Video Games With Dying Worlds

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Join me as we explore the haunting landscapes of Video Games set in empty, unknown, and dead worlds. From the eerie frozen wastelands of That Which Gave Chase, to the mysterious worlds of Babbdi, Lorn's Lure, and Naissancee, the sci-fi dystopia of Blame!, and the deep, dark, unknown, depths of Lidar and Iron Lung.
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That Which Gave Chase: store.steampowered.com/app/24...
Babbdi: store.steampowered.com/app/22...
Lorn's Lure: store.steampowered.com/app/14...
Naissancee: store.steampowered.com/app/26...
BLAME!: tsutomu_nihei?lan...
Lidar: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Iron Lung: store.steampowered.com/app/18...
Music:
SIGNALIS - 3000 Cycles
Survival Spheres - Resynced With Gaia
Resident Evil 5 - Viewer
Resident Evil 5 - Results
Aslak K.H - Outsider Opposer
SIGNALIS - Orrery
SIGNALIS - Dowsing
Drackfreeee - Heavenly paths
Lorn's Lure - Ambient Music
Midwich Music - Searching the past in your mind
Drackfreeee - Night of Day / Day of Night
Martin Klem - Space Noise
SIGNALIS - Bodies
Yames - Shhh
SIGNALIS - Ritual
Lidar - Reboot
Drackfreeee - Forever haunting
Ben Elson - Douze
Yames - Enclosure
SIGNALIS - Home
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
02:19 Sponsor
04:07 That Which Gave Chase
27:07 Babbdi
31:43 Lorn's Lure
35:03 Naissancee
38:04 Blame!
47:28 Lidar
52:16 Iron Lung
1:06:40 Outro

[@VirtualCarbon]

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[@WobblesandBean]

38:00 Hi VC, minor nitpick, "BLAME!" is supposed to be onomatopoeia for *_blam,_* not "blame" as in accusing someone.

[@tonybamalaboni3868]

You should check out Paratropic

[@sethmonster1479]

play world of horror the odd dead horror is pretty and fun wilts not dead yet you haft to fight for it and your home

[@LazyBuddyBan]

What the source for first game in intro? (driving car)

[@mcc2795]

Bravo incroyable, je n'ai jamais trouvé d'aussi belles vidéos comme celle-ci, niches, ET UN ANGLAIS QUI PARLE FRANCAIS WOW 👍👍

[@A_Toaster]

An hour long video from a creator i've never heard about on a topic i know nothing of? *OH BOY GIMME MORE!*

[@Chic_Ken]

Yes

[@REDEEMERWOLF]

You sound brain dead

[@weamibrahim2146]

Yes 2

[@turtol6494]

these videos are always the best ones

[@zaer-ezart]

Every now and then I'll stumble upon an obscure creator I never heard about making a niche video I'm not initially interested by but will watch anyway

[@Pineplle06]

Having you and Nexpo is like having divorced parents, 2 birthdays and 2 christmases

[@DocLumen]

... That's a very unique compliment that makes too much sense as one while also sounding initially bad with the divorced parents part-

[@Skyrimlovah]

except both birthdays and Christmases are awesome unlike real life where one is good and one is super shitty lmao

[@sarvolkskaya]

with Nick Crowley being the fun uncle you see every so often lol

[@charliewegner]

you’d like Nick Crowley too!

[@eljefe9106]

NOTICE HOW THE CREATOR DIDNT LIKE YO COMMENT

[@zvndmvn]

I got caught in a whiteout at night about a year ago. My only markers to follow were the faint tail lights of one car ahead of me, their rapidly fading tire tracks, and the alarming number of vehicles in the ditch on both sides of the road. If I had stopped at any point, I would have lost the road. I just had to trust the guy ahead of me and stay on the gas for like 20min straight to avoid getting stuck or lost. One of the scariest moments of my life.

[@ArtisChronicles]

Yeah snow is really scary like that.

[@PiplupPlus]

​@@ArtisChroniclesits not

[@austinwilkerson84]

I had a similar experience while driving across Lake Erie in a snowstorm. The thing didn’t let up for several hours and visibility remained near zero until I reached Toledo and turned south. After awhile of driving in those conditions my senses began to play tricks on me; I developed the strange sensation that I was driving up, into the sky, rather than forward along the road. Occasionally I’d pass a car in the ditch but for the better part of two hours it was just… nothing. Surreal, tense, and unpleasant. I’m glad we both woke up from that dream.

[@Lontokka]

@PiplupPlus Yes it is.

[@riley028.]

​@@PiplupPlusit definitely is, i recommend watching the video Fear of Cold by Jacob Geller, its truly horrifying

[@ErinJeanette]

That sled game in the snow was so eerie and I was really impressed how realistic the movements of the characters were despite being so pixelated

[@captain_rewind]

SAME.

[@JoshSweetvale]

It reminded me of Penumbra by way of Nobody Lives Under the Lighthouse.

