That subtle echo on your voice in the large room was so good and added a lot, and I wanted you to know that at least one person noticed it and appreciated it
Omg I didn't even think it was added post-production! I honestly thought IGP was there in that pool section because his voice had that echoey vibe to it, and I just accepted it because it felt logical for him to sound like that while I was watching! Great job, IGP -- the littlest things do count!
Thanks for playing! P. S. -- thanks for finding a bug for me to fix. I didn't think it was possible to skip the rooms in the reservoir (and see the black figure without it dissapearing lol). Clearly this beta isn't IGP-proof!
some liminal spaces can be calming or nostalgic at times. all things liminal intrigue me very much. weirdcore is also a cool style thats almost based off it, very strange but cool stuff
I was an over night security guard for a college campus and it was all this eerie! The buildings used to be a hospital and morgue for the soldiers during the civil war. The only new building was the gymnasium but it still was built a few decades when it was first turned into a girls college which was shut down after multiple drowning instances in the pool. They claimed they were suicides. They would find the girls in the pool in the morning. No matter what building I would go to I would feel watched. When I first started it was fine, at the end of the week I realized things were happening I had no explanation for. I began asking staff members about things like the electrical or if they left certain objects in their classes. By far the worst location was the third floor in the literature arts building. I would see people at the end of the hall, at first I thought it was students sneaking on campus later I disproved that with an incident probably better saved for a reddit story. One of the professors fell asleep one time and I woke him up at the start of my shift he freaked and said he never likes staying after dark while laughing at himself. I told him I hated this building the most at that when I got to the third floor I would literally run down the hallway to get done with my checks as soon as possible because of the intense feeling of dread I felt. He then told me the literature building used to be the hospital, the first floor was intake and patient rooms the second floor was staff offices and the third floor was the morgue. He then left in a hurry. I quit after 6 months because things just kept getting more and more unexplainable and intense, I felt like I was going crazy. I try to forget.
That's a big red flag for me... my uncle's friend during military service used to do patrols around the base and all, (the country is Algeria) the place was used during colonial times for torture purposes and according to him people used to see some real ugly things in there, some run away in wet pants...
If hell had a more personalized psychological bent to it, this is kind of like how I always imagined mine. An endless maze of liminal spaces based around various workplaces, living spaces and key moments of my life tinged with my insecurities and general character flaws, with a neverending sense of unease and the notion that someone or something is always just around the corner behind me.
All the while the experience is tinged with the nagging feeling that you've been here before and lived this before. Perhaps many times before. With every turn you feel like you know what's coming next, but it's at the edge of your mind - always just out of reach. You follow corridors that cannot exist. Corridors that must connect, do not connect. Spaces exist within other spaces. You walk out of one room to find yourself walking out onto the ceiling of the room your just left. From the outside, a room has four sides; from the inside it has five. You have no sense of direction and you are lost in a never ending maze of nonsensical architecture and space
When i was a kid, every new place i visited gave me liminal space vibes. And whenever i was going through serotonin syndrome, EVERYTHING gave me those scary vibes. terrifying
@@dollenrm Maybe not actually serotonin syndrome but i do have those experiences when taking antipsychotics. It makes me feel like everything around me is watching me. It's extremely anxiety inducing. I once experienced it while filming in a church feeling hundreds of eyes on the back of my head. Ended up enduring through it for 45min and then had a complete mental breakdown, my hands went completely stiff, my entire body started shaking violently to the point i had to be held down and hyperventilating for at least 2 hours straight until sedatives kicked in. As far as i know it has to do with dopamine receptors becoming supersensitive.
This whole game just got me thinking, how it would look like for my local water parks/swimming complexes when they're closed for the night. I'd be awestruck by its quiet ambience at night when it would have been full of people in the morning. We have closed malls and stores and buildings, but closed swimming pools give a whole other vibe to it, and I'm guessing the water adds to that vibe.
I love them, all throughout my life I always liked be alone at a pool or water park and few times I have got a pool to myself at motels or hotels, they actually make me happy and not scared personally
It’s so much worse than malls and stuff, I occasionally stay late at my job as a lifeguard to clean up and it’s awful especially not knowing what’s in the water cause when the lights are out it’s pitch black
Except when you realize if we are basing off realism, 1. Shark wouldn’t survive in fresh water with few exceptions, 2. A shark would need to be fed and kept alive (which means life exists down there intelligent life) this could be bad or good depending on your outlook, 3. Sharks aren’t Man-eaters, 4. sharks wouldn’t live in those conditions very long, honestly I would be more worried about being trapped god knows how deep underground with no outside contact, that or I am in some sort of eldritch hellscape so.
@@VainSick What if there's something worse than a shark in there? Something that can survive easily in water like that, and that particularly enjoys Humans as a food source. Something that, if it were anywhere else, would drive most life on our planet to extinction. Something that can drag you deep into those watery depths and make sure no one can hear you scream, should anyone ever find their way down there alongside you.
@@lordvoldemort1561 well good thing it’s not that deep or that opaque through out the park or else I would have considered a giant monster eating me, assuming it’s paranormal in nature and not some overly complex underground city or structure that’s abandoned.
