The Controversial & Disturbing Games Iceberg (I)

[@ThatCreepyReading]

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[@samv.3217]

It's been a while since I've seen a good iceberg like this. Great job on your first iceberg video!

[@sorrychangedmyusername3594]

no one care lol

[@BulkBogan1920]

Imagine censoring your own videos you spineless coward lmao

[@Skipjaws]

Thanks for the recommendation for World of Horror.

[@FIRSTNAMELASTNAME-zt4kf]

Dude you need to get yourself an emulator and play earthbound it's so so much fun. Much love man and keep up the good work!

[@dumbsville]

I just wanna say, Night in the Woods is such a masterpiece, and is somehow more relevant to me now than it was before. Currently being a college dropout and dealing with the emotional/existential fear of isolation and losing friends, as well as just finding my own path, makes the game all the more poignant to me. Like your experience, the game also hit home since I'm also a rust-belt kid (Ohio yucky yucky). The sights and visuals hit super close to home for me. It's like a midwestern equivalent to Repo Man.

[@butterworm964]

Only reason I clicked on the video is because I thought on the right side of the thumbnail was the cat from the game so I just skimmed thorugh the entire video then got near the end and thought I was wrong till like really close to the it was right there.

[@_Kuma_]

Hang in there, friend!

[@astoron8398]

Didn't expect dumbsville to see here

[@hahachickem8675]

Hey Dumbsville!! Hope you are doing alright.

[@IREALLYLIKEPIES]

I've seen and played night in the woods when I was a little younger, and now as years go by, man.... It's kinda scary how a lot of it became so relatable to me now that I'm older.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

*Fun Fact about FNAF:* The animatronic jumpscare scream is actually an audio of a screaming woman from the 1980s sci-fi horror movie _Inseminoid._

[@StrykerMagnum]

@Dalton Naylor Are you about to claim ownership of a film called *Inseminoid*? 🤔

[@Nekoszowa]

@Dalton Naylor It's distorted enough that the case would get laughed at. It's not the same thing as with Roblox's OOF sound.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

@Dalton Naylor He probably found that screaming audio from a website.

[@ThatCreepyReading]

Thanks for telling me!

[@ramonabelowthree]

@@poweroffriendship2.0 Correct, the scream was in a sound library

[@Meiliina]

It's really good that you mentioned the PTSD of the dev making Mortal Kombat, because it is a part that makes Mortal Kombat even more disturbing, and it's another real issue in game development. Thanks.

[@SlendyGirlProductions]

I hadn’t even known ‘bout the PTSD thing till this video but hearing it makes total sense looking even through the deaths of some characters in story mode!

[@rsk5288]

Ptsd from a game lol

[@sacha9957]

@@rsk5288 it's more complicated than "ptsd from fake gore" dude. The staff had to look at gore content over internet for references to make these realistic (albeit over the top) fatalities and graphics...

[@Nekoszowa]

@@sacha9957 Maybe people with weak psyche shouldn't be making very gory realistic games and movies then. Going into game dev or movie direction you know what you're getting into. If you can't handle certain things you shouldn't be working in those indrusties.

[@drzalchicha]

@@Nekoszowa Not really. You shouldn't be forced to look at real gore in order to create good animations or have realistic physics. Seeing real people get burned alive, decimated, castrated, eviscerated, etc. shouldn't be a "must" in order to work in any creative industry. It's not even a "weak psyche" issue, as even CIA and FBI agents (which are trained to handle these types of content) can develop PTSD, depression, and anxiety by watching content with gory/inhuman contents. Edit: Apparently they were technically not forced by the company, but were recommended to look for more realistic references.

[@Ellifire]

I’m so glad Night In The Woods was included in this. It’s a sweet game but the feelings of being stuck in between child and adult, and the unsettling parts related to mental health and the town itself hit deeply. I actually mentioned it to my therapist because it awoke a lot of feelings for me.

[@Air_Serpent]

Agreed. It made me realize how effed up I was emotionally because of how much I related to Mae.

[@theautistictomboy4003]

oh yeah. i realised how fucked i felt as a result of this game. i played it a lot over lockdown. it's so emotional yet really beautiful and i've never felt so comforted by its relatablity so much. i might replay it later. because god it's incredible.

[@alenmack3471]

If we’re going to talk about Night In The Woods, we need to talk about the fact that Cancel Culture actually managed to kill an innocent man that worked on the game. Zoe Quinn is a murderer and justice still hasn’t been served.

[@MooncricketsInc]

@Alen Mack Accusations being thrown around online without any proof and then the guy killing himself over it isn't the juicy news that's important or interesting these days. I wonder if it would still be talked about if he was alive and it went to trial and was found guilty...

[@canadiantrash3217]

I’m honestly wondering if Sally Face, Franbow, or Little Miss Fortune will appear on the other levels of the iceberg, this is super sick to dig into!

[@pundertalefan4391]

Little Misfortune is definitely disturbing. Honestly, it makes me feel more uncomfortable than Fran Bow does. Maybe because she has almost no innocence, and doesn't fully realize how messed up the world is at he same time. Like, she knows, but it doesn't effect her. It's freaky.

[@melissahenderlight2588]

Looks like you’re in luck

[@canadiantrash3217]

@@pundertalefan4391 Yeah it definitely hits a weird note seeing how she acknowledges everything that's happening, but it never effects her in any way

[@illinoisgirldreaming9085]

The thing that I love about Fran Bow and the thing that scares me all at once is that as the game goes on, you try and make sense of the story, but it still makes less and less sense and becomes disconnected from everything that existed at the beginning of the game. It’s overwhelming and unrealistic and crazy, and that kind of reflects what’s happening with Fran. The girl has problems, but we’re seeing everything from her eyes.

[@usagitrouble1736]

Thank you so much for Little MisFortune, I really need to play now

[@guydude439]

I am so glad that OFF is still remembered, even if it's a rare occurrence that you'd find someone talking about it. OFF is a masterpiece.

[@naryosh_]

there aren't enough people talking about it, especially so long after it was made

[@GHE_05]

I only recently got into OFF, but safe to say I love the people in the fandom

[@dumbfuck1691]

its rare to see anyone talk about OFF so glad its been mentioned in this list tbh

[@average-tree-lover-42069]

OFF was lucky to not have become popular like Undertale. I would've hated such a nice game to be ruined by a crappy fanbase

[@ma.2089]

@@average-tree-lover-42069 it’s easy to avoid the fanbase tbh. That said, OFF is an unforgettable game to me

[@mythicalthings1796]

"Mistook a murder scene for something far less consensual" Ah yes. As we all know, murder is a VERY consent based act.

[@lextavactchi]

Honestly, I’d really rather be murdered than live with that shit having been done to me. I’ve already been victim to multiple different child predators, as far back as probably when I was six or eight years old or so. It wasn’t the last time it happened, and I still live worried about being preyed on to this moment. I’ve had huge breakdowns over it, and over the possibility that the people I live around are probably after me or will go after me too. I still look like a child.

[@Sekovatkain]

@@lextavactchi That sounds awful, I hope you're getting the help you need to overcome your trauma. Still, I don't know if murder can indeed be called very consensual.

