There's something incredibly amusing about a guy revealing he's a ghost by disappearing in front of your eyes... and then immediately popping back in because he forgot something.
Hey, Late Homework dev here~ Wow!! Thanks so much for checking out and covering my little jam game Nitro. There's definitely a few rough edges and some tiny quirks I'm hoping to have ironed out as I continue to work on it, but I'm chuffed you enjoyed it all the same! Cheers ✌
If you guys want short horrorish games I strongly recommend trying out milk inside a bag of milk and it’s sequel milk outside a bag of milk. Also, critters for sale, not a horror, but incredibly weird experience.
Rental was pretty neat for the little slice it was. Pretty neat proof-of-concept. Especially the first-person maze sequence, which gave me flashbacks to the Windows maze screensaver and Ken's Labyrinth. I need to find more games that have that kind of vibe and control scheme, where something is stalking you but doesn't straight-up beeline for you, instead prowling around waiting for the perfect moment to pounce. As for your "dream horror game", judging from the descriptors you've thrown out, Tower of Tears might be close to what you're looking for.
An animal crossing life sim combined with Silent Hill sounds awesome. Maybe during the day you can do the typical AC stuff like fish, catch bugs, socialize, run errands, shop, etc with minimal to no scary things. Then when night comes you can still do most of those things but it's more dangerous and spooky with monsters roaming, but you can get better rewards and catch fish and bugs that only come out at night. I'm sold
Really interested in you exploring this genre further! I think “cozy scary” is a genre people are just now realizing exists as a collective, and I want more of it. Voices of The Void falls under cozy scary to me-it’s not cute, but it’s…comfy. I played a lot of Nancy Drew games as a kid that I think fall under cozy scary. Big, quiet mansions, lots of puzzles to dig into, a warm fire with a raging storm outside…I loved that shit.
Her name is Hornet! Sometimes when I pick her up she rubs her face on mine. She likes me a lot and is always doing these weird roll flips into the walls like a tornado trying to get my attention. She's real weird and funny. I got two other cats also, Blinx, the dumb orange cat and Mr Pickles, lanky black cat (very shy and usually stays upstairs, but the other two show up in vids sometimes since they like hanging out down in my office during the day) one time I was filming a controller demonstration on this nice little foldout green screen i got, and she randomly climbs up on top, I think it's in one of the psychonauts videos. If you move cords in front of her at all she'll go nuts, like ridiculous reflexes tryna grab them. She's def the one of the three who would have no trouble surviving on her own. (Blinx would def die in like 2 mins trying to play with a coyote or trying to jump over a speeding car) Sometimes she'll accidentally claw me when playing because she gets way too intense about it. Which sucks, because her claws are sharper than any blade I've ever encountered. (She keeps them in good shape throughout each day) Though she does otherwise make a real good effort not to cut me with her claws! She sucked at it as a kitten (I was kinda scared of her knife hands when we first got her not gonna lie) but over time she grew more conscious of it and now she's really good about it. Which is an unreal feeling, this lil animal being like "aw shit gotta figure out how to not stab this dude" lol . She also kills all the spiders it rules
I like the idea of you doing more cute style games in general. It helps me get a good idea of what games I can choose from. Your reviews are great at explaining the game at hand, which is nice. A great example was Corn Kidz, which you reviewed. I would never have picked the game up if it wasn't for your review
Not cute, but I really liked Northern Journey. It's a game in a medieval fantasy universe with a lot of inspiration from Lovecraft and the Scandinavian folklore. It's not really a horror game, but it's very close. The atmosphere and artistic direction are really cool: both bizarre and surreal, but also rather calm and cozy (most of the time ; it can be a bit fast paced too). The map offers lots of different areas: swamps, dark forests, ... each with their own monsters. sorry for my bad english :/
@@Eeleemos There's a point where you're going into a cave and the game tells you 'there are no living spiders down there', which is true. There aren't any living spiders- they're *undead* spiders. Totally different.
3:15 100% agreed. If you just take a moment, or even take a while to establish characters and get us invested in them, we're all the more concerned when bad things start happening. Cuz we like these characters and now they're in danger. Seems simple, and it is simple, but sometimes this simple detail is forgotten or not taken as seriously as it needs to be. Character development is huge. I also would really like seeing more videos like this~. Multiple small indie games that couldn't justify their own video, being put into 1 video. I like it.
