HIDE Someone Is Breaking Into Your Room Don't Open The Door - Norwood Hitchhike Fears To Fathom 

Welcome to the I Can't Begin To Fathom Club, how I Can't Begin To Fathom are ya?

Everyone: *tries their best to stay quiet* Manly: *unplugs mic*

Here's the thing. Of course as the protagonist we're honed to think that the person stopping to help us might be a killer or something. But imagine being the one in the working car passing a broken down car on a desolate road in the middle of nowhere. You might help, but wouldn't you be extremely cautious as well, just in case it's a trap to rob you or maim you? It's a situation where circumstances justify both parties to not immediately trust each other.

honestly i was expecting a ghost lady while she was driving or something supernatural, but the real horror was staying alone in a weird motel

Road safety tip: if, while driving, you ever come across any sort of a sudden obstacle that blocks the entire road (i.e. a few trees/trunks that seem easy to move out of your way, trash bins or just a lot of trash, road signs that aren’t supposed to be there and so on), just make a 180 and get out of there without exiting your car to remove the obstacle. Chances are that whoever placed those in front of you is nearby on the ready to ambush you the moment you leave your car. This game has reminded me of some tragic news that happen a lot because people hurry so much that they make rushed decisions without giving it a second thought. So stay safe people.

Manly hid too far to the side in the closet at the end, so sadly you couldn't see what happened. If you watch the intruder go into the bathroom, you'll see the manager sneak in behind him and kill him (hence the final message about him not wanting to get police involved) so I guess he decided to go Chad for you in the end

That last hiding section just suddenly use your actual mic input is legit surprising honestly. I found it really funny too that Manly probably realized this quick enough and more than staying quiet he just turn off his mic input .

“Consuming these items increases your sprint speed” Me seeing the word “sprint”: *o h n e p t u n e*

Wow, one million already. You know, this channel feels so indie, y'know? Feels like it's so very small, because of the games that it plays. It doesn't feel big, it's so much different than any other channel. Manly has a unique sense of humor, playing abstract and less known games. Congrats, Manly. Thank you for uploading.

For any young drivers out there, from someone who has run into the road block situation: Never get out to clear it if it looks purposeful. Two options being go back the way you came (even in reverse) or go over the blockade. You can worry about gas levels or car repairs later, when you're still alive. Even if you have a buddy with you, it could be a big group waiting off the side of the road, it isn't worth it to find out. Hell, if worse came to worse, drive into the group. They will move.

Me, thinking to myself: “The coffee is just free? Home girl is about to drug herself” *Narrator voice* Home girl had indeed, just drugged herself.

24:16 the genuine surprise and confusion - and *hurt* - in manly's voice when he says "WHERE IS THE MATTRESS" just kills me every time

I honestly really appreciate this dev and portraying horror in it's real world experience. And I think they do a great job that will reach a lot of people and their real fears. I'm impressed

"I didn't understand how somebody could leave another human being stranded like that." If I was driving and I wasn't in a car with at least three other people, in that circumstance I wouldn't stop either.

"Uh oh, I'm driving a car" Roxy succumbs to terrible flashbacks

The text messages from parents while you're trying to drive or walk home, asking you to be safe, but they are constantly messaging you, is so damn accurate. My mom does it all the time. Edit! Thanks for the 1K likes!! 🥰

I see so many picking apart every inch of this game yet see no one commenting on the open trunk of the car in front of where the coffee machine was, the door that had someone peeking out of, etc. The moment I read that the manager's demeanor had changed, I completely expected him to toss the MC into it, which was likely the intention of whomever drugged her in the first place. Just an interesting little aspect I'm surprised I hadn't seen more people comment on given how much people focused on the coffee machine.

7:25 That is actually pretty interesting. It looks like the guy is set to spawn from your car when leaving the store. The last time I played this, I parked the car near to the street, and don't believe that I've seen that guy being close to the second row.

I miss gas station attendants that delivered exposition every time I bought gas. Life was so much more exciting.

Game dev: Hehe and I will put a mic mechanic here so player will need to keep quiet irl Manly: *Turn off his microphone* I love how the motel manager just casually walk in and wrack-a-mole on the kidnapper like it is usually happen 3 times a week.

In this games economy you can fill up your entire gas tank for $10, but a small bag of dog food is $5? That's some premium dog food.