[@luke-zi6gs]

@@Sekovatkain it can be in Germany where a guy was consensually cannibalized and his lover was charged with murder as an example lol

[@einarnunya7249]

@@luke-zi6gs If someone wants you to cannibalize them then I’d say that’s the same as assisted suicide...a very fucked up form of assisted suicide. In other words, yeah, glad he’s locked up.

[@luke-zi6gs]

@@einarnunya7249 Hey I never said I condone what he did either lol glad he's locked up I'm just sayin consensual homocide is technically possible

[@10Gpixels]

I recommend checking out the "Bag of milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk" series, as it's a very eerie and disturbing look into topics like mental illness, self harm, and psychosis that fits pretty well on the iceberg as an obscure disturbing horror game series. The second one is particularly cool, full of meta mind-boggling story and dream-like sequences that feel like a purgatory. Might be a bit draining to cover though, so trigger warnings abound.

[@taserfuel1336]

Played it recently. Just a warning if anyone else is like me and hates reading it's a visual novel for the most part. I think only like 1 part of the game involves some gameplay but the visuals are truly worth it.

[@overly_unproductive4284]

I've seen that one while scrolling through visual novels on steam, it seems pretty simple but disturbing

[@Lulu-qp6oh]

@@taserfuel1336 Funnily enough I LOVE visual novels and it dragged on way too much for me. Got fairly boring in fact. It definitely has an interesting way about going about things if you don't mind a fairly long read. Or you could watch a KZbinr like Manlybadasshero play it.

[@kynto]

Is it canadian

[@10Gpixels]

@@kynto Considering the motif of powdered milk, probably.

[@rubyriot69]

Night in the Woods hit me hard as a younger teen and even still, it’s one of my favorite games. Since then i’ve lost close friends because we grew apart, dropped out of high school and my direction in life is uncertain and aimless at best. It’s a damn shame that the creator took his own life because NITW is still so unique in the very real horror of confronting irl demons and mental illness’s toll on someone. I love it dearly.

[@MadisonChesney]

Wait really?! I had no idea about that! NITW is like one of my favorite games! That’s so heartbreaking because the prequel pieces and the game in general were so beautiful, this game is my number 1 in terms of story and game play followed by What Remains of Edith Finch and Detroit Become Human because of their narrative or choice based storytelling respectively, according to what I remember there was a teaser to a new game by the dev team in 2020 or so. But extremely sad that he’s gone.

[@smtxs9274]

Idk how old you are now but if you're still young and about to enter adulthood I would suggest the military as a possible option. Its given me a home, a job, ive bought a car, ive met girls. Its a way of getting a good life if you're starting from nothing

[@smtxs9274]

@bird you can go into safer jobs that don't ruin you for no reason, or at least not as quickly like maintenance and still say you actually work

[@MartussMartuss]

@@smtxs9274 found the government agent

[@biggestastiest]

@@smtxs9274 do not try to trick a mentally ill person into the military. shame on you.

[@Alana-jg1fi]

I think a good one to add on here would be "The Path" a pretty disturbing and obscure game. A youtuber called izzzyzzz did a really good in-depth look and review into the game.

[@Thepurrletarian]

I think it’s from the same makers as The Graveyard

[@Alana-jg1fi]

@@Thepurrletarian It is! It's just often overlooked because of how The Graveyard was received. I'm not a big fan of Tale of Tales (they handled criticism very poorly) or the game The Graveyard but in my personal opinion The Path is definitely more worthy of being on a disturbing game iceberg based on the fact that 1.) it's an actual game and not a walking simulator 2.) It explores many dark topics and 3.) It has a lot of theories about what it could all possibly mean.

[@smolson8471]

There is the possibility that it'll pop up later. This video is meant to be the first stage of the iceberg so more obscure games wouldn't be in here.

[@ThatGuyMikey1]

Ah a fellow viewer of the best Garfield loving content creator!

[@ddjsoyenby]

yes that is good.

[@maximillian1109]

What I really like about What Remains of Edith Finch is that if you look just a little closer at each of the deaths, you realize exactly why this family was so “unlucky” and even who was the start to all of this mess. Really cool stuff, so I wont spoil it.^^

[@Game_Erica]

I love the video "The villain of Edith Finch" by Joseph Anderson. It's a great look into exactly that, how a game with no clear villain has one, and how *almost* all deaths could've been avoided. What remains of Edith Finch is definitely one of my favourites, really made me think about life and stuff lol

[@pikachuneoncat6480]

The fact that the Five Nights at Freddy's series was made almost entirely by one conservative Christian man is nuts to me.

[@chicocorry1311]

Especially since Christians aren’t very confortable with horror

[@naranciagaming]

@@chicocorry1311 only really the stereotypical ones

[@pikachuneoncat6480]

@@chicocorry1311 I think that heavily depends on the Christian.

[@trashman11]

@@chicocorry1311 not really, i know a lot of conservative and Christian friends that are all about horror stuff. Hell two of my closest friends are 80/90 horror nuts and they're openly Christian.

[@FiSH-iSH]

the only reason why fnaf exists is because a parent said that scotts 3d models scared their kid because they were too creepy for the child-friendly religious games/movies he made. scott really just went “ok then, instead of making my skills more pg rated ill just make a fuckin horror game” and accidentally changed the future of horror games and internet culture as a whole lmao

[@kimackerman2183]

The cancellation of PT still hurts till this day, I was around 14 when I saw the gameplays and it was so terrifying. It's a shame the other inspired games also never got made.

[@resultadosejecutivos]

It would have been the Silent Hill of our generation, which sucks that now all we can do now is speculate.

[@marii1413]

the way that they did that to hideo kojima still makes me sad to this day

[@sludgeskin]

my mom showed me the second game when I was five , so growing up with the series made me extremely upset that PT was canceled. I was excited to share something with my mother, and to finally have a good ending to the series. Seeing all the pyramid head additions in places he shouldn't be doesn't really feel good, it feels like a cheap cop out

[@marii1413]

@@sludgeskin im so sorry. hopefully in the future they choose to continue the game. or at least try to. its a long shot but i really hope they do

[@Lulzesty]

Any of the games after Silent Hill 4: The Room flopped and PT is no exception. It didn't feel like a Silent Hill game.

[@kingvideogames]

While I won’t deny that Pico’a school is a very edgy game and filled with a lot of questionable stuff (heck, you can click on a dead teacher’s tit and get a achievement), I feel like you may have misread Pico’s character in the game. He wasn’t here to get mindless and violent revenge; it was to stop them from doing any more damage and escape. Whenever Pico runs into them, they’re always the ones to start the conflict. The guy in the hallways will always shoot Pico no matter what you try to tell him, the two mini bosses trap you in the room and try to kill you, and Cassandra tries to destroy the school. Heck, you don’t even need to kill one of the bosses; you can just grab the key and leave the room. As for Pico’s speech near the end, it was less “Look how morally superior I am to you” and more “these are actually healthy ways you could have expressed your emotions, but since you didn’t do that I have to kill you.” The game, and this scene specifically, was made to be a call out to those that say games are the fault for these shootings, with Pico representing Pico’s school, and Cassandra representing the actual shooters, calling them out for being so deranged. Oh sure, this game is full of offensive content, but plot wise, I think you may have been a bit too harsh on it.

