I felt really bad for the children who were kidnapped and turned into clowns... honestly I'm not afraid of clowns, but this game made me feel bad for em. I think all the bad events were based on fears people have of clowns.
There's always something uncanny about how clowns smile and laugh for me, so I can understand why some people doesn't like clowns. Plus, murder cases like the ones done by John Wayne Gacy doesn't help alleviate the fear at all.
@@Bloomkyaaa also there's only been one actual murder clown and as far as we know he never did any of the murders while clowning. compared to the number of murderous non-clowns, which is significantly higher...
@@the13throse I would say there could be more murder clowns that could’ve gotten away and unreported cases, but your right that that they’re more murders out in the world.
@@GreenOrochi89 im not that scared of clowns that arent creepy on purpose but I'd never hire a clown for anything ever, mainly because of all the clown "pranks" that happened a few years back so weird. I dont think anyone was hurt during it but the stories were creepy enough
Damn I feel so bad for the other clowns, i actually kinda like their designs n seein em actually react to you hurting them and how visceral the sound design is really gets me
@@frogofpoggers2246 Yeah, poor Mr Handy was a trooper to the end. At first I was like, yeah we get to abuse some evil clowns, but then it turned out that the clowns we *have to* abuse aren't evil, but instead tragic...
I don’t think they were turned into clowns specifically, I think what they are as clowns shows how they were killed. The first was pumped with air until his lungs exploded, the second was drowned, the thirds fingers broken off, the fourths arms torn, and the fifth was shoved into a box, likely suffocating.
Or maybe he did Not get drowned maybe he was murdered because when the lights were off the picture of the water turned bloody so maybe he was stabbed in the bathtub left lying there or maybe drowned in a oil tank
@@bathinginperfume it said faucet out of order so I think either they drowned because it wouldn't stop or maybe an intruder they couldn't hear over the sound of the faulty tap
1:31 "We all float down here." I think the player is abducted in the end. You just walk into a white area, which is probably just another room, and then the clown shuts you in. Presumably you are about to be transformed into another attraction for the Exhibit of Sorrows. I do wonder if not breaking the music box would have led to a better ending, but probably not. Also, I like Manly's empathy. Those deaths were brutal. AVOID ALL CLOWNS!!!
It's quite nice to play, if you don't break the music box it get's shoved in to the room by the clown before he shuts the door. Maybe it's supposed to be a, your the jack in the box, situation???
Huh. I guess it depends on your individual experience, I mean, playing the first Sims game sometimes scared me back when it was new. Mind, the death screams in the first game *are* horror grade, and then Sims would loudly mourn the death of whoever died for 3 days.
@Ｓｔｕｐｉｄ░Ｂｉｔｃｈ (代因ソ) @Chaoz 73 Manly did a lets play on "Pumpkin Eater", its a semi-long novel style game, really good. I also recommend Lisa the painful Rpg for uncomfortable games.
Dev of Exhibit of Sorrows here, I'm so happy you played my game! You were very thorough in exploring the details too. I'm a big fan of your videos and I'll confess I made this game with the hope that you would play it. I'll be making more games in the future with what I learned from this one, though I may take a break from the horror genre. Horror games are tricky to get right.
Maybe what most people expect horror to be, may be tricky. But who says it has to be conventional horror? You can make any game you want. Maybe even combine genres. I think comedy horror games are great. Or even a game you expect to be horror, but there's actually nothing scary at all.
I felt the most pain from Mr. Handy....that was not enjoyable to see.... The Exhibit of Sorrows -an actual clown exhibit where you can leave unscarred....at least not physically
I honestly just want to hug the clowns that got killed. Hello? Mr. Washy had me going “NONONONO. NOT YOU, NOT AFTER MR. FLOATY-“ But yeah, Mr. Handy and Mr. Floaty were punches in the gut.
the whole time I was like "c'mon Manly, it's obvious!" when he was like that but I was expecting like, drowning or water torture or something. I was not expecting ink too
I really like the art design of this game. It’s both cute but kinda off-putting and then it escalates to dark and creepy towards the end but it still feels really cohesive, it just works so well. The concept of the kids was also really cool, it’s amazing how much storytelling they managed to get across to the viewer with just a few changes via the paintings. Really well made!
@@JohnSmith-kb4re depending on the moral system you follow actually yes. Some moral systems believe the good thing would be to sacrifice yourself/not harm them thereby leading to your death
@@EvisceratingDoubts if you follow such a moral system your opinion isn't particularly important in the first place. protecting randoms at the cost of your own life just means you're a failure as a living being. such ideology has no right existing.
With all the confetti/streamers in Ms. Stretch's exhibit I was kind of expecting her head to explode into confetti but what happened was actually worse :( And I agree, her design is pretty awesome. Also, this whole thing gives me "Dark Woods Circus" by Vocaloid vibes.
