"There's nothing scarier than an unfinished midwest basement." That is the gospel right there. Bonus spook if the stairs have that stupid gap to the underside between each step.
I was always scared of the basement just because of those stairs and the little back room. I didn't wanna look at those stairs and see someone under or just a flash of it. I didn't run, I was speed when it came to that basement.
I understand the concept, but I'll be honest, the basements I grew up with were fairly livable spaces with actual purpose beyond storage. Like the house I grew up in, the basement was where my parents had their accounting offices, and most of our computers and gaming systems (like Ataris) early on, so it was just another part of the house. Then again, we only had the basement, main level, and attic (this kind of house is known as a 'rancher', to my knowledge). The attic was probably the creepier place, but even then I know my siblings and I spent time up there, as well, with playsets and such having been leftover. Both grandparent houses had finished basements, as well, intended for somewhat regular use, especially with the pool tables both had (one of which had cover panels and a net to convert the table for ping-pong). I... guess I can only comprehend this particular fear from cultural context. My fears have purely been about being alone and in the dark, not any particular parts of houses. I will note less-frequented areas have still elicited some trepidation in the past, such as my father's workshop in a disused corner of the basement, or the aforementioned attic... but I suspect that's ultimately because those places tend to be cloaked in darkness and rarely visited by the family, coming back to the being alone and in the dark points.
Nah that space under the stairs was where my brother and I would go to just vibe. We would take turns on our mom’s iPad and eat cookies that were meant for a party. It was also the ultimate hiding spot during games because you could crawl under an old dog bed we had there. We sometimes still do, honestly.
I worked a job at a small convenience store, and that’s exactly what the basement was like, and we used it as a storage room. I would dread having to grab cups from day-to-day.
Question... the game, or the movie? If it's the movie, Anatomy would probably win. If it's the game... well, now, that would be a different story, wouldn't it?
I have an unfinished basement with a small door in the wall that leads to a crawl space that sits under my porch. It’s full with destroyed/disassembled old furniture, I’m too scared to inspect it further. Why are midwestern basements so sketchy?!?!?!😅
this game is actually very clever because rather than making you afraid of fictional monsters, it's making you afraid of your own home, the one place you feel safe and that nothing can hurt you
With monsters, I can trick myself into believing a certain action or item will protect me, but a house? It's a house, how can I protect myself from inside the thing that wants to harm me?
I recognize the recording at 19:08! It's from one of the very first talking baby dolls made by Edison! Its supposed to be a woman singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star or saying a bedtime prayer, but the recording became so damaged over the years and recordings were so new in that time that the voice actress had to literally scream the song into a gramophone in order to be heard! Between that and the years and years of wear on the recording, it distorted into that awful demonic screaming sound. I think folks managed to restore the original recording and it can be heard somewhere online. That's really cool that they used such an obscure recording!
That _is_ really cool! I looked it up and found all the recordings for the doll on the Wikipedia page. Someone who was alive 200 years ago screaming "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." with extra audio distortion in this context is very spooky. Props to whoever made the game! edit: This was also the bedtime prayer my mother used to say when tucking me in, so maybe that's why this is spooky to me? Ahah.
I actually feel apprehensive when I am exploring a cave in Minecraft while in Peaceful mode. This is why. Also lends to Minecraft being one of the scariest games.
Except perhaps being trapped in an isolated "Chalet" in Northern Canada in the middle of a blizzard.... At night. And then you hear something scrapping the wooden front door....
Watching this playthrough after watching Jacob Geller’s video essay on haunted houses, really puts the game into perspective. After all, the house isn’t the villain, we are. We were the ones who abandoned it and now, we are the ones haunting it.
same. it's amazing - this game is horrifying, but i didn't at all feel any sort of aggression towards the house. i felt bad for it, and the terror turned that into desperate guilt. you know you did wrong, and all you can do is yell "I'M SORRY" and hope it forgives you, even though it's clear it's just getting angrier (i never knew how furious a glitch could sound, with the house yelling that it was _sentient_ and that houses should be given _sympathy sympathy sympathy)_ you're helpless inside this house, and yet you keep coming back, hoping for some kind of resolution, that something will be better. man i'm so glad geller sent me here lol
Well. Based on the other half of the speech at the end, the house set itself up as a trap, so I wouldn’t go saying it’s wholly blameless. Not sure if we should figure we’re _the_ example it gave of someone it struck down, but sure, that’s definitely a way to parse it.
Red Skies dude my grandparents own a ranch in Arizona and holy crap that basement was the most horrifying thing any of us (meaning anyone in my entire family) had ever been in.
The feeling of being alone in a house at night, all the lights off, everyone asleep. The feeling of being unsafe in your own house. The need to run up the stairs because something might be behind you. The way you can navigate a familiar house even in the dark, just like eventually you can navigate the house in the game....until things start to move and change.
I live in a fairly big house with lots of open planning, but it's old as hell and it often makes noise. I'm an insomniac, so I'm up most of the night, and while I know the house I always have this distinct terror when going up the huge stairs at night. The downstairs bathroom is right below it and there's a closet under the stairs themselves. I get so nervous entering that room, day or night. The house is so bright during the day when it's full of people... but at night when it's just me and my thoughts.. it feels *alive*.
@@-chippedstars-2889 i feel you, my house is kinda old too and the floor creaking at night out of nowhere and little noises makes me panic and imagine scary shit, as if i didn't have enough trouble with sleeping
If I’d ever make a horror game, it would be outside. Or maybe not. The atmosphere of outside, yes, the feeling of being watched constantly, and oh, so dark
@@-chippedstars-2889 I remember my old house there was this long hallway with three rooms and when it was dark you could literally see glooming eyes staring out of each room
As an Anatomy student who’s actually using analogies to a house to help me study, I feel like these observations that we personify houses are scarily accurate, especially the idea of the living room representing the heart. Recently, my sister had a medical emergency and my parents spent the weekend at the hospital with her. I stayed at home to take care of the dogs and keep things in good order, but it was surprisingly cold and lonely. I’ve been home alone before for days on end, but our living room was taped off for renovations, and it was surprisingly difficult to go about “business as usual” when both elements of the “heart” of our home (the physical living room and the people inside) were missing. Anyway. Just food for thought. It’s not as much of a reach as it looks on the surface.
Lots of Asian culture involves respecting houses and other inanimate objects as something that are tied to humans and can end up growing a "soul" if enough time passes. There are stories of inanimate things turning into monsters if neglected, too. It's not such a farfetched idea if you really think about it, either. As you said, a lot of houses or things we spend a lot of time with tend to feel personified, even if we don't do it consciously.
Hey mark! Just to let you know that there is more than 1 ending. Actually there is 4 endings and you got the "stomach" ending. I wouldnt say this is the bad ending because all of the endings are bad. Also im pretty sure it was because you broke the plates 😂 if you dont touch the plates or that vhs player with the girl talking weird in the bedroom then you may get a different ending. Like so mark can see!
That's not entirely true. In all the endings, you are eaten by the house. The only difference between the four endings is that the surreal, hellish sequence right after the house bites down is different. Breaking the plates or playing the tape in the bedroom doesn't affect the endings. The speech given by the woman in the final tape recorder is the same every time. It's not worth it for Mark to play it again just for that.
This isn’t quite true, as ANATOMY only really has one ending, it’s just that to get to it you’ll need to complete and restart the game a total of four times. Each return sees the tape having degraded further as it more fully realizes the terror that its visual error serves. You dig ever deeper into the chew of the tape.
I think my favorite part of this game is the part where it hypes up how scary the basement is, specifically says that no one wants to go there unless they have, and then tells you to go there. That's a dick move game. And then the next tape starts like 'Lol. That's silly, basements are harmless.' And then, the basement eats you. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
When you're home alone at night in a secluded area. I live in the woods and hear deer and owls, but they still freak me out when they randomly yell at night. When I'm in my kitchen and have my back turned, I get this overwhelming presence, like somethings behind me. I don't cook unless I'm with someone at night.