[@quinnholloway5400]

Yea If anything Pico is a kid getting Traumatized here Seeing his class mates and teacher get killed in front of him And having to fight to survive and stop the shooters He himself is not a shooter, and its a misconception people get constantly

[@amethysttvgl1601]

Yeah people who say Pico is a school shooter are I believe wrong since Pico was put in a very difficult situation... of course the game doesn't depict it that way as it maintains that trademark newgrounds vibe but yknow XD

[@BigVorst]

It's like what people thought about Doom... Yes. The game where you kill demons is condoning satanic worship. Because when you want to put something in a positive light, you have it as the antagonist of the game, that the player is putting an end to... 🙃

[@psivampire13]

I recently have been playing Mystic Messenger, which is technically an otome game (dating game for girls). . . But I did not expect how dark it was. Many of the bad ends involve characters dying or going insane. There is a lot of stuff about cults, sui*ide, torture, drugs, extreme manipulation, etc. And very creepy music at times.

[@CharaChocolateButtercup]

Mystic messenger is amazing, Vs Route made me cry so many times.

[@lixonzito2481]

bro mystic messenger is one of my favorite games ever, i love how the casual routes (with the exception of yoosung's sometimes) feel so lighthearted and then you go to another story and you're like wtf why is it so dark sometimes

[@spiderbits2923]

I wish more media discussed toxic friendships with the same reverence as they did unhealthy romantic relationships.

[@gimmeyourankles]

agreed. toxic friendships can also harm you for life. as a person who delt with that, i'm still dealing with the trauma it caused me.

[@silent-hills]

@@gimmeyourankles Agree with both of you. Has a recent friendship break off with a close friend of mine of 6 years. Toxic friends could leave deep scars.

[@2-bitto]

There was a book in this one book series. IIRC it was "Get ME Out of Here" or something like it.

[@TheGroupOnly]

Night in the Woods, when I finished playing it, left me with a hollowness I still haven't had since from a game, even from games that left on considerably more downer endings. I was mostly fine up until after closing her journal and seeing that it resets to the very beginning. Then, for whatever reason, I not only cried, but felt like I'd lost multiple friends. I just wandered my house in a sort of daze, I'd grown to absolutely love Mae and her friends. It just felt so wrong to build up to an ending (Gregg's, he rulz ok) and bam, it's gone. My Mae, my Gregg, they're gone now. I can always play it again and do what I did exactly all over again, but it wouldn't be the same. I played Bea's story, but since then I haven't been able to touch the game no matter how hard I want to. It's just not the same.

[@Lethalport1515]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Society.263]

It’s really sad that Alec holowka died :(

[@the.engineer2514]

@@Society.263 yes Is saddest death of creator of night in the woods

[@BreezeOfOnett]

since you love night in the woods, check out a game called Omori.

[@fayinara]

same thing for me, but it just ended up being my favorite game of all time.

[@Brianna-eo8nu]

I really hope Oddworld gets mentioned in the next tiers. The first two games especially have such tense atmosphere and a rich and alive world. Not to mention, some dark and even deep themes on capitalism, corporate greed, environmentalism and dark side of the food industry, as well as genuinely disturbing moments.

[@sacha9957]

As a kid i legit couldn't play by myself, lol. Even abe's appearance made a part of me uneasy, despite finding him cute. And just rupture farms + stockyards were quite the challenge for me. I'm so glad someone brought it up.

[@ThatCreepyReading]

ya know what, really odd world should be in layer 2 or 1. I agree Odd world has some real fucked up shit in it. I'll cover it in the next video

[@hegel5131]

When I was younger I thought this game was a fever dream couldn't find it anywhere (I was in middle school when I played it). I used to rent it lol but damn it gave me some crazy nightmares it still gives me chills lol

[@KingOfGaymes]

Now I’m sad knowing oddworld isn’t here

[@SaiyanGamer95]

From what I hear, Oddworld isn't actually about captialism and environmentalism. But rather about throwing away morals for a profit. Or something like that. I forgot where I heard the interview.

[@hylacinerea970]

what made fnaf absolutely insane was the atmosphere around it at “peak hype”, summer of 2014&15. i was lending people on the bus my kindle fire so they could play fnaf1&2. the constant fandom drama. it was just insane

[@fartquaviasdingle7876]

And everyone was trying to be the one who discovers the next new theory, at least with me

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

To me, the reason why I got into FNAF because a friend of mine from elementary told me about Pewdiepie playing FNAF (back when Pewds was at his peak in Let's Play). I don't know what FNAF was at the time, until looking on to KZbin and every Let's Player got hooked into it, and that's how I got my FNAF phase. Listening to Living Tombstone's FNAF music and watching Game Theory connected the dots on the lore. It's wild how times have changed.

[@Suspiria-Baybee]

The part on Night in the Woods really hit home for me, especially as someone who is processing a recent traumatic event. Disturbing media can indeed help contextualize and understand trauma. My “Night in the Woods,” so to speak is a game I hope to see in this series, DEVOTION. I spent nine months of my life in an abusive cult situation, one I am currently in trauma therapy for, and what led me to questioning the cult was Devotion. Devotion will always remain one of the most disturbing games I have ever played, the ending reveal alone being extremely messed up, but at the same time, it was able to lay bare what I wasn’t seeing. That game saved my life, as weird as it is to say. How it depicts and talks about the damage cults can do to people is painfully and harrowingly real, but at the same time, it raised the mirror to my face, forced me to see what I wasn’t seeing. Devotion saved my life, plain and simple. It’s one of my all time favorite video games for that reason.

[@sukunasgaylover]

Scariest thing about FNAF to me is how it desensitized a generation of kids, myself included, to a *huge* amount of dark, dark subject matter.

[@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413]

i mean its not like it kept its darkness all the way, it got really goofy in fnaf 5

[@Bepetoni]

Surprisingly, kids who are into dark stuff get more empathetic and kind. Blessed be our freaky desensitized children.

[@elleofhearts8471]

to be fair, its not like fnaf was the first piece of zoomer media to desensitize zoomers. And its not like its the first time zoomers were desensitized by media whether its historical or culturally relevant to them. Only difference between fnaf and other horror zoomer media is that fnaf gained huge mainstream success but mainstream success doesn't mean its the worst the horror genre has to offer.

[@joielain7839]

nah I was fucked up before fnaf lmao

[@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413]

@@Bepetoni i dont think so

[@xbrokenribcagex]

The Beginner’s Guide honestly hits close to home. Back in November, I left an abusive friendship. Besides us becoming different people, I felt like I was only there to help build up my “friend.” They didn’t care about or understand my interests, they constantly gave me crap over my sexuality (I identify as aroace/asexual-aromantic, and they would constantly ask me why I chose to not have a relationship, ask me if I wanted to date them or be in a friends with benefits relationship despite me saying no and making it clear that I was bothered by them bringing it up randomly, and would brag about how happy they are to be married…), they wouldn’t respect my boundaries, were very clingy and possessive and I realized how manipulative they were and how unhealthy our friendship was. I cut them out in November and changed my phone number because they used an app to block evade my blocks. The harassment got really bad in December; they started harassing my mom and threatening me, when I put my account on private they said they had a way to get around it, and my emotional health took a massive toll. I barely ate and lost a lot of weight, I laid in bed all day, had to leave work early, and I tried to take my own life. My dad got his detective friend to contact him and he was told that if he tried to contact me again, he the police would be at his door in hours. I haven’t heard from him since, but I now have PTSD from this incident and I had to take a break from using my phone for a while.