_Creepy and sad_ It's that same feeling you get going to a small carnival, especially at night. Everything seems surreal and you get weirded out by the games and rides. There's always one light bulb that is dead. Or irregularly blinking. The backstory of each of the clowns was presented well with just enough detail for you to grasp what happened. The Jack in the Box was the worst. Always with the spider legs. :(
The Jack in the Box was the most evil of all. He was Jack alright, but he wasn't gonna stay in a box anymore. That was his story - instead of being a cute clown in a little box that you could control with a lever, he was actually the worst of the monsters, trapped only until you set him free.
@@santini1224434 You think Jack is only a little head with a collar that pops out of a box. In reality, he's a huge monster, waiting for you to turn the lever. It's why you couldn't really stop - he turned it himself and escaped.
Okay, unrelated, but NaturalFlirtGamer.... I have seen you on so many gaming videos over the years, that I'm not even surprised anymore! I don't know why, but I find it so cute, your comment history!
This was a very uncomfortable (in a good way) game... I think the most worrysome fact might be that i doubt those clowns are actually dead-dead. It's a very wasteful thing after all to only have exhibits that can be used once....
Oh god imagining that the clown somehow resets everything after each visitor makes me feel for the abducted people-turned-exhibits so much more. Can't even begin to think of how long they've been stuck there.
@@CreativeHandleOrSomething Ummmmm the Jack In The Box is "cute"?, i respect you're opinion but for me he's like a monster from the closet or under my bed after he's transforming 😅
I believe the main clown only appears in the mirror because you as the player are that clown. In this game, you are the killer, reliving the deaths of your victims in your mind over and over again for your own twisted entertainment. That's my interpretation. Edit: I'm saying this is taking place inside the mind of the killer. The clown is the killer's "inner demon", the monstrous persona that drives him to kill. the killer is mentally reliving the murders in his mind, and the clown is his mental projection. It's how he views himself, but it's just an alter ego.
I agree with you on that the Exhibit of Sorrows part is the clown relieving all the deaths of his poor victims. However, I feel like we're in the perspective of an outsider that he's showing all of this to. Could be a paying customer who wants to hear a horror story, could even be a detective who was trying to make sense of everything. And in the end, the clown waves us goodbye as we leave because we've seen everything and he gave all he wanted to show. Which means that we're left with interpreting everything he shared from his disturbingly twisted mind. Makes this all the more horrifying in context.
@N00b maybe it's multiple personality disorder, and the players conscious humanity and all the empathy and whatever he had left was replaced for the murderous persona of him that was trying to break free
The fact that the player has to be the one to break the people-turned-clowns is what hurts about this :( Also I was really expecting the Jack-in-the-box the be a jumpscare
12:33 Actually thats another possibility. The ending could be 2 things you get trapped in the white room turned into another clown or you got out since this is an Exhibit of Sorrows. You are a costumer to feel sorrow and after you saw what the exhibit has to offer you leave.
this game was really nice! i like how all the clown designs were all really creative and a little cute, perfectly capturing the whimsy of a clown. most clown horror games just go for stereotypical traits and up the scary factor too much, without really knowing how to design a charming and unique clown character. this game really managed to nail that, while still making it a horror game! lovely work!
The moment I saw the pictures in Ms. Stretch's room was in the dark, I felt some sort of forbidding feeling. I will cry if the story is exactly what I think it is
2:27 "You're not that bad of a clown after all." ...As someone who grew up with a terrifying clown painting in the hallway outside my room for all of my childhood... NEVER trust the clown paintings! EVER! 3:53 I TOLD YOU!!
I like clowns. Always have. Never been scared of clowns. But clowns are always portrayed as evil, I was excited to see that these clowns were actual clowns and happy to excite, amaze, and entertain. But then we watched them die and I was very sad.
Yeah, and since they make human expressions like pain, happiness, sadness I can't help but feel bad for them especially Mr. Handy trying to smile even though his fingers are tweaked.
I kind of expected a twist like... the scary painting clown was actually a mirror, that is, it was you being forced to relive the tortures you inflicted on others. I agree though, I like clowns and eldritch entities, so the spookiest thing was just the suffering.
I felt pain man. I'm not the type of person who just plays a game, I typically grow a connection with the characters whether good or bad as if they were real (weird kinda) and even tho I wasn't the one playing, my gosh man, I could almost cry. Their deaths and picture backstories it really hurt
I felt so bad watching them get hurt oh my god my heart is broken into pieces.. Looking at their expressions while it was happening just made things worse 😭
I like how this game didn’t really follow the “bathtub full of blood” trope Like, when it came to the tub during the Killing the Clowns part, I was like “yeah yeah now the tub’s gonna fill up with the guys blood yada yada” but it actually had originality, kudos to the creator.
@ArtisticArty lol, i remember half a year ago, I'd slump in my mini foldable gaming chair, the kind thats on the floor and doesn't have legs, with my blanket over my whole body and shoulder, I'd be watching a manly video on my tv, and 40 minutes in I'd doze off for a couple hours, i did this about ten times lol.
Nice variety both in the clowns' designs but also the horror tied to them, efficient use of the background to give you a good idea of what exactly went down, perfect length for this sort of horror game. Solid experience from top to bottom.
