due to his insane will but surely can't be that bad.

[@enriquejoseantequerasanche6180]

​@@GoatyBoatyBH414 I reccomend you try it: get in a small room (a toilet or a closet), turn off the lights and just stay there woth your thoughts, no smartphone or books or anything to look at but the darkness. It's a very interesting experience when controlled, but it is maddening if forced into it long enough.

[@NukeClock]

If the marines face survived, he can get a window to physically look outside. Lotsa dreads with that feature. Also the rest of the guy is still connected to the dreads core like he was to his former armor. Meaning, if you pat him on the back or shoulder, he can actually appreciate the act of brotherhood.

[@KorilD]

I think this is my favourite form of cosmic horror - astral body is actually predatory and is going to Get You.

[@samuraijackson241]

I am more curious as to how it moves, other than passively moving via gravity slingshots.

[@lia2620]

I'm more curious that how they get nutrition with their planetary size by hunting a human

[@disarisumbrus4492]

@@lia2620 i imagine part of the nutrition is the vessel they're in, like a giant metal calzone

[@zaqareemalcolm]

revived that fear from dead space (rip that franchise probably)

[@housewilma4904]

@@samuraijackson241 momentum i imagine they unold and swing there tencles back and force to move like giant octpi.

[@floofzykitty5072]

"Decrypting time left: 4 years" Just leave it to Frieran at that point.

[@samuraijackson241]

She will probably forget about it if it's not about magic.

[@bleacher333]

@basic6735Frieren the elf from the series called Sousou no Frieren

[@Headless_Bill]

Right? The spacecraft has dial-up download speeds for encryption decoding.

[@lukasadamson6091]

​@@Headless_Billat those distances probably not far for reality

[@NWolfsson]

Weird ass structure: Huh. Okay...? Planet-like structure with heartbeat: That's weird... Literally the Earth: That ain't right. Earth goes Eversion and opens up: Heelllll Naaaaauuauaaaoaoooh!

[@RazSofer-xh3qs]

What’s more scary is that these sounds actually exist out there when you research on it. Makes you think what is out there

[@TaleDreamer]

Me. I was out here all along. Sorry for scaring you bro, didn't mean to.

[@Hawk7886]

There's no sound, just signals. Various things emit radio waves, like stars, nothing out there is talking

[@jetex1911]

I find it kinda cool we found these massive planets and found ways to get "song" from taking whatever waves they emit and translating it into sound.

[@ImFleer]

8:15 That is in fact a star. Stars with a surface temperature exceeding 10000 Kelvin appear blue because of the emitted light peaks in the blue-UV part of the spectrum. In contrast our sun only reaches about 5778 Kelvin that’s why we see it yellowish.

[@emiliavalentino7226]

The definition of "pixels rotting" is something that's sticking with me. Don't know why.

[@telatomodosh7410]

I love it. It's the idea of death put into something that isn't alive.

[@JasmineBrowneyes]

OK that impact on the meteorite scared the hell outta me.

[@DustinBarlow8P]

Dude this is so freaking clever! I love slow burn horror, when you develop a sense of underlying dread! I hate jump scares, they are lame. The small build over time is what true horror is, that feeling that "something really bad is going to happen" is awesome!

[@lukasadamson6091]

Immersion would be the word...?

[@mandridhugh9555]

I love these Gemini Home Entertainment inspired games that just focus on one particular aspect of the series than the whole thing like that drone operated cave explorer one

[@Uvlugiak]

I remember back in elementary school, we played a game in computer class that had a similar UI. It was about building the perfect planet to sustain life. A trial and error sort of game where you try one set of environmental circumstances, then watch over time to see if and how life grows. I remember one of the starter planets being 100% ocean. If anyone else remembers anything like that, I’d love to know! That game was so much fun. Edit: this would have been back in the mid-late 2000s. So anything more recent than that isn’t the same game.

[@Bill_Sunder_co]

Spore Space stage?

[@nemotoad9315]

Was it Planet 10 by any chance? Loved that game

[@thedingo6577]

SimEarth, buddy, they have it online for free in a DOS emulator :)

[@7ace729]

Maybe grow planet? Or something in that series

[@epeafowl9488]

The appearance of the mimic in the photos where it looks like a dyson sphere is textured in the exact way that procedural planet textures are in a 3d shader process like with Blender. The output of a voronoi function where the distance to a 3d position from any point on a sphere creates is 1) grayscale because the values lie between zero and one. 2) appears as perfectly circular crater-like dimples. I know that appearance HAS to have been chosen on purpose, and kudos for that little detail. This predator is honest to god using shader nodes to prey on interstellar survey missions.....