@@Hardyb0y51 there IS the option of "Add subtitles/CC" under the gear icon, but i think it needs to be reviewed in order for it to be put it, plus it can take hours, just like editing a video
I am Brazilian and I can understand English, but I was having some difficult with this video, so I tried the caption... Static: Auto-generated captions: *[APPLAUSE]*
somewhere around minute 28 I just wanna throw out a seizure warning for everyone, my eyes are a little sensitive to flashing and I think the table flashing might trigger something so be warned
As someone who's experienced homelessness, there's kind of an all new layer of horror to this for me... If having a home (or shelter) is already not a given, and is something already actively worried about, the safety and comfort and sense of identity when you do have one goes way up. So this is... This is really horrifying to me.
"Why is this so creepy? Nothings even happened yet!" It's the silence, the silence and the lack of things there to scare you (the player) is what makes it the most creepy part of all in this game.
Jacob Geller compares the unsettling feeling to that of when you were a child and had to turn off the lights because everyone else is asleep. The normally inviting house suddenly became a place you didn’t feel safe in.
A transcription of the end recording: What happens to a house when it is left alone? When it becomes worn and aged? When its paint peels, and its foundations begin to sink? When it goes for too long unlived in? What does it think of? Does it dream? How does it regard those creatures who built it? Brought it into existence only to abandon it when its usefulness no longer satisfies them? It may grow lonesome. It may stare for long hours into the darkness of its own empty halls and see shadows, and its heart may jump as it thinks “here, here is someone again, I’m not alone.” And each time it is wrong, and the hurt starts over. It may haunt itself- inventing ghosts to walk its floors, making friends with its shadow puppets, laughing and whispering to itself at the end of some quiet cul de sac. It may grow angry. Its basement may fill with acid like a churning stomach, and its gorge may rise as it asks itself through clenched teeth, *”what did I do wrong?”* It may grow bitter. It may grow hungry. So hungry and so bitter that it’s scruples dissolve and its doors unlock themselves. While a house may hunger, it cannot starve. And so in fever and anger and loneliness, it may simply lie in wait. Doors open. Shades drawn. Always empty. Hungry. [end transcription] The thought of houses as massive, living creatures is honestly terrifying. As if abandoned buildings or dark hallways weren’t unsettling enough....
This speech implies that the guy you were playing as never really existed. It was just a imagined "shadow" the house haunted itself with so it wouldn't feel so alone.
I love how that was every child's mentality with 'the basement' was if you had to go upstairs especially after turning the lights off. You full on sprint up those stairs as fast as you physically can, hated any houses that had those gaps in the stairs where you feared something grabbing the front of your leg. Dogs were always a blessing since anytime you'd go to your puppo when you're a kid you know you're safe with the puppo beside you. XD
Me: *about to go to sleep* Tape Recorder: In this state of extreme vulnerability we spend 20% of our lives. Anything might stand beside us, watch us.... Me: *sips a soda, prepares to stay up awhile*
@@KarpetBurn Because, depending on the commentary of the person playing it, it could be relaxing. Also, everyone has a “horror/scare threshold,” so you might think you won’t get scared by the game you’re watching, only to be proven horribly wrong. Also, people are irrational
@@KarpetBurn I’m an insomniac, and nothing really scares me or gets a real reaction out of me, largely because I’m exhausted. Horror games are fun to watch before bed because, depending on the game, I can at least get interested in what’s happening, like the storytelling. I’ve always been a fan of morbid media, so it’s not disturbing at all to me. They don’t even affect my nightly nightmares lol
Yeah I originally subscribed a long time ago because he only made let’s plays. Stopped watching for a while because he started doing different things. I became a fan because of the games and his commentary
Kibbles N bits but don’t forget it is HIS channel. he can do what he wants. i can’t tell you what you should’ve watched when he expanded out and started doing things he genuinely enjoyed but he was happy and all. besides- not all content creators are able to stick to the same thing for so long because others loose interest. this might not apply to you but the algorithm doesn’t quite work that way. that and people change over a time span. mark can’t stay stuck in 2011, as shown many times, youtubers who can’t change with the way TH-cam and it’s audience is, tend to get left behind in the dust and forgotten. but I must agree, it is nice to see him go back to commentating over scary games. he has a natural light that makes the playthrough fun to watch.
fun fact: the reason quiet nothingness can be so unnerving is actually an instinctual thing we have from ye old caveman times. a very common aspect in the wild is for smaller animals to go quiet when they sense a large animal/predator or when they recognize a location as a risky/dangerous place. This also relates to the most common fear of the unknown or unexpected. This is the same reason why Babies go quiet when they see a cradle mobile start to turn in circles. it mimics the natural counterpart which is when Predatory birds circle their prey in the air. so if you ever find yourself in a usually busy part of the wild, but there seems to be a lacking of noise and woodland creatures, there is an incredibly high chance that there is danger in the area.
Same here. Poured cement for part of it, then just a path cut into the dirt under the house where the furnace and water heater are. Poorly lit, lots of spiders. Earthy and claustrophobic.
as someone who has been in unfinished midwestern basements.... I also agree.... a lot of it comes from an irrational fear or feeling of being watched, which comes from poor lighting, exposed wiring and pipes hanging from the ceiling and the fact that most of them are used for storage... meaning lots of odd shadows in dark corners caused by the poor lighting. plus every horror movie ever that involves basements
"There is nothing scarier than an unfinished Midwest basement" As a Missourian who lived with an unfinished basement for a year, everything about that statement and running up the stairs is absolutely true. Unfinished Midwest basements are terrifying.
I live in Ontario and the worst things about my unfinished basement are the spiders and house centipedes. Is there something especially awful in Midwest basements?
don't worry yall, as the second last tape said: 'if the house is both hungry and awake, every room becomes a mouth', so it doesn't matter where do you sleep, be it in the basement, the bedroom, kitchen etc.
This game is great. It shows how much can be done in terms of horror with little graphics and lighting, but pure atmosphere. It plays with our expectations as gamers for something to happen, but nothing happens, which makes us dread the actual possible encounter even more. It makes us think: am I already being watched or chased without knowing it? It plays with our fear of the unknown and then it steers into psychological horror and shows us, that the danger has been here all along - the house. But we took it as an ally. This game is something different in a very good way.
"There's nothin' scarier than a midwest, unfinished basement." Why is this statement surprisingly & resoundingly correct?? Like...when you're heading upstairs from the cold, cement, spider-web-dusted basement of a midwestern home, your whole body is filled with the deepest primal fear one can experience, unlike any other emotion known to man.
I wonder if it’s because basements are typically underground and such. Caves scare the shit out of me for the same reason. Being in the earth = dead buried. No thank you.
Everyone in the comment section seems to hate basements/underground spaces? Idk if im just weird or whatever, but I live for being in tight spaces. I feel secure, like nothing can get me.
Once the power went out in my house and I had to go into my big, dark basement while it was nighttime to turn it back on. I’ve never ran so fast in my life
The narration of the tapes is what really sells the horror for me. The dread of wondering what the next tape might have in store for you when you find it is unsettling.
When I was a kid, we used to go "homesteading" meaning we used to go out to the prairie and look for homesteads that were long abandoned in the middle of absolutely nowhere, miles from anything. Some of the homes felt just empty, others kind of sad, but there were a few that felt like this. Like you were being watched or something was lurking, or just a constant sense of dread.
Highly suggest anyone who enjoyed this game to watch "Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted House" by Jacob Geller bc its a banger of a video. Also, I'd love to see Mark play Control bc it seems like an interesting game but I dont have any access to it myself.
and if you like that kind of horror I can only recommend giving the "I am in eskew" podcast a listen cause it deals with a similar kind of architectural horror
This feels like walking through a dying mind, a deteriorating consciousness and world of memories. It's all familiar, but different. Dark. Things start to behave weird. Rules cease to exist. You're alone, hearing and seeing things that become more and more strange and impossible to understand. You start doing the same things over and over again to cling on to some sense of familiarity, but it's no use. Piece by piece, that familiarity is taken away. You're afraid. Not knowing your own world and what's inside it anymore. You grow strange to that world as it starts making less and less sense. But you are caught within it, will never wake up from this. It is your terminal stop and there's no way back. Your final destination. The worst kind of horror to me. The horror you can't run from. Facing the end of your own mind and watching it fall apart...helplessly. All you can do...is wait for the end. I really love this game.
