Unintentionally FUNNY - Swallow

[@matthewselders2061]

The wife advancing the salary means she got the company to pay her his salary before he earned it. Thus, putting him in debt. I think the note early on talking about someone else in the lighthouse is actually the current lighthouse keeper talking about the husband hiding in the lighthouse after the wife and child were killed.

[@tybleb9240]

@Pickle Rick that’s the first time I’ve used the dislike button on a comment

[@systemsofthinking]

Hi Gab, you asked about a couple of things: 1) "MAZ" is the mirror image of "Sam" (our character's name). This reflection of the name is the only link I can come up with and it makes us the same person as this serial killer. 2) the hallway with the doors that have 4 digit numbers on them (e.g. 1204, 1217, 1224) are dates in "MMDD" format and they tell the chronological order of what happened to you. 1204 - arrive at lighthouse island. 1208 - fill oil for the lamp. 1217 - bought a ticket to sneak home for a quick visit (and get the toy for your kid on sale per the flyer). Then 1218 doesn't go so well... a "leap of faith" (though I think quite a bit is lost in translation). 3) "It'll never happen to me" --> "Why did it happen to me? I didn't do anything wrong!" scene references his wife's adultery. The thing with the cans still confuses me. Swallowing those cans of beans whole, like a pelican, as instructed (sort of). But they were "garden peas" according to the label?

[@Faucetofstone]

Best I can figure, dude worked at lighthouse for years, his wife used him for his money, a line Gab missed (not sure why it skipped over itself) implied she also cheated on him, guy decides to come home early and kills his family discovering her infidelity. No idea where the serial killer fits in and the term "Serial Killer" didn't exist until the 1975, so this thing is weird all over.

[@JhonnyB694]

The developers appear to be Asian, so I wonder how much was lost in translation and how much is bad writing.

[@matthewselders2061]

Phil Hartman of SNL died in 1998 so it's weird that the radio has a story about his unaliving.

[@Jallen6442]

I think that the husband is also the serial killer

[@Ladypiccolo]

Generally, serial killer has to have killed 3 people in separate events. Phil Hartman was killed by his wife, before she unalived herself...I wonder if they were using him for that reason??

[@Dr.Fluffles]

I get the impression there's a lot lost in translation, but the primary story impression that I got was that it was hinting he killed them, but then the twist was that they were killed when he was out at sea, and he only learned of it from a delivered newspaper, and the ferryman reminding him about buying a toy for his kid before he got home was a cruel irony. To me, the progression of the story was him and his wife growing apart as money got tight, as she from the beginning didn't care about him as a person, and his long work away from home lead to his kid not caring for him, either. His wife made it even harder for him by requesting forwards on his paychecks from his boss, who kept pushing harder and harder as his work slipped. In a cruel twist, as he plans to get a gift for his kid before he gets home for Christmas, he learns partway through his stay that his family was killed by the serial killer, with people not realizing he was gone at the lighthouse, followed by him descending into alcoholism (which may have already been started), and possibly being tempted to hang himself before he leaves, but managing to not, then going to the boat where the captain unknowingly reminds him of the trauma, or the temptation occurring after he gets to shore, with his final fate not clear to me.

[@LeggomyMeggo84]

Maybe it's called "Swallow" because the dude swallows cans.

[@quirkyviper]

I snorted at this and woke up my pup!

[@LeggomyMeggo84]

@@quirkyviper when he groaned and passed out, my husband thought I was watching something dirty 🤣

[@quirkyviper]

@@LeggomyMeggo84 And I'm sure the fact that the game is just called "Swallow" probably wouldn't have helped your case in that moment, lol. It's not what it sounds like, hunny, I promise 😆😆

[@Platymapuss]

Your comment just made me squirt tea out of my nose😂 My God that's hilarious

[@strawberrymoss]

What I took from it was that his wife was stealing his salary and he used the serial murders as cover for returning home early to murder her. I think that’s why you may have got the impression that he went home earlier (I did too). I think he returned to the island and the guilt “swallowed” him and he removed himself.