[@ghostoflazlo]

​@JoshSweetvale i think it reminds you of every ps1 game ever 😂

[@beacondude5000]

A small detail that I noticed in the first game is that the rifle that you use is a Krag Jørgensen, which is a Norwegian rifle, which connects it to the real life expedition even more

[@lilvaginastain6643]

Good catch!

[@Adam-ww3dq]

I saw tht too. It was a genuine surprise to see it. I’m going to most likely play this game now.

[@brute6896]

really? I though it looked more like an imperial mosin

[@beacondude5000]

The Krag loaded from the side rather than from the top so its fairly easy to recognize

[@thebassplayification]

I recognised that rifle from an episode of Forgottenweapons!

[@ab14967]

For context of how ridiculous the world of Blame! is... this isn't simply a megacity that covered and replaced the Earth, but one that replaced a decent amount of the solar system, and one that will eventually replace it outright if enough material is located and found. The furthest edge of the city sits in Jupiter's orbit. All-encompassing voids in the city are not there because of an error in architectural design, but because they had to build around a planet.

[@devildante9]

That's outright silly, the sun accounts for like 98% of all the mass in the solar system. There is nowhere near enough material to cover that much volume, even if you were to count the Oort's cloud

[@xtrems2]

@@devildante9Yeah, that's what gets me about this concept. You simply can't build a city the size of Jupiter's orbit with the mass contained in the whole solar system. Not unless almost the entire city is empty space.

[@kentaroukamakiri5384]

@@devildante9 In the spin-off manga NOISE, it is shown that heavy metal paste, the material of cities, is being transported from the far reaches of the universe. There also exists the theory that cities are not filling the solar system but are shaped like giant doughnuts, and the consideration that dark matter is being converted into the material.

[@Teutius]

I love Blame!

[@isaacmartin2026]

There are matter printers and antigravity support structures which prevent the whole thing from collapsing into a black hole. Pre-apocalypse humanity (or more accurately their AIs) were breaking the laws of thermodynamics like twigs.

[@alexieldefanel]

“Imagine being caught in a whiteout, somewhere in the Arctic” that part just reminded me of being a kid on the US Naval base in Keflavik, Iceland and getting caught in a whiteout blizzard while playing outside by myself. I found some lava rocks to try and shelter myself, clinging desperately to my sled covering me, and waited it out for like an hour. When I got home, my mom was just like “huh wondered where you were” 😅

[@vincentdreemurr]

a blizzard happened and no one was worried, thats something

[@alexieldefanel]

@@vincentdreemurr tbh a blizzard happening wasn't something most people on base bat an eye. Someone worrying about it would be like someone worrying about rain in Seattle.

[@valdotorg]

My first memory of Iceland was walking outside and getting blown over by the wind in Keflavik.

[@DWARFF0RTRESS]

​@@vincentdreemurr it ain't that serious

[@MisterCosmoOfficial]

Nordic kids are built different how does someone just say “I picked up some lava rocks and survived a blizzard alone as a kid” like it’s a tuesday afternoon

[@beepboop-oo8jk]

I love how SIGNALIS OST was used a lot in this video that music was made for this feeling exactly

[@dondiego5092]

Remember our promise 🔥 🗣️

[@basher9036]

ACHTUNG ACHTUNG !!!

[@AMabud-lv7hy]

Sesbian lex

[@brokenlotproductions]

Just finished this game today, I’m depressed but it was an absolute masterpiece

[@theelectronic00]

Great holes secretly are digged where Earth's pores are ought to suffice

[@donal8845]

12:48 "They then speculated that the deer are detecting the electromagnetic field and uses it for navigation, they then removed the deer's brain. The deer was no longer able to find its way to the herd, thus proving the theory"

[@FionavanDahl]

*thus supporting the hypothesis

[@space_kat1]

"sometimes my genius is almost frightening"

[@CallN0w]

this is almost 1:1 that joke about soviet scientists determining that a fly needs feet to hear

[@timcheater6336]

@@CallN0w yeah reminds me of the jokes my dad who grew up in the ussr makes

[@Dong_Harvey]

*American voter

[@riagdrigo2693]

The game I think of when I hear "abandoned city" or "loneliness" is "Fragile dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon" for the Wii. It's a game with one of the best atmospheres out there.

[@ezyglide0909]

I regret not having the chance to play that game back then, since I love me a game with a moody atmosphere. I wish there was a way to play it somehow without having to shell out a hefty price online

[@vitorf2303]

@@ezyglide0909dolphin emulator

[@HanaShimeji]

Amazing game and such an unsettling atmosphere

[@punkuke]

​​@@ezyglide0909The Wii is actually pretty easy to emulate, so I'd recommend that!