This conversely goes with making me interested in the world. One of the reasons Half Life 1 and Doom 3 stand out to me so much is because you get a glimpse into how the world you inhabit functions BEFORE everything goes topsy turvy.
I really missed these videos. I started watching you because of your weird indie horror game/RPG Maker game videos, and while I enjoy your videos about 3D platformers and bigger team/budget horror games, I'm not always in the mood to watch them. If it's a weird looking indie game like these though, I always drop what I'm doing to watch. I hope you do more of these in the future, I've found out about some of my favorite games because of those videos.
Something I want to mention about the whole map drawing thing, particularly for me-I really enjoyed drawing my own map for the first Zelda, but that game lets you pause without bringing up a menu, giving you a clear view of the current screen. That makes it really easy to draw a map for that game, but unfortunately most games don’t have a pause like that now(I think, I haven’t been playing many new games). Particularly I remember when I heard that Dark Souls doesn’t have a map, I got excited about the idea of drawing it until I remembered it’s impossible to pause in that game, and I doubt there would ever be a chance to breathe and draw a map.
Dark Souls enemies stay dead until you manually reset the environment at a bonfire, so there's actually a lot of quiet time in those games! You should try drawing a map, especially with the first one since every environment is directly connected to each other there. (3 is a lot more linear, but still has potential.)
@@MegaOverclocked The game does some aspects and themes regarding sexuality for horror, but like, its all meant for horror not 'enjoyment'. Fear and hunger is as much of a hentai as berserk is, if you are familiar with the latter.
Rental was really neat playing it, it was funny though cause like I was more scared of what might happen than anything actually in the game. Was a bit silly in hindsight. I do appreciate these kinds of games though cause they almost work like a branching point for people who aren't great with horror like me. I tried out subway midnight (after watching your review) and that lead me to finally playing Resident Evil 1 this year. I even starting making a sort of survival horror game cause I liked what I played and the feelings it left me with.
I really dig the character designs and aesthetic of both of these! I came across rental by accident and it looked interesting so I'm really glad you talked about it. I love your indie horror videos.
You got so much better as a youtuber over the years. You were already amazing, but this video is pure deliciousness, I love your videos. Thank you so much for your content.
Eo is kinda scary tbh. The foes and music along with some of the descriptions are kinda creepy. Like eo3 when your chasing Olympia and the fish ambush u.
@@minakoarisato1506The FOEs are such good templates for horror monsters. When done well, they can make avoiding the monster very stressful and more difficult than simply running or hiding, where you might need to weave through them to progress with one poorly judged step meaning death. And while Persona Q definitely did NOT do FOEs well (movement maybe, but the consequence side just was NOT it), Yukiko’s quest had a brilliant scare that only an EO style game could give. Hard fight done, you walk the few extra steps to get the quest over with before you go heal and save…and then the lights go out. And you look down at the bottom screen. And your beat up party is completely surrounded by FOEs. Please don’t kill me please don’t kill me please don’t kill me…
If you like the sound of that, definitely check out Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi. It's grotesque, unnerving, challenging and has all the hallmarks of an Etrian Odyssey game
This video was a wonderful celebration of short games - and a great way to platform two cute, spooky tales! It was more than enough to convince us to pick up and share RENTAL - thank you for the recommendation!
....When I think on Cutesy Horror Games with a twist, the first thing that comes to mind, in all honesty, is "Bonnie's Bakery". I won't go into detail about the game, but I feel like it would definitely be something up your alley, Nitro Rad,
Man Im so glad I paused on this video and played these games back to back just to experience them myself first Some very fun little horror games, I love when you pull attention to this kind of stuff
i'd love to see more videos like this!!! my bestie likes these types of games so it'd be nice to have more games to recommend her (so she can play and i can watch ehehe)
always nice to see more game developers from my country, Chile :3. btw, did you change your microphone or something? your voice sounds cleaner, if that makes any sense haha.
I actually played rental some time ago, it wasn't particularly intense for me, I mostly found it charming. I also really appreciated how short it was. Cute game.
You convinced me to get a steamdeck instead of a ps5 a little while back, and boy am I TWICE as happy after recent news. just added Rental to my library.
