Somerville (FULL GAME) 

Check out that ultrawide aspect ratio baby!!

It makes me so happy that game developers realized that people love companions like dogs. Like the dog can do absolutely nothing but it brings the player so much joy and gives them a sense to protect. I just love it

Can we just be in awe at the fact the jack said "remember when I was getting dog food" and then the game responded with "remember when you were getting dog food"

no one: me: constantly worried about the dog as soon as he's out of frame

Honestly, if I was the main character, the most terrifying thing in this whole experience wouldn't be losing my family or the aliens trying to kill me, it would be the underwater sections where you have to dive not knowing how far air is.

Me: worried about the dog any time it goes missing from the frame Jack: WHOOO ALIENS

Can we just appreciate for a moment that Dino left one company to set up his own and called it "Jump Ship"?

I loved the ending. I think it is an accurate portrayal of how we might interact with aliens. We either submit, fight, or figure out how to talk to each other.

"overthink things, get sad. Realise things don't have to be that complicated, figure it out, feel ashamed that you overthought it". This is literally me. I love how honest Sean is about life. Been following since 2016 and have seen him get older as I have gotten older. It is so comforting seeing him going through life and have a very similar experience. Also, this game is beautiful!

Jack casually admitting he despises everyone in England was not what I was expecting

1:12:58 jack just described the whole terminator franchise “did people from the future come back in time to destroy and other people didn’t agree so they came back in time to stop them” “ nah that doesn’t make any sense”

Sometimes I lose my mind as Jack misses the simplest of clues or an item, then sometimes he wraps lights around a tree and blows my mind as I realize that it would’ve taken me much longer to figure that out

Love how Seán says he’s more worried about the dog than the toddler, but when the dog is gone he doesn’t notice. Yet when the toddler so much as steps away he immediately goes into dad mode and tries to pick him up.

The fact that Sean just completed God of War Ragnarok and immediately went on to another game AND completed it for our entertainment is just so fascinating. I would've taken a long break after playing such a banger of a game if I were him. Just the amount of hard work he puts into each of these videos amazes me. Love you, bro💖

"Dude, remember when I was bringing dog food out of the basement" A few seconds later.. he's back at the dog food.. lol.. epic timing. 🤣

man.... this guy is so incredibly lucky he got the powers in his arm instead of something like his left nut... IMAGINE how much more complicated this would be if the power was ANYWHERE other then his hand

Telling a story without using a single line of dialogue has got to take hell of a lot of effort.

I just Googled it and he actually missed one of the endings. There seems to be 4 in total. The last one is that he sacrifices himself for his family to live on in the real world because they were taken into a simulation, not killed. He had to use all of his energy to allow them to escape and dies afterwards.

Can I just take a moment to appreciate the drum set talk at 58:45. One of my brothers is a drummer and it reminded me of days when we would sit on the livingroom floor and he would go over every piece of the drum he was cleaning and tuning. It's a nice warm trip down memory lane and I appreciate that.

Shout-out to Jack for recording in a wider ratio idk why most people don't do that

''If the baby dies okay, but if the dog dies WE HAVE A PROBLEM.''

I don't think anyone has mentioned this but I think the game is based on the county Somerset in England. The festival that you go through in the game looks heavily inspired by Glastonbury Festival as the pyramid stage with the ufo in the game looks pretty much identical to the pyramid stage in Glastonbury. Great vid Jack!

I love how angular and chunky this game looks and sounds, yet smooth and liquid at the same time. Really cool game

Jack: remember when I was getting dog food out of the basement The game: I’m a little foggy on the details let’s go back

"The little boy is freaking out. Why are you freaking out? I'm not touching you anymore." - Jacksepticeye, 2022

There’s actually another ending triggered by saying blue 3 times after the first time you speak with the aliens. It’s basically where you sacrifice yourself to ONLY save your family.

The moment I put this video on and heard the opening I rolled it back and got my best headphones. I'm a sucker (as we probably all are here for lol) for just good immersive and meaningful sound and composition between music, sounds, and art design. It is all a piece of art and thanks for sharing 😊

At this point jack should just make a game. With his love of lighting and story it would be sick.

