@@ReverendSyn if you can interact with objects inside a virtual space in anyway whether through text or moving a character to it, it is considered a game
Yeah, it's a fantastic piece of storytelling. It's a great analogy. Love how there are little hints throughout the game about what's going on (such as the "no smoking" signs everywhere), but it all falls into place at the end.
Played game by myself and I have to tell that it's my favourite type of horror: No cheap jumpscares, unexpected loud noises, just feeling of unease getting stronger and stronger.
@SomeFukinPeep Apologies if that came out wrong but it looks like you misunderstood me. When I meant "the worst kind of scare", I meant that it was the scariest kind. But don't worry, I've edited it so no one else gets triggered by it.
@@InitiateBreaksync When jumpscares are done right they work. Something like Spooky's House of Jumpscare for example where they are just there to fuck with you while the real threats are more quiet and methodical but I'll always prefer the more ambient atmospheric stuff. I know it is a cliché thing to say at this point but Silent Hill 2 is the golden standard of horror games for a reason.
Small detail, as the game progresses, the pile of ash on the ash tray gets bigger, and more no smoking signs show up in the office. I think it's pretty clear why the dude got cancer.
Also, the red potted plants in the office look exactly like the trachea picture in the ending. Edit: There're also purple potted plants that look exactly like the cochlea picture.
There are more reasons to not smoke than just cancer. Leonard Nimoy was a smoker (though he quit in the 1980s,) but the damage was done. He had trouble breathing, and died at 83. He started smoking when it was seen as a healthy thing to do, back when doctors recommended smoking in magazines. (That stopped in the mid 1950s, I think.)
one could also look at it in a different way; the man, revealed through Dialogue to be some sort of reporter, mentions a massacre downtown. as a reporter, the victims could be seen as just 'furniture' to the big scoop; some crazed lunatic going on a rampage.
Golgom93 Judging by the dialogue, I don’t think that he didn’t care about the massacred people, even though he did want to use the story to make himself much more known.
I think you got it right, and that the point of the game is that instead of making healthier decisions, the body kept giving the white cells increasingly harder tasks.
It's not just Cancer that Smoking can cause. Look up what happened to Leonard Nimoy; he smoked from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s, and it still took its toll on his lungs. He died at the age of 83. Mind you, he started smoking in the 1940s, when there were ads from doctors recommending cigarettes! I'm not making that up, I read that those ads stopped in 1955.
My brother in law has tumors, non cancerous but they were in his brain and on the brain stem so cost him some eyesight, mobility, speech, hearing... After his surgery he's able to walk and speak no problem but his eyesight and hearing won't recover and there's a chance they'll grow back cause you can't just remove the bits on the brain stem. This game really hits hard. The metaphor is just perfect with the sledgehammer probably being invasive and destructive treatment options like chemo or surgeries. It really is a case of 'They're not good at hiding but you'll probably swing a sledgehammer through some normal stuff as well if you try to treat them.'
I love the double metaphor. The sledgehammer represents both the massacrer, and intrusive cancer treatment techniques. The flesh monster represent both the victims of the massacre, as well as the tumors the reporter has because of smoking. And the building represents both the office which the massacre happened, as well as the reporter's body.
A couple of thoughts occurred to me: The mimics always spawn at the same spots. Tumor recurrence? Plus, the massacre at the office: the murderer entered with a sledgehammer, the mimics spawn where the victims were killed.
@@viewtiful1doubleokamihand253 Lmao, you're an idiot then. It's an obvious metaphor for cancer and chemotherapy, shame that you're so stupid you can't understand extremely obvious subtext.
that ending hit harder than any jumpscare could, damn. "if there was more time." Such a great metaphor, so many great quotes from this little game, hope there can be a full retail release one day! I wish for it to tackle topics like this with similar gameplay to this. Also, is the last level truly unbeatable? like is there a secret ending if you were to destroy all the 'monsters'? Gut feeling says no probably not, but there is that 'hope'. maybe an alternate ending?
@@basedbattledroid3507 i think they will know because when someone makes a "prayer" (not only remember) for people who have died it will affect them in afterlife that's what i believe
at first, I was sure that you'd have to fight the man at the desk as a 'boss fight', and thought he was turning into a piece of furniture himself. But that ending...made me rethink the whole game. The fun gameplay and the funky music was great, but the story and metaphor were really stellar. rest in peace to the man this game is dedicated to also it makes my day when you bop along to the music lmao
I really liked how the challenge was presented, like each level being more and more difficult to navigate. There's nothing really stopping you from destroying everything at least until you realize the deeper meaning behind your actions.
Remind me of a joke: A waiter once told me why did i bring a hammer to a restaurant? My only answer is, " Mimic" I laugh The waiter laughs The table laughs I rolled initiate
I thought at the end he just rambled about his hatred for his mother, but after putting all the pieces together.. Not only did he become a smoker like his mother, hes also dying the same exact way his mother did.. A bitter, grim realization of what he became before his last breath in the final "level"
Go look up "World Without Cancer." My Mom had Melanoma on her arm. Despite being a smoker at the age of 69, it was Melanoma on her arm and she had no cancer on her internal organs. I gave her Apricot Kernels to eat for a week and a half or so, although she still had the surgery; the surgeon said that the tumor _shrunk._ The hospital's surprised at the fact that my Mom isn't getting worse, and she has had no Chemo or drugs to combat cancer at _all._ The thing that supposedly combats cancer is "Vitamin B17" in the Kernels. I wouldn't be saying this if I didn't have some faith in it, though I have no real _proof,_ and I don't think I'll get much proof scientifically. I think there could be too many politics, too many cooks, too much money at stake at the cost of people's lives. If you read "World Without Cancer," it might all make sense. Science can be manipulated to make whatever result you want, after all, can't it?! Also, I ate Apricot Kernels myself; up to 30 Bitter ones at once. I had no Cancer, but I did get Brain Fog from eating too many at once without Cancer, so there is a level that is unhealthy. B17 is composed of four things: 2 parts Sugar, 1 part _cyanide,_ and 1 part something I forgot that starts with a B. Mind you, I'm informing you of this. I WANT you to be informed of my experience here. Also, I've had some luck with Apples and Lion's Mane Mushroom relieving the brain fog. Truth be told, the robot factory (slavery to the rubbish side of capitalism) LOVES you... So please step into the cocaine shredder, if you want to go to hell. However, I ask you not to. At least have an open mind about it, even if I sound like a retarded jackass here.
