PERFECT VERMIN - A Game Where You Hunt Your Furniture, Because You Can't Trust It 

New game by the Dev: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KekO1GJjNYs.html

So essentially, cancer cells are very similar to normal cells, only that they proliferate very fast, and grow in places they're not supposed to, thereby causing organ damage and ultimately death. In this game, the furniture are an allegory for the cancer growing inside of the reporter; each furniture smash run indicates a round of chemotherapy, where the hammer man tries their best to eliminate any cancer cells without harming the normal ones, and his ultimate failure at eradicating the furniture and the office building's ultimate transformation into an unrecognizable mess indicates the reporter's failing health, and ultimately his demise at the hands of his own body cells.

D&D players when they think a room might have a Mimic in it

This is a good horror video to show IKEA staff members.

What a good game. Side note, I'm a medical lab scientist and it is a bizzare feeling to be the only one in a moment to know someone has cancer or leukemia. Had a patient come into our ER, 60ish y.o. male just having some swelling in one of his hands. I can't remember from an injury or whatever. Doc orders a basic screening panel - blood counts, chemistries, nothing crazy. So I run his complete blood count and it flags abnormal. I go check what it's flagging (maybe just an elevated white count because of his swollen hand I was thinking). It was his white count. But it was 200x10^3. Normal is like 4-11(x10^3). Infections usually don't run any higher than 20 unless it's pretty bad. The only thing that runs that high is leukemias. So I make a slide from the blood to manually check whats going on, stain it, and put it on my microscope for a manual count. But there they are. Blasts (the most immature form of white blood cells), and other forms of immature white blood cells that should not be in normal circulation. And for about 30 minutes, I am the only one in the world that knows. I may not know the exact type (the patient would need flow cytometry for that). But I know it's there. It is never a fun call to a physician. And I'm sure it's an even worse walk to the patient's room to let him know. Maybe the patient had the same reaction as the man in the game? I never know. I'm just a gal with a microscope and a slide full of blasts that tell a hidden story.

"The important thing is not that they feel pain, it's that I have fun." -Manly, 2020

Manly- "this is about your immune system" Also manly- "lets smash everything in this dudes body lmao"

Game: "Destroy anything that is out of place" ManlyBadassHero: "Everything is out of place" proceeds to destroy the whole office.

This was a legitimately great game and had an amazing story with its symbolism. Hardcore news reporter struggles to chase after a news story about some massacre and ignores his cancer that his mother "gave" him because he knows he's about to die anyway. Just to be remembered after death. That final message hits very hard: "No one will care about my death if I don't prove to them that I lived." Most people would spend time with their loved ones and friends, but someone like him must not have had many people who cared about him, or the other way round. He knows that no one will care or remember him after his death, and that's why he tries so hard to be remembered with that news story. He doesn't realize that everyone is forgotten after death. What a sad story.

God, seeing him look back and forth at the two fridges and then proceed to smash the chair which happened to be a vermin was the funniest thing I have seen all day.

Memes aside this game is a really good analogy for cancer

The setup for the "Trick question!" joke was an excellent piece of comedy and misdirection. I like how you made it blatantly "obvious" that you were going to smash the actual fridge by deliberately looking between them, then you spin around hit the also fake chair afterward. I laughed very hard at that.

Ooof, this is rough. Watching the reporter becoming more and more clearly out of breath, fatigued, his nails turn black, he starts sprouting unnatural growths and boils, internal bleeding that most likely stems from the respiratory system (bleeding from mouth and nose), and the way his body just contorts as a result of his nicotine addiction and the excessive amount of smoking he's done in his life. Obviously, this stuff doesn't happen so quickly or dramatically, but I watched my grandfather essentially break down physically over years of smoking, though he ironically didn't pass away from lung cancer despite smoking since age 16. It's surreal.

The last line about proving to have lived is the most haunting part of the game for me

“I was cruel to you before,” said the dying man to his body, stacking yet more smoked cigarettes into the overflowing ashtray. “Your task was always impossible.” He was numbly aware of his unachievable expectations; the futility of demanding his body to heal in the face of a growing problem, with only the same tools it had always had. “Pay no mind to the timer. It is not for you.”

