SHUT IN - Horror Game Where You're A Shut-In And Don't Want To Go Outside So You Sleep & Play Games 

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Press x to give up

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@@olliestone5549 *X*

@@olliestone5549 x

Well, he's living in it, so it's not abandoned

@@michaeledmunds7266 lol, I guess so. Also, how did he even manage to get to his room?? The stairs are literally gone

@@genesis011 I'm 90% sure that he's Schizophrenic

For some reason I read this in my cousins voice and now I wanna punch you

Part of it seems like it's more mental than physical barriers. The stairs are probably fine (hell, the whole house is probably okay) but to the character, it *feels* like the stairs are gone as an excuse to say "I can't go outside" and that it takes far more effort than its worth.

It probably is. It lacks the objectivity of an outside narrator, and instead capriciously changes its attitude whenever it feels like it. "You should brush your hair. It looks gross." and "Why bother? It won't change anything." "Congratulations! You brushed your hair." and "But your efforts didn't matter. This didn't do much in the long run."

Same bruv

I haven't gone outside my entire life except to go to doctors and everyone acts like that's weird but then say things like this all the time. Don't get it.

@@Nyasahi its the way of the world

@sorathecrow ^

so you’re the one who stole my homegrown lemons.

So depression is all about an unfunny wise ass cracking stupid commentary about everything you do?

@@UnGtx some people do do that when they're depressed, yeah.

@@UnGtx yep, 1 depression gets you 1 voice over. How many can I put you down for?

@@UnGtx yea, pretty much.

@@UnGtx It's on a slightly more deep level than that, but basically yes. The voice both tells the main character to continue, but also holds them back in numerous places, and is even insulting. This mirrors how many people with depression struggle with feelings of worthlessness to the point where they're insulting themselves on a near-constant basis for being unable to function, even though they really want to get out of that place. It's just one of many things in this game that describes depression well. For example, the house falling apart is partly literal, but it's also about your life falling apart, because the house actively holds the main character back. Everything becomes an obstacle. Similarly, death in this game seems to not be literal death (how can you "try again tomorrow" when you're dead?) but more about how even the slightest things get you down to the point where the day is just... wasted. When something bad happens, it almost _feels_ like death... not like physical death, but like your life being sapped. Opportunities ripped away from you. There's also a constant theme of lack of self-care, reflected in both the insulting commentary, the main character's slovenly appearance, the fact that they're physically unwell (constantly light-headed and fatigued, even descending the stairs feels like you've climbed down a rope for ages) and just the general lack of care put into their environment, which also represents an unsound mind. Finally there is the "secret ending" where you go back to sleep... sleep is a depressed person's "happy place". The secret ending isn't a happy ending, it's just the main character shutting out the world. I'm sure there is more. This game goes pretty deep.

Creepier than the gory stuff actually. It feels too realistic.

I get what you're trying to say, but wouldn't "a very depressing job" mean a very bad job?

I don't think the dev really cares all the much, the dialogue seems to really enjoy taking a shit on you (the player) for making poor decisions. Making a heavy implication that depressed people are just are just shitty by nature and that they consciously make bad choices.

@@TheTrueNehme It to me sounds more like when a negative thought spiral occurs when you 'know' (because this is what your brain tells you) that you have done a shitty job of being alive today and when you feel like things are entirely your fault for making shitty choices when in reality you can't help it. The "but don't worry. Try again tomorrow." After a death makes and little nuances like the phallic sketch where the narration says "a self portrait, perhaps" make it feel like (to me, at least) that's what he was going for, but I don't know if text based was the best way to get this across, especially with no nameplates on the text or anything. The dev could have made a few gameplay tweaks or creative choices to get this across better for sure if that's what it is.

fuck, now that you described this, I'm afraid I have one of these, I've never really thought about it

Lol shelf go brrrrr

Name checks out

Same

I feel personally attacked xd

Well if im in this game then its a jojo game but now i cant also be in this game can i

*forbidden knowledge*

WOW THAT'S SO DEEP

Life hacks

Woah

wow, too bad that won't help me because I don't have anxiety.

Not that finally awake not gonna lie

Haven't slept in 2 days I'm that awake lmao

I was ready to go to sleep but then i saw the notification

Please answer me

What if I told you I wasn't finally awake?

Its so good at its job that it makes me angry. Like- my own mind will do that to me and ill be like "yeah,,,," but if an outside force does it, its do frustrating

Forget about how you FEEL and just get it done. if you spend so much time thinking about a thing you will never get it done. Really do this the sooner you start the sooner you will live a life worth remembering. Be water my freind. I hope you have a great life.

@@lorenzosteele2531 Easier said than done my friend. They say "mind over matter", but what do you do if your mind would would rather have you die and rot than see you succeed?

