Let me explain why it gives people this feeling. Normally in roblox, you're used to constant music blasting in your ears and other players chatting and jumping around, but in the templates there is a lack of everything. Desperate to have the same stimulation you got before, your brain focuses on little details you never noticed before, making you pay attention to really how eerie it is.
the map suburban always gave me the vibes people lived there but left because of you. heres my theory: assuming that the roblox default maps and roblox studio are somehow canon. that means the player/players are some sort of authority figure. since they have accsess to change the entire map in a hour or so for free. people did live there. but there was an annoucment that the player/players were coming to the town to do construction and whatever they want. so they all left to just give you some space by yourself.
The speed coil in suburban is pretty terrifying, like it was put in the store on purpose like you need to run away from some entity with speed faster then every human.
The western map was always weirdly nostalgic to me even though I’ve never played on it. It gave of old Toy Story vides with how lonely the models looked.
@@GenericTH-camUsername4048Maybe they also see the people when theyre in studio, if u use team create in studio u can see ur own friends when ur building with them, maybe they also hide when u open studio, and maybe they are scared because of the power u have.
Basically, there's this emotion called ''Kenopsia'', Or at least it is called in spanish. It's the emotion you get while seeing places that there used to be a lot of people. But this time, there's nobody. Like, if you go to a mall really at night and you see the stores empty with any human soul, it's not fear what you are feeling. It's Kenopsia. maybe you get the same emotion while seing the suburban empty, a place that there used to be a lot of families, good memories and that things. but with nobody in there. ''Kenopsia''.
in the western map there a bridge on the train tracks, and a water fall is with it, if you swim up it you will find a cave with a treasure chest, idk why but this scared me when i was young
you know what would be cool. You know them maps on gmod where they actually make them haunted like Gm_construct but something is off because they added a shadow figuire. one of those but with the roblox templates. i could attempt to make one
I’m glad someone’s also felt this way about the default starter places they gave you. I’ve always just found it so unnerving to play it alone. I felt a sense of dread despite no signs of danger being present.
The ones that creep me out the most are the capture the flag and team arena ones. I find it so eerie when competitive games are left to decay without anyone there, where it just goes against everything it was supposed to. I actually once had a place with the combat starter place and it actually got 10 people in one server, it was atleast cool, but now it seems blown out of the water by other competitive games and now just sits there, waiting to be played again
There's this Roblox game I used to play that featured the Suburban default map, except you had these items where you could destroy all the houses and such. Like mines, a hammer, propane tanks, guns, and I found it pretty entertaining. But as I kept playing it in my private server, it just felt off, eerie-like. It felt like something was watching me as I destroyed their territory, judging me. As I kept having that feeling, I started playing the game less and less until I stopped playing entirely. There was no sound, just the noises of me walking and the noises of destruction. I never have came back to that game since. Not only that, there's a creepy easter egg if you dig underneath the sandbox in one of the houses if I can remember correctly. It's not much of a horror game, but the map definitely made it seem like it was.
Village is eerily creepy as well, a village that was once full of people is now just a dark, lonely place shrouded by an uncanny atmosphere left for the player to explore. I walked around the map for about 10 minutes and at the end I got a big adrenaline rush and just left
Suburban is the creepiest Roblox starter place because there are so many corners. You never know who is watching you. The items feel like they're left by someone. Or something. To warn you. To prepare you. Of dangers here to come. But the danger never came.. Oh and also, the Speed Coil and the Gravity Coil are the scariest items there. I'm sure the disco ball was just a joke cutaway but the Speed Coil makes you feel alert. It was left there by someone to let you know that you have to run faster then any human to outrun something. The Gravity Coil lets you know that you need to stay in-air. But it doesn't make sense. Theres a dropoff into a bottomless pit. As if it was mocking you..
The suburban Map is the (one of the)scariest. So many hidden rooms and where people should be living it is just empty and abandoned as they were fleeing from something.