@@VainSick 1. It's about the "what if". 2. "Not that deep"...? Have you actually seen the video? 3. You literally see floating figures in this game. Long story short, stop for a minute and just imagine if it was that deep, and how scary it would be if something were hiding somewhere deep in there.
i have a feeling the figure is another person trapped in the space. because a liminal space exists outside of normal reality, it's possible the laws of physics work differently there, leading to the teleporting. who knows? maybe the laws of time are different too, and the figure is actually you at different points in your journey. i mean, it's probably just a spooky guy, but liminal spaces usually don't resort to typical paranormal horror. could be something else 🤷♀
idea for the pool with something in it at 12:06; if there really is something at the bottom of the pool, you might be able to get deep enough to grab it by falling in through the hole above it like you did at 14:42.
It's awesome how many liminal space aesthetics are put into this game, even with the calming open scenery at the beginning. I (along with plenty of others) use this aesthetic to cope with different sets of trauma we've experienced. Commonly we only remember these moments as an isolated area stuck in time, so the photos can be both nostalgic and haunting. What a beautiful game, thank you for the playthrough!!!
Yes!!! Dont forget the winding overwhelming halls that correlated to the difficulty in remembering the trauma you've encountered- all the memories end up nauseating and confusing.
Yeah and this is the only game so far ive seen thats done liminal spaces right in my opinion, other liminal space games either just get the lighting or the sound a bit off which makes it not give the liminal space vibe
wow this is one of the most uncomfortable games ive seen. Like backrooms was something, but this is that with a hint of crack. please play more of this i am so stoked to see where it goes
1:45 the school hallways after school is a prime example of that feeling.. I remember a staircase we had in our old home and we had a three way switch, one at the top and bottom and to turn all the lights off you had to switch the bottom off and sprinting up the stairs always felt like pure tragedy because you could see the entire basement dark and the hallway was the onlt light
Oh my gosh. I swear It feels like I held my breath that entire time. Absolutely, terrifying. Also your commentary is my favorite IGP; half analyzing the game and doing things for your fans, and half complete terror and terrified groans lol. Thank you for another fantastic promotion of an indie game! p.s. - You definitely saw all that stuff you thought you saw, because I saw it too.
Did watching this give anyone else extreme anxiety and paranoia? It starts as confusion then turns into that of panic for me who has dreams of endless dark halls and the feeling of being watched while alone this game really gets into my head
Yes! I rarely get spooked but this set me off in a very strange and instinctive way, like I could feel the fear coming straight from my gut. You know, that weird feeling you get in nightmares and fever dreams of “losing it”.
13:08 I love how your immediate thought was "Oh, I guess since they're on the side of my screen, the game won't make them go away. You know what, this is the perfect time to sound really smart and cool!" and then turning just for them to stay there.... Not terror, but a sense of "Oh... Oh shit".
God, I've actually gotten this feeling a number of times over the past couple months. I work as an AV guy, hanging TV's, putting in speakers, and also running the wires FOR those things during the time that a house is actually being built. These past couple months, I've actually been sent to a couple of these houses later in the day to run some wires, and it always ended with me being the last one there, working in the dark via work lights. It wasn't usually the "Scared of the monsters in the dark" feeling I would get either, but a "Am I supposed to be here?" feeling, even though yes, I was a worker, I WAS supposed to be there doing my job. Watching this reminded me of how I felt at those times, and how I'd feel so much less tense after loading everything into my van, and leaving the house to drive home for the night.
Ok, the failed suburbia at the start is weird, not just the mowed lawn but like how long ago does it take for a community to be considered failed but for the sign to look so new
At the beginning I thought this game was lame, but then I realied the purpose of the game is to make you feel eerie in a big space where you are all alone, and then make you feel despair at not being able to find the exit, it was actually quite nice
I remember having nightmares like this as a child. Fuelled by seperation anxiety. I would dream about beeing in places like this desperately searching for an exit, always feeling a strange familiarity with my surroundings, but also quite paranoid about how each cycle changed the place I was in. Sometimes a door would disappear or everything would slowly be reduced to just one sealed room making me panic and wake up.
This game looks like The Backrooms in a nutshell. Whoever didn't know about it, the backrooms is a creepypasta that said to be located in an alternate universe/dimension that every place is abandoned and in some places entities are more frequent.
When you jumped into the pool in the first room I literally had a mini freak out even though nothing was there. I had that crazy feeling of eyes watching me the whole play through, you know when you feel that pressure between your shoulder blades.
I think the idea of liminal spaces is the suggestible nature of them. The reason they make you feel uneasy is the absence of people. It's always places that are crowded with people. Shopping malls, swimming pools, schools, all these places are never vacant when you are present. It's the idea that people SHOULD be there, and you can't immediately identify the reason for their absence. That's why they have such a unique effect. Next thing to add to that is the suggestion that someone could be there with you. The sounds you hear while playing like the voices and swimming sounds. Because you can't see them, you can't identify a potential threat and it adds to the suspence.
I have the opposite reaction to most liminal spaces, I find them calming and melancholic or exciting and freeing, now being 1000s of feet underground with no way out and with a shadow man or possibly something causing hallucinations is scary though
I also love empty pool spaces something about that makes me happy idk why, I loved whenever I got a pool to myself as a child and still do, wether it be a motel or hotel pool
My mind was playing tricks on me just watching this. When he was walking up the slide at around 18 min, I jumped because I thought for a split second there was something coming down towards.
