Anoxia Station - Underground Apocalyptic Mining Station Strategy I'm Hyped For!

[@dirkuhdirk5534]

An American doctor whose employees continue to come into work despite being injured or sick. Art truly does imitate real life.

[@adrianocs4]

Ah broken leg and uncrotolled bleeding? Perfect material for the mines.

[@fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

There's free radiation therapy down there; practically a paradise!

[@schattensonner]

Yeah, I heard the description an thought : Checks out, 100% american

[@danielcampbell9457]

do any of yall actually work in real life????????

[@dirkuhdirk5534]

@@danielcampbell9457 Not a single day in my life

[@TheGreatMoonFrog]

*broken drill hints at an abandonded HQ from someone else that was mysteriously vacated* Splatter: "oh look there's a building" Me: "so what happened to the building?" Splatter: "Let me get some crude and turn it into fuel." Me: "so what happened to the building?" Splatter: "let me lower the temperature." Me: "SO WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BUILDING?" Splatter: "And that's anoxia station everybody." Me: "WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO THE BUILDING!?!?!?!?!"

[@zerg0s]

Guess you gotta get the game to find out now...

[@drakewarrior1013]

​@@zerg0s Well yeah, it's free too (this demo at least).

[@maddd_maxxx]

anoxia means lack of oxygen if anyone is wondering

[@larsbundgaard5462]

Ahh... Thx, saw the title and wondered if it was something with asphyxiation. Never heard of the term anoxia before.

[@katsuLucas]

another way of saying "oxygen not included" bahahahahahah

[@Urko2005]

Cheers for that.

[@Fbsuab]

​@@larsbundgaard5462 it is used in the medical field. Like "anoxia of the brain" means your brain is not getting oxygen, during an accident or a surgery or something for exemple

[@krdxz]

For some reason in my broken head I read it as "Anorexia Station". Yeah, exactly the same thing and describes the game well. :)

[@HeathenSWolf]

2:37 Man, I took quantum physics class and I can relate. Math becomes straight up magic after some point.

[@MrVovansim]

Hah, I took two semesters of quantum mechanics in college, as free electives. I was sooort of keeping up the first semester, but the second one completely broke my brain.

[@HeathenSWolf]

@@MrVovansim Literally the same experience :D I remember my brain turning off when a single formula took 1.5 hours to actually formulate and it took about 1.5 A4 pages to write down with no explanations. Explanations took about 2-4 more pages. Amazing stuff. Completely erased from my brain as of now :D

[@immortaljanus]

And then there are Einstein's gravity equations, where you're dealing with 4-dimensional tensors...

[@alltat]

@@MrVovansim That's just how quantum mechanics work. Atoms don't conform to what we think of as reason or common sense. It's not even magic; it's much stranger than that.

[@vforwombat9915]

@@immortaljanus i'm tense enough in 3 dimensions

[@kareningram6093]

Thanks for all that you do, Splattercat!

[@dennissvitak5475]

I am a retired meteorologist. Celsius times two, minus ten percent, plus 32. So....35c is 70-7+32 = 95. Another. 10c = 20-2+32=50

[@chasedettman8960]

Thats cool! Thanks

[@hippophlebotamus]

I was gonna say the same

[@kingp1n817]

Yes it's F° = 9/5 θ° + 32

[@dennissvitak5475]

@@kingp1n817 - Doubling and subtracting 10% IS 9/5. I just find it a lot easier to do. 24C? Doubled is 48, minus 4.8 is 43.2, add 32, for 75.2. QUICK...what is 24 times 9 fifths?

[@GeryonM]

​​@@dennissvitak5475 24/5= 4.8. 4.8x9=43.2. I know it's been 18 hours late but I'm really slow.

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

The atmosphere is really haunting and keeps you on the edge in a subtle way.

[@КОМБИНАТ-т1ъ]

Finally the game for us gooners

[@domino6755]

Game looks interesting. Can never get enough of these type of games, especially innovative as this one.

[@Elhazzared84]

I like the idea of where this game is going but in all honesty I can't say that the time constraints is a good thing. This is a thinking man's game and the idea of pressuring to make decisions runs contrary to the idea of thinking which takes times to consider all options and finding the optimal solution or a solution at all really. If not removed directly I'd like for there to be an option to disable the timer and the day skips only when the player manually does so.

[@matthewbutner8696]

I also really dislike the timer. It doesn't seem to add anything to the gameplay, especially since you can pause it at any time. It is kind of strange though that you cannot see the tooltips if the game is paused.

[@goober69er]

Agreed really it’s the only thing turning me off from wanting to try the game.