[@ThatCreepyReading]

Yo, I'm ace and this sounds like a nightmare story. Sorry that happened man your not alone c:

[@Justacheese]

If you don't mind me asking. Does the whole experience make you feel more comfortable using your PC now compared to using your phone? Since all the bad stuff sounded like it happened through your phone and not your PC.

[@erismason3441]

Sorry that happened to you. I had a friend who was a lot like that, just not as severe. They ditched me like a used Kleenex in November 2019 over literally nothing and I never bothered to try to re-friend them, since I finally realized they were a manipulative narcissist, even though we were very close previously. It fucking sucks.

[@just_ugu]

I'm sorry for what you had to go through and I hope you recover from this, it's kinda weird for me seeing this interpretation for the beginners guide because I always saw it as Coda being the same person as dave, with both being different sides of his personality

[@silent-hills]

I’m so, so sorry you had to go through that. I’m on the ace aro spectrum as well, and went through a pretty similar experience with a close friend of mine of 6 years recently (he just didn’t try to contact me after I broke off our friendship and ran away like a coward). I know how it feels like to an extent, you’re not alone. I hope you’re doing better now, though! : )

[@bluethelucario6194]

I have a suggestion! American McGee’s Alice and Alice’s Madness Returns! Despite some imperfections in gameplay and low accessibility to most players, these games are amazing, dark retellings of the Alice in Wonderland series. I highly recommend looking more into them!

[@MushroomMayhem]

Madness Returns honestly left me feeling like I had closure for my own trauma. Like the PTSD is still there, but Alice getting her revenge on her abuser was really cathartic.

[@fngoodmusic78]

I haven’t played it but I loved Civvie 11’s video on that game

[@possumqueen123]

Love Amercian McGee's Alice series!! I figured out it's part of xbox's game pass as part of EA Play, so I think you can play it on pc as long as you have xbox, not sure. It's only Madness Returns, but it contains the first game in that one too. I was pleasantly surprised!

[@hey.bbyl0n]

@@possumqueen123 madness returns is back on steam!

[@Smartcoughdrop]

I remember watching Jacksepticeye’s first episode of Night in the Woods and getting the game immediately afterwards, like a lot of people have said, it really captures the strange melancholy of growing up in the modern rustbelt states.

[@PleeferTV]

I find you more relatable than most KZbinrs! The fact that you don’t have more subscribers is a crime in itself. You deserve more my friend! You’ve helped me more than I can say.

[@ThatCreepyReading]

Thanks my dude

[@Casinizucchini]

One that deserved to be on this list is Fran Bow. A game of a child traumatized from her parents murder and forced to take hallucinations drugs.

[@masterseal0418]

Parasite Eve also.

[@schwammi]

that would be futher down the iceberg

[@brotbrotsen1100]

Why didn't the child just become batman?

[@user-ln2go4xp6d]

@@brotbrotsen1100 too busy hallucinating

[@GrimmDelightsDice]

I have a webcomic Im developing as an analysis of horror games (especially romance-horror and horror visual novels) and this reminded me to note down that the only real people in the comic are the reader (either preserved as the fourth wall or presented as an incomprehensible monster throughout the story) and the main character. Everyone else is a paranoid delusion made worse by a mentally ill child getting too into the community of romanticized horror online. (Thank u!)

[@ZaberZlayer7]

Not gonna lie, that sounds like a great read! I can see this as something with great potential.

[@GrimmDelightsDice]

@@ZaberZlayer7 Thank you! That means a lot!! It's still super in development (I'm working on fleshing out character reference and written panel outlines through the third chapter rn) and the reader featuring as the "main" antagonist is actually gonna kind of be a twist/not a HUGE part of the story for most of it. It was inspired by watching (by proxy) my best friend's youngest sibling (11) get sucked into horror media online and using that as a vector to examine my own somewhat romantic relationship with horror media [often as a form of self harm], and things like Killing Stalking, creepypastaxReader, or the genocide Undertale route becoming popular. So it's mostly gonna be an examination of a young teen who is both enamored by dark media and surrounded by dark circumstances, and the interaction therein. (No "video games cause violence" here, just an examination of how the romanticization of horror and death in online circles of children can open avenues for those children to be hurt.) This was half a reminder to myself in case I lose the document I'm using for random spatters of planning because it's going in the inspiration playlist :> (Aiming for going live on webtoons or an independent site late this year, under the name "Killkit"/"Killkit Comic", but I post some stuff on my Instagram (inkynewt) and Twitter (inky__newt), i think I've only posted a main character design so far iirc)

[@ZaberZlayer7]

@@GrimmDelightsDice Well, you’ll definitely get a couple readers, and I’ll be sure to be one of them.

[@southparkfirefly]

@@GrimmDelightsDice Sounds intriguing! Where can I find this webcomic when it's done so I can follow you and wait patiently~

[@ahomefordreams]

sounds cool!! please update with the link if there is one at some point :-)

[@sludgeskin]

I still die inside over PT. I was exposed to Silent Hill from a young age through my mother. I was about four, just watching her play. Being a kid, I just thought the monsters were cool. As I got older, the underlying themes of mental illness and struggle started to make sense and relate to my situation. With anything past the Room having no real psychological horror that made the first games memorable, PT was a refreshing experience that hit really close to home and my childhood. I am still remorseful of what me and my mother could have experienced together.

[@sludgeskin]

my mom still buys me little Silent Hill trinkets, she bought me a car sticker the other day

[@snybies]

@@sludgeskin that´s very cool!

[@2-bitto]

This story makes me happy.

[@huntclanhunt9697]

Hatred is more cringe than disturbing. It's so edgy and over the top that it's almost comical at times.

[@Immolator772]

it's pretty much the edgy version of The Darkness, at least in there the character is forced to do terrible stuff and you kill terrible people as well.

[@awetistic5295]

It's the game version of a 2000's edgelord tumblr kid that never grew up.

[@_Kuma_]

@@Immolator772 that’s what I thought of too. The darkness was kind of edgy too, but better. It sucks most people don’t seem to know what it is! It was fun.

[@Immolator772]

@@_Kuma_ pretty original fps game too.

[@EneTheGene]

i loved playingt it because the main character was so funny.