I love the way you speak about games, I first discovered your channel through your review on Psychonauts 2 when it first came out and I ended up binging all the videos, even the old ones. You have definitely grown, I don't mean numbers but for example in very early videos you described games by comparing them to other games a lot, saying something like "it's like Banjo Kazooie mixed with Rayman 2 and a dash of Gex style humor" and I remember feeling incredibly confused because I knew nothing about those games except for their titles 🤣 I remember me and my brother really wanted to pool our allowance to buy a new shiny PS2 and our parents strictly forbade it... we played a bunch of early PC games when we were very little that came with dad's cutting edge Macintosh IIfx but afterwards we weren't given or allowed to buy any video games for many years. Our cousins had all kinds of cool games they allowed us to play whenever we came over, like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Mortal Kombat 4, The Sims 2, Tomb Raider 3, Rayman 2 demo. Meanwhile me and my brother only had very cheap stuff that our parents deemed appropriate 🤣Neighbours From Hell, Hugo 3D Adventure, Original War, Hamster Heroes, and our personal favourites The Neverhood and Beyond Good and Evil (which we played and finished many times despite not speaking an ounce of English) As for recommendations, if you read this far or skipped... ahh I wouldn't call it a horror game despite some elements I won't spoil, but I think you might enjoy Felvidek a lot. It's a short RPG with unique artstyle and fun writing that only takes a couple hours to beat.
Definitely trying these games out tonight!! I really hope you cover more stuff like this I need some cozy horror in my life. Flesh Blood and Concrete is a current cozy-horror favorite of mine but I think it’s cozy for me bc of cultural background more than anything
I would love a horror game that's a really slow burn and presents itself as a normal cute wholesome game or better yet a game where the horror elements are hidden and you can go through the entire game without seeing any of it but one wrong turn throws you into a horror adventure.
I'm more of a console guy than PC guy, but since they are technically free, I might get them one day for my laptop. They both look cool. Nice to see Hornet's doing well! I actually recently filled out an adoption application to get a new cat since my old cat Woodsy sadly passed away back in late 2022 at 15 years old.
Or I could just get cozy watching NitroRad videos! Still, I love these horror videos! My friend loves playing them, so whenever you bring attention to them, I always recommend them to her!
Sodaraptor has so much skill and "gets it so much" that I believe if they got support, they would be able to create multiple PS1 silent hill style horror games. There's so much potential there
Rental was put on my radar a few months ago and I found it pretty fun! The maze was a little tough to maneuver but I think overall I enjoyed my time with it, especially when it doesn't cost anything. I don't think its really what you're looking for with cute horror, but have you ever heard of Buddy Simulator 1984? That one might be up your alley!
I barely see anyone covering this game, but I can't recommend Buddy Simulator 1984 enough! It's the "silly rpg gone horror-ish" type of game, kind of scratches the petscop's "ugly cuteness" part.
Doing those lightning round review videos but for indie horror games would be great! Especially since your stuff with the indie platformers helped me find Cavern of Dreams, I'd be totally down to see like, "Indie Horrors Vol" videos!
I played a resident evil-like game last year called Evil Tonight that kept popping up on some underrated switch game lists and it was pretty fun. It felt like a good survival horror game that leaned a little more on the action side. It's $15 and I would definitely recommend
Playing as cute characters in horror games just remind me that you're just a little innocent character where you probably can't do a lot to defend yourself from the enemies, which means you can only run, hide, or die (adding some extra atmosphere to the game)
Please review Soda Raptor's Hypnogogia: Boundless Dreams if you haven't already. Amazing chill vibes in that game! And I love the PS1 + Dreamcast style.
HOLY HECK I LOVE YOU CAT!!!!! BIG FELLA!! HUGE LAD!!! WOOOOO 👏👏👏👏👏👏 Oh also the video is pretty great. I feel like you put the feeling of cozy horror into words pretty well.
I love these PS1 style indie horror games. They capture the essence of classic 90s survival horror titles of the past, and make it modern. This is why indie games are succeeding this year, while AAA games are flopping. Their work alone shows that how much love they have of video games.
Still gotta play through that one! Always wanted to since trying the N64 version on an emulator way back in highschool. I got the PS1 version to play properly on a console in college, but soon into playing it realized that version is unplayably slow and glitchy, oops!