Mark: “I want to know the anatomy of the house-“ Me, having watched Monster House several times as a kid and an adult: “NoW tHiS lOoKs LiKe A jOb FoR mE-“
09:56 “It is a place full of cobwebs, where memories are stored” Me: so where unwanted memories/thoughts we push to the back of our minds are? Makes sense, I guess Mark: *penis* Me: never mind, that’s a better answer
Kid vs basement be like- Achievements Unlocked: • Sprint up basement stairs • Avoid monsters in basement • Convince sibling to accompany you • Develop whiplash from constant paranoia
when Mark says "I hate it. I hate it, and I hate you." then turns to the camera "Not you, I love you." *cue hearts melting amidst the middle of a horror game* edit: for person who asked for a timestamp, 11:15
The bedroom tape says “Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the lord my soul to keep and If I should die before I wake I pray the lord my soul to take Amen”. 19:06 through 19:23
Hahaha, dude no joke, it was like midnight and I was on my phone watching one of Mark's scary games video and it went black. I saw a huge eye on the screen and almost threw my phone across the room. It was my eye.
_hsirePnehT Animations_ Have you ever looked out your window at night and mistaken your own reflection for someone else? I sure did during a Dungeons and Dragons Session, in my Dungeon Master Hooded Robe (Camo Bathrobe w/ built-in hood).
9:24 That's called 'terror' Horror is something frightening suddenly happening causing fear very simply. Terror is usually described as the feeling of dread and anticipation that precedes the horrifying experience. Even when nothing is happening
when I was 7, there was nothing scarier than having to leave a room at night and then turn off the light. Especially when the light switch was across the room, not next to the door. So when I turned off the light I *bolted* outta so fast the darkness monster didn’t even have a chance. *and then I proceeded to race up the stairs like a 7 year old would do*
I'd argue and say that unfinished basement with a massive hole in a wall to look into the inner Earth can easily be a fear for everyone who has seen it! I lived in a house like that! It was so creepy down there and I never understood why they couldn't finish the wall and fill up that hole! And I asked my mom about it, why it wasn't finished, and she said that it was probably so there could be access to plumbing and whatnot that's pass the hole. I don't know why any sane person would want to enter it at all! It was so creepy, a black void with crumpling rock or earth pillars randomly in sight cause of the light in the basement. For the sake of peoples' sanity, if a hole is needed to access some plumbing and whatever of the building, then they could at least made it a doorway! So it wasn't so creepy! Or better yet have a door and frame installed rather than a concrete hole in one of the walls.
"I've played scary games that have had a story, but I've never played a game where nothing happens but the story itself is just terrifying." ...very apt. .....very apt.
actually in Anatomy alot is happening, it's just hard to I guess notice initially. Like every time you reboot the game the house's just changing and gets worse and sometimes, after playing some tapes too.
flaminshotgun without headphones i was bored but with them, i train to entrance myself with who im watching. I dont get scared but my body tingles from just not knowing whats going to happen like mark
**JUMPSCARE LIST** NOTE: As usual, the timestamps are a few seconds before the scare so you can prepare yourself. Also, please watch the entire thing to be fully immersed as there isn't a lot of jumpscares. 18:59 (very small) 26:16 (medium/big?) 32:15 (medium/big) Like this comment for more people to see it!
For some reason I was just filled with dread the whole time I was watching this. Massively uncomfortable but I think that's what made it a good experience. Really interesting.
kitty horrorshow's (creator of this game and some others) whole horror style is more of a making you dread the experience and be constantly tense than jumpscare you into shitting your pants. i find it pretty neat, so if you want more of this check out more of her (i think they're a girl) stuff
Mark: "Everyone knows you leave the basement as fast as possible so nothing gets the chance; that's when you learn to sprint up stairs. Me: *laughs in Floridian
The first time I watched this video was roughly ten days after we moved out of the home my family lived in for almost thirty years, and something about the house's monologue towards the end of this just made me so sad.
"It is here, in the bedroom, where we are most vulnerable. When we sleep there we trust in the house to keep us safe." Well sounds like I'll sleep in the living room then.
mark: "evryone knows that you leave the basement as fast as possible so nothing gets the chance, that's when you lean how to sprint!" I'm 7 and this is so deep
Minor spoilers ahead, but... This game feels so intelligently made. There's something about how the writing implies things, making you assume that the tapes are written by a person obsessed with analogies, and houses. The way that the "person" just states their observations makes you believe they're obsessed, since their thoughts that seem subjective analogies are not open to discussion, and you build this idea of this person. You believe that when the tapes talk briefly about people and houses being connected, that it's a person that's just obsessed with houses to the point of cherishing and personifying them. But upon looking back, the twist fits in so smoothly - this wasn't a person obsessed with this house analogy, it's a living house stating facts about its existence. The foreshadowing and everything is done so well, and a second viewing of this video just provides an entirely new and entirely valuable perspective, and I think that is one of the best things a twist can do.
from what i’ve seen so far, i’m fairly certain this game represents insanity from loneliness combined with free time, when the house shifts to nightmare mode is during a psychotic break. correct me if wrong
Other Horror Games: "There's a demon inside your house",
Anatomy: "Are you sure your house is not THE demon?"
Me: Binch I AM the demon house.
big brain
who killed markiplier in a nutshell
There’s a demon in my house but the demon is the house so it’s inception
Me, who watched Monster House: *The Expert*
"There's nothing scarier than an unfinished midwest basement." That is the gospel right there. Bonus spook if the stairs have that stupid gap to the underside between each step.
eXCUSE ME. You just described my basement-
I was always scared of the basement just because of those stairs and the little back room. I didn't wanna look at those stairs and see someone under or just a flash of it. I didn't run, I was speed when it came to that basement.
I understand the concept, but I'll be honest, the basements I grew up with were fairly livable spaces with actual purpose beyond storage. Like the house I grew up in, the basement was where my parents had their accounting offices, and most of our computers and gaming systems (like Ataris) early on, so it was just another part of the house. Then again, we only had the basement, main level, and attic (this kind of house is known as a 'rancher', to my knowledge). The attic was probably the creepier place, but even then I know my siblings and I spent time up there, as well, with playsets and such having been leftover. Both grandparent houses had finished basements, as well, intended for somewhat regular use, especially with the pool tables both had (one of which had cover panels and a net to convert the table for ping-pong).
I... guess I can only comprehend this particular fear from cultural context. My fears have purely been about being alone and in the dark, not any particular parts of houses. I will note less-frequented areas have still elicited some trepidation in the past, such as my father's workshop in a disused corner of the basement, or the aforementioned attic... but I suspect that's ultimately because those places tend to be cloaked in darkness and rarely visited by the family, coming back to the being alone and in the dark points.
Nah that space under the stairs was where my brother and I would go to just vibe. We would take turns on our mom’s iPad and eat cookies that were meant for a party. It was also the ultimate hiding spot during games because you could crawl under an old dog bed we had there. We sometimes still do, honestly.
I worked a job at a small convenience store, and that’s exactly what the basement was like, and we used it as a storage room. I would dread having to grab cups from day-to-day.
Mark: "I WASN'T TRYING TO UPSET YOU!"
Also Mark: *Broke every plate in the house he saw for funzies.*
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I would like this but it’s at 666 and I just can’t bring myself to do it
Turned into a cat for a second there
@@tabby-chan9407 very edgy sir. Her, take the edgy teen award: 💀
@@blueprint66 ok blueprint
Monster House: "Who are you?"
Anatomy: "I'm you but stronger."
Haha, agree
Yep
Very clever. Good job! Lol. :)
hOW DID I NOT THINK ABOUT THAT. I LOVE MONSTER HOUSE.
Question... the game, or the movie?
If it's the movie, Anatomy would probably win.
If it's the game... well, now, that would be a different story, wouldn't it?
“There’s nothing scarier than a Midwest unfinished basement” ..
That hit different.
johnny ember kinda cringe not gonna lie...