@@emilksf1725 No. I speak on the symbolic side of things. Didn't you ever watch the Bond movie "License to Kill?" That's what I'm referring to in the last paragraph.
It’s intriguing how this game has so many elements to hint the meaning behind it. The smoking habit, the destructive nature of cancer treatment that both help find cancer cells, but also damage healthy cells, the disorientation of cells from being mutated by each time, and the ending. Very well done, ItsTheMaceo. It hit me hard.
i see it more as cancer invades intro areas where it should not be. And every level it gets worse and worse. So monsters becoming the furniture are like an anology for the cancer spreading. Him trying to destroy it could be multiple operations on the cancer untill it ends up spreading so badly he ends up just ignoring his doctors since he is doomed.
Yeah it's a great game! The newscaster's a pretty important part of the narrative. It's his name in the "In Loving Memory of" credit at the start of the game and his story makes you realise what smashing the fleshy furniture symbolises.
This feels like hunting mimics in prey. However, after seeing the playthrough I now see the meaning of the game; Cancer is the perfect vermin. It looks like useful cells but they’re in the wrong place. If your cells could care about it, it would be gone with ease. During this whole time the news anchor is dying from cancer, and the office you’re in is representative of the massacre down town at the same time- the metaphorical story of the Anchor’s life. After all, your death will be meaningless if nobody remembers that you lived.
Notice how each time the guy appears on the screen, the left bin with cigarettes fills up more, most likely making his deformation and condition worsen. And he probably smokes to ignore the inner pain or feel better.
Game : "click left to interact" Abg : "so i will open stuff or use stuff?" Game : "nope" Abg : "so what?" Game : "You will break entire stuff you interact" Abg : *"I WILL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK"*
@@AlphaBetaGamer nice and ty for reply abg.i'm your big fan,i alrd watch you from 80k sub and i'm very know if you like to break every stuff on game and bouncing everytime hear music on game 😂😂
I love games like this, they're not quite horror but they carry such deep meanings as you move along in the game. It's a really creative look at cancer and its corresponding treatments. Don't get me wrong , I like horror games but stuff like this just hits deeper.
What is probably one of the more dark undertones is that, and its not noticeable at first, but in the first level, the props are hidden in places where humans might hide if there was a murderer loose in the building. Bathroom, locked stall. Fridge, inside. Under desks, hidden by cubicles. The two metaphors inside the game is pretty dark both ways
I THINK the metaphor going on here is that you are effectively a white blood cell tasked with protecting the body from cancer with the TV host being the body you are occupying. Cancer for those who don't know is effectively your body's cells not function properly in a certain way and instead of naturally dying so new ones may form instead replicate into cells that aren't right for your body, there is obviously far more to it then that, but that is a gist but that is why the furniture you have to kill looks the exact same as the furniture that is supposed to naturally be there. Eventually, your white blood cells literally can't keep up much like the final level where the building is every which way and it doesn't have time to clear out the problems before more sprout and the body dies. That is just my theory of what is going on.
I honestly thought that it wasn't a white blood cell given that they were damaging everything else in their path so like radiation or other cancer treatment that tends to hurt the good stuff to eradicate the bad.
i see it more as cancer invades intro areas where it should not be. And every level it gets worse and worse. So monsters becoming the furniture are like an anology for the cancer spreading. Him trying to destroy it could be multiple operations on the cancer untill it ends up spreading so badly he ends up just ignoring his doctors since he is doomed.
@@i.robles5785 white blood cells can also tear the body apart in response to pathogens. It's why ebola is so deadly, the white blood cells go nuclear trying to eradicate it and tear the body apart in the process
I've read a sci-fi horror short story somewhere a very long time ago where some explorers went on an expedition for colonization, but every crew member got killed (or consumed?) by some alien which can disguise itself as various furniture in their lab facility! In the end, only one crew member survived, and called for a rescue ship! The story ended with an open ending, the rescue ship itself was consumed along with all its crews on board and the alien disguised itself as the whole rescue ship! The surviving crew of the island couldn't tell the difference, but he noticed that something's definitely off! No crew on the ship! The story ended here! I've forgotten the name of that novel! But I'm sure it's not Asimov's!!
I love how the game changes medium and isn't scared of doing off-putting stuff with the camera and the game itself to bring something original to the table
Yes this is about cancer. But everyone has not pointed out this. The set up, the office and sledge hammering. The guy in flash back with his news story about the massacre. The game play you are chemo, but in a way that is reimagining that massacre the guy banked his life on. People murdered in a office building. Just this tone a sledge hammer to furniture. ( why camera vision, he was a news caster.)
The subtle sings that the dev put in are fantastic, if we ignore the ash try and focus on the character we see his teeth yellow and slowly fall out, his nails darken and rot and his body just shutting down in general.
Basically its a the story of a reporter who is dying from cancer due to excessive smoking plus family history. The building is a news network where he works that is also a metaphor for his body. The player is Chemo or a white blood cell trying to get all the cancer cells, but in the end its too late. After being told he was basically going to die the reporter has a flood of regrets and dread.