[@random_dragon]

I feel like "Discover My Body" should have been included somewhere in here, as well as, "Mind Sweepers" I think is what it's called? And "Presentable Liberty" Discover my Body is this strange short horror game, where the player is tasked with analyzing, talking with, and discovering the parts of, a test subject. He gets this strange injection implant, that starts to morph and warp into him, starting as a strange mass in the shape of his mother's face, and ending with him being part of some horrifying hive mind The Mind Sweepers one, is about someone who goes around town, analyzing people for potential mental illness, and "curing" them. There are some horrifying implications, and choices though, as you can simply choose not to help someone who clearly needs it, or "cure" someone, that has nothing wrong with them. You can even completely remove their personality, leaving them as a brainwashed zombie. There's quite a bit of lore too, about this dystopian future, and the people inhabiting it Presentable Liberty, though, feels like its own whole tier. There's something about it, that's extremely hard to explain. The entire game takes place in one room, with no interaction with other characters. All you can really do is read letters, and play video games to pass the time. Other characters can send you things, but you can't respond, leave, or do much of anything else. It's amazing at making you feel truly isolated, and cuts you off from the world outside, while still using these letters to understand what's going on. Things like a traveling friend, a local bakery shop owner, and a man that's been tasked with keeping you happy, so that you don't kill yourself Edit; sorry that this comment is so long

[@ThatCreepyReading]

Thanks for being subbed for so long! I'll look into these games right now thanks for the suggestions!

[@random_dragon]

@@ThatCreepyReading oh wow! I wasn't expecting to get noticed! Your channel is amazing, and I'm a huge fan

[@fish-from-hell5976]

Don't you mean Mind Scanners?

[@H3XED_OwO]

@@ThatCreepyReading There is a Minecraft server called the "uncensored library"; which houses political and governmental documents, it's quite interesting.

[@random_dragon]

@@fish-from-hell5976 YEAH, THAT! lol, I couldn't remember the name of it

[@totallyarealdoctor6498]

My favorite thought tied to No Russian is that the whole point of that scene was for Allen to gain the trust of Makorov. If you choose to gun down civilians, the end of that mission means that Allen gunned down innocent civilians for nothing. Just dark food for thought.

[@earthbounder8329]

Majora's mask is much more than what you mentioned. The most disturbing attribute of Majora's mask is the individual characters and how they react to their end

[@bakaboi5730]

I'm happy "the beginner's guide" is in here, since it's my favorite game ever, but I think "Sally Face" also is a game that deserves to be somewhere on here

[@imjustsomebunny]

Oxenfree is definitely a game that deserves to be on this list. It's a game that, while not filled with your traditional horror game monsters, is genuinely terrifying with how it presents these unseen forces that haunt the various characters, and makes you feel powerless to stop it from happening. And the ending sequence, regardless of what "ending" you even got, is truly the most chilling part of the game, revealing that they're all trapped in an endless loop, started when Alex chose to go to the island to begin with. You realize everyone forgets the horrors they just experienced...as they prepare to visit the island once again. Some of the game's scares, secrets, and story can only be fully experienced when playing through the game multiple times, too. There is a way to break the "curse", and it requires jumping through some hoops on a new playthrough, in order to ensure that the Alex in the next one _won't_ make the same mistake of going to the island. This concept makes the player wonder how many Alexes failed to stop the loop, and you'll never really know. There was a whole ARG surrounding this game years ago, too, and it was actually kind of fascinating. A second Oxenfree game is in the works, too. I'm really looking forward to it!

[@Lethalport1515]

I love Night in the Woods so much. I feel a connection with Mae and also have a tattoo from the game, the leaf in the wind from Mae's journal and I want to get one of Mae herself. One of my favourite quotes from the game is Mae's monologue and I don't see many people talk about it. I'm glad that it helped you in such a heart breaking time. While I am from Australia, I also come from a little country town; I live away from it now. I also dropped out of university and feel that everyone else is progressing and I'm stagnating. The game spoke to me on so many levels. I love all the main characters but I think Mae is my spirit animal. "I AM A TOTAL TRASH MAMMAL!"

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Since Mae is 20 in the game (and it takes place in 2017), then she could around 24/25 years old by now.

[@yellothekunt6826]

daddy issues spotted

[@thehowlinggamer5784]

I'm both patient and impatient at the same time. I'll curse out my dryer for reading only 1 minutes left for the last 5 minutes, but at the same time I know how much time and effort it takes to make videos like this. The research, the editing, the uploading and everything else that goes into it, so however long it takes, whatever you need to do for your own mental health, all the power to you.

[@sleepyashu]

I teared up when he said "warning" just because his voice scared me 💀

[@JC-uu6tz]

I guess I would recommend a game that I haven’t heard a lot of people talk about is Dreaming Mary. On the outside it looks like a cute game with sweet characters. But the more you explore this dreamscape that Mary has conjured up you begin to learn the truth. That the dream world she made is just an escape to get away from her abusive father who keeps her locked up in her room and is hinted to have sexually assault her.

[@scass14]

I just commented the same thing!!! Such an underrated fucked up game.

[@frog1405]

Very much agree. Years later and I still think back to that game quite often. Here's hoping that, one day, development for the sequel will come off of hiatus.

[@mikusmom]

Dreaming Mary was so fucking disturbing

[@noahlee4598]

I feel like the Rusty Lake games have a disturbing essence to them and the lore can get pretty deep. there are definitely a few moments that have made me super uncomfortable while playing the series

[@pokemonyugiohmettaton]

Love these videos! Obviously haven’t watched the full video yet, but the stuff you put out is amazing! Rock on bud!

[@FalloutBoy2234]

Party on dudes

[@ellicdote2015]

This is a super underground game, but I recommend you look into it for lower layers! The Rule of Rose was outlawed in a few countries (wrongfully, may I add) and has a compelling and tragic story. It's a very dark game with intense social commentary on bullying and class inequality. It's so worth covering!!!

[@star8828]

I LOVE rule of rose I'm so glad someone else mentioned it here

[@mosshivenetwork117]

Oh no! Vampire!

[@carnifex423]

i was looking this up and the IMDB promo art for the game is basically softcore bondage porn lmfao

[@digit5465]

Omori is a good one, it portrays this type of amnesia, thats unofficial by psychologists but still used as a diagnosis, and PTSD. Where you experience a traumatic episode in your life and your brain tries to forget it to the point that when it comes back you struggle to tell the difference between reality and what the brain is protecting you from

[@TheDeadestWaffle]

boutta commit hospital

[@rabbecalong8299]

Yeah I agree with you man.

[@that-queer-fnaf-theorist]

HA oh yeah he would have fun with Omori- Hope he dont FALL into a rabbit hole with that one

[@WinnieBeatles]

I think Hatoful Boyfriend might be worth mentioning. It did the subverting expectation of dating sim games with some horrific elements before DDLC, and it was cited as an inspiration for that one secret ending in Dream Daddy. Even being a visual novel that doesn’t necessarily show a whole lot of horror visually, it sure scared me when I first played it. Even beyond the ending you might expect from the obvious scary yandere school nurse, the true BBL route takes a sharp turn into thriller/horror/mystery that certainly spooked me and left me thinking for weeks. I just think it deserves more attention than it usually gets beyond “haha silly bird dating sim lol”

[@daniellundberg2875]

Makes me think of a few of the endings from Everlasting summer, especially that one route... They're not overly scary, but VERY unexpected.