At this point imagine if you would randomly wake up in a obby template. Like, there is no universe, there is no ground, there are no people. You just have to parkour. Yeah haha sounds hillarious but some people already feel nervous when walking on a transparent material at a very unnusual height, now imagine there is nothign beneath you. Some of yall would experience mental breakdowns, hell nah some of yall would end it right there.
the city starter place is also kinda eerie to, it's like the suburbs map where people use to live there but it feels like it is unfinished it seems like people used to drive there and then there a random building piece on the ground like if something or someone knocked it over, and the buildings interior is completely empty like if the owner of a company was moving to a new location meaning the whole place is just abandoned.
It would be cool if someone made the suburban starter place a horror game,with lots of lore and the items at the store are there to help you try to not get killed by entities.
Top 3 scariest roblox starter places: 1.suburban - This shows that people used to live there and its creepy that ur the only citizen left 2.The new starter place - even tho you got all the items. no one knows who abandoned these items, the invisible cape and the Acceleration coil coil and Gravity Coil, are the stuff that may have lore, maybe u can use these items to hide or run away from something. 3.Western - It may be an abandoned town with nothing but sand
Suburban is like an abandoned town that was recently left behind and western is more like an older abandoned city that looks like it was left from how the western looks like in movies
some templates were removed from studio, and they were helpful so im actually annoyed by it because i rlly want to make a good game but im bad at making from scratch in a baseplate so i needed those templates
I just remember a game I used to play called Growing Up on roblox, and it used the suburban template. I remember playing that game often even tho it was very repetetive and it's interesting to hear someone describe the place I used to laugh at as something very creepy
the suburban was used in a game called "town" where you can use commands !s (gun name, you can also remove some letters as long as the system can detect what gun it is) or !sa for armor, and then you can attack people
someone actually managed to make a game using the suburban template called "growing up" its a very nostalgic game for me, i used to play it all the time
Roblox is another game capable to convey the unsettling creepy liminal vibe besides minecraft and garrys mod, playing these maps in first person is more creepy imo
Would love this template alongside with the starter place, western, castle and city template to be ported as a Gmod map, Garry’s Mod makes everything so much creepier especially that damn dark figure
I've been using studio since 2015 and I've never personally found the template maps creepy, nor heard anyone share the same opinion until I found this video.
Lore for the suburban: It was a happy town until people suddenly went missing, soon. 20 more people suddenly went missing, until the town wanted to leave the place. But an apocalypse suddenly happened, all the people were contagious. People got killed, infected, and there were no survivors. Those infected people suddenly went missing one by one. Until one of them saw a shadow figure luring 5 more people somewhere. Killing them. Soon, 5 of those people was missing. Until everyone started to go missing.
Tbh, I feel like playing starter templates in Roblox is just psychological horror because you see the places, the emptiness, loneliness, just makes me feel anxious. Thats how I feel. I don’t rlly know how to explain it further
You should play Town it’s a shooter game but also physiological horror to because at night you can hear Wolf noises and more it is also based off the suburban map
Try playing destroy the ship in a priv server, it doesn’t really feel as creepy but it feels like there’s something that you don’t know about going on around you
I just thought what if ur roblox character is a time traveler because think of it there’s a Wild West starter map with a working train then the next map is the one where you have to collect items then the last place is the surburban
The map templates are really basic which makes them uncanny. But the urban house, when we separate it from the map it is on, is a perfect template. It's very good if it's hard to make a good map for you but you can make a functioning game using the template.
guys can you reply to this comment with ideas for template horror games (make sure you say if its starter suburban or western, if theres another map that could achieve horror status just says its name) (not taking suggestions for Line Runner, Flat Terrain, the baseplates, FPS and maps like that)
There is a game called "Suburban Police AI" which uses the Suburban Template & filled with Police AIs that will oof you from killing Civilians with firearms
My most reason why people are gone is because the people are gone out of the area but there’s a problem they don’t have a plane the plane was not added I think it’s because the people are dead extinct and no life forms note to you I’m not a conspiracy theorist here but I’m a trying my best of evidence :)
Let's be real here. Imagine you are the resident of any building at night. Would you feel safe in a house without a door lock? Would you feel safe without any security? Would you be safe when nobody of other players are around?