@@NitroRad as someone who played it back in the windows XP days and now the remastered version, do *Not* play it on hard mode, and prepare for lots of backtracking. Other than that, hope you enjoy it! Been watching you since your OFF review and your game recommendations are always on point!
Hey Nitro, I hope you consider keeping tabs on Abiotic Factor and consider doing a solo playthrough when it's complete. I'd be really excited to hear your take on the horror aspects of the game.
Did you have acold recording this? Your voice sounds a little rough in this video but great choices of games overall. Definitely makes me want to try them out.
I found Paratopic to be a short cozy horror game with nice aesthetics. Also Vaccine Rebirth, it's like a bite sized roguelike Resident Evil, tank controls, fixed camera, spooky ps1 mansion, you got it
This year, I noticed that I tend to get too busy during October to enjoy Halloween festivities, so this is gonna be perfect for my Septemberween Spooktacular! 👻💀🎃🕸️🕷️
UPDATE about Late Homework, the game has been fleshed out into a bigger game! Link to it is in the video description underneath the original link.
ohhhh gonna do a re-review?
There's something incredibly amusing about a guy revealing he's a ghost by disappearing in front of your eyes... and then immediately popping back in because he forgot something.
The character designs of this game remind me so much of Miffy, so I wonder if maybe the tone is influcened by it as well.
There's something incredibly amusing about me stepping outside and seeing a rather large fat guy clapping his own cheeks while playing an accordion
Hey, Late Homework dev here~
Wow!! Thanks so much for checking out and covering my little jam game Nitro. There's definitely a few rough edges and some tiny quirks I'm hoping to have ironed out as I continue to work on it, but I'm chuffed you enjoyed it all the same! Cheers ✌
Pee pee poo poo
I wish i could play your game on xbox. It looks amazing!
HOLY SHIT I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN YOU MADE LIKE. .. MY FAVORITE GAME OF ALL TIME. THANK YOU FOR MAKING HYPNAGOGIA BOUNDLESS DREAMS DUDE
The cat in your arms, just being curious, is the perfect addition to a video on cute horror games.
Cats are great.
Source: Owner of 2 cats. Morgana and Blaze my 2 gremlins
i miss the spoilers section, i don't have the time to play all these cool looking games and really liked the story summaries.
I second this!
If you guys want short horrorish games I strongly recommend trying out milk inside a bag of milk and it’s sequel milk outside a bag of milk. Also, critters for sale, not a horror, but incredibly weird experience.
That's a goofy name I gotta see what it's about
@@HunterForHire422 Oh it's a fantastic game. I feel like saying it's influences would just spoil what it is though.
@@HunterForHire422 interesting game with an unfortunately awful name
he NEEDS to make a milk inside a bag of milk video
CRITTWRS FOR SALE YESS
Rental was pretty neat for the little slice it was. Pretty neat proof-of-concept. Especially the first-person maze sequence, which gave me flashbacks to the Windows maze screensaver and Ken's Labyrinth. I need to find more games that have that kind of vibe and control scheme, where something is stalking you but doesn't straight-up beeline for you, instead prowling around waiting for the perfect moment to pounce.
As for your "dream horror game", judging from the descriptors you've thrown out, Tower of Tears might be close to what you're looking for.
I always love the shot of these games running on a CRT.
Love these recommendations! Was actually looking for something like this!
Love your film analysis!
An animal crossing life sim combined with Silent Hill sounds awesome. Maybe during the day you can do the typical AC stuff like fish, catch bugs, socialize, run errands, shop, etc with minimal to no scary things. Then when night comes you can still do most of those things but it's more dangerous and spooky with monsters roaming, but you can get better rewards and catch fish and bugs that only come out at night.
I'm sold
I love the casual use of some chill Bomberman Hero music. I know you've used it before but I never get tired of that OST.
I had no idea that Rental is from Chilean devs! And is the closest to Animal Crossing horror I've seen, so proud of my country 💝
*Hi 5 chileno*
Really interested in you exploring this genre further! I think “cozy scary” is a genre people are just now realizing exists as a collective, and I want more of it. Voices of The Void falls under cozy scary to me-it’s not cute, but it’s…comfy.
I played a lot of Nancy Drew games as a kid that I think fall under cozy scary. Big, quiet mansions, lots of puzzles to dig into, a warm fire with a raging storm outside…I loved that shit.
