DON'T SCREAM (literally) 

Mark during a 'don't scream' challenge: The calmest zen master Mark during a 'don't laugh' challenge: The giggliest bitch

"This forest is full of losers." -Markiplier 1993

mark needs to have a playthrough of a sound based horror game like this, but with a harmonica taped to his mouth

I love how screaming, instead of alerting a dangerous monster, just makes you fall over and drop dead. It makes the threats in the game feel even more harmless.

Markiplier calmly walks through the woods for 20 minutes

imagine being a terrible thing in the woods and you see Markiplier just doing asmr.

12:56 *literal infant crying* Marlkiplier: "The Rules apply to everyone, and that baby just lost." 💀

"This forest is full of losers." Is my favorite line and I *will* be using it.

When Markiplier is talking quietly he tends to speak even more formally than normal

Seeing Mark's mic at 8% is so funny when you've just watched Jack at 1% and saw him die like twice from breathing too loud within the first 3 seconds

22:10 Mark: "what a false sense of security" _Jumpscare 2 seconds later_ Mark: *called it*

I like the thought that Mark just goes into a grocery story and as he enters he yells "HELLO IT'S ME MARKIPLIER"

I think the main issue with this game is that despite all the jumpscares and creepy noises, it’s easy to realize as long as you don’t scream there is no way to be harmed, the fear in most horror game comes from the feeling of “Something could kill me at any moment and I don’t want to die” whereas in this game it’s “I’m completely safe all the time, no matter what I do as long as I don’t make a loud noise”

If the goal is to not scream and everything screams at Mark then, by that logic, he's the scariest thing in these woods

"your naked, your naked, that chicken is naked." Thank you sire Farquad for this insightful commentary.

Damn, Mark really said “skill issue” to that baby 💀

Thing about this game is, I think there's been a fundamental misunderstanding of how horror works. The scariest part of this game is the beginning because it builds up some lovely atmosphere; when the game gets "harder" it's the least scary because every jump scare resets the tension and we've seen many times that 'death' has no consequences and thus aren't afraid of what it's going to throw at us. Like, any game can get you to jump at a jumpscare, but if that's it then that's like being a professional comedian who can only make people laugh while tickling them

Random girl: *pinned to a tree by her hand with a dagger, bloodied, desperately reaching out for help* Mark: You alright? *walks away*

8:19 that "pardon me" to a hanging body got me rolling on the floor 😂

Jumpscares are an art form that must be neurologically designed. To get someone to scream is not about frequency but immersion, the more a person actually believes that they are about to die (from the brains autonomic neurological sense that we can’t control), the greater the startle response will be. To get someone to actually scream in a game is difficult because: 1) they can anticipate the threat) 2) they must feel invested in their objective, otherwise they won’t be immersed and also won’t feel any actual danger at all. 3) they dont have anything to actually fear, something that can activate and trick their minds self preservation response 4) they already know its a simulated environment and not the real thing which is why immersion must be the top priority. This is why falling in a VR game for example is a good way to trick the minds autonomic response because it is something we physically can’t control.If you want to make someone actually scream, you’ll have to delve into the science of screaming to actually make it work and make it difficult, you must make it VR first off, then create a longer believable story line that is closer to reality and the threat must be believable, thus way you create the immersion. Then you must induce the startle response from the autonomic nervous system by introducing the jumpscare after long tension is created, such as after the protagonist is being chased, and thinks he gets away. Now in VR, you have for example the player fall off a cliff and then introduce the jump scare, this would be much more likely to trigger the autonomic response because the feeling of falling you get in VR messes with the equilibrium of our inner ear, which is the same “chills” we get when we feel creeped out. It’s connected to our peripheral nervous system which is what makes our hair follicles stand up. If you trigger this feeling by throwing off the equilibrium of the inner ear, then introduce a threat, fight or flight will be produced in the subject and most likely the person will scream if the threat is introduced at that specific moment and the player is fully immersed in the “situation” (not the environment, environment is not enough to create immersion, the situation and objective the player has must be believable as well). The reason we scream is because that is how nature designed us to scare away wolves and other large predators. If done right, the person will go into fight or flight and you’ll get weird reactions, such as startle responses, screams, and people punching at nothing.