[@andrewjustice4810]

@@ezyglide0909you sound so goofy lmao keep lining the companies who hate you’s pockets

[@diswazzi1683]

I experienced this to an extreme degree in a "digital trip" in Watch Dogs 1 called "Alone" where the entire city is shrouded in darkness and the objective is to restore lights section by section while avoiding patrolling camera headed enemies. The feeling comes when you have restored the majority of the city and you are left with a city that is conpletely abandoned, you walk the empty streets while a hauntingly beautiful musical score lulls in the background

[@xellaforreal8958]

Name of the music score please

[@platinum-or3y]

babbdi feels like this one dream i had. crossed a border, walked for a few hours, made it to a town that looked like that. no regard for safety or anything. i saw a few people die from falling off elevators and such.

[@MineSlimeTV]

That's sounds oddly beautiful! I always find fascination to how or what people have in terms of dreams and what they recall

[@Jorjeca]

@@MineSlimeTVIn this liminal space fashion I often have dreams where I run or slide across the floor of a big open shopping mall. All empty and at night

[@Chichirumiru]

California?

[@platinum-or3y]

@@Chichirumiru What

[@TheSnoozeFox]

BLAME! hit me hard when I first discovered it, because my dreams were so close to the massive scaled setting years before I even knew what it was.

[@arknark]

Man Blame! is amazing. I need to finish that manga

[@greyworld13]

that's interesting

[@kacperwalkowiak2564]

Play Bleak Faith it's a souls like inspired by the manga

[@TheSnoozeFox]

thanks for reminding me of that game I was meant to get it but totally forgot@@kacperwalkowiak2564

[@theandrogynousmisogynist]

Mangas for predators.

[@Broogli]

Such a good video. Keep going bro, 100k is coming so soon… can’t wait to see what’s next

[@VirtualCarbon]

We have to do a collab by then!

[@Broogli]

@@VirtualCarbon 100% , I have a few ideas , I’ll hit you up soon 😎

[@billblaski9523]

​@Broogli Ah ur a Backdoors channel? That's tight, I gotta check your videos out! Lol I meant Backrooms, Backdoors haha

[@baller_ballin]

u goofy! 🏀

[@angelacarlanarvaez9921]

​@@baller_ballinbro can I ask you something like the like beggars like that

[@nootch6328]

Shadow of the Colossus also has a cool dead world, Its huge but almost nothing is there except ruins. its one of my all time favorite games.

[@valk1257]

From the same makers, the last guardian is also incredible, pretty much a dead world too

[@hundkebab2433]

16 bosses and nothing else was a pretty alright game tbh

[@militustoica]

I wish they would release a PC port of the remaster so much.

[@SL4PSH0CK]

one of the "what-if" cut content games in my list. its just an artistic game, a breather id say.

[@Hauntedundead]

As a person who have been in snowy mountain terrain skiing during some whitouts; it isn't just that things look like they are floating, you can't even tell up from down. There was a scenario when we had been touring and was going back, only following a snowmobile path (marked with signs like the ones in the game but a red X at the top (although they were white because of frost)). We decided to do a shortcut and instead of following the path go downhill straight to where we had park our cars. As we went down we did stops from time to time to make sure we didn't lose anyone or at least make sure nobody got hurt. I stopped at one point, but nobody else was stopping but going slowly pass me, so I yelled out to them to make sure they could see I had stopped. Instead they replied with "we are not moving, YOU are!". I then tried to edge my skis to make sure I had stopped and immediatly noticed that, I was indeed, moving. Side note: it wasn't snowing a lot. Sometimes you get whiteouts from clouds or moisture in the air.

[@khalid6762]

Cool story man

[@Knightytt]

Virtual, the atmosphere you build from your videos is simply just impeccable. Thank you for the incredible work you do.

[@VirtualCarbon]

love you bro

[@gagadreams]

The ambient Silent Hill music really makes it for me! 💗

[@firespinner1276]

Your voice is cool also nice music you select

[@Raybro16]

One game I’ve been doing my best to keep tabs on is Agony of a Dying MMO. The title alone is intriguing, but playing the demo that came out a few years ago just has this air of dreamlike loneliness covering dark subject matter that I haven’t experienced anywhere else.

[@MrAzureJames]

it's awesome

[@Tarnished-bn5gq]

The Souls Series is my favorite series that is largely based on this topic, because the way it depicts the deaths of its worlds is so timeless yet relevant. The world is destroyed over and over in a flat circle of time due to the vices and depravity of those who are at the top of society, and those who are at the bottom (the characters you play as being just one of the indefinite victims of this ceaseless cycle of the universe’s birth, decay, and death) face the worst of it. However the worlds, despite dying, or having already been killed in the case of The Dreg Heap, Kiln of The First Flame, and Pygmy Throne, still have this mystique and beauty/serenity despite it all. Despite how grim the endless cycle of suffering and peace that Dark Souls and Elden Ring are, their worlds and settings and gameplay still are comforting to me.

[@Gh0stRider420]

I was gonna metion the souls series but looks like you beat me to it

[@drewbydoobydoo2918]

Both Souls games and Miyazaki films (different Miyazakis, I know) give me a sense of nostalgia for places I've never been.