Huh. The whole therapy thing (cathardic furniture smashing being an allegory for chemo) and the reporter's expectations (getting increasingly desperate as things get worse but the player is still only armed with the same tool) even his painfully defeated acceptance were all a wonderfully twisted way to explain the truth of the matter. I also liked the little details; like the no smoking signs, mounting pile of cigarettes, the "odd" plants resembling the health posters from the doctors office, and the notes at the desks (I didn't see them all) representing his relations to his mother. I see people in the comments thinking the reporter (Mr. Sphitz) was also the killer at the office, but I think that that assessment is wrong. The conversation with the doctor shows us; the severity of the disease, the reporter's desperate fixation on his work (that we know is tied to his fear of being forgotten or pitied for an unlived life), his alarming disregard for his own health, and Mr. Sphitz's false (even to himself, he knows the truth) belief that it can still be treated. Honestly? I think in the end he just kept going. Reporting incidents left and right while he continued to deteriorate. The office building incident probably stuck with him, given how big an opportunity he considered it and the timing with his own bad news. I wonder if his spouse knew? He was married at some point given his left hand. Anyway, thanks for playing and sharing this neat surreal game. ;)

I understand the underlying meaning of the game, but Goddamn those sounds of the impact and crash of each piece of furniture is freaking satisfying as heck.

I know that the “vermin” are cancer cells, but when you think about everything else are normal cells, the gameplay gets very morbid

The pen is mightier than the sword, but none is mightier than the stapler.

I love how you can tell Manly totally knows where the last vermin is and is just smashing everything else out of principle.

as someone who’s family has had a history with cancer, i would say you the player are probably a metaphor for chemotherapy, it destroys the cancer cells, but it also destroys other cells. I’ve never had cancer but my mother has (she’s alive and well) so she explained what chemo basically did. i’m not sure if this is correct but that’s what i gathered from the game

Oh how the turns have tabled

So now horror games say I can't even trust the desk that my laptop is on? Frick.

“Oh crap it’s symbolism” - Manly 2020

The internet has allowed for art pieces like this to flourish, yet at the same time had caused the same gems to become buried. Imagine if this had been made in the mid to late 90s. We would still be talking about it today. It would have won awards.

"They look like furniture to you"?

Man I love games like this, where they would have a deeper meaning. And I love the fact you can see how he is slowly changing, and that there’s more cigarettes in the thing. While you could see it coming I still enjoyed it a lot.

Thats how I do that all the time. Smash in the toilet room door with a hammer, THEN say EXCUSE MEEEE.

5:30 Manly: Which one's the real one? Also Manly: *Smashes the chair, which happens to be vermin* _"Trick question!"_

it's odd how he didn't notice that the medical digrams in the office were the weird discolored plants from before

Prop hunt as a horror game? Surprised it hasn't been done sooner

now why would you not include the intro? i think the "in loving memory" would've given people some clue, plus it would also be nice. ah, btw for the people who don't know, this game was dedicated to the creator's deceased friend (? or family?), who is also the main subject of the game.

often symbolism in indie games can be really hamfisted, but it works really well here. starting out with a fun prop hunt game with horror flavor but the metastasized lung cancer is nicely foreshadowed in all the "no smoking" signs and the increasingly filled ashtray. it's a clever analogy of chemo with a touching dialogue on the man's dying thoughts. the bit about being "unborn" and appreciating colors is so haunting yet poignant. i like the last bit where the vermin count is much higher but you cant reach all of them due to the orientation. sometimes things dont work out.

I attributed this game to addictions and it hit me really hard. When you have an addiction you want to deal with it later, and say you have more important things to do. In reality breaking free is the most important thing to do.

In another video someone compared the game to chemo therapy. The treatment kills cancer cells as well as healthy cells. EDIT: Senpai finally noticed me! UwU

“They hide poorly” *Manly proceeds to hit everything except what doesn’t fit in*

Trust no one not even your shelf.

Imagine just chilling in your room home alone when you suddenly sneeze. *And you hear a “bless you” from under your bed.*

You cant trust anybody, even furniture itself. Me : *Watching Mirror* Noo Noo dont look at me like taht

This game is pretty interesting with its message, it always sucks that the human body can get sicknesses that pretty much make the body kill itself. We are our own worst enemies as they say.

My dad had stomach cancer that spread to his liver and was given 4 weeks to live. It’s scary to see them become weaker and smaller from the disease, especially when it’s untreatable. You feel helpless watching them waste away. Didn’t expect this game to take a turn like that, I though it was just gonna be like prop hunt or smth

That was cool. Smashing furniture like that has a sort of cathartic feel to it in general, and it spiraling into the truth helped bring out some creepiness. The white blood cell does what it can with its sledgehammer, but it just reached the point of an impossible battle.

