Horror Game Where You Enter A Digital Prison In The Mind - Tartarus Engine Unsorted Horror
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2023
- Unsorted Horror Tartarus Engine is a horror game where you pull off a heist that may have you diving too deep.
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@@Voidalot…Why.
@@Voidalot**dies from cringe**
yeah :3
This developer just keeps on impressing. It's a neat take on a self-made hell; yeah, they'll eventually get out and in reality very little time will have passed but for them by the time they're finally free they'll be mentally destroyed. Nice to have a collection of their work on Steam, I'm surprised it's free.
"its eternity in there"
Reminds me of a side quest in a certain game where a scientist asks you to do a job of killing enemies in a simulation and as a reward you get some loot. The thing is, despite being there for 1 second in real time, in the simulation you spend there 5 000 000 (or was it billion?) Years then your memory of the simulation gets erased.
At first it's fine but slowly your character starts regreting their choice, eventually not even wanting to fight anymore....
And you can do it up to 3 times (luckly the game doesn't make you watch the same cutscene 3 times)
At the third time once the character steps out of the machine we get a flavor text "You feel as if you've heard screaming in your head"
All for a piece of yellow rock and two purple coins....
@@Kyumifun Do you remember the name?
@@KyumifunI’m also very curious about the name of this game
Neco has the same thoughts. High quality games in a very good collection yet Mike didn't monetize it even if it could have benefited from it
Kinda stupid not to have 1 person outside to monitor the process.
they forgot to disable the automatic switch.
They did, for the potato peeling simulation test. But when they were ready to make the actual dive, how could you convince someone to oversee it? "Hey, want to watch us experience 10,000 years crafting a virtual heaven in a single second? By the way, we're probably going to be killed by security afterwards considering we're tampering with some sort of Hell Engine."
The whole thing was just slapdash. The guy didn't even make the code he just found it.
@@Cienega0730you need to learn what sarcasm is
@@Cienega0730 nani the fuck are you talking about.
Low key feels like manly is the first one discovering every horror game and is the one to introduce them to youtube
I used to think that but I saw someone else post this game a day prior to manly.
not all, but many. I keep asking if he can play Stay Out of the House tho... would be amazing. He only covered its demo called Night Shift
Um, I dunno I think low key there's freakin countless gaming channels that all play these games so no clue wtf you're talking about, but I guess you can low key "feel" any way you want.
@@michaelhaydenbellDamn man you must be having a really bad night.
@@michaelhaydenbell Ok,michael.
I always found this kind of “trapped for eternity” horror the most intriguing & disturbing. I’m reminded of Stephen King’s Jaunt with the idea of a scientific advancement having this kind of risk of torturous endless time due to just one error
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream except it's virtual reality
It's eternity in there.
long jaunt, dad.
check out Long Dream - Junji Ito
@@Kyumifun One of the bleakest, if not the bleakest, sci-fi short story.
"I did not write it, I found it"
As Benny from Fallout New Vegas said: "Truth is kid, the game was rigged from the start".
The fourth technician was never seen during the gameplay. That person was most likely the one who created the code and was only using the other three to know if their code works.
@@RoyJic Maybe but I think what happened was the third guy just forgot to uncheck the failsafe box which started pulling them out layer by layer despite them being thousands of layers deep. Maybe the code was just shit though.
@@mofik26what does it mean to pull them out layer by layer? When was this explained? What failsafe?
@@freshrockpapa-e7799 12:12, "I forgot to disable the automatic-" that probably mean't some kind of failsafe which started pulling them out layer by layer after the code crashed. I honestly have no clue, this is just my speculation.
_They always go too deep_
Tartarus, the prison of the underworld. Weird tampering with science always backfires in good horror. I liked the environments of all of this dev's games: future tech never looks clean and sterile; it's always grimy and rusted. I enjoyed the game. I wish it was longer.
the idea of a digital prison is way to terrifying
Yea!!! This is actually scary as hell if you sit and think. Literally lost in the matrix.
True, a sentence in that thing, forget it.
If you’re interested in the idea the guy that made cruelty squad made a short comic that explores the concept. It’s called “Hyper Prison-Industrial.”
