7 Effed Up Secret Levels That Have Some Serious Explaining to Do 

The world deserves to hear how Ellen REALLY feels about Octodad... RELEASE THE UNCENSORED ELLEN CUT!!!

The best part of the Cow Level, is the deadpan delivery of the word “Moo”. Gets me everytime 😂

Luke, "Don't AT-AT me" was right there!

"at this point you may well be wondering, 'hey, how do I make it so that absolutely none of this is happening anymore" is one of the funniest sentences I've heard on this channel. Good one Luke!

The voice acting for the Moo's gets me every time. Moo?

Number 6. What octopus? Looks like a perfectly normal dad to me.

Luke trying to avoid Ellen's anger at Ocotodad was quite hilarious his responses of "don't look at me." and "I know." 😂

If you're wondering why you can't find a secret edition of this video, Ellen did some pretty creepy stuff in it.

Maybe not as bizarre as these, but Planescape: Torment still had a level that can be called weird. It's called the Modron Maze and you can only access it if you own the Modron Cube and interact with it in a very particular sequence (basically it's a Modron-shaped magical action figure). The level in question is perhaps the only randomly generated level ever made in the Infinity Engine, it's controlled by the namesake Modrons (basically ultralogical TVs with arms and legs), and they happen to have a problem: a murder has happened and they have no idea what to do now. So in comes you, taking office as their new Director, and off you go into a new dungeon full of insane monsters (that spout mindless NPCs lines), clues and money (which are literally called that and utterly worthless), and on the hardest difficulty there are even a new teammate and a Final Boss to find. It's absolutely as parodistic and nuts as it sounds, which makes it both weird and hilarious.

The developers of the Club Doom section definitely had some INTESTINAL fortitude making that ‘flesh maze’

Aw man, kudos for including Club Doom. Finding that level was possibly the proudest achievement of my teenage years. I, um, didn't achieve much in my teenage years. But I can still remember spending hours and hours wandering around The Suburbs trying to find the secret level... then many more hours wandering around The Mansion trying to find the super secret level. I can still clearly remember seeing that, due to the way Doom's map was uncovered, I'd managed to reveal a tiny segment of the path to the hidden exit, which was enough of a clue to figure out the rest. Eventually. Good times.

One of Blizzard's RTS games, it was either Warcraft 3 or Starcraft, had the code "thereisnocowlevel" to level skip. And that came out after Diablo 2, which might fuel the irony. And Diablo 3 ALSO had a reference to that "lack of a cow level".

That Star Fox level confused my 5 year old brain so much when I was a kid. Great list btw.

Ellen’s rage is unconvincing yet amusing.

Ultrakill has a secret stage called "Something Wicked" which just turns the game in a horror game honestly. You must find the red skull to open the exit while being hunted by an unkillable entity called "Something Wicked" (it's his actual name)

Luke broke me with," I'm going to find out" hilarious brilliance

I'm just glad to hear the Corneria theme on Oxtra again, seeing as how I like it every bit as much as Luke does. (can we get a round 3 for you guys' favorite video game music? I know you've all got a third choice to share!)

Diablo 3 had both a cow level and Whimseyshire, a level where you kill teddybears and unicorns and loot rainbow clouds.

There's one bizarre level I stumbled across in Diablo III. I've only found it once and I have zero idea how. Anyways, it was a saccarine, pastel colored world of rainbows, pots of gold, and cutesy as hell creatures that still splattered into gore when killed. It was such a mood whiplash

Safe to say that if Ellen ever finds Octocdad, she's making him into freaking takoyaki

Wario Land II has the “Really Final Chapter” for getting 100% that is covered in facial features and has several of the game’s enemies oddly frozen in the background. It is also the hardest level in the game by far, requiring several precise jumps in many of its areas

Well, if Ellen ever gets into a personal fight with Octodad, we know she'll be able to parry his eight arms and counterattack with her Beat Saber skillz (because Expert Mode transforms the final s into a z).

