kinda scary... | ANATOMY 

"That's its uvula ." "Ah so it's a girl house."

“There’s nothing scarier than a Midwest unfinished basement” .. That hit different.

"There's nothing scarier than an unfinished midwest basement." That is the gospel right there. Bonus spook if the stairs have that stupid gap to the underside between each step.

Mark: “nooooo not the downstairs bathroom” An ad out of nowhere: “ARE YOU STRUGGLING TO KEEP YOUR TOILET CLEAN”

Game: “It’s literally your elbow.” Mark: *pEnIs*

“I don’t want to go into the bedroom-“ *Trojan man ad plays*

Monster House: "Who are you?" Anatomy: "I'm you but stronger."

this game is actually very clever because rather than making you afraid of fictional monsters, it's making you afraid of your own home, the one place you feel safe and that nothing can hurt you

Other Horror Games: "There's a demon inside your house", Anatomy: "Are you sure your house is not THE demon?"

"There is nothing scarier than a Midwest unfinished basement" As a born and raised Midwestern woman who hates basements, this is 100% true

I recognize the recording at 19:08! It's from one of the very first talking baby dolls made by Edison! Its supposed to be a woman singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star or saying a bedtime prayer, but the recording became so damaged over the years and recordings were so new in that time that the voice actress had to literally scream the song into a gramophone in order to be heard! Between that and the years and years of wear on the recording, it distorted into that awful demonic screaming sound. I think folks managed to restore the original recording and it can be heard somewhere online. That's really cool that they used such an obscure recording!

"Why am I scared if nothing is happening?" That is the true face of darkness and desolation. You don't need anything to happen to feel scared.

"tell me what's the liver of the house?" The the laundry room

Mark: "I WASN'T TRYING TO UPSET YOU!" Also Mark: *Broke every plate in the house he saw for funzies.*

Watching this playthrough after watching Jacob Geller’s video essay on haunted houses, really puts the game into perspective. After all, the house isn’t the villain, we are. We were the ones who abandoned it and now, we are the ones haunting it.

The feeling of being alone in a house at night, all the lights off, everyone asleep. The feeling of being unsafe in your own house. The need to run up the stairs because something might be behind you. The way you can navigate a familiar house even in the dark, just like eventually you can navigate the house in the game....until things start to move and change.

mark: “is that really it??” me, seeing that there’s 40 minutes left: “i’m gonna have to go with no”

A transcription of the end recording: What happens to a house when it is left alone? When it becomes worn and aged? When its paint peels, and its foundations begin to sink? When it goes for too long unlived in? What does it think of? Does it dream? How does it regard those creatures who built it? Brought it into existence only to abandon it when its usefulness no longer satisfies them? It may grow lonesome. It may stare for long hours into the darkness of its own empty halls and see shadows, and its heart may jump as it thinks “here, here is someone again, I’m not alone.” And each time it is wrong, and the hurt starts over. It may haunt itself- inventing ghosts to walk its floors, making friends with its shadow puppets, laughing and whispering to itself at the end of some quiet cul de sac. It may grow angry. Its basement may fill with acid like a churning stomach, and its gorge may rise as it asks itself through clenched teeth, *”what did I do wrong?”* It may grow bitter. It may grow hungry. So hungry and so bitter that it’s scruples dissolve and its doors unlock themselves. While a house may hunger, it cannot starve. And so in fever and anger and loneliness, it may simply lie in wait. Doors open. Shades drawn. Always empty. Hungry. [end transcription] The thought of houses as massive, living creatures is honestly terrifying. As if abandoned buildings or dark hallways weren’t unsettling enough....

notice how, the windows only appear in the second playthrough ... implying that the house is "waking up" and watching you

Game: *explains how certain parts of the house are certain organs Me: “so Monster House?”

"Anatomy: A horror game" As somebody who likes to draw, i can confirm, it is very scary.