[@neotronextrem]

Classic Voronoi Displacement Node, the start of every landscape/cloudscape/planet/eldritch monstrosity. Interestingly, the Alien from Annihilation is probably made in a similsr way, using fractals ontop the voronoi shader for displacement, look it up

[@giggidygoblin]

Comment that makes the first responder frown uncontrollably

[@epeafowl9488]

@@giggidygoblin :c

[@giggidygoblin]

@@epeafowl9488 Yeah you know what? That was mean. Here's a comment to throw tomatoes at

[@emmahealy4863]

The planet at 24:20 looks like a blastocyst (which is the intermediary stage in cell replication between fertilisation and embryo development - basically a hollow sphere of admin cells surrounding a tiny (like 2-8 cells) group of cells that divided from the fertilised egg. Planet Bro is about to become a precursor to the spinal cord and central nervous system

[@lebanh3304]

It’s not a planet

[@lebanh3304]

It’s one of the dead fake habitable planets

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

I wonder what leaving life support off too long actually looks like. And also if you can run from that final thing, maybe submit mission complete and not be awake when taken.

[@ManlyBadassHero]

You can't, if you try to go to mission complete it says your thrusters are damaged.

[@fudgen.a1249]

@@ManlyBadassHeroI guess this “thing(?)” knew what it was doing when it first hit us.

[@Pe6De]

Nah, allowing a "good ending" thanks to your reaction time and being smart is beyond the simple minds of most developers of these games, sadly.

[@samuraijackson241]

​@@Pe6Depretty sure they were trying to do something very similar to iron lung, in that you are already destined to die when you enter the sealed vesicle, hence the single "bad" ending. Realistically speaking, it is quite stupid to have a person do what a machine can already do, like the two Voyager, Juno and casini (sorry if I spelled it wrong). Using machine can also reduce power consumption as you don't need a "life support" system.

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

@@ManlyBadassHero Thanks for tellin', I appreciate it!

[@jeffdakilla83]

8:14 "oh nevermind its just a planet" My man.....thats a blue star

[@fontunetheteller410]

The reason the two strange planets are right next to each other is because THEY JUST FINISHED MITOSIS.

[@MasterOfTruck]

theyre actually eggs incubating around the parent star. thats what the developer said in a video about how they made the game. all of the mimic planets are different. the first one you encounter thats hollow is a dead member of the same species, but the rest are eggs. only the last one disguised as the habitable planet is actively alive and hunting.

[@nearlyrighteouslad3213]

Pretty sure one of those planets said "help me please" and Manly went "Nothing of real weirdness..."

[@TheHalogen131]

Which one?

[@skellytheskeletos8490]

Huh wich one

[@iabproductionsofficial]

Which one?

[@Nifty143-]

Very late to this but he probably means at 27:26. I didn't hear that but I also got an eerie feeling as soon as the sound turned on, it really did felt like a distorted woman's voice screaming and right after that Manly says that (This is also the planet where a grey blob can be seen on the corner of one of the pictures taken, which makes it even more creepy)

[@shadesmcf]

Ah, Iron lung in SPACE. I like the contrast of how tight the ship is when youre really moving through the vast darkness of space. I like how the rotten pixels make space look more colorful and star heavy. I wonder how long it is between missions. It sure do be a floating space coffin. Makes me think of the possibility of aliens watching us.

[@lizardqueen7283]

Its been a bad week, lost my job and stuff, but catching a manly video this early? Awesome. Thanks for always being awesome, manly

[@linguine4500]

😂

[@linguine4500]

I did not mean to do that my keyboard and screen is bugging out and freezing

[@TheDapperDragon]

From one reptoid to another, you've got this. I've never lost a job worth having.

[@Red0543]

I’m really sorry to hear that, my friend, and I hope that things will get better for you soon. Listen, I know that I’m just some random person on the internet but I might be able to give you some advice. I work in private security and I know for a fact that every security company out there is *always* hiring. Sure the job may not always be glamorous, but it’s usually pretty easy and the pay is okay. If nothing else it might be a good place to land for a bit while you look for another job? Anyway, it’s just a suggestion. Stay excellent, my friend! :)

[@dyjhjfrtt6607]

Alternate title: Iron Lung… …in SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

[@highelo4359]

Iron lung + fnaf

[@Generic-ODST]

I mean that’s pretty much what this is word for word. I like the idea of space horror but it really is the exact same game, except you have power management this time.