I am absolutely loving the massive multi-hour videos lately.

Here’s my theory about what the game’s endings are about if anyone is wondering (SPOILERS): In order to understand the game, you need to understand the hidden context first. Starting with the title: “Somerville”. According to google, Somerville’s definition is: “Scottish: of Norman origin a habitational name from Graveron-Sémerville in Eure (Normandy) from the ancient Germanic personal name Sigimar (see Siemer ) + Old French ville 'settlement'” It usually translates to “summer town” but in this case, it can be interpreted as “summer settlement”. The location this game takes place in could be the ideal “settlement” for the aliens, for reasons we don’t exactly know. But we do know that humans have been aware of these aliens, or at least their technology, for a long enough period of time to experiment on it. This can be seen by the human scientists working in the background of the alien ship. The red, blue, and purple soldiers were possibly alien technology that was discovered by humans several years before the invasion. The humans assumed war was inevitable, so they produced 3 super soldiers with this alien technology to prepare. The fact that humans use these abilities and that the orbs also treat you in a friendly manner seems to suggest it’s a human-alien hybrid technology, not just one or the other. However, once the aliens actually appeared, the humans found out they were vastly underprepared and failed to stop it. Now all the 3 super soldiers can do is try their best to stop the invasion, despite how hopeless it is. It seems like the alien technology is immortal, so even if one of them dies, all 3 must remain together in a new form. To explain why the aliens are invading and why so many children were trapped in those simulations: I think the aliens believe they are superior to humans. They think of earth as just another planet to colonize, but they are fascinated enough by humans to not outright kill them. They value mothers and children because mothers provide children, and children are “fresh slates” which they can mold into their own “better” versions of what humans should be. That’s why the mother and child were not killed when you abandoned them on the tower. The 3 floating alien rocks you see at the end are most likely the overlords of their alien species. In the end, you must come up with a good enough argument to convince the aliens to let you leave. If you can’t, they try to bribe you with another fake reality while they continue to destroy earth. If you can understand their language and speak back to them, they will recognize your intelligence and let you go back to reality. If you paid close attention to the background details, there are actually color codes hidden in some areas, which explain how the alien language works. For example, “purple purple purple” means “alien”, “blue blue blue” means “human”, and “purple blue red” means “family” (according to your interpretation of the symbols). You can also pick up on context clues for what some color patterns mean by what the orbs tell you in some situations. At the end of the game, you have to take these hidden conversational patterns to create your own argument and prove your autonomy to the aliens. It’s a game about understanding issues that are larger than life. Death, destruction, and isolation are common themes. When humanity is falling apart, will you choose to hang onto whatever semblance of comfort you have left, or face the harsh reality in front of you? If you choose the first option, you get the “resignation” endings where you stay in a comfortable simulation forever. If you choose the other option, you can free yourself and others and keep on living in reality, no matter how destroyed it is. You could tie this into the stages of grief, where one either moves into acceptance or stays stuck in the earlier stages forever.

The reason I love jacks videos over ANY OTHER RU-vidR is his great commentary. The jokes and the real reactions, realizations, & talking is exactly how I am. It comforts me and is like I’m by his side watching him play.

20:59 The one creature loyal to him, and Jack forgets he’s even there, and leaves him behind

It was only when Sean got the final ending, I realised, this is a game about dealing with grief. Resignation and understanding are the last two stages of grief.

I feel like purple giving away their power was their sort of 'Resignation ending', like having red and blue with them at the base was their version of our wife on the couch

Jack: Dude remember when we were getting dog food from the basement!! Game: Yes, here.

omg, a replay through Inside would be awesome, please please do it!

I was going back and forth between being in absolute awe at how cool the sound and the scenery and overall the whole story was, and biting my nails from anxiety every time the dog did not follow the main character.

Jack: I can't believe those two left me! [after laying apparently dead for what looked like days/weeks in the middle of an alien invasion] Also Jack: Forgets about dog for half of game, which he claims to care about more than family Whew...family man right there. Hah.