[@goober69er]

I think I would rather see actions taking up a certain amount of time out of the day or something like that

[@michaelfuria4775]

It's because the pause is only really if you need to take a bathroom break. The game is all about the intense situation your in, unable to return to the surface with time being what your up against. Putting on breaks to a game like this might break that kind of immersion. I do hope they add an option like disabling the timer and having a slower one to the game to bring in more players who find the time constraints not fun.

[@hic_tus]

as a serial procrastinator, games with time limits or no pause are my worst enemy😅

[@moustacherie7042]

"...a minor in paleontology" Splat just casually dropping the biggest nerd flex possible, okay. I doff my crown to you.

[@vcjuul9190]

Interesting game. They've nailed the atmosphere pretty well.

[@yeetrpg]

For my imperial system friends: 0°C - is when water turn to ice (a threshold) 36.6°C - temperature of your body when you feel O. K. 100°C - when water boils and turns to steam In atmospheric pressure on sea level, it's basically where we all live +/- couple hundred meets (Meester is about 3 feet) So, t°C goes from freezing water to boiling, everything below zero is cold and considered Russia :) Absolute zero is -273 point something°C, is a fundamental temperature when it can't get any colder. Also, can be called 0°K (Kelvin)

[@TNH91]

Just gonna point out that Kelvin doesn't have degrees. It's just 0K.

[@yeetrpg]

@TNH91 my bad, always heard with degrees, not native English speaker, thanks!

[@TNH91]

@ It's easy to think it's degrees because most other known temperature measurements use degrees. I'm also not a native English speaker, but I'm quite interested in science, which has led me to knowing that Kelvin doesn't use degrees. There's the Fahrenheit equivalent to Kelvin that's named Rankine, but I don't remember if that one uses degrees or if it's like Kelvin in that it doesn't.

[@yeetrpg]

@TNH91 you live you learn, maybe it's just me and my inertia, cus temperature equals degrees, but it's good to know :) What's your favorite field? Physics, chemistry?

[@TNH91]

@@yeetrpg Chemistry is far too difficult. Physics is reasonably understandable XD

[@michaelmcavoy9516]

Thank you for showcasing another wishlist entry for me!

[@НиколайЛамберт]

Looks like some high effort newgrounds flash game.

[@archangel8172]

You and your freedom units... Just put it like this 0C is freezing, 10C is cold, 20C is good, 30C is hot and 40C is burning hot.

[@dirtywhitellama]

Fahrenheit is superior for measuring temperature in regards to human comfort. The freezing and boiling points of water are pretty irrelevant to the question of "is it comfortable outside", especially the boiling point. Besides which Fahrenheit was European. I wouldn't mind measuring distance or weight with convenient power of ten step-ups, but Fahrenheit and Celsius are not analogous to miles and kilometers.

[@klemklemius5091]

And dont forget that body temperature is at 36.6C

[@ohnoitisnt666]

@@dirtywhitellamayou are mental.

[@GameTimeWhy]

It 100% is not more efficient for human temps. ​@@dirtywhitellama

[@Lunam_D._Roger]

​@@dirtywhitellamaAnd yet, the simplicity of 0C being cold as balls, anything under 0c being fuck no temperatures, or shorts temps for russians, 10c being chilly, 20c being temperate, 30c being hot and 40c being peak Australian summer literally proves you wrong in every capacity.

[@apaty15]

the selection screen of the characters at the beginning looks too AI generated

[@tjep2670]

Somehow, I knew you'd name the ship after a butt joke.

[@alexsamaniego9061]

man. this game is so hard on my eyes. I have No idea what I was looking at.

[@Turtlesism]

Yeah I was really interested in the premise, but it's just too confusing and muddy to look at. Once the novelty wears off that would be it for me :(

[@Skullogk]

I get the feeling its one of those games that look a lot better when you are actually playing it. Like something is lost when recording or compiling the video.

[@Shiningforceking]

he *HAD* to stop playing right before the giant moth monster.

[@cmdrshanegooseman]

love the long runners :) awesome work, dude!

[@REpowerplay]

11:00 had me dying

[@fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

I realize that extraction industries tend not to be a hotbed of occupational safety and health; but those radiation numbers are looking a bit spicy. NRC regulations are generally viewed as on the cautious side; but the Subpart D limit for members of the public is 1mSv/year from licensed operations; and the limit for workers is 50mSv/year. Here, eating more than that per hour is just cruisin' and apparently doesn't start to become a problem until over 4 times that per hour. Could be truth in television; you supposedly get 'mild clinical symptoms in some' at 1 Sv acute dose, which sounds like return to office material; 50% mortality, absent supportive care, at 3 Sv; but only on a 60 day timeline; though I don't think you'd get much drilling done once you get closer to 10 Sv "gastrointestinal syndrome; marrow ablation"; and anyone who is still going at "desquamation" gets to be worker of the month for as long as they last. I sure hope they are paying well.