Me, a midwesterner: Well... he’s not wrong
Frictrixiedust :P can confirm, am a Missourian with an unfinished basement
A Michigander with an unfinished basement: there is a dark storage area under the basement stairs and I’m very afraid of it
I’m an Iowan with an unfinished basement, can confirm
"There is nothing scarier than a Midwest unfinished basement"
As a born and raised Midwestern woman who hates basements, this is 100% true
Marta Czarnick when he said ‘you learn to sprint up the stairs’ YEP
I have an unfinished basement with a small door in the wall that leads to a crawl space that sits under my porch. It’s full with destroyed/disassembled old furniture, I’m too scared to inspect it further. Why are midwestern basements so sketchy?!?!?!😅
This is so true
As a born and raised Midwestern man giant I 100% agree
Is it sad that I live in a basement??
"That's its uvula ."
"Ah so it's a girl house."
No that's it's the gag reflex
"Oh I don't have one "
THIS SHOULD BE TOP COMMENT
pretty sure that's a monster house reference
Whoo took my uuuvula?!
Good reference @ Ian Vanderburgt
this game is actually very clever because rather than making you afraid of fictional monsters, it's making you afraid of your own home, the one place you feel safe and that nothing can hurt you
2 deep 4 me
I can confirm that this horror game did in fact make me scared of my own home at night, especially during bedtime.
I was apretar scared of my own house tbh 😭
With monsters, I can trick myself into believing a certain action or item will protect me, but a house? It's a house, how can I protect myself from inside the thing that wants to harm me?
@@chaosbean6320 Explosives my dude, and fire too, the top two most lethal home wreckers in existence since BC, lmao.
"Anatomy: A horror game"
As somebody who likes to draw, i can confirm, it is very scary.
Yes indeed
LMAO YES
exactlyyyyyy
*S w e a t i n g*
Yup 😔😔
Mark: “nooooo not the downstairs bathroom”
An ad out of nowhere: “ARE YOU STRUGGLING TO KEEP YOUR TOILET CLEAN”
"Use the power of Satan to sacrifice that scum right off of your shitter!"
"It's so clean, you could say it's 'clean as hell!' Haha!"
I got an oculus quest ad there
the house watches. and it hates.
Skip all the way to the end of the video and replay it and all the ads will disappear
I recognize the recording at 19:08! It's from one of the very first talking baby dolls made by Edison! Its supposed to be a woman singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star or saying a bedtime prayer, but the recording became so damaged over the years and recordings were so new in that time that the voice actress had to literally scream the song into a gramophone in order to be heard! Between that and the years and years of wear on the recording, it distorted into that awful demonic screaming sound. I think folks managed to restore the original recording and it can be heard somewhere online. That's really cool that they used such an obscure recording!
How interesting 😯
That _is_ really cool! I looked it up and found all the recordings for the doll on the Wikipedia page. Someone who was alive 200 years ago screaming "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." with extra audio distortion in this context is very spooky. Props to whoever made the game!
edit: This was also the bedtime prayer my mother used to say when tucking me in, so maybe that's why this is spooky to me? Ahah.
@@pigeonite god why would anyone say that to a child or anyone? That's horrifying!
@@jw5386 Ikr
@@jw5386 it probably didn’t sound like this
"Why am I scared if nothing is happening?"
That is the true face of darkness and desolation. You don't need anything to happen to feel scared.
stop putting my nightmares into words
I actually feel apprehensive when I am exploring a cave in Minecraft while in Peaceful mode. This is why. Also lends to Minecraft being one of the scariest games.
i made this comment have 666 likes 🙊
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." -H.P. Lovecraft
So basically we are expecting something to happen but it isn’t so it’s just becoming a long build up just for nothingness to happen
mark: “is that really it??”
me, seeing that there’s 40 minutes left: “i’m gonna have to go with no”
Tates Animates mm it’s a no from me
I would like it but it's at 420
Animates
Literally what I did 😂
1000th like
“I don’t want to go into the bedroom-“ *Trojan man ad plays*
Why's your comment so damn underappreciated?😂😂😂
Edit: Now there goes the explosions.
Hi user, Markiplier commented on my newest video. WHAT
Lol me too
Mine was a bed bath and beyond ad, feel like I was cheated
T H I N
"There's nothing scarier than a Midwest unfinished basement!"
I don't know why I'm always surpised by the accuracy of his random statements..
Never thought about hat much, but yeah, that’s true
@@kingzombikiller32 what!? i think about *HATS* all the time if u get what I mean
Except perhaps being trapped in an isolated "Chalet" in Northern Canada in the middle of a blizzard.... At night.
And then you hear something scrapping the wooden front door....
Me to
Its good
Watching this playthrough after watching Jacob Geller’s video essay on haunted houses, really puts the game into perspective. After all, the house isn’t the villain, we are. We were the ones who abandoned it and now, we are the ones haunting it.
same. it's amazing - this game is horrifying, but i didn't at all feel any sort of aggression towards the house. i felt bad for it, and the terror turned that into desperate guilt. you know you did wrong, and all you can do is yell "I'M SORRY" and hope it forgives you, even though it's clear it's just getting angrier (i never knew how furious a glitch could sound, with the house yelling that it was _sentient_ and that houses should be given _sympathy sympathy sympathy)_
you're helpless inside this house, and yet you keep coming back, hoping for some kind of resolution, that something will be better. man i'm so glad geller sent me here lol
Well. Based on the other half of the speech at the end, the house set itself up as a trap, so I wouldn’t go saying it’s wholly blameless.
Not sure if we should figure we’re _the_ example it gave of someone it struck down, but sure, that’s definitely a way to parse it.
YEESSSS I just came from that video and I love it so dang much!
Game: *explains how certain parts of the house are certain organs
Me: “so Monster House?”
ChildishCayde that’s what i was thinkin too
I see that you are a man of culture as well
ChildishCayde lmao 😂
Aha ᎨᏁᎿᎬᏝᏝᎨᎶᎬᏁᏨᎬ
Right when he said "the appendages and organs of a house" I was like watch him talk like the bitch from monster house
"Theres nothing scarier than a midwestern unfinished basement "
Childhood me aggressively agrees
Nope
Your scared of a basement
Red Skies dude my grandparents own a ranch in Arizona and holy crap that basement was the most horrifying thing any of us (meaning anyone in my entire family) had ever been in.
@@Goatcereal420 omg! 😆 I was just a kid but I used to believe my old basement was haunted and I sprinted back up the stairs everytime. 😂
Bro I’m living it right now
"tell me what's the liver of the house?"
The the laundry room
I wonder if the house can get drunk if you pour liquor into a washing machine or dryer
the liquor cabinet
Also very Leakey
The the
@@alyssamoody6812 I didn't even see that!
The feeling of being alone in a house at night, all the lights off, everyone asleep. The feeling of being unsafe in your own house. The need to run up the stairs because something might be behind you. The way you can navigate a familiar house even in the dark, just like eventually you can navigate the house in the game....until things start to move and change.
I live in a fairly big house with lots of open planning, but it's old as hell and it often makes noise. I'm an insomniac, so I'm up most of the night, and while I know the house I always have this distinct terror when going up the huge stairs at night. The downstairs bathroom is right below it and there's a closet under the stairs themselves. I get so nervous entering that room, day or night. The house is so bright during the day when it's full of people... but at night when it's just me and my thoughts.. it feels *alive*.
@@-chippedstars-2889 i feel you, my house is kinda old too and the floor creaking at night out of nowhere and little noises makes me panic and imagine scary shit, as if i didn't have enough trouble with sleeping
If I’d ever make a horror game, it would be outside. Or maybe not. The atmosphere of outside, yes, the feeling of being watched constantly, and oh, so dark
@@-chippedstars-2889 I remember my old house
there was this long hallway with three rooms and when it was dark you could literally see glooming eyes staring out of each room
Just like the madness of a human mind. It's genius.
As an Anatomy student who’s actually using analogies to a house to help me study, I feel like these observations that we personify houses are scarily accurate, especially the idea of the living room representing the heart.
Recently, my sister had a medical emergency and my parents spent the weekend at the hospital with her. I stayed at home to take care of the dogs and keep things in good order, but it was surprisingly cold and lonely. I’ve been home alone before for days on end, but our living room was taped off for renovations, and it was surprisingly difficult to go about “business as usual” when both elements of the “heart” of our home (the physical living room and the people inside) were missing.
Anyway. Just food for thought. It’s not as much of a reach as it looks on the surface.