My father was diagnosed with liver cancer in October of 2018 and refused to tell anybody about it and never followed up on appointments. My mother and I found out days before he passed away in the hospital how advanced it was. They couldn't even treat him, they could only "make him feel comfortable" The last few lines "This will wait." "I don't have time for this." really make me think about my father, dying in that hospital bed, still denying everything. Hell, when the doctors told us just how awful it was, he just said. "Don't worry. I'll get through this." He died the next morning, July 23rd 2019.
1:40 nothing 2:05 more tobacco + yellow touch + black nails 3:16 nose blooding + small wrist tumor 3:57 more big tumors + be pallor 5:36 Blooding + pain 6:12 encroachment with tumor + Still blooding + eye bloods + ear bloods 7:44 PERFECT ENCROACHMENT
T______T that ending hit really hard and made the whole strange experience even more tragic and profound the more I understood what was going on... I'm full of sad now... what a poetic way to execute this idea...
this was a great game, with nice, slowly building tension and a quality horror that gradually got more and more fearsome as things got worse. (because quality horror works with your emotions and a slow burn in fear, NOT with cheap jumpscares or loud/scary noises...) but apart from that, the game had a great message about smoking, cancer and the mistake of doing wrong things and finding the results of your actions in the future... i also liked the old man's quote near the end: ''No one will care about my death if I don't prove to them that I lived.'' it was beautiful, and a great game in general.
Mimic (Cancer) Easily to spot But spreads fast. Dude at desk? Boss. You? White blood cell Job? Eliminate cancer and keep boss alive, do not spread Too late? Death. Simple.
That last few scene when you see the narrator with regret and sadness on his face is quite chilling, its almost always too late to regret a decision when your having fun with all the vices and you begin to just break down and cry as you count the days you have left.
@cornflake man actually, no He himself says in the ending that there were people dying in the office, so the boss is not the killer, he is trying to STOP the killer
So damm deep ! A creative take on addressing cancer. The character we play might be a metaphor for white blood cell destroying the cancer cells. Cancer are human cells that grow uncontrolably and almost every single method of combating cancer will result in collateral damage to the body which explain why the monster look like furniture and you are certain to break alot of things (doors, furniture). As the game progress, we can see the man looking worse and the ash tray on the bottom left keep stacking up so it imply that he has lung cancer. The line" don't worry about the timer, it's not for you" and "i'm being unborn" really hits hard. The final level is practically impossible, suggesting that the cancer has spread to far in the body. This game has better writting than The last of us part 2. Should be a PSA for anti smoking. I don't smoke but i'm scared shitless after seeing this ! Thank you ABG for bringing this masterpiece to us ! P/s: sorry for my bad English
basically this entire game: the flesh monsters are basically tumors and cancer cells that rapidly spread. the tumors spawn at the same spots due to recurrence you are trying to prevent the infection, via chemotherapy the reporter has cancer which you are trying to save the reason why you are accidentally hitting actual furniture is because chemotherapy tries to kill cancer cells, but accidentally kills the good cells ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- since a massacre happened downtown at the office, you the player using a sledgehammer is what caused the massacre the mimics' position are where you killed the victims the reporter is trying to report it but fails (i think) due to his cancer
there's a lot of details at the beginning that hint the end so well, like the abundance of cigarettes on the hosts desk growing and the non smoking signs to begin with. *I LOVE IT*
My lover is dealing with this. Inoperable. There are no words for the feelings this game conjures, the things we try to not think or talk about as we make the time left over count.
Do you both have someone else to talk to about it, a counsellor maybe? Those thoughts often need talking out, it's not fair to have to deal with them by yourself.
If you notice, the news host guy gradually changes even from the first time you see him. In the very first scene his teeth and fingernails are white. After a static screen, his fingernail becomes black and his teeth are yellowed. After that he gets a nosebleed and descends into degeneration! Really subtle effects!
Bro this is more terrifying than those "little lungs" ads from The Real Cost,those always end up graphic, but this, this just gives a sense that something is off, and the terror is way more than some graphic ad.
God, this is so deliciously creepy without being a creepy concept (as in the og supernatural horror). The way the man speaks, the way you watch him slowly die before your eyes in an alien-like way, the way each level gets more and more unsettling. It’s just so, so, creepy. And I hate it but want more at the same time. Imagine dying this way. Imagine watching this irl. Goddamn. And the metaphor. Jesus.
The details on the newscasters body are by far some of the coolest and creepiest I've ever seen and their so small too. It started of with yellow teeth, bloody nose, blackened finger nails, small tumors and then the tumors spread. That's horrific detailing in the best way possible, because it shows how the small little issues can build up overtime into something truly terrifying.
I think the fact that you only have a mallet and need to bash through the office to get anywhere symbolizes how truly destructive cancer treatments are to the rest of the body, not only the cancer cells.
I thought the twist would be that the mimics you killed were actually people you were hallucinating as monsters, but then the moment he started crying about how he let himself die like his own mother did, I realized this was a more personal horror story... The office is an internal metaphor with cancer monsters hidden in plain sight. The sledgehammer represents invasive treatments to cancer which is desperate and potentially won't even work. And during the final stage, it's impossible to win, signifying that it's all hopeless to fight, at least at that point. The cancer victim keeps getting more and more desperate, but he just can't stop smoking and it gets him worse and worse, making it harder and harder to destroy the cancer, all up until it mutates him and he says that you did the best you could and you don't have to try to win anymore...
Being a cancer patient, seeing this is kind of depressing. I had stage 2 hodgkin's lymphoma, in remission now, but man. This game gets it right. It's gone right now, but it'll be back. eventually.
This game took a sledgehammer to my doggamned feelings with that ending 😢 and I was not ready for that. In hindsight, the dedication in the beginning was a clue. Warning for possible spoilers below... I was suspicious from the first about needing to kill 'monstrous furniture' identified by it's odd location, once I realised each 'monster' is where a person might be standing, and makes a noise that actually sounds much more human than the anchorman's voice. It also makes sense why the game *begins* with the killing spree, and the anchorman pleads for you to continue, to keep trying. He even projects his illness onto you, referring to the furnisters as a spreading infection. The anchorman's voice sounds much more human in the doctor's office, as well. Honestly, great game!
