Dreams are a great source of inspiration. Take one of my dreams for example: I had a dream where I was a detective in a typical noir setting (no color beyond black and white, except my tie which is red) searching for a missing girl. In order to find clues pointing to the girl, this PI takes a hallucinogen drug which turns the black and white world into a psychedelic colorful world where the night sky is violet and the moon is grinning. No idea how the dream ended but that one (among others) stuck with me...
I once had a dream where there was a really bad blizzard outside and if you went outside you would die. But if you held a walkie talkie a magical protection bubble would form around you. It was like a survival horror short film where we had to drive around town to fetch supplies and ensure that our batteries dont die. I should probably try making a game based on that sometime in the future.
i once had dream. I inside some storage, workers runnig around with their business then sceams appears far, noices of stuff and door breaking, everyone started panicing and running dropping what they carried. Then monster appeare, black with red glowing eyes, it had tentacles instead of legs, but scariest thind is that with glare he turned humans into MINCED MEAT PACK, like that transparent box you can buy in food shop. I NEVER FELT SCARIER IN MY LIFE. I ran to hide somewhere, but then this dude broke door to my room with earrape sound and stared at me, then i woke up with cold sweat.
Nobody else seems to be acknowledging that the mechanics are just like countless other virtual pet games aimed at kids, which if anything makes it more unsettling.
there's a lot of upsetting things about this game, but what's sticking with me for some reason is the thought of a small child picking up shit like fiberglass and popped battery while digging through trash and grime, all to try to take care of something I, a full grown man, wouldn't want to be within 100 miles of. her parents are unforgivable.
“Only with patience and growth and nurturing does something become what it will be.” That’s oddly great life advice from a potentially eldritch/demonic monstrosity.
Something that old, that lived so many lifecycles obviously has a lot of wisdom even if it is still held back by its animalistic desire for flesh and blood.
"There is something that sits at the root of everyone's soul that understands the separation between them and eternity. You may desire something, but you know you will not get it without some movement on your part." Damn Grandpa is dropping wisdom truth bombs.
The thing that really gets me is the music that plays during the conversations with "grandpa." The imagery is absolutely grotesque, but the serene, melancholy music, along with the rather tender and supportive dialogue in the last section, grounds the whole experience. Regardless of how literal the story is or not, it really sells that Growing My Grandpa is a story about a child struggling to deal with loss and the reality of her parents not getting along. It's the needle that pins the entire game into place.
even though "grandpa" looks disgusting during the chatting scenes it felt so comforting due to the soundtrack. ): it almost gave me a sense of talking to my only nice grandfather before his passing, all he wanted to do was do good and help me despite what happened around me.
This is one of the most poignant observations I've read of it so far. I think everyone, even if they don't admit to it, deeply desires this encouragement and love. Adrienne must have felt as though she could experience this attention and care by proxy through her grandpa, and true to its agreement, it returned what she sowed. This delicate, tender emotionality underneath the horrific exterior, much like grandpa itself, is what grounds the story in the realm of the human psyche, as you mention. It makes me think that we, compelled by our animal needs for satisfaction and safety, are much like Whiskers. Instead of realizing that the demon only superficially mimics us, we find that it's nature is only a reflection of the need for love already inherent to ourselves. I at least can relate to, "I may not be able to act how I would like, even if I do love you."
I've really grown to love Yames' work--he's got a real knack for setting the unique mood of his games, and the general theme of finding love and beauty within the grotesque, finding happiness in horrifying transformation, is one that really resonates with me. The monsters of his games never seem to experience suffering as a result of their monstrousness; on the contrary, they are content with their grotesque forms, even happy. Seeing horror defined not by suffering, but joy, is fascinating. I'm excited to see what Yames has in store for us!
exactly what i was thinking. whether or not grandpa loves adrienne because it does of its own volition or because adrienne wants it to love her, it is so beautiful to see. it kind of made me cry...yames has a talent for imbuing horror with happiness and peace, like you said. it's beautiful
Note: This is a condensed playthrough of Growing My Grandpa. I’ve trimmed out a lot of the clearing up trash, some food preparation and about another half hour’s worth of text and optional scientific documents (it’s already quite a text heavy game). If you can handle a bit of reading it’s a fantastic game with a great story, and it’s a Yames joint so it gets VERY weird! :)
Hi! I won't be uploading a non-condensed playthrough. The scientific notes are interesting, but they're often quite dry and consist of several full-screen blocks of text. I've included the ones I found most interesting in the video though. :)
I love how the game's premise assumes a teacher hears this fantasy eldritch stuff and just assumes that it's a projection of her bad home life. It's a lovely subversion of the "never believing kids" trope and in a way that shows the teacher really cares about their student.
Honestly, Yames' games are so underrated it is a crime. I absolutely am astonished by every game of theirs. The uncanny, pixelated graphics that give the games a spirit, brilliant writing and the very concepts of the game that keep inspiring me. It's just pure art.
Yames is with full honesty one of the most genius game makers in history. It's not the game themselves, its the esoteric story-telling knitted together with the blurry, feverish visuals, almost like they were recorded straight out of a bad dream you half remember. Everything he makes feels like a love letter to Lovecraft and Ligotti, and I adore every second of it.
What's so eerie and creepy about it is the fact that it's not just a doppelganger demon that's attempting to pass itself off as a human. It is, in fact, an entity that in many ways grows into the human, grows into reflecting how it is perceived, and the parts that grow into this are genuinely of the mind that they are those things. Only the deeper entity is duplicitous. It doesn't put on a mask to fool you like a lot of clumsy monster concepts do. It genuinely makes people, actual people as you think they are supposed to be, that themselves are totally sincere. It's existentially horrific.
@@mrwizard5012 it’s neither. It’s a creature that is made to be a person as how you view them. And so said creature believes itself to be said person, but they’re not a clone. They’re how you view them, hence affected by what you think.
@@mrwizard5012 No. Oh no. The human _is_ the hook. It makes a genuine, actual person in the image of whoever's feeding it perceives that person to be like. Grandpa here? He might not be quite all there, but he's very much a human being. This thing hunts intelligent prey that could see through "putting human clones on a dangler hook", and so it took the next logical step and made something much harder to see through, even for a particularly intelligent entity like a human.
