I Made a Torture Game. 

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i am absolutely doing this again as well by the way

I remember worryingly little of this

The fact that Vale knows how to navigate this twisted maze by memory shows just how much maniacal thought he's put into it. I love it.

"While I don't really like Chess, I sure do like that other game" Lynx: "Baseball?"

love how the drunk man going in circles made more progress than the people actually trying to concentrate on how to win

I hope maivi can get her brain lengthening surgury soon. Thoughts and prayers to all suffering with short brains 🙏🙏🙏😇😇

if any game says "hold shift to sprint" or "autosaving checkpoint" you know something really nice will happen soon

This isn't a torture game... this is actually a 90s adventure game

Halfway expected the final level of player gaslighting would be that there actually wasn't a monster at all and the game was just playing false audio cues and using clever object placement/movement to get players to run away from nothing

You know what would've been hilarious? The 4 keys actually work and open the door but behind the door is an endless hallway that the monster can chase you down in.

When you’ve been staring at a dude walking in circles continuously for so long that you actually get scared when you see the monster you actually made

Maivi seemed more like she was drunk than the actual drunk guy

*when mentally scaring your friends to new levels means you have to make your own game!*

The Virgin "I can't remember!" vs the Chad "My brain is too short".

Valefisk: hehehe i'll have a clever hint about draughts Literally Everyone: What the actual fuck is drafts Valefisk: .......... tbh Vale getting frustrated because people are getting confused by his confusing bullshit is the best part

The way the monster isn’t built up and just exists at random points is honestly a lot scarier

I was sure there wouldn’t actually be a monster but the fact there is and it’s completely programmed is even funnier

31:26 Lynx just goes full "He's more afraid of me than I am of him" and stares the thing down, and it leaves! The balls on this guy!

39:30 Maivi's method working and then her giving up and saying "It didn't work" while literally standing right next to the opening to the key was heartbreaking

I love that lizard brain process of "holy shit what is that predator in front of me? Oh shit the key- FUCK"

I was genuinely convinced for the first half of this movie that there were just randomly scattered scripted noises and that there wasn't a monster, and when the monster was first revealed my heart stopped for a moment

Imagine a hallway that's seemingly straight but it curves in one direction by 1 degree. To the naked eye, it'll look like one straight hallway but if you kept walking you'd eventually do a full 360

25:05 he legitimately said "ooh shiny"

Lynx's hysterical chuckle at the monster is such a baller move.

That AI design was brilliant! Giving the player a spook then throwing the monster to the other side of the map added so much effect.

The balls on this man to just create a whole game just to fuck with some people... I love it and every euro spent on his patreon is worth it

Vale: "My favorite board game is Draughts." Everyone: "The fuck is that? You're making shit up."

I love how the guy zonked out of his mind was the closest to “winning”

31:42 ‘oh my god, what is this beast?’ That might be one of the most British reactions to whatever that is I have ever heard. Brilliant Lynx. “What a spooky bein’. What a spooky bein’”

Vale is just tying to break his “friends” (willing torture victims he occasionally compensates) at this point and it’s beautiful.

Gotta love Maivi's 300IQ move of drawing the code on her camera-enabled device

32:44 my heart sank when he just walked over and grabbed it. The sense of impending doom was so real

How about a psychological horror that actually melts your brain in other ways: - Make the door opening animation painfully long - An extremely long tutorial explaining every single control (or mechanic/gimmick) - A key combination where only one single hint of just one single key/number/symbol exists - A meaningless picture that pretends to be veryyyy important (maybe found in a path that is very visible and can be seen often) - Random noises that scare the [?] out of you just like the Minecraft cave noises -> Maybe also a random discord ping every 30 minutes just to annoy the person playing - In the game, give the player a task that makes no sense as it has nothing to do to progress - [Too much Effort] Make it Non-Euclidean like the game "Anti-Chamber" where Circle-Paths have 5 corners or an infinitely long hallway - If you end up progressing up until the end, a hint will say that the last key is actually at the start of the game (which you are unable to reach) so you need to completely restart from the beginning -> This also makes it possible to have a random maze that has random halls and walls that weren't there for the first playthrough - Oh and for the sake of it, when you see a (fake) key and try to approach it while losing sight of it, it just so happens that it disappears.. huh Alright, have fun making it more painful!

"What a splendifico fella. Oh he's quite rapido now" is the funniest shit I heard all day

I loved the part where someone laughed at how the monster looks and it got so offended it left.

31:04 "Trying to figure it out logically" in a dungeon designed by a madman.

I love how Maivi absolutely flipped the script on Vale and made him suffer lmao

Vale got tired of the war crimes joke so he Started torturing people Yup checks out

“Vale, Where are the stairs?” Dom asked calmly.