As someone who's experienced homelessness, there's kind of an all new layer of horror to this for me... If having a home (or shelter) is already not a given, and is something already actively worried about, the safety and comfort and sense of identity when you do have one goes way up. So this is... This is really horrifying to me.

fun fact: the reason quiet nothingness can be so unnerving is actually an instinctual thing we have from ye old caveman times. a very common aspect in the wild is for smaller animals to go quiet when they sense a large animal/predator or when they recognize a location as a risky/dangerous place. This also relates to the most common fear of the unknown or unexpected. This is the same reason why Babies go quiet when they see a cradle mobile start to turn in circles. it mimics the natural counterpart which is when Predatory birds circle their prey in the air. so if you ever find yourself in a usually busy part of the wild, but there seems to be a lacking of noise and woodland creatures, there is an incredibly high chance that there is danger in the area.

Bedroom: *exists* Basement: *exists* Mark: “PiNis?”

Mark: *says literally anything* Comments: Imma quote dat.

I think my favorite part of this game is the part where it hypes up how scary the basement is, specifically says that no one wants to go there unless they have, and then tells you to go there. That's a dick move game. And then the next tape starts like 'Lol. That's silly, basements are harmless.' And then, the basement eats you. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

Me: *about to go to sleep* Tape Recorder: In this state of extreme vulnerability we spend 20% of our lives. Anything might stand beside us, watch us.... Me: *sips a soda, prepares to stay up awhile*

Game: "It's your elbow" Mark: "IT'S MY *PeNIS!!"*

This game gives you the exact feeling of when your home alone and hear a sound so you just turn stiff with fear

Highly suggest anyone who enjoyed this game to watch "Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted House" by Jacob Geller bc its a banger of a video. Also, I'd love to see Mark play Control bc it seems like an interesting game but I dont have any access to it myself.

when I was 7, there was nothing scarier than having to leave a room at night and then turn off the light. Especially when the light switch was across the room, not next to the door. So when I turned off the light I *bolted* outta so fast the darkness monster didn’t even have a chance. *and then I proceeded to race up the stairs like a 7 year old would do*

Tape : *playing demonic-weird noise* Subtitles : *Applause* Me : ...okay?

somewhere around minute 28 I just wanna throw out a seizure warning for everyone, my eyes are a little sensitive to flashing and I think the table flashing might trigger something so be warned

This feels like walking through a dying mind, a deteriorating consciousness and world of memories. It's all familiar, but different. Dark. Things start to behave weird. Rules cease to exist. You're alone, hearing and seeing things that become more and more strange and impossible to understand. You start doing the same things over and over again to cling on to some sense of familiarity, but it's no use. Piece by piece, that familiarity is taken away. You're afraid. Not knowing your own world and what's inside it anymore. You grow strange to that world as it starts making less and less sense. But you are caught within it, will never wake up from this. It is your terminal stop and there's no way back. Your final destination. The worst kind of horror to me. The horror you can't run from. Facing the end of your own mind and watching it fall apart...helplessly. All you can do...is wait for the end. I really love this game.

"...Because the truth is, when a house is both hungry and awake, every room becomes a mouth" Genuinely terrifying and I love it

'The eyes are the windows to the soul' The windows are the eyes to the house

*Everybody gangsta till’ they have an aneurysm on the toilet after seeing a Midwest unfinished basement*

This game is great. It shows how much can be done in terms of horror with little graphics and lighting, but pure atmosphere. It plays with our expectations as gamers for something to happen, but nothing happens, which makes us dread the actual possible encounter even more. It makes us think: am I already being watched or chased without knowing it? It plays with our fear of the unknown and then it steers into psychological horror and shows us, that the danger has been here all along - the house. But we took it as an ally. This game is something different in a very good way.

The narration of the tapes is what really sells the horror for me. The dread of wondering what the next tape might have in store for you when you find it is unsettling.