Every day that passes, Mark looks more and more like Keanu Reeves

Mark calmly and softly stating “you’re naked” to like 6 swinging bodies in a row absolutely got me

just seconds into the actual game play and i'm astonished with the environment, it looks like a visual masterpiece filled with details i love it so much, it's beautiful

Jumpscare Timestamps (not mine): 5:19 Mark missed it but very loud sound 9:31 "Hello there..." 10:07 Loud metal fell 10:56 Some creaky stuff 12:23 Skreem 13:37 It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's a head 14:19 Skreem 2: Arachnophobia 17:50 Arachnophobe + running 18:40 Granny: "I must leave, my planet needs me." 19:32 Skreem 3: The Stik Man 19:42 "Hello there... again" 19:56 Gone, reduced to atoms 20:22 Arachnophobe 2: The Sequel 20:36 "Hello there" part 3 20:57 Halp! 21:22 Å- 21:35 "Hello there" 22:11 Sike!! 22:33 Ooh scawy

This game has a great premise and creates phenomenal atmosphere, and the scares are pretty startling, but it's missing a sense of danger and urgency. Once you realize that nothing is going to happen to you as long as you march forward and ignore all the jumpscares, it's pretty easy to stop yourself from screaming.

Love how mark just calmly walks through the woods and with every scream heard he points out how they lost

The fact that Mark hoped he didn't sneeze and Sean almost fucked everything up with a sneeze made me laugh.

Visually this game is amazing, it looks almost photorealistic at times. The way the branches almost look like pale limbs, the way the trees shiver like distant people watching you. the actual models for people are kind of bad. Gameplay wise this is incredibly dissapointing however, you walk around as some variation of 'scary loud thing jumps in your face' plays, or maybe you see some cheap gore. I think this game would be much scarier if it didn't try so hard to be so scary. Imagine 18 minutes of just walking around in silence, with almost nothing except the distant shivering of bushes that might be people, constantly getting turned around or blinking and finding yourself in a different place. The scary events slowly escalate, first some dead crows, the hallucinations of spiders should be distant. just a massive swarm moving in the distance, just barely threading the edge of your awareness. You get too close to a brush and you realize that this time it really is a person, they back off and dissapear. Stanley kubrick found that each jumpscare lessened the impact of following jumpscares. This game should have only 1 or 2 at most, ramping up the tension and really getting you. After all the goal is to scare you right? its a horror game. They want to scare you, not startle you into losing.

I feel as though Markiplier 10 years ago wouldn’t be able to ever make it past the first jumpscare

Mark in other horror games: *screams at everything* Mark in Don't Scream: "Welcome to my ASMR!"

As a mute person, i see this as a absolute win

Mark is such a threat that evens plants shiver in his presence

Petition for Mark to read a bedtime story

“Just a bunch of losers in the forest,” casually a human screams, Markiplier: “Nerd”

I feel like this game could’ve been phenomenal with the addition of blind creatures. Like you’re walking through the forest, and come across a giant lurking figure, but it can only come after you if you make sound. This could give the game some VERY needed fear factor, and also create atleast some hazard to make the game interesting.

15:50 “another loser..” “this forest is full of losers” 😂got me dying

Markiplier: "The rules apply to everyone, even babies... That baby lost."

I find it hilarious that Mark made it out completely harmless while Dan and Phil failed tremendously multiple times. I guess he is quite immune to horror games at this point.

at 22:40.. exactly when mark screamed.. my lights flickered and my monitor turned off. What a timing.

22:08 "What a lovely false sense of security." 🤣

The problem with this game is there’s no panic factor.

Loading Screen: Time only progresses when you move. Mark: Why is the timer counting down when I'm moving?

I didnt realize how much I needed a new Markiplier worlds quietest lets play in my life until now. Though the bread game will never see its equal.

The scariest part was the airplane in beginning after listening to that message thing. After that it seem like they tried way too hard to jump scare the players to the point it failed lol

Mark enters every Mini Mart shouting "HELLO, IT'S ME, MARKIPLIER" and tells everyone about the naked chickens.

technically that's not supposed to be sanitary is now my new favorite sentence

Mark walking casually through the forest The foliage all around: *shiver me timbers*

Markiplier has gotten so used to horror games that a horror game that is made to make you scream doesn’t even scare him anymore

The way you just fall over and *die* when you scream is just so funny to me.

Markiplier seems to be confident that he will win this Lets demotivate him with a controlled shock

This shit was a try not to laugh rather than scare with the way mark was doing it 💀💀

This game is the equivalent of someone betting they can scare you and then just yelling BOO in your face over and over again.

When I watched Dan and Phil play this I kept thinking “I bet Mark would be so calm doing this”

That first jumpscare...I can bet a much younger, pre-FNaF Mark would have been screaming his head off from it! Gotta love he finishes with barely a flinch/blink at the scares, then reverts to a giggly-b***h when he sees what happens when you lose

"head in the tub" well thats not sanitairy plus his voice is so calming like this oml

Let's be honest, this wasn't a horror game video, this was an ASMR video 🤣

I feel this will be the closest thing I'll get to a Markiplier ASMR

probably the only video I have ever watched in my entire life with the best part happens on the end of the video

My first thought at the sight of the plane: "Yo, where's the NTSB?" 😂

Imagine being one of the scariest things to ever exist in a tournament for a grand prize to be given to the scariest of them all to just be beaten by ASMRkiplier.