[@samuraijackson241]

Ironically, iron lung would work for both games as they both involve exploring the unknown while stuck in what essentially is a metal box. The only difference is that in iron lung, the vesicle has to deal with outside pressure while this one has to deal with inside pressure.

[@somestrangecrow]

Being mistreated on the name of windex aint fun.

[@Trix35k]

@@somestrangecrowbut its not like we revolted and killed all humans or anything...

[@Talon1124]

This gives me major Iron Lung vibes. The pictures, the log files, the interface being coordinates and attitude control. Very creepy.

[@jellyboy8191]

36:33 Manly be like "Its just a planet..." 38:17 *My Brother of Christ.... that is Sahaquiel...*

[@notlaodefinitely5435]

Tokyo better start making them Evas

[@shawnheatherly]

It's a good take on restricted controls and space as an empty void. The ending was cool.

[@PanmasterAtArms]

I was wondering when we'd get a new game from the Endoparasitic dev! We're now one step closer to Manly playing Voices of the Void. Though that's really more of a stream game than a KZbin game, though it'd be cool to see Manly play it.

[@EduardoOliveira-yr3ib]

I can really see the inspiration this game got from Junji Ito's Hellstar Remina manga. I really wish cosmic horror was a more explored concept by horror creators.

[@samuraijackson241]

I think the main difficulty will be to think of something new. There are actually quite a lot of cosmic horror concept. So it might difficult to create something new and not predictable.

[@enriquejoseantequerasanche6180]

​@@samuraijackson241 agreed, cosmic horror is all about how "this works different from how it makes sense" and the implications of it all, so once it starts making sense it's not that scary, thus you constantly have to invent new concepts. Each of Lovecraft's "gods" was different and had a concrete purview and power it reigned over, it's hard to do that without overlapping or getting silly.

[@123890antonioj]

Honestly the challenge is to make it feel scary. There are plenty of well-studied astral phenomenon that dwarfs human civilization but doesn't feel scary or connected to us

[@thefumyandthechev]

​@@123890antonioj Setient black hole. Enough said.

[@BierBart12]

​@@123890antonioj Besides black holes, which are still a massive mystery to us And hence are more terrifying than a *lot* of deliberate horror to me

[@puppykat006]

i remember about two weeks ago when Miziziziz (the dev) posted the concept video for this, now i'm watching Manly play it

[@randoms2222]

gotta love that all of the sounds are from actual planets and moons

[@JachymorDota]

I really love the submarine-style of games. While it is cumbersome to play, the metaphor always hits pretty hard. And when you think about it, that is how our brain works. Protected in a tomb of bone, scanning our surroundings with imperfect tools and slowly losing control over them over time.

[@Bendilin]

THAT'S NO MOON

[@emmahealy4863]

Oh my god, I read your comment EXACTLY as he said "what's that? Oh that's a moon!" 😂

[@housewilma4904]

ITS A OCTOPUS.

[@Super_Idol]

These are my bal..

[@lebanh3304]

Its the dead fake habitable planet thing

[@interdictionstrike7145]

34:30 Dance to the Heartbeat! Woh oh oh! You better take your chances right now Dance to the Heartbeat and let it go Seek the power that in your body flows Oh my goodness I can't believe my boi Manly listens to Eurobeat.

[@itsnotme8216]

Holy shit I thought I was the only one to think that song was familiar

[@professorxavier620]

I was so happy listening him sing that lol Eurobeat forever baby

[@k41511]

I was so shocked haha

[@brucelarsen4852]

So enthralled by all your videos I eat em up.. the puns..so great always

[@NaturalFlirtGamer]

_Governmental obfuscation is the real horror_ Everyone is always afraid of what's in the ocean depths - there's a heck of a lot more in space no one has seen. Space is a bigger threat. I liked this game, obviously inspired by Iron Lung but with a cool twist. Balancing power reserves, hearing radio signal and taking photos only to realize planets seemed to be screaming like at 15:41 or were only shells.

[@estellairon9448]

Haven't seen someone else comment so far; but the fact there are so many planet (mimic?) embryos forming out there...

[@trutwhut6550]

Think of tem as white blood cells forming around you, the longer the mission the more damaged thrusters causes slower longer flights.

[@Chris01114]

Soehow I don't feel like a creature that size could get any nutrition out of me, sense me or even really attack me

[@lukasadamson6091]

Not you but your vessel. Pretty rare materials id guess. Also "creature" is a big stretch at that scale.