_Legacy_ We all want our lives to have meaning when looking back. At the beginning, I thought it was just about smashing stuff - some alien organisms had invaded a building. That was extremely clever that the 'vermin' cancer cells were invading his life, his body. Poor Mr Sphitz's speech during your last smashing was very poetically sad. I felt bad at the end of the game & that says something good about the game.

man this game's last line of dialogue, that's such a hard-hitter and is such a great thing to end the game with sometimes I worry about whether or not I'll leave my mark in the world by the time I die, whenever that might be-- hopefully not for a very, very long time RIP

Good thing I keep my freezer well fed with plenty of m e a t.

*The smashing mechanic is satisfying lol.*

The chunks flying and blood spatter out of random ass furniture gave me goosebumps no matter how many times it happened. Bizarre af.

"No one will care about my death if I don't prove to them that I lived." Reminds me of, "I'm not going there to die, i'm going there to find out if i'm really alive."

Wow, the way Manly plays this game is pretty ironic, considering the themes of this game

Remember children: don't forget your sledgehammers.

the vermin fridge watching everything around him getting destroyed, waiting for their turn: 👁💧👄💧👁

All the plants in the office are shaped like the varies lung images you can see in the doctors office

This game is so uncanny. I’m gonna have nightmares tonight.

The way I was yelling at manly “no over there” is that way I talk to my own immune system ...like imagining actual cells in a body go “ but which ones the real one” and proceed to smash everything but the obvious is hilarious

Really painful watching him smash everything in sight when it was really obvious which were the ones you had to smash.

Someone: in this game you need to find suspicious furniture that is in places where it's not supposed to be and smash it ManlyBadassHero: got it **smashes absolutely everything**

At the start of this video: it's so wild, I remember watching manly bad ass doing so many rpg horror games, and now it's come to to this. Games have really evolved and changed and it's beautiful At the end of the video: OKAY THAT'S ENOUGH BEAUTY OF ART FOR ME BOY HOWDY

This game has been pretty picked apart already, but one thing I would like to point out is how the map changes orientation (you start walking on the ceiling, then on the walls). I think this could represent how at first the chemotherapy seemed to be working at first. Sure it's harmful to his body but it was also getting the cancer cells out. When the orientation shifts and you're on the ceiling, the chemo is still working but not as well. At the end, where you're walking on the walls, you cannot even reach the vermin/cancer cells. At this point is where we see the reported looking at his worst. The chemo is no longer working, just destroying his own cells and no longer destroying the cancer cells. There's no way to complete the objective at this point, and no way for him to survive.

This reminds me of Kill It with Fire, or maybe vice versa depending on which of these games came out first. The biggest difference is that this one has an underlying theme and distressing message, whereas Kill It with Fire revels in the joy of rampant destruction in your pursuit of killing spiders. It's definitely good if you want more of this style of gameplay, but of course it's not exactly the same.

This is very hard to watch. The connection to immune system is scary accurate. Please, keep the content flowing and play through more emotionally difficult games. Best regards Adam

fun at first, uncomfortable af at the end

When I quit my job I'm running around smashing everything is sight yelling "I'M LOOKING FOR THE VERMIN!!!"

Wow, in a really twisted way, that was beautiful. I've never really understood the true magnitude of the challenge and horror of cancer until now... Despite its short length, this might be one of the most profound pieces of video game I've watched.

I suspect that the patient was actually a news reporter who contracted cancer. The dialogue at the end seems to imply that he needed one last big scoop so that his death would have meaning, hence his chemotherapy symbolized by a massacre with a hammer.

This game drew out the most hysterical laughter from me. Game of the year! Edit: until the final message came up. That just shot me down brutally. This hit too closer to home that I thought it would.