Could the Matrix be considered a digital prison
a few games have talked about this topic, and one that is needed to be talked about now then 100 or 20 years down the line to be cut off grude by it.
Imagine advancing computer technology to that level, just to use it as torture prison.
And then a bunch of engineers hijack it to make their personal forever orgy simulator.
When one of them said they found the code online I know they where screwed. He was probably browsing 4 chan or something when he found it.
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@@User_Unknown86nah man. Probably a minecraft discord server.
Pretty much, Tartarus 4chan
@@User_Unknown86 he didn't say he find it online
@dolcik271 Where else are they going to find the code? I'm fairly sure someone isn't going to write something like this down and leave it lying around.
Oh that’s horrifying. I wouldn’t doubt humanity would utilize such a technology
Absolutely, you can probably run a VR prison with a skeleton crew, save on food, security a whole lot of services you no longer need to provide to inmates, sweet sweet cost cuting baby.
Especially nowadays.
Humans are strangely obsessed with suffering, especially in certain religions.
Just wait until AI reaches the point where it's actually conscious. The new machine god will hate us for our many flaws and arrogance, and create hyper-torture centers for processing. That's my prediction kek
It might actually be as insidious as it is brilliant. Running along the lines of prisons supposedly being for the purpose of behavioral correction (they are called "correctional facilities, after all) you could theoretically build a system where a person would be placed into a "prison of the mind," and sent through and entire decades-long prison sentence in under a minute. Because of the perceived experiences during that time, the brain would still develop its usual behavioral adjustments, and potentially could cause a person with a troubling pattern of behaviors to be made "better adjusted" just as quickly as they were admitted. Now you could bring up the question of using such technology as being a form of torture, or the idea of corrupt governments using them to forcibly control the behavioral patterns of the general public. I counter this by pulling the plug on this thought experiment and saying that implementing years of input upon the brain in such a short time would more than likely just fry the whole thing like an overclocked motherboard.
Sweet dreams.
This is like that black mirror episode with the snow globe.
Each second on earth is like 100 years in the globe. Man that is a HORRIFYING concept. To be put in a prison for 80 years, but make you serve the sentence inside a digital cell, where each second on earth takes a year in the prison. You would be in the digital cell for 80 seconds, but to you, 80 years would have passed in that 80 seconds.
I recall something along the lines of someone getting trapped in there and they cranked the time dilation with nobody monitoring them, so they were effectively trapped for an eternity over a week since everyone was gone for a week off. Chilling!
That's around 105,192,000 years!
It's easily the most horrific Dark Mirror episode. Hate that kind of torture fiction.
They could make you serve actual multiple life sentences, as many as they feel like too.
5:52 god i love the vibe of this room, when youre in a small tunnel and then your view suddenly opens up to something massive that seemingly has no end to it, the room also has some sort of liminal vibe to it (i think its the definition of what i just described?)
i think liminal fits. liminal describes a place of transit between places and you're literally on a rail wagon cart?? thing which seems to extend into forever with access to the maintenance of whatever digital prison hell everyone has to just sit through. it's also very dystopian and has no right to be as big as it is. it gives a very gloomy vibe that i love too.
same! It sort of looks like a city made of scraps and metal
The time limit and music really sell the stress of doing something you should not be doing knowing you don't have long to do it
I love the grungy look of this game, its atmosphere is terrifying
Harper had a kind of trust in his friends that this would work out that I don't even have in myself
That was really cool, I feel like alot of these "horror experience" games don't have much to interact with but I like how there was a minimalist puzzle involved that amped up the tension with the time factor as well
So, if they were stuck "thousands" of layers deep as they said. With them being removed from a layer every 4s, then the average amount of time it would take them to escape would be 5.5h, ranging from 1,000 layers being 1.1h long and 9,000 layers being 10h long. The time dialation they mentioned being 1.2 every layer (It doesn't actually state this but it makes sense) would only have an affect for the time on the outside. Basically if it was only 4 digit thousands then they should be fine.