I like the idea, it’s so interesting, fleshy monsters that disguise and try to blend in to hide and spread, the breaking physics of the game also seem so satisfying.
Shit man, this hit hard..I've had too many family members die from cancer caused by smoking. Never touching a cig in my life. Great game tho, good way to deliver the message
I like how deep the metaphor goes, you can’t just open doors, you have to smash your way in like some barbarian, probably a reference to how intrusive and damaging surgery’s for tumors are. Not to mention the “complicated geometry” bit, likely symbolizing how sometimes tumors are rendered inoperable due to their placement
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"No one will care about my death if I don't prove to them that I lived."
This was a lot deeper than I expected this game to be
Oh shit, I made a comment similar to yours.
*I wouldn't call it a GAME. More like an interactive narrative.*
AND ALSO WHEN YOU HAVE TO PLAY ON A TINY SCREEN
@@ReverendSyn You must be fun at parties.
@@ReverendSyn if you can interact with objects inside a virtual space in anyway whether through text or moving a character to it, it is considered a game
Man, that is an interesting take on cancer. While each tumor can be easily found ("they do not hide well"), they just keep spreading, until... well.
Yeah, it's a fantastic piece of storytelling. It's a great analogy. Love how there are little hints throughout the game about what's going on (such as the "no smoking" signs everywhere), but it all falls into place at the end.
Kinda sad that this comment is at the top and spoiled it for me, but that's what I get for looking at comments before fully watching the video.
You saying it doesn’t have fandoms
@@andrada9506 Not yet.
Plus with how destructive your method of dealing with them is, you're almost bound to break as many real things as you do fake ones.
Played game by myself and I have to tell that it's my favourite type of horror: No cheap jumpscares, unexpected loud noises, just feeling of unease getting stronger and stronger.
Agreed. Jumpscares are just frustrating. This is the kind of horror I love. What a fantastic project.
This is the best kind of scare and the hardest to pull off.
@SomeFukinPeep Apologies if that came out wrong but it looks like you misunderstood me. When I meant "the worst kind of scare", I meant that it was the scariest kind.
But don't worry, I've edited it so no one else gets triggered by it.
I agree even though I'm not myself a horror fan. P.S. nice profile picture where did you get the art from?
@@InitiateBreaksync When jumpscares are done right they work. Something like Spooky's House of Jumpscare for example where they are just there to fuck with you while the real threats are more quiet and methodical but I'll always prefer the more ambient atmospheric stuff.
I know it is a cliché thing to say at this point but Silent Hill 2 is the golden standard of horror games for a reason.
Small detail, as the game progresses, the pile of ash on the ash tray gets bigger, and more no smoking signs show up in the office. I think it's pretty clear why the dude got cancer.
damn... this game is actually great. I noticed that but I didn't put it together
Also, the red potted plants in the office look exactly like the trachea picture in the ending.
Edit: There're also purple potted plants that look exactly like the cochlea picture.
Another detail is that his nails turn black.
There are more reasons to not smoke than just cancer. Leonard Nimoy was a smoker (though he quit in the 1980s,) but the damage was done. He had trouble breathing, and died at 83. He started smoking when it was seen as a healthy thing to do, back when doctors recommended smoking in magazines. (That stopped in the mid 1950s, I think.)
It started in his pancreas though...
Player: White blood cell.
Misplaced furniture: Cancer
Man at the desk: The body
one could also look at it in a different way; the man, revealed through Dialogue to be some sort of reporter, mentions a massacre downtown. as a reporter, the victims could be seen as just 'furniture' to the big scoop; some crazed lunatic going on a rampage.
Golgom93 Judging by the dialogue, I don’t think that he didn’t care about the massacred people, even though he did want to use the story to make himself much more known.
Omg but why is there only one white blood cell.
There would’ve been a crowd of white mobs just killing anything they see.
mgsGamer Yeah you’re not a white blood cell, you’re chemotherapy
I think you got it right, and that the point of the game is that instead of making healthier decisions, the body kept giving the white cells increasingly harder tasks.
you know when a game opens with "in loving memory of..." you're damn likely to get a gut punch
Because thats how you know they care
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This game makes a better anti-smoking ad than any other anti-smoking ad😬
PREACH
Anti-smoking adds take notes!
It's not just Cancer that Smoking can cause. Look up what happened to Leonard Nimoy; he smoked from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s, and it still took its toll on his lungs. He died at the age of 83. Mind you, he started smoking in the 1940s, when there were ads from doctors recommending cigarettes! I'm not making that up, I read that those ads stopped in 1955.
Don't smoke! or you'll turn into......this.......guy......
As I smoke a cig whilst watching this.
Woops
My brother in law has tumors, non cancerous but they were in his brain and on the brain stem so cost him some eyesight, mobility, speech, hearing... After his surgery he's able to walk and speak no problem but his eyesight and hearing won't recover and there's a chance they'll grow back cause you can't just remove the bits on the brain stem. This game really hits hard. The metaphor is just perfect with the sledgehammer probably being invasive and destructive treatment options like chemo or surgeries. It really is a case of 'They're not good at hiding but you'll probably swing a sledgehammer through some normal stuff as well if you try to treat them.'
@Emmanuel PapadakisThanks, he's doing a lot better than they thought he would be. It's a scary thing but he's a tough son of a bitch that's for sure.
I wish your brother-in-law well
I hope he recovers as well as possible
My best wishes to your brother
I fell sorry for your brother
Hope he Will get well soon
I love the double metaphor.
The sledgehammer represents both the massacrer, and intrusive cancer treatment techniques.