[@КОМБИНАТ-т1ъ]

Yeah, as a nuclear research worker who works with neutron sources I never receive over 10 millisieverts per year. Dozens mSv/h are nasty rates that are present only in "unmanned" reactor complex compartments where substances that are directly irradiated by core are present (like coolant water or core mechanical manipulators) , not even taking serious 200-ish mSv/h

[@discordinmymind6565]

3:31, splat, please get some prescription sleeping pills or some kind of sleep aid😅

[@6663000]

Nobody should be using prescription sleeping pills. I used to have significant sleep problems. I would lay in bed for five or six hours trying to fall asleep, then I would manage to sleep for just a couple of hours before I had to wake up. I did this for months (maybe years?) and it was awful... but at the end of the day it was really a result of my lifestyle. I could have changed things in my life and solved the problem, but for whatever reason I neglected to do so. If you wake up at like 6:00am, don't drink coffee after noon, and get some exercise during the day, you will sleep.

[@jacksmith-vs4ct]

@@6663000 great that that works for you doesn't for me no matter what I do I just have the opposite schedule as most people I'm awake at night and sleep during the day doctors now think this is an evolutionary thing that allowed us someone to always be awake so we could avoid danger unfortunately this makes modern life very difficult for someone like me its not like an exact opposite schedule but if I don't modify it at all I'll sleep at around 2-4am and wake up around 12-3pm even when I modify it its rare for me to sleep before midnight no matter what I try even prescription sleeping pills do nothing

[@TheLumberjack1987]

​@@6663000 My girlfriend was overworked and stressed in 2023 which resulted in a lack of sleep, which led to more stress and even less sleep. The doctor refused to give her sleeping pills and told her to install a relaxation app on her phone. She did that until she started having hallucinations and suffered from a full on psychosis within just a couple hours. At that point she ran off on an incredibly hot day and was found by the police being severly hydrated. She had to go into a mental hospital and was in solitary confinement for 10 days, with 4 more weeks of mental ward after that. She lost her job and is now (after almost 14 months) somewhat back to normal again, sleeping pills might've saved us a lot of pain, she almost died because her lack of seep wasn't taken seriously.

[@Arthaius]

- This one is definitely one of the more Unique games it definitely has an interesting feel to it, which is rare for me.

[@aurorajones8481]

36:35 LOL BRO your timing w/ the patriotic ditty is ON POINT. I have you and the inaugural ceremony up right now and your little ditty was hit right when they got out of the cars!!! WTF! AHHHH that's hillarious.

[@PapaGamingCentral]

Greetings from Belgium what an epic atmosphere i love it! thanks for the video Nerdcastle you are never boring bro! Happy new year and good health to you and your family.

[@MrSerphy]

fahrenheit the "normal" temperature...

[@CythereaEressea]

What? No "not sure this is AI art" lines? That's a surprise.

[@klemklemius5091]

The artstyle is out of this world

[@libiroli]

It's AI

[@butuzoff8204]

@@libiroli Hello, I'm a developer! No, the entire game (except for the portraits, which she still worked on) was drawn by one talented artist, Darya Vodyanaya.

[@BN-qo5zc]

@@butuzoff8204 You still need to disclose that then, as per Steam's terms of service, on the store page. Any asset, worked on or not, counts as use.

[@osiris4457]

Without hating directly on this dev, I'm getting very tired of devs NOT disclosing using AI on Steam. The enforcement needs to be stricter.

[@bermaley]

@@butuzoff8204 Consider changing the portraits, for me the one which was picked jumped out as AI generated.

[@m4c0br]

Everything about this game seems unique. Kudos to devs. Also, it does not look complex or stressful. Honestly, the only aspect I didn't enjoy was the time passing.

[@kinagrill]

20mSv/h is about 15-20 times the amount of radiation the average human experiences as background radiation.

[@KCM33]

Not great, not terrible.

[@kinagrill]

@@KCM33 true, with internal shielding suits and you'd be okay. but 20 times normal daily exposure ain't exactly good. it's like getting hourly CT scan exposure at the high end.... times two.

[@senseeman]

shout out to the usage of the name Arcady, hopefully it is a tribune to Boris and Arcady, the Strugatski brothers. The ones that gave us "Roadside Picnic" book (among others), the inspiration for STALKER movie and games.