I have a theory- It's not that kids were abducted- rather that they died. The way they died is represented by the exibit. Mr. Handy broke his hands and maybe something happened after that he needed his hands for so he died. Ms. Stretch had her arms torn off and she bled out. Mr. Wash drowned one day- Things like that. Just an idea though
In the one with Mrs stretch, the paintings show someone grabbing her by the arm and pulling, so I don't think they were accidents, or at least most of them.
as a fellow clown aligned person this was honestly an experience,can confirm i was kidnapped by mirror bozo (ozob for short) and forced into white Facepaint when i was 9, it's a good deal really
Oh !! I'm so glad to see Manly play this !! I actually spoke to the creator on reddit, they're a lovely human being!! So glad to see their game get some attention
Guys if you slow down the frames at 7:13, you see flashing images of a balloon heading to what looks like thorns. It could be the clown in the portrait was waiting for the kid's balloon to pop? Someone else mentioned about a portrait of lungs in Mr. Floaty's exhibit. That could be the reason the child's asthma was triggered.
Damn, this game was impressive. Loved the visuals and overall aesthetic ngl, alway played point and click games when I was young it was a throwback for me
I am so glad I watched this, my baby siblings were gonna watch this and most likely get nightmares but I stopped them before they did. thank you manly for saving my family from hours of crying
this was amazing, like, the way the scare slowly creeps up on you and the horror as you realise the backstory of each clown, and shit having to torture them ugh horrifying and scary all the way around, really nicely done!! not to mention a very neat and pleasant artstyle!
Hell yeah new manly vid just after I finished one SPOILERS: Edit: Huh. I wasn't expecting us to survive in the end. That's pretty cool. I feel bad for the poor people who got turned into clowns. But man that Jack in the box was unexpected.
Ms. Stretchy and Mr Handy had the most terrible fate...jack killed himself. Mr floaty was the saddest...he had the sorrowest death of all. Rip clowns. Probably the "Mr.Honk" made their abilities and wanted them to shatter. Mr honk is the picture clown btw.
What a nice little game! I love the colourful art style, I like how the horror elements present themselves and integrate into the art style as the game progresses. Poor children though...
Now this game is a really good one. Liked it fr. But the things is, is the man held captive in an isolated room, or is he free? Because I saw some walls.
Don’t hate me but I kind of like clowns. They aren’t scary. They’re just misunderstood. I don’t care if clowns die but. Seeing these cute and cuddle characters die just makes me cry. The deaths in this game is horrifying. But it’s still a cute and scary game. I give it 10 stars
While I don't entirely reject the abducting children theory, I wanna draw people's attention to something that I haven't seen discussed yet. All of the clowns, save for maybe the balloon boy, suffered some kind of serious injuries, some of them even implied to be from physical abuse (Ms stretch being manhandled by an adult in one of the portraits). Now. I was immediately reminded of children's hospitals, because don't those hire clowns to cheer the kids up? I'm not sure if that was intentional but I just got a really strong vibe especially from the balloon boy with the portrait of a balloon turning into very sick looking lungs. Almost as if it was from a medical photograph. Not sure how Mr washy plays into this, although darker theories as to why he would be in the hospital do come to mind (ahem, people who go into the tub for a the last time, but fail). I don't know where I'd take this observation, except, deranged children's hospital clown, I guess? I just wanted to look at the game from this perspective. Alot of what the player is forced to do to the clowns feels reminiscent of medical abuse (of children specifically), or patients that couldn't be saved for whatever reason. Just my thoughts
9:02 did anyone notice that when on the reverse track for Ms. Stretch, the cursor is suddenly very battered and cut up, when before it didn't look like that?
The art is so well done and beautiful but heck do I feel bad for the abducted children and I felt physically uncomfortable watching the second half of the play through… very well done on the dev’s part
Considering that the circus 100 years ago tortured orphans or in some way disabled children to death in front of a large audience makes this horror game even more realistic...
It seems like these clowns are used to portray how they were murdered...and the big clown wants you to find it out, which is why he doesn't let u leave. And the last clown, the jack in the box, was the murderer
A bit unerving but really interesting game! I couldn't tell for some of them, but the backstory you can see for two of them through the pictures (Ms. Stretch and Mr. Floaty) seemed to essentially show their "training" from the mirror clown (Or the result of in Mr. Floaty's case with the image of broken lungs)
hey this is the best clown game i saw for the last half a year! i am actually surprised that this is solely based on my "oh i love it so much so i want to draw and write about these clowns" experience from it
I just realized something after watching this a second time. At 0:33 see the clown in the picture? Look at how it’s smiling. Look reallyyy closely at it after he comes back after breaking the music box- 1:00 it’s face changes, the confetti/sparkles is gone and the plant wilts a little bit.
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This game's style gives me those old flash horror game vibes. Surprisingly haunting if done well.
Always did love those flash games.
Yeah the nostalgia...😔
It's from ng, that's why
Only scary thing here is your pfp (is that Tribal Hunter)?
@@chinthescrew4907 No, just a Swampert.