[@Dr.Fluffles]

I get the impression there's a lot lost in translation, but the primary story impression that I got was that it was hinting he killed them, but then the twist was that they were killed when he was out at sea, and he only learned of it from a delivered newspaper, and the ferryman reminding him about buying a toy for his kid before he got home was a cruel irony. To me, the progression of the story was him and his wife growing apart as money got tight, as she from the beginning didn't care about him as a person, and his long work away from home lead to his kid not caring for him, either. His wife made it even harder for him by requesting forwards on his paychecks from his boss, who kept pushing harder and harder as his work slipped. In a cruel twist, as he plans to get a gift for his kid before he gets home for Christmas, he learns partway through his stay that his family was killed by the serial killer, with people not realizing he was gone at the lighthouse, followed by him descending into alcoholism (which may have already been started), and possibly being tempted to hang himself before he leaves, but managing to not, then going to the boat where the captain unknowingly reminds him of the trauma, or the temptation occurring after he gets to shore, with his final fate not clear to me

[@Crimson_201]

31:00 that moan and him chugging two canned beans was top notch voice acting

[@alex0589]

11/10, no notes.

[@skleedleplotchnu3713]

it's Sir Sic, he has a channel here

[@theIaurenshow]

LOL ikr. Couldn’t have done it better myself 😂

[@namelessmoonlight]

For anyone wondering, the coordinates at 3:42 are actual coordinates for Isles, Flannan HS2 9HA, United Kingdom. It's an actual island with a lighthouse

[@lucasmcinnis5045]

Oh nice, I'm gonna check and see if they did the research to choose a lighthouse that would've been built by the time the story is set. Since the photos they used are more 1930s than 1880s

[@Alfredopizzaluver151]

"Daddy?" "Do I look like?" Nice reference there, Gabs xD

[@aielsbeach4111]

I feel like some clues were lost in the darkness, literally. From the steam page : Swallow is a first-person psychological horror game with a heavy focus on story and exploration. Based on a true story, describe an unsolved case that took place on an isolated island of 20th century England. Players take control of a lighthouse keeper to uncover the truth." I wonder what unsolved case they are referring to. I think he went home killed his family, for reasons, then racked with guilt he went back to the lighthouse and unalived himself. Now he haunts the lighthouse not realizing he's the ghost. I think the other people he's seeing are actually the current lighthouse keepers.

[@rhiannanpierce3205]

11:15 Never have I been more proud of myself. Gab and I both quoted the vine at the exact same time 😂😂 I couldn't believe we both said it outloud I had to pause I was laughing so hard

[@saids7737]

I DIED at that part. I'm so impressed that you said it with her 🤣🤣

[@Laapsap]

watch?v=87GUSKlanB0 for those who do not know what the Vine is

[@noahdarling7417]

its called swallow as a metaphor, i believe. Because guilt swallowed the character whole. I think the serial killer got his family or something and he wasn't there, that guilted him and it swallowed him.

[@JhonnyB694]

I think I know the plot...? Seems that his wife was cheating on him (her taking his paycheck early, rejecting him when he got home, the kid mentioning a "Uncle John", are the clues) Them, he discover it ("How this could happen to me?" bit) leave his post on the lighthouse, murder the family, and "frames" the MAZ serial killer. He goes back to the lighthouse and unlives himself. The fact that I can tell if this is just a guess or what actually happen is not a good sign, whoever. I'm all for unconventional storytelling, but if you can't understand the story, well... Not much of storytelling anymore right?

[@abbienormals1669]

There was also the boat ticket from December 18 that she picked up. I'm wondering if the lighthouse keeper might actually be the MAZ serial killer and he went to the mainland that day to kill? Or maybe that was the day he discovered his wife having an affair... idk.