[@Applemind]

@@daniellundberg2875 oh my god, everlasting summer is a great game too

[@sugarblunt]

I always interpreted little nightmares to be about slowly becoming like the adults you hated you when you were a kid. You can empathize more with the flawed adults if you think of them as other children having to survive this system and growing up. I wonder if all of the kids are just named numbers? Something about like shadow self and how ignoring it only makes it worse.

[@RileyHayns]

One game I'm surprised isn't on the iceberg (unless I missed it) is Never Ending Nightmares. It would fit nicely in the second or third tier. The art style and imagery is amazing, even as it only highlights the color red. The different enemies and monsters showcase mental health struggles in various ways. I remember the first time I watched someone play it, I was completely floored with how I felt afterwards.

[@cosmickitty5475]

A recommendation for the next part is The Consuming Shadow. You play as a man who is tasked with stopping one of the gods from destroying the planet. Each playthrough is randomly generated making previous information gathered obsolete. While fighting off monsters you lose sanity and gain injuries that hinder your progress to piece together the banishment ritual. When your sanity is low enough you start hallucinating monsters that aren't even there. Along with the ritual you take jobs to gain money for ammo and health at the risk of running out the clock. At the end you head to Stonehenge in a last dash through an underground facility facing even more monsters before the end where you either save the world with the spell or condemning it to destruction.

[@alexroy5854]

As a young kid with an identical twin brother truly made Mother 3 a MUCH more painful story..

[@chillhop_vibes_247]

You mentioned a lot of really good examples. One game I wish you would have mention is Little Misfortune. POSSIBLE SPOILERS: A little girl who is tormented by a demon trying to devour her soul. She was hit by a car (but she doesn't know this until the end) and is wandering around at the promise of said demon for the prize of eternal happiness. The little girl had abusive and neglectful parents but she is oblivious and does not realize it's abuse; she's trying to get the happiness for her mom.

[@izzyt1626]

This game made. me. SOB. She's so sweet and just wants her mom to be happy. 😢

[@southparkfirefly]

Am I the only person who remembers The Suffering? It was an Xbox game where you were a prisoner in Alcatraz and you fight off creatures who are embodiments of other prisoners who got the death penalty like Needles and Electric chair. I rarely hear anyone mention it, it was really good and gave me a few traumas (considering i played it as a kid...).

[@Megaspartan23]

You can now get the game and it's sequel on GoG

[@incelliousthewizard7883]

@@Megaspartan23 make sure to get the unofficial patch though or the games will crash all the time.

[@Megaspartan23]

@@incelliousthewizard7883 already did that. You can find it on pcgamingwiki

[@cloudsaysthings]

"Her Lie I Tried To Believe" may fit under the "disturbed visual novels" entry on the original iceberg, but I wanted to bring it up. It's not really even a decent game, but it's definitely disturbing, and if it was more mainstream, would definitely be controversial.

[@NathanTowles]

I remember a specific part of The Beginner’s Guide in which the narrator and Pico argue over if video games should be more accessible or more artistic, and to prove his point Pico creates a game titled “accessible game” in which the player is confined to an empty, blank, small box, and then created over 100 copies of that exact same game. Wow

[@Galvatron102]

The fact that Mogeko Castle is the most viewed fragment of this video gives me joy

[@rosyghosty]

Oh man, from someone who also holds The Beginners Guide in a special place in my heart, i really have to recommend davey wreden's lecture for aalto university games, especially closer to the middle, but honestly all of it is really good. I always think about how the, "When i'm around you, i feel physically ill.", was pretty much a Real Thing someone close to him said after a 9 month trajectory of him just becoming increasingly toxic, which is when he really makes a turn around to get and to be better, but MAN

[@richardgonzalez6409]

Though not disturbing it was a moment Ina game where it hit too real, twice. The game was weirdly, Drawn to life, the next chapter those two scenes where the light of my life scene and the very ending of the game it messed me up and made me cry honestly looking back it was an amazing game!

[@TheGroupOnly]

Agreed. Seeing Mari and Jowee at the end completely guts me every time I see that ending.

[@SaiyanGamer95]

The Wii port got a completely different ending, where Mark just fell out of a tree. Actually, I think the re-releases of Next Chapter uses the Wii ending.

[@TheGroupOnly]

@@SaiyanGamer95 Which in all honesty just makes it worse. That's not a gut punch, that's a kick in the Banya. Sure it falls more in line with the general feel of the rest of the game, but that was the point of the ending. That song, this is real life, was meant to show that sometimes things just aren't as cheery or colorful. It was a beautiful, if haunting, message. Mike falling out of a tree is just as deadly, sure, but it doesn't exactly convey the same weight and tone as "Okay, so your parents are probably dead, your sister manifested herself as being half covered in darkness because of damage to half her face, and the dolls you won at the fair protected you in your mind allowing you to wake up. Bonds of love kept you alive."

[@ellisclark8610]

I cried after finishing the game in a car ride to the beach. Such a fun game with such a tragic ending

[@FiSH-iSH]

holy fucking shit, i never got that far in dtl because im bad at platformers. ive gotta finish it now

[@SaltiestDragoon]

I'm glad you're back, and had the strength to take a break as needed. I love your videos and I can't wait for the next one! Welcome back and I can't wait to see what you have next! Keep up the hard work. I love this channel and it helps me relax (odd given the content but).

[@maefromnitw]

i don't come from a small town so i don't relate to most of the problems that stem from that,, but night in the woods is still relatable in so many ways. mae's struggles with her mental illness and change, namely. i watched a playthrough of it first, then adored it so much that i just had to play it myself with my own choices. it is my favorite game (maybe my profile gave it away) and i will never let it lose that spot. mainly because i love it so much that even if there was a game i enjoy playing more, id never let it top this

[@MetalHeartGunner]

Here's a recommendation for part 2: The creators of The Graveyard made a couple of artsy walking simulator type games, they have one called The Path which is some sort of re-interpretation of the little red riding hood told from the perspective of 5 sisters and each of them has their own version of the big bad wolf, that game is so immersive with it's atmosphere and art style and the way the disturbing themes are presented.

[@theWheezle]

I think "Stories Untold" is a solid missed entry here. It starts out as what seems to be a retro horror anthology, but it gets much deeper and more disturbing as the dots begin to connect until eventually the actual story is revealed.

[@2-bitto]

My sister played that for me. It was trippy.

[@paprikagen9342]

the animation on ur little sona on the side is SO unique and i can tell sm hard work was put into this channel

[@ThatCreepyReading]

Thanks, Axeman did an amazing job with the puppet.

[@bleistiftkritzler7275]

I noticed " The Town of Light " wasn't on the list. I think it would belong on one of the top tiers. It's a psychological horror game about Renée who enters a now dilapidated asylum to relive her stay there. It's a rather emotional game ,and it always stuck with me.

[@NiccolaVonMask]

16:16 Mad Father was actually made in Wolf RPG Editor, a free alternative to RPG Maker! So was Misao, another horror game by the same developer.