I felt really bad for the children who were kidnapped and turned into clowns... honestly I'm not afraid of clowns, but this game made me feel bad for em. I think all the bad events were based on fears people have of clowns.
There's always something uncanny about how clowns smile and laugh for me, so I can understand why some people doesn't like clowns. Plus, murder cases like the ones done by John Wayne Gacy doesn't help alleviate the fear at all.
@@GreenOrochi89 Anyone can be a murderer... not just clowns.
@@Bloomkyaaa also there's only been one actual murder clown and as far as we know he never did any of the murders while clowning. compared to the number of murderous non-clowns, which is significantly higher...
@@the13throse I would say there could be more murder clowns that could’ve gotten away and unreported cases, but your right that that they’re more murders out in the world.
@@GreenOrochi89 im not that scared of clowns that arent creepy on purpose but I'd never hire a clown for anything ever, mainly because of all the clown "pranks" that happened a few years back so weird. I dont think anyone was hurt during it but the stories were creepy enough
Damn I feel so bad for the other clowns, i actually kinda like their designs n seein em actually react to you hurting them and how visceral the sound design is really gets me
It's sad how Mr.Handy still tried to smile as you hurt him.
@@frogofpoggers2246 I think that was a grimace lol. I don't even know if most people have the pain tolerance to stay conscious for that
Yeah poor mr floaty
@@frogofpoggers2246 Yeah, poor Mr Handy was a trooper to the end.
At first I was like, yeah we get to abuse some evil clowns, but then it turned out that the clowns we *have to* abuse aren't evil, but instead tragic...
@@tylisirn it was cute yet sad at the same how he smiled through the pain :(
I don’t think they were turned into clowns specifically, I think what they are as clowns shows how they were killed. The first was pumped with air until his lungs exploded, the second was drowned, the thirds fingers broken off, the fourths arms torn, and the fifth was shoved into a box, likely suffocating.
THAT MAKES SENSE
Or maybe he did Not get drowned maybe he was murdered because when the lights were off the picture of the water turned bloody so maybe he was stabbed in the bathtub left lying there or maybe drowned in a oil tank
@@bathinginperfume it said faucet out of order so I think either they drowned because it wouldn't stop or maybe an intruder they couldn't hear over the sound of the faulty tap
@@bathinginperfume Also when mr. Handy's finger was removed black goo came out. Aka black goo=blood. The black goo came out of the faucet.
@@box_ofmemes7613 that makes sense
1:31 "We all float down here."
I think the player is abducted in the end. You just walk into a white area, which is probably just another room, and then the clown shuts you in. Presumably you are about to be transformed into another attraction for the Exhibit of Sorrows.
I do wonder if not breaking the music box would have led to a better ending, but probably not. Also, I like Manly's empathy. Those deaths were brutal.
AVOID ALL CLOWNS!!!
Yeah he was surprisingly very sad about each death
It's quite nice to play, if you don't break the music box it get's shoved in to the room by the clown before he shuts the door. Maybe it's supposed to be a, your the jack in the box, situation???
@@IrvineTheHunter Oh, interesting!
@@IrvineTheHunter having portal 2 flashbacks rn...
Yeah. I felt very bad for the clowns. Even if they are not real, it was kind of sad to look at
this has probably been one of the most uncomfortable games ever done
This one and that pumpkin boy one dear God
@@KoriandrOfTheStars Oh god that one was really something else.
Huh. I guess it depends on your individual experience, I mean, playing the first Sims game sometimes scared me back when it was new. Mind, the death screams in the first game *are* horror grade, and then Sims would loudly mourn the death of whoever died for 3 days.
@@KoriandrOfTheStars *what pumpkin boy one*
@Ｓｔｕｐｉｄ░Ｂｉｔｃｈ (代因ソ) @Chaoz 73 Manly did a lets play on "Pumpkin Eater", its a semi-long novel style game, really good. I also recommend Lisa the painful Rpg for uncomfortable games.
Dev of Exhibit of Sorrows here, I'm so happy you played my game! You were very thorough in exploring the details too.
I'm a big fan of your videos and I'll confess I made this game with the hope that you would play it.
I'll be making more games in the future with what I learned from this one, though I may take a break from the horror genre. Horror games are tricky to get right.
Hey, you did a great job.
I know horror games are tricky to get right but you are talented!! This was so well executed and the concept was so original. I applaud you
It might be tricky but you handled it like a champ. This is one of the most interesting short horror experiences I have played on quite a while.
Horror is one of the most difficult genres to create IMO, but you did an excellent job for this one!
Maybe what most people expect horror to be, may be tricky. But who says it has to be conventional horror? You can make any game you want. Maybe even combine genres. I think comedy horror games are great. Or even a game you expect to be horror, but there's actually nothing scary at all.
I felt the most pain from Mr. Handy....that was not enjoyable to see....
The Exhibit of Sorrows -an actual clown exhibit where you can leave unscarred....at least not physically
The facial expressions, the way he tried to dodge getting some of his fingers getting broken, it was hard to watch.
I felt the worst for Mr. floaty. His little squeals of pain broke my heart...