The flesh monster represent both the victims of the massacre, as well as the tumors the reporter has because of smoking.
And the building represents both the office which the massacre happened, as well as the reporter's body.
Didn't thought about it that way
A couple of thoughts occurred to me:
The mimics always spawn at the same spots. Tumor recurrence?
Plus, the massacre at the office: the murderer entered with a sledgehammer, the mimics spawn where the victims were killed.
Only comment I've seen talking about this 👏👏
@@Vthe_botV The answer is *yes* . Because the game is too smart for us plebs. It's artsy, you see. It's thinking it's Silent Hill or something.
@@viewtiful1doubleokamihand253 it only seems too smart for you because you're trying to find meaning in the wrong place.
@@kesshikou It doesn't. And I'm not. It's just a load of shit. All there is to it.
@@viewtiful1doubleokamihand253 Lmao, you're an idiot then.
It's an obvious metaphor for cancer and chemotherapy, shame that you're so stupid you can't understand extremely obvious subtext.
that ending hit harder than any jumpscare could, damn. "if there was more time." Such a great metaphor, so many great quotes from this little game, hope there can be a full retail release one day! I wish for it to tackle topics like this with similar gameplay to this.
Also, is the last level truly unbeatable? like is there a secret ending if you were to destroy all the 'monsters'? Gut feeling says no probably not, but there is that 'hope'. maybe an alternate ending?
here's hoping for that secret ending
"No one will care about my death if I don't prove to them that I lived."
I think it is impossible. The room is inverted in such way that you won't manage to reach all the creatures, let alone within such time constraints.
Theres a hl2 mod like this but with crates
@@louierenault7344 the crates don't hide tho
"Click left to interact."
Character: It's HAMMER TIME!
Me: Oh, left click to open the door, how ever much like -SMASHES DOOR WITH A CONVENIENT SLEDGEHAMMER!!!
Also me: ...well okay then, carry on.
Cypê c: 😂😂😂😂
Sledge be like:
I guess we're playing as Ezma
"No one will care about my death if I don't prove to them that I lived."
Powerful stuff.
that's sentence straight hit me right to the core 😂
dang... that was some deep shit
Yeah but when you're dead you won't know if they know one way or the other. But that was deep.
no one cares about your death and thats okay
@@basedbattledroid3507 i think they will know because when someone makes a "prayer" (not only remember) for people who have died it will affect them in afterlife
that's what i believe
"No one will care about my death if I don't prove to them that I lived"
Damn bro, this is not where I expected to find such a raw quote
at first, I was sure that you'd have to fight the man at the desk as a 'boss fight', and thought he was turning into a piece of furniture himself. But that ending...made me rethink the whole game. The fun gameplay and the funky music was great, but the story and metaphor were really stellar. rest in peace to the man this game is dedicated to
also it makes my day when you bop along to the music lmao
if only. if only.
I really liked how the challenge was presented, like each level being more and more difficult to navigate. There's nothing really stopping you from destroying everything at least until you realize the deeper meaning behind your actions.
this is a metaphor for fandoms
@@TheSoCalledZoner1 In what possible world?
@@DarkestMirrored You see Fandoms are Cancer.
@@aspirer4017 yeah... my sister died because she had undertale in her blood...
Chemotherapy is pretty destructive. Just like smashing normal furnitures
Remind me of a joke:
A waiter once told me why did i bring a hammer to a restaurant?
My only answer is, " Mimic"
I laugh
The waiter laughs
The table laughs
I rolled initiate
Good D&D reference.
@@codex3019 more like prey but still good.
@@budczus can be both
@@budczus u right, but i'm a D&D player so... Sorry(?
@@budczus there's no "roll initiate" in Prey.
The only thing I can say is: INCREDIBLE GAME DESIGN! The message at the end hits so hard!
Big time, awesome idea to end it like that
I have little brain so didnt understand the ending
@@INeedToSeeYourBalls1945 you have bugs in your brain
@@xmuzel i have dirt in my brain not bugs
@@INeedToSeeYourBalls1945 you have a bean head
I thought at the end he just rambled about his hatred for his mother, but after putting all the pieces together.. Not only did he become a smoker like his mother, hes also dying the same exact way his mother did.. A bitter, grim realization of what he became before his last breath in the final "level"
This honestly hit harder then any smoking ad I’ve seen..this make me not even want to look at a cigarette props to the developers who made this
My family’s had bad luck with lung cancer. Even one in their 20s. Your relationship with “hope” gets complicated.
Sorry to hear it, hope you are good, same with your family
Go look up "World Without Cancer." My Mom had Melanoma on her arm. Despite being a smoker at the age of 69, it was Melanoma on her arm and she had no cancer on her internal organs. I gave her Apricot Kernels to eat for a week and a half or so, although she still had the surgery; the surgeon said that the tumor _shrunk._ The hospital's surprised at the fact that my Mom isn't getting worse, and she has had no Chemo or drugs to combat cancer at _all._ The thing that supposedly combats cancer is "Vitamin B17" in the Kernels. I wouldn't be saying this if I didn't have some faith in it, though I have no real _proof,_ and I don't think I'll get much proof scientifically. I think there could be too many politics, too many cooks, too much money at stake at the cost of people's lives. If you read "World Without Cancer," it might all make sense. Science can be manipulated to make whatever result you want, after all, can't it?!
Also, I ate Apricot Kernels myself; up to 30 Bitter ones at once. I had no Cancer, but I did get Brain Fog from eating too many at once without Cancer, so there is a level that is unhealthy. B17 is composed of four things: 2 parts Sugar, 1 part _cyanide,_ and 1 part something I forgot that starts with a B. Mind you, I'm informing you of this. I WANT you to be informed of my experience here. Also, I've had some luck with Apples and Lion's Mane Mushroom relieving the brain fog.