[@MsAdventure14]

So Happy that We Happy Few finally got touched on again. I know it’s not the best polished game but I have a HUGE soft spot for it, it’s a personal favorite. I was so sad seeing youtubers that started playing it dropped it, leaving it to a lowkey fan base :(

[@vaultdweller4020]

Was just about to mention Lisa.. but I’m SO glad you included it on the list!! Huge inspiration for me personally, when I was looking into making a game on RPG maker...I could only dream to make a game as masterful as Lisa.. Still one of my favorite games of all time 🖤

[@breadbin4833]

Lisa is such a beautiful game, I related to it in a lot of ways with the abuse, overprotective families, etc. I just adore how it was done so well

[@trelard]

The Beginner's Guide helped me end a few toxic friendships after I played it. I'll admit to having a lump in my throat during the ending, but it helped me extricate myself from the situation I was in at the time.

[@eldritch-tailedfeydeer7320]

The studio behind Bendy and the Ink Machine, Kindly Beast, got into some hot water over alleged workplace abuse, making BATIM’s story and the context behind it seem quite ironic in hindsight. In a nutshell, the workplace has, allegedly, been very not worker friendly according to a lot of anonymous sources on Glass Door (an anonymous company review website), saying a lot of unpleasant things about their work experiences. What’s more, ~50 people were fired from KB Studios before Christmas. They also (allegedly) knowingly released a half-baked console port of BATIM and lied about Showdown Bandit. They didn’t disclose to players that it would be chapter-based, like Bendy. It did not sell very well when it came out and garnered a fair bit of bad rep from players. After it released, the head guy fired the entire team developing it to work on it himself. When the dirty began getting aired, exposing them of their scummy business practices (a video discussing this will link in the comments so that everyone can gain full context), Kindly Beast silently pulled Showdown Bandit from Steam and wiped all social media accounts and posts discussing/advertising it, essentially saying to the fans that the game was canceled. There’s a lot more I could say, but I don’t want to rant for too long. Watch the video linked in the comments if you want to know more. Edit: If there’s anything I got wrong or misconstrued in any way, please feel free to correct in the comments!

[@eldritch-tailedfeydeer7320]

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[@circusbrained]

glad before your eyes was talked about, i’ve watched as many playthroughs as i can since i can’t play it but it’s been my favorite game of all time. the comfort that it provides at the beginning and then the horrifying visuals of sickness. it hits me right in the gut and i’ve cried every time.

[@h0lodm0966]

I’m so glad OFF is here! But there’s one thing about the ending, Hugo apparently isn’t the Batter’s son. Batter and the Queen were created by Hugo, probably to create and destroy his own mind.

[@eddieposting]

something i would like to point out in regards to OFF is that creator of the world (Hugo) being the player’s (specifically the Batter’s) son actually comes from a mistranslation of the original french dialogue spoken by the Queen/Vader Eloha (who for the longest time was thought to be Hugo’s mother) during her fight. so Hugo is still the creator of the world, _including_ the Batter and the Queen (who may or may not represent the idea of parents to him)… … which, considering the fact that you as the player have to kill Hugo to proceed through the story (bc the game does not end there), in my opinion, makes Hugo’s “fight” all the more disturbing.

[@nman551]

This channel made me enjoy horror, and I appreciate being introduced to so many interesting genres and games. Especially resident evil and Silent hill. I’m so glad I like horror, but that doesn’t mean I don’t get scared. Cause I definitely do.

[@GrimSpookz]

I just wanna say I really appreciate you opening up about things. Shit has felt hard in life lately. A lotta games in this video have actually either been super nostalgic for me or just in general hard hitting, and yeah sure they're disturbing, it was cool to see different takes on it. I'm really sorry for you loss with your pupper, I lost a pet of mine recently, it hurts. Even though I'm not crying every day anymore, I still have thoughts of him everyday, there's not a single day I don't miss him. I've actually been trying to embrace games about grief and loss and change as much as possible. They help... they really do. Sorry for ranting in your comment section, the last segment hit home and I wanna say thankyou, and I'm proud of you ♡

[@thegrandxbunny2073]

20:24 "Informed look that you really deserve." It's quotes like that which show me how genuine you are and that is why I love your content.

[@Hyper131]

Most disturbing game for me was Earthbound as a kid. I will never forget being in the mall and the lights flicker, a mini boss you defeated before dashes across the screen, grabbing one of your characters, then this creepy music plays as the monster calls for you over the intercom. What made it so disturbing and scary was that i kept dying at this board lmao

[@Bugsnott]

Im a little late to this video but- at 30:15 , that little Gnome isn’t exactly a Gnome, per say. In the DLC, you play as a kid, who’s name is Seven, trying to escape the same area Six is, called The Maw (?). I don’t remember how, but i know that Seven got turned into a Gnome. The same Gnome that Six ate. Six has no idea she ate another child, presumably around the same age as her. This was probably already commented but i wanted to mention it anyways because i love the Little Nightmares series. It conveys a story while playing, but with almost zero dialogue. The only dialogue you hear throughout the game is small things like “psst” “hey” “hi” “hi-ai”. If i got any information wrong please let me know as I haven’t played any of the games in a while and im a bit rusty on relaying info on the game.

[@renox4432]

pretty obvious one, but its a shame you didn't include omori. This game tells such a tragic story that can hit very close to home. Having all the "cute" first impression only for it to become unsettling the more parts of the story you start to uncover, is a fairly popular trope, but omori balances the sadness and creepiness perfectly. While the gameplay parts seem to be hit or miss for people, the story and real life parts are undeniably fantastic. Its also amazing how omori manages to have creepy moments that once you replay the game, foreshadow the plot without making it too obvious

[@sprire2840]

I was pretty surprised that in the intro he included footage from omori but it wasn’t part of the video :(

[@MeiGoat]

Might be deeper in the iceburg??

[@starmaker75]

Yeah I was going “oh come now, it can be that scary and disturbing” *one playthrough later* *me making a similar face to Sunny’s fear expression*

[@sprire2840]

@@MeiGoat hopefully

[@mathiasallen8187]

it is

[@succulentplant1985]

I know it's not super disturbing, but I think Undertale could easily be added here. The whole Genocide route, Flowy's final form, and even the secret under the Lab was a bit mind blowing to me when I was a bit younger playing it for the first time. I only ever did the Pacifist because I was scared of Sans remembering.

[@images9536]

The Binding of Isaac is hands down one of my favorite games of all time. I enjoy it's replay value and large variety of items of varying effects

[@2-bitto]

THis is freaking me out. I was just thinking about TBOI when I scrolled down and saw this.

[@hildahilda1823]

Night in the Woods was one of the first games I played after I told my parents I was dropping out of college. I was extremely depressed and anxious, had stopped seeing my therapist and in general was just running from my problems. I went into it blind so I didn’t know what I was getting into it just looked cool but as I played through it more and more it really hit me emotionally. It made me think about the people who had died or for all intents and purposes had gone “missing” from my memory from high school. It made me think of all the friends I had said goodbye to for the final time without realizing it. It made me think about how stuck I felt and much I hated myself and my life at the time. But it also made me feel seen and okay with the pain of my situation. It made me realize there’s people who know these feelings so well they took them and made something beautiful out of them. It made me look at my situation from a different lens. It’s been about a year and things aren’t nearly as suffocating as they felt back then.

