Cave Crawler 

can't wait to see "markiplier presents: cave crawler" in a couple years where markiplier plays a small robot

I often play Markiplier as background noise because I find him weirdly soothing. The double take I did at the quote, “really wish these tentacles would stop tickling my trundle.”

22:49 The ‘delineation on what is and isn’t a team member’ is that team members are actual Company employees who take wrapped-up bodies down to the caves and plant them so the spores can turn them into crystals. The wrapped-up bodies are meant to be turned into crystals, not the team members themselves.

11:25 Markiplier: "I found a body!" *Head disappears* "Someone else found a body, too. Well, good for you." 💀

Lixian’s fast forward edit is so nice being able to see what happened instead of just skipping to the next interesting part

Why did the “scary rocks”make me jump more than Lixian’s jumpscare 😅

We need more horror games like this Slow burn horror that focuses more on the world building and story than jumpscares Or at least uses jumpscares more sparingly

The bottom yellow text at 18:42 ("4F 43 45 41 4E") translates to "OCEAN" in hexadecimal The objective at 24:27 ("46494E442054484520434F5245") translates to "FIND THE CORE" also in hexadecimal

Mark: *scans rock* Rock: Carlos Mark: Understandable, have a nice day

So nice of Mark to play a game that perfectly represents the daily lives of his fans. We are all cave crawlers here, Mark.. and now you've experienced it first hand.

Mark: *sees dead body torn to shreds* Mark: "You good, buddy?"

I remember having recurring dreams of being lost in places like this when I was about 4 or 5 years old. I'd get chased by things like demons or mutant organisms while frantically crawling on my stomach through tight twists and turns to get away. I would always die.

For anyone else who's wondering, the GPS coordinates at 29:00 point to these locations: 1. North Slope, Alaska, USA 2. Monroe County, Florida, USA 3. Literally the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

Markiplier got really personal with that "I don't have a life, I'm a drone" statement.

That jumpscare timed into the ad was just.. Lixian you’re too good 😂😭

I’ve been listening to Mark’s videos as a lullaby almost every night for about 3-4 years now. There is nothing in this world that makes me feel more safe than this man’s voice, even if it’s a horror game he’s playing. He’s just my comfort person, and I’m so glad I found him. Mind you, I’m 20 years old and I started watching him when I was like 12 or 13, but in the last few years I started having some troubles sleeping- and nothing helped. Fortunately, Mark’s voice is just so soothing, that I’m pretty sure I shuffled thru his entire channel at least 5 times by now. I’m just glad that I found him. 💜

i love how everyone is now just expecting mark to make a movie for each small horror game he plays. I can't wait to see Mark play this lil robot either

One of my favourite types of horror is where the people in the situation find it normal or mundane but to us it’s horrifying and unnerving

The little red glowing thing that floated in front of the camera suddenly terrified me more than anything else for some reason

Watching mark randomly holler into the dark caves to see if anybody is there is way more immersive than it should be.

For those that wanna know the numbers under the objective are hexadecimal and when converted spell OCEAN. In the final mission the string of numbers that is the objective spells FIND THE CORE.

The yellow Codes in game are Hexadecimal to ASCII Codes, the yellow one in the bottom left Corner translates to "OCEAN", the final crawler mission objective translates to "FIND THE CORE". The coordinates on the last screen are: 68°19'43.5''N 160°49'07.9''W this is a mountain range in Alaska, 25°17'26.7''N 80°59'26.6''W is somewhere in the Whitewater Bay in the very south of Florida and 55°50'07.8''N 26°46'10.6'''W is somewhere in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean.

I can imagine that those maps aren't exaggerated. there's really simple ways to die in caves that you think are obvious but then something happens very suddenly and you end up with 7 bodies at once bc of sudden flooding or a cave in in a specific spot. not all people who enter caves do it with proper equipment and a lot are just inexperienced. you never know what can happen.

What do you call a Mexican that lost his car? 26:25

i was fully expecting lixian's jumpscare and yet my body still took a screenshot

7:35 okay, that scared me SO MUCH more than the other, bigger jumpscare that I was WARNED about

Thank you. That jumpscare got me before AND after the ad. very well done

27:04 that's me! 😂

I was dying of suspense when Mark told Lixian to "not" jumpscare us, but the jumpscare was cut off after one millisecond by a well-timed ad, making this suspenseful moment a humorous bit of comedic timing

I like how every indie horror game he plays from now until the end of time will have the undercurrent of "is he gonna turn this into a movie too?"

4:17 "It can't be denied that people tend to DIE in caves, or mysteriously go missing..." I dunno why that made me laugh, just the way he worded it 😆😆😆 I got a bit excited once Mark posted this lol 😆

Did anyone else think of gemini home entertainment when the living roots started to pop up ? ( for anyone who doesn’t know gemini home entertainment is a series of creepy videos on youtube )

This game does a very good job of making you feel very isolated. There was no music just the sounds of your drone....and whatever else was in the cave

Holy fuck I didn't actually expect Lixian to actually go that hard with the jumpscare. It scared the shit out of me. Good God.