While I could say "all of Psychonauts", have you been inside Millo Vodello's childhood mindscape?

the first time i went to the secret cow level i was not prepared. there are so many, and they are so tough. they were just flowing around me like water, and the whole time i was like "no no no no no run run run!!!!!"

I love how how there are Diablo fans who will bash Whimsyshire in D3 as a complete tonal slap in the face to the franchise when The Cow Level is a thing.

The fact that there was a warning for photosensitive viewers was really nice and one reason why I love this channel

"Cow Quest" was a hidden quest you activated by adding a text file to "Diablo - Hellfire" (Sierra Add-on) This makes a new NPC appear who sends you to get his "Donkey Jacket" "Moo! I said Moo! Look I'm a Cow alright!" Also, normal Diablo if you click on a cow a few times, your char says "Yep, thats a cow" You end up with the Cow Suit armour Earliest refs I know of to the Moo-Moo Farm "Cow" idea

What about that terrifying Egg Room in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?!? Also, can you imagine how good that octupus would be at Beat Saber?

9:09 So I guess that's where the heart of Lorkhan ended up after the end of Morrowind

Monolith's mid 90s fps Blood had a "fun house" level that was a giant digestive tract.

The secret dungeon in FFXV is as obscure and hard as it is basically modern art project. Absolutely nuts.

The Isamat Urber questline from Lost Kingdoms 2. You have to track down a bunch of cultists, collect their runestones, then go back to the very first level to unlock a door with a key an old lady gives you in the forest (whose use is never fully explained or described) so you can go to a secret island full of creepy music and floating heads leading up to an alter of more human heads and a face with tubes pumping blood like a heartbeat. I can't believe this game hasn't been featured in other videos.

After some therapy Ellen later reveals that her Octodad left for Milk at the grocery store beside the sushi bar and never came back

You guys forgot the Dead Ops Arcade from Call Of Duty, where you fight the forces of the cosmic silver back, all you got to do is press the trigger buttons simultaneously on the main menu, then type DOA into the computer behind you and after that it's fever dream fun

Diablo 3's Whimsyshire has to be on the list. Particularly with the "fine, you wanted colors?" backstory.

Is it weird that I really want to see Ellen playthrough Octodad now? 🤣

The warp zone in Star Fox was like an acid trip 😂

The best part about the Heart Easter Egg is that your character in the DLC "The Ballad of Gay Tony" can get drunk enough to end up inside the statue.😂

The Secret Cow Level is a staple of the Diablo franchise. It is a nod to an urban myth that started when you could either use the internet or use the phone, and it's a reminder of a company that used to care about their customers. It was also one of the best ways to prepare for the next difficulties (nightmare, hell) in terms of xp and loot, and one of the few places where you could farm a four-socket sword in normal

I would've suggested Doom's secret level where there were Commander Keen figures being hanged from the ceiling on a noose that you can shoot in gory fashion (did anyone else play Commander Keen when they were younger?) But now that I know about Club Doom, I would've retracted my suggestion.

Star Wars Jedi Survivor has an interesting secret. On the world of Koboh, if you enter a cave housing a Bilemaw (basically an alien Triceratops that vomits acid), climb up to the upper floor of the cave, then hug the walls until Cal finds a hidden crack that he can slip through. Inside, you'll go through one of the LONGEST crawling sections ever seen in a game, with Cal and BD-1 slowly sliding through a claustrophobic passage for well over a minute, only to emerge into a cavern with a group of frozen battle droids drawing on easels. Their subject? A Mogu, basically a Wampa that doesn't have snow white fur, but is still just as angry and beat-you-into-the-dirty

I'm not sure if my day is better or worse for having heard the expression "effed-up ravehole" but it's in my head now. I wonder if that displaced something important?

The secret expansion to Constantine's Mansion that shipped with Thief Gold was something of a head trip.

In Final Fantasy 3, or 6, there is a triangular island, the only enemy is a sand worm that only eats characters and every attack you do does 666 damage. If you let it eat your party, you go to a secret area and get a mime playable character.