It's so interesting to me how Seán is a bit older than me and grew up somewhere completely different but we somehow have seen the same random childhood cartoons. It's like a memory was unearthed when he talked about it, and I was like "wait a minute, I know that cartoon!"

2:34 i love how the car's high beams turned on when there were no other cars around, attention to detail

Imagine just rolling up back at home after an alien invasion thinking “That was a strange day”

I love it when Jack plays silent ambient games like these lasting 3 hours, Far and Far changing tides were 3 hours long.

The toonerville trolley was an old cartoon I had on an old VHS tape growing up!!! It was two episodes/shorts; a business man late to a trip and a beach episode. Man, that brought up soooooo many memories 😃

This game is so beautiful, what a ride! Also, redo Inside again? Hell yes I'd love that!! I've re-watched your play through so many times already, would love to see you go through it again with the love and knowledge that you have for it now.

Seeing a 1-2 hour gameplay video from Jack is the best feeling you'll have.

SPOILER WARNING: I feel like the ending where you come to an "understanding" is less the father "asking" the aliens to leave, but more "threatening" to blow them all up if they don't just leave.

1:58:52 Love the subtle editing of having Jack's camera fade to black here too. 2:05:23 Lmfao Jack talks about how much stuff has escalated from just getting food for his dog and is immediately thrown into a flashback scene of exactly that. xD Also about the powers, I think blue is to destroy/liquify, and red is to freeze, and purple combines them to allow creation, fully morphing reality with the power. 2:43:56 Holy crap I'm dying. xD

Sean, when he can't pet an animal: "outrageous, absolutely unplayable game"

Jack: “I would not get under anything that is hoisted up by a car jack like that ” Mechanics: 👁️👄👁️ 1:50:35

I'm 38 minutes in and it's mainly me stressing over the dog and admiring how breathtaking this game looks

This was absolutely GORGEOUS to watch, i love the enviromental storytelling so much - i mean, there are alot more questions than answers, but damn...

I love hearing Sean's last thoughts after he finishes a game. It's interesting to hear what he says about the game. I appreciate little things in game like designs and so on from watching Sean appreciate them alot

The fact that one of the only clear noises we hear from the mc is when he touches purples hand makes me so inexplicably happy

An almost 3 hour long video from Jack truly this must be a blessing

I love it when Jack goes off about sound design

Y'know I'm honestly fine with this game being more story told than puzzle wise. I'm actually glad this has a happier ending than Inside.

The particle system in this game is phenomenal. That system paired with the sound design is truly a work of art. Well done, Jumpship.

The moment where Jack says “am I the problem” to “I AM the problem” 😂

55:27 Ah yes, my favorite movie gag. Three alien orbs in a port-a-potty trying to take a shit.😂

If you’re looking for a survival game, The Long Dark is a pretty good one. There’s just been a major update to the survival mode, and the story mode is 4/5 episodes finished. Would love to see a big RU-vidr like you play!

Huge fan of the multi-hour playthroughs of a single game in one video that he's been doing more of lately. Also, seeing how genuinely Jack loves the whole vibe and aesthetic of this game and how he fanboys every time some cool sci-fi shit is super cute. P.S., I would love it if he replayed some games, even if they're not one-game-one-video type things like a new Inside would be.

I really love the way this game is framed, the way the camera moves not only hides or shows things in the background, but it also gives justice to objects in the foreground, like at 46:24 I didn’t even notice Red-Guy in the foreground until he moved

I love how defensive Jack was about the dog at the very beginning, throughout the video was like "I'm sure he's fine: he always catches up," then last third of the video pretty much forgets the dogs existed.