Lots of Asian culture involves respecting houses and other inanimate objects as something that are tied to humans and can end up growing a "soul" if enough time passes. There are stories of inanimate things turning into monsters if neglected, too. It's not such a farfetched idea if you really think about it, either. As you said, a lot of houses or things we spend a lot of time with tend to feel personified, even if we don't do it consciously.
that makes sense
I even agreed with what their talking about even though its fake it still has meaning
Never found an anatomy textbook relating houses to the human body
@@SUBZER0GREEN i dont think most people thought about it
mark: *looks away from tape player
Tape player: so anyway, I started blasting.
When I read this it happened
This just happened as I read it, I was just a few seconds late and I paid the price
@Alina Rin *i aint gay*
22:22
Alina Rin BEGONE BOT
Hey mark! Just to let you know that there is more than 1 ending. Actually there is 4 endings and you got the "stomach" ending. I wouldnt say this is the bad ending because all of the endings are bad. Also im pretty sure it was because you broke the plates 😂 if you dont touch the plates or that vhs player with the girl talking weird in the bedroom then you may get a different ending. Like so mark can see!
That's not entirely true. In all the endings, you are eaten by the house. The only difference between the four endings is that the surreal, hellish sequence right after the house bites down is different. Breaking the plates or playing the tape in the bedroom doesn't affect the endings. The speech given by the woman in the final tape recorder is the same every time. It's not worth it for Mark to play it again just for that.
maybe it was triggered by the bedroom recording tape (green bed) too?
This isn’t quite true, as ANATOMY only really has one ending, it’s just that to get to it you’ll need to complete and restart the game a total of four times. Each return sees the tape having degraded further as it more fully realizes the terror that its visual error serves. You dig ever deeper into the chew of the tape.
@@cloneboy42 Wait, the narrator monologuing is a woman?
The house vored him
I think my favorite part of this game is the part where it hypes up how scary the basement is, specifically says that no one wants to go there unless they have, and then tells you to go there. That's a dick move game. And then the next tape starts like 'Lol. That's silly, basements are harmless.' And then, the basement eats you.
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Game: “It’s literally your elbow.”
Mark: *pEnIs*
Weenis.
Alina Rin no
pєєk-α-вσσ that’s make alright
Ya make didn’t mean mark auto correct
Game: you sleep in ur bedro-
Markiplier: *p e n I s*
Markiplier: *compares the basement to a penis*
Also Mark: “Ohh, it’s big!”
This game gives you the exact feeling of when your home alone and hear a sound so you just turn stiff with fear
Literally exactly what I was thinking
When you're home alone at night in a secluded area. I live in the woods and hear deer and owls, but they still freak me out when they randomly yell at night.
When I'm in my kitchen and have my back turned, I get this overwhelming presence, like somethings behind me. I don't cook unless I'm with someone at night.
@@supersentaipepsi3736 yikerero
Mark: *explaining the game with smart words*
Also mark a few seconds later: it’s so dork
yesss
lolll
Yes its very dork
b
@@cheefqueef6494 big bad baddies in the baddie for couscous
@@cheefqueef6494 premise puts
notice how, the windows only appear in the second playthrough ... implying that the house is "waking up" and watching you
oh god
Me: *turns on caption at **25:25** cause i can’t understand the tape*
Auto-generated Captions: *”Applause”*
I literally did the same thing😅
Wish youtube didn't remove the option for fan-submitted captions :/
Ik it was because of people abusing it but still it was sooo useful
@@Hardyb0y51 there IS the option of "Add subtitles/CC" under the gear icon, but i think it needs to be reviewed in order for it to be put it, plus it can take hours, just like editing a video
I am Brazilian and I can understand English, but I was having some difficult with this video, so I tried the caption...
Static:
Auto-generated captions: *[APPLAUSE]*
Seems legit
somewhere around minute 28 I just wanna throw out a seizure warning for everyone, my eyes are a little sensitive to flashing and I think the table flashing might trigger something so be warned
BOOST
Thank you!
I have epilepsy so thanks for the warning. Didn’t seem too bad for me though
Thank you! I'm extremely sensitive to flashing, so I really appreciate that
I don't have epilepsy, and nothing is wrong with me but thank you for the warning! ❤️
Nobody:
Every horror game ever:
"Good thing I've locked all the doors inside my own house."
I chuckled sensibly
I actually do this tho
I can't like this comment, the world will end as we know it
Edit: Nevermind, now I can
Ok Just.Gold.Fucking Gold
Dakota Kane wait why? lol
As someone who's experienced homelessness, there's kind of an all new layer of horror to this for me... If having a home (or shelter) is already not a given, and is something already actively worried about, the safety and comfort and sense of identity when you do have one goes way up. So this is... This is really horrifying to me.
Nice (or not) to know there people who are formally homeless like me.
You doin good now?
@@switchr_ For the most part. Thank you for the concern!
@@littlekitsune1 no problem, always good to see how someones doing
❤
Tape : *playing demonic-weird noise*
Subtitles : *Applause*
Me : ...okay?
creepy
It won't able to make a different words for the horror games, but that word is only way to do this.
I think the subtitles were refering to Marks "Yea, yea, penis"
My bad, will fix it
Tape: "The bedroom is where people spend the majority of their time"
Me: *sweating as I'm laying in my bed*
Same tho I’m scared
Same Im just curled up in some nice fuzzy blankets
A girl and a boy are doing something in thr bedroom
Ha! I sleep in the closet
@@neonthehybrid8047 oop
"Why is this so creepy? Nothings even happened yet!"
It's the silence, the silence and the lack of things there to scare you (the player) is what makes it the most creepy part of all in this game.
And the lack of what to expect through context clues. The complex background story, interaction, and a creepy ambiance creates a perfect horror game.
Jacob Geller compares the unsettling feeling to that of when you were a child and had to turn off the lights because everyone else is asleep. The normally inviting house suddenly became a place you didn’t feel safe in.
If jack were he’d drown out the silence with his amp up to 10 voice
Less is more
Shutup furry
A transcription of the end recording:
What happens to a house when it is left alone? When it becomes worn and aged? When its paint peels, and its foundations begin to sink? When it goes for too long unlived in? What does it think of? Does it dream? How does it regard those creatures who built it? Brought it into existence only to abandon it when its usefulness no longer satisfies them?
It may grow lonesome. It may stare for long hours into the darkness of its own empty halls and see shadows, and its heart may jump as it thinks “here, here is someone again, I’m not alone.” And each time it is wrong, and the hurt starts over.
It may haunt itself- inventing ghosts to walk its floors, making friends with its shadow puppets, laughing and whispering to itself at the end of some quiet cul de sac.
It may grow angry. Its basement may fill with acid like a churning stomach, and its gorge may rise as it asks itself through clenched teeth, *”what did I do wrong?”*
It may grow bitter. It may grow hungry. So hungry and so bitter that it’s scruples dissolve and its doors unlock themselves. While a house may hunger, it cannot starve. And so in fever and anger and loneliness, it may simply lie in wait. Doors open. Shades drawn. Always empty. Hungry.
[end transcription]
The thought of houses as massive, living creatures is honestly terrifying. As if abandoned buildings or dark hallways weren’t unsettling enough....
thank you!
This speech implies that the guy you were playing as never really existed. It was just a imagined "shadow" the house haunted itself with so it wouldn't feel so alone.
As someone who's been traumatized by abandonment and neglect literally since the moment I was born.....that was too fucking real and I wasn't ready
@@Blackheartzero no it doesn't lol
thanks for this!
*Everybody gangsta till’ they have an aneurysm on the toilet after seeing a Midwest unfinished basement*
Lissen! I am 48 but when he said ‘nothing is more scary than a Midwest unfinished basement’ I IMMEDIATELY felt that. Gaaaaah, I hated it.
I love how that was every child's mentality with 'the basement' was if you had to go upstairs especially after turning the lights off. You full on sprint up those stairs as fast as you physically can, hated any houses that had those gaps in the stairs where you feared something grabbing the front of your leg. Dogs were always a blessing since anytime you'd go to your puppo when you're a kid you know you're safe with the puppo beside you. XD
I always have my cats around so walking around my house is fine.
for me it goes even further. if there is a door open the light has to be on. doors are immovable objects that you are safe behind
My dog will bend his head around and into the stair well, he likes it when I call him spider dog by the way he bends his body.