Truth be told, the robot factory (slavery to the rubbish side of capitalism) LOVES you... So please step into the cocaine shredder, if you want to go to hell. However, I ask you not to. At least have an open mind about it, even if I sound like a retarded jackass here.
@@101Volts bro are you schizophrenic
@@emilksf1725 No. I speak on the symbolic side of things. Didn't you ever watch the Bond movie "License to Kill?" That's what I'm referring to in the last paragraph.
Austin Lucas shut up rn
It’s intriguing how this game has so many elements to hint the meaning behind it. The smoking habit, the destructive nature of cancer treatment that both help find cancer cells, but also damage healthy cells, the disorientation of cells from being mutated by each time, and the ending. Very well done, ItsTheMaceo. It hit me hard.
@3:13
Them: **does lil dance in elevator**
Man: “No nonsense this time. Do your job.”
Elite timing.
Wow that really hit hard its like The cells trying to kill the cancer but its already too late that ending really shock me to the core
i see it more as cancer invades intro areas where it should not be. And every level it gets worse and worse. So monsters becoming the furniture are like an anology for the cancer spreading. Him trying to destroy it could be multiple operations on the cancer untill it ends up spreading so badly he ends up just ignoring his doctors since he is doomed.
What if you kill all 20? It could not be too late.
Looks great, feels like a fun concept. Just don't get why the news anchor has to force you to play on a tiny screen.
Yeah it's a great game! The newscaster's a pretty important part of the narrative. It's his name in the "In Loving Memory of" credit at the start of the game and his story makes you realise what smashing the fleshy furniture symbolises.
Its called playing in second person, no?
@@AlphaBetaGamer why are his eyes closed ?
@@miiklaa why did I read this in fgo quetzalcoatl's voice?
@@AlphaBetaGamer wait, smashing the things has a meaning? I got everything but the meaning of smashing things.
Bobbert's Renovation and Monster-Furniture Removal at your service!
No refunds.
Tumor furniture removal
you missed the point
"you can quit" this game scared me enough to never start smoking.
Wow, so much symbolism! The tiny details are excellent, like how the more grotesque the news anchor becomes, the more cigarettes are piled next to him
This feels like hunting mimics in prey.
However, after seeing the playthrough I now see the meaning of the game; Cancer is the perfect vermin. It looks like useful cells but they’re in the wrong place. If your cells could care about it, it would be gone with ease. During this whole time the news anchor is dying from cancer, and the office you’re in is representative of the massacre down town at the same time- the metaphorical story of the Anchor’s life.
After all, your death will be meaningless if nobody remembers that you lived.
It isn't that your cells don't care about the cancer. They literally don't see cancer as being different from the good. They can't.
@@ZoofyZoof
Oh, right. My bad there.
Notice how each time the guy appears on the screen, the left bin with cigarettes fills up more, most likely making his deformation and condition worsen. And he probably smokes to ignore the inner pain or feel better.
Game : "click left to interact"
Abg : "so i will open stuff or use stuff?"
Game : "nope"
Abg : "so what?"
Game : "You will break entire stuff you interact"
Abg : *"I WILL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK"*
Haha! damn right! And it's such a satisfying way to open a door!
@@AlphaBetaGamer nice and ty for reply abg.i'm your big fan,i alrd watch you from 80k sub and i'm very know if you like to break every stuff on game and bouncing everytime hear music on game 😂😂
@@AlphaBetaGamer sledge was right
@@AlphaBetaGamer it's satisfying until you remember it was probably a healthy lung cell or smth I dunno much about biology
I love games like this, they're not quite horror but they carry such deep meanings as you move along in the game. It's a really creative look at cancer and its corresponding treatments. Don't get me wrong , I like horror games but stuff like this just hits deeper.
What is probably one of the more dark undertones is that, and its not noticeable at first, but in the first level, the props are hidden in places where humans might hide if there was a murderer loose in the building. Bathroom, locked stall. Fridge, inside. Under desks, hidden by cubicles.
The two metaphors inside the game is pretty dark both ways
10:51 oh boy that line hit me hard
Not surprised that this game is from creator of Swallow the sea. Also makes you pretty sad after the end.
I THINK the metaphor going on here is that you are effectively a white blood cell tasked with protecting the body from cancer with the TV host being the body you are occupying. Cancer for those who don't know is effectively your body's cells not function properly in a certain way and instead of naturally dying so new ones may form instead replicate into cells that aren't right for your body, there is obviously far more to it then that, but that is a gist but that is why the furniture you have to kill looks the exact same as the furniture that is supposed to naturally be there. Eventually, your white blood cells literally can't keep up much like the final level where the building is every which way and it doesn't have time to clear out the problems before more sprout and the body dies.
That is just my theory of what is going on.
I honestly thought that it wasn't a white blood cell given that they were damaging everything else in their path so like radiation or other cancer treatment that tends to hurt the good stuff to eradicate the bad.
@@i.robles5785 Could also be that.
i see it more as cancer invades intro areas where it should not be. And every level it gets worse and worse. So monsters becoming the furniture are like an anology for the cancer spreading. Him trying to destroy it could be multiple operations on the cancer untill it ends up spreading so badly he ends up just ignoring his doctors since he is doomed.
Sceplecture could also be that too
@@i.robles5785 white blood cells can also tear the body apart in response to pathogens. It's why ebola is so deadly, the white blood cells go nuclear trying to eradicate it and tear the body apart in the process
I've read a sci-fi horror short story somewhere a very long time ago where some explorers went on an expedition for colonization, but every crew member got killed (or consumed?) by some alien which can disguise itself as various furniture in their lab facility! In the end, only one crew member survived, and called for a rescue ship! The story ended with an open ending, the rescue ship itself was consumed along with all its crews on board and the alien disguised itself as the whole rescue ship! The surviving crew of the island couldn't tell the difference, but he noticed that something's definitely off! No crew on the ship! The story ended here!