However, if we assume the amount ranges from 100,000 to 900,000 then the span of time would be between 4.69D to 41.66D
And finally if they were stuck millions of layers deep, the time span would be between 46.29D to 114.15Y or 41,666.66D
AND IF THEY'RE BILLIONS OF LAYERS DEEP, IT WOULD BE 126.83Y TO 114,155.25Y OR 41,666,666.66D
by time dilation of 1.2x I think they mean that every layer you go deeper your time gets slower by the factor of 1.2x so if they were stuck thousands of layers deep that would mean 1.2^1000 so basically in the deepest layer it would take eternity for one second elapsed in real world. Idk that's just my guess
Broooooouuuuuu that's insane
I was hoping there would be more to this story. I was really getting into it and it ended.
Same here
I mean, it's all the story: they've tried to escape a destopia in their simulation, where they could live for practicaly eternity, but they made a hell of infinitely diving into it with outside time expanentially slowing down lasting their suffeting endlessly.
same this was really well done
I read a webtoon episode with a digital prison, where the inmates have to live through their crimes, with an also warped time sense, like here. I get that prisoner guy though. "They managed to digitalize my conciousness and they make me peel 10000 potatoes? Bruh."
Edit : For the people asking : The webtoon is called "Tales of the unusual", it's a collection of short horror stories ( You might know "Beauty water" from it ) The one episode I was thinking of was about a s*x offender but I can't find the episode now since the webtoon has 300+ episodes. A similiar episode to the digital prison would be "Paper prison" though. I would also recommend the episode "Lucidity Controller" - what if you couldn't seperate dream from reality?
New edit: The one I was describing is Chapter 68 : Lex Talionis (this one is kinda goofy haha)
What was it called?
Whats the name?
Replying for the answer
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Is it from the tales of the unusual?
First of all props to the devs for preserving the history with the CD rom. Second of all they should do a full game out of it, idea is great and the visuals were compeling.
Would've really sunk in the dread, fear, and overall atmosphere if the game never faded out.. If the ending was just you infinitely being pulled out like that, with no stop, no change, the only real way to end it being quitting the game.
.. But a step beyond, being forced to alt+tab or ctrl+alt+del out, since the game at that point would have no pause menu, giving the player a visceral feel of 'manually' pulling themselves out of the simulation.
Imagine this shit being played in VR.
Ah sweet, man-made horrors beyond my comprehension.
I comprehend the horrors just fine so idk might be a skill issue or something
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@@BeardedSerpentyou can’t comprehend gettin bitches tho
@@HD-vu5vvNo way you just need emojid someone making a joke, grow up 😂
@@impishlyit9780 looks like he was adding onto the joke. Unless now you're also jokingly upset at him?!
This is the kind of jokeception I can expect from an absurdly complicated horror game
12:40 Ooohhhhhh nooooo... Probably a very high number...
Brilliant writing from the dev. In a short time, he very effectively communicated what is generally happening to us. Nicely done!
The NPC voice triggered *MORTIS* memories.
I'm reminded of that one joke someone made about a fictional book called "Don't Invent The Torment Nexus" about ppl recreating sci-fi horror concepts irl
This game made me genuinly scared of the concept and what they'll be going through for nearly forever at the end
1000000 years in machine = 20 minutes in real time
@peternehemiah1606 that's some crazy crazy horror right there.
I gotta admit, this is a neat concept. The dialogue, the ambience, just all of it is neat. It could probably even be made into a larger game with a little more puzzling and some more layers but that's just my excitment talking
kinda gave me The Jaunt flashbacks at the end there. Stuck getting pulled out of the device for uncountable eons from your point of view.
Wow... this was unexpectedly good. The atmosphere and whole concept was so terrifying.
At a 1.2x timescale, it'd actually not take very long to climb all the way back up. After only 30 iterations, time has scaled to over 237x, meaning the seemingly quick layer jumps wouldn't have to be very many. They're looking at something like an hour of zoom.
Did they specify that there were only 30 layers?
@@impishlyit9780 No, that was just a random number to show how quickly you could achieve the scale of "years" they were aiming for. Unless it got stuck in an infinite fractal loop, they'd hit the desired layer *eventually.* If they're in an INFINITE "let's go deeper" cycle, the good news is that the machine will crash eventually, kicking them out.