[@swaginnabagh3947]

The segment with Blame is amazing , the background music and your voice combine beautifully

[@_altoarcadevere]

IM SO HAPPY TO SEE NAISSANCEE, BLAME AND IRON LUNG IN ONE VIDEO I LOVE THE ATMOSPHERE AND UNCANNY HORROR THESE THREE MEDIA GAVE TO ME.

[@pauldziejman]

AWESOME ME TOO!

[@Velocirocelot]

Same!

[@Cappuccino_Rabbit]

A bit disappointed not seeing SOMA here as well, it goes super deep with this concept and even asks the question of what it means to be human

[@_altoarcadevere]

@@Cappuccino_RabbitYEA! im actually sad SOMA didn't made it in here and i love that game too so much

[@hundkebab2433]

any reason you type in all caps like an NPC?

[@ProjectBirdman]

I love seeing Blame! get more attention. I remember when I first read it I just couldn’t put it down.

[@Speckmantelmade]

Something about seemingly empty and deserted (as in devoid of humanoid life) lands is equally soothing and lonely to me. Not necessarily a sad loneliness, but mostly one of tranquility. It makes finding cultural references left behind by those who were there before even more impactful. I appreciate if it’s not always due to a virus/plague/curse, since that has been used a lot so far, but it’s fine nonetheless. Really great video!

[@themelancholyofgay3543]

Girls Last Tour

[@ASlickNamedPimpback]

btw the LIDAR gamemode is based off the video game Scanner Sombre. Sort of fits the "dead world" theme as you explore a massive cave system with (spoilers) a vast network of ancient constructions and the like, which ends in an abandoned mine

[@devon1on]

Yes!! I was shocked that it wasn't mentioned in the video; the Gmod LIDAR gamemode is simply a derivative of it

[@BlueBino_]

I actually made a similar comment because I tried scrolling below in the comment section to find someone talking about this. I posted the comment after scrolling for so long but I was honestly quite surprised how almost no one has been talking about this.

[@noog6756]

truly, the auditory experience is 70% of the videos quality. the visuals are the cream on top

[@Cp-71]

My first exposure to this theme was a point-and-click flash game I discovered as a kid, called Little Wheel. And man, did it leave an impresion on me. If you have Flashpoint installed (as you should), I urge you to play it. It's only 15-20 minutes long - but the atmosphere is just amazing.

[@rowanbarrett21]

I remember that game! Another set of games that gives off a beak deserted feeling were the Submachine games. Those always unnerved me.

[@titusmills8170]

That was an absolute ride. I came in and didn't think I was gonna like the tone of the narration but it just so perfectly fit the existential theme all the games had. I also LOVE how the games weren't overhyped, the horror overplayed, just explained. The games spoke for themselves and that was artfully done.

[@blumrich1970]

If humans in “Iron Lung” found moons with literal oceans of blood, the constituent elements of said blood, along with the tidal forces of the oceans, would allow humans to build a civilization that could - in theory- last until the heat-death of the universe.

[@KarolOfGutovo]

And what, pray tell, would power the tides?

[@turkeygod6665]

@@KarolOfGutovo Oceans can still have tides without moons, they're just weaker

[@KarolOfGutovo]

@@turkeygod6665 The two forces that make up tides on Earth are gravitational pulls of the Moon and the Sun. Blood moons are implied to be nowhere close any potential tide sources (grabitationally significant bodies)

[@nouhorni3229]

The game states that it's anatomically human blood. Doesn't look like there's any tide, and considering how all gravity wells except the moons are gone that's not surprising.

[@blumrich1970]

@@nouhorni3229Yes- I know that it is human blood. Doesn't change the facts in my OP. Looks like there's tidal motion in the menu screen - doesn't matter if it is slow, or minor - motion = energy.

[@noots_central1082]

I can’t stress how much these “video game” videos HIT!! I NEEED MORE DEPRESSING GAME VIDS!!!

[@andyghkfilm2287]

I LOVE BLEAK SETTINGS!!! I LOVE WORLDS I WOULD DESPAIR TO IMAGINE LIFE WITHIN!!!

[@JunkyardGod]

You guys LOVE ALL CAPS 😄

[@bear6540]

@@JunkyardGodWHAT MAKES YOU SAY THAT?

[@JunkyardGod]

@bear6540 OH I DONT KNOW 😆

[@truerustle3651]

Mmm yummy algorithm doing good

[@lillianbrown3972]

the thumbnail got me really excited to hear someone talk about fatum betula and then he didn't which was majorly disapointing. still a good video that talked about a lot of excellent dead worlds I have affection for

[@feIon]

kinda ruined the whole video for me tbh

[@Holktube]

Its very different, but Outer Wilds is one of my favorite "dying worlds" and one of my favorite games of all time.

[@brokenlotproductions]

Absolutely!! One of the best games out there

[@PumpkinPanda-]

This, Outer Wilds is to me the successor to Majora's Mask I couldn't even have imagined or wished for because Outer Wilds is pure perfection

[@xXMindSoulXx]

yeah, Outer Wilds & OneShot are both perfect examples of “dying worlds” that absolutely do not fit the norm.