@@yinyang3681 I personally just say get the fuck up man.

@@yinyang3681 and get the shit done it doesnt matter if you fail just learn from your failure just go and try your best and sort out you life. clean you room and write dien what you need to do.

I half disagree about there being no good ending. Taking care of yourself even if you don't have a specific reason to do so (maybe especially in that case) it's one of the hardest accomplishments when you're depressed, and doing that often will improve your mental state. The character managed to get up, clean himself and eat and sometimes that's enough for one day. Finding joy/peace from within yourself at the end of the day can be the best feeling.

@@vuivraalbastra But he didn't succeed at his ultimate goal, despite all the work he put in to get there. He didn't just clean himself up just because; he was getting ready to go outside. And ultimately, he failed.

@@sadrabbit53 That's true, but in life not achieving your ultimate goal doesn't mean you completely failed as long as you tried. Winning half of the battle is better than nothing, even if it doesn't feel that way sometimes. And I don't know about others, but in my dark days I would sometimes prepare to leave my house and then ended up not having to do that anymore, so I'd be a bit annoyed for wasting time but then I'd think "well it does feel nicer with my hair brushed" and I wouldn't regret tidying up anymore. When you struggle mentally it can be hard to realize what can make you feel less miserable. To be fair none of the endings are typical good endings, but I wouldn't call them bad endings either, just neutral endings with both good and bad parts. I don't think accomplishments are so easy to judge.

@@vuivraalbastra (I'm preemptively sorry if this comment sounds aggressive or anything, it's not supposed to be) I suppose our opinions are unbudgingly different, then. It may be because of the high-pressure, perfectionist upbringing I have, or maybe I'm in a worse place than you mentally, but it's my ingrained opinion (and I know it's unhealthy) that mere attempts are worthless; only results matter. As such, the protagonist failed.

@@sadrabbit53 You don't have to be sorry about anything, I never read your comments as aggressive and it's okay for us to have different interpretations. Besides I know how it is to have (sometimes toxic) high standards for yourself, it's something I'm trying to work through for months myself. It's hard to understand that it's okay to fail or to do worse than I expected, that doesn't make me a failure of a person. Perhaps the game endings are intended to be seen as you said and I think there are times when I'd see them in a more cynical light as well. But yesterday and today I felt like seeing them in a more positive way, that's all.

"don't wanna" or "can't cuz of a certain unnamed Chinese virus"?

@@illyria7756 I'll be honest, a bit of both

@@illyria7756 At this point the lives lost suck, but its a great excuse to not go out

*Sits awkwardly in Yume Nikki and Omori*

@@odditycat2716 Omori actually has a good ending, this game isn't as sad cause most of us are probably already used to it anyways

I'm actually a little worried for you and myself ima remove some of the heavy stuff just in case you know?

Yeah, you never know when something might happen like an earthquake

Bigger Brain: don't sleep

Y’all got bookshelves lol

Does it count if it's a bunk bed and the highest is on top of the shelf for the lower one? I mean, I already fell from it while sleeping there so I guess it doesn't count anymore..

I've been doing nothing but staying indoors (partially due to the virus, but i also prefer indoors due to my agoraphobia), and yet there are still paintings sitting on my floor that I've been meaning to hang up. They've been there for a year and a half.

Try 2 years 💀💀 I've been doing better but some things happened and since then I'm deep into depression and can't come back, the longer it is the worse it gets

:(

@@skromnyasha I’ve been depressed since childhood

@@novemberzulu1182 yeah I feel you, had a traumatizing childhood too just at that point I was getting better but been kicked right back like some sick joke

YEAH THEY buffed Spatula very badly in this new patch, Had you never seen it?

i prefer, "person who socially distanced before it was cool"

I'm more of a "over indulger in me time" guy

Executive dysfunction gang

Socially cripled

everything sucks, orange juice helps.

Me: Horror documentary

@@claireschweizer4765 Documentary horror🤭

​@@claireschweizer4765introverted extroverts are extroverts in denial

Why?

@@deadlydingus1138 it makes picking them harder as the pins have have to re-set each full rotation

@@Silver-Rexy I’m assuming that you have to keep a constant pressure on it or it resets.

thanks for the food yum yum

wait wait wait so your telling me NOT ALL LOCKS ARE DOUBLE ROTATION??? man

Lmao good reference. Also fuck those things.

Same

same

I'm sure 'reckless' is from all the rampant accepting of any dangerous options, while 'boring' might be that he didn't check enough interactions using incorrect inventory items.