You did a really good job at making a random default map sound like a decaying abyss.
Thanks. Next I'll turn my basement into a botomless pit
@@BackToBackJamescan u do from games now?, i was playing my fav game on a private server alone and it was pretty spooky
I'll see. What game was it?
@@BackToBackJamesu should try out vcs343's starter place it gave me silent hill vibes
@@BackToBackJamessex simulator
Let me explain why it gives people this feeling. Normally in roblox, you're used to constant music blasting in your ears and other players chatting and jumping around, but in the templates there is a lack of everything. Desperate to have the same stimulation you got before, your brain focuses on little details you never noticed before, making you pay attention to really how eerie it is.
very sophisticated explanation.
Best horror ideas involve isolation somehow
This also applies to gmod sandbox
the map suburban always gave me the vibes people lived there but left because of you. heres my theory: assuming that the roblox default maps and roblox studio are somehow canon. that means the player/players are some sort of authority figure. since they have accsess to change the entire map in a hour or so for free. people did live there. but there was an annoucment that the player/players were coming to the town to do construction and whatever they want. so they all left to just give you some space by yourself.
Yes, perhaps some people on roblox are the builders. The ones that have power of Roblox studio though.
it reminds me of that one backrooms level
I got the same theory, but the people just wanted to scare the player off
pretty good theory my bro1!1!1!
that... makes things slightly more comforting.
i like the idea that we're basically just construction workers.
The speed coil in suburban is pretty terrifying, like it was put in the store on purpose like you need to run away from some entity with speed faster then every human.
bro chill its just a gear
Why do people imply gears as means to run or hide from something in this video
@@notmix479lol
@@Rblxguy3394
Anyone can use anything as lore
@Rblxguy3394 I made it up to make the video scarier.
2:31 “there’s a disco ball that paralyzes you and forces you to dance against your will”
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that whole segment had to be a joke
shitpost ahh segment
@B4LP3T3K 😂😂😂
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The western map was always weirdly nostalgic to me even though I’ve never played on it. It gave of old Toy Story vides with how lonely the models looked.
That starter place changed every train game ever because the vehicleseat2 player made the locomotive
Theory: The suburban and western map are actually full of humans, it’s just that they hide when someone joins to scare them off
But studio?
@@GenericTH-camUsername4048They also hide
@@GenericTH-camUsername4048Maybe they also see the people when theyre in studio, if u use team create in studio u can see ur own friends when ur building with them, maybe they also hide when u open studio, and maybe they are scared because of the power u have.
@@mrnoob2514 studio is literally god simulator
@@GenericTH-camUsername4048 fr
I like when you make the most mundane and worthless thing into a horrific scenario that no one would've ever thought of
Liminal spaces are a primal fear that invokes fear into almost anyone
There’s this horror game called “Just the Suburbs” which uses the Suburban’s eerie atmosphere
I can’t find it
Suburban is mainly nostalgic to me because a Roblox game called Growing Up was made in that template that I played but I agree it is kinda creepy
Used to play that game a lot
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i remember that game
I remember playing that but when at 3am when I was like 5 I spend like 1000 dollars to buy robux and an item
My mom spanked me like 1982 times
I once played a suburban game and i entered a room and them a door randomly closed i got scared as hell and i imediately left
Year late, but that is scary as shiy
@@maxwellquipey1wiw
@@maxwellquipey1i think he was talking about growing up
@@r1nn8 Rlly? cuz i thought they were talking about the game
Its hinge ._.
Basically, there's this emotion called ''Kenopsia'', Or at least it is called in spanish.
It's the emotion you get while seeing places that there used to be a lot of people. But this time, there's nobody.
Like, if you go to a mall really at night and you see the stores empty with any human soul, it's not fear what you are feeling. It's Kenopsia.
maybe you get the same emotion while seing the suburban empty, a place that there used to be a lot of families, good memories and that things. but with nobody in there.