[@DreadPirateRobertz]

Those fucking anglerfish the first time you enter dark bramble....

[@Cappuccino_Rabbit]

Outer Wilds differs because it's a hopeful dying world (or universe in that case), unlike these games like Iron Lung, you still have full control, time and guidance to do something about it, and while things may not turn out as you expected, you still did something impactful

[@vic7402]

EVERYONE WAKE UP, NEW VIRTUAL CARBON VIDEO‼️‼️

[@penguinshredder]

EXACTLY.

[@P-P-Panda]

I’m HERE BRUH

[@hamdihoxha9066]

Finally! Bro had me waiting for a while

[@TheDaveKrueger]

Lamest meme

[@iAmNothingness]

O M G ! ! ! !

[@lauraroberts3520]

If you love this genre, an anime/manga that I would highly recommend that has this theme would be “Girls Last Tour.” It’s haunting, beautiful and so peaceful. It’s one of the few I constantly come back to, because it’s so laid back and makes you appreciate the beauty of the world around you, in the very small things. I think that’s the appeal of this genre, appreciating life and the beauty of the world both as it lives and as it dies.

[@vaporboi6301]

Oof, I would've wanted ya to talk about Fatum Betula, since that's where ya got the image of the church from. I hope you talk about it, even for a little, it's one of my favorite games of all time.

[@optiplanetomatosoup]

exactly. it's so odd that you'd use an image from fatum betula for the thumbnail, but not the actual video. that game is literally about a dying world in which you decide its fate. would've been perfect

[@ROXYshark]

Fatum betula is so good I wish it got more recognition because it absolutely deserves it.

[@blank8381]

ITS SO GOOD, I thought he was gonna talk bout it too

[@theoneeyedowl4182]

Ahh i was looking for a comment talking about fatum betula. It's also one of my favorite games and i saw the church in the thumbnail

[@feIon]

that annoyed me so much actually

[@iavv334]

Great video! One that does this well, and it doesn't appear to be on the surface, is Riven: A Sequel to Myst. It's set in a semi-tropical archipelago, but it captures a real sense of isolation for major portions of the game, almost zero contact with other humans; and, makes it clear through exploration that you are in a doomed world. You catch glimses of the people who used to live there, see their abandoned infrastructure, and learn more about what caused this vibrant place to go stagnant. It's not quite so grim in visuals as these games, but that's where I think the genius of it lies, that it's tone and theme can still hold that message even as you walk around a very beautiful world.

[@just_lev]

Oh my God! I've played Lorn's lure demo last year and then, few moths later, Babbdi (I've been sometimes thinking about them). I got that special feeling of something liminal, atmospheric and luring to explore, reminiscent of dreams. I felt in love with that feeling. I hope we'll get a lot more of that type of games. Wow, you just organized some of my thoughts about this. Thank you!

[@jakechapman3161]

Dude the quality of every one of your videos is insane. The atmosphere you create is perfect and matches these dead worlds really well.

[@billblaski9523]

This channel is really just as good as Nexpo or Nick Crowley or ScareTheater or any other of those scary/abnormal channels. This channel is inevitably gonna blow up, i mean it has to man It might be something u dont wanna do but u might have to do a video on one of the popular items today like Walten Files or Poppy Playtime or Welcome Home, something like that, those kinda videos get viewer engagement and the algorithm for sure

[@rickyrain7773]

If he does any of those three im unsubscribing 😊

[@sofia_g23]

I like this one more! And Nick Crowley's!

[@kennel878Xx]

​@@rickyrain7773I don't think there is any content like he makes in those titles. Even still I don't think that's a good reason, so long as he delivers good content I'm a fan.

[@QuantumTelephone]

How pompous of you to think you (a nobody) knows more than a successful content creator.

[@christopherespinoza-darnel8514]

Please don't EVER suggest content for a KZbinr. If you think you knkw what people want, then YOU make your own channel and see how it goes. If not then stfu.

[@Wyrmro]

i always love hearing about smaller games. there's always such hidden gems. (in case anyone's wondering, the thumbnail is from the game fatum betula, which also fits te vibe of this video and is worth checking out)

[@marafolse8347]

Thank you! I was going through comments just for this. Funny that I just haven't finished that game

[@RYANG-THE-MANG]

This video and these games are the exact reason I love vr chat, just wander around empty worlds, maybe stumble upon 1 random person somewhere otherwise just walking and exploring empty cities and places with such strange vibes and moods. I love it. Especially with some radiohead playing in the background lol

[@h2atus]

Would love to see you cover Fatum Betula! I saw the church at the bottom of the lake in the thumbnail and was hoping somebody big would finally cover it! Super great content, keep it up!