Mark: *says literally anything*
Comments: Imma quote dat.
Literally omfg is irritating
@Yeet the Meat you copied the comment without the dot at the end?
It's probably fine down here!
-Mark 2020
Yeah comment sections have become quite generic.
"Mark: says literally anything
Comments: Imma quote dat."
Squidward The Dankest, 2020
Me: *about to go to sleep*
Tape Recorder: In this state of extreme vulnerability we spend 20% of our lives. Anything might stand beside us, watch us....
Me: *sips a soda, prepares to stay up awhile*
ME LAST NIGHT WATCHING THIS
Why do you guys watch horror gameplay to help you fall asleep? That seems a bit counter intuitive
@@KarpetBurn Because, depending on the commentary of the person playing it, it could be relaxing. Also, everyone has a “horror/scare threshold,” so you might think you won’t get scared by the game you’re watching, only to be proven horribly wrong. Also, people are irrational
stop calling me out
@@KarpetBurn I’m an insomniac, and nothing really scares me or gets a real reaction out of me, largely because I’m exhausted. Horror games are fun to watch before bed because, depending on the game, I can at least get interested in what’s happening, like the storytelling. I’ve always been a fan of morbid media, so it’s not disturbing at all to me. They don’t even affect my nightly nightmares lol
Idk how Mark was able to find his way around so easily, I felt like I was staring at a black screen for half the video
Maybe try turning your brightness up? I did that and it seemed to work a bit
TH-cam makes darker colors even darker when a video is uploaded so he could probobly see just fine playing the game naturally.
@@silver11x1 yeah
Meemah yeah
@@Da_Swifta yeah
I realized at the "HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHURTS" that it was the house talking about itself. Actual creepy stuff, kudos to the developer.
I absolutely love that mark is consistently playing horror games again
yeah 😃
Yeah I originally subscribed a long time ago because he only made let’s plays. Stopped watching for a while because he started doing different things. I became a fan because of the games and his commentary
Kibbles N bits
but don’t forget it is HIS channel. he can do what he wants. i can’t tell you what you should’ve watched when he expanded out and started doing things he genuinely enjoyed but he was happy and all. besides- not all content creators are able to stick to the same thing for so long because others loose interest. this might not apply to you but the algorithm doesn’t quite work that way. that and people change over a time span. mark can’t stay stuck in 2011, as shown many times, youtubers who can’t change with the way TH-cam and it’s audience is, tend to get left behind in the dust and forgotten.
but I must agree, it is nice to see him go back to commentating over scary games. he has a natural light that makes the playthrough fun to watch.
I don't mind but i cant watch any of them because i am hyper-paranoid and i really wanna watch more of his stuff but i cant :(
fun fact: the reason quiet nothingness can be so unnerving is actually an instinctual thing we have from ye old caveman times. a very common aspect in the wild is for smaller animals to go quiet when they sense a large animal/predator or when they recognize a location as a risky/dangerous place. This also relates to the most common fear of the unknown or unexpected.
This is the same reason why Babies go quiet when they see a cradle mobile start to turn in circles. it mimics the natural counterpart which is when Predatory birds circle their prey in the air.
so if you ever find yourself in a usually busy part of the wild, but there seems to be a lacking of noise and woodland creatures, there is an incredibly high chance that there is danger in the area.
woah thanks for sharing!
ah boy ok so i’ve just been scarring my child this whole time 😂 noted
This is so cool and makes so much sense, thank you so much for explaining!!!
🤓💀
"There's nothing scarier than a Midwest unfinished basement."
As a Midwesterner with an unfinished basement, I completely agree.
Why exactly?
Same here. Poured cement for part of it, then just a path cut into the dirt under the house where the furnace and water heater are. Poorly lit, lots of spiders. Earthy and claustrophobic.
as someone who has been in unfinished midwestern basements.... I also agree.... a lot of it comes from an irrational fear or feeling of being watched, which comes from poor lighting, exposed wiring and pipes hanging from the ceiling and the fact that most of them are used for storage... meaning lots of odd shadows in dark corners caused by the poor lighting. plus every horror movie ever that involves basements
I can back that up, I live in the midwest. My best friends unfinished basement is terrifying and filled with camel crickets.
My basement is actually my living room, but my great aunt's basement is pretty unfinished. I remember being very scared of it when I was younger
Everyone : “Well.... can i trust my house now?”
Me, staying at a hotel : *Insert dancing joker meme*
Mine is just boring but my anxeity keep create creatures in dark
@Rage virus and zombification are 2 diverse concepts thanks i guess😅
You house are waiting you 😃
Isn't a hotel just the hydra pf houses.
Pf was supposed to be of.
"There is nothing scarier than an unfinished Midwest basement"
As a Missourian who lived with an unfinished basement for a year, everything about that statement and running up the stairs is absolutely true. Unfinished Midwest basements are terrifying.
I feel u, I won't go down to my basement without a least 2 big lights, u don't know what could've crawled down there from the fields
MIssouri gang!
So true, I live in Ohio like Mark used to and I have to go down for the laundry constantly and it doesn’t make it any less scary LOL
Imagine, not having a basement, but a crawl space, I’m gonna die down there because I can’t run away from the scary monsters.
I live in Ontario and the worst things about my unfinished basement are the spiders and house centipedes. Is there something especially awful in Midwest basements?
"...Because the truth is, when a house is both hungry and awake, every room becomes a mouth"
Genuinely terrifying and I love it
other horror games: monsters and jumpscares
Anatomy: Can you trust your house though?
And I sleep in the god damn basement... At least it's finished.
don't worry yall, as the second last tape said: 'if the house is both hungry and awake, every room becomes a mouth', so it doesn't matter where do you sleep, be it in the basement, the bedroom, kitchen etc.
i live on the 3rd floor and may parent's sleep on the 1st.the reason for that is...
the ghosts in the room tend to get a little... personal....
10/10 comedy
What a crap game, it's not even a game, it's just walking.
Game: *has hell and destruction glitched out in the screen*
Mark: iS dIS DisneY woRL?
MegaĐööĐöö ._. Didney Worl
Seems about right
"The basement is dark..." *silence for 20 seconds, basement door opens*
Everyone: oh
0.0
This game is great. It shows how much can be done in terms of horror with little graphics and lighting, but pure atmosphere. It plays with our expectations as gamers for something to happen, but nothing happens, which makes us dread the actual possible encounter even more. It makes us think: am I already being watched or chased without knowing it? It plays with our fear of the unknown and then it steers into psychological horror and shows us, that the danger has been here all along - the house. But we took it as an ally. This game is something different in a very good way.
"There's nothin' scarier than a midwest, unfinished basement."
Why is this statement surprisingly & resoundingly correct?? Like...when you're heading upstairs from the cold, cement, spider-web-dusted basement of a midwestern home, your whole body is filled with the deepest primal fear one can experience, unlike any other emotion known to man.
Same for someone in Maine
You get filled with a sudden urge to look behind you
I wonder if it’s because basements are typically underground and such. Caves scare the shit out of me for the same reason. Being in the earth = dead buried. No thank you.
Everyone in the comment section seems to hate basements/underground spaces? Idk if im just weird or whatever, but I live for being in tight spaces. I feel secure, like nothing can get me.
Once the power went out in my house and I had to go into my big, dark basement while it was nighttime to turn it back on. I’ve never ran so fast in my life
"Hello and welcome to *anatomy* "
Middle schoolers: **sweating and trying not to laugh**
High schoolers: **collectively screams in terror**
Elementary Schoolers: "wut is dat"
@@doctorofallrats Middle Schoolers: " Close your eyes. This is gonna be bad, ok?"
College Students: What are *you* screaming about?
Me in the back: 🅱ONER
@Dana May i won t, if you really want to show me something you contact me'
Tape player: *distorted words*
TH-cam captions:
[Music]
[Applause]
mariovsluigi666 copied
accurate
Finally
If you can hear the tape player why do you have CC on? You tube cc is a mess.
Maybe TH-cam has a dark side that won't reveal itself till you have captions on
The narration of the tapes is what really sells the horror for me. The dread of wondering what the next tape might have in store for you when you find it is unsettling.