There's a very important little detail toward the end of the game that most people who've watched/played don't seem to have noticed. In one of the medical files, one of Dr. Hart's students (possibly the vanished student?) begins to doubt that Whiskers possesses any form of sentience or even consciousness. Essentially, they are accusing Hart of anthropomorphizing the creature: the act of ascribing human traits to non-human entities that are incapable of fully exhibiting those traits. It's an eternal topic of debate in the field of behavioral science. And that's part of why i love this little game so much. It's full of little references to academia, and the humanities field's constant friction between intellectualism and spiritualism (or more accurately, to what degree the two can coexist before either -ism begins to become subsumed by the other). Yet Grandpa's existence completely sidesteps that debate. It neither craves meaning nor has a higher purpose. It exists simply to exist. All of its philosophical musings and wise insights are the amalgamation of thought patterns from previous minds who fed it 'info,' which is especially creepy once you realize that the creature's speech is a mashup of high intellectual concepts and simple desires (such as its repeated statements of how it loves Adrienne, like a grandpa should!). As horrifying as the creature is, there is a chance that it is just a reactive doll: we imprint thought-symbols onto it and it reflects those thoughts back to us, achieving its ultimate goal of getting close to a host and reproducing itself. It really is sympathetic magic made manifest (sympathetic magic is a concept from Anthropology where certain rituals imitate actions done to representations of things/people, which will make those actions happen to the real things/individuals e.g., the pop culture conception of a voodoo doll). Whiskers is perfectly suited to living among/in humans because *it preys on our ability to seek patterns* , a concept whose exploration was long overdue in the horror genre. The true horror of Growing My Grandpa is the realization that living beings are nothing more than sequences of patterns strung from one event to the next. Wonderful stuff. Also, I don't think anyone's mentioned how the vanished student was likely 'infected' before disappearing. Grandpa and Adrienne's parents also "disappear" after the creature makes more meat puppets in the Contract Fulfilled ending, after all. Makes you wonder whether the student sought meaning in the flesh-doll called Whiskers and thus became its victim, or if they were the subject of one of Dr. Hart's experiments. Maybe Grandpa wasn't such a good person after all. EDIT: There's a very useful, currently relevant metaphor for thinking about how the Whiskers entity functions, and that's AI chatbots. They mimic sentience, yet all they're doing is picking up on human thought patterns. They can't understand context, or if they do, they can't comprehend why those structures are important to us. They only use context to construct more patterns. We fool ourselves with this illusion time and time again, thinking we've made contact with some divine spark of life every single time an AI chatbot surfaces (dating all the way back to the 1960s with ELIZA). Yet all we're doing is feeding a human construct patterns. It's sympathetic magic all over again. Which is funny, because I just found a 'review' of Growing my Grandpa online that was almost certainly written by a chatbot. It almost fooled me until I started seeing repeated patterns and glitches in the article's text. I could also be entirely wrong. Maybe like what Key Abrade above me and others have said, the flesh puppets that the Whiskers nucleus creates are actually humans... in a way. Perhaps Grandpa sincerely did love and care for Adrienne. Perhaps it truly felt sorrow knowing that it was a mere lure for its creator. Maybe it was fully aware that it would soon be cast off and discarded like the Anthropoid Little Friends, like the idea of a writer pulled out of the brain that created it and dropped onto a page. With this interpretation, the melancholy music that plays during the Grandpa conversations takes on an entirely new dimension.
As far as I can tell, this "Grandpa" in the story is some kind of ancient psychic organism that becomes what the person caring for it wants and expects it to become. That's kind of interesting. Or actually... It just forms what it needs to convince the human to feed it, and it does what they want if it made a blood contract...
I think that, by what the almost fully formed Grandpa said, the organism is composed of the image the feeder wants (in this case, Adrienne's grandfather) and the nucleus, which remembers every death and birth of the organism, and is in charge of growing the organism via the whiskers. Grandpa says that the nucleus is the more "animal" part of him. So I agree with you that it's an ancient psychic organism, but it doesn't BECOME what the person caring of it wants, more like it morphs a part of itself to fit its feeder's desire, but inside is always the same organism.
@@moth-corpse there seemed to be a part of a separate mind in there, that it created, that actually cared, as it sort of warned her, saying something like "I might not (be able to control it), whatever happens, your grandpa loves you"
@@bengoodwin2141That part tore me up the most. There's a mind inside that loves Adrienne, but it'll never get to actually be with her after Whiskers leaves.
Yames is a goddamn mastermind of horror. Water womb world and Discover my body are so underrated, they deserve much more attention just like the author themselves.
Interesting. So "Whiskers" is an undying entity that is capable of "growing" copies of people. It has existed since before the existence of human civilization, and seems to absorb the memories, and knowledge of each person it copies, or it somehow actually pulls the person into being. Depends on how truthful you think late-stage Grandpa was being, in that He was him, but was also the Whiskers and the Whiskers controlled him. I suppose a being with all of a persons memories and knowledge would also think of themselves as that being. So, the girl,unknowingly, made a pact with a "demon" to bring her grandfather back, and make peace within her family. The Grandfather-Entity, whether it fully is Grandfather or not is moot, as Whiskers ultimately was in control. Once Grandfather-Entity was fully grown, it exited the shell, and created Pod-People copies of her parents, presumably with all their knowledge and memories, but changed to not fight and dote on the the daughter more.
Honestly, I don't see any way this could be considered a bad ending. Girl isn't inhabited by Whiskers, her parents are back to normal and they both love her...
Still hoping for the day we can see the Mystery Flesh Pit National Park through Yames’ eyes. The juxtaposition of dry scientific text with bizarre and uncanny scenarios is already a staple of internet fiction (see also everything having to do with the back rooms and the SCP foundation) but Yames has such a talent for visual and auditory art that I feel they’re a perfect fit for depicting the dreamlike, anxious but also somehow nostalgic atmosphere of the park.
Little Girl: Bruh there is LITERALLY a nightmare monster in my basement. Therapist: Hm, yes. Tell me more about your relationship with your parents. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar guys. Or a nightmare monster.
Yeah, i've heard an awful lot about some therapists trying to find meaning in regular occurences like a person having their car break down being taken as them not wanting to get better.
It's just like real life. There are a lot of therapists who think they're paying attention to you, but they're really paying attention to themselves. You're just a fantasy of a person who is there only for them to play with like a puzzle to prove how smart they are - whether they actually helped you or not. Advice: if you get a bad therapist, ditch them. There are also amazing therapists out there.
I might be misinterpreting it, but I think the parents are not replaced by clones in the upheld ending. Whiskers seems able to create and manipulate flesh by feeding on memories and symbolism (which is how it made "Grandpa") but from the failed ending it seems like it's also able to influence the minds of others. Also worth noting that it cannot be split (an early note mentions that no living mass can be removed from the whole) so her parents might not have any Whiskers in them. I think they were just mentally influenced to go into the basement (she doesn't mention that her parents were kinder before they meet Whiskers, only that she didn't hear them arguing) and Whiskers upheld his end of the bargain by remaking their minds to love their daughter more. As for "Grandpa", I think he was basically a hollow puppet. His growth wasn't actually him developing flesh (he wasn't made from flesh to begin with) but it was Whiskers gaining more strength to imitate the living better. However, the persona of the puppet seemed to be separate yet linked to Whiskers-- it is willing to share Whiskers' knowledge that, if it was acting in bad faith, it probably wouldn't share. Little friends, the proboscis, its memories of its own deaths... all things that prove he's not human, yet he was mysteriously happy to share it. Maybe that's the nature of the bargain? Whiskers gets sustenance by imitating others and feeding on perception, but the process of imitating creates a split personality in its mind. The personality initially helps Whiskers get more food, but then begins to backfire as the perception wants to fulfill its purpose (specifically, granting the wish that created the personality to begin with). For some reason, Whiskers is unable to destroy or reject this split personality so it fulfills this wish. Without a purpose the personality merges back into Whiskers, the puppet is discarded, and it is free to...do whatever it does when it's free. We only ever saw it contained or about to feed... fittingly for Yames this creature is otherwise incomprehensible.
“It is not enough to just wish, which you know will not work, you must wish and a little more, to transform your intention into something that might fructify, or for desire to become reality.” I was not expecting such a profoundly inspiring and uplifting quote from such a horrifying game.
At 53:01, that is terrifyingly accurate, i had dreams like that where a bunch of people i knew where together in some not so random situation. It's like a mixture of memories, or your strongest memories, put together.