I've forgotten the name of that novel! But I'm sure it's not Asimov's!!
@Jahn Valjahn
Yes! It's that short story!!!
Thanks man! Thanks a lot!!!! 😁🤝
@Alex Jung
COLONY by Philip K. Dick
Even his teeth are yellow from the smoking, a small detail but critical
I love how the game changes medium and isn't scared of doing off-putting stuff with the camera and the game itself to bring something original to the table
2:10 you can notice the change In his nail color. This game has an amazing attention to detail.
The teeth too, and the number of cigarettes in the ash tray
0:22 I thought they would just open the door, but the hammer coming out of nowhere shattering the door made me laugh
Yes this is about cancer. But everyone has not pointed out this. The set up, the office and sledge hammering. The guy in flash back with his news story about the massacre. The game play you are chemo, but in a way that is reimagining that massacre the guy banked his life on. People murdered in a office building. Just this tone a sledge hammer to furniture. ( why camera vision, he was a news caster.)
"No one will care about my death if I don't prove to them that I lived."
Perfect. Charm.
"increasingly unsettling"
_my man vibin in the elevator_
While the other dude becomes a tumor blob
The subtle sings that the dev put in are fantastic, if we ignore the ash try and focus on the character we see his teeth yellow and slowly fall out, his nails darken and rot and his body just shutting down in general.
Basically its a the story of a reporter who is dying from cancer due to excessive smoking plus family history. The building is a news network where he works that is also a metaphor for his body. The player is Chemo or a white blood cell trying to get all the cancer cells, but in the end its too late. After being told he was basically going to die the reporter has a flood of regrets and dread.
My father was diagnosed with liver cancer in October of 2018 and refused to tell anybody about it and never followed up on appointments.
My mother and I found out days before he passed away in the hospital how advanced it was. They couldn't even treat him, they could only "make him feel comfortable"
The last few lines "This will wait." "I don't have time for this." really make me think about my father, dying in that hospital bed, still denying everything. Hell, when the doctors told us just how awful it was, he just said. "Don't worry. I'll get through this."
He died the next morning, July 23rd 2019.
1:40 nothing
2:05 more tobacco + yellow touch + black nails
3:16 nose blooding + small wrist tumor
3:57 more big tumors + be pallor
5:36 Blooding + pain
6:12 encroachment with tumor + Still blooding + eye bloods + ear bloods
7:44 PERFECT ENCROACHMENT
Here to say that you got likes
Your probably not native to english but the proper term would be "Bleeding", not tryna be a grammar nazi just helping.
idk if I would want to be lovingly remembered in a horror game
*watches the video*
I see. What an great tribute.
0:20 2:09
You can see that the anti-smoking signs multiplied when you have to try again and they're unnoticed even by the old guy.
"No one will care about my death if I don't prove to them that I lived."
That's powerful.
T______T that ending hit really hard and made the whole strange experience even more tragic and profound the more I understood what was going on... I'm full of sad now... what a poetic way to execute this idea...
this was a great game, with nice, slowly building tension and a quality horror that gradually got more and more fearsome as things got worse.
(because quality horror works with your emotions and a slow burn in fear, NOT with cheap jumpscares or loud/scary noises...)
but apart from that, the game had a great message about smoking, cancer and the mistake of doing wrong things and finding the results of your actions in the future...
i also liked the old man's quote near the end:
''No one will care about my death if I don't prove to them that I lived.''
it was beautiful, and a great game in general.
What is it with flesh monsters pretending to be furniture?! This is the third game based around that! That ending hurt me, though. That hurt.
Mimic (Cancer)
Easily to spot
But spreads fast.
Dude at desk? Boss.
You? White blood cell
Job? Eliminate cancer and keep boss alive, do not spread
Too late? Death.
Simple.
Fun, scary with the body-horror, all while proving to be beautifully poetic. What a unique game.
That last few scene when you see the narrator with regret and sadness on his face is quite chilling, its almost always too late to regret a decision when your having fun with all the vices and you begin to just break down and cry as you count the days you have left.
“No one will care about my death if I don’t prove to them that I lived.”
“People were attacked in an office with a sledgehammer.”
Oh. Pooh.
@cornflake man But no killing on that spree happened, because the attacker went out of breath.
@cornflake man actually, no
He himself says in the ending that there were people dying in the office, so the boss is not the killer, he is trying to STOP the killer
So damm deep ! A creative take on addressing cancer. The character we play might be a metaphor for white blood cell destroying the cancer cells. Cancer are human cells that grow uncontrolably and almost every single method of combating cancer will result in collateral damage to the body which explain why the monster look like furniture and you are certain to break alot of things (doors, furniture). As the game progress, we can see the man looking worse and the ash tray on the bottom left keep stacking up so it imply that he has lung cancer. The line" don't worry about the timer, it's not for you" and "i'm being unborn" really hits hard. The final level is practically impossible, suggesting that the cancer has spread to far in the body. This game has better writting than The last of us part 2. Should be a PSA for anti smoking. I don't smoke but i'm scared shitless after seeing this !
Thank you ABG for bringing this masterpiece to us !
P/s: sorry for my bad English
The way everything breaks is weirdly satisfying.
basically this entire game:
the flesh monsters are basically tumors and cancer cells that rapidly spread. the tumors spawn at the same spots due to recurrence
you are trying to prevent the infection, via chemotherapy
the reporter has cancer which you are trying to save
the reason why you are accidentally hitting actual furniture is because chemotherapy tries to kill cancer cells, but accidentally kills the good cells
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since a massacre happened downtown at the office, you the player using a sledgehammer is what caused the massacre
the mimics' position are where you killed the victims
the reporter is trying to report it but fails (i think) due to his cancer
there's a lot of details at the beginning that hint the end so well, like the abundance of cigarettes on the hosts desk growing and the non smoking signs to begin with.