"Stalactites hold TIGHT to the ceiling" is a phrase I remember from school that I have never used in life. Just like remembering the phrase "mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell."

3:56 mild - gong like sound 6:50 MAJOR - as other comments suggested. Editor puts a loud jump scare here. Large cartoon eyes and jagged teeth take up the whole screen and scream at you at this second. That's so fucking rude, lol. 6:54 mild - right afterward there's an ominous echoey sound and a "motion detected" notification that puts Mark on high alert. 9:34 moderate - sudden ominous sustained not and the screen becomes very grainy. A shadowy figure can be seen approaching the drone before quickly vanishing. 11:43 mild - another echoey impact sound and a notification of motion detected. 12:14 mild - echoey impact sound, screen shakes as a tremor causes large boulders to fall down the charm right in front of him. There's also a body that falls with them but it's very hard to see. 12:42 mild - comes across the bloodied corpse of a miner. It's fuzzy and low poly, however. 13:34 mild - finds another body and scans it. After scanning we get another echoey gong and a bunch of those little red motes fly out of the burrow where that body is. The VHS blue background pops up. 14:45 mild - blue background guess away and the cavern is filled with lots of very small wiggling tentacles. 16:12 mild - rounds a corner to see red crystals and a body bag with tentacles sticking out of it. 17:07 moderate - grain and shadowy figure comes back, standing in the puddle he's scanning. Vanishes. 17:51 mild - a shadow of a man is cast on the wall to the left. 23:31 moderate - screen rumbles in a tremor. Entire screen turns to static. Text background pops up but it's red now. Afterwards, the environment looks almost molten, still with tentacles. 24:42 mild - strange agitated large creature sounds. 27:24 mild - in the belly of the beast now. Lots of large gross tentacles waving about. 27:52 moderate - the crevice that is being scanned opens up and there's a large eye behind it. Monster starts screaming. Then cuts to static. And that's it! When Markiplier signs off and says "bye bye!" It hangs on looping footage of the giant eye.

Lixian's spook got cut short by an ad. That's the most well placed timing I've seen yet

This game reminds me of these hours of playing in caves in Minecraft

7:11 I'm pretty sure it's the 4th floor of it. I really liked this game and its concept. Definitely want to see more of it 🙌🏻

You’re correct about caves. The one time I went cave diving when I was a kid, I’m not even claustrophobic but that made my lizard brain rebel.

I can't help but picture the drone doing this as Wall-E. It makes the game both more hilarious and twice as sad.

How did Lixian’s jumpscare not phase me but the sudden fast forwarding made me jump 💀

I made the terrible mistake of drifting in and out of sleep while watching this, and even though Mark gave us a fair warning that a jumpscare was coming, as soon as I opened my eyes, the jumpscare played, and I slightly jumped. Well played, Lixian.

"There are no bodies left, only the crystals" gives off similar energy to "There is no Dana, only ZUUL!!!!"

The jumpscare didn’t really scare me because of an ad but the scary rocks made me jump 😂

The very sudden jumpscare cut to an ad and then immediately back to the jumpscare was lovely thank you

For those interested, the hexadecimal text that came up during each jumpscare spelled out OCEAN, and the final objective said FIND THE CORE

I bet he would be the best father to any child: popular, funny, and he raised most kids online just by entertaining them by looking at a screen and talking

I love these living caves horror things so much, its such a cool area to make absolute organic disasters

Don’t get me wrong, I’m extremely excited for Iron Lung and I’m so proud to hear about all the production that went into it, but damn is it nice to have regular Markiplier videos again. I really missed watching them

I like how calm he is when playing horror games😭😭 i could never-

When I'm down with stomach flu there's nothing that makes me feel better than watching Mark.

I already respect the protagonist for sending in a machine not just diving in themselves into the depths of the earth.

Markiplier: searches the crystals Also Mark: “Crystals it’s always crystals that are the true enemy.”

15:12.... So it seems to me like they're taking bodies (or perhaps living people) and leaving them by the crystals to get spore-ified. The possibility of the "Food" being alive is the most concerning part, here. Why are they taken? Did they do something to warrant being sent down here?

This game reminds me that we haven’t had any good horror movies about caves in a long while. The best I’ve seen to date is still “The Descent”. This game’s concept could be a really cool horror movie if executed well.

This is the closest to a story like Mystery Flesh Pit national park ive seen! Would love to see bigger games based off it.

For anyone wondering, The yellow text on the bottom left says: OCEAN And the objective at 24:28 says: FIND THE CORE

14:07 -- So, over time we send half of humanity down into the caves, let them crystallise and harvest the energy. This way we solve overpopulation and energy crisis.

It starting to fast forward at like 5:20 scared the crap out of me 😂😂

The overlay of the cave system and missing people are very similar because they also match the population maps. Humans have discovered and mapped caves around where they live. Also, missing people are only reported in places where people live. You can overlay any two maps that require people to live there, and you'll see a matching pattern. For example, compare 'pounds of sherbet ice cream eaten per year' and, say 'crocs purchased per year' and you'll see a similar match. It's just population.