The bathroom area is the most stress-inducing thing I have seen in a liminal space horror game, and I love it. Between the lockers, the bathroom doors, and the floating shadow dude chasing you, this part was beautifully executed.
I really hope this indie horror game gets finished and they expand on the story. Such an awesome concept for a psychological horror game and so unsettling.
@@JoshDike I dunno, for me it's just really cool, awe inspiring, somewhat exciting. Like imagine all the people who have experienced this place before, everything that has happened here, and now all that's here is me, and the memories of so many who came before. It's kinda humbling in a way.
liminal spaces are probably my biggest fear. I found that out when I was at the airport super late at night, I was walking through the food court and no lights were on and nobody was around. like, if I woke up in something like this I don't think I could even move, he whole time watching this video shivers were just going up my spine.
This looks SO disorientating, even seeing it in a relatively small window on my computer. I can't imagine how this is when you have to stare at the screen to navigate and it's taking up most of your field of view.
These videos got me through a high risk pregnancy and now through night feedings/shift on a very fussy newborn! Thanks to you, Icy, and Drae for keeping us entertained in the trial that is parenthood!
The architecture reminded me too much of how most of the architecture in my dreams is and it unsettled me... Aslo, apprently, I have a phobia of pools where you can't see their floors... specially when all you see is black/darkness....I really felt on edge to the point of looking away everytime you found a pool like that
im in love with this! this happened a lot in my dreams. you spawned in a big place that many people supposed to be there but you're all alone, gave you the feeling of anxiety. this is totally evokes my childhood fear, fear of being left alone, lonely, and lost.
I've never experienced that calming/awe/fear inducing feeling of liminal spaces, and I'm kinda jealous. I can look at the same images, video or even be there in person, but ...nothing. Maybe I'm just not wired right. I remember in college, I took Vet Assistant which meant all the students were on rotation to come in on weekends to walk the dogs, feed the shelter animals, etc. There was one set of tasks in the morning and one at night. Most people went home in between since it was the weekend, but I bussed from across town, so I just stayed. All alone in the vet building which was at the far end of campus near the soccer field. That day a heavy fog rolled in, to the point I could only see the nearest row of cars through the window. Nothing else, not the rest of the school, the street, pedestrians, etc. Nothing. In just 30 minutes, the world beyond the fog just disappeared. All I could think was how perfect a zombie movie scene it was. Then I went back to my homework. That was it, no sense of isolation, vertigo, anxiety, just a thought of "Wow, such a pretty fog. Would be cool if the world out there ended and zombies roamed the earth. Anyway, what's the difference between these types of forceps again?"
The text that every time you see a hole in the ceiling it means theres a endless loop of areas because as we saw when you jump over a wall you'll see a hole to fall down and its likely each wall there are holes behind to fall into areas that are still in the same area but not at same time
this is so amazing! this game gave me the most uncomfy vibes man lmao I'm glad i got to see this done by you! IGP the man of horror games! i love you & your videos so much! I can't wait to see the whats in store next for this one!
I remember walking down hallways of well-maintained, abandoned buildings my friends and I used to explore when we were twelve. Typically in the morning hours on a Sunday, because nobody would be outside, even on the roads nearby. Freaky, but still fun times.
I remember working at a mega mall on the 3rd floor in AZ. There was a hallway that led to each store/company in the back. Our hallway's were very industrial like so very rough, the floors with scratches and black marks from dolly's etc. They were just big enough to deliver packages or boxes, which used a really junky elevator that gave me the creeps from all the weird sounds it made. Glad don't have to deal with that anymore. haha.
That water part was actually quite pleasant, kinda calming. The toilets though is where the actual horror picked up a notch for me . Hope you`ll do a part 2 so we can see the ending and whether MC get out of there alive or not :)
YES finally a game with liminal spaces!! Nothing but simple areas that you believe are normal but at the same time, very off. I honestly love the designs that the creator put into this. Covered all the boxes and left zero crumbs.
I feel like this game is about advancing childhood fears. Starting at a young age a fear of extreme depths and heights, then a fear of exposure in a school locker room, so on so forth.
I’m not sure how to put this, but I love this game purely off of what I saw in this video. Everything about it, the pools, water park, mall, and all the other settings are perfect. Just the slightly warped and extended hallways and narrow corridors absolutely nail the almost nauseating feeling. Please play more of this.
Idk if it's the movie's or something else. But I haaaaatttte walking alone in a empty hallway or something. I feel like it's something not human behind me.
Dude the fact that you take the time to make it feel like you’re in large rooms or such with the way you edit the audios in all the games you play always makes me really appreciate what you do. I can’t tell you dude how much we all love ya xx
I get that feeling you talk about at the begining everytime i go to HR departament in my workplace. I have to go through some wide, high ceiling, quiet, empty (not counting few shelves and some plants) and half lit hallways to get there. I'm always getting goosebumps
i absolutely love the slight reverb you added to your voice in the pool scene, such an amazing little detail. Things like that are the reason you still have me coming back to your channel
like how he worries about the deep pool, but i’m pretty sure there’s a pool that goes way deeper in real life that’s used for like free diving and other such activities
I used to work as a security guard at an absolutely massive hospital with a few sub levels ad maintenance areas. The night-time lockup and 5am unlock were super creepy. I still remember when the first IT movie was announced, I was thinking about how I was going to go see it the next day with my brother-in-law, and got the creeps thinking about it. I bumped into a late-night office worker who was staying behind in the deserted admin area and he scared the shit out of me. We both had a laugh about it but it was the most terrifying IRL moment I ever had.