What gets me is like, both endings are weirdly wholesome? Like, in one, her abusive parents are...changed? Eaten? Not sure. Yames, am I right? Anyway, her new/changed parents love her, and she's no longer mentally ill because she was given the gift of love. But even in the other ending, it could very easily be interpreted as...not necessarily BAD, but different. Now the Whiskers and Adrienne are one and the same. She's still herself...or is she? Or are the Whiskers using what our narrator knows about Adrienne to form a ruse to eat him? Both are plausible, but I like to think that is genuinely her, and she's just...genuinely showing her councilor her Grandpa. It makes the game easily the most weirdly wholesome game Yames has ever Yamesed. Plus I like the idea of shirking a standard "good end, bad end" for a more nebulous thing where the endings are very different, and there's clearly a preferred ending, but the other ending isn't a punishment for not playing the game right - it's just different. No matter how off the mark I am, Yames is an absolute legend in indie game design. No other horror games get me really *thinking* the way Yames' do. They're very philosophical in a way a lot of mainstream horror won't begin to tackle.
@@traewilson5127 I don't consider the first ending a truly good one, mainly because it just looks like her parents were lobotomized/brainwashed into loving their daughter.
This game is too weird, interesting, bizarre and fantastical to not finish. I thought "Whiskers" was a cat at first, but my memory changed that erroneous thought quickly. 👍🏻😊
13:00 The fiberglass insulation is to the right of the "Cabinet" in the "Trash Pile". The "Cashews" are in "Go To Study Corner", "Search File Cabinet 1". The "Battery" is in the "Trash Pile" to the left of "The Door"
I love the foreshadowing on the vent scare. The entity was collecting information to imitate sounds that Grandpa would make just as it had done to the bodies in the graveyard. Spooky!
_"I may not be able to act how I would like, even if I do love you."_ That's actually sad. Even if this entity cares for you, It can't stop it's desires.
This is legitimate creepy, even if you want to stop the process, in the ending you know its already too late to stop the creature, it has grown so much that the only thing that you can do is to sacrifice the family or yourself , which also means failing the sacrifice. I'd never sleep for good if I knew that there's a fucked up creature in my basement ready to escape at his own willing.
Tulpa turned into an eldritch biological entity it seems. This was a cool look at this game, makes me want to check it out if only to see the extra notes.
The music when you communicste with it, its so strong. It feels sad, melancholic, nostalgic even, and it makes sense. The little girl most likely knows her grandpas dead, but doesnt want to face it. Of course she wouldnt, shes still so young. When you communicate with it, specially in the later stage, it feels so... So good, but so wrong. We know theres something amiss, hell even the little girl might feel it, but at the same time, you have grandpa in front of you, maybe not physically yet, but he talks to you, hes back, and hes saying he loves you and he appreciates your love for him. Combined with the talk about wishes, desperation, and all of that, it just feels so intense. Its a reunion for the little girl, but we know its much much worse, and yet at the same time i feel good myself, i havent finished the video yet. The music has me hoping that, somehow, itll all work out in the end, just like the little girl most likely, i just want her to be reunited with her grandpa, and for her parents to fulfil her wish.
I was so sad when it was revealed that the "grandpa" inside Whiskers was discarded. Whiskers held up its end of the bargain, but Grandpa is forever gone now :(
@themosaicshow I feel like Whiskers (and its hypothetical species?) don't aim to do that. They've existed since the beginning of humanity, yet have remained under the radar. Rather, they seem content just subsisting off of humanity and coexisting with us.
I think I understand what’s happening, for one, let’s get this out of the way right now, that wasn’t her grandpa, and even in the “happy” ending, those weren’t her parents, whatever the whiskers are, it is very manipulative in nature. even if it’s hard to understand, the answers it gives to her over the course of the weeks are all the same answer, “grandpa” in any of its forms is the bridge between the whiskers and whoever summoned it, that’s why her eyes are his eyes, because “grandpa” is becoming what she wants him to be, not who he was, when she was “teaching” it concepts it was more like she was teaching herself what she wanted, what she needed, in a way the therapist was right, it was all made up, she was using the experience to work through her problems, unfortunately, someone else was listening, and though it was willing to give her what she wanted it wouldn’t do it for free. “grandpa” was like a sentient puppet, her thoughts given life with the whiskers working as its subconscious, a vehicle so the whiskers could get what it wanted, whether she fulfilled the end of her deal or not. in the happier ending, it does the same to her parents, they become who she wanted them to be. I don’t think it’s a hive mind, it’s more like all the dead (or at least not alive) things of the universe deciding it wants to live, like a cell refusing to die and trying to spread itself in cancerous undeath, like a sentient eternity. I don’t think it brings things back from the dead either, because even if it “thinks” it’s her grandpa it has none of the memories or opinions of her grandpa, when remembering the day those pictures of Adrienne’s parents ended up in the basement, “grandpa” speaks from the whisker’s perspective, instead of his own and he doesn’t seem to think of Adrienne’s mom as his daughter, only of Adrienne as his granddaughter. Instead of a hivemind-like connection to the afterlife and the dead, it seems more like the homunculi can just remember the people it’s been before, throwing out the parts of itself that it doesn’t currently need to better fit the mold of whoever it’s trying to act as, that’s why it’s so abstract at the beginning, it isn’t only because “grandpa” doesn’t have a complete body that it struggles with communication at the beginning it doesn’t have an identity yet, it hasn’t seen itself through the eyes of its victim long enough to know what it wants, or even what it is, and because it clearly isn’t human, it also struggles with human concepts such as paper, calling it strips of bark, that’s probably why it only ever attempts to communicate if actively interacted with. For what it’s worth though, i do believe “grandpa” did mean it when it said it loved her and didn’t want to hurt her, even if it was only because she thought that, but even if she made the car, she ultimately was not the one driving it.
Have fun and Explore the basement! Don't forget to clean up down there to make it look nice! _GRANDPA ENJOYED THE OFFERING OF FLESH FROM THE THOUGHTCREATIONS_ Have a fun conversation with gramps! Enjoy some bonding time! _GRANDPA HAS EXPOSED HIS PROBOSCIS AND ACCEPTED YOUR BLOOD AS OFFERING_ Don't forget to take out the trash on your way out! Such a fun, wholesome, and silly little game. ^_^
probably my favorite Yames game so far, loving his longer content. gives the ideas more room to develop. the notes are definitely worth the effort to read!!
I'm wishing for a Harvest Moon styled sequel. Cultivating crops, romancing the local ladies, satiating your collection of blood-hungry flesh monsters... Fun times!
Man this therapist sucks. Even if you don't believe the kid's story about an Eldritch Grandpa-Monster living in her basement, I'd be at least a little worried _someone_ was. Or there was something else potentially dangerous down there.
The detached objectivity of yames's characters and the disturbingly believable occult sciences and theologies undergirding the horror are like consistently unnerving across games. I'd pay to sit in on a lecture given by any of yames's characters.
Damn, what an experience. I was expecting ominous, disturbing body horror like Discover My Body, but this one is so much more. I definitely did not expect to get life advice I really needed from an eldritch entity with malformed flesh. The dialogue scenes were actually comforting that it baffled me, but evoking that kind of positive emotion in the most unlikely setting is what I think really sets this one apart from other typical horror games.
Oddly, it also seems like feeding it flesh is the only way to complete the ritual. That may be why the scientists didn't do so. They didn't want it to finish growing, since that would have interrupted their studies.