[@feIon]

bro is gatekeeping it lol

[@h2atus]

@@feIon fr 😭

[@the_snail_enby]

same. I clicked on the video super excited to hear somebody talk about Fatum Betula. The game even fits to the topic of the video T-T

[@hammerdown8008]

Theres very little I find as satisfying as hitting refresh and seeing a new VC drop. Let me savour every bite.

[@ThePandaclash]

I think NieR Automata is another great game that depicts a dying world, showing the absolute and total decay of earth after its abandonment

[@CharlieArchelli]

I live about an hour away for the town in PA that inspired Silent Hills look, Centralia. It's an old coal mining town that, last I heard, still has fires burning underground after an accident in 1962. Now only like 5 people live there still. There used to be this big abandoned section of highway near it that was covered in graffiti but they covered it all in dirt recently. My family used to drive through the town to get to the amusement park Knoebels before the roads were closed. There's a dark ride there based around mining that actually references Centralia, there's a burning ring of coal fire your mine cart goes through before you see a bunch of torn up buildings. It's pretty interesting.

[@JoshSweetvale]

Lie

[@CharlieArchelli]

@@JoshSweetvale by look I meant the fog, not the architecture. It's a really cool story you should look it up

[@dharkbizkit]

its.. strange. i cant really put it into words but ill try. iam 38 years old, ive been playing games since i was 6 (obviously, games in 1991 were very different to the ones we have today). over the years, as i became older, games lost some of their magic. they didnt give me much feeling anymore, feelings you only have, when your a child or young. uneasyness, awe, wonder, seeing something you dont understand but like how it looks.. back then, everything felt new to you, but as an adult, you know so much and have so much experience, that most things, become normal. playing games like these, with the strange and uncanny architecture, brings backs those childhood feelings, where you didnt understand things that were shown to you by the game, because you were just to young to understand them.. and thats a great feeling to have. edit: ive just reached the part about Blame! and iam total fascinated by it. never heard of the manga, movie or even the series before, but i know instantly, that i love the concept and iam willing to dive deep! it falls right into my longgoing fantasy about "holodeck adventure locations" like: if we had holodeck technology like the one in star trek, stuff like the backrooms is something i would want to visit there. let the deck create it and let me walk through it and enjoy it for a few hours and then come back out overall, i wish i could play games like these together with my wife. she wasnt a gamer when i meet her 18 years ago, she only played rollercoaster tycoon, sims and the occasionel round of tekken or crash in her old psx. she saw cs:s at my place once and got hooked.. that game showed her, how cool pc gaming can be and she was interested, branched out, tried shooter, rpgs, mmos, building games... for 15 years, games were her hobby, a hobby she spend alot of time on together with me we had weekends, when a new game released, like dragon age inquesition, where we started friday 6pm, played till 1am, and then got back to the pc next day at 1pm and spend 8 hours on it that day.. and then on sunday too. during the week, we squeezed in 3-5 hours a day after work. last game she played, was hogwarts legacy and that was already a "oh boy, now its day 6 on this games, when is it finally over"? and she didnt touch any game since then. she changed her career 2 years ago and since then, is focused on her work and uses all her engergy for that, shes too tired and not wiling anymore, to learn something new at home and learn how to play a new game.. and the limited time she has, shouldnt get eaten up by something like games. if you only have 3 hours left, those 3 hours will fly past if you play something and if she would start something, then i would meant weeks till completion, which is demotivating for her, so the easiest path for her, was to drop gaming all together and its a real loss for me. she never said it, but i feels like shes outgrown gaming, since it doesnt fit in her dalie scedule anymore and rather spends time on things, that can be done passively, like watching tv but to be honest here, i thought that would never change. gaming was her go to hobby from 18,5 to ~33. she always came back to it, she always wanted to play, i thought if thats just a phase, then it would end with 23 or 25, but when she turned 30 and was still as excited to play the new guild wars addon, or the new eso stuff, or the new rainbow 6 update, she made time to play them but since her new job, everything changed, its all about being the picture of the "employee of the month" section and being the first one to arrive at the office, the last one to leave, the first one to think about, when it comes to promotion, the last one to think about, when it comes to fireing, having a life at home, feels like its a hurdle keeping her, from beeing 150% dedicated and spend more hours at work. its.. strange, after getting her "work degree" with 19 she took a year off, then started to work 100h parttime from 2009 on till jan 2022. nothing ever changed, she never wanted to work more because the money was enough and she wanted to have spare time and now, one offer for different position changed her almost 180 degrees

[@mrtorllin]

The rts game Tiberian Sun captures the slow, melancholic vibes of a dying world.

[@maybenot6894]

LORNS LURE MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️🗣️‼️‼️‼️🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@alejandropulidorodriguez9723]

my condolences

[@MatjeBalovich]

That which gave chase becomes even creepier when you realise that it shows that shrooms, and fungi in general can communicate in hivemind. And the part where the player eats shrooms and becomes the part of hivemind is the most disturbing.

[@atomatopia1]

My favorite dying world game is Darkwood. It feels simultaneously dead and alive as you see what should look like regular flora and fauna, but are almost all malformed and strange.