[@aronseptianto8142]

i really dig the artstyle, it's a bit unclear sometimes but i think it's fine for a game with this kind of pace. Whatever visual clarity lost, it definitely gains in term of vibe. The AI portrait is kind of unfortunate but I'm going to give benefit of doubt that it's mostly just placeholder

[@kyleschneider6871]

Looks interesting, but I could not deal with that persistent camera wobble.

[@kylemackinnon5696]

This reminds me of a book i read as a kid, Cinder but made as a frostpunkesque TBS and i am going to be wishlisting it

[@smoockn]

You are amazing splatt, keep it up

[@Salz1usTox1cus]

Emersion, what you hear, is exactly the reason, whx i got sucked so hard into Return to moria. I love it when its so silent, but you hear weird and creepy noises in the dark.

[@AeonSaint]

Return to Moria is soooo good. And the singing is the icing on top! :D

[@TheOvermindStarcraft]

Drums?

[@Salz1usTox1cus]

@@TheOvermindStarcraft They are comming!

[@derekdrake8706]

Somebody was like "Let's take Deep Rock Galactic, remove the fun drunken dwarves and inject a ton of horror and depression"

[@DaltonAcosta_AmarasStory]

Ok, this is what I’ve been looking for.

[@hollowcat3257]

Ok, your intro made me a lot more interested in math hahah I should study up, thx for that 🙌

[@pantognost]

Man you can’t understand how funny you sound when you talk about “converting to normal” and referring to Fahrenheit.

[@olegoleg258]

Us europeans watching americans struggle with celsius

[@complexperplexity]

He meant to say "converting to freedom units"

[@tarryncooper4742]

Well you see, you either have freedom units or heathen units 😂

[@pantognost]

@@tarryncooper4742 it's all a pot to overthrow freedom. Zero for ice and hundred for steam? Nope. You have to have 32 and 212. It's freedom's way :)

[@Thexis_]

This looks pretty interesting!

[@mertvyjkosmos]

I definitely liked gameplay and visual!

[@sgs9932]

This game have the same feeling like playing Frostpunk for the first time

[@danielgalvez7953]

You took a whole bunch of math? You came to appreciate higher level math and applied math in the sciences as an art form? Instant sub.

[@chadowen4379]

Looks like it can be a fun game! I like the theme and that it plays like interactive board game.

[@leftypistolero5983]

Hope you're safe, Splat!

[@chaosordeal294]

Recently has to stop myself from yelling "That's BUGS!!" at a schoolteacher relative who kept talking about word derivation and 'entymology.'

[@Rodrifuuu]

I found the art style great but the camera sway is disturbing to me. If there is no option to turn it off, zero chance I'll ever play this.

[@HerobrineYT]

Thanks for showing demo, the gameplay wa very nice, i am waiting for release

[@fallenswan1670]

Latvian SSR = Latvian Soviet Socialistic Republic (was member of USSR), so he is from Soviet Union.

[@StrangeFestive]

I do enjoy seeing Itch games that I follow getting some love.

[@s.p.1434]

A simple guide for those at home for determining if something is "Giger inspired": is what is being shown on screen a sexual metaphor? If not, it is not Giger, it's just an Alien rip-off that doesn't understand the source material.

[@kauãdasilvasousadeAndrade]

you think that 35C° is not comfortable but here in Brasil it's actually pretty common especially here in rio de janeiro right now in on my couch at 31C°

[@Тиран-с5э]

It all depends on what temperature you are used to, for example, for me 30 degrees is hot.

[@dcsblessedbees]

🤨All that College, how did you end up doing Video Game Reviews? Sounds interesting, nice back story.👍

[@milanstevic8424]

everybody knows Splat is a geologist. he even worked as a geologist if I remember well. logically he started playing Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress like every geologist does. duhh

[@ohnoitisnt666]

What a dumb comment. College degrees aren’t worth the paper they are printed on.

[@thehatred94]

15:03 "it hunts by sound" *Proceed to shoot it * ah yes, the human instinct of shooting first thinking after if at all xD I wonder if you could have distracted it by drilling beyond him?

[@zero_witch]

I love getting bits of lore about the KZbinrs I watch ♥️ I like ya stuff Mr Splattercat

[@charles_teak]

This looks esoteric. I like it. But I hope they make it easier to see the buildings.

[@Cuthawolf]

This seems rad, I'm down for it.

[@ATZag135]

ThankYou SirSpla77!

[@wildmangeorgesrcchannel6916]

underground frost punk

[@tinygriffy]

I really hope they put a demo on steam.. the proton facility is just so convenient as a non windows user ^^

[@Blackwingk]

Ah, second to comment on a Splattercat video!