Tell us about the kitty!
Her name is Hornet! Sometimes when I pick her up she rubs her face on mine. She likes me a lot and is always doing these weird roll flips into the walls like a tornado trying to get my attention. She's real weird and funny. I got two other cats also, Blinx, the dumb orange cat and Mr Pickles, lanky black cat (very shy and usually stays upstairs, but the other two show up in vids sometimes since they like hanging out down in my office during the day) one time I was filming a controller demonstration on this nice little foldout green screen i got, and she randomly climbs up on top, I think it's in one of the psychonauts videos. If you move cords in front of her at all she'll go nuts, like ridiculous reflexes tryna grab them. She's def the one of the three who would have no trouble surviving on her own. (Blinx would def die in like 2 mins trying to play with a coyote or trying to jump over a speeding car) Sometimes she'll accidentally claw me when playing because she gets way too intense about it. Which sucks, because her claws are sharper than any blade I've ever encountered. (She keeps them in good shape throughout each day) Though she does otherwise make a real good effort not to cut me with her claws! She sucked at it as a kitten (I was kinda scared of her knife hands when we first got her not gonna lie) but over time she grew more conscious of it and now she's really good about it. Which is an unreal feeling, this lil animal being like "aw shit gotta figure out how to not stab this dude" lol . She also kills all the spiders it rules
@@NitroRadaww never knew you had 3cats❤
KITTY!
funny cat
So cuuuuute!! Thanks for the description (*´ω｀*)
I like the idea of you doing more cute style games in general. It helps me get a good idea of what games I can choose from. Your reviews are great at explaining the game at hand, which is nice. A great example was Corn Kidz, which you reviewed. I would never have picked the game up if it wasn't for your review
This is the kinda content I want to see on TH-cam! Obscure creepy, but cute games. And I love the cat too, reminds me of my old cat
I'm a big fan of this shorter, jam-packed, lower energy style of video, good stuff!
Not cute, but I really liked Northern Journey. It's a game in a medieval fantasy universe with a lot of inspiration from Lovecraft and the Scandinavian folklore. It's not really a horror game, but it's very close. The atmosphere and artistic direction are really cool: both bizarre and surreal, but also rather calm and cozy (most of the time ; it can be a bit fast paced too). The map offers lots of different areas: swamps, dark forests, ... each with their own monsters.
sorry for my bad english :/
Also it has lots of spiders. Like, an unreasonable amount of spiders.
Phos poster spotted
@@percher4824💀
@@kompf9099ohh, good to see a houseki no kuni fan here :)
@@Eeleemos There's a point where you're going into a cave and the game tells you 'there are no living spiders down there', which is true. There aren't any living spiders- they're *undead* spiders. Totally different.
Rental doesn't actually have chasing and major jump scares? Maybe I'll actually try that one.
3:15 100% agreed. If you just take a moment, or even take a while to establish characters and get us invested in them, we're all the more concerned when bad things start happening. Cuz we like these characters and now they're in danger.
Seems simple, and it is simple, but sometimes this simple detail is forgotten or not taken as seriously as it needs to be. Character development is huge.
I also would really like seeing more videos like this~. Multiple small indie games that couldn't justify their own video, being put into 1 video. I like it.
This conversely goes with making me interested in the world. One of the reasons Half Life 1 and Doom 3 stand out to me so much is because you get a glimpse into how the world you inhabit functions BEFORE everything goes topsy turvy.
I really missed these videos. I started watching you because of your weird indie horror game/RPG Maker game videos, and while I enjoy your videos about 3D platformers and bigger team/budget horror games, I'm not always in the mood to watch them. If it's a weird looking indie game like these though, I always drop what I'm doing to watch. I hope you do more of these in the future, I've found out about some of my favorite games because of those videos.
I love the fact, that you still use the Anodyne OST for your background music 😄
Something I want to mention about the whole map drawing thing, particularly for me-I really enjoyed drawing my own map for the first Zelda, but that game lets you pause without bringing up a menu, giving you a clear view of the current screen. That makes it really easy to draw a map for that game, but unfortunately most games don’t have a pause like that now(I think, I haven’t been playing many new games). Particularly I remember when I heard that Dark Souls doesn’t have a map, I got excited about the idea of drawing it until I remembered it’s impossible to pause in that game, and I doubt there would ever be a chance to breathe and draw a map.