*watches Mark run around a dark house* Me: "i'd be so scared-"
Mark: stops to lecture a sideways bathroom cabinet.
Wow
It’s so dork
Hi lizzy, Markiplier commented on my newest video. WHAT
Med students: Anatomy wont be so bad it can't hurt me..
This game: *exists*
Med Students: Maybe I change majors..
Funnily enough it's the easiest thing we study (in my country at least)
When I was a kid, we used to go "homesteading" meaning we used to go out to the prairie and look for homesteads that were long abandoned in the middle of absolutely nowhere, miles from anything. Some of the homes felt just empty, others kind of sad, but there were a few that felt like this. Like you were being watched or something was lurking, or just a constant sense of dread.
Elisa beth it’s OK... I didn’t intend on sleeping ever again anyway
@@Legend_7272 I could always tell you about this one house we found... :D
What kind of sick childhood did you have?!
Elisa beth... no... I still have a slight will to live... don’t ruin that for me
@@mistressari Hmm I'm intrigued about this one house you found, please do tell. I've already watched the video at 11pm, can't get much worse
Highly suggest anyone who enjoyed this game to watch "Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted House" by Jacob Geller bc its a banger of a video. Also, I'd love to see Mark play Control bc it seems like an interesting game but I dont have any access to it myself.
Saw this video in the recommended of that one. Was nice!
I’ve been looking through the comments trying to find others who seen it :D
and if you like that kind of horror I can only recommend giving the "I am in eskew" podcast a listen cause it deals with a similar kind of architectural horror
Game: "It's your elbow"
Mark: "IT'S MY *PeNIS!!"*
Hi just, Markiplier commented on my newest video. WHAT
Wenis
@@Ilikepats lol that's a lie
*WENIS
Weenis
“There is nothing scarier than a midwestern unfinished basement” quite possibly the truest statement he has EVER said! 😂😂
basements in the north are all stone and creepy as all get out
As a person who used to have an unfinished midwestern basement, I can 100% back this statement up. It's finished now though so it's fine
He's 100% correct.
It really is lol
DEMONS JIM
Bedroom: *exists*
Basement: *exists*
Mark: “PiNis?”
Ok
Penis*
Joke?
Benis
@@smug_lawd2856 yes
This feels like walking through a dying mind, a deteriorating consciousness and world of memories. It's all familiar, but different. Dark. Things start to behave weird. Rules cease to exist. You're alone, hearing and seeing things that become more and more strange and impossible to understand. You start doing the same things over and over again to cling on to some sense of familiarity, but it's no use. Piece by piece, that familiarity is taken away. You're afraid. Not knowing your own world and what's inside it anymore. You grow strange to that world as it starts making less and less sense. But you are caught within it, will never wake up from this. It is your terminal stop and there's no way back. Your final destination. The worst kind of horror to me. The horror you can't run from. Facing the end of your own mind and watching it fall apart...helplessly. All you can do...is wait for the end. I really love this game.
like everywhere at the end of time...
Ever thought about writing a book you got talent.
Mark: “I want to know the anatomy of the house-“
Me, having watched Monster House several times as a kid and an adult: “NoW tHiS lOoKs LiKe A jOb FoR mE-“
Yes yes yes yes yes
My idea now
I claim it
Sorry I'm a little excited
I was gonna post something like, ''So this is Monster House?'' but you made it way funnier.
yESSSSSSSSS, the uvula
M e t o O
Ewww
Monster house is
So fucking
C R I N G Y
I love how upon seeing the game “anatomy” all of the artists collectively just agree that, oh yes, anatomy is terrifying
miaou motherfrukers YES
My greatest nightmare...
My body does scare me..
@@nictooons5290 oh lord
Anatomy is actually easy for me.
'The eyes are the windows to the soul'
The windows are the eyes to the house
Shiiiit
You aren’t wrong..
A
So what you're saying is my house stares into my soul ?
@@DJMetalstone no, but it lets others look deep into your soul
09:56
“It is a place full of cobwebs, where memories are stored”
Me: so where unwanted memories/thoughts we push to the back of our minds are? Makes sense, I guess
Mark: *penis*
Me: never mind, that’s a better answer
I wonder what some Freudians would make of Mark's penis obsession.
Horror game: dialog
Me: turns on subtitles
subtitles:
[Music]
Then there's me as a HoH person going '.... please be competent'.
fr i couldn’t understand some parts of the tapes and it was like *”applause”*
*APPLAUSE*
Jasmine Williams you are a god
Kid vs basement be like-
Achievements Unlocked:
• Sprint up basement stairs
• Avoid monsters in basement
• Convince sibling to accompany you
• Develop whiplash from constant paranoia
I can relate.😑🙏
WTF DUDE! WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE WIPLASH?
Ong‼️ thats how it be thooo😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😭
Yup
I'm an adult and it's still like this, think it's more of an anxiety thing or smthn
when Mark says
"I hate it. I hate it, and I hate you."
then turns to the camera
"Not you, I love you."
*cue hearts melting amidst the middle of a horror game*
edit: for person who asked for a timestamp, 11:15
Lol, me just reading through comments and sees u, HI FREN
🤤
Lol
Cringe
timestamp please?
The bedroom tape says
“Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the lord my soul to keep and If I should die before I wake I pray the lord my soul to take Amen”. 19:06 through 19:23
I found a toy in a store that said that when you pressed a button
Is that bad
D:
@@BrickArmyProductions No, it's fine. It's just an old bedtime prayer.
@@adoellex8000 k good to know
It is also the lyrics to enter sandman
@@tylerhunt8062 my guy right here
I felt like I saw a face in the darkness on the screen...
Then I realized it was just my own reflection.
Me bc im always way too close to my laptop screen in bed
Hahaha, dude no joke, it was like midnight and I was on my phone watching one of Mark's scary games video and it went black. I saw a huge eye on the screen and almost threw my phone across the room. It was my eye.
Oh
_hsirePnehT Animations_ Have you ever looked out your window at night and mistaken your own reflection for someone else? I sure did during a Dungeons and Dragons Session, in my Dungeon Master Hooded Robe (Camo Bathrobe w/ built-in hood).
_hsirePnehT Animations_ hahaha lol
9:24 That's called 'terror'
Horror is something frightening suddenly happening causing fear very simply.
Terror is usually described as the feeling of dread and anticipation that precedes the horrifying experience. Even when nothing is happening
Spider-Man 2099 Miguel O’Hara is on point.
So this is a terror game not a horror game
That's probably why the "dread" type is often called "psychological horror" in literature and film.
So anxiety?
vsauce video on why things are creepy
Good news for anyone scared to watch this: there’s no jump scares, no actual monsters, it’s purely dread
Trust me, I even looked it up on several websites, the main thing is dread and paranoia
Thank you so much! I was sooo ready to be jumpscared this whole time lol
This is the comment I was looking for
Thank you sooooo much. You are my savior. Bless you.
No shit lol
when I was 7, there was nothing scarier than having to leave a room at night and then turn off the light. Especially when the light switch was across the room, not next to the door. So when I turned off the light I *bolted* outta so fast the darkness monster didn’t even have a chance. *and then I proceeded to race up the stairs like a 7 year old would do*
i still do that and i’m 14 :,)
@@bee-zy3ef I still do that and I’m 18 😂
mark's biggest fear:
"mid-west unfinished basement"
With mannequins.
and in the ocean somehow
with Ethan also in it, talking about the inevitability of death and the great beyond and such, for added effect.
@@Da_Swifta while touching him
I'd argue and say that unfinished basement with a massive hole in a wall to look into the inner Earth can easily be a fear for everyone who has seen it! I lived in a house like that! It was so creepy down there and I never understood why they couldn't finish the wall and fill up that hole! And I asked my mom about it, why it wasn't finished, and she said that it was probably so there could be access to plumbing and whatnot that's pass the hole. I don't know why any sane person would want to enter it at all! It was so creepy, a black void with crumpling rock or earth pillars randomly in sight cause of the light in the basement.
For the sake of peoples' sanity, if a hole is needed to access some plumbing and whatever of the building, then they could at least made it a doorway! So it wasn't so creepy! Or better yet have a door and frame installed rather than a concrete hole in one of the walls.