@@RAEdiant_ I know.. I was like: Pls stop :(
I just wanted to pull him down and hug him
I feel worse for Ms Stretch
I honestly just want to hug the clowns that got killed. Hello? Mr. Washy had me going “NONONONO. NOT YOU, NOT AFTER MR. FLOATY-“
But yeah, Mr. Handy and Mr. Floaty were punches in the gut.
Manly: "How can you twist this one? It's just water."
Game: Aight bet, lemme connect the faucet to the ink machine real quick.
Bendy might be in there being all like: rat tat tatat at rrattatatata
Don’t pee on the floor. use le commodore. Laaaa lalalalalalala laaaaaaaaa
the whole time I was like "c'mon Manly, it's obvious!" when he was like that
but I was expecting like, drowning or water torture or something. I was not expecting ink too
its blood but just covered with black so the game can still profit from TH-cam videos
@@thategg9447 Lala
I really like the art design of this game. It’s both cute but kinda off-putting and then it escalates to dark and creepy towards the end but it still feels really cohesive, it just works so well. The concept of the kids was also really cool, it’s amazing how much storytelling they managed to get across to the viewer with just a few changes via the paintings. Really well made!
the power of uncanny valley is strong in this game, it's on par with ONAF in terms of uneasy inducing artstyle
@@tatarchan5212 what's ONAF?
@@jpqgg one night at frumpy, a fnaf fan game that have similar unnerving art style but more darker.
I thought the clowns were going to be evil, but it's the player that's evil and making those poor clowns suffer...
I feel so sorry for them :,c
Kind of. The PC has no choice, if they want to get out.
Being evil is when you're forced to do something by a torturous kidnapper, of course
@@JohnSmith-kb4re depending on the moral system you follow actually yes. Some moral systems believe the good thing would be to sacrifice yourself/not harm them thereby leading to your death
@@EvisceratingDoubts if you follow such a moral system your opinion isn't particularly important in the first place. protecting randoms at the cost of your own life just means you're a failure as a living being. such ideology has no right existing.
With all the confetti/streamers in Ms. Stretch's exhibit I was kind of expecting her head to explode into confetti but what happened was actually worse :( And I agree, her design is pretty awesome.
Also, this whole thing gives me "Dark Woods Circus" by Vocaloid vibes.
That's the exact vibe I was getting, too! Dark Woods Circus mixed with the Rusty Lake games.
@@charondusk5608man, i love those games , the art gets you uneasy but hooked
Dark woods circus was made by Machigerita
_Creepy and sad_
It's that same feeling you get going to a small carnival, especially at night. Everything seems surreal and you get weirded out by the games and rides. There's always one light bulb that is dead. Or irregularly blinking.
The backstory of each of the clowns was presented well with just enough detail for you to grasp what happened. The Jack in the Box was the worst.
Always with the spider legs. :(
Yea, explain the jack in the box lore!
The Jack in the Box was the most evil of all. He was Jack alright, but he wasn't gonna stay in a box anymore. That was his story - instead of being a cute clown in a little box that you could control with a lever, he was actually the worst of the monsters, trapped only until you set him free.
@@santini1224434 You think Jack is only a little head with a collar that pops out of a box. In reality, he's a huge monster, waiting for you to turn the lever. It's why you couldn't really stop - he turned it himself and escaped.
@@NaturalFlirtGamer oh ok
Okay, unrelated, but NaturalFlirtGamer.... I have seen you on so many gaming videos over the years, that I'm not even surprised anymore! I don't know why, but I find it so cute, your comment history!
This was a very uncomfortable (in a good way) game...
I think the most worrysome fact might be that i doubt those clowns are actually dead-dead. It's a very wasteful thing after all to only have exhibits that can be used once....
Oh god imagining that the clown somehow resets everything after each visitor makes me feel for the abducted people-turned-exhibits so much more. Can't even begin to think of how long they've been stuck there.
@@AngeliGardner An endless loop of pain, forced to smile, forced to relive their deaths
Man this game emerses you so well. The atmosphere was immaculate. And the character design were really well done.
Got to thank my artist for that. She draws miracles.
@@maximtsai1856 The timing on arm/air was also amazing though, just sitting knowing what's going to happen for just a little too long.
Ms. Stretch is unironically so cute.
yes she absolutely is, I am so glad someone else thought the same way
So i'am not the only one that say she's cute
@@Atomheads you are absolutely not, and I'm glad I'm not the only one either
Ms. Stretch and Jack in the Box are both super cute tbh
@@CreativeHandleOrSomething
Ummmmm the Jack In The Box is
"cute"?, i respect you're opinion but for me he's like a monster from the closet or under my bed after he's transforming 😅
I believe the main clown only appears in the mirror because you as the player are that clown. In this game, you are the killer, reliving the deaths of your victims in your mind over and over again for your own twisted entertainment. That's my interpretation. Edit: I'm saying this is taking place inside the mind of the killer. The clown is the killer's "inner demon", the monstrous persona that drives him to kill. the killer is mentally reliving the murders in his mind, and the clown is his mental projection. It's how he views himself, but it's just an alter ego.