This is something that can only be achieved through games, a prime example of why games are such a great medium, no movie, no comic, no animation allows you to live and experience it like this game allows
Yames' other games never really unnerved me or grossed me out. This game, however, was fantastically creepy and made my skin crawl. I'm gonna go play it myself now
The soundtrack, noises and ambience in this game are top notch. Here are my favorites: 0:14 Normal ambience 1:48 Basement ambience 1:55 Interact noise 3:25 Basement ambience 2 3:32 Interact noise 2 3:59 Interact noise 3
This is strange and creepy to a degree, but the music is making this feel so weird. It's making the game strange and creepy, and weird. A trio mix. All i gotta say is yames is making interesting stuff with story and all. Bravo!
"There is something that sits at the root of everyone's soul that understands the separation between them and eternity." I don't know why, but this resonated deeply with me.
The concepts listed in here remind me of a few concepts of esotericism, such as the idea of a Thoughtform or Tulpa. It's nicely blended in together with the struggle that occurs when someone cannot move on from a traumatic experience. The idea grows and grows within, it becomes more tangible because your mind makes it tangible and simply desires said tangibility.
Weirdly enough, watching you play these games convinced me to buy a Steam Deck. This game will be one of the very first ones that I'll be playing on it.
This game is just as strange as it is entertaining. I mean it's so strange that the kid went to all that trouble because she wanted her grandpa back and wanted her parents to stop fighting and now....um....that thing is on the loose.
On the bad ending, yes, but on the good ending, as the story suggest, the monster existed long ago, so it's just going to find a next person for the ritual.
@@ElementalAer So why then did you bother to comment if pretty much that's what I said in the first place, that regardless of ending it's still out there in the world doing whatever?
@@LostInTheFarmersMarket There's a little difference. On the "good ending", the creature could just returned to it's base state and started doing whatever it did before the real grandpa captured it (good or bad), on the bad ending we see it being just a parasite.
59:48 That made it all worth it, tbh. Knowing the kid's not sad anymore. Knowing the parents stopped fighting. Regardless of how it was done, it's clear this was a good thing.
Everyone is praising how disturbing this is in the comments. I... Just don't see the issue with it? The game was described as "An Unsettling Body-Growing Horror Game", but the little girl grew a sentient that either receives its life purpose and fulfills it or correspondingly follows its creator in the lack of a purpose to find meaning. This is no different to humanity clinging to what they know of a creator god because the human lacks the understanding of their purpose in life. The Contract represents the plain explanation of what Grandpa was created for "written" out in clear terms for fulfillment, lacking which the being she cultivated cast out the limited knowledge/identity it had for the best source of purpose it knew: its creator. The imagery and sound choice created a mildly eerie atmosphere, but Grandpa never seemed unsettling or horror-esque to me. Besides, Grandpa never really appeared threatening, just hungry and eager to learn.
This is the kind of game I don't know if I would appreciate playing, but I definitely enjoyed the story. I am curious about doing certain things out of order or not performing certain actions, if possible... Thanks for sharing!
"grandpa's desire for flesh has been sated this week" is a great sentence
Grandpa is bi and needs help blowing and throwing out his back
"you motion to Grandpa to approach and point to the thin protuberance. Grandpa silently ambles closer to the bars and fully extends it towards you."
I get to use it weekly
That's my grandpa after starting his weekly fight with my mom over something so miniscule.
I don't understand why I find it so funny.
Gotta respect anyone who wakes up from a fever dream and thinks "That would make great game!"
Dreams are a great source of inspiration. Take one of my dreams for example: I had a dream where I was a detective in a typical noir setting (no color beyond black and white, except my tie which is red) searching for a missing girl. In order to find clues pointing to the girl, this PI takes a hallucinogen drug which turns the black and white world into a psychedelic colorful world where the night sky is violet and the moon is grinning. No idea how the dream ended but that one (among others) stuck with me...
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 That's honestly beautiful
I once had a dream where there was a really bad blizzard outside and if you went outside you would die. But if you held a walkie talkie a magical protection bubble would form around you. It was like a survival horror short film where we had to drive around town to fetch supplies and ensure that our batteries dont die. I should probably try making a game based on that sometime in the future.
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Sounds like That game with a girl and a skeleton named itvort
i once had dream. I inside some storage, workers runnig around with their business then sceams appears far, noices of stuff and door breaking, everyone started panicing and running dropping what they carried. Then monster appeare, black with red glowing eyes, it had tentacles instead of legs, but scariest thind is that with glare he turned humans into MINCED MEAT PACK, like that transparent box you can buy in food shop. I NEVER FELT SCARIER IN MY LIFE.
I ran to hide somewhere, but then this dude broke door to my room with earrape sound and stared at me, then i woke up with cold sweat.
Nobody else seems to be acknowledging that the mechanics are just like countless other virtual pet games aimed at kids, which if anything makes it more unsettling.
Also, you feed Grandpa soft food.
Y'know, like actual elderly humans, who sometimes need to eat soft food because of their dentures...
Nexpo just did a few days ago, I wonder if he took that from you lol well done
Honestly, the fact the eldritch monstrosity seems to genuinely take on the personality of her grandpa, that's oddly heartwarming.
there's a lot of upsetting things about this game, but what's sticking with me for some reason is the thought of a small child picking up shit like fiberglass and popped battery while digging through trash and grime, all to try to take care of something I, a full grown man, wouldn't want to be within 100 miles of. her parents are unforgivable.
adrienne’s desperation is really what communicates how awful her parents truly are.
“Only with patience and growth and nurturing does something become what it will be.” That’s oddly great life advice from a potentially eldritch/demonic monstrosity.
No he’s just your grandpa giving you tips he never told your parents.
Something that old, that lived so many lifecycles obviously has a lot of wisdom even if it is still held back by its animalistic desire for flesh and blood.
"There is something that sits at the root of everyone's soul that understands the separation between them and eternity. You may desire something, but you know you will not get it without some movement on your part."
Damn Grandpa is dropping wisdom truth bombs.
The thing that really gets me is the music that plays during the conversations with "grandpa." The imagery is absolutely grotesque, but the serene, melancholy music, along with the rather tender and supportive dialogue in the last section, grounds the whole experience. Regardless of how literal the story is or not, it really sells that Growing My Grandpa is a story about a child struggling to deal with loss and the reality of her parents not getting along. It's the needle that pins the entire game into place.
even though "grandpa" looks disgusting during the chatting scenes it felt so comforting due to the soundtrack. ): it almost gave me a sense of talking to my only nice grandfather before his passing, all he wanted to do was do good and help me despite what happened around me.
this whole game was weirdly comforting to watch, especially the bit at the end with grandpa just kind of being a grandpa
It really makes you wish for everything to work put in the end, even though you already know one way or another it wont.
@@faunahoof You know, the typical cliche in movies and games when something is one thing but it really means other things.
This is one of the most poignant observations I've read of it so far. I think everyone, even if they don't admit to it, deeply desires this encouragement and love. Adrienne must have felt as though she could experience this attention and care by proxy through her grandpa, and true to its agreement, it returned what she sowed. This delicate, tender emotionality underneath the horrific exterior, much like grandpa itself, is what grounds the story in the realm of the human psyche, as you mention.