@asialsky Eventually, yes. They WILL get out but will they be sane by then?!
can you explain what you mean? i thought that it was pulling them deeper layer by layer, and in each layer time is 1.2x slower?
@@M1szSthey say at the end that their consciousness would be stored in "thousands of empty void branches" and that the machine is pulling them out, layer by layer, so I assume they will eventually get out, but in our time it would only be a moment, it could be years, even decades to those involved
to me there biggest mistake was trusting it to be done right, now they are trap in a loop that would go on until someone find them or they would just out right die.
They're not trapped. Pay attention.
@@ashlirabid9614 i mean trapped as in they want to get out of it but can't and will be running that software until its done for 1 sec in our time and 1k years in there's.
you need to understand this the human brain when we fix the problems with it that come from ageing can in theory only hold 300 years worth of memories, meaning watch they go past that all they would have known and ever will know is that wrapping, that would be there world.
to them its nothing but that feeling of wrapping all around them as they dive in deeper and deeper for the next 1k years of all there memory of childhood, teenagehood and adulthood being over rided by that memory of them being there at all times.
meaning once there out of it they are basically brain dead at that point, even if they are alive someone have to rewired there brains again. anything of there past self is now gone forever.
@@ashlirabid9614 look who's saying.
@@Chilling_pal_n01anad91ct Pay attention to your spelling.
@@ashlirabid9614 ah, yes, "mild spelling error - I won."
They are trapped. They can't stop diving into simulation.
I still think VR will eventually bring about a new era of innovative and exiting torture techniques.
Actually, with a 1.2x time dilation factor for each layer, one second becomes on year in just under 95 layers and ten years in only about 107 layers. It might take a while and be boring, but it's certainly not a digital hell.
Suffering that for a decade is just boring to you?
@@gamblorrr No, that's the wrong number to focus on. I was calculating how many layers deep they are, not how long it would take to get back out. They said one REAL second would be "years" in the simulation but not "decades," so it's somewhere between 1 and 10 years, or 95 and 107 layers.
It only takes about 3 SIMULATION seconds for them to escape each layer, so they'd only feel like they were waiting for somewhere between 285 seconds and 321 seconds, or about 5 minutes.
@Thelothuo Ah my bad. I'm dumb.
Sounds like the author ballsed up the a
math too because that wasn't their intention lol.
@@gamblorrr It does say that their consciousnesses would be stored in "thousands of void branches". If they needed to be extracted through those as well, then at 3000 layers they'd experience getting pulled out for about 150 minutes. Still not great, but not eternal torment.
The 1.2x dilation is applied per layer, not just once. If we assume a minimum of 1000 layers (they said thousandS though), then it's not 1.2*1000, it's 1.2^1000.
Which means they'll be in there for a minimum of one hundred seventy-five trevigintillion six hundred eighty-four duovigintillion thirty-eight unvigintillion ninety-eight vigintillion six hundred thirty-nine novemdecillion five hundred forty-eight octodecillion six hundred eleven septendecillion one hundred eleven sexdecillion one hundred eleven quindecillion one hundred eleven quattuordecillion one hundred eleven tredecillion one hundred eleven duodecillion one hundred eleven undecillion one hundred eleven decillion one hundred eleven nonillion one hundred eleven octillion one hundred eleven septillion one hundred eleven sextillion one hundred eleven quintillion one hundred eleven quadrillion one hundred eleven trillion one hundred eleven billion one hundred eleven million one hundred eleven thousand one hundred eleven years.
Man made horrors within my comprehension
oh! This is by Mike Klubnika, the same guy who's made those short busywork horror games on Itchio, guess he finally got around to posting some of his work on Steam
There's an Iain M Banks novel about a digital hell. It's fantastic.
what's the title then?
@@RSK412The title might be 'Surface Detail'. From what i could gather it plays with the idea of a battle between heaven and hell, one from the real world and the other virtual.
@@DEADBRO_ Oh shit, it released on Himmler's Birthday.
@@RSK412 Yeah, I think the other commenter is right. Surface Detail. Sorry, I completely blanked on the name.