[@cautiouslycynical9786]

You know what's even worse? The radio at some point uses a very modern news story saying something about a wife shooting her husband and making it look like he "unlived" himself. Using sound bites in the style of TV news is already hilarious given the time period the game is supposed to take place. But throwing a pointless red herring making me think that the wife faked her oof is next gen confusion. Or maybe it was the other way around and the husband did the deed. And I misheard what I genuinely believe was a word per word excerpt from a 2000s evening newscast.

[@JhonnyB694]

@@cautiouslycynical9786 Nah, it was a modern newscast. I don't if they intended as a red herring, or was just a case of "this is the only asset we have that mention those themes".

[@JhonnyB694]

@@abbienormals1669Probably the former. Someone else mentioned that the note about a second person on the he island may be about the main character, that is hiding in there after what happened. He hides in there till Christmas, when the rope necklace happens? Again, theories is all we gonna have I guess.

[@cautiouslycynical9786]

@@JhonnyB694 That's so funny, man. Still, can't criticize an indie game that much. It did have some pretty good visuals. And I'm not one to dis mediocrity if it's entertaining.

[@UnfazedPhoenix]

Your energy is so calm all the time. Even when you seemed to get frustrated about mixing your words, still calm. It's really inspiring.

[@crazymus_pride]

18:28 THEY ARE THE WEDDING VOWS THAT A ORTHODOX PRIEST SAYS is more like "you promise to love, honor and respect. to be faithful to your partner and not forsake her/him till death do you apart" provably is the translation that confuse you, he was swallow by the guilt and his family, his family it suppose to be his lighthouse but it drown him like an ocean that shallow you whole

[@MarcusWolfe]

38:36 It doesn't have anything to do with the game. It's an actual recording of a breaking news story of actor Phil Hartman being murdered by his wife from, as the radio said, American TV station ABC. I actually remembered hearing of the story when I was really young and his posthumous movie, Kiki's Delivery Service, being dedicated in his honor.

[@BabiesNCarrots]

7:12 don’t worry Ev, my brain thinks of words faster than can say them so I end up stuttering and making up words! This kinda makes me feel better about myself! ❤😊

[@atsaichu]

This game is developed by a team of five college students from Taiwan. Maybe that's why the Chinese characters are left in the journal/notebook. ;p ... Speaking of Taiwanese games, you might want to check out The Bridge Curse - Road to Salvation. There are definitely some funny moments in that game too and it's fully voice acted in mandarin.

[@quirkyviper]

I liked The Bridge Curse once I figured out what the world was going on. Some lovely ppl in the comments explained it and I felt like it was a *great* story and one of those rare situations where I feel like the need for actual gameplay got in the way of it. I hope Gab will check it out!

[@atsaichu]

@@quirkyviper indeed. The Bridge Curse, like another Taiwanese horror game, Devotion, a few years back, is very linear. They just want to tell a story. If you haven't, you might want to check out The Bridge Curse movie that the game is based on. I think the movie tells the story much better.

[@dimwarlock]

I mean... "Unintentionally funny" is this channel's brand, you make me laugh in the worst moments.

[@Dia17ch]

Ahhh you played this too, Gab!! I'm so happy!! The translations in this game are soo hilarious. Watched CJU play it and he was having a blast with the weird directions too

[@MsJillVicius]

The wife was spending his pay before he earned it. She also kind of made him feel like he wasn't making enough. As a side note, I'm pretty sure the news story on the radio about the Saturday Night Live star getting killed by his wife who then took her own life is the story of Phil Hartman. I'm not sure why it's in this game though, unless there's a loose relationship to a spouse committing murder/suicide.

[@TwiggyHetfield27]

38:35 I legit started tearing up a bit. Phil Hartman's murder is something I will never get over. (That part of this game was very unexpected)

[@alphamike87]

I won’t get over it either

[@KeiVC]

The movie that Gab was reminded of was The Lighthouse. I personally started watching it recently but haven gotten through it yet, but this game is really giving the same vibes!