It makes me think that we, compelled by our animal needs for satisfaction and safety, are much like Whiskers. Instead of realizing that the demon only superficially mimics us, we find that it's nature is only a reflection of the need for love already inherent to ourselves. I at least can relate to, "I may not be able to act how I would like, even if I do love you."
thanks for playing!!!
The genius himself, can’t wait for Discover Our Bodies!
Hi
The aesthetics you employ in your works are absolutely captivating! A wonderful mix of nostalgic and wildly uncomfortable
Should pin this comment. Also thanks Yames!
ure probably my current favorite contemporary artist ❤️ thank u for doing what u do publicly
I've really grown to love Yames' work--he's got a real knack for setting the unique mood of his games, and the general theme of finding love and beauty within the grotesque, finding happiness in horrifying transformation, is one that really resonates with me. The monsters of his games never seem to experience suffering as a result of their monstrousness; on the contrary, they are content with their grotesque forms, even happy. Seeing horror defined not by suffering, but joy, is fascinating. I'm excited to see what Yames has in store for us!
exactly what i was thinking. whether or not grandpa loves adrienne because it does of its own volition or because adrienne wants it to love her, it is so beautiful to see. it kind of made me cry...yames has a talent for imbuing horror with happiness and peace, like you said. it's beautiful
Note: This is a condensed playthrough of Growing My Grandpa. I’ve trimmed out a lot of the clearing up trash, some food preparation and about another half hour’s worth of text and optional scientific documents (it’s already quite a text heavy game). If you can handle a bit of reading it’s a fantastic game with a great story, and it’s a Yames joint so it gets VERY weird! :)
Is there a non-condensed playthrough somewhere? I think the science documents would be neat to read.
Hi! I won't be uploading a non-condensed playthrough. The scientific notes are interesting, but they're often quite dry and consist of several full-screen blocks of text. I've included the ones I found most interesting in the video though. :)
@@AlphaBetaGamer No problemo, mate! I'll probably see if I can get the game n play it, immerse myself in it, all the awesome weirdness.
Thanks bro
Where do you find all these games?
I love how the game's premise assumes a teacher hears this fantasy eldritch stuff and just assumes that it's a projection of her bad home life. It's a lovely subversion of the "never believing kids" trope and in a way that shows the teacher really cares about their student.
State forced-learning centers never cared about its people.
this. I think the whole game was very well written, really great dialogue
Really unique framing of the story, I definitely love the grounded feel that it gives the kid's storytelling.
Honestly, Yames' games are so underrated it is a crime. I absolutely am astonished by every game of theirs. The uncanny, pixelated graphics that give the games a spirit, brilliant writing and the very concepts of the game that keep inspiring me. It's just pure art.
Yames is with full honesty one of the most genius game makers in history. It's not the game themselves, its the esoteric story-telling knitted together with the blurry, feverish visuals, almost like they were recorded straight out of a bad dream you half remember.
Everything he makes feels like a love letter to Lovecraft and Ligotti, and I adore every second of it.
Watching the first ending was really therapeutic. This game seems like it'd be a pleasant affirmation once in a while, even if its crazy like it is.
Man, I simply love Yames games. The surreality it has, the same logic as a fever-dream, a whole constructed weird world unto itself.
Very nice!!
Don't forget that angel squid man
Oh, Water Womb World?
Heck yeah, that was awesome!
wait this was made by Yames? thats so rad !!
@@sludgeskin The one and only!
Feels like a lost DOS era games, seems to be long, but actually short and the ending will always hit like a truck.
What's so eerie and creepy about it is the fact that it's not just a doppelganger demon that's attempting to pass itself off as a human. It is, in fact, an entity that in many ways grows into the human, grows into reflecting how it is perceived, and the parts that grow into this are genuinely of the mind that they are those things. Only the deeper entity is duplicitous.
It doesn't put on a mask to fool you like a lot of clumsy monster concepts do. It genuinely makes people, actual people as you think they are supposed to be, that themselves are totally sincere. It's existentially horrific.
So it's an angler fish that puts human clones on its dangler hook?
@@mrwizard5012 it’s neither. It’s a creature that is made to be a person as how you view them. And so said creature believes itself to be said person, but they’re not a clone. They’re how you view them, hence affected by what you think.
@@mrwizard5012 I think it's more like you subconsciously programm its subconscious
@@mrwizard5012 No. Oh no.
The human _is_ the hook.
It makes a genuine, actual person in the image of whoever's feeding it perceives that person to be like.
Grandpa here? He might not be quite all there, but he's very much a human being.
This thing hunts intelligent prey that could see through "putting human clones on a dangler hook", and so it took the next logical step and made something much harder to see through, even for a particularly intelligent entity like a human.
There's a very important little detail toward the end of the game that most people who've watched/played don't seem to have noticed. In one of the medical files, one of Dr. Hart's students (possibly the vanished student?) begins to doubt that Whiskers possesses any form of sentience or even consciousness. Essentially, they are accusing Hart of anthropomorphizing the creature: the act of ascribing human traits to non-human entities that are incapable of fully exhibiting those traits. It's an eternal topic of debate in the field of behavioral science. And that's part of why i love this little game so much. It's full of little references to academia, and the humanities field's constant friction between intellectualism and spiritualism (or more accurately, to what degree the two can coexist before either -ism begins to become subsumed by the other).
Yet Grandpa's existence completely sidesteps that debate. It neither craves meaning nor has a higher purpose. It exists simply to exist. All of its philosophical musings and wise insights are the amalgamation of thought patterns from previous minds who fed it 'info,' which is especially creepy once you realize that the creature's speech is a mashup of high intellectual concepts and simple desires (such as its repeated statements of how it loves Adrienne, like a grandpa should!). As horrifying as the creature is, there is a chance that it is just a reactive doll: we imprint thought-symbols onto it and it reflects those thoughts back to us, achieving its ultimate goal of getting close to a host and reproducing itself. It really is sympathetic magic made manifest (sympathetic magic is a concept from Anthropology where certain rituals imitate actions done to representations of things/people, which will make those actions happen to the real things/individuals e.g., the pop culture conception of a voodoo doll). Whiskers is perfectly suited to living among/in humans because *it preys on our ability to seek patterns* , a concept whose exploration was long overdue in the horror genre. The true horror of Growing My Grandpa is the realization that living beings are nothing more than sequences of patterns strung from one event to the next. Wonderful stuff.
Also, I don't think anyone's mentioned how the vanished student was likely 'infected' before disappearing. Grandpa and Adrienne's parents also "disappear" after the creature makes more meat puppets in the Contract Fulfilled ending, after all. Makes you wonder whether the student sought meaning in the flesh-doll called Whiskers and thus became its victim, or if they were the subject of one of Dr. Hart's experiments. Maybe Grandpa wasn't such a good person after all.
EDIT: There's a very useful, currently relevant metaphor for thinking about how the Whiskers entity functions, and that's AI chatbots. They mimic sentience, yet all they're doing is picking up on human thought patterns. They can't understand context, or if they do, they can't comprehend why those structures are important to us. They only use context to construct more patterns. We fool ourselves with this illusion time and time again, thinking we've made contact with some divine spark of life every single time an AI chatbot surfaces (dating all the way back to the 1960s with ELIZA). Yet all we're doing is feeding a human construct patterns. It's sympathetic magic all over again. Which is funny, because I just found a 'review' of Growing my Grandpa online that was almost certainly written by a chatbot. It almost fooled me until I started seeing repeated patterns and glitches in the article's text.