As a Carlos, we are the life of the party, and I loved the acknowledgment. Thanks, Mark!

I usually love small spaces, but hearing Mark talk about people squeezing all the air out of their bodies to “cram themselves through one tiny space” gave me genuine chills…I understand why people develop claustrophobia, now.

I haven't kept up with Mark in such a long time it's awful knowing I'll never meet this man even tho iv watched since day 1 I feel sad I will miss him very much , Mark it's been a pleasure watching your content thank you for everything my friend

Lixians jump scare at 6:50 got destroyed by an ad

It never fails that Lixian’s jump scares always are perfect with an ad cut

I’ve gotta say, the fast forward around 5:30ish scared me more than anything else!

seeing the very specific names at the end oddly an immediate thought was "huh, that'd be a cool way to integrate your credits in the gameplay" and lo and behold~ Great game! Much suspense and the slow introduction of more and more horrific things with a perfect reason of why our player character is so helpless and has restricted vision. Props to the devs!

6:45 when the ad break kills the jump scare

something about the super claustrophobic tunnels combined with the occasional giant yawning pits in this game makes my skin crawl. incredible atmosphere

I absolutely love horror things that have lore like iron lung and cave crawler

10:36 IzA wEeL bArEl

Mark trying to convince himself : I'm just a robot, there is no danger

love this genre of mark where he comes back from working on a big projects and the first thing he does is play an exploratory horror game

I think its great how the switch to the sped up camera startled me more than lixian's jumpscare

I love how both this and Input6 are like, VHS analog horror, the game. They use it so well.

This feels heavily inspired by that one Gemini home entertainment vid. The one where the camera drill finds the alien beast and gets captured.

Mark: "I don't understand that. I don't have supreme claustrophobia, but I have a good sense of survival" Also Mark: "Send me into space. I don't care if it kills me, shoot me into the stars"

For them wondering, the coords at the end go to these places: - North Slope, Alaska, United States of America - Monroe County, Florida, United States of America - North Atlantic Ocean

As a massive Technomancy Studios fan im so happy they had a game blow up like this, ive talked with the developers and they are such cool people, seeing mark play this is great.

This game feels like when you got to deep in a cave in minecraft and it really fits mark since he is a cave crawler himself

3:22 scared the crap out of me

In regards to the coordinates at the end of the game in case you're curious: 68°19'43.5"N 160°49'07.9"W: Somewhere in Alaska (This was the only one on land) 25°17'26.7"N 80°59'26.6"W: In the middle of Whitewater Bay, Florida 55°50'07.8"N 26°46'10.6"W: In the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean

In a year and a half: _Markiplier presents….Cave Crawler_

Mark: "... But I have a good sense of survival." Also Mark: Rides super fast on a bike, while it's raining. Destroys the bike and himself.

For anybody who was wondering what those numbers at the bottom of the screen were, I translated them: The ones that appeared one by one throughout the game spelled "OCEAN". The ones that replaced the objective at the end spelled "FIND THE CORE". They were in hex, you can translate them either by looking up a converter, or by hand through binary and ascii values (the long way, but it's fun)

Stalactites are the ones hanging from the ceiling... the way I remember it is "they hang on tight to stay up there"

all I ever imagine watching Marks videos is animated Lixian sitting in the corner of the screen eating popcorn and watching the video with us

It would be so easy to imagine Squirral Stapler being the fisrt part of the story, Cave Crawler being the way the blood appeared on the moon and Iron Lung being the last. I know that these three games have no correlation, but it's fun to imagine!

2 things what reminds me: Mope Mope (cuz everytime you progress you begin to encounter monstrosities in the cave, you are inside of monster's mouth) and The Descent (Dangers in exploring caves)

At 18:41 Market pliers turns into Aurther Morgan

6:50 Thanks, Lixian; now I need a new chair... I will continue to say it, Markiplier is awesome as a RU-vidr (since, sadly, I will not be able to know him in other roles), but his interaction with Lixian makes the videos somewhat more wholesome. Thanks to you both!

The entire time I was thinking how much this game reminds me of mystery flesh pit national park and then mark literally read my mind at 26:20 I swear we need a mystery flesh pit video game adaptation

Finally someone got sane enough to send a robot, not a person

@12:14 that was definitely a body that fell right? Slowed that down and everything, looked just like someone who was clinging on and fell

For anyone who missed it, at 12:14 you can see the 3rd body fall along with the rocks

Even knowing Lixian was going to add a jump scare, I still somehow almost jumped out of my skin!

☢️☢️☢️11:40 you can see the Black demon shadow ghost from before down there. It’s hard to see because it’s so dark around it just right when marks cursor in the middle hits it its gone,that’s why it said motion detected☢️☢️☢️

the first jumpscare lixian got me with, caught me off guard and spilled my trolly all over

Even after all these years, the Hello everybody my name is Markiplier intro is still good