All I can think of while seeing Manly destroy the regular furniture is how he's gonna explain the the owner of the building why everything is destroyed

Just want to point out that every time you have to retry, the boss has more symptoms of cancer. Protagonist = White blood cell / Chemotherapy Living Vermin = Cancer and Tumors Boss = Body Furniture = Healthy Cells Office Building = A metaphor for his body 🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀 Symptom 1: No symptoms yet except for tumors. Posture could’ve just meant a habit and the only external signs belong to breathing. Symptom 2: Nosebleeds and Black nails appear. Earliest signs of cancer. Teeth become yellow too after smoking. The earliest signs of tumors appear too. Symptom 3: His eyes show more tiredness, he’s balding even more and the nosebleed starts to drip down more. Loss of teeth and expansion of tumors start to begin. His posture changes and tumors start to turn red. Symptom 4: Tumors start to grow on his head and he coughs blood. This teeth have degraded even more and singular tumors grow into dozens each bag. His posture turns him into a hunchback too. Symptom 5: Holes start opening up everywhere and there are lumps of tumors in obvious regions. This is the worst symptom found in the game, he even cries blood too. His posture becomes so bad to the point where he can’t even lift his face. 🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀 Also, notice who the building changes after every round? It means damage caused by cancer, and more smoking signs appear due to smoking too. You know this because of the ashtray. The ashtray becomes bigger and bigger.

I wonder if avoiding what isn't vermin will actually alter certain aspects. I wouldn't be surprised if there was only one ending, though.

it's hard watching him smash everything when you know the ending hhhahah

Reporter:"Keep going. They do not feel pain." Manly:"Rip and tear until it is done."

I think the sickness referenced here is specifically metastatic lung cancer, because of the increasing cigarette pile and spreading of the cancer, and how things keep deteriorating because chemo can’t target cancer cells specifically, but all cells in the treatment area. I also noticed how the plants in the office were like the diagrams in the clinic, which is pretty cool

Watching Manly mindlessly destroy everything around him while keeping his calm demeanor is an experience

"Doctor, doctor... ...I wanna be famous doctor." Guy with a hammer on the tv: Hi mom! 💀

Supleted has explained the cancer part of this game, however, I know the massacre part The office massacre was also a metaphor from your actions, within the office, as a sledge hammered maniac, destroying the building, however, to the maniacs perspective, what they were eradicating was not viruses disguised as furniture, it was the office workers, hence the positions of them, the toilet in the toilet stall, a person on the toilet, the chair by the break room desk, someone making coffee at the breakroom desk, the fridge in the breakroom, someone having their break in the breakroom etc. This also explains the pained sounds the vermin make, and the blood and meat textures to go with the blood splatters.

I have played this game twice now. All im gonna say is that the "They hide very badly" is not just a thing he says. It's a hint. Everything that is not where it should be is vermin.

The idea behind this game absolutely terrified me.

I know I'm early, but I just gotta say I love this channel and it's content. The commentary is amazing too!

Imagine going back to work so early you see everything smashed and a co worker just says “got the vermin”

"No one will care about my death if I don't prove to them that I lived" GODDAMN

Manly: busts down door with a sledgehammer "That's the way to do it!" and anything you can't smash with a sledgehammer is SAcreD!!

5:26 Manly using his Ki Sensing Skills.

Early to see Manly's new video! Wonderful voice over as always, def helps me destress after I work on what the professors assign

Game: *is about immune system* Manly: *Demolition time!*

Manly : hmm who is the real Refrigerator Also manly : Destroy fake chair

What if Manly one day said he was playing a scary game but the whole video is him playing My Little Pony

Oh boy! Can't wait to show up for work! *Smashes door* If only I could do that irl...maybe I should join the FBI?

How he proceeds to smash everything that seems to be in place is giving me a headache

Noooo! you can't just smash everything in the office building, you are supposed to look for a pice of furniture that doesn't fit in! Manly: haha funny hammer go smash

I just realized why you play on that tiny screen when the anchor is there. you're basically reenacting the massacre news he wanted to report im so slow

This game is the only place appropriate to smash all your furniture with a sledgehammer.

Manly finally found the horror game that IS in fact just an interactive anti-smoking commercial. We all knew it had to happen sooner or later.

"One day Gregor woke up from troubled dreams only to find that he had turned into a horrible vermin" -The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka

"time to show up for work" then the door gets obliterated. I am not even a minute in and that just flat out killed me dead XD

How assembling IKEA furniture makes you feel.

“No one would care about my death if I don’t prove to them that I lived.”

Imagine walking in your work place and see a man with a sledgehammer smashing everything and once you say what he's doing, he says: "IM FINDING VERMIN!"

Mimic: Hide terribly Manly: Yep, everything is sus as hell

5:26 We gonna talk about how damn funny this is?

*looks at cute drawing* “And you can’t smash that because it’s pure”

"No one will care about my death if I don't prove that I lived" man, I felt and loved that