just a note about the beginning: kowloon walled city was a real place, and at the time, despite being an exclave in hong kong, was technically part of china and was SUPPOSED to be governed by china, but it was so densely populated that any effort to do so became almost impossible considering it was essentially a 6 acre large apartment complex, and without hong kong having the jurisdiction to do anything about what the residents were doing, they basically governed themselves. the entire "city" was destroyed in 1995 when hong kong was ceded back to china as part of the 99 year lease britain had on hong kong, it was taken down due to fire hazards, height restrictions due to the nearby airport, overcrowding, supposed gang affiliations, ect. so technically saying china instead of hong kong at the beginning still wouldve been correct, but nevertheless i just wanted to share this as a fun fact cuz the entire thing is very interesting to look into.
I think it was the most densely populated city on earth at one point, most of the rooms didnt even have any windows or light. Now in Hong Kong, theres a park that was built where it used to be named after it.
i think the scariest part of this whole game is knowing that Kowloon was a real city that was over 6 acres of buildings piled on top of each other... such a cool setting
Theory: I think the ghosts were trying to help you escape. They kept getting the player to move down specific paths by blocking exits and leaving little hints and clues. They died there and I think they wanted to make sure that the city didn't claim another victim.
Maybe. Contradicts getting killed in the chase sequence. Although, seeing as even the whole city is supposed to be a hallucination - it's very possible to have some time-screwery involved.
@@sugoidxth I felt like it was more of a spiritual overlay. Such a traumatic event with such a high number of lose probably weakened the boundaries between planes or something. And seeing the notes around we know not everyone was going crazy, so probably a good mix of ghosts that wanted to spare you their fate and others that are just bonkers.
This made me get up and make tea. Also side note, theres some super interesting docs about Kowloon on youtube. A legal loophole between Britain, China and Hong Kong basically let a micro-city grow completely free of any government oversight. There was crime and sanitation issues, but there was also thriving community of people raising families, living and working together. Theres a reason so many cyberpunk/futurepunk movies and comics used kowloon as an inspiration.
As an electrician, you would become a stiff corpse, standing there while your blood boils and evaporates and your body fries from the inside out. So yea go for it
@@cerealvrmoto - Yeah, from what I know about Kowloon and all the illegal wiring and electricity theft that happened there, I'm pretty sure there was never a single setup even remotely as neat and safe as the one pictured in the game that Jack asks viewers about! 😂
I wish there was a game where you could travel around a random city map and snuggle/feed/love all the random little creatures and animals you encounter. No enemies, no spooks, just love, affection, and snuggly pet vibes
I love how Sean is completely unfazed when the player mentions his apartment being on the 4th floor. But if you know the significance of that number, alarm bells would already be ringing
@@toribug1899You’re right, but it’s also to do with the pronunciation of 4 and death in Cantonese, there are many numbers that sounds similar to different words, and in this case, 4 and death sounds similar, both sounds something like “say”, so people usually avoid this number in certain important things, especially in terms of getting apartments or hotel rooms
Notably, Kowloon was the most crowded place on Earth while it existed, so it’s especially uncanny for it to be empty. This protagonist really should have left once he entered an empty room.