I absolutely love that mark is consistently playing horror games again

Me: *turns on caption at **25:25** cause i can’t understand the tape* Auto-generated Captions: *”Applause”*

The bedroom tape says “Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the lord my soul to keep and If I should die before I wake I pray the lord my soul to take Amen”. 19:06 through 19:23

Mark: *Smugly and weirdly smiling* Lady: "The Basement..." Mark: *Instantly regrets every choice he's made*

mark: *looks away from tape player Tape player: so anyway, I started blasting.

I love how that was every child's mentality with 'the basement' was if you had to go upstairs especially after turning the lights off. You full on sprint up those stairs as fast as you physically can, hated any houses that had those gaps in the stairs where you feared something grabbing the front of your leg. Dogs were always a blessing since anytime you'd go to your puppo when you're a kid you know you're safe with the puppo beside you. XD

Tape: *talks how vulnerable we are in the bedroom* Me: Aight, it's flashlight time

"The bedroom is most like a mouth." The door: *Am I a joke to you?*

Nobody: Every horror game ever: "Good thing I've locked all the doors inside my own house."

Hey mark! Just to let you know that there is more than 1 ending. Actually there is 4 endings and you got the "stomach" ending. I wouldnt say this is the bad ending because all of the endings are bad. Also im pretty sure it was because you broke the plates 😂 if you dont touch the plates or that vhs player with the girl talking weird in the bedroom then you may get a different ending. Like so mark can see!

09:56 “It is a place full of cobwebs, where memories are stored” Me: so where unwanted memories/thoughts we push to the back of our minds are? Makes sense, I guess Mark: *penis* Me: never mind, that’s a better answer

26:55 Mark: And nothing's really happened! **game opens onto a flickering room bathed in red** Mark: ... oh

Idk how Mark was able to find his way around so easily, I felt like I was staring at a black screen for half the video

"There's nothing scarier than a Midwest unfinished basement." As a Midwesterner with an unfinished basement, I completely agree.

"*Being ground up into blood*" RU-vid captions: **applause**

"It is here, in the bedroom, where we are most vulnerable. When we sleep there we trust in the house to keep us safe." Well sounds like I'll sleep in the living room then.

"The basement is dark..." *silence for 20 seconds, basement door opens* Everyone: oh

“There is nothing scarier than a midwestern unfinished basement” quite possibly the truest statement he has EVER said! 😂😂

"19:05" I couldn't tell if that was the gingerbread man from Shrek praying for his gum drop buttons or if that was just one pissed off Pinocchio.

Did anyone else find the cassette tape person’s voice calming? Ok just me cool

Mark: *explaining the game with smart words* Also mark a few seconds later: it’s so dork

"There's nothing scarier than a Midwest unfinished basement!" I don't know why I'm always surpised by the accuracy of his random statements..

The first time I watched this video was roughly ten days after we moved out of the home my family lived in for almost thirty years, and something about the house's monologue towards the end of this just made me so sad.

The writing and voice acting on these tapes is phenomenal.

"Why is this so creepy? Nothings even happened yet!" It's the silence, the silence and the lack of things there to scare you (the player) is what makes it the most creepy part of all in this game.

Good news for anyone scared to watch this: there’s no jump scares, no actual monsters, it’s purely dread

The entire game is comparing home's to people and anatomy It takes place in an abandoned empty dark home It basically takes place in a metaphorical dead person

No one: Zombies in Minecraft: 26:02

Everyone : “Well.... can i trust my house now?” Me, staying at a hotel : *Insert dancing joker meme*

When I was a kid, we used to go "homesteading" meaning we used to go out to the prairie and look for homesteads that were long abandoned in the middle of absolutely nowhere, miles from anything. Some of the homes felt just empty, others kind of sad, but there were a few that felt like this. Like you were being watched or something was lurking, or just a constant sense of dread.