"I've played scary games that have had a story, but I've never played a game where nothing happens but the story itself is just terrifying."
...very apt. .....very apt.
Does nothing really happen?
Nothing. Just a build up of fear
actually in Anatomy alot is happening, it's just hard to I guess notice initially. Like every time you reboot the game the house's just changing and gets worse and sometimes, after playing some tapes too.
@@flexxhoudini8453 "fear" boredom is more accurate
flaminshotgun without headphones i was bored but with them, i train to entrance myself with who im watching. I dont get scared but my body tingles from just not knowing whats going to happen like mark
Mark: “it is not a game that throws cheap jump scares”
Me: oh boy we’re in for a treat
The best part? He's right. Technically there's not a single jumpscare at all in the entire game
@Dana May no
@Dana May shut up.
two people telling someone named Dana may no and shut up... What the hell did she say?
@@minion_bazz249 weird
Mark: *Smugly and weirdly smiling*
Lady: "The Basement..."
Mark: *Instantly regrets every choice he's made*
Nobody:
Mark goes inside someone's dining room and sees plates: "Hiya" *breaks*
cant trust him with plates i guess lol
or washing dishes
Ok
He channels his inner Link
Alina Rin N O
Mark: Nothing’s really happened!
Something: *happens*
Mark: Oh.
Yes, what happened is nothing
Mood.
26:54
Kinda Scary Moments,
Not all are “Scary Moments” but I get scared easily so-
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1:14 : Tape Recording #1
2:42 : Tape Recording #2
3:39 : Tape Recording #3
4:54 : Tape Recording #4
6:07 : Tape Recording #5
7:35 : Tape Recording #6
9:35 : Tape Recording #7
10:50 : Basement Time!
12:06 : Tape Recording #8
13:03 : Strange images and Door disappears
13:35 : Tape Recording #9
14:33 : Game crashes
15:15 : Tape Recording #10
15:53 : Plate smashing time! >:D
16:21 : Tape Recording #11
17:24 : Tape Recording #12
19:05 : “Bedtime Prayer.”
20:47 : Tape Recording #13
21:48 : Tape Recording #14
22:26 : Tape gets Louder
23:52 : Tape Recording #15
24:14 : Story Time!
26:19 : Glitchy Jumpscare and Game crashes
28:55 : Tape Recoding #16
29:25 : Tape Recoding #17
29:47 : Tape Recording #18
30:41 : Tape Recording #19
31:16 : Tape Recording #20
32:18 : Tape Recording #21 with Red lines.
33:16 : Red Screen
33:20 : “id dis disnee worll?!”
33:52 : Game crashes
34:39 : Tape Recording #22
37:50 : Closes out of the game
40:13 : Mark I hate you- I just wanted to bop
Aquamethyst Stars thank you!
You beautiful person you. Ty for the list
Thank you! c:
You hero.
Many thanks.
26:55
Mark: And nothing's really happened!
**game opens onto a flickering room bathed in red**
Mark: ... oh
"oh that's... peculiar..."
"It's like a sims default house that someone didn't have enough money to fill in with furniture."
..I feel attacked
Mount ornmont house
Creepy recorder voice, flat out: "This part of the house is literally your elbow"
Mark: "....PENIS?????"
It's a *wenis
*Issa wenus*
@@Shorteagle that's the actual slang name for some reason
@@commentsection-chan not for your elbow
*ISA ENUS*
**JUMPSCARE LIST**
NOTE: As usual, the timestamps are a few seconds before the scare so you can prepare yourself.
Also, please watch the entire thing to be fully immersed as there isn't a lot of jumpscares.
18:59 (very small)
26:16 (medium/big?)
32:15 (medium/big)
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i was finding for this, thank you
Oxygen thank you
Big Thank You 🙌🏻
ty so muchhh
I love you
Tape: *talks how vulnerable we are in the bedroom*
Me: Aight, it's flashlight time
For some reason I was just filled with dread the whole time I was watching this. Massively uncomfortable but I think that's what made it a good experience. Really interesting.
kitty horrorshow's (creator of this game and some others) whole horror style is more of a making you dread the experience and be constantly tense than jumpscare you into shitting your pants. i find it pretty neat, so if you want more of this check out more of her (i think they're a girl) stuff
"There is nothing scarier than a Midwest unfinished basement."
*Me with a Midwest unfinished basement*
Okay I feel personally attacked.
😂
NeverForgetful mine as well and I can confirm. Terrifying
Okay but he's not wrong 😂
As a Nebraskan yeaaah hes not wrong...
I dont even have a basement = /
Mark: "Everyone knows you leave the basement as fast as possible so nothing gets the chance; that's when you learn to sprint up stairs.
Me: *laughs in Floridian
I don't get this joke, can someone plz explain? (If explaining will ruin the joke, then it's ok if you don't answer).
@Jadzia thanks for explaining ❤🌹
(laughs in texan)
@Jadzia Oh neat! Didn't know that. Thank You!😊💗💕
*joins in Floridian*
The first time I watched this video was roughly ten days after we moved out of the home my family lived in for almost thirty years, and something about the house's monologue towards the end of this just made me so sad.
9:34
Mark: "there's nothing happening"
Monster standing in doorway: hehe ima get him guuud
Door: smashes monster in the face
When you're too early for the scare list:
I'm in danger.
When there's no scare list to be had.
power armor is for pussies
You go in the comment section ?
Heres the scare list 0:00 - 40:33
You’re sad
"There is nothing scarier than a Midwest unfinished basement"
Live in the Midwest, can confirm.
Can also confirm
I read this as soon as he said it.
There’s nothing scarier then the Midwest.
I ALWAYS RUN UP THE STAIRS. IT SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE IS FOLLOWING ME EVERYTIME IM IN THE BASEMENT. THE MIDWEST IS SCARY.
Y E S
"It is here, in the bedroom, where we are most vulnerable. When we sleep there we trust in the house to keep us safe."
Well sounds like I'll sleep in the living room then.
But don’t you know?
When a house is both hungry and awake, every room becomes a mouth.
mark: "evryone knows that you leave the basement as fast as possible so nothing gets the chance, that's when you lean how to sprint!"
I'm 7 and this is so deep
Hol up
I'm an adult and I still run up the stairs hahah
Lmao can’t relate,
I don’t have a basement *I’ve never felt true fear*
@@kittencookiecronch4493 eeeshh
julia xX
XD
Markiplier: Anatomy is scary
Artist: oh yes it is
Why are you using a apostrophe when the artist isnt owning something?
𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓪𝓫𝓼𝓸𝓵𝓾𝓽𝓮𝓵𝔂 𝓬𝓸𝓻𝓻𝓮𝓬𝓽
Toasty Engineer oh I see it now I don’t know why but thanks for correcting me
God are you right
How to become a artist
Step one of becoming a artist torture your self with anatomy!
Next step sell your soul to satan!
Game: so the house is like a body
Everybody who has read/seen The Haunting of Hill House: *NOPE*
Have you seen silent hill
Monster house ;-;
Oh shi-
That's literally all I was thinking about the whole time I was watching this..
Cloey Robertson THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT, ESPECIALLY WITH THE MIND AND HEART OF THE HOUSE AND ALL, IT REMINDS ME WAY TOO MUCH OF THE BOOK XD
Minor spoilers ahead, but... This game feels so intelligently made. There's something about how the writing implies things, making you assume that the tapes are written by a person obsessed with analogies, and houses. The way that the "person" just states their observations makes you believe they're obsessed, since their thoughts that seem subjective analogies are not open to discussion, and you build this idea of this person. You believe that when the tapes talk briefly about people and houses being connected, that it's a person that's just obsessed with houses to the point of cherishing and personifying them. But upon looking back, the twist fits in so smoothly - this wasn't a person obsessed with this house analogy, it's a living house stating facts about its existence. The foreshadowing and everything is done so well, and a second viewing of this video just provides an entirely new and entirely valuable perspective, and I think that is one of the best things a twist can do.
from what i’ve seen so far, i’m fairly certain this game represents insanity from loneliness combined with free time, when the house shifts to nightmare mode is during a psychotic break. correct me if wrong