Dark Souls enemies stay dead until you manually reset the environment at a bonfire, so there's actually a lot of quiet time in those games! You should try drawing a map, especially with the first one since every environment is directly connected to each other there. (3 is a lot more linear, but still has potential.)
@ oh, thanks for telling me!
@@familiarnamemissing3382 👍
1:08 KITTY!!
KITTY!!!!!!
KITTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sooo... fear and hunger when James? I am way too excited for you to check that out
Isn't that a RPG Maker Hentai game?
@@MegaOverclocked I wouldn't call it hentai, but it is quite horny...
@@MegaOverclocked no??? it's a horror rpg that's difficult as all hell
@@MegaOverclockedit has 18+ scenes but there more horrorfying then h0rny
@@MegaOverclocked The game does some aspects and themes regarding sexuality for horror, but like, its all meant for horror not 'enjoyment'. Fear and hunger is as much of a hentai as berserk is, if you are familiar with the latter.
I feel like you're kind of describing Gregory Horror Show: Soul Collector at the end for your dream game
Rental was really neat playing it, it was funny though cause like I was more scared of what might happen than anything actually in the game. Was a bit silly in hindsight. I do appreciate these kinds of games though cause they almost work like a branching point for people who aren't great with horror like me. I tried out subway midnight (after watching your review) and that lead me to finally playing Resident Evil 1 this year. I even starting making a sort of survival horror game cause I liked what I played and the feelings it left me with.
I fully support more videos like this!
I really dig the character designs and aesthetic of both of these! I came across rental by accident and it looked interesting so I'm really glad you talked about it. I love your indie horror videos.
You got so much better as a youtuber over the years. You were already amazing, but this video is pure deliciousness, I love your videos. Thank you so much for your content.
Etrian odyssey but horror sounds fucking genius
Eo is kinda scary tbh. The foes and music along with some of the descriptions are kinda creepy. Like eo3 when your chasing Olympia and the fish ambush u.
@@minakoarisato1506The FOEs are such good templates for horror monsters. When done well, they can make avoiding the monster very stressful and more difficult than simply running or hiding, where you might need to weave through them to progress with one poorly judged step meaning death.
And while Persona Q definitely did NOT do FOEs well (movement maybe, but the consequence side just was NOT it), Yukiko’s quest had a brilliant scare that only an EO style game could give. Hard fight done, you walk the few extra steps to get the quest over with before you go heal and save…and then the lights go out. And you look down at the bottom screen. And your beat up party is completely surrounded by FOEs. Please don’t kill me please don’t kill me please don’t kill me…
If you like the sound of that, definitely check out Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi. It's grotesque, unnerving, challenging and has all the hallmarks of an Etrian Odyssey game
Always a big fan of when you talk about smaller games like this!
Oh oh this is the first time youve talked about a game I'm playing! I love Interior Worlds! I thought it was peak aesthetics too 🤩
This video was a wonderful celebration of short games - and a great way to platform two cute, spooky tales! It was more than enough to convince us to pick up and share RENTAL - thank you for the recommendation!
16:33 by god this man has google chrome in his steam library
....When I think on Cutesy Horror Games with a twist, the first thing that comes to mind, in all honesty, is "Bonnie's Bakery".
I won't go into detail about the game, but I feel like it would definitely be something up your alley, Nitro Rad,
YOOOOOO HES HOLDING A FUNNY DOG
Her name is Hornet. You'll recognize her because she interrupted his controls rant in Psychonauts 2.
"It's because if you-- Get outta here..."
@@ilikecurry2345 THE FUNNY DOG HAVE NAME?!?!? Tell me more wise man
@@scootyman3800 Oh, he has more. Blinx is the One-Orange-Braincell cat and Mr. Pickles is a shy baby-man who prefers to hide upstairs.
@@ilikecurry2345 r u tellin me this man is in possession of multiple funny dog!!!
Nitro Rad is my comfy cozy corner. Thanks for making my day man. :)
Cute horror game series sounds amazing!