I hope there’s more videos of this game cause I bloody love it and I was so deep in trans watching you play it and just hearing the lights so loudly and you talking was so good I had to put my headphones on
The human mind makes everything terrifying. Sometimes it is depended on trauma or just fear in general. Just making a place darker can add fear to something. This game is a perfect example of the human mind and the way someone can add fear to something by just a few details.
Example: the part where IGP dives into the pool you can see 2 white lights looking like eyes giving a eerie feeling of being watched. Without that detail it would give a less creepy vibe to the pool.
It’s a mixture of the brain constantly seeking out threats, the subversion of everyday expectations of the environments and Pareidolia which causes people fear of these otherwise pretty peaceful spaces.
Used to clean elevators in a highrise in Mexico, a lot of offices and meeting rooms, all busy during the morning and afternoon. But I cleaned them at night, so I got a lot of spaces like this, parking lots, offices and meeting rooms. And yes, seeing a parking lot empty at 3-4 in the morning is really wild....
The one thing about liminal spaces is you get the urge to run. As running will get you to the end quicker, being in the middle of that liminal space makes you feel unsfe and like you are being watched.
I believe the only experience I've had with liminal spaces were when the virus first hit and the city streets were empty. No honking, there were no cars. Store signs on, there were no pedestrians. Completely empty streets that were once brimming with life and action. Extremely unnerving.
It's not as unsettling when you're just watching it happen, but if I was ever actually in this situation I'd for sure end up just sitting down and rocking back and forth after like an hour of not getting anywhere. I would just fully lose my mind and panic lmao
That subtle echo on your voice in the large room was so good and added a lot, and I wanted you to know that at least one person noticed it and appreciated it
i noticed it :3 and he has done it countless times before he a good gamerr
Omg I didn't even think it was added post-production! I honestly thought IGP was there in that pool section because his voice had that echoey vibe to it, and I just accepted it because it felt logical for him to sound like that while I was watching! Great job, IGP -- the littlest things do count!
That was his voice, I thought it was just the background music
Love you, dude.
I'm surprised you don't have a verification tag
Thanks for playing!
P. S. -- thanks for finding a bug for me to fix. I didn't think it was possible to skip the rooms in the reservoir (and see the black figure without it dissapearing lol). Clearly this beta isn't IGP-proof!
Hey hey! This game was great! Glad IGP was the one to play it for us
This game really mess me up. It freak the hell out of me.
Your game is nuts!, well done for what you have done
Your game fullfils its purpose.
No joke...you have just made a game about my reoccurring nightmares of endless gymnasium bathrooms. Thank you, SO MUCH.
some liminal spaces can be calming or nostalgic at times. all things liminal intrigue me very much. weirdcore is also a cool style thats almost based off it, very strange but cool stuff
Yeah! The pool was weirdly calming to me because I love water and pools.
Schools and hotels/dorms at night are amazing long as you’re not alone
Whoever made this game. Props to them, this is so uniquely unsettling....
It's one developer. Amazing
There's just something bout staring at the water only to be met by an seemingly endless abyss especially when alone
You should be able to figure out who made it being the developer commented on the video
@@Mound_Maker Stare into the abyss long enough and the abyss stares back into you.
I literally dreamed about a place just like in this game...
This game really messes with the players mind. IGP himself started to doubt if he actually saw the stuff, that's good horror game design.
Thats why i like psychologic horror games so much!
On me bro such a banger of a game!
agreed
I was an over night security guard for a college campus and it was all this eerie! The buildings used to be a hospital and morgue for the soldiers during the civil war. The only new building was the gymnasium but it still was built a few decades when it was first turned into a girls college which was shut down after multiple drowning instances in the pool. They claimed they were suicides. They would find the girls in the pool in the morning. No matter what building I would go to I would feel watched. When I first started it was fine, at the end of the week I realized things were happening I had no explanation for. I began asking staff members about things like the electrical or if they left certain objects in their classes. By far the worst location was the third floor in the literature arts building. I would see people at the end of the hall, at first I thought it was students sneaking on campus later I disproved that with an incident probably better saved for a reddit story. One of the professors fell asleep one time and I woke him up at the start of my shift he freaked and said he never likes staying after dark while laughing at himself. I told him I hated this building the most at that when I got to the third floor I would literally run down the hallway to get done with my checks as soon as possible because of the intense feeling of dread I felt. He then told me the literature building used to be the hospital, the first floor was intake and patient rooms the second floor was staff offices and the third floor was the morgue. He then left in a hurry. I quit after 6 months because things just kept getting more and more unexplainable and intense, I felt like I was going crazy. I try to forget.
That place is haunted
That's a big red flag for me... my uncle's friend during military service used to do patrols around the base and all, (the country is Algeria) the place was used during colonial times for torture purposes and according to him people used to see some real ugly things in there, some run away in wet pants...
That is some unsettling shit...glad you got out of there lol
@@abdilokman6513 if any building was used for bad things or have bad thing happen, strange things will start happening
@@daisyjoy242 yeah, wouldn't spend a second in such places...
The level of immersion man.
I love the way he edited his voice to match the echo in the pool.
I F LOVE IT.