@@pandanarian7625I’m imagining a 1 meter wide 1 meter long skyscraper of glass which has only one super tall floor with liquified people compressed inside, bones floating in the putrid mix Edit: don’t tell me that’s impossible I know it’s impossible but it’s scary
Ding ding ding- list time! Ding ding ding! (this is supposed to be a (detailed) list with all the scares throughout the video. If I missed anything, please let me know. Thank you!) 6:43 - person lurks around corner 8:39 - music cuts out 9:10 - loud sound 13:37 - ominous noises 15:01 - landlady standing in door 16:04 - body parts 16:47 - landlady appears 17:17 - hanging body 17:47 - JUMPSCARE landlady screaming (that one got me good ngl) 19:28 - someone bangs on the door 19:52 - door suddenly shuts 20:13 - loud crash sound 21:06 - landlady lurking around corner 23:40 - JUMPSCARE eyeballs 26:27 - loud breathing 28:28 - chasing sequence 28:59 - JUMPSCARE dead body (did not expect that one at all) 30:06 - person lurking around the corner 30:14 - JUMPSCARE person jumps out of door 32:43 - person lurking around corner ( a lot of lurking in this game) 35:32 - crawling person 37:23 - person at the end of hallway 39:19 - ominous noises and wailing starts 40:30 - JUMPSCARE huge man 42:48 - a bunch of dead (and half dead) bodies in various poses 43:10 - body hits the ground 45:05 - JUMPSCARE landlady returns for one final scare This one was so good. Loved the visuals and the overall feeling (so spooky!). Again, if I missed anything let me know and I'll update the list! Thank you!
I have to wonder though, because I know you can pick up the dog food in the store and feed him, if there’s an alternate ending with the dog escaping? So far I’ve not seen one single person feed the dog in game and get to save him or whatever may happen.
@@TheRealWoofer For my own peace and happiness, I choose to believe the dog was in the back seat as the car drove off, it's just a very good dog and knows to lie down when moving so we didn't see it.
I'm so glad that they didn't touch the dog or let anything happened to the dog. There was an achievement when you fed it, and they say it was a rather secret achievement
Yeah, it would have been cool if, by feeding the dog in the beginning, you were able to take it home at the end... And if you didn't feed the dog, he stayed behind.
@@angelserenade That’s so funny, because I watched IGP’s playthrough, then Daz Black’s, and then Seán’s…and every time, the vivid yellow bag in the box stood out to me so with such contrast. Also because you just meet the dog, right before being made to go to the store 😅 The whole time I’m thinking, “Guys! It’s right there! Don’t you want to feed the pooch!?!?” 🤣
my brain knew something was off when he went down the hallway but i couldnt figure it out before the jumpscare hit it was the body covering the reflections that looked like eyes
I was thinking the same thing! You could see that Sean immediately was like "okay well, gotta walk through this hallway again, atleast I know nothing will happen"
What really makes this game scary is that at the start we are told the year is 1999 when a young student needed cheap housing. Then at the end of the game once we are home safe we see the news about how the walled city was demolished in 1994, which was five years BEFORE we the player were poking around. This all ads to the supernatural aspect of this will done game.
Big Jumpscare Master List! 17:47 - Landlady Rushing Toward Camera 23:41 - Eyeballs on a Picture Frame 28:59 - Zoom In On Corpse + Lighting Change 30:14 - Figure Rushing Toward Camera 40:30 - Figure Rushing Toward Camera 45:05 - Lady Standing in TV Room
@@CommissarChaotic I think the central reason why we could never pet the pupper or take it away from that horrible place is because... well... as we already saw... *_You can't save what has already been lost. . ._*
@@CommissarChaotic To drive the knife deeper into the heart here, the dog didn't appear to be sad, or at least whenever the player fed it, was when it actually appeared happy, unlike all the other lost souls in that building complex, and was the only spirit that never actively showed aggression to the playable character. The dog appearing next to the shutter door to be seen by the player one last time before escape must have been either trying to guide the player to the way out, saying farewell to the player, or quite possibly both. *_He truly was a good boy..._*
Sometimes I just have to wonder how video game protagonists have survived to the current point of their lives. Cause they obviously have no survival instincts.
@@galaxyvulture6649 In defence of the protagonist of the first main game (not the DLC), he was probably one of the best "survivor" protagonist of all the games I have played. I only know maybe a few protagonist who went through so much hell as him, and it wasn't even his fault that the damn scientist/doctor screwed him up right before he escaped. For me he is the gigachad "survivor" when it comes to horror games.