"I DIDN'T KNOW admittedly, i should have known BUT I DIDN'T KNOW" genuinely one of the best reactions in this video

Gotta say, out of all of them (aside from Lynx being the smart man by calling it quits), if the door COULD open and Vale didn't rig the game, I think Dom's second strategy would have won. He took all the time to prioritize and unlock everything for every key, he would just need to remember the correct route and pick up the key nearest to the door last. Buuuuut Vale rigged the game, so nobody CAN win.

I like how Vale laughs at Lynx thinking he's in the lead with 50 minutes on the clock, but Maivi spent fucking 40 flipping switches lmao

I'm only halfway through, but I just realized that, whether intentionally or not, you created a TRUE horror. Reason being is that because the players wasted so much time suffering to collect the keys, and up until now there being no notion of saving, it creates a TON of investment, and as such, so much to lose if you get killed by the monster. Touche lmao

Dom pausing during his “I DIDN’T KNOW” to quietly say “admittedly I should’ve known” and then resuming his scream is fucking gold

Proud of Lynx for not only making it the farthest on his first try but also being wise enough to stop after his first try despite being completely out of it.

Hold shift to sprint "That's ominous" Comedy gold

Imagine watching this without sound and just reading the subtitles, then 24:05 comes along with "chess has battleships"

i love that gamers will literally think they've discovered a mechanic to the game but it literally has zero affect on the game

Vale went from torturing people via games to making his own games to torture people. Someday he's just gonna cut out the games and just torture people.

24:27 I actually did not expect to really be a monster. I just thought Vale would f*ck with their mind and make them believe that there is one

Scary stuff timetable First encounter with the monster 24:35 to 26:04 Brief sighting with monster 27:56 to 28:05 Scary encounter at 29:50 to 30:03 Encounter and death at 30:30 to 31:00 Lynx goes full chad and stares it down at 31:26 to 31:50 Slight jummpscare at 33:03 to 33:24 Death at 34:06 to 34:17 Sighting with the monster at 34:43 to 34:47 Scream-ey death at 34:55 to 35:06 Rapido encounter (and death) at 35:35 to 35:56 Jumpscare encounter and death at 37:56 to 38:06 Sighting at 43:00 to 43:10 Encounter at 45:00 to 45:26 Realization death at 45:42 to 46:02 Final death at 46:28 to 46:34

You have all been called here. Into a labyrinth of sounds and smells, misdirection and misfortune. A labyrinth with no exit, a maze with no prize. You don't even realize that you are trapped.

maivi is unintentionally the funniest person to watch just because of the shit she messes up that always sounds like ironic jokes but is always completely serious

That creature is actually so perfect for that game, I mean it fits the atmosphere and aesthetic exactly in a way that makes it horrifying to be chased by and also so surprising when you first saw it. Because it sparks that curiosity that was shown when the dude started to get closer cuz you expected something like a vampire or something, not GOD DAM SPIDER CRABS hahaha

Even after months, I still come back to this. And the first reveal + Dom's reaction will always the best part of the video xD *grabs Key* Vale: Why did you-?!? Dom: *scream of terror* I DIDN'T KNOW!!! Also Dom: *completely calmly* Admittedly I should have known. Still Dom: BUT I DIDN'T KNOOOOW!!!

Maivi: im gonna draw it in my phone. Valefisk: why not take a picture? why draw it? my man's game just broken that woman brain.

petition to put this on steam

I genuinely spent the first half of the video going “my guess is that there’s no actual monster and there are just hints that there’s one to add further psychological damage” then I saw the monster and I am so glad I was wrong because that thing is terrifying in the best possible way

I’m glad Maivi opened up about her brain shortness not a lot of us are that brave

that thing jumpscared me like every time; the fact that it moves fast, but not too fast, and seems to just come out of nowhere due to the lighting is genius no wait he's faster than I was thinking still genius

A couple ways to freak the hell out of the players if you ever make another one: Have stuff change when the player looks away/ stuff is different when a player comes back to an area. Have the game change slightly and give cryptic hints throughout the game that it knows the player is on their second attempt when they retry.

Maivi doing the right thing by just exiting the game instantly

So there's 2 ways to approach this: either you aimlessly walk around in circles while being drunk until you eventually make progress OR try to be more big brain than Einstein himself, failing misserably in the process and getting progress by luck. Either way the result's gonna be the same bc... "THE GAME WAS RIGGED FROM THE START"

Would have been funny to have a game with a hiding mechanic but no monster just to mess with people. Put hiding spots everywhere and have spooky ambient noises but no actual thing to hide from.

Im not really a fan of the "I hurt/scared my friends with this WHACKY THING I MADE" genre of video, but you put a stupid, stupid amount of effort in ruining people's day. High effort torture I approve of.