Still doing better than tlou2 lol

Not feeling alone in facing difficult emotions is good. Sure it's not good to be drowning is self-pity blabla but eh, gotta enjoy simple things too

WOOOAH i just looked up whst avoidance personality disorder is and i have never felt more seen. Yikes. I need therapy, bad. 😬

You should meet my dad, you two would get along great. He likes metaphors

Words.

we do not care💯

love ur vids

Oh I love your content!! Did think I'd see you here

Im glad your doing well, i hope your okay now °°;

@@truelyme0 Q-Q Its really sweet of you to say that- I'm still a bit of a shut in, but life doesn't feel as daunting as it did during the bad times

Same to me. I does am being offended, and get an uncomfortable, satisfactory feeling that I am better than him at the same time.

I’m decently sure you’re right, if you didn’t change out of your “pajamas” you would have gotten that ending.

“With depression”

I think you have confidence issues if you talk to yourself that way try saying some nice things to yourself in the mirror

I mean, its one of the most difficult things to do, as you (your mind at least) have something to do but the other you (obviously, your physical body) is completely immovable, due to the unbearable amount of laziness, that is. TL;DR I hate myself for not being an active person.

@@everythingisfine8635 I know you mean well, but for a depression/anxiety sufferer it's not that easy. I can't speak for others, but whenever I try to compliment myself or congratulate myself when I do something well, it feels hollow and fake. My brain won't be that easily fooled by me...

@@sadrabbit53 one thing that has helped me be nice to myself is to say nice things thinking they're a spell. "you're strong" I tell myself and feel bad because I'm not strong, am I? but then I remember that what I'm saying it's a spell for that to be true one day. It's better than saying negative things (bad spells) and making my situation worse, isn't it? Then I agree. And thanks to that I haven't said anything bad to myself for over a year.

@@av3ngers17 :o that sounds like a good idea. This might sound like an excuse, but my nice/mean thoughts are spontaneous, like my subconscious tossed them into my conscious head. I don't go stand in front of a mirror and try to tell myself one thing or the other; all of a sudden a thought will pop up like "your eyes are a pretty shade of brown" (good days) or "wow you look like shit" (bad days -- more common). It's harder to control my thoughts when I don't know when they're coming 😫 but at least it works for you

read this in Fluttershy's voice

whole game is depression themed,cool story mr i have depression and anxiety

Not really, recognising something of yourself in things is a sign of introspective nature and above average intelligence, course above average intelligence and depression go hand in hand after all.

I honestly thought the game was going to be a bit funnier than it was, but like one sentence after the intro and I was like "wait a sec"

@@kiravremyanoi4772 hate when people do that shit

Why do you have the true God as ur profile picture?

Amen homies

I wheezed seeing your profile

Very deep chiaki

homestuck

Nice pfp I too loved chiaki

Thanks chiaki, very cool

I like trains.

(proceeds to be hit by a rock) *AEAYHEYEEYAHEYAHAYAHAAYAAYEEAAEAEA-*

Do you believe in gravity?

I’m guessing you’ve never played Yume Niki

What about a stay at home mom? Can't there be best of both worlds

@@thunderlordabove420 mehh, husband sounds more interesting

haha

That depends if 2020 isn't planning to kill us all on December 31st 2020 or the year restarts back to January 2020

@@thunderlordabove420 Lol if it is a time loop that is actually a very good thing, there was two month before things shut down. The super rich are not even fazed by the lockdowns and a couple months is enough time when you know every outcome to go from rags to Billionaire just in that time then fly to the tropics and buy a private island, all that before March

@@thunderlordabove420 we aren’t dead, but we are still the same

@@thunderlordabove420 i would rather if it just restarted....

hopefully you got away from your abusive family

"Sorry, I don't really want to play my video games anymore. I just open the game menu and close it again. "

Omg , nice to see other people have played that game! I really miss playing it even though it can be so hard in some parts even with cheating a bit and eats up a lot of memory / space.

Every day

In the end of December: Don't worry, let's try again. Let's back to January!

@@SilveryBlue1010 I feel like we’ve been saying this since 2018 🤣

No, no, January and February weren't like that. Well, at least they weren't for most of the world.

SO I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT THAT

@@aa-rm5sw i'm just surprised that not a lot of ppl mentioned it!

YEAH FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT

Guess we have same thing in common~ I think Manly should replay this game, so many new things to do in latest update!

@@rissole_dot_exe Yeah! I really wanna see the new ending.

People scare me

WE CAN'T UNITE WE ARE SHUT-INS.... *BUT WE CAN UNITE IN SPIRIT*

@@allopeep543 YOU ARE ABSOLUTLY CORRECT!

damn it, my fellow men of culture we will have to unite later I’m busy watching manly

@@allopeep543 so true

@AJ Calanog But I'm too busy to do it, I have to watch anime.

no,this game is not about it

no-it’s not about a quarantine. it’s about depression and feeling like everything is far too much work, even if it’s the most simple thing.