@@nikolaytsakov5695How to make trager juice? Step one: Squeeze. Probably one of my favorite quotes in outlast along with "Ya didn't wait until i finished, but I saved some for you" LOL
Man, but can we talk about how pretty this game is? Their last games have looked pretty great for indie games already but this one is really impressive to look at. Imagine if they had a huge team and a budget to really go all out with a longer game, it could be something really special. I hope they keep making stuff and improving!
I have a feeling this was done in Unreal 5. If this is what's coming out just now, imagine how pretty games are going to be in the future! Edit: Finished the video, saw it was Unity. Surprising, the lighting effects looked very close to Unreal 5! Still excited to see what comes in the future!
@@4GO4GO4GO If that was to me, thanks! A friend made it for me back when I was doing youtube more regularly. And if it wasn't to me, I'll pretend otherwise :p
There was definitely a lot of work being done and guys who did this are definitely talented, but a lot of the environment is actually bought unity asset. Just search for "kowloon unity asset store" and you will find it. A lot of the starting area is actually the same. Still, it's a good work to stitch it all together with custom areas etc.
Craziest thing is that Kowloon was a real place and the photos of it look exactly like this game. Perfect place for a horror game. The pictures are extremely creepy.
Normally, I don't get scared that much. Mostly anxious by suspense. However, that jumpscare where the lady just straight up ZOOMS toward you scared me so bad I felt my heart drop to my ass
It wasn't as bad as this game represents, though. It's played up for horror. Another game inspired by Kowloon? Stray; and I wouldn't call that a horror game 🐈 The biggest real life horror was that it was a fire hazard.
@@mimsydreams - Yep, exactly this. In reality, there was a great deal of kinship and sense of community there despite the abject poverty. The biggest menaces there were probably disease from contaminated water supplies, fire risk and electrocution from shoddy illegal electricity theft.
Not Jack not realizing that this Bathroom in 11:30 is a literal Replica of the Bathroom in Parasite: The Toilet, the Stairs, the red Bucket with the wooden Plank and on top the white Bowl. You can literally Google the Image and see the similarity.
I immediately was like “oh the bathroom from Parasite” but I wasn’t sure if that was just my dumb American ass not realizing that’s a common type of bathroom 😂
The fact that I was watching Sean play this and wasn't directly playing it, yet it was STILL somehow one of the most frightening games I've ever watched, just goes to show how excellent of a job they did. Watching at 3am with headphones and alone at home was not a good idea, when that knock happened at 32:47 I'm not exaggerating when I say my soul left my body. Well done developers!
As a depressed very anxious grown ass adult person, i'll admit that Sean coming back and dropping all these horror gaming vids is making me so happy I finally went outside on my own again.
Don't worry, my friend we are here for you, even I'm slightly depressed and persecuted but sean's videos makes us very entertained! We really thank Sean for making us happy!
I absolutely love the flashlight mechanics in their games, the ability to direct the flashlight across the screen without turning adds such an intense level of fear. 10/10 game design.
Yep. I just came back from a 2hr wiki-hole. Wow that was sure something. Read up about the walled city itself, the events that led up to it's construction as well as it's interesting social structure, with it being dominated by Triads who participated in the Opium wars. Go have a look anyone reading this.
"If I cut one of these will I get electrecuted" Knowing that Jack is smarter than the average person this statement scares me how little people know about something they use everyday that could kill them if mishandled. For those intreseted you could cut the nutral wire (usually blue or black based off you region) without getting electractued and this will cause the power of any place to be shut off, if you cut the live wire you die.
Hi, huge love from HK!❤ always love watching Sean's videos, especially excited to see such a good horror game based on the history of Kowloon Walled City! As someone who was born, grew up and currently living in hk, seeing an authentic and detailed representation of our tiny city and its history is such a gem 💫ngl even rn in the present Kowloon (in fact all across hk) still have buildings like this, with tones of people living in there. If you were to travel to hk and choose to stay in some cheaper options, you could actually stay in buildings like this (not with the bleeding the limbs tho). And they are mostly much cleaner. Just wanna shout out to the game developers for the huge attention to details, and getting them right - the flats' gates, plastic bags hanging near bed, graffiti, electricity meter, etc. are so on point! Just a side-note: if you were to travel to hk, we do have a park called Kowloon Walled City Park 九龍寨城公園, located in the original location of Kowloon Walled City, keeping fractions and some stuff from this part of history.