Minor spoilers ahead, but... This game feels so intelligently made. There's something about how the writing implies things, making you assume that the tapes are written by a person obsessed with analogies, and houses. The way that the "person" just states their observations makes you believe they're obsessed, since their thoughts that seem subjective analogies are not open to discussion, and you build this idea of this person. You believe that when the tapes talk briefly about people and houses being connected, that it's a person that's just obsessed with houses to the point of cherishing and personifying them. But upon looking back, the twist fits in so smoothly - this wasn't a person obsessed with this house analogy, it's a living house stating facts about its existence. The foreshadowing and everything is done so well, and a second viewing of this video just provides an entirely new and entirely valuable perspective, and I think that is one of the best things a twist can do.

Noone: Artists: *LET US INTRODUCE OURSELVES*

"There's nothin' scarier than a midwest, unfinished basement." Why is this statement surprisingly & resoundingly correct?? Like...when you're heading upstairs from the cold, cement, spider-web-dusted basement of a midwestern home, your whole body is filled with the deepest primal fear one can experience, unlike any other emotion known to man.

sometimes i replay this video at 11:17 where mark tells me he loves me just so i know how it feels

"It's like a Sim's default house that someone didn't have enough money for furniture so they just slammed it wherever they could" Far too relateable. Like deleting some of the lamps and walls which gives you money so you can buy enough food just to avoid starving.

I felt like I saw a face in the darkness on the screen... Then I realized it was just my own reflection.

Creepy recorder voice, flat out: "This part of the house is literally your elbow" Mark: "....PENIS?????"

Game: The house is alive. Mark: * breaks the HOUSE’S plates * Me: Oh no.

Mark talking about the game: my choice of art is a little peculiar Me: says the guy who has a statue of an absolutely ripped cat furry

Med students: Anatomy wont be so bad it can't hurt me.. This game: *exists* Med Students: Maybe I change majors..

Game: *has hell and destruction glitched out in the screen* Mark: iS dIS DisneY woRL?

I was right shook when Marks usual ending didn't have the music playing.

Tape: “The living room is very much the heart of the house.” Me: naaaaa! I’d say the kitchen is.

Nobody: Mark goes inside someone's dining room and sees plates: "Hiya" *breaks*

other horror games: monsters and jumpscares Anatomy: Can you trust your house though?

Recording: Harrowing descriptions of how a building is like a human body Mark: P E N I S

*DAMN.* This has that Classic Creepypasta feel, like this IS one of those games told in ood Good Creepypastas.

I just imagine this is just a weird ass realtor showing a family the house

I love how upon seeing the game “anatomy” all of the artists collectively just agree that, oh yes, anatomy is terrifying

"Supposedly going to _fill me..._ " "I've seen games that have claimed to do the same yet fall woefully _short_ " *_THAAAAAAT'S_*_ WHAT SHE SAID._

mark really said PERIOD, THATS THE END OF MY SENTENCE, never thought I was gonna love this guy so much

Horror game: dialog Me: turns on subtitles subtitles: [Music]

mark's biggest fear: "mid-west unfinished basement"

The heart of a house is clearly the boiler/boiler room. It circulates heat through the pipes (veins and arteries), and the boiler room is often also where the electrical box is located, which powers the house.

As a South Dakotan I can confirm: unfinished midwest basements are terrifying.

I realized at the "HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHURTS" that it was the house talking about itself. Actual creepy stuff, kudos to the developer.

39:14 "I never had a horror game with just an absolutely horrifying story." I don't know. "The Uncle Who works for Nintendo" was pretty cool. To anyone reading this, look it up on Mark's channel.

“Why do I have the vision quality of a vcr” god me too

Mark: “I want to know the anatomy of the house-“ Me, having watched Monster House several times as a kid and an adult: “NoW tHiS lOoKs LiKe A jOb FoR mE-“

Tape player: *distorted words* RU-vid captions: [Music] [Applause]

That jumpscare @32:15 gave him the scare of his life, that legitimate scream that escaped Mark’s mouth is the funniest thing, I’m telling you