Man Im so glad I paused on this video and played these games back to back just to experience them myself first
Some very fun little horror games, I love when you pull attention to this kind of stuff
Nitro rad's been on a nitro roll lately
The nitro rad Halloween vibes came early 🥵 you're truly amazing in bringing games like these to light. ❤
I love these indie-showcases. Keep them coming. :D
i'd love to see more videos like this!!! my bestie likes these types of games so it'd be nice to have more games to recommend her (so she can play and i can watch ehehe)
always nice to see more game developers from my country, Chile :3. btw, did you change your microphone or something? your voice sounds cleaner, if that makes any sense haha.
I actually played rental some time ago, it wasn't particularly intense for me, I mostly found it charming. I also really appreciated how short it was. Cute game.
I saw Late Homework and had to think of you. You are in my brain
You convinced me to get a steamdeck instead of a ps5 a little while back, and boy am I TWICE as happy after recent news. just added Rental to my library.
I come to you for horror games, platformers. Your also entertaining, hope you keep making your vids about games however they may be.
Always a pleasure when you upload ❤️❤️ Your videos are so cozy and perfect for when I'm having a bad day
I would love to see more stuff like this. Great vid as per usual xoxo
Nice recommendations! I'd heard of the first one, but not the second. And honestly, Haneko's Late Homework looks very up my alley. :D
I love the way you speak about games, I first discovered your channel through your review on Psychonauts 2 when it first came out and I ended up binging all the videos, even the old ones. You have definitely grown, I don't mean numbers but for example in very early videos you described games by comparing them to other games a lot, saying something like "it's like Banjo Kazooie mixed with Rayman 2 and a dash of Gex style humor" and I remember feeling incredibly confused because I knew nothing about those games except for their titles 🤣
I remember me and my brother really wanted to pool our allowance to buy a new shiny PS2 and our parents strictly forbade it... we played a bunch of early PC games when we were very little that came with dad's cutting edge Macintosh IIfx but afterwards we weren't given or allowed to buy any video games for many years. Our cousins had all kinds of cool games they allowed us to play whenever we came over, like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Mortal Kombat 4, The Sims 2, Tomb Raider 3, Rayman 2 demo. Meanwhile me and my brother only had very cheap stuff that our parents deemed appropriate 🤣Neighbours From Hell, Hugo 3D Adventure, Original War, Hamster Heroes, and our personal favourites The Neverhood and Beyond Good and Evil (which we played and finished many times despite not speaking an ounce of English)
As for recommendations, if you read this far or skipped... ahh I wouldn't call it a horror game despite some elements I won't spoil, but I think you might enjoy Felvidek a lot. It's a short RPG with unique artstyle and fun writing that only takes a couple hours to beat.
New Nitro Rad to watch after work?! Yes please!
6:00 Environmental Station Alpha music :DDD
(very cool game)
Such a large friend! Best Cat
Shipwrecked 64 spotted! I heavily recommend it to horror fans, it's so good.
Rental is so good. God that atmosphere is amazing.
Nitro rad your videos are a beautiful escape. Thanks for everything you do ❤
I wonder if he's ever heard of Ruby Quest
I feel like it might be up his alley
Definitely trying these games out tonight!! I really hope you cover more stuff like this I need some cozy horror in my life. Flesh Blood and Concrete is a current cozy-horror favorite of mine but I think it’s cozy for me bc of cultural background more than anything
I got my kitty sitting next to me while watching this video, very fitting
I have been itching for some Nitro Rad horror content!
I would love a horror game that's a really slow burn and presents itself as a normal cute wholesome game or better yet a game where the horror elements are hidden and you can go through the entire game without seeing any of it but one wrong turn throws you into a horror adventure.
I will never not be exited for a new nitro rad episode
ngl I love this whole genre of horror games, they always have the most charming vibe in a way
YOUR CAT IS HUGE I LOVE IT.
I'm more of a console guy than PC guy, but since they are technically free, I might get them one day for my laptop. They both look cool. Nice to see Hornet's doing well! I actually recently filled out an adoption application to get a new cat since my old cat Woodsy sadly passed away back in late 2022 at 15 years old.
I really don't get much out of horror games tbh but I always dig cat content.
Or I could just get cozy watching NitroRad videos!
Still, I love these horror videos! My friend loves playing them, so whenever you bring attention to them, I always recommend them to her!