[@alexandernelson7338]

This channel is criminally underrated

[@fernimadden885]

i'm so glad to have found this so early! Thank you for a relaxing and informative start to my Wednesday!

[@RussianRatigan]

I've learned about Babbdi from Vinny Vinesauce and didn't think much of it. Maybe it's because he streamed the game in a more comedic tone. Seeing this game being analyzed in a much more sophisticated, serious, and maybe even sombre way expanded my understanding of the game. Thank you! Also, throughout this video, I've been waiting for a "Blame!" mention, and I'm very pleased to see it being shown! Keep up the good work 👍

[@iblis2844]

Absolutely perfect voice, knowledgeable and clear without having that overdramatic influencer twang. I don't even need subtitles. Subscribed and sacrifice offered.

[@ecs300]

While a lot more optimistic than the games shown here, Oneshot is a really good game that has a few similar aspects, I would really recommend it.

[@mcsuperplayer]

agreed, oneshot is a hidden gem of a game set in a dying world

[@TheONLYFeli0]

The main character is a furry animal so I wouldn’t recommend it.

[@mcsuperplayer]

@@TheONLYFeli0 Niko is not a cat they're a person

[@JonoSSD]

I've been reading Usuzumi no Hate and, although the manga is just beginning and it's far smaller in scope, it gives me major Blame vibes. An eternal being on an equally eternal mission going slowly through a vast but empty landcape.

[@MatNichols-iz9dy]

My favorite one of these games is a game I played when I was like 11. All I really remember is that you were a train driver in the American southwest during the late 1800s or early 1900s, running a Santa fe (?) passenger. The world was very empty, with maybe a town every now and then, all dying. I distinctly remember a small town called Joseph, with all remaining being the depot and a old wooden church. I really hope to rediscover this game at some point, but those memories were fun yet eerie. (This was like 5 years ago)

[@ALCvideoprofile]

These remind me a little of Ico, Shadow of The colossus, and The Last Guardian. I really enjoy the peaceful solitude of a big empty world where you are the only one exploring it.

[@wastingtime1441]

Sooo happy to see you getting close to 100k. I feel so lucky to have found you when you were below 10k subs because as soon as I watched a video I knew you could get big and I subbed immediately. Keep up the outstanding work ❤

[@VirtualCarbon]

Thank you so much for your early support!

[@brokenlotproductions]

The atmosphere of the music you used and the visuals displayed… i dont know man it made me feel some weird way, but i liked it. It’s almost unexplainable. Amazing video

[@pattymcfatty0]

I wrote out a whole comment comparing the two games to BLAME! and commented it right as you brought up the manga. So happy I recognizes the inspiration in the two games.

[@Lyzarus]

I don't know if you check your comments much or not, but I wanted to say thank you. I've been in and out of the hospital for a while and probably won't ever get better, but the kind of content you make is fantastic to me and a great distraction to help me sleep at nights where the pain is too much. Thank you so much for your efforts! This video is a favorite. I LOVE this kind of content. Hope you are well!

[@_peklo]

Yesss!! Thank you for the new video and commentary! I feel like these are incredibly profound, and beautifully written games.

[@flieberl357]

I, no joke was about to comment about BLAME! until you mentioned in the video truly a thought provoking premise for a story

[@frankymcdaniel5552]

Girls Last Tour is also in a setting with a dying world but it is slightly more lighthearted, I totally recommend reading.

[@andrewperson4012]

A game I feel could have fit very well in this video is Rainworld, spoiler warning for anyone thinking to play it, in rainworld, the world is basically a mechanical and industrial landscape once used by a civilization, now overrun by fauna and flora trying to survive, but seeing these landscapes of machines and places once used by a civilization, now rusting and rotting away after who knows how long, gave me a sense of a "dying" world, even though it gave way to new life on the surface to the various creatures and plants that now live in it, it is a really fascinating world that leaves you a feeling I cannot describe once you finish it, it's incredible

[@mniakan754]

I really love the signalis music you used at the beginning, it sets the tone and mood (that game has the greatest OST of anything I’ve played or seen)

[@brokenlotproductions]

I highly agree, signalis is such a masterpiece of a game

[@Sir_Saki]

This was such an incredibly well made video. I actually got really invested in the subject and before I knew it, I was at the end. The concept of worlds on their last breaths or already over is interesting. Seeing how the people and land try to cope with what little is left is interesting. Some feel so resigned, some continue on as if nothing is happening and others try in vain to fix whatever's going on.

[@Rocky13Ray]

Dude iv been loving this series. It's SUCH a unique subject / category and I love how you take our the time for them,nit just going off a passing glance.

[@playaslittlemac595]

Gmod maps have this feeling a lot of the time especially if you play solo and explore some of the rp maps

[@cldgt]

Found this channel at a new year's eve and it became my favourite amongst all creepy and eery ones such as Nexpo or Maverick Files. The voice matches the atmosphere and the music... oh my god the music is such a delight. I love you man, thanks for content you're making

[@ppbrain2328]

Always excited to see another video posted from you!!