I could also be entirely wrong. Maybe like what Key Abrade above me and others have said, the flesh puppets that the Whiskers nucleus creates are actually humans... in a way. Perhaps Grandpa sincerely did love and care for Adrienne. Perhaps it truly felt sorrow knowing that it was a mere lure for its creator. Maybe it was fully aware that it would soon be cast off and discarded like the Anthropoid Little Friends, like the idea of a writer pulled out of the brain that created it and dropped onto a page. With this interpretation, the melancholy music that plays during the Grandpa conversations takes on an entirely new dimension.
As far as I can tell, this "Grandpa" in the story is some kind of ancient psychic organism that becomes what the person caring for it wants and expects it to become. That's kind of interesting.
Or actually... It just forms what it needs to convince the human to feed it, and it does what they want if it made a blood contract...
I think that, by what the almost fully formed Grandpa said, the organism is composed of the image the feeder wants (in this case, Adrienne's grandfather) and the nucleus, which remembers every death and birth of the organism, and is in charge of growing the organism via the whiskers.
Grandpa says that the nucleus is the more "animal" part of him.
So I agree with you that it's an ancient psychic organism, but it doesn't BECOME what the person caring of it wants, more like it morphs a part of itself to fit its feeder's desire, but inside is always the same organism.
@@moth-corpse there seemed to be a part of a separate mind in there, that it created, that actually cared, as it sort of warned her, saying something like "I might not (be able to control it), whatever happens, your grandpa loves you"
@Zoomer Stasi on the other hand, a living being with such abilities would be seen as a kind of demon like that by ancient people
@@bengoodwin2141 It is kind of like in Resident Evil 8 where they treat the virus as something supernatural instead of scientific.
@@bengoodwin2141That part tore me up the most. There's a mind inside that loves Adrienne, but it'll never get to actually be with her after Whiskers leaves.
*"Do your parents fight a lot?"*
*"Only when they aren't rutting like crazed weasels. I've seen some shit. Don't even get me started about Grandpa."*
"Grandpa's into some REEEEEAAL weird tentacle shite mane"
@Zoomer Stasi your parents dont love you do they?
@Zoomer Stasi says the actual card carrying slur shouting sponge for brain nazi
follow your leader fascist. it would make the world a better place
Yames is a goddamn mastermind of horror. Water womb world and Discover my body are so underrated, they deserve much more attention just like the author themselves.
"Too much doubt can suffocate even the surest thing. Only with patience and growth and nurturing does something become what it will be"
This creature is spitting some deep shit, bro. I love it.
Yames is really an artistic genius. He has a way with setting a mood that very few people can do.
Interesting. So "Whiskers" is an undying entity that is capable of "growing" copies of people. It has existed since before the existence of human civilization, and seems to absorb the memories, and knowledge of each person it copies, or it somehow actually pulls the person into being. Depends on how truthful you think late-stage Grandpa was being, in that He was him, but was also the Whiskers and the Whiskers controlled him. I suppose a being with all of a persons memories and knowledge would also think of themselves as that being.
So, the girl,unknowingly, made a pact with a "demon" to bring her grandfather back, and make peace within her family.
The Grandfather-Entity, whether it fully is Grandfather or not is moot, as Whiskers ultimately was in control. Once Grandfather-Entity was fully grown, it exited the shell, and created Pod-People copies of her parents, presumably with all their knowledge and memories, but changed to not fight and dote on the the daughter more.
Honestly not a bad ending for having a pact with a demon.
@@alexiarubberslut For the girl, yes.
For her parents... oof.
@@DisemboweII oh well, they shouldn't have been fighting and abusing their own daughter, hehehe 😈
Gotta love demon things that hold up their end of the bargain without fucking you up
Honestly, I don't see any way this could be considered a bad ending. Girl isn't inhabited by Whiskers, her parents are back to normal and they both love her...
Still hoping for the day we can see the Mystery Flesh Pit National Park through Yames’ eyes. The juxtaposition of dry scientific text with bizarre and uncanny scenarios is already a staple of internet fiction (see also everything having to do with the back rooms and the SCP foundation) but Yames has such a talent for visual and auditory art that I feel they’re a perfect fit for depicting the dreamlike, anxious but also somehow nostalgic atmosphere of the park.
Let's see here, a small child exploring a basement full of body horror while their parents fight upstairs. What is this, a rougelite?
oh wow this really is The Binding of Isaac 2
it's *almost* coraline
Little Girl: Bruh there is LITERALLY a nightmare monster in my basement.
Therapist: Hm, yes. Tell me more about your relationship with your parents.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar guys. Or a nightmare monster.
Yeah, i've heard an awful lot about some therapists trying to find meaning in regular occurences like a person having their car break down being taken as them not wanting to get better.
try telling that shit to matpat
@@dr.cheeze5382
Therapy is dumb as hell.
"Okay I talked about my problems.. WOW! They're still there! And I already knew what they were!"
It's just like real life. There are a lot of therapists who think they're paying attention to you, but they're really paying attention to themselves. You're just a fantasy of a person who is there only for them to play with like a puzzle to prove how smart they are - whether they actually helped you or not.
Advice: if you get a bad therapist, ditch them. There are also amazing therapists out there.
I might be misinterpreting it, but I think the parents are not replaced by clones in the upheld ending. Whiskers seems able to create and manipulate flesh by feeding on memories and symbolism (which is how it made "Grandpa") but from the failed ending it seems like it's also able to influence the minds of others. Also worth noting that it cannot be split (an early note mentions that no living mass can be removed from the whole) so her parents might not have any Whiskers in them. I think they were just mentally influenced to go into the basement (she doesn't mention that her parents were kinder before they meet Whiskers, only that she didn't hear them arguing) and Whiskers upheld his end of the bargain by remaking their minds to love their daughter more.
As for "Grandpa", I think he was basically a hollow puppet. His growth wasn't actually him developing flesh (he wasn't made from flesh to begin with) but it was Whiskers gaining more strength to imitate the living better. However, the persona of the puppet seemed to be separate yet linked to Whiskers-- it is willing to share Whiskers' knowledge that, if it was acting in bad faith, it probably wouldn't share. Little friends, the proboscis, its memories of its own deaths... all things that prove he's not human, yet he was mysteriously happy to share it.
Maybe that's the nature of the bargain? Whiskers gets sustenance by imitating others and feeding on perception, but the process of imitating creates a split personality in its mind. The personality initially helps Whiskers get more food, but then begins to backfire as the perception wants to fulfill its purpose (specifically, granting the wish that created the personality to begin with). For some reason, Whiskers is unable to destroy or reject this split personality so it fulfills this wish. Without a purpose the personality merges back into Whiskers, the puppet is discarded, and it is free to...do whatever it does when it's free. We only ever saw it contained or about to feed... fittingly for Yames this creature is otherwise incomprehensible.
so there is lesson of the day kids, be nice to your children or an eldritch abomination will turn you inside out.
Shouldnt this be a lesson for adults?
“It is not enough to just wish, which you know will not work, you must wish and a little more, to transform your intention into something that might fructify, or for desire to become reality.”
I was not expecting such a profoundly inspiring and uplifting quote from such a horrifying game.
the only wholesome game a horror director rarely makes
At 53:01, that is terrifyingly accurate, i had dreams like that where a bunch of people i knew where together in some not so random situation. It's like a mixture of memories, or your strongest memories, put together.