As weird as The Secret Cow Level of Diablo 2 was... what was with Diablo 3's Secret Pony Level? That's just one of the several bizarre places you can end up in Blizzard games

Aight the Club Doom segment was wild, but the 'flesh maze' was the bit that really made me go 'WT ACTUAL F' XD

I still remember the deer-hunting level in Myth II -- where the deer were undead and would run toward you and attempt to explode.

I love it when ellen gets mad 😂

Diablo 2's Cow Level was one thing... But Diablo 3's Whimsyshire was delightfully, terribly awesome.

WE NEED MORE UNHINGED, ANGRY ELLEN!

Two more id Software ones: 1) Wolfenstein 3-D, episode 3. The secret level is literally first-person Pac-Man. I think you've covered this before in other videos but it's worth repeating. 2) Doom II: The first secret level is a recreation of Wolf3D's first level. Cute. The second secret level can be found in the same way as Wolf3D's, and leads to a replica of that episode's final boss level. Neat. Where it gets weird is at the very end, where you shoot four hanged Commander Keens to expose the level exit. Just...deeply disturbing.

The cow level has always been my favorite. The voice moo-ing is superb. Also, the cow King boss is a force to be reckoned with. The steaks have never been higher... 😉

I remember stumbling across the GTA4 Easter egg hanging with a friend. Our reactions were of sheer horror and subsequently trying to blow it up

Congratulations Ellen, your Octodad rant was so impressive, even my dog woke up from her nap to look at my phone wondering the the hell was going on!

In Nier: Automata, there's an area in the desert where you can find several extremely large orbs with a familiar, terrifying visage on them. This area exists as the grounds for a hidden boss fight much later in the game than when you first arrive in the desert, and is walled off behind a sandstorm. That said, if you aggressively push through the sandstorm and insist on going to that area anyway, you can get there. Instead of a boss fight, however, you're just left in a sandstorm with minimal visibility in a field of enormous terrifying faces. Fastest I've ever NOPE'd out of an area in a video game to date.

I always thought the beating heart was a Morrowind reference.

That Diablo entry has a small info error. The "Cow Level" in the first game did exist, but only if you bought the expansion and even then, only if you altered the game files to re-enable the cut content. The cut content is an entire quest with it's own level, activated by talking to a guy dressed as a cow, and you can earn yourself a nifty set of armor that has the unfortunate side effect of looking like a cow costume.

Wait did those secret levels now become regular levels in my head?? Like it wasn't weird in there before...

At least in the darkness of that CoD Finest Hour level, you do have one ray of sunshine as your character exclaims: "The bear is adorable."

You can get to the non-existant cow level as soon as you get the required items.

6:56 "We're not here to yuk anybody's yum" is the best expression I've heard in a long time.

Let’s not forget the secret level hidden in Excel for Windows 95. The Hall of tortured souls.

I've got a bit of an obscure one. In "Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus" on the hardest difficulty, at around stage 16-20 you have a chance of finding an additional "Exit" box that's purple instead of the usual red. These lead you to a secret stage. The one I remember has a whole load of enemy soldiers just doing crunches in the middle of it. It was super creepy to just stand there and watch a bunch of people just doing crunches in a research laboratory room. Also, I think that the baddie of the game, Null, also appears super-imposed on the screen if you wait around long enough? Honestly, it was a fever dream at that point, so maybe I hallucinated that part.

In the game Elden Ring there is a secret area called the Mohgwyn Palace which serves as home to Mohg one of the game's bosses. Finding this place requires either invading the worlds of three other players or killing a npc in the Altus Plateau and speaking to Varre or finding the portal in the Consecrated Snowfield. The mohgwyn palace is a very creepy place with lakes of blood and monstrous birds among other things.

9:00 _What a thrill..._

Best part of the video...watching Ellen channel her inner 'Tony Suprano." Classic

Level 0-S in Ultrakill, called "Something Wicked". One minute you're playing a fast-paced stylish shooter, the next, a freakish horror game.