I agree with you on that the Exhibit of Sorrows part is the clown relieving all the deaths of his poor victims. However, I feel like we're in the perspective of an outsider that he's showing all of this to. Could be a paying customer who wants to hear a horror story, could even be a detective who was trying to make sense of everything. And in the end, the clown waves us goodbye as we leave because we've seen everything and he gave all he wanted to show. Which means that we're left with interpreting everything he shared from his disturbingly twisted mind. Makes this all the more horrifying in context.
@N00b maybe it's multiple personality disorder, and the players conscious humanity and all the empathy and whatever he had left was replaced for the murderous persona of him that was trying to break free
So if we go with this theory. The character you play as inflated someone till they burst
That’s… actually a really good interpretation
Cool detail: the cursor hand breaks after Mr. Handy breaks.
Not his hand
His pinky
I like how manly never sounds scared ever
He’s badass, manly, and also a hero.
He has no soul whilst being a manly hero. Truly badass.
some of his old let's plays he gets really scared. you can tell in his voice
You know, unless bears are involved
@@alessandrawesley9629 No he has or had a soul it just emty and in the trash.
Your not a bad clown after all
Clown: I’m about to end this whole man’s career
Jack in the box: and make it double
Clown horror does what jaws did to sharks sometimes but they're so fun
What about sharks that work as clowns?
The release of IT is directly responsible for the downfall and crash of the clowning industry along with Ringling
pls free ivlis
@@__-be1gk they shouldn't have been... _clowning around..._
@@CarrotSpunk. Ivlis is a war criminal who attempted to destroy an entire world to get what he wanted. He deserves his fate.
8:25 Is the saddest one for me. The poor clown was a trooper, still trying to smile when getting their fingers dislocated
Fr 😭
"You think thats gonna upset them?"
*hovers cursor over the clearly disfigured paintings*
"No its fine."
The fact that the player has to be the one to break the people-turned-clowns is what hurts about this :(
Also I was really expecting the Jack-in-the-box the be a jumpscare
12:33 Actually thats another possibility. The ending could be 2 things you get trapped in the white room turned into another clown or you got out since this is an Exhibit of Sorrows. You are a costumer to feel sorrow and after you saw what the exhibit has to offer you leave.
This might be the only time I've felt bad for a clown. Ms. Stretch was the only clown I ever thought of as cute.
She really had an awesome design
yup
Me too
don't forget the other game manly played (same dev i believe) he is also really cute
Agreed, she looked relatively normal clown wise
this game was really nice! i like how all the clown designs were all really creative and a little cute, perfectly capturing the whimsy of a clown. most clown horror games just go for stereotypical traits and up the scary factor too much, without really knowing how to design a charming and unique clown character. this game really managed to nail that, while still making it a horror game! lovely work!
The moment I saw the pictures in Ms. Stretch's room was in the dark, I felt some sort of forbidding feeling. I will cry if the story is exactly what I think it is
OH NO MR. FLOATY!!! IS THAT WHY IT MENTIONED BALLOONS POPPING????
😢
Yup. The clown man tore her arm off.
@@chaosincarnate7304 they're probably thinking of something other than that, something much worse
@@imjustgr8 Yeah in all honestly it looked like she was being R-worded but I don't think the game went there. That was my first thought tbh.
The pained and scared faces on the clowns made my soul hurt. Now it's broken and I have to throw it in a trash can.
Man the fact that you can just FEEL the pain the clowns felt is so sad :(
I like how after you broke the music box, the clown on the main screen's eyes went black.
2:27 "You're not that bad of a clown after all."
...As someone who grew up with a terrifying clown painting in the hallway outside my room for all of my childhood... NEVER trust the clown paintings! EVER!
3:53 I TOLD YOU!!
It Probally just wants friends so I would befriend it :D
@@STARIZZY458 my mother STILL has that clown painting and I STILL don't trust it 😅
Never. Trust. The clown paintings. Lol
I like clowns. Always have. Never been scared of clowns. But clowns are always portrayed as evil, I was excited to see that these clowns were actual clowns and happy to excite, amaze, and entertain.
But then we watched them die and I was very sad.
Thats actually kinda wholesome lol
Yeah, and since they make human expressions like pain, happiness, sadness I can't help but feel bad for them especially Mr. Handy trying to smile even though his fingers are tweaked.
I kind of expected a twist like... the scary painting clown was actually a mirror, that is, it was you being forced to relive the tortures you inflicted on others.
I agree though, I like clowns and eldritch entities, so the spookiest thing was just the suffering.
Agreed
Mr handy's part hurt me spiritually, seeing him forcing a cute smile despite the pain just....i wanna hug him
It’s one of favorite types of horror game where it’s styled like a mini game :D
I felt pain man. I'm not the type of person who just plays a game, I typically grow a connection with the characters whether good or bad as if they were real (weird kinda) and even tho I wasn't the one playing, my gosh man, I could almost cry.