Glad you enjoyed.
i think it was part of the game some atmosphere to ass to the creepiness
If hell had a more personalized psychological bent to it, this is kind of like how I always imagined mine. An endless maze of liminal spaces based around various workplaces, living spaces and key moments of my life tinged with my insecurities and general character flaws, with a neverending sense of unease and the notion that someone or something is always just around the corner behind me.
All the while the experience is tinged with the nagging feeling that you've been here before and lived this before. Perhaps many times before. With every turn you feel like you know what's coming next, but it's at the edge of your mind - always just out of reach. You follow corridors that cannot exist. Corridors that must connect, do not connect. Spaces exist within other spaces. You walk out of one room to find yourself walking out onto the ceiling of the room your just left. From the outside, a room has four sides; from the inside it has five. You have no sense of direction and you are lost in a never ending maze of nonsensical architecture and space
When i was a kid, every new place i visited gave me liminal space vibes. And whenever i was going through serotonin syndrome, EVERYTHING gave me those scary vibes. terrifying
When did you have serotonin syndrome? Thats usually fatal
@@dollenrm not always, if its treated properly its survivable
@@dollenrm Maybe not actually serotonin syndrome but i do have those experiences when taking antipsychotics. It makes me feel like everything around me is watching me. It's extremely anxiety inducing. I once experienced it while filming in a church feeling hundreds of eyes on the back of my head. Ended up enduring through it for 45min and then had a complete mental breakdown, my hands went completely stiff, my entire body started shaking violently to the point i had to be held down and hyperventilating for at least 2 hours straight until sedatives kicked in. As far as i know it has to do with dopamine receptors becoming supersensitive.
This whole game just got me thinking, how it would look like for my local water parks/swimming complexes when they're closed for the night. I'd be awestruck by its quiet ambience at night when it would have been full of people in the morning. We have closed malls and stores and buildings, but closed swimming pools give a whole other vibe to it, and I'm guessing the water adds to that vibe.
I love them, all throughout my life I always liked be alone at a pool or water park and few times I have got a pool to myself at motels or hotels, they actually make me happy and not scared personally
It’s so much worse than malls and stuff, I occasionally stay late at my job as a lifeguard to clean up and it’s awful especially not knowing what’s in the water cause when the lights are out it’s pitch black
I immediately was freaking out about him being in that first pool because obviously that's a pool a shark would be in 😫
A shark in a pool as deep as that would be the least of my worries.
Except when you realize if we are basing off realism, 1. Shark wouldn’t survive in fresh water with few exceptions, 2. A shark would need to be fed and kept alive (which means life exists down there intelligent life) this could be bad or good depending on your outlook, 3. Sharks aren’t Man-eaters, 4. sharks wouldn’t live in those conditions very long, honestly I would be more worried about being trapped god knows how deep underground with no outside contact, that or I am in some sort of eldritch hellscape so.
@@VainSick What if there's something worse than a shark in there?
Something that can survive easily in water like that, and that particularly enjoys Humans as a food source.
Something that, if it were anywhere else, would drive most life on our planet to extinction.
Something that can drag you deep into those watery depths and make sure no one can hear you scream, should anyone ever find their way down there alongside you.
@@lordvoldemort1561 well good thing it’s not that deep or that opaque through out the park or else I would have considered a giant monster eating me, assuming it’s paranormal in nature and not some overly complex underground city or structure that’s abandoned.
@@VainSick 1. It's about the "what if".
2. "Not that deep"...?
Have you actually seen the video?
3. You literally see floating figures in this game.
Long story short, stop for a minute and just imagine if it was that deep, and how scary it would be if something were hiding somewhere deep in there.
i have a feeling the figure is another person trapped in the space. because a liminal space exists outside of normal reality, it's possible the laws of physics work differently there, leading to the teleporting. who knows? maybe the laws of time are different too, and the figure is actually you at different points in your journey. i mean, it's probably just a spooky guy, but liminal spaces usually don't resort to typical paranormal horror. could be something else 🤷♀
Since when a liminal space (except the backrooms creepypasta) exists outside of normal reality?
@@lyrl0153 Since now I guess
Ya the creepy creatures being you the whole time is always a fun twist when it makes sense.
Um some Liminal spaces are real
idea for the pool with something in it at 12:06; if there really is something at the bottom of the pool, you might be able to get deep enough to grab it by falling in through the hole above it like you did at 14:42.
It's awesome how many liminal space aesthetics are put into this game, even with the calming open scenery at the beginning. I (along with plenty of others) use this aesthetic to cope with different sets of trauma we've experienced. Commonly we only remember these moments as an isolated area stuck in time, so the photos can be both nostalgic and haunting. What a beautiful game, thank you for the playthrough!!!
Forgot to mention the multiple "entity's" scattered throughout the game which is often a placeholder for the people we thought to remember there.💫💫💫
Yes!!! Dont forget the winding overwhelming halls that correlated to the difficulty in remembering the trauma you've encountered- all the memories end up nauseating and confusing.
Yeah and this is the only game so far ive seen thats done liminal spaces right in my opinion, other liminal space games either just get the lighting or the sound a bit off which makes it not give the liminal space vibe
God, it gives me chills when you think of it as your house, and the realism...
Me: Wow my house got huge
Yess when you go out for a snack and turn the lights
(Mansion owners when they need to find their car keys)
the property taxes are the real nightmare here.