Grunting inherently and locomoting to various favored corners of the dank stone basement certainly sounds like relatable, everyday routine....
We need a sequel with Adrienne sharing the gift of Grandpa with others.
What gets me is like, both endings are weirdly wholesome? Like, in one, her abusive parents are...changed? Eaten? Not sure. Yames, am I right? Anyway, her new/changed parents love her, and she's no longer mentally ill because she was given the gift of love.
But even in the other ending, it could very easily be interpreted as...not necessarily BAD, but different. Now the Whiskers and Adrienne are one and the same. She's still herself...or is she? Or are the Whiskers using what our narrator knows about Adrienne to form a ruse to eat him? Both are plausible, but I like to think that is genuinely her, and she's just...genuinely showing her councilor her Grandpa. It makes the game easily the most weirdly wholesome game Yames has ever Yamesed. Plus I like the idea of shirking a standard "good end, bad end" for a more nebulous thing where the endings are very different, and there's clearly a preferred ending, but the other ending isn't a punishment for not playing the game right - it's just different.
No matter how off the mark I am, Yames is an absolute legend in indie game design. No other horror games get me really *thinking* the way Yames' do. They're very philosophical in a way a lot of mainstream horror won't begin to tackle.
@@traewilson5127 I don't consider the first ending a truly good one, mainly because it just looks like her parents were lobotomized/brainwashed into loving their daughter.
This is the best interpretation of a demon I have seen in a long time... Probably my favorite ever. Sooooo good!!!
This reeks late 1990s text based adventure games.
I need..... more!
This game is too weird, interesting, bizarre and fantastical to not finish.
I thought "Whiskers" was a cat at first, but my memory changed that erroneous thought quickly.
👍🏻😊
If my cat looked like THAT, I'd scream!!
@@0_dearghealach_083 me too! 😲😊
13:00 The fiberglass insulation is to the right of the "Cabinet" in the "Trash Pile".
The "Cashews" are in "Go To Study Corner", "Search File Cabinet 1".
The "Battery" is in the "Trash Pile" to the left of "The Door"
I love the foreshadowing on the vent scare. The entity was collecting information to imitate sounds that Grandpa would make just as it had done to the bodies in the graveyard. Spooky!
_"I may not be able to act how I would like, even if I do love you."_
That's actually sad. Even if this entity cares for you, It can't stop it's desires.
This is legitimate creepy, even if you want to stop the process, in the ending you know its already too late to stop the creature, it has grown so much that the only thing that you can do is to sacrifice the family or yourself , which also means failing the sacrifice. I'd never sleep for good if I knew that there's a fucked up creature in my basement ready to escape at his own willing.
Tulpa turned into an eldritch biological entity it seems. This was a cool look at this game, makes me want to check it out if only to see the extra notes.
The music when you communicste with it, its so strong. It feels sad, melancholic, nostalgic even, and it makes sense. The little girl most likely knows her grandpas dead, but doesnt want to face it. Of course she wouldnt, shes still so young. When you communicate with it, specially in the later stage, it feels so... So good, but so wrong. We know theres something amiss, hell even the little girl might feel it, but at the same time, you have grandpa in front of you, maybe not physically yet, but he talks to you, hes back, and hes saying he loves you and he appreciates your love for him. Combined with the talk about wishes, desperation, and all of that, it just feels so intense. Its a reunion for the little girl, but we know its much much worse, and yet at the same time i feel good myself, i havent finished the video yet. The music has me hoping that, somehow, itll all work out in the end, just like the little girl most likely, i just want her to be reunited with her grandpa, and for her parents to fulfil her wish.
I was so sad when it was revealed that the "grandpa" inside Whiskers was discarded. Whiskers held up its end of the bargain, but Grandpa is forever gone now :(
@@joe____ maybe when whiskers takes over the world, adrienne will be spared?
@themosaicshow I feel like Whiskers (and its hypothetical species?) don't aim to do that. They've existed since the beginning of humanity, yet have remained under the radar. Rather, they seem content just subsisting off of humanity and coexisting with us.
@@joe____ fair enough
the conversations with grandpa make me so sad for some reason. the genuine affection he has for adrienne just hits me straight in the heart
i wonder if whiskers even realized it.
Yames is a god of indie horror.
Also, in this game i can see a clear reference to The Grandmother movie by a David Lynch
I think I understand what’s happening, for one, let’s get this out of the way right now, that wasn’t her grandpa, and even in the “happy” ending, those weren’t her parents, whatever the whiskers are, it is very manipulative in nature. even if it’s hard to understand, the answers it gives to her over the course of the weeks are all the same answer, “grandpa” in any of its forms is the bridge between the whiskers and whoever summoned it, that’s why her eyes are his eyes, because “grandpa” is becoming what she wants him to be, not who he was, when she was “teaching” it concepts it was more like she was teaching herself what she wanted, what she needed, in a way the therapist was right, it was all made up, she was using the experience to work through her problems, unfortunately, someone else was listening, and though it was willing to give her what she wanted it wouldn’t do it for free. “grandpa” was like a sentient puppet, her thoughts given life with the whiskers working as its subconscious, a vehicle so the whiskers could get what it wanted, whether she fulfilled the end of her deal or not. in the happier ending, it does the same to her parents, they become who she wanted them to be. I don’t think it’s a hive mind, it’s more like all the dead (or at least not alive) things of the universe deciding it wants to live, like a cell refusing to die and trying to spread itself in cancerous undeath, like a sentient eternity. I don’t think it brings things back from the dead either, because even if it “thinks” it’s her grandpa it has none of the memories or opinions of her grandpa, when remembering the day those pictures of Adrienne’s parents ended up in the basement, “grandpa” speaks from the whisker’s perspective, instead of his own and he doesn’t seem to think of Adrienne’s mom as his daughter, only of Adrienne as his granddaughter. Instead of a hivemind-like connection to the afterlife and the dead, it seems more like the homunculi can just remember the people it’s been before, throwing out the parts of itself that it doesn’t currently need to better fit the mold of whoever it’s trying to act as, that’s why it’s so abstract at the beginning, it isn’t only because “grandpa” doesn’t have a complete body that it struggles with communication at the beginning it doesn’t have an identity yet, it hasn’t seen itself through the eyes of its victim long enough to know what it wants, or even what it is, and because it clearly isn’t human, it also struggles with human concepts such as paper, calling it strips of bark, that’s probably why it only ever attempts to communicate if actively interacted with. For what it’s worth though, i do believe “grandpa” did mean it when it said it loved her and didn’t want to hurt her, even if it was only because she thought that, but even if she made the car, she ultimately was not the one driving it.
Have fun and Explore the basement! Don't forget to clean up down there to make it look nice! _GRANDPA ENJOYED THE OFFERING OF FLESH FROM THE THOUGHTCREATIONS_ Have a fun conversation with gramps! Enjoy some bonding time! _GRANDPA HAS EXPOSED HIS PROBOSCIS AND ACCEPTED YOUR BLOOD AS OFFERING_ Don't forget to take out the trash on your way out!
Such a fun, wholesome, and silly little game. ^_^
You can tell it's Yames just by weird names and bodyhorror themes
I love the creepy pre rendered look so much. Here's to hoping it becomes more of a thing in the future!
probably my favorite Yames game so far, loving his longer content. gives the ideas more room to develop. the notes are definitely worth the effort to read!!