[@robsutton2841]

"do i look like" was such a nostalgia hit. awesome vid

[@BigGrabowski]

Lighthouse keepers, historically, were always placed with one or more other keepers, to help spread out the labor and also to avoid mental decline. If they had a family, they'd live in the keeper house with them. At, least that's how it was set up in the US. Is it different in other countries?

[@avaleclair7065]

maybe it's named swallow because the guilt of presumably killing his family "swallowed" him up until he unalived

[@Unicorgo]

It's Renaissance's 'steps without person'. Old but gold. I have heard it once in rented old house, like someone was walking in heavy boots in the middle of the night, and damn that's worse than you think to hear it live 😳

[@suineuzumaki8831]

Hey Gab! I don't know if other people have mentioned this or not but I just finished playing a really cool and interesting Indie game called "Beacon Pines" I thought you might like it. And honestly, highly recommend to anyone who really enjoys a mystery, I thought that it was super fun to uncover everything. There were some things I would have liked to see in the game but overall thought it was a great experience. Highly recommend the game!

[@ivorycrosby3314]

Yesssss another video!! I love to watch your stuff while having breakfast. Just watched behind the frame and honestly your style of streaming did the game justice!! Love your work!

[@13seetherfan]

7:10 the way she looked at us with such disappointment for her own voice 😭

[@NutsItsBerserkinTime]

I thought this was going to be a remake of "no one lives under the lighthouse"game you played a while back lol

[@Dia17ch]

The amount of lighthouse games is unbelievable! 🤣

[@leaduhamel1971]

Hey Gab ! Always a pleasure to see you play these cool horror games, especially now that spooky season is about to start :) One game that I think could be good for your taste is At Dead of Night, cause it's horror but the storylines are pretty good and you also have to investigate and search for items to understand what's going on . Also it looks super real with real actors and decors, so its 200% more scary

[@skookathing]

I hate how the game hinted at it being a spooky light house upkeep simulator but then turned into layers of fear

[@quirkyviper]

I agree, it felt inspired by PT in a lot of ways

[@sweepingtime]

I wouldn't mind being a lighthouse keeper. Just give me a ton of books and/or internet and I'll be happy as a clam.

[@chrystielingius5831]

i love watching you play just about any game as your voice is so soothing and your choice in games are al relaxing in their own way.

[@hbanfill]

Lighthouses are so cool. I love them. I've toured a working one a couple times and it's definitely a thrill being near and inside one! Especially if you can go all the way to the top (which I've done once. 93 feet. Stairs forever. Kicked my ass but was worth it.) Any story with a lighthouse as a main focus is A-okay by me.

[@moniquewhyte7036]

Wow that sounds cool, did u feel lightheaded inside of it?

[@hbanfill]

@@moniquewhyte7036 definitely after I’d been going up the stairs for awhile. 😆

[@ageoftheexile]

This game's prologue starts on my birthday. Would be really cool if it weren't for the fact that it's a horror game!

[@AntonMonster]

20:22 Why’d you spilled your beans Tommy 😂

[@Lesley_RedRhody]

Holy shit!! I wasn’t expecting a reference to an actual murder (38:34)!! I was twenty-four when Phil Hartman was shot and killed by his wife!

[@johnollis5362]

"ANGRY CHAIR!"

[@deedeeprince164]

Not that it matters and I dunno if anyone knows this but the radio people were talking about the Phil Hartman case. Phil Hartman, comedian and actor for Saturday Night Live (like the radio said) was murdered by his wife, Brynn, who then killed herself after she murdered Phil, back in 1998. I’m a huge fan of true crime.😊

[@ycylchgames]

31:31 A knee high wall? Your not getting over that bad boy.

[@Ajlez]

LOL watching this during hurricane and I literally just told my housemate "The rain just slapped my window", right before the slapping line in game. IT REALLY DID. I hadn't heard it hit that window like that before, a lot of the wind is blocked from it.

[@jackrabbit.]