Don't know why, but this kept me at the edge of my seat trying to figure out what was the real danger to the girl. Guess it's just a relatable situation

This is probably another reason why people do long road trips with friends or a gun.

Manly's voice is so calming. He's so calm even while playing video games.

Bruh, that 1st jumpscare w/Tommy legit gave me chills. Super realistic jumpscare. 🥶

I love the part at 24:00 where you get all your texts at once after you get your service back. So relatable and a really interesting detail.

The hotel guy totally knew this happens. He even has the medicine for it.

Apart from the killer, what nice characters everyone was!

The lesson is, If a coffee machine gives you the drink in a little porcelain cup, DON'T DRINK IT.

It feels so much calmer when there isn’t over exaggerated reactions

I was 90% sure we were the ghost the gas station owner talked about because we were the one hitchhiking...so i thought we'd end up killing someone

This game gives good life advice...and that's people can be dangerous no matter their circumstance. You might pick up a hitchhiker and find a dirty serrated spoon in your colon half way down the Interstate.

Breaking down on a highway or on a back road is literally my nightmare.

I love these. They’re terrifying-they play on your worst fears & that makes for a really immersive experience.

Dad: "Drive safe Holly." Also Dad: *texts her multiple times while she's driving* lmao, I would have just turned my phone off after like the second or third message. Whatever people want to tell me it's not more important than my life.

As a mid-20s something, I had to stay in a motel for almost a week for a continuing Ed class. (8 hours from home, I drove, of course!) When I walked up to the front desk, the guy looked at me and point blank asked, "Are you here by yourself?" Naively, I answered truthfully but he was kind and put me in the room above the main office. I'll never forget him for being kind to me that day. I even had car issues that week!! 😂 (It was a wild stay...there was a lot of deaf people there for some convention and the cops were called...the cops jump started my battery for me.) The protag hiding in the closet was quite a scary scene for me...🥴 Brought back those fears I had while staying there those days...

everyone's mad at ghost coffee but i think this game actually really perfectly encapsulated that anxiety feeling of not knowing what the actual danger is and the dread and anticipation of when the inevitable threat is going to occur. like i was on the edge of my seat, will it be a hitchhiking danger? a ghost on the road, some kind of wendigo story? your room being invaded while you're asleep? i'm sure the story was embellished for the sake of gameplay experience and removing some linearity, but the realness of a young woman getting drugged and somebody trying to invade your room while you're vulnerable and cut off from help is horribly scary and way more relatable thus scarier than "creepy creature kills you." the hints at the supernatural were a great way to build anxiety and gaps in the main character's knowledge about her situation and the intent and meaning behind the other character's intentions/actions and oddities like her car breaking down and trees blocking a road on which you've *seen* another car go ahead of you on. it's a good way to make the player empathise with anxiety someone in a vulnerable, untrustworthy situation depending on strangers would experience, because the unknown and unexplainable is what supernatural horror and suspense relies on; it's not scary if you know everything about what you're supposed to be afraid of. sorry there wasn't a three minute slideshow presentation explaining the coffee machine and that it ruined the whole game for you. thanks for coming to my 3:00am ted talk, now go to bed

this was a real good one. Atmosphere was top notch, but yeah only really got scary until the end. It had a good implication that the manager and really the whole town knew about the problem but they were trying to subetly get people in and out without getting murdered.

Congratulations on 1M!!! My mom officially knows you as the "Bedtime Guy" because I play your streams as background for when I sleep ^-^/) Your voice is soothing, and your narration makes these types of games feel like a bedtime story of sorts

I had a good laugh at "but who was coffee machine?" haha.

Only 10 mins in and I love how accurate the texts are. The parents constantly texting. The random “holly?” Instead of just asking the question. Love it

When that damn door swung open and Tommy was in there, it scared the ever living hell out of me! And the person outside the window at 28:52! Thats nightmare fuel!

"Now what? . . . Guess I just chill out!" *[Barricades The Door]*

I feel like I personally would trust personal of motels. Because realistically if they were doing stuff like kidnappings of murders you would hear about disappearances and it would bring too much suspicion on the institutions so I feel like it would be really unlikely that the motel owner is doing wrong things and most likely a killer would be a random person and not a staff just like in the game

Even though its a horror game, there's something kinda cozy about driving down a country road. More games should take advantage of that.