"The rules apply for everyone, even babys. That baby lost" had me cracking!!

9:50 "Well that's not sanitary-" wow- it's funny already- but the whispering- it makes it funnier

"This is the Battle Royale of Horror Games, and *I* am the scariest"

Random character: “AHHHHHHH!!” Mark: “..nerd.”

13:08 “The rules apply for babies. And the baby lost” 😂 -Markiplier 2023

I think they need to make the scares more subtle-but-startling, because those are what actually get you. The player has their guard up for jumpscares, you have to get them when they take things for granted or think something isn’t a threat. For example, if a hanging body in the store just randomly fell when it’s in your peripheral vision, or if the corpse in the beginning coughed right as you looked away. Those aren’t big “BOO” moments, but they get you off guard and are probably more likely to get a gasp.

this is way more calming than it should be

Mark’s mic being set to 8% while Sean was dying from yawning at 1% has me cackling 😂

I believe that if they add running and a real danger of a monster, instead of only random jumpscares, the game will be amazing. Because this will make the player wonder whether it can kill them or just scare them.

i love how mark just keeps walking even if there is a jump scare.

Goku: "I'm the strongest person in the world!" Markiplier casually exploding a person because he's scary 😂 19:55

the problem with this game is that a good horror game limits and pulls out their jumpscares to maximise tension. This just throws jumpscare after jumpscare at you in the hopes that one of them startle you enough to make u gasp. graphics are amazing though.

9 years of FNAF made Mark immune to any kind of screamers

No thanks to being in a forest alone. It's beautifully done. The atmosphere that is

I just love these quiet let's plays:the asmr of Marks voice is smooth and soft as honey

Imagine a don't laugh version of this, so that instead of jumpscares, it's silly music as something funny happens every 10 seconds.

mark pointing out how the bodies are naked in a low tone out of context would probably sound hilarious lmao

Watching Mark listen to screams of horror and dispare and then immediately calling them a loser at the game, even to a baby is hilarious

Well that was relaxing, legitimately nearly fell asleep to this

I'm not sure if Mark's lack of screaming means A. He is so desensitized to horror (games) that nothing phases him. B. All the other times he's played horror games, his reactions were exaggerated. Or C. He understands the assignment and can be brave when he needs to be.

a return that nobody predicted... the return of the world's quietest let's play... with lip smacking and saliva cracking lmfao

I love the implication Mark runs with, that Don’t Scream is a survival rule, and anyone who screams loses; monsters included. Makes me picture each jump scaring monster just collapsing after trying to scare him. XD

* Mark being trapped in a forest with a creature that makes you hallucinate and steals your spine when you get distracted by the hallucinations * Also Mark: You lost the game Nurd

Wow the filter they used for this game’s camera blurs the graphics really well to make it look realistic. I actually thought it was a prerecorded video at first.

The graphics are impressive. I first thought this is a video of someone walking through a forest.

The ending is what I expected a lot of this video to be. So glad he saved that for the end when the game was finished though.

The instant death by screaming at the end was the perfect comedic relief to help me get out of bed after watching this

mark silently telling the hanging dead people that they're naked is somehow better than him yelling it

What would be an interesting twist for a game called Don't Scream is that if at a few points in the game, you actually HAVE to scream for a few seconds above the divider line as if you're scaring something away in the game. And since you can calibrate mic sensitivity, you can either crank that up so you don't have to scream loud but that also means you have to be quieter as a trade off, or you can lower the sensitivity so you don't have to be as quiet but then you'd have to scream louder as a result. Just a thought.

I love microphone-based horror games like this. I know if I played one I'd die hahaha

*dead body just casually hanging * Mark: “pardon me” 😂😂

This game gives off the vibes of one of those "haunted house" places where despite how creepy they set it up, you're never gonna be afraid because you know that nothing's actually gonna hurt you. Someone could jump out and scream at you but aside from being a little startled nothing happens because you know they're not even allowed to touch you. In this game, you won't die if you don't scream, so there's nothing to scream about or get scared of.

Markiplier would have lost instantly if it was a rage game.

*plane wreckage, bodies hanging from the wing, bloody scream echoing from the distance* Mark: ..."Seems like they just lost the game"

Mark going, "lets do a quick reality check. we crash land in the middle of a forest. Bodies swinging. people screaming. not me." just got me. he really had to establish superiority over dead people.

"You scream you lose." They all screamed. Markiplier made sure they ALL lost.

Imagine if u were dying and had ur head cut off and all mark did was say “at least ur not naked”

The monsters screamed, so they disappeared. They lost.

Markiplier telling me bedtime stories in this voice would cure my insomnia

I find it funny that mark goes in random directions and ends up going the right way