Their deaths and picture backstories it really hurt
I felt so bad watching them get hurt oh my god my heart is broken into pieces.. Looking at their expressions while it was happening just made things worse 😭
This is the most emotions I’ve seen from Manly and it’s a game about clowns
I like how this game didn’t really follow the “bathtub full of blood” trope
Like, when it came to the tub during the Killing the Clowns part, I was like “yeah yeah now the tub’s gonna fill up with the guys blood yada yada” but it actually had originality, kudos to the creator.
Man, hearing you talk is like ASMR without you actually whispering. Sorry if I sound weird, I mean that your voice is pretty soothing.
Omg I thought I was the only one
We all feel the same lol don't feel bad :) I like to listen to his videos before work because his voice is so calming
@ArtisticArty samee
@ArtisticArty lol, i remember half a year ago, I'd slump in my mini foldable gaming chair, the kind thats on the floor and doesn't have legs, with my blanket over my whole body and shoulder, I'd be watching a manly video on my tv, and 40 minutes in I'd doze off for a couple hours, i did this about ten times lol.
I fall asleep to Manly's videos fairly regularly. His cadence and calmness even in scary games is very relaxing.
Nice variety both in the clowns' designs but also the horror tied to them, efficient use of the background to give you a good idea of what exactly went down, perfect length for this sort of horror game. Solid experience from top to bottom.
I have a theory-
It's not that kids were abducted- rather that they died. The way they died is represented by the exibit.
Mr. Handy broke his hands and maybe something happened after that he needed his hands for so he died.
Ms. Stretch had her arms torn off and she bled out.
Mr. Wash drowned one day-
Things like that. Just an idea though
Where is Mr floaty
@@sanrioluvrI mean, if he’s like actually inflated to death via popping, or too much helium that damages the lungs
In the one with Mrs stretch, the paintings show someone grabbing her by the arm and pulling, so I don't think they were accidents, or at least most of them.
Manly: I'm not gonna enjoy this one
meanwhile he's grimaced at each one. I love how sympathetic he is to victims XD that's Manly for ya
If you want to win, you need to be a clown.
*Just open Twitter*
a clown, not a toxic waste
Yep.
Here's something grim I realized: Mr. Handy become just Mr. when you break his fingers because he effectively lost his hands.
Ms. Stretch didn't even get that honor. She became a statistic.
Alternative title: Clown Around and Find Out
No please, I’m not down to clown…
one of the comments ever
@@galladegamerletsplays What?
I love Ms Stretch so much
I’m alt clowncore and I love the clown aesthetic and stuff and she is SLAYING
It wasn’t an exit, it was a room!! OMG THATS NUTS
6:08 just noticed that one of those bits of "do not cross" tape says "you will be skinned"
was NOT expecting this to be as effective of a horror game as it is, wow. thoroughly uncomfortable
as a fellow clown aligned person this was honestly an experience,can confirm i was kidnapped by mirror bozo (ozob for short) and forced into white Facepaint when i was 9, it's a good deal really
Nooooooo the poor clowns!!! I love the art style and all of the clowns’ designs and seeing them happy! Seeing them hurt was so so sad!!!
I’m surprised we left in the end, but it makes everything else all the more sad honestly.
I don’t think we were able to leave.
Played it before, Ms. Stretch is one of my favorites.
Yeah, she is pretty cute
SAME
Glad i'am not alone :D
How do you download it :,) I wanna play it so bad-
@@JJ_bvz3 no need for a download, it's fully online!
The environmental storytelling of this game is great
he broke the music box so fast lmfaoo
The first jump scare actually got me, it's been a while since a game has done that!👏👏
Oh !! I'm so glad to see Manly play this !! I actually spoke to the creator on reddit, they're a lovely human being!! So glad to see their game get some attention
@The Arrogant Writer this is true!
This game's style was so cool!! Most of the clowns were actually cute
I literally played this like somewhere around an hour before you posted this that's kind of funny
This game seems cool, thanks for playing it.
Guys if you slow down the frames at 7:13, you see flashing images of a balloon heading to what looks like thorns. It could be the clown in the portrait was waiting for the kid's balloon to pop? Someone else mentioned about a portrait of lungs in Mr. Floaty's exhibit. That could be the reason the child's asthma was triggered.
There are flashes of beings with eyes watching and teeth waiting
Damn, this game was impressive. Loved the visuals and overall aesthetic ngl, alway played point and click games when I was young it was a throwback for me
I am so glad I watched this, my baby siblings were gonna watch this and most likely get nightmares but I stopped them before they did. thank you manly for saving my family from hours of crying
this was amazing, like, the way the scare slowly creeps up on you and the horror as you realise the backstory of each clown, and shit having to torture them ugh
horrifying and scary all the way around, really nicely done!! not to mention a very neat and pleasant artstyle!
Clowns are such fascinating animals. It's a shame they are endangered. Same goes for the mighty skeleton, which has gone extinct.
I need people to make a art of this game, this has potentials of fandom
Yes I agree
Hell yeah new manly vid just after I finished one
SPOILERS:
Edit: Huh. I wasn't expecting us to survive in the end. That's pretty cool. I feel bad for the poor people who got turned into clowns. But man that Jack in the box was unexpected.