No but the way I burst out laughing so hard when the game said "daddy?" and gabs went "DO I LOOK"

[@keymastertommy3662]

I wish i had my own coy tar

[@ravendelacrux]

I missed an horror game like this since MadIson!, thanks Gab. This spooky season looks promising💚💚🤍💀

[@naomisilverfang7098]

I just woke up from a nap to the sound the rain outside the lighthouse and I imagined was that you were playing a 2000's movie-tie platform game for the Lighthouse (2019). Imagine how hilarious that would be to play as Robert Pattinson lookin like a ps2 potato and collecting all the cans of beans to unlock a horribly compressed fmv clip of the seagull scene with no other context.

[@maltemoj]

29:10 Gab Smolders Bullying 3 year olds since 1988. As for the Maz signs, it's obviously meant to be Marz telling you to play video games with her. Duh.

[@brokentooth4314]

Ah yes love it when you play Indie horrors

[@fire34fly]

What I'm SUPER confused about is at 38:34 they play an actual news report on Phil Hartman's murder.. like that doesn't relate to the game at all

[@ricenorim]

Maybe it does

[@TheCornDavis]

I was looking away from my iPad when the voice actor started talking and I legit thought gab was using a deep man voice like “Don’t know..” I looked up so fast 🤣

[@MissManicMuffin]

The amount of perfectly cut screams this video had was just incredible lol. While the storyline could use a lot of major tweaking, this was still a lot of fun.

[@scar1truking286]

The best thing I can advise is that a lot of the story points were told through visual clues that were rushed past. This is still a really fun playthrough to watch. Thank you Gabs :)

[@ontherocksjojo]

It was named Swallow, because of how he ate those beans, cans and all!

[@kataidangernoodle3637]

The moral of the story is don't get married.

[@tlbrfofficial7768]

There's a game called Thần Trùng [The Death], I don't know if you've heard of that one before. But you might want to check it out. The game belongs to the psychological horror genre, explores the mystery of the “walking simulator” style and has some puzzles. So the playing time depends on each different player. The game also has different endings depending on the gameplay.

[@vanja2805]

im the exact same after migraines, can bearly talk haha. dont stress Goobers, we love u just the way you are

[@chloebridges512]

I got disco elysium vibes from the VA in the opening scene😂

[@guerney2000]

It shouldn't be much of a problem to visit a lighthouse in UK, I found 6 that offer tours, three in the south, one in Wales, one in east and one in Scotland

[@mandawins02]

the footstep sounds are giving me some major asmr

[@bryantallen703]

LAZARET - Distress Signal Coming from Abandoned Navy Ship (New Horror Game demo) gotta see a reaction vid.

[@Hydropathy]

I was so confused on how Gab was getting thrown into my recommendations for about a month and a half now until I recognized the background😂

[@flokitheravenheart4310]

Always love watching your videos ♡ makes my day

[@embareknoorey6601]

You are doing a wonderful job by giving Knowledge many thanks

[@BinkuSama]

Me: *simply existing* Chair: *😡*

[@jasonenglish3713]

This would be great to see Sean play this game as well, See you be scared and funny also creepy. Keep up awesome and amazing job Gab 👍

[@KuyaaaRenz]

So SAM tried to deny to himself that he killed his family by plastering a name of a different persona, MAZ (which is just SAM mirrored) so he can easily forget? Did Sam get _Swallowed_ by his guilt after a few years of hiding in the lighthouse when he heard stuff on the radio and it got his memory running up again? I don't need sleep, I need ANSWERS!!... eh probably sleeping after this.

[@relaxingtopology256]

Narrator sounds like James Marsters.

[@atmo85]

I think it's called Swallow because he swallowed those beans 😂

[@gagadreams]

The only thing I took away from The Lighthouse movie is that seagulls are sinister and smart as hell, I will never look at seagulls the same way again, they scare me now! This game really is unintentionally funny, the stream reminded me of an episode of MST3K, its a gem! Love the premise but could have been done way better! And I recommend the song Angry Chair by Alice in Chains, one of my favorite songs ever! I don't mind the air, I don't mind🤘

[@MistaManlyGuy]

I really admire the storytelling structure

[@kingstonleigh3366]

Sam- after spending years married to a nagging, adulterous, golddigging harpy- went nuts and became Maz before ultimately unaliving himself. age old story (not really)

[@kpop_equation8879]

Gabiee you make my day i luv u!!💜💜

[@BambiGoth27]

Gab, you should go to the St. Augustine light house in Florida. Its incredibly haunted and even haunted by a cat ghost! Its terrifying but also gorgeous. just dont do a ghost tour. just go in yourself.