''Kenopsia''.
kenopsia...
pretty good name actually.
@@toastedprocastinator Yes it is, good for a horror movie or game.
@@Upham_FoxArg
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*writing noises.*
Liminal spaces
@@Bdcrock yep, they give kenopsia
Great now you planted this idea in my brain when ive never thought about it in my life.
lmao
who remember the city and the western are still in roblox studio before they got removed?
Me. I have a tutorial on how to get the western one.
They got removed?
@@Epiknes124 their still on the Templates account on roblox
in the western map there a bridge on the train tracks, and a water fall is with it, if you swim up it you will find a cave with a treasure chest, idk why but this scared me when i was young
I didn't even know about that, I'll have to check it out!
if we consider the suburban map your way, it could simply be explained as a test site for something like a nuclear bomb
you know what would be cool. You know them maps on gmod where they actually make them haunted like Gm_construct but something is off because they added a shadow figuire. one of those but with the roblox templates. i could attempt to make one
I’m glad someone’s also felt this way about the default starter places they gave you. I’ve always just found it so unnerving to play it alone. I felt a sense of dread despite no signs of danger being present.
This inspires me to make some creative work based on the default maps, I really like how you looked into these on and your theories on what happened!
The ones that creep me out the most are the capture the flag and team arena ones. I find it so eerie when competitive games are left to decay without anyone there, where it just goes against everything it was supposed to. I actually once had a place with the combat starter place and it actually got 10 people in one server, it was atleast cool, but now it seems blown out of the water by other competitive games and now just sits there, waiting to be played again
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Underrated comment
"yeah it's just a few extensions it stays relatively close to the normal thing"
The "extensions":
There's this Roblox game I used to play that featured the Suburban default map, except you had these items where you could destroy all the houses and such. Like mines, a hammer, propane tanks, guns, and I found it pretty entertaining. But as I kept playing it in my private server, it just felt off, eerie-like. It felt like something was watching me as I destroyed their territory, judging me. As I kept having that feeling, I started playing the game less and less until I stopped playing entirely. There was no sound, just the noises of me walking and the noises of destruction. I never have came back to that game since. Not only that, there's a creepy easter egg if you dig underneath the sandbox in one of the houses if I can remember correctly. It's not much of a horror game, but the map definitely made it seem like it was.
the creepy easter egg is uncle samsonite
Destruction Physics
I never actually noticed how post-apocalyptic roblox default maps are
This literally feels like one episode of the twilight zone like S1:E1 Where Is Everybody?
I feel like this is part satire and part serious
It's not satire lol but I see how it could look kind of humurous
Village is eerily creepy as well, a village that was once full of people is now just a dark, lonely place shrouded by an uncanny atmosphere left for the player to explore.
I walked around the map for about 10 minutes and at the end I got a big adrenaline rush and just left
Reminds me of that creepy feeling you get while playing garrys mod
Suburban is the creepiest Roblox starter place because there are so many corners. You never know who is watching you.
The items feel like they're left by someone. Or something. To warn you. To prepare you. Of dangers here to come.
But the danger never came..
Oh and also, the Speed Coil and the Gravity Coil are the scariest items there. I'm sure the disco ball was just a joke cutaway but the Speed Coil makes you feel alert. It was left there by someone to let you know that you have to run faster then any human to outrun something. The Gravity Coil lets you know that you need to stay in-air.
But it doesn't make sense. Theres a dropoff into a bottomless pit. As if it was mocking you..
The suburban Map is the (one of the)scariest. So many hidden rooms and where people should be living it is just empty and abandoned as they were fleeing from something.
At this point imagine if you would randomly wake up in a obby template. Like, there is no universe, there is no ground, there are no people. You just have to parkour.