I played through the game twice, watched 4 other people play through the game, and now I just find out you can pick up the dog food..... Now I wanna know can you feed the cat in the same creators game with the Demonic Elf?
2:42 istg I heard Jack saying "I feel like i'm in Adare" and I just thought dude must've had one hell of a terrifying experience in Adare to be scared of that lovely village
I normally don’t get that scared while watching someone else play a horror games, but my god these were some of the scariest jump scares I’ve ever experienced. (Connanical jumpscares/deaths is a thing I’ve only seen in like Amnesia games, it’s fire)
“Be in the dark, with headphones on, under a blanket and I promise you the coolest of you will get scared” THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IM DOING AND IM TERRIFIED 💀
you babies need to get to my level, when i watched it and he said that, i said "bet" And grabbed my VR glasses, my SOROUNDSOUND HEADPHONES and watched like that i got exactly 20 minutes of sleep that night.
Not sure what's keeping me more on edge. The horrors of the unknown around every corner, or when the editor puts in "Fashing Lights Warning". Great game.
Ha! I’m from Hong Kong, and I literally grew up in a building exactly like this back in the 90s. A super uncanny depiction of the poorer part of the city.
N4ba is such a talented developer. Always manages to capture those claustrophobic environments that make you think you might die if you even breathe let alone move.
@@generalgrievous4254 a comment here explains that Hong Kong was not really governed by China at this point and Kowloon basically had its own government formed over time, one factor of many why it had failed so miserably.
Just a little trivia why you see lots of asian things display a toilet on high places in their housing, it's because some civilization areas in asia (especially low economics) are below water level (like lower than the sewer level) so they need to put the toilet higher to prevent water coming out of it because it's frequently flooded.
oh, thanks for the info, I never knew that. Also, weirdly enough, some places do this for no reason. Saw at apartment with a toilet like that in the area with no flooding issues, still confused by the decision
8:41 I swear that is a black shadow thingy with eyeballs! Wanted to add: the end game sequence walking through the street of stripped people really gave me the idea that the city's population were hit with white phosphorus.
This is the most spooped Jack has ever been throughout a playthrough in a long while yet he still manages to keep making amazing content even when he does not talk at moments
I'm always happy when Kowloon gets featured in video games/movies! I did a report on Kowloon when I was in Asian studies in college. Interesting to note is that there were actually families in the "city" trying to live and raise their children despite the crime and gang activity. It wasn't all just demons lurking around corners.
So true! I also wrote a paper on the city in college and I find people often focus on the crime and poor living conditions of the city, but there are always two sides to everything. There were a lot of hard working families just trying to make a living. And a lot of unregistered doctors and dentists!
I genuinely love hearing Sean talk about tea, as a tea lover myself. Black tea all the time with milk, its a nice little similarity to celebrate as I get horrified for the next 30 minutes. Also I love these games, these for some reason more than most, makes me want to learn how to make a game so badly. they are so strategic and effective at building an atmosphere and scares.
Damn the scares in this one are CRAZY!! The even crazier news is that Kowloon is a REAL city with residents living under those circumstances. Thanks for playing this Jack! Hope more people will know about this game too!
Any scary games easily frightens BUT if there's a dog in one of the game and the dog gets killed, all that fear turns into literal anger, I'm not kidding. I love dogs the most so I would riot even if I might die.
i’ve seen multiple playthroughs of this now & its so funny to see how everyones demeanor changes after the first big jumpscare. i love seeing everyone scared like this again 😂
When a jumpscare happens it is in a way a relief of stress and build up. So it upsets me to see that such a popular Horror Game dev still makes cheap jumpscares normal in their games.