Honestly I thought the monster was going to be vale in a monkey suit that was unpixellated

3:55 "[Lynx had] a complete collapse of his critical thinking ability" Also Lynx: Bails after the first try because he realised it was impossible.

Other than it actually being uncompletable, this seems so well designed. It carries a lot of atmosphere and the beast has pretty good programming for what is the video

It actually is quite possible to beat it if you get the first key once all the others have been picked up, because then you have more than enough time to... realize that the door won't open. Fuck, that's evil.

Awful idea to make this even worse: you could have emulated non-euclidian architecture by having the player get warped to an identical looking dungeon with no door once they got the key, so that they get stuck looking for the door forever. Maybe even flip them between alternate identical dungeons every now and then outside of that just to make it even worse.

maivi should have gotten the gift card! she technically exited the crypt first.

"Human Torture Device" I think you mean "An Actual Dungeon" No fluff, just a maze no one was meant to solve to lock away a prize no one was meant to have

Idea for gaslighting your friends some more - Make a game that listens to the mic, make the monster in the game sensitive to sound from the mic with no warning that this is the case whatsoever, then run this format again but with that game. If they demand you prove it's beatable to them, show them you playing through a version that doesn't listen to the mic.

I once broke down on tears because I was unable to hit the start button on a Minecraft horror map, so I feel confident saying torturing me would have been as simple as making a square room with no lights and debating whether it would be cruel to post the results online

An idea: the monster doesn’t actually kill the player when it gets near them. Instead, a prompt to pet the monster appears, and after being pet, the monster will return to its spawn and stay there. Just to fuck with the player.

Maivi won in like five seconds by immediately closing the game

The speedrun for this game *HAS* to be where you get all four keys and then die as fast as possible (since that's basically the end of the game)

47:49 Hence why Alien: Isolation is such an incredible example of good horror game design. Indies take note. Plenty of videos talking about how and why it works. The AI in this game does a decent job at building the suspense, but (obviously, and intentionally) fails at maintaining it at phase 4. Very cool game.

For the love of God, somebody please give poor Maivi a hug. In all of the videos I hear her in, she always sounds like she's on the verge of tears

"What a spooky bein'" is now living rent free in my head permanently

"There's a way to figure it out without even looking at the bridges" - 11:40 - just one example of Vale gaslighting his friends (victims) one about 37 different levels at once. This entire video is incredible

Valefisk should try sneakily finding out what his friends are afraid of and then make a horror game with all that knowledge in mind. Could be fun. For Valefisk. And us. Not so much for his friends.

Don’t think anyone else has pointed this out but when Maivi sings “I’m dead, I’m dead I’m dead,” she has a pretty good singing voice

I love your approach for the monster in the devlog portion I can't tell you the number of horror games I've played where the monster didn't truly scare me meanwhile in other games the "idea" of it lurking nearby watching me (Even if it didn't exist and was simply implied) did so much more torment to my psyche

I think you missed a trick with the end thing. In addition to "Death Mode" triggering only when all 4 keys are in the locks you should have actually had the door next to them open but have it be a really long corridor that makes it impossible to outrun and/or evade the monster and end in nothing (or just a message or something)

Should have made it so that getting hit by the monster just extinguishes your torch rather than ending the game

A fucking checker board is something I never would've tried because I was thinking "It's not gonna be a checker board, that's literally the first thing anyone would think of"

I love in his attempts to torture them linx just ended up unintentionally torturing him

"why would you put a puzzle game in a horror game?" You... Don't play many horror games, do you? Horror and puzzles has been a thing for like ever.

I like how bad Vale’s hints are… that, or his friends aren’t big tabletop game/soccer fans, lol

The pain Maivi gave you was such a fun bit of karma. :') her short brain made you writhe in agony and it humored me

Okay but SOMEONE here needs to acknowledge what a fucking beast dom is for actually succeeding to unlock all the keys. That counts as a win in my book.

Damn, I hate when somebody reanimates my corpse by unleashing my cursed form, and I wake up with a GODDAMN cold! Fucking write-off of a day, I tell you.

No lie, I adore how the torches are visible from far away.

I love how there's no retry button, just *quit." Like the game is telling you to give up

Now you make a sequel where the monster makes all the same spooky sounds and shit, but also gives you a key, which isn't on its person and visible, meaning they have to "fail" to proceed

Now im starting to think that if he had made it winnable, there wouldn’t be much of a difference

25:12 is gold. *”I DIDN’T KNOW!* _I-maybe I should have known…_ *BUT I DIDN’T KNOW!”*

As soon as he said “I like chess but I think I prefer…” I knew how to solve it…