[@briangoubeaux5360]

Some of these games remind me of a video that I saw where there's a building in Japan (I think) which has some strange floor plans. In one entrance, you would believe that it would be Floor 1 like in normal buildings, but in a strange twist you realize that it's Floor 5. Then when you go to Floor Eleven via the elevator there's another entryway where you would think would lead to a public area high in the sky, but instead leads to another street area as if you never left the ground floor. It was very peculiar.

[@user-fu8ly8mq5t]

this isn't about the video but i love that, however much french people are hated on the internet, people will still choose to learn the language, love that for us. Please continue ! source : am french

[@trevorrex7210]

VC, thanks so much for adding the links to these games. Especially excited to test Lidar.

[@RAyLV17]

you and cresendex are one of my few favourite channels for this type of unique content! And I don't even know what "this type of content" is called! XD

[@Ikcatcher]

Watching this in the middle of the night is such an experience

[@Wnick1996]

Watching a video like this is a good way to start the day

[@makethevoicesstop228]

I'd reccomend adding cruelty squad to this list, its a world where only profits matter and people canonically get resurrected when they die

[@DonnaPinciot]

That doesn't sound like a 'dying world', just a corporate dystopia/utopia thingy.

[@andrewm6470]

It’s more of a cancerous, undying world

[@tameruzun]

Song choices were amazing man. All melancholic and gives you the feeling like you are all alone in this world.

[@ceoofspaceandtime8671]

If you ever make a part two, you should definitely include Scorn. It quite literally takes place in a dead world with no narrative or synopsis. All the storytelling is done through the environment and it is interesting to try to piece together the lore based off of just what you see.

[@reddoreed8764]

The signalis music at the start made me immediately shiver in recognition

[@darflchorf2732]

This is by far one of the most underrated channels I've seen. Great job! Hope you hit 100k subs soon!

[@yu-mi9026]

Ive been watching the whole video yesterday, shortly afterwards I fell asleep and this night , I had dreams that made me feel a similar way as your video and the games you explored. I can’t get that feeling out of my mind so I really am thankful for your video

[@orionbarnes1733]

I feel like the best example of something that feels empty is Portal. The sterile, minimalist levels just feel creepy without needing to put anything scary in them. No jumpscares, no creepy moments, just room after room of emptiness, a place where something used to happen. Then you enter the offices, and they're even more creepy, it just looks like everybody stood up and walked out. Everybody except you.

[@Tataru95]

I am playing whispering hills (fallout 4 mod) that is based on silent hill, but in first person, i must say that even if is not a game, is really spooky, and i like it.

[@DarckAngel11]

One of the best videos I've ever seen, if this becomes a series, it woul make my life be worth a little more, thank you.

[@Sidneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

These kind of video game places dont fill me with fear but rather with sadness seeing those once great now dying civilisations is just sad

[@HiCZoK]

Out of all souls games only Dark Souls 2 captures this feeling for me. Everyone who is there is .. dying and forgetting. Forgetting who they are and who their family is. Kings forget they are kings, fathers forget they have children and you forget the land layoud, hence it's so strange. It also reminds me of FUEL 2009 racing game. World is dead, just cars left racing. eternally.

[@sofia_g23]

Watched til the end. This was such a vibe.

[@j4y851]

Your content is such a vibe, man. Keep up the good work!

[@hobo7007]

The amount of detailed information and sourcing of resources used in the video description is commendable. Thank you.

[@ArhonOkvals]

When I search for unique gaming content, this is what I'm looking for! Great video man! 👏

[@penguinshredder]

I seriously have been very impatient for the next video. Sittin back with a cocktail right now. Let's go.

[@maya993]

Blame! sounds fascinating. I've seen the title in passing here and there but always overlooked it.

[@doma3554]

'Babbdi', 'Lorn's Lure', and 'Naissancee' remind me of 'Half Life 2', and of 'Halo'. The designs and ambience shown are very appealing to me.

[@darkySp]

I know that BEWARE is not on the list, but you did include it in the intro section and the game's setting fits the video's theme to a tee, so I'll just drop a little crumb of my own experience here: I remember watching and rewatching IGP's series on BEWARE and I was just so enamored, not just because of the desolate world and the cryptic, open-to-interpretation story you piece together through the environment, but because I'm born in Eastern Europe and the similarities between our little, dying villages with the orange mercury vapor lamps lighting the smog in winter with the world of BEWARE related to me in a very interesting way that I've never felt in any other game. Only close second game is Resident Evil Village, set in Romania. The world's similarity to real life experiences in my own country resonates with me. I remember watching them with immersion, in a KZbin video! Falling asleep to them while watching them during my night shifts in a hotel I worked. Such a hidden gem of a game and I can't wait until it reaches full release. I hope it reaches full release...

[@_Midnight__]

This is my favorite video by far. Keep up the great work!