The greatest danger manly was in was the texting while driving section

To be honest, this game perfectly encapsulates the visceral terror of being a stranded woman alone at night. _Everything_ feels like a potential threat and you're constantly on guard. I was driving home super late this one night, and got lost in some backwoods b/c my nav screwd me up. That was terrifying. Then I finally find my way route and realize gas was getting low. Took _forever_ to find a station that was open, and by the time I did I was desperate and near empty. Still in completely unfamiliar territory. So there I am, at a random unlit gas station, in a small, eerily silent and _completely_ unlit town out of desperation. I tried pumping my gas at the only functioning pump, but was so on edge that I hopped right back in my car and decided to just get back on the highway and keep driving until I broke down.....b/c that would've been better than the stuff my mind was conjuring up. By some freaking miracle, I actually stretched the tank to get me 99% home, and when the car finally ran out of gas, I just let it legit _roll_ on fumes until I came across a fully active Shell gas station in a safe area. Nearly cried, because I genuinely though I wasn't gonna make it home that night.

This one was definitely weirder than the first one. I feel like it was doing well up through meeting the weird cleaner/handyman, but then it fell apart super quickly. Was the person hiding in our closet a dream? Why did the manager have pills in the room and why did we take them? I actually kind of like the disappearing coffee machine, but it'd feel more real if it was along side one or two other vending machines. I'd be easier to hide a fake with real ones, plus it would lean into the unreliable narrator (Did she get a coffee or was it something from another machine?). Plus I recognize that style of coffee machine, never seen it outside of a hotel/motel/truck stop, but it's never on its own.

Kudos to the devs for including that parked car right before you reach the two logs blocking the road. If that happened to me, no way would I get out of the car to try to move them. (Also leaving them there would guarantee that the next person has to stop, lol.)

I love the face on the dogfood bag. That look of shock and anticipation.

actually I kinda laugh out when motel manager casually came in and beat up that weird guy that bark in her room. the “ow!” part really got me lol.

Woman:how can someone just leave another human out stranded in the middle of nowhere?! Also woman:*forgot what the guy at the gas station said*

@12:24 I love how Manly hits the brakes so he doesn't hit the bunny 😭

i really appreciate that you show how you play naturally- not opening the door, for example, even though it would've showed the viewer a new jumpscare. you really give us the experience of the games, rather than showing everything that COULD happen.

haven’t they ever watched wrong turn? always go with traffic over a “faster route”

“$10 on pump 2” “I filled up my tank” Damn I’ll take a whole town of ghost hitchhikers if gas is that cheap

So I was driving down a lonely deserted road and passed a guy in overalls leaning on an axe with his thumb out. I stopped to let him in. He seemed really surprised and thankful that I had picked him up. "I was afraid nobody was going to pick me up because they'd think I was an axe murderer or something." He said. I replied, "Well, I'm not too worried. The odds of there being two axe murderers in one car are extremely unlikely."

$10 for a full tank of gas?! This game is straining my believability!

The real horror begins when you turn a blacklight on them bed sheets before going to bed

“Boy, I’m anxious. I should go outside where I just saw someone stalking me to get some coffee which is known for its calming effects.”

i think this series is so cool and how they base it off real experiences, sounds really interesting.

I want to know what would happen if you tried to crash your car or get hit by a car. Walking out of the gas station without paying for the dog food could also be interesting. It's always fun seeing what happens in these types of games when you do something really stupid or terrible.

This game has the god damn loudest screamers I´ve seen, my headphones exploded for a second there

Either the manager was in on it or he had real suspicions and kept the rooms prepped and ready at all times just in case. I get the feeling a lot of these people knew more than they were letting on.

I was just thinking "Man I could go for a Manly video right now" And boom. This was uploaded. Congrats on a million subs, Manly!

Manly talking to a random guy in the store straight off the bat x3 something a teenage girl would never do in a million years.

your voice is so calm and a little monotone, and every game you play is indie or "small" and here you are! 1 million subscribers!

_She was already at risk texting while driving_ The moral of this - be prepared. If she hadn't needed to stop for gas, she would have been breezing along home. Motels are always creepy. I liked this one better than the first Fears to Fathom I think. The pacing was a bit off agree, but the being picked up by the stranger and motel parts made up for any slowness.