Yeah.
Damn, the dark pool gave me thalassophobia vibes mixed with that uneasy liminal feeling. I physically cringed when you jumped back in.
The slight echo in igp's voice in the swimming pool area is a nice touch
wow this is one of the most uncomfortable games ive seen. Like backrooms was something, but this is that with a hint of crack. please play more of this i am so stoked to see where it goes
1:45 the school hallways after school is a prime example of that feeling.. I remember a staircase we had in our old home and we had a three way switch, one at the top and bottom and to turn all the lights off you had to switch the bottom off and sprinting up the stairs always felt like pure tragedy because you could see the entire basement dark and the hallway was the onlt light
Oh my gosh. I swear It feels like I held my breath that entire time. Absolutely, terrifying. Also your commentary is my favorite IGP; half analyzing the game and doing things for your fans, and half complete terror and terrified groans lol. Thank you for another fantastic promotion of an indie game!
p.s. - You definitely saw all that stuff you thought you saw, because I saw it too.
Now we know what IGP would act like if he was in Stranger Things.
Like he always reacts to strange things?
@@JakanA Stranger Things is a show
Finally a game that captures all my phobias at the same time.
Now To Play It In VR And Give Ourselves A Panic Attack.. 😭
Did watching this give anyone else extreme anxiety and paranoia? It starts as confusion then turns into that of panic for me who has dreams of endless dark halls and the feeling of being watched while alone this game really gets into my head
the feels really kicked in with the shower rooms...
@@jessewarner1983 I agree fully especially when the figure started coming thru the wall I was thinking “no no no shadow person big nope!”
Yes! I rarely get spooked but this set me off in a very strange and instinctive way, like I could feel the fear coming straight from my gut. You know, that weird feeling you get in nightmares and fever dreams of “losing it”.
@@UnsuspectingCommenterPassingBy ik exactly what you mean this game is good but it’s just pure nightmare fuel
Great now I’m gonna freak out every time I park in my underground parking lot thanks igp
Haha you're welcome :)
I already feel unsettled by underground parking lots and this made my fear worse I think.
13:08 I love how your immediate thought was "Oh, I guess since they're on the side of my screen, the game won't make them go away. You know what, this is the perfect time to sound really smart and cool!" and then turning just for them to stay there.... Not terror, but a sense of "Oh... Oh shit".
God, I've actually gotten this feeling a number of times over the past couple months. I work as an AV guy, hanging TV's, putting in speakers, and also running the wires FOR those things during the time that a house is actually being built. These past couple months, I've actually been sent to a couple of these houses later in the day to run some wires, and it always ended with me being the last one there, working in the dark via work lights.
It wasn't usually the "Scared of the monsters in the dark" feeling I would get either, but a "Am I supposed to be here?" feeling, even though yes, I was a worker, I WAS supposed to be there doing my job. Watching this reminded me of how I felt at those times, and how I'd feel so much less tense after loading everything into my van, and leaving the house to drive home for the night.
Ok, the failed suburbia at the start is weird, not just the mowed lawn but like how long ago does it take for a community to be considered failed but for the sign to look so new
based basil pfp
@@kirbcake This is my son and you will respect him.
Man I need to get omori
At the beginning I thought this game was lame, but then I realied the purpose of the game is to make you feel eerie in a big space where you are all alone, and then make you feel despair at not being able to find the exit, it was actually quite nice
I played this game some months back and I must say it was an experience. I was soooo hyped to see this uploaded.
Is that where the game ends?
@@purelyimagine7533 Yep, its still in development, so I was surprised when I saw all the new content that was added.
I remember having nightmares like this as a child. Fuelled by seperation anxiety. I would dream about beeing in places like this desperately searching for an exit, always feeling a strange familiarity with my surroundings, but also quite paranoid about how each cycle changed the place I was in.
Sometimes a door would disappear or everything would slowly be reduced to just one sealed room making me panic and wake up.
This game looks like The Backrooms in a nutshell.
Whoever didn't know about it, the backrooms is a creepypasta that said to be located in an alternate universe/dimension that every place is abandoned and in some places entities are more frequent.
If you're interested, Kane Pixels is doing what some are considering to be one of the best series about the Backrooms so far.
When you jumped into the pool in the first room I literally had a mini freak out even though nothing was there. I had that crazy feeling of eyes watching me the whole play through, you know when you feel that pressure between your shoulder blades.
If this has VR, you could put people on a threadmill and they'd power whole cities with panicked running through these spaces.
I think the idea of liminal spaces is the suggestible nature of them. The reason they make you feel uneasy is the absence of people. It's always places that are crowded with people. Shopping malls, swimming pools, schools, all these places are never vacant when you are present.
It's the idea that people SHOULD be there, and you can't immediately identify the reason for their absence. That's why they have such a unique effect.
Next thing to add to that is the suggestion that someone could be there with you. The sounds you hear while playing like the voices and swimming sounds. Because you can't see them, you can't identify a potential threat and it adds to the suspence.