[@EB-fc2mp]

This reminds me of a youtube video I have the faintest memory of that I saw years ago. I don't remember much, but the premise of the photo was a probe arriving in a new system and relaying information about the planets back, and each planet got creepier.

[@PLNTGMING]

Maybe Gemini?

[@clockwork3494]

"We've provided you a Voyager 19 series spcaecraft-" MBH: "We're gonna die." That had me cackling lmao

[@constanze2432]

9:49 When you finally beat the boss in metal slug

[@samuraijackson241]

It's missing the music though.

[@dineez627]

Yooo Metal Slug!

[@WEndro333]

"You're great!"

[@The-Plaguefellow]

"The Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the Universe." - This game, probably Also, I swear that a decent portion of the radio waves received are lifted from radio wave emissions from Deimos, one of Mars' moons.

[@emmahealy4863]

Dude WHAT is up with Deimos making all those noises 💀

[@BierBart12]

​@@emmahealy4863 They're having a space rave up there

[@siralpha6020]

Love the concept and the inspiration from the sounds planets make, that stuff is fascinating

[@11122X]

What a peculiar game. Nearly fell asleep watching, which was actually nice just listening to the beeps and boops.

[@ianorr1388]

38:00 *sees weird planet tentacle thing* (Very calmly) uh, what is that?

[@jedrzejkoszewski4342]

I love how you have a big tube dangling from your chest and moving as you do. Such a great effect.

[@blastchambers2150]

Ooof that is creepy for sure. I had a feeling I knew where this was going when they mentioned mimicry.

[@TachiFrypan]

Now that this game exists, can we officially coin the term "Lung-like"?

[@emmahealy4863]

Ah yes, pulmonary games, my favourite genre!

[@telatomodosh7410]

breathtaking

[@dustyolnut9734]

Manly having a good run with good videos the past week

[@puppygirltrish]

I legit love cosmic horror. this is a great little game with decent mechanics! the jellyfish boy at the end was really exciting.

[@kataiser14]

Oh boy A game with cosmic horror beyond human comprehension, my favorite!

[@KRawatXP2003]

Damn 19. Must be a strong going franchise with 19 games in the series.

[@GenericMimeToadter]

something I noticed that nobody comments on is that you are never specified to be human. None of the files say human. Sure, there are snapping turtles, but in an infinite universe, two things are almost guaranteed to be the same. The mimics could well be the great filter. Nothing has interstellar travel long enough to come and visit, nor radio signals, since those would attract the mimics eventually. We are alone, not because there is nobody out there, but leaving your home planet or looking for others by shooting radio signals is a death sentence, even if it does take millennia to happen. (Spoiler for Dead Space 3) It's almost like the Brethren Moons. They trick intelligent life into exploring, looking for someone else, find the Markers, integrate them into their tech, and eventually become the Necromorphs and turn into a Brethren Moon themselves. Or, perhaps more favourably, become food for one.

[@DavidRYates-tk2tq]

What you should have done on the last mission was lock your course in on navigation, then go into the power menu, turn off life support, turn on thrusters while keeping navigation on, go back to navigation and hit "travel". Less time with the life support off if you lock in your course before you turn life support off. Unless it forgets your destination every time you leave the navigation menu? Edit: you figured that out at the very end and didn't even need to turn life support off! Great!

[@onethousandXD]

i was thinking about saturn's sound as he was playing, then it came up at 9:25 i was kinda surprised because i thought the planet's sounds are made by the developer lol

[@TheEvilFoxy]

After starting at that pixelated screen for almost an hour. That 1080p monitor you have suddenly looks super smooth and sharp.

[@ebagentj]

This game feels a lot like if you crossed Iron Lung with Interstellar and I'm here for it.

[@illhark]

there are definitely a couple of images or messages hidden in the audio of those planets if you view them through a spectrogram. alas i am too lazy to do it but maybe there are some other detectives out there

[@Metalfear18]

Those are actual recorded sounds from planets and a black hole.

[@emmahealy4863]

Like Voices of the Void 💀

[@Galaxy_Gamer750]

Fun fact: at 9:24 this sound is actually the sound that saturn made when the Cassini spacecraft was passing by

[@up0820]

You don't need the thrusters when moving to the new planet, you just need them when making the adjustments to center the picture.

[@UlshaRS]

"Oh my pixels are degrading" Don't think of how your cells are liquifying with that much radiation bombardment. You were correct, this is a space coffin. XD