Yeah haha sounds hillarious but some people already feel nervous when walking on a transparent material at a very unnusual height, now imagine there is nothign beneath you. Some of yall would experience mental breakdowns, hell nah some of yall would end it right there.
for a part 3 i think you should look at pirate island and village.
also why does starting place seem like the world collapsed or if there was a murder
but also in suburban there are pictures of people almost like a family lived there
i love to enter these templates the feeling of phantom nostalgia is crazy
the city starter place is also kinda eerie to, it's like the suburbs map where people use to live there but it feels like it is unfinished it seems like people used to drive there and then there a random building piece on the ground like if something or someone knocked it over, and the buildings interior is completely empty like if the owner of a company was moving to a new location meaning the whole place is just abandoned.
games that use real photos of mountains and stuff are creepier than most horror games
It would be cool if someone made the suburban starter place a horror game,with lots of lore and the items at the store are there to help you try to not get killed by entities.
Top 3 scariest roblox starter places:
1.suburban - This shows that people used to live there and its creepy that ur the only citizen left
2.The new starter place - even tho you got all the items. no one knows who abandoned these items, the invisible cape and the Acceleration coil coil and Gravity Coil, are the stuff that may have lore, maybe u can use these items to hide or run away from something.
3.Western - It may be an abandoned town with nothing but sand
Now that I think about It.The maps seem depressing and unnerving now. Thanks James!
The city feels strangely uncanny.
Empty rooms that were once filled of people, no signs of life, its just creepy.
It does gives me post apocalyptic vibes where everyone were evacuated and your the only person to survive
i cant play that first map for more than 1 min at a time because i get too excited and hop on my own destruction physics private server instead.
imagine you see a black figure chasing towards you in suburban
this is unironically how ppl extend they’re essays while describing things lmao
Sometimes I think my videos are actually too short
@@BackToBackJames still longer than 90% of my class’ essays
Suburban is like an abandoned town that was recently left behind and western is more like an older abandoned city that looks like it was left from how the western looks like in movies
Next cover the Flatgrass, Old city map, Castle, Pirate island, Happy home starter place, Village and the Old racing template
some templates were removed from studio, and they were helpful so im actually annoyed by it because i rlly want to make a good game but im bad at making from scratch in a baseplate so i needed those templates
I wish roblox never removed the western/wild west map in roblox studio
Me too
@@BackToBackJames well luckily i found somebody who has the western map template
TELL MEMEMEMEEEE@@173sawYT
Just type it o n search bar@@SplitSnow
@@SplitSnow their username is simply Templates
I just remember a game I used to play called Growing Up on roblox, and it used the suburban template. I remember playing that game often even tho it was very repetetive and it's interesting to hear someone describe the place I used to laugh at as something very creepy
the new template called the modern city is also kind of creepy it might be the same level if not more scary than these templates
the suburban was used in a game called "town" where you can use commands !s (gun name, you can also remove some letters as long as the system can detect what gun it is) or !sa for armor, and then you can attack people
I loved that game, used to play it so much
@@BackToBackJames same, but when I lost my computer I couldn't play cuz you can use any guns, or even drop them or do anything on mobile
Rest in peace city template it was replaced by some goofy thing
I was going to play it to see its potential for a new video on starter places and noticed it got taken down. R.I.P.
suburban and lots of other templates are creepy, because youre all alone in kinda big map
this video really makes this place template eerie
Just imagine walking around the place
And feel like something inside those bluiding watching you
Towns after Thanos snapped his fingers:
someone actually managed to make a game using the suburban template called "growing up"
its a very nostalgic game for me, i used to play it all the time
There's a disco ball that paralyzes you and forces you to dance against your will -backtobackjames
Roblox is another game capable to convey the unsettling creepy liminal vibe besides minecraft and garrys mod, playing these maps in first person is more creepy imo
this entire video is the spongebob roller coaster
I tried to find other videos that talked about creepynis of the map but all I found was review videos about the buildings and stuff
Ik I’m late asf but this was a great video! I watched the whole thing without thinking to click off. Good job James
Thanks!
Would love this template alongside with the starter place, western, castle and city template to be ported as a Gmod map, Garry’s Mod makes everything so much creepier especially that damn dark figure
I love how this man is making a starter place sound horrifying lol
@@unimpressedcat7251 It's my speciality
You could go in the houses, some feels eerie.