*I LOVE IT*
Reminded me of Golden Light. Really appreciate you showcasing these excellent indie games.
My lover is dealing with this. Inoperable. There are no words for the feelings this game conjures, the things we try to not think or talk about as we make the time left over count.
Do you both have someone else to talk to about it, a counsellor maybe? Those thoughts often need talking out, it's not fair to have to deal with them by yourself.
5:08 if you look carefully the potted plant is a bronchial tree which is inside the lung. the details are amazing
If you notice, the news host guy gradually changes even from the first time you see him. In the very first scene his teeth and fingernails are white. After a static screen, his fingernail becomes black and his teeth are yellowed. After that he gets a nosebleed and descends into degeneration! Really subtle effects!
Horror doesn't need jumpscares - just an unsettling message.
Bro this is more terrifying than those "little lungs" ads from The Real Cost,those always end up graphic, but this, this just gives a sense that something is off, and the terror is way more than some graphic ad.
The guy: it was good
The ads: [censored] instant noodles, quick and easy to cook, ...
Me: ummm... alright...
God, this is so deliciously creepy without being a creepy concept (as in the og supernatural horror). The way the man speaks, the way you watch him slowly die before your eyes in an alien-like way, the way each level gets more and more unsettling. It’s just so, so, creepy. And I hate it but want more at the same time. Imagine dying this way. Imagine watching this irl.
Goddamn.
And the metaphor.
Jesus.
"No one will care to my death if I don't prove I lived".
Now, this is the deepest truth I couldn't agree more.
Ends up a lot of people commented the same thing, so ignore my comment
The details on the newscasters body are by far some of the coolest and creepiest I've ever seen and their so small too. It started of with yellow teeth, bloody nose, blackened finger nails, small tumors and then the tumors spread. That's horrific detailing in the best way possible, because it shows how the small little issues can build up overtime into something truly terrifying.
so this is a game
*”Prey: got actually spooked”*
That toilet at 1:36 has the best hiding spot ever
Thank you for playing these weird games with minimal numbers of ratings on Steam that I’m curious but cautious about and posting gameplay on TH-cam.
I think the fact that you only have a mallet and need to bash through the office to get anywhere symbolizes how truly destructive cancer treatments are to the rest of the body, not only the cancer cells.
a real tragic game, this is really good, i dont know how you keep finding these games
Developer contacting to advertise?
I feel like the "murders" he talked about are also represented in the level. The murderer entered the office with a sledgehammer
Game: "Left click to interact"
Player: (smashes the door)
me: (WHEEZE)
At first I thought this was some sort of comedy game.
@@coolcorvoid At first it was.
The ticking clock, and the urgency, and the no smoking signage. Nice game.
I thought the twist would be that the mimics you killed were actually people you were hallucinating as monsters, but then the moment he started crying about how he let himself die like his own mother did, I realized this was a more personal horror story... The office is an internal metaphor with cancer monsters hidden in plain sight. The sledgehammer represents invasive treatments to cancer which is desperate and potentially won't even work. And during the final stage, it's impossible to win, signifying that it's all hopeless to fight, at least at that point. The cancer victim keeps getting more and more desperate, but he just can't stop smoking and it gets him worse and worse, making it harder and harder to destroy the cancer, all up until it mutates him and he says that you did the best you could and you don't have to try to win anymore...
"Press left click to use"
*SLAM* *CRUNCH*
Ngl, that actually startled me.
I never planned to even smoke but this game just solidified my position on not smoking.
Being a cancer patient, seeing this is kind of depressing. I had stage 2 hodgkin's lymphoma, in remission now, but man. This game gets it right. It's gone right now, but it'll be back. eventually.
No smoking posters all over the places is like your body begging you to not more.
oh wow, this is really cool! a good concept executed well, and im a bit biased because im a fan of the resurgence of low-poly horror game stuff
Carrion Monster: I fear no man but that thing...
Vermin Man:
Carrion Monster: It scares me
Carrion: “hi!”
Verminator: “hi!”
Carrion:
Verminator:
Verminator: *bonk*
Two minutes in an I’m already loving this game on its style alone. A really important aspect of game design, it grips you before anything else.
This game took a sledgehammer to my doggamned feelings with that ending 😢 and I was not ready for that. In hindsight, the dedication in the beginning was a clue.
Warning for possible spoilers below...
I was suspicious from the first about needing to kill 'monstrous furniture' identified by it's odd location, once I realised each 'monster' is where a person might be standing, and makes a noise that actually sounds much more human than the anchorman's voice.
It also makes sense why the game *begins* with the killing spree, and the anchorman pleads for you to continue, to keep trying. He even projects his illness onto you, referring to the furnisters as a spreading infection. The anchorman's voice sounds much more human in the doctor's office, as well.
Honestly, great game!
I cant imagine the pain the guy is having on the final stage of the cancer
And this is where ABG shines in his superior gaming skills as he smashes everything in his path. Even the windows.
I like the idea, it’s so interesting, fleshy monsters that disguise and try to blend in to hide and spread, the breaking physics of the game also seem so satisfying.
Shit man, this hit hard..I've had too many family members die from cancer caused by smoking. Never touching a cig in my life.
Great game tho, good way to deliver the message
The way they sway to the music is very charming. We never get to see or hear the person who plays these games so little things like that stand out
10:48 really powerful words holy shit
idk why but the anchorman's face fills me with absolute revulsion
jokes on you, i never smoked in the first place
Shit, you got me there.
>"click left to interact"
>smashes it with hammer
Left Click to Interact.
**SLEDGEHAMMER**
...You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention!
I like how deep the metaphor goes, you can’t just open doors, you have to smash your way in like some barbarian, probably a reference to how intrusive and damaging surgery’s for tumors are. Not to mention the “complicated geometry” bit, likely symbolizing how sometimes tumors are rendered inoperable due to their placement