I think the worst part of this is that a lot of horror games give you safe spots, whereas this studio is really good at delivering "YOURE NOT SAFE ANYWHERE" vibes the whole time lol
@@beanman9936 Crazy? I was crazy once, they locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats. The rats made me crazy. Crazy? I was crazy once, they locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats. The rats made me crazy. Crazy?
I feel like this game has a really deep meaning other then all of the horrifying jumpscares it especially at the end with all the people basically asking for help but not getting it
N4ba is unstoppable with his twisted take on the horror game genre. He really hits heavy on your most vulnerable emotions and its never a disappointment for me!! As always a job well done!
This game is giving me Stray vibes from how the alleyways and buildings look like, it looks calming and nice and it makes me forget that this is a horror game lmao
I know this is just a little thing, but thanks to the editors for changing China to Hong Kong, no matter the political situation, I appreciate the clarification on it. Love from HK❤
Well, HK is part of PRC since 1999 (unfortunately). But it's a lot more precise to name it explicitly. Calling Taiwan a part of China is much worse though.
Wasn't Kawloon PRC territory though? I mean I'm absolutely all for denying the CCP power and credit wherever reasonable, but technically the sky directly above Kowloon would have, in fact, been "The Misty Skies of China"
ive never seen a game or movie made after kowloon and im happy one was finally made. the history of kowloon has always fascinated me. the game started off saying the year was 1999, which was puzzling, cas it got demolished around 1994. so the game was even spookier, I loved it! i hope more media covers this topic!
it's not a direct remake of the walled city, but the developers of Stray did mention that they were heavily inspired by kowloon walled city when designing their sci-fi-style city for Stray, so it might be worth checking that out too if you like Kowloon-inspired settings!
From the Darkness and 9th Child’s street are the most scary games you’ve played imo, I had no idea they were by the same person. Straight up gave me nightmares. The atmosphere this person puts into these games and their ability to create unique jump scares is absolutely insane.
The fact I'm all alone in Ireland right now actually tucked under a blanket in complete darkness watching this just makes it such a surreal experience. I genuinely can't move. The game's awesome and Sean's video is too.
9:33 "Eff Baldur's Gate" ...Baldur's Gate 3 has a dog too, just so you know. His name is Scratch; you can pet, play fetch, and even talk to him if you have the Speak with Animals spell (does that change your opinion?) 🐶🏐
I only recently learned about the Kowloon Walled City and the documentary I watched out it made me crave seeing more of it in media. This really hit the spot. There's a manga about the place where someone falls in love with a person they met at a restaurant there and then spends ages trying to figure out where it was to get back there and hopefully meet them again!
I absolutely hate getting scared but horror games are my favorite to watch people play because I can experience a good game without directly being scared so thank you Jack haha
This dev is really good at making horror games and what's brilliant is they don't even need to jumpscare you they just need to test your fear with the atmosphere.
I love this game for introducing me to what Kowloon was (I looked up a documentary on the city before watching playthroughs). Learning about cool and unique cities like Kowloon is fun! ^^
one of the scariest games in a long time. I often didn't dare to even look at the screen because the atmosphere was so tense. Thanks for playing it, although i only saw a fraction of what was happening, it was fun regardless.
I must say this is one of the best Horror games I've ever seen i finally got the scares again because most of the video games / movies are so predicable they don't even scare me but the first jumpscare was so unexpected and especialy the one with the painting I really love your content keep up the good work you provide us with
I love how i crapped my pants on multiple occasions when im in a well lit room with other people, can imagine being alone in darkness with headphones on 😅
Could you imagine this game in VR? Having these scary videos being at least over 30 mins has been neat. I hope he plays more soon, this one got me quite a few times, but I liked that the jump scares were there, but not overly done.