4:34 Fear the Battle Cattle!!!

I remember as a kid I discovered the AT-ST can actually be piloted by two players if you plugged in another controller; one person swiveled the head and shot, and the other controlled the legs and movement!

I played a free steam game called DEPO (death epileptic pixel origins) which is basically a first-person platformer. The secret levels aren’t found mid level, but rather they are found by either having a certain item on you, or with a puzzle. They include a world where everything is falling apart, a tower with constantly rising glitches, and more. What’s more weird than the secret levels is the secret in the mansion. It requires you to find a vent in the party room, go through a painting in another room, use the monocle costume, and do a puzzle, to find a room that gives you lore.

Ah, I see Ellen ended up going full London again

Not a secret area, but Wraith Marsh from Fable 2 freaks me out. Not just the inhabitants, but also the soundtrack. 😰

“Building Sized” I think that slot machine is Planet Sized…

I love how Blizzard leaned hard into the cow level, and by Diablo 3, we got the nightmare fuel that is Whimsyshire 😂😂

Just watching Octodad was enough to fill _ME_ with rage. I get it, Ellen.

Never knew Octodad had a secret level

Fun tidbit, in Rogue Squadron 3D on PC you can use the Chicken Walker in any mission with the same code. You can also play as a bad guy Tie with the code "goodguytie" and as the Falcon with the code "wookiepelt".

lmao at the camera operator giggling quietly around 4:35

The.. hidden gem? Future Cop LAPD has a secret level if you finish all the single player arena levels. It changes out the planes with butterflies, tanks with caterpillars, and the music to flight of the bumblebee :P

Definitely thought "Cpl. Church" said "Cpt. Crunch" and was supremely disappointed when I saw the truth

Fun fact, besides the saints go marching in, the starfox boss fight song also has a Japanese folk song called "Yuki" as the other part. I think there's 1 or 2 other songs as well, but i can't remember what they are.

Doom II's secret levels are better. One just places you into Castle Wolfenstein (complete with Nazis shouting "Mein laben!"), and another places you into Pac-Man's iconic maze.

I don't know that it's really a secret level, but the little hidden nook in the middle of Milla's disco party in Psychonauts is pretty sad/horrifying.

"Do octopus got necks" 😂😂😂😂😂

We know that it’s OX, but it’s still funny to see ox was slain by Hell Bovine.

The problem with basketball for a cephalopod, my dear Ellen, is the suction cups... can you imagine just how hard it is to LET GO at the right moment? And the number of applicable appendages just multiplies this problem exponentially...

Octodad doesn't have bones, it's amazing he can even stand upright, give him a break.

Diablo 3, whimsy dale was the best “secret” level I found without looking. It was a bit jarring on first visit but by Jove I got set items!

All of ultrakill’s secret levels are weird but the first one is the creepiest

Kinda important to note, wirts leg cannot be sold, however, it's easy to reacquire. And i'm not sure if it's when you kill the COW KING or just open the portal in general but you can only do it ONCE with that character. After which you can no longer enter the level (unless you make a whole new character).

Ok. So we are all agreed that we need the uncut version of Ellen trying to trainspotting octodad outta that toilet? All say yes? Great. We will patiently wait on that stream lol

Moo! Moo. Moo?

I'm pretty sure this one breaks the record for most swearing in an Oxboxtra video. If they have a swear jar in the studio Ellen's probably paying some cash xD

'straggle an octopus' should be a phrase

You could probably make an entire video on Ultrakill's hidden stages.

9:04 "come nerevar, come and look upon the heart. And bring wraithguard, for I have need of it." "I am a god, how can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence."

Bowling with Roman jokes in 2023. I love this. Never, ever stop.

Sorry love, octopus have 2 legs and 6 arms. You owe that octopus an apology.

The "Dont at me!" Fpr the starwars fans had me! 😂 especially reiterating it at the end of the clip!

In Super Mario Bros original, you can do a glitch in 1-2 to go a weird level called Negative World