Dude that echo on ur voice in the large spaces is dope as hell
Glad you liked it :)
@@IGP WHILE I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION WHEN DO WE GET AN OOMPAVILLE COLLAB
@@gorillanoodles I ALREADY DID ONE
@@IGP WE WANT MORE
I have the opposite reaction to most liminal spaces, I find them calming and melancholic or exciting and freeing, now being 1000s of feet underground with no way out and with a shadow man or possibly something causing hallucinations is scary though
I also love empty pool spaces something about that makes me happy idk why, I loved whenever I got a pool to myself as a child and still do, wether it be a motel or hotel pool
My mind was playing tricks on me just watching this. When he was walking up the slide at around 18 min, I jumped because I thought for a split second there was something coming down towards.
I had the same thing happening haha, I almost jumped out of my chair because I was so on edge!
The bathroom area is the most stress-inducing thing I have seen in a liminal space horror game, and I love it. Between the lockers, the bathroom doors, and the floating shadow dude chasing you, this part was beautifully executed.
I really hope this indie horror game gets finished and they expand on the story. Such an awesome concept for a psychological horror game and so unsettling.
A swimming pool like that is a competitive swimmer’s dream
New fear unlocked: liminal spaces
The feeling of dread and hopelessness only increases the longer you're in these spaces.
@@JoshDike I dunno, for me it's just really cool, awe inspiring, somewhat exciting. Like imagine all the people who have experienced this place before, everything that has happened here, and now all that's here is me, and the memories of so many who came before. It's kinda humbling in a way.
I appreciate, SO MUCH, that you had the reverb of your audio match the room your character was in. *mwah, chefs kiss*
I'm really glad you enjoyed it :)
liminal spaces are probably my biggest fear. I found that out when I was at the airport super late at night, I was walking through the food court and no lights were on and nobody was around. like, if I woke up in something like this I don't think I could even move, he whole time watching this video shivers were just going up my spine.
You broke the number 1 rule of the poolrooms. Dont go into the area with the dark tiles.
Another spooky video right before bed to keep me up at night🙃
same here... should know better by now, lol
3:46 listen how calm the character is when he said that “at least the water is warm”🙂
IGP: I don’t care if the water is warm I’m getting out!!!!!😬
This looks SO disorientating, even seeing it in a relatively small window on my computer. I can't imagine how this is when you have to stare at the screen to navigate and it's taking up most of your field of view.
These videos got me through a high risk pregnancy and now through night feedings/shift on a very fussy newborn! Thanks to you, Icy, and Drae for keeping us entertained in the trial that is parenthood!
Jesus that exit area had me sooo on edge.
Leave it to IGP to find some of the best horror games
The locker rooms were such an uncomfortable experience 😂
I hated that locker room level. Something about the choice of colors and the amount of darkness around the corners really got to me.
The architecture reminded me too much of how most of the architecture in my dreams is and it unsettled me...
Aslo, apprently, I have a phobia of pools where you can't see their floors... specially when all you see is black/darkness....I really felt on edge to the point of looking away everytime you found a pool like that
fun fact: the pool rooms are actually safe expect the dark rooms
Imagine actually having to experience the locker room.
That sequence was the most terrifying thing that I've seen on IGP's channel so far...
I Hated That Abnormally Tall Person Rising Up And Peering Over The Bathroom Stall.. ;-;
im in love with this! this happened a lot in my dreams. you spawned in a big place that many people supposed to be there but you're all alone, gave you the feeling of anxiety. this is totally evokes my childhood fear, fear of being left alone, lonely, and lost.
I've never experienced that calming/awe/fear inducing feeling of liminal spaces, and I'm kinda jealous. I can look at the same images, video or even be there in person, but ...nothing. Maybe I'm just not wired right.
I remember in college, I took Vet Assistant which meant all the students were on rotation to come in on weekends to walk the dogs, feed the shelter animals, etc. There was one set of tasks in the morning and one at night. Most people went home in between since it was the weekend, but I bussed from across town, so I just stayed. All alone in the vet building which was at the far end of campus near the soccer field. That day a heavy fog rolled in, to the point I could only see the nearest row of cars through the window. Nothing else, not the rest of the school, the street, pedestrians, etc. Nothing. In just 30 minutes, the world beyond the fog just disappeared. All I could think was how perfect a zombie movie scene it was. Then I went back to my homework.
That was it, no sense of isolation, vertigo, anxiety, just a thought of "Wow, such a pretty fog. Would be cool if the world out there ended and zombies roamed the earth. Anyway, what's the difference between these types of forceps again?"
The text that every time you see a hole in the ceiling it means theres a endless loop of areas because as we saw when you jump over a wall you'll see a hole to fall down and its likely each wall there are holes behind to fall into areas that are still in the same area but not at same time
this is so amazing! this game gave me the most uncomfy vibes man lmao I'm glad i got to see this done by you! IGP the man of horror games! i love you & your videos so much! I can't wait to see the whats in store next for this one!
I remember walking down hallways of well-maintained, abandoned buildings my friends and I used to explore when we were twelve. Typically in the morning hours on a Sunday, because nobody would be outside, even on the roads nearby. Freaky, but still fun times.
I remember working at a mega mall on the 3rd floor in AZ. There was a hallway that led to each store/company in the back. Our hallway's were very industrial like so very rough, the floors with scratches and black marks from dolly's etc. They were just big enough to deliver packages or boxes, which used a really junky elevator that gave me the creeps from all the weird sounds it made. Glad don't have to deal with that anymore. haha.
That water part was actually quite pleasant, kinda calming. The toilets though is where the actual horror picked up a notch for me .
Hope you`ll do a part 2 so we can see the ending and whether MC get out of there alive or not :)
IGP never disappoints.