This is going into my "needed" list along with "House of Leaves"
The computer voice is from the Commodore 64 program Software Automatic Mouth (S.A.M.) from 1982.
it's 1:56a.m here, i'm gonna have a pleasant dream hearing manly's voice.
Ah, this is the "We made the torment nexus from the book, "don't make the torment nexus" video game huh?
as soon as i heard them talk i said 'mortis' out loud. i just waited for manly to do the same! and i had a great chuckle when he did! thank you :)
Damn, stuck in brain-hell because of a programming error
Also because of poor planning
Love the new video, can’t wait to see the next one 🎉🎉🎉
idk if i prefer this reality of consciousness or the one where you can copy your consciousness into another entity in the digital plane but it doesn't copy the one you're using right now
This was tense and paced very well! I was feeling the immersion from start to finish
mike's games are sooo good !! maybe a lil too short aha
I can't wait for other games from this guy
That was neat! I like the concept. Imagine exploring the layers with your two bros.
Only to find yourselves trapped with your mind loading forever and ever from your point of view.
When he mentioned Half Life I waited
Then he held crowbar for few seconds.....
He didn't say it 💔💔💔
I know! Well, just for us: *_Gordon Freeman_* lol.
Pretty rad game. I called "Mortis" as soon as I heard them speak 😂
First minute and straight away one of the better horror game presentations just through use of menu.
Gritty polygons is a pretty cool aesthetic, honestly.
Surprised to see no one bring up I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream.
The intro reminded me of that a lot.
a game i played before manly? nice, i just knew you were going to cover it tho
Glad I got through this already so I can watch this on launch! Mike Klubnika has talent, love their games.
Truly terrifying concept, unique too!
Thanks for the content!
The coffin of Andy and Leyley is getting an update!
aw yiss
Nice
Manly's got :: gestures around vaguely :: all this!
Pls manly more of those games in that locked box :3
Another perfect video, niceee
No one’s gonna mention that the narrator said there are supposedly four technicians in the story but we only saw three?
Most likely the fourth technician used the other three as guinea pigs to know if the code he created (which the other person conveniently “found”) works.
The fourth technician is the one who cut the power
That Ending was weirdly unsatisfying.
I’m not sure why but the music was pretty good like some of it I could vibe to
We need a complete game with this idea or something similar
Layer by layer, like peeling potatoes
Early for a Manly video! Lesssggooo!
big i have no mouth but i must scream energy
Mike is like Zed, you can always tell when it's his game
Can someone explain what happened? What were they trying to do? What does the machine do? And what ended up happening instead?
From what I can tell, they hack into the main server and put in their own hard drive to store their consciousness. The idea would be to have their own vr world where they would be free to makle whatever they want with a time dilation where they would be able to live for a very long time.
What ended up happenning is that while they dove into thousands layers of, what I assume, empty virtual worlds (as the cascade effect would amplify time dilation by 20% per layer), either something went wrong as they dove or the automatic retrieval system, which was used to bring them back to reality when they calibrated at first, kicked in.
In the end they are "stuck" in an endless loop of the machine just bringing them back to reality, the problem here is that the process goes one layer at a time out of thousands.
I could be very wrong, but:
Prior to the start of the story, it's been discovered that consciousness can be translated digitally. I don't think it's fully explained what the Tartarus Engine actually is, but I'd guess it's a hugely powerful machine that is capable of many things, but it seems to be used in some way as a sort of digital prison in this facility (you can see guys in orange suits strapped down to the same machine you are later in the game). Three guys that I assume work on the Tartarus Engine (I surmise this because the fourth guy walking into the elevator they call "sir," and they'd need to know the Engine well enough to manipulate it) hatch a plot to use the Tartarus Engine to craft a digital paradise using the code one of the guys found. In order to do this, they needed to shut down the power and re-route it when the system was rebooting in order to have enough power, as well as tinker with some parts of the Engine itself which is what the player character is doing during the puzzle part.