I’m scared of clowns and on my first play through I stopped at mr handy after the lights went out, couldn’t stand it any longer
After Ms. Stretch died the plate should've said "Ms. Str etch"
That, especially the sound design, was absolutely haunting hjonk :(
I hated hurting Ms.Stretch.
She was a clown girl and a rubber hose girl. Those are two of my favorite kinds of girl.
As someone who watches true crime this hits different when you remember certain cases
Ms. Stretchy and Mr Handy had the most terrible fate...jack killed himself. Mr floaty was the saddest...he had the sorrowest death of all. Rip clowns. Probably the "Mr.Honk" made their abilities and wanted them to shatter. Mr honk is the picture clown btw.
What a nice little game! I love the colourful art style, I like how the horror elements present themselves and integrate into the art style as the game progresses. Poor children though...
You can see the dark eyes of the Jack intenta box for just a second 3:34
Now this game is a really good one. Liked it fr. But the things is, is the man held captive in an isolated room, or is he free? Because I saw some walls.
Who's the man you're talking about?
@@Atomheads The protag
@@Atomheads the main character you’re playing as
I wasnt expecting much , but its a Actualy pretty creepy game ! Nice one
Don’t hate me but I kind of like clowns.
They aren’t scary. They’re just misunderstood.
I don’t care if clowns die but. Seeing these cute and cuddle characters die just makes me cry.
The deaths in this game is horrifying. But it’s still a cute and scary game. I give it 10 stars
I agree. I've never been scared of clowns, and in this game they certainly didn't deserve to suffer like that.
@@lobelia5781 Nobody deserves to suffer
**looks at afton**
William afton: what?
While I don't entirely reject the abducting children theory, I wanna draw people's attention to something that I haven't seen discussed yet. All of the clowns, save for maybe the balloon boy, suffered some kind of serious injuries, some of them even implied to be from physical abuse (Ms stretch being manhandled by an adult in one of the portraits). Now. I was immediately reminded of children's hospitals, because don't those hire clowns to cheer the kids up? I'm not sure if that was intentional but I just got a really strong vibe especially from the balloon boy with the portrait of a balloon turning into very sick looking lungs. Almost as if it was from a medical photograph. Not sure how Mr washy plays into this, although darker theories as to why he would be in the hospital do come to mind (ahem, people who go into the tub for a the last time, but fail). I don't know where I'd take this observation, except, deranged children's hospital clown, I guess? I just wanted to look at the game from this perspective. Alot of what the player is forced to do to the clowns feels reminiscent of medical abuse (of children specifically), or patients that couldn't be saved for whatever reason. Just my thoughts
This sure is a lot of clowns, and they all seem a little unstable.
Like some sort of ... Insane Clown Posse, almost.
*slow clap*
9:02 did anyone notice that when on the reverse track for Ms. Stretch, the cursor is suddenly very battered and cut up, when before it didn't look like that?
Okay,THIS was really cool!
Aesthetic,idea,gameplay...everything
Killing the clowns made me sad. I love clowns :c
Me too boi
That’s why I like grunkfuss
Idk why i find it so funny that he has no punctuation in his video titles
punctuation?
@@ManlyBadassHero Ye. that thing that all "sophisticated" writers use. (kinda overated tbh)
The art is so well done and beautiful but heck do I feel bad for the abducted children and I felt physically uncomfortable watching the second half of the play through… very well done on the dev’s part
Did anyone notice how when you try to leave the room after cleaning up one of the tape lines say “you will be skinned “
Glad you notice it
Considering that the circus 100 years ago tortured orphans or in some way disabled children to death in front of a large audience makes this horror game even more realistic...
I actually cried at Mr handy and ms stretch part.
It seems like these clowns are used to portray how they were murdered...and the big clown wants you to find it out, which is why he doesn't let u leave. And the last clown, the jack in the box, was the murderer
That J.I.T.B. was just an neck-poped giraffe (Being portraited in the picture at the right of the box)
A bit unerving but really interesting game!
I couldn't tell for some of them, but the backstory you can see for two of them through the pictures (Ms. Stretch and Mr. Floaty) seemed to essentially show their "training" from the mirror clown (Or the result of in Mr. Floaty's case with the image of broken lungs)
02:53 Ms. Stretch looks cute to be honest
hey this is the best clown game i saw for the last half a year! i am actually surprised that this is solely based on my "oh i love it so much so i want to draw and write about these clowns" experience from it
Ok I cringed at the torture. Like I didn't need to see that.
I just realized something after watching this a second time. At 0:33 see the clown in the picture? Look at how it’s smiling. Look reallyyy closely at it after he comes back after breaking the music box- 1:00 it’s face changes, the confetti/sparkles is gone and the plant wilts a little bit.
I love clowns and as someone who is a self-proclaimed clown (/hj) this made me so excited at first and then I felt so bad for the clowns qvq
I like the artstyle of this game. Really nice lines and faces