I've been using studio since 2015 and I've never personally found the template maps creepy, nor heard anyone share the same opinion until I found this video.
Lore for the suburban:
It was a happy town until people suddenly went missing, soon. 20 more people suddenly went missing, until the town wanted to leave the place. But an apocalypse suddenly happened, all the people were contagious. People got killed, infected, and there were no survivors. Those infected people suddenly went missing one by one. Until one of them saw a shadow figure luring 5 more people somewhere. Killing them. Soon, 5 of those people was missing. Until everyone started to go missing.
Wait til bro finds out you can look at older templates under the “templates” account
In my opinion I think Castle,City,Village and Pirate Island are way more creepier
Tbh, I feel like playing starter templates in Roblox is just psychological horror because you see the places, the emptiness, loneliness, just makes me feel anxious. Thats how I feel. I don’t rlly know how to explain it further
bro can make anything sound scary💀
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The suburban map deserves to be a backrooms level from how creepy it is
suburban lowkey feels like a gmod single player map
You should play Town it’s a shooter game but also physiological horror to because at night you can hear Wolf noises and more it is also based off the suburban map
I've played it! It's fun
Try playing destroy the ship in a priv server, it doesn’t really feel as creepy but it feels like there’s something that you don’t know about going on around you
I just thought what if ur roblox character is a time traveler because think of it there’s a Wild West starter map with a working train then the next map is the one where you have to collect items then the last place is the surburban
lets go all so the village map is all so kinda weird theres random npcs in random spots i think to which you did say takes them off the list
The place from the game ( grow up ) , this map is nostalgic and liminal.
This looks the same as destruction physics
It’s not that it’s the fact nobody is here that scared me, it’s just the fact that you are not the only one here.
This Is Where The Last Guest Movie Takes Place
But wait, every game in the front page is so popular, what if those people are fake?
someone should turn this into a book
The map templates are really basic which makes them uncanny.
But the urban house, when we separate it from the map it is on, is a perfect template.
It's very good if it's hard to make a good map for you but you can make a functioning game using the template.
guys can you reply to this comment with ideas for template horror games
(make sure you say if its starter suburban or western, if theres another map that could achieve horror status just says its name)
(not taking suggestions for Line Runner, Flat Terrain, the baseplates, FPS and maps like that)
im definitely making these a creepy pasta
i was so into this idea and then you just piss in the toilet 😭 1:14
roblox maps: i was born to have multiple players and ppl u take that away from me and im not the same...
theres a new template called modern city in roblox studio.
That template is AMAZING.
ah, my favorite.
had a lot of fun messing with it with my friends.
mfs be scared of anytthing now 😭
@@MantasKseminskij Fr 😂
Quite sad that roblox removed some cool templates from studio
like?
@@TRCumbox The Old FPS map, roblox could have kept that
@@alwannt thanks
@@TRCumbox np
you deserve more credit dude your videos are awesome you should make longer videos (if you want and can)👍
There is a game called "Suburban Police AI" which uses the Suburban Template & filled with Police AIs that will oof you from killing Civilians with firearms
very underrated channel
My most reason why people are gone is because the people are gone out of the area but there’s a problem they don’t have a plane the plane was not added I think it’s because the people are dead extinct and no life forms note to you I’m not a conspiracy theorist here but I’m a trying my best of evidence :)
Did you eat all of those symbols? . , ? ! - " ( )
Nonsense
Let's be real here. Imagine you are the resident of any building at night. Would you feel safe in a house without a door lock? Would you feel safe without any security? Would you be safe when nobody of other players are around?
I used the suburban and now its a game yep it has a storyline
If you want to make it feel less eerie in surburban, just join Growing Up. People actually live there and the community's quite friendly!
creepy thing.... western. got deleted?
My theory is that suburban could befake, and it could somewhat be a nuclear testing site
Suburban is made by the account Templates btw