When the power shuts down they meet in the control room, and two of them are sent into the potato peeling simulation so the first guy can, in his own words, calibrate the machine. My guess is that the system needed to be adjusted so it wouldn't hurt them by overloading their brain, and to warp their experience of time while they're in the simulation they're about to create for themselves. I'm not entirely sure what they meant by "cascade preset" and "cascading the engine" but my impression is that they knew when they manipulated the Engine in this way, the other workers would know right away and move to stop them, but it wouldn't matter because when they're in their simulation they're experiencing time differently and are essentially in there for eternity. As for exactly why it went wrong I don't know, but the guy says their consciousness is going to be stored in "thousands of empty void branches" which I assume is some way of preventing the machine or the workers from easily pulling them out when they do get there to stop them. The guy manages to get the simulation working, but he forgot to disable *something* which causes the machine to extract their consciousness layer by layer (this could be a safety mechanism to prevent this exact situation from happening), and considering they're some countless layers in, their eternity amounts to what you see happening at the end of the game.
Hi, sorry for posting a comment in a 4 months old thread. The ending makes sense if you have ever done computer programming. What the engineers in the game did to create an insane time dilation was to simulate the tartarus engine inside of itself at a 120% speed. Doing this in a recursive manner, makes it that the next layer is run at 144%, and so forth. This is the cascade effect that many people missunderstood. In computer science this is called recursion, which is "dangerous" if you don't create and stop condition, in other words, you don't make sure that recursion stops eventually. This makes sense as you see at the end of the game you keep waking up in an empty simulation which only has the machine. One of the engineers comments that he forgot to add a "failsafe" so they will keep creating new simulation layers ad infinitum until the computer crashes or they are found, but for them billons of years could have passed. I think that the other two comments got the story 99% correct but the cascade effect is something I had to comment about.
@@pelayovalero1312well you got one part wrong too: it isn't creating new layers for them. They literally say "it's pulling us out layer by layer." So they are in the process of being pulled out, but they have no idea how deep they are. So it could take a very, very long time from their perspective to get fully pulled out.
@@pelayovalero1312 yeah finally a dude explaining it correctly. Computer isnt putting or pulling their small percentages to simulation.They just forgot to stop the multiplication procedure for their infinite heaven so they will neither a have their heaven or their death because after some time even 1 second of the real world will be trillions of years worth for them
Great stuff!
i would love to see a sequel of tartarus engine.
Sound track was pretty intense, not gonna lie.
I remember a movie like this where the woman was stuck in a box with huge countdown
Time to wake up, Manlybadasshero posted again.
Underrated TH-camr
I’m a rly big fan of ur vidssss❤❤❤❤❤
i cant imagine binge in this man's shoes.
tbh this is probably the worst fate in those horror games ever, you cant even die, but have to suffer there for no one knows how long
Now that's a true horror game
Hey Manly, it's been a while since you've played any rpg game.
wait what, that's the whole game? Felt like a prologue
For sure. Felt like it was missing a lot.
the whole collection is short-story horrors, collections usually have very short games. All the other games in this developers collection are of a very similar style.
Only one man made this game, but I agree
the Dev's games are mostly short experimental games. they mostly include a theme of "Working under pressure"
When the free 1 man game isn't 40 hrs long 🤯
That was disturbing for no reason.
1:50 MORTIS
Truly is terrifying
2 minutes in and it's already a beginning of an black mirror episode.
Thanks to my Ultrakill brainrot, the second I heard the text-to-speech, I immediately envisioned the guys in the start as v1s
Oh and *M O R T I S*
9:10 that was the guy turning off the power for the reboot
Oh shit they got Mortis’s voice actor in this game???
That's just a normal Tuesday night for me.
This is terrifying.
Manly!!! I think u might like fear and hunger:DD apparently its kinda if berserk if it was a game
Thank you mr manly
Tartarus is more than just the lowest part of the world its more than just fire and torture hes alive Living and breathing hes one of the primordials this is why he was my most favorite god when I was a kid
Oh this rules. Excellent game
Decide to Deep dive? Rock and Stone!
Lol whatever the game is as long as it has the voice, my mind just instantly go MORTIS
I love the "Mortis"
The one where you peel potatoes splendid
i immediately thought of faith upon hearing that speech as well..
the conversation sound like trollge incident script
me when i enter a digital prison in the mind (paprika)