[@hansdampf640]

get out of here you´re only third 😁

[@shrillcrayfish6168]

Game called annihilate the spance comes out today. Been waiting for that

[@johanstormwall8334]

OHHH DAMN A FELLOW GEOLOGIST.

[@michaelfuria4775]

Hey wait a minute. At 13:25 your base icon is one of the Sentinel's Icon from War Commander!

[@spaceman9599]

So: Rockpiercer Troopers?

[@spaceman9599]

Like the concept. Novel, claustrophobic, Ixionish underground. Dwarven Noir. Rockpunk-ish. Writing is pretty sweet. A bit of a spine-tingler. Me likey.

[@daviddemyer]

First person horror with guns... Kind of like Space Beast Terror Fright?

[@brentogara]

...how *does* one end a video with not *one* , but _two_ unexplored points of interest available? I'm accustomed to this 'gentleman' missing the obvious right in front of him... but this kind of _teasing_ is *unsupportable* !

[@mbielcik]

🖤

[@КОМБИНАТ-т1ъ]

Finally, The Darkest Dungeon for us dwarfs Don't get the idea of a timer tho, they want me to think and act for 120 qualified miners all day that lasts 3 minutes or what

[@CyberGhostArt]

Ai generated photos 1 min in the game, that is kinda of a turn down

[@m1m1n0u]

Not fan of AI portrait at all. It look cheap and doesn't work well.

[@cidneverwas5481]

Yeah... If that's the lengths that are being gone through to extract petroleum it is no longer economical, nor sane, to depend on it for a resource to power society. I can kind of enjoy the Abyss/Journey to the Center of the Earth vibes and acknowledgement of the radiation, heat, and O2 issues in extreme environments. 🤔 P.S. In before "suspension of disbelief" commentary...

[@peoplesaver4693]

Wait, did Splatt called Fahrenheit a "normal" temperature? Wow. He is a true American then.

[@Kwisatz-Chaderach]

I like all those words.

[@ZxforerunnerxZ]

Is that the radiation inside or outside the station? 20 mSv/hr is a massive amount of radiation to take straight to the face.💀

[@Irrlichtwinter]

So this is basically 'Oxygen not Included, Horror Edition"? 😉

[@snake215]

New microphone? For me sounds different

[@gautiergary8604]

Super immersive

[@daviru02]

An entomologist who studies insects? Who woulda thought?

[@drakewarrior1013]

37:55 - You should not clear those. You can upgrade extractors to deep drills. And you get fuel from them indefinitely. Because you can build extractors only near the petroleum deposits (and in this demo you get only 2 of thise on the map, I think), destroying this thing is actually a huge waste if potential.

[@Kunisaki]

Game seems very interesting with a nice touch of originality, wishlisted! Also, I guess I'm the only one reading "anorexia"?! Ehehe

[@Sleeper____1472]

Mystery flesh pit national park fr fr

[@BalladOfLooks]

Very weird, unique looking game. Not sure it's my flavor but thanks for the coverage anyway splat.

[@ntma]

very interesting game!

[@LazorzPewPew]

As a fellow Geology Degree holder...Geophysics is the devil!

[@kaninswordman]

Please try the new PC version game WorldNeverland ! It's a medieval sandbox. You can be farmer, knight, and even king. You can marry and play as your children. There's housing, economy, dungeon, ruling kingdom etc.

[@whisper6534]

Up!

[@OzMee]

11:00 😂 how many times was that? Forgive me; I'm twelve😅

[@thelaw3536]

game looks cool

[@plumbthumbs9584]

excellent!

[@StaindHand]

2:13 yeah right

[@JeffreyBenko]

OMG, that name made me lol.

[@BirdRaiserE]

Cool interface

[@caseyo6033]

cats should spend most of their day sleeping. Get yourself a good belly rub and some milk at night.

[@onecalledchuck1664]

On the one hand, I really like the art direction and immersiveness of the graphics and audio. It could use polishing on the icon visibility and when selecting a tile, I'm not keen on the moving grid to show the selection. Maybe outlining the buildings or putting the enemy/tile into full color when selected....?

[@nathnathn]

Poor memory and lack of sleep?. feels rather familiar. Insomnia too?. Weirdly I’m doing better then usual right now despite only my latest bout being about 72hrs with a roughly 2hr sleep at 48hrs and a bit more then 2hours not long ago. At least the tradies i needed to be present for are finished so i can sleep when i can actually manage to feel tired again.

[@danilooliveira6580]

the AI art is disappointing, but hopefully it's just placeholder for the demo.

[@MrZaboomafoo]

Nice.

[@naivett]

Get some sleep brother, its important!