Sodaraptor has so much skill and "gets it so much" that I believe if they got support, they would be able to create multiple PS1 silent hill style horror games. There's so much potential there
Couldn't agree more on some horror games being cozy. Little goody two-shoes does a very good job of this.
1:07 *KITTY :3*
Rental was put on my radar a few months ago and I found it pretty fun! The maze was a little tough to maneuver but I think overall I enjoyed my time with it, especially when it doesn't cost anything.
I don't think its really what you're looking for with cute horror, but have you ever heard of Buddy Simulator 1984? That one might be up your alley!
I barely see anyone covering this game, but I can't recommend Buddy Simulator 1984 enough! It's the "silly rpg gone horror-ish" type of game, kind of scratches the petscop's "ugly cuteness" part.
Doing those lightning round review videos but for indie horror games would be great! Especially since your stuff with the indie platformers helped me find Cavern of Dreams, I'd be totally down to see like, "Indie Horrors Vol" videos!
Love interior worlds, so glad it got a mention from my favorite horror creator
Nice, thanks!
Great work Nitro.
I loved Rental. Haven't played the other, waiting for a steam release... BUT JAMES!! PLAY GO! GO! HAMSTER CHEF!! PLEASE!!! >.
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Yesss! Interior Worlds is fantastic! And he updated it fairly recently with more content!
I played a resident evil-like game last year called Evil Tonight that kept popping up on some underrated switch game lists and it was pretty fun. It felt like a good survival horror game that leaned a little more on the action side. It's $15 and I would definitely recommend
I love ur horror game vids!
Playing as cute characters in horror games just remind me that you're just a little innocent character where you probably can't do a lot to defend yourself from the enemies, which means you can only run, hide, or die (adding some extra atmosphere to the game)
Please review Soda Raptor's Hypnogogia: Boundless Dreams if you haven't already. Amazing chill vibes in that game! And I love the PS1 + Dreamcast style.
HOLY HECK I LOVE YOU CAT!!!!! BIG FELLA!! HUGE LAD!!! WOOOOO 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Oh also the video is pretty great. I feel like you put the feeling of cozy horror into words pretty well.
I love these PS1 style indie horror games. They capture the essence of classic 90s survival horror titles of the past, and make it modern. This is why indie games are succeeding this year, while AAA games are flopping. Their work alone shows that how much love they have of video games.
Oh hell yeah you have Shadow Man in your library!
Still gotta play through that one! Always wanted to since trying the N64 version on an emulator way back in highschool. I got the PS1 version to play properly on a console in college, but soon into playing it realized that version is unplayably slow and glitchy, oops!
@@NitroRad as someone who played it back in the windows XP days and now the remastered version, do *Not* play it on hard mode, and prepare for lots of backtracking. Other than that, hope you enjoy it!
Been watching you since your OFF review and your game recommendations are always on point!
If its not horror games, its platformers. And that one time with Canadian cartoons, which I wouldn't mind more of.
another great video and wishlisted Interior Worlds after playing the fun demo!
Hey Nitro, I hope you consider keeping tabs on Abiotic Factor and consider doing a solo playthrough when it's complete. I'd be really excited to hear your take on the horror aspects of the game.
Omg! New video about horror games! So excited
Hornet is very cute and she needs to be in more videos.
Maybe you should try Gregory horror show if you want material for a campy horror game.
Did you have acold recording this?
Your voice sounds a little rough in this video but great choices of games overall.
Definitely makes me want to try them out.
Rental especially looked fun. If it comes to console I'll definitely be there.
Yo these two look so cool 🤩
Definitely gotta check em out when the spooky itch hits me. 😄
I am here for Nitro Rad being a cat dad
I found Paratopic to be a short cozy horror game with nice aesthetics.
Also Vaccine Rebirth, it's like a bite sized roguelike Resident Evil, tank controls, fixed camera, spooky ps1 mansion, you got it
I am totally down with a complication of cool indie horror games similar to your videos on indie platformers.
Hornet is such a pretty kitty! Is she just a regular short-hair or is she a particular breed?
15:58 Legend of Grimrock has a mode that disables the automap and makes the player fill the maps on their own.
This year, I noticed that I tend to get too busy during October to enjoy Halloween festivities, so this is gonna be perfect for my Septemberween Spooktacular! 👻💀🎃🕸️🕷️