I noticed the echo as well. My compliments to you Indie for the added touches you give games for our experience. I loved this game!
This game gets a solid "Fuck. That." on my "Will I play it?" scale.
Facts
YES finally a game with liminal spaces!! Nothing but simple areas that you believe are normal but at the same time, very off. I honestly love the designs that the creator put into this. Covered all the boxes and left zero crumbs.
10:45 I literally had to rewind multiple times then I eventually rewinded and played at slowest speed to see what you saw lmao
I feel like this game is about advancing childhood fears. Starting at a young age a fear of extreme depths and heights, then a fear of exposure in a school locker room, so on so forth.
Always love it when IGP posts. Makes my day
11:49 I swear to god I had deja vu of this part and it just makes it even more scary
damn no warning instant drop, instant jump scare. lol
that gave me the chills
I’m not sure how to put this, but I love this game purely off of what I saw in this video. Everything about it, the pools, water park, mall, and all the other settings are perfect. Just the slightly warped and extended hallways and narrow corridors absolutely nail the almost nauseating feeling. Please play more of this.
Idk if it's the movie's or something else. But I haaaaatttte walking alone in a empty hallway or something. I feel like it's something not human behind me.
You should replay this game and try doing everything stupid, like going to the bottom of the pools, opening every locker, searching every corner.
I've never really been to bothers by horror games, scared, but not quite whatever it is this game did...
Dude the fact that you take the time to make it feel like you’re in large rooms or such with the way you edit the audios in all the games you play always makes me really appreciate what you do. I can’t tell you dude how much we all love ya xx
“Your brain makes this game 1000000x scarier”
Me with no brain: 🙂
It's interesting how this place alone is just uncanny and scary, while with like 1000 people it'd be an amazing and great experience...
This game went from "Wow, this is amazing" to "Holy shit, this makes me so uneasy" in a matter of seconds.
I get that feeling you talk about at the begining everytime i go to HR departament in my workplace. I have to go through some wide, high ceiling, quiet, empty (not counting few shelves and some plants) and half lit hallways to get there. I'm always getting goosebumps
Why does it feel and look so real wtf
i absolutely love the slight reverb you added to your voice in the pool scene, such an amazing little detail. Things like that are the reason you still have me coming back to your channel
Everytime one of your videos drop, I know it's going to be a good day. Scary. But good.
like how he worries about the deep pool, but i’m pretty sure there’s a pool that goes way deeper in real life that’s used for like free diving and other such activities
The Graphics look crisp af...🙌
So crispy
I used to work as a security guard at an absolutely massive hospital with a few sub levels ad maintenance areas. The night-time lockup and 5am unlock were super creepy.
I still remember when the first IT movie was announced, I was thinking about how I was going to go see it the next day with my brother-in-law, and got the creeps thinking about it.
I bumped into a late-night office worker who was staying behind in the deserted admin area and he scared the shit out of me. We both had a laugh about it but it was the most terrifying IRL moment I ever had.
I hope there’s more videos of this game cause I bloody love it and I was so deep in trans watching you play it and just hearing the lights so loudly and you talking was so good I had to put my headphones on
The human mind makes everything terrifying. Sometimes it is depended on trauma or just fear in general. Just making a place darker can add fear to something. This game is a perfect example of the human mind and the way someone can add fear to something by just a few details.
Example: the part where IGP dives into the pool you can see 2 white lights looking like eyes giving a eerie feeling of being watched. Without that detail it would give a less creepy vibe to the pool.
It’s a mixture of the brain constantly seeking out threats, the subversion of everyday expectations of the environments and Pareidolia which causes people fear of these otherwise pretty peaceful spaces.
Please post the whole game..I'm excited to see all the environments
Used to clean elevators in a highrise in Mexico, a lot of offices and meeting rooms, all busy during the morning and afternoon. But I cleaned them at night, so I got a lot of spaces like this, parking lots, offices and meeting rooms. And yes, seeing a parking lot empty at 3-4 in the morning is really wild....
That sounded like a door opening slowly...
The one thing about liminal spaces is you get the urge to run. As running will get you to the end quicker, being in the middle of that liminal space makes you feel unsfe and like you are being watched.
during the beginning of the pandemic the entire world felt like a liminal space
Still Does
I believe the only experience I've had with liminal spaces were when the virus first hit and the city streets were empty. No honking, there were no cars. Store signs on, there were no pedestrians. Completely empty streets that were once brimming with life and action. Extremely unnerving.
Dude, imagine the echo in that pool room...
Imagine the chlorine smell with so many large pools.
@@seanrosenau2088 we're onto something here...
And imagine youre walking around stepping in all of all the splashed water that built up around the side of the pool, soaking your shoes with water
@@popcat5065 pretty annoying I say...?
It's not as unsettling when you're just watching it happen, but if I was ever actually in this situation I'd for sure end up just sitting down and rocking back and forth after like an hour of not getting anywhere. I would just fully lose my mind and panic lmao
Other people: "It's so weird being in a public place without other people around".
Me: "I prefer when other people aren't around."
Agreed I find this peaceful
This just spotlights a concept that so many find creepy but it is so rarely talked about and I love it
POV your a cat 12:15
You really got me with that "realistic robot" analogy. I'm a huge fan of scifi art, but some android designs are very unsettling to look at...