[@moxxieplushproductions4111]

I'm rewatching a lot of your content as I draw. The start of this video reminded me of my first real video game encounter with Life is Strange. All of Episode 2 was such a big eye opener and I didn't expect it in a game about a girl who has rewinding time powers😭

[@_TheRockyGamer_]

The storyline of BioShock is fascinating to me. It’s truly one of the best game series to exist! I love it!

[@masonsneed394]

Just found this channel a couple of weeks ago and this is like the perfect channel for me. Topics and things I am interested in. Keep up all the good work man! Can’t wait for part 2!

[@ezkm1m1x]

I know this comment will probably be unseen, but if these games aren’t on this iceberg somewhere I’d consider them! Lobotomy Corporation and Library of Ruina are… very intresting games. They’re disturbing and sickening but never overwhelming in my opinion. Lobotomy Corp is the first game by Project Moon and definitely has some bugs and issues (and only recently was one of those issues fixed with a redux of the english translation). It has some very disturbing elements, including one scene that has stuck with me for quite some time. The scene in question being one where the cartoonish art style drops for a moment, giving us a look at the real facility, before the assistant realizes the mistake and turns the filter back on. Very messed up and creepy themes in this game, including being found within the abnormalites you manage, the cast of characters you meet, and even yourself. Library Of Ruina is this games sequel! It takes place after the end and you see not only the aftermath of your actions but the outside world for the first time. It’s not a very happy one, filled with murder and a general sense of the loss of what meaning a life holds. I haven’t actually gotten that far in this game unfortunately (both of these games are extremely difficult), but its still a favorite of mine. Consider checking these out for this list! Or just in general, since they’re very underground games in the west. Lobotomy Corp is a rouge like scp management sim while Library of Ruina is a deck builder game. While both are difficult beyond belief, they can be rewarding too. If you don’t have time to sink into them, there’s always videos on youtube, though with Lobotomy Corp, the English translation might be rocky for earlier videos.

[@anusaukko6792]

I don't think Lobotomy Corporation and Library of Ruina really fit on this list, because they are entirely their own things with a ginormous amount of lore and worldbuilding and a rabid dedicated fanbase.

[@DogFlamingoXIII]

You don't have to bring Columbine into "Postal" for it to be disturbing, for those who were around when workplace stress in the postal system in the US was so bad , due to systematic abuse of workers that two people shot their co-workers in two different incidents and postal locations. The phrase "going postal" has been kicked around so much that it has lost a lot of the meaning, which is horrifying on its own. The game was inspired by people who were abused to the point that their minds snapped, just from a job with benefits that people didn't want to lose.

[@eyitsmcdoydoy2591]

A suggestion that I have is a game called “The Path”. It’s an unnerving game that I really enjoyed. Plus it’s also got a really mysterious story as well.

[@vi0let831]

Ayyyyyy

[@watermelontaffy4999]

Sally Face feels like it should be included in the second layer. It has a very unique art style for a story game (I wanna say point and click but it breaches a bit beyond that). It definitely includes some gorey topics and the ending isn’t a typical happy one since it ends with defeat of the evil characters but other things not being resolved. The game had some popularity and even continued development because of the KZbin community and KZbinrs like Jacksepticeye. Some of the themes definitely match with other games on this list and I felt a feeling of dread during the ending and what Sal is forced to do. Sorry this comment is long, the game just holds a high place to me! Great video < 3

[@misseselise3864]

the first video game related thing that scared me was the PS2 disc read error screen

[@vi0let831]

Same, ngl I still fear it

[@mrsauceman6825]

So glad OFF and Lisa were on here they’re both amazing and underrated with amazing osts

[@QueenOfMoggies]

im surprised sally face isn't on this list - episode 3 genuinely made me feel so ill I barely ate for a while after finishing it

[@thescaresquare]

Some of these games are definitely creepy. Others not so much. Great job! 👌

[@mr_selfdestruct]

I'm so glad Harvester is on this list, it's one of my favourite weird games and makes me want to have fmv style games get a comeback.

[@silverword1913]

Fran bow ... little misfortune both made by the same people and I feel they would make some good entries to this series

[@marshmallowloaf]

Great video! However, I'm hoping in your next video you'll be able to cover the oddly banned Marvel game, The Punisher. Similar to Manhunt, the game has extremely graphic interrogation scenes that caused the game to be heavily censored or even outright banned in countries. If that doesn't interest you, I also highly recommend mentioning "They Breathe" a survival horror game that forces the player to willingly sacrifice their own frog friends to delve deeper and conserve oxygen or try your might to save everyone while fending off parasites. While not graphic, I feel the horror behind being in a state of drowning and very real depiction of parasitic relationships (*Using frogs as lungs to provide oxygen*) terrifying.

[@pundertalefan4391]

I really like the idea of Harvester, even though it's not executed the best. I wonder if something similar could be done today.

[@gey_tingz]

I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS CHANNEL!! Thank you for bringing us more entertainment especially on the horror and disturbing side

[@waellrat]

As always I love your content and I just took a look at the iceberg! I'm super hyped to see stuff like "I have no mouth and I must scream" and corpse party but one of my favourite ps2 horrors was excluded so I wanted to mention it here. Rule of Rose is a game with fairly disturbing themes that actually has a history of controversy so I'd love to see it covered :]

[@TheBabblingBabs]

One game that's not on there that I believe belongs on at LEAST the second tier, is The Path, a red riding hood game.

[@j.r.341]

The Mortal Kombat section was so interesting. We always talk about “Oh people scared over violent video games is so stupid” but it’s so weird to think there was a time where we didn’t have a rating system or stuff like that. I mean, I’m all for violent video games, but I grew up in a time where my parents could easily make judgments on what was appropriate for me (using both the rating systems and the internet). But parents didn’t have that back then. I mean, it’s easy to make fun of parents for being overzealous pearl-clutching Christians (and I’m not saying they weren’t) but I can’t imagine trying to raise a kid in a world of video games before easy access to websites that evaluate appropriateness or rating systems

[@phyrexiancoffee6324]

It makes me feel weird that I didn't have a game disturb me until I was a teenager. My dad and I played through Resident Evil 1, 2, & 3 together when I was around 7. I was always exposed to horror games and movies, and have a deep love of the genre. For those wondering, the first game to disturb me was Spec Ops: The Line. I come from a large military family, and knew about the horrors of war. This did not prepare me for seeing what those horrors actually look like. 3 years ago, I sat down with my step-dad to play through the game with him as part of his therapy. His therapist wanted him to expose himself to media that put him back into scenarios that were similar to those he experienced. It took him 8 months of trying to play 2 days a week to finish the game, and said it was the most mentally taxing thing he had done since his discharge from service.

[@breno855]

This sounds so interesting, how did he react if you are comfortable sharing?

[@yeti7565]

These videos are amazing They’re well researched, edited, and voice overed I love them Also I’m so sorry about your dog I know what it’s like to lose a pet Just wanna say we love you dude

[@Raven_Redacted]

You know shit is real when mama max does the intro