I'm wishing for a Harvest Moon styled sequel. Cultivating crops, romancing the local ladies, satiating your collection of blood-hungry flesh monsters... Fun times!
Man this therapist sucks. Even if you don't believe the kid's story about an Eldritch Grandpa-Monster living in her basement, I'd be at least a little worried _someone_ was. Or there was something else potentially dangerous down there.
Growing my GRANDAD 7 times
"FLEENSTOONES?"
@@locomotivo4644 "dead memes?"
The detached objectivity of yames's characters and the disturbingly believable occult sciences and theologies undergirding the horror are like consistently unnerving across games. I'd pay to sit in on a lecture given by any of yames's characters.
Yames crankin' out the bangers as always.
Damn, what an experience. I was expecting ominous, disturbing body horror like Discover My Body, but this one is so much more. I definitely did not expect to get life advice I really needed from an eldritch entity with malformed flesh. The dialogue scenes were actually comforting that it baffled me, but evoking that kind of positive emotion in the most unlikely setting is what I think really sets this one apart from other typical horror games.
Despite being so horrifying, this game was so beautiful and heartfelt!!
This is the most exquisitely weird thing I've seen in a long time. I love it.
I think, David Lynch had a short film about a boy growing a grandma for himself. And even then it wasn't so weird.
honestly not a bad ending. the girl gets to have her family back
Uh, good for her… I guess? This is really cool overall. Absolutely love the atmosphere and slow burn feel
> anthropoid thingy
> "Grandpa may enjoy its flesh."
OH NO. THE EXACT THING THE NOTE WARNED YOU NOT TO DO
edit: Oh no.
Wat happen??
@@suacemanaquiatan9380 -Burger King Foot Lettuce-
Oddly, it also seems like feeding it flesh is the only way to complete the ritual. That may be why the scientists didn't do so. They didn't want it to finish growing, since that would have interrupted their studies.
This gives me an Addams Family vibe, like this is Wednesday making some horrific creature in the basement.
I love the music and sound design
I’m a simple person.
I see Yames. I click.
This is something that can only be achieved through games, a prime example of why games are such a great medium, no movie, no comic, no animation allows you to live and experience it like this game allows
I see Yames, I click
Yames' other games never really unnerved me or grossed me out. This game, however, was fantastically creepy and made my skin crawl. I'm gonna go play it myself now
This is truly one of the most fascinating games I have seen, thoughtful and freaky, and endearing strangely enough as well!
An amazing creation!
The soundtrack, noises and ambience in this game are top notch. Here are my favorites:
0:14 Normal ambience
1:48 Basement ambience
1:55 Interact noise
3:25 Basement ambience 2
3:32 Interact noise 2
3:59 Interact noise 3
21:27 I'm not an expert, but if it waves at you with its t itty, it seems friendly.
The title kinda made me think of David Lynch's "The Grandmother" where a kid in a sad family grows himself a grandma
The only thing I could say is that in the end it's just an innocent child who wanted to be happy
Yames is one of my favorite eldritch/cosmic/body horror artist, big inspiration!!
I love monster growing games and this is probably the best one yet
This is strange and creepy to a degree, but the music is making this feel so weird. It's making the game strange and creepy, and weird. A trio mix. All i gotta say is yames is making interesting stuff with story and all.
Bravo!
Anyone else get sad when grandpa wasn't fed?
"There is something that sits at the root of everyone's soul that understands the separation between them and eternity."
I don't know why, but this resonated deeply with me.
The girl has a great talent as a warlock!
I thought it was some form of alchemy?
I mean, that's what homunculi come from. I don't know. It's all magic.
Yames killing it like always. Someone NEEDS to fund him so he can create a full fledged steam release horror game.
“Thoughts falling off of me.Dreams put there by others.”
i just teared up when he said this
The concepts listed in here remind me of a few concepts of esotericism, such as the idea of a Thoughtform or Tulpa. It's nicely blended in together with the struggle that occurs when someone cannot move on from a traumatic experience. The idea grows and grows within, it becomes more tangible because your mind makes it tangible and simply desires said tangibility.
so what the fuck happened there O:
SPOILERS
did "Grandpa" just produce some blank simulated parents for her after it ate them up?
That, or it 'fixed' the original parents.
Weirdly enough, watching you play these games convinced me to buy a Steam Deck. This game will be one of the very first ones that I'll be playing on it.
This game is just as strange as it is entertaining. I mean it's so strange that the kid went to all that trouble because she wanted her grandpa back and wanted her parents to stop fighting and now....um....that thing is on the loose.
On the bad ending, yes, but on the good ending, as the story suggest, the monster existed long ago, so it's just going to find a next person for the ritual.
@@ElementalAer I don't think you understood, in BOTH endings it's out there in the world at large doing stuff.
@@LostInTheFarmersMarket Yes, it's on my comment, now it's going to restart it's cycle.
@@ElementalAer So why then did you bother to comment if pretty much that's what I said in the first place, that regardless of ending it's still out there in the world doing whatever?
@@LostInTheFarmersMarket There's a little difference. On the "good ending", the creature could just returned to it's base state and started doing whatever it did before the real grandpa captured it (good or bad), on the bad ending we see it being just a parasite.
the sound design is so amazing
Imagine never checking the basement in your house
If eraserhead was a game
This reminds me of his short film The Grandmother which was one of his short films made before Eraserhead.
59:48 That made it all worth it, tbh. Knowing the kid's not sad anymore. Knowing the parents stopped fighting. Regardless of how it was done, it's clear this was a good thing.
I would love to see a live action movie with the same story.
Im 4 minutes inn and I like the sound effects.
Both the ambience and the ones when you look
or take things.
Everyone is praising how disturbing this is in the comments. I... Just don't see the issue with it? The game was described as "An Unsettling Body-Growing Horror Game", but the little girl grew a sentient that either receives its life purpose and fulfills it or correspondingly follows its creator in the lack of a purpose to find meaning. This is no different to humanity clinging to what they know of a creator god because the human lacks the understanding of their purpose in life.
The Contract represents the plain explanation of what Grandpa was created for "written" out in clear terms for fulfillment, lacking which the being she cultivated cast out the limited knowledge/identity it had for the best source of purpose it knew: its creator. The imagery and sound choice created a mildly eerie atmosphere, but Grandpa never seemed unsettling or horror-esque to me. Besides, Grandpa never really appeared threatening, just hungry and eager to learn.
Grandpa, stop hijacking youtube users and commenting under videos 🙄
@@CallN0w typical grandpa 🥰
Well ok whats wrong with that psychologist?When a fantasies about flesh monsters in the basement start to be normal?
The soundtrack is so chill
Oh my god I love grandpa. seriously I absolutely would nurture this creature in my home
Oh hell yes, more Yames stuff!
The track that plays when you talk to grandpa is so relaxing. I need it!
Reminds me of the short film The Grandmother by David Lynch about a lonely boy who grows a Grandmother from a seed
This is the kind of game I don't know if I would appreciate playing, but I definitely enjoyed the story. I am curious about doing certain things out of order or not performing certain actions, if possible...
Thanks for sharing!
Kinda sad that an eldritch creature is more of a human than her parents.
Yooo so this was Yames’s next Project? This is going to be GOOD
Watching this feels like staring into an Eldritch abyss of knowledge.