Nowhere Gas Simulator. Watch out for an old cranky farmer and his strange coward of a dog. My advice? Return the slab.

The first F2F playthrough you made is one of my favorite videos, since you somehow managed to make it tense as hell, by only running into a single jump scare. Particularly the scene where you missed the intruder walking up the stairs.

I don’t know if I can watch Manly anymore knowing that he honks at people he’s trying to pass

The name makes me think of an older game called The Norwood Suite. I watched Vinesauce Vinny play it years ago. It's a fantastic game with a unique theme and tone. Manly would love it, I'm sure.

finding this series really scary. the more symbolic horror games usually don't do it for me, though i still can enjoy them for the style or story. can't wait to see what the next game in the series has in store for us.

I’m going to be honest. I’m somewhat similar to the female in the story. I drove down shady country roads by myself and stayed in worse motels/hotels. I really never thought about my own safety, until watching this video. I’m definitely going to be more cautious in the future. I do have some trips planned and money already spent. I’m definitely going to beg some friends if they can go with me.

14:57 I would be GLAD they drove past me lmao. Not risking getting kidnapped today.

I wouldn't sleep at all if I had in my mind those stories, a broken car and a fucking window next to the bed that leads to the darkness outside to the highway. I would imagine someone could peak at that window and that is fucking scary

10:30 Touhou joke right into a situation I run into all to often on the roads. You're great Manly, you give us content that very few others do.

I’ve watched both Jack’s and Manly’s play through of this chapter and I love how they both gave tommy a county accent only the second time seeing him.

In any other time this road would probably be a nice place to go through..

Thank you for being responsible with your driving. Around here, you can get fined for texting and driving.

5:40 CONSUME

As someone with horrible experiences with crappy motels, yeah this makes sense.

"Me buy." Yes, that's exactly how I communicate while shopping 😂

i know it's a game and manly wants to see all the dialogue, but i would rather get in a wreck than willingly talk to a stranger in a seedy gas station in the middle of the night while i'm on a 12-hour drive alone

"How could someone just leave another human being stranded like that?" Does this female character happen to be dressed in white or blue like the ghost legend?

I do wish for this set of "true story" horror games, they would choose more realistic stories and stick closer to how the person told them. This one is obviously not real (I can get being drugged by a coffee machine, but a ghost coffee machine that disappears after you drink from it? no....) plus the horror story cliches pull you out of it. If the character was being followed throughout the game and it climaxes in the motel by the character realizing someone has been stalking them since the gas station (which definitely has happened) and having the creepy guy try to break into the motel (also has happened) that would have been a creepier story than one with all the supernatural elements

Moral of the story: -buy a gun/pepper spray for road trips -take a friend with you on road trips -take a flight over a 12 hour drive -make sure your tank is full -then back around and take another route if you see logs on the road Street smarts :)

The real coffee machine was the friends we made along the way.

5:25 “hi can I get $10 on pump 2” *THIS IS WHY MANS WAS LOW ON GAS. you cannot drive 6 more hours on a 10$ tank. (From empty too LMFAO)

This is why you carry a knife with you when you go to these places

I just wanna say I really want to see more horror games that are based on real life experiences. Like the fact that it could actually happen to you makes it so much scarier to me.

Still can’t believe yet so so happy you hit 1 million, I’ve only been here for a year but watching you grow has been such an honour

I cracked up when he kept on honking the car horn lol

Imagine how differently the story would have gone if the protag was packing heat

A lot of buildup in this one, it's not a bad thing. A lot of late night weirdness. In the end, the greatest fear is winos at the door at unreasonable hours.

MBH sounds so much like a school teacher I actually had a dream where he would make us play these horror games except they were real and if they were bad we would need to go to multiple places/games and he would get real mad at kids who didn't turn in the work because he would walk through most of the hard parts anyway.

the car was pre 90. the license plate drops down to refuel...

Really glad to see the second game in this series, I quite liked the first and have been eager to see what would come next. While I agree this one wasn't quite as good as it took awhile to really build up speed, it's still a tense horror game. Alone in a sleazy motel room, surrounded by strangers, unsure of who if anyone to trust. Good stuff.

The stalker whispering "hello" outside of the window scares me SO BAD

Oh sweet I’ve been thinking of this series recently. Glad to see there’s been a new chapter!