[@real_rivolta]

Slime Rancher *2* is out!

[@keisuke_kj]

いろんな音にビビったー、このゲーム！ けどGabさんのリアクションが面白いしほっこりするからいい感じで観れました^ ^

[@Zombertino]

So this game uses gas lamps as light sources, but the player has a modern flip lighter for some reason... Then, they mention credit scores, Phil Hartman's murder, but the boats are steam ships and the toys are just rudimentary. I feel like they never decided on the year this game is set in...

[@JeremyAndrew182]

Koi tar is the gas that powers the toy car

[@TheFernandaMioto]

Queeeeen! Love every single video you make ❤

[@AntonMonster]

I instantly thought about “The Lighthouse” movie with Robert and Willem. I wasn’t expecting this movie to be heavy and dark, I glad I didn’t watched it with my mother. My question to Goobers and Evelien, did you liked the movie ? BTW foghorn in the movie are great, loved it from the start

[@drewinsects]

I'm so sick of the underwhelming cliche in almost every indie horror where the main character actually doesn't remember killing their whole family and the whole game just acts as a way to remind them, I'm getting so sick of it being literally almost EVERY horror, it's now a really overused trope I feel like a lot of game developers throw in there because they don't actually know how to write a decent plot.

[@theIaurenshow]

are the Taiwanese characters for Swallow those meaning the verb swallow or the bird? I related the don’t kill the seagull to a swallow which is also a bird, but is connected to land areas rather than sea like seagulls. Perhaps the lighthouse keeper is the seagull and the wife is the swallow. That’s a pretty metaphorical interpretation though!

[@gabriellewhite6194]

“Daddy?” “DO I LOOK LIKE-“

[@carrieannemoore9446]

Wtf was this game😂😂 the video was entertaining watching you be so confused! I was baffled 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@Sammy-Ambriz]

Hopefully Gab does Metroid Dread in the future

[@stormlight1416]

Don't mind me, just cry-laughing at 11:10

[@iina5525]

I can't remember where was the baby gamers thing from. Somewhere over on Twitch??

[@kelsiesmith62]

Patiently waiting for more HOG and Nancy Drew, your narration playing those games are just too funny 😂

[@googoogaga7986]

hey! chillas has a new game out, or it might be out soon?! I think its called 'The Bathhouse'? I definitely recommend adding it to the spooky games list :DD

[@eliminatorsdoom6381]

if your looking for good games to play there is always the unravel series

[@DonnieReno]

Years ago I used to want to live in a lighthouse 😊

[@swizzy12344]

you go gril

[@ameliatoney2910]

will u play the chant when it comes out

[@redpastasauce4972]

It was freaky cuz she kept saying my name! Lol

[@Diane281]

i was thinking it might be called swallow cause grief of guilt can do that to you maybe i dunno

[@Jallen6442]

It’s swallow bc the truth is a hard pill to swallow

[@roxbanana4240]

Not even a minute in and the voice actor for the narrator sounds like a voice in a narrative detective game called Disco Elysium 🤔

[@allyssanurintanfauzia9176]

angry chair

[@erinjordon829]

I wanna live in a lighthouse. Can I just do that my whole life?? 😩

[@melanied917]

Oh hooow shocking, another indie horror where the man kills his family. How original. But all I gathered from this was the wife used him for money, and he was angry, killed his family under the radar while their was a serial killer on the loose, I guess. And then he d worded himself. But also serial killer wasn't even a term until the late 1970s early 1800s. So what a mess really. Don't get the name either