I’d love to see this world from other perspectives. It might be hard since it seems like it follows a kind of chosen one concept, but just another chance to explore this world would be amazing

From what I gather the aliens were collecting kids (the ones you were freeing from the purple pods). In the beginning of the game they tried to lure in the protagonist's kid, but failed after the kid fell backwards into the trashbin. Why were they kidnapping kids? No idea. Maybe they are human batteries like in Matrix? Maybe their creativity is used to advance the mystery blocks technology since it can form pretty much anything? Idk, if you have any ideas let me know 😄

I think the best part of it, for me, was when the guy got the purple power, because blue and red showed up, to guide purple to death, and she gave her power to him before going with blue and red- like that scene is just powerful to me

I think it's interesting how we move left to the left side of the screen instead of right. I remember reading something that in cartoons made in/for places that read left to right, when the characters move left, it's meant to show/we understand that they are moving further from their goal while moving right is progressing towards their goal.

This entire game is so gorgeously cinematic.

2:44:01 Jack's description of 2 brain cell color dialogue and unnecessary sad piano music makes me hysterical

I don't know about anyone else, but I really love Sean's bits at the end of his favorite games. He just talks about how much he loves them and I love it. I like seeing him happy. It's the best thing in the world to me. I want him to start doing more videos like this. Videos where he plays games and he ends up liking them. And the he spends a good 30 minutes talking about how much he liked the game. I love hearing him talk. There's just something about his voice that seems to make people so calm. Thank you Jack. You're one of the greatest people ever.

I would love another nostalgia week! I enjoyed your past ones a lot and honestly they each made me go back to your original playlists and rewatch them as well! Tons of great content!

All these years watching jack, never knew he had IBS. I have Crohn's disease myself. Kinda nice to see someone so successful know what it's like.

This is just based on my own conjecture, but my theory for the overarching story is that the aliens weren't actually trying to invade or be violent. I think this because it turned out that everyone who got pulled up by their abduction beams were just put into a happy Matrix-style simulation and were unharmed at the end. I think what happened is all of the destruction was caused by the aliens being unable to communicate and not understanding Earth biology. So the three endings are 1: you are unable to communicate and accept going into the simulation, 2: you are unable to communicate and use your powers to destroy the aliens, which they are unprepared to defend against because they THINK they are being peaceful, and 3: you are able to communicate the harm they've done, the aliens realize their mistake and remove themselves from Earth in the hopes of fostering future cooperation. If this is true it seems likely that the three comets were also sent by the aliens. Their purpose was to give Earth life the ability to communicate with them, but they didn't realize that wouldn't be enough because human life isn't a hive mind/central consciousness like the aliens appear to be. Thanks for the video Jack!

As I understand the last ending, it may be about the need to talk to one another. Sometimes it may seem like the other person is speaking alien language, that’s how hard it is to understand. But if you try hard enough, it is possible to achieve understanding and stop destroying each other’s lives

Definitely cool game, it gonna be compared a lot with Limbo and Inside which I don't think its a bad thing... At the end of the day, the same developer who worked on those games also did this one and this one was quite spectaculer to watch. I liked Limbo and Inside more than this but this game by itself was also amazing. I hope Jump Shift will make more games like this, its definitely a blast watching Sean doing 3 hour YT videos without almost any editting just one sitting with himself recording these games for us. And im glad to see Sean still finds time doing these type of videos despite everything thats been going on. Watching these videos on his channel are some of my favourites. Its one these times during the week when nothing goes on and you just find yourself some time watching these type of videos, drinking coffee or w/e in the proccess. Almost as if you're reading a book but doing it all together with others. Definitely awesome.

I love that he gets to their hideout, almost dead, and the wife's first thought is, it's time for us to leave. You don't need time to heal up.

This game is visually stunning and the gameplay is simple, yet effective to get the story across. Always appreciate Sean's commentary to bring in humor and the attention span but don't let that distract you from the fact that in 1998, the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16ft through an announcer's table.

Was I the only one who thought that you were already in a simulation and the “alien invasion” was other humans trying to break into it and save you

Thanks for playing! I appreciate your time! The game was amazing, and your commentary was just as great.

What a treat, i watched it in one sitting like it was a movie. Thanks to the big brain moments, it allowed the experience to be smooth! What a great game, we need more alien stories 👌🏼

Sean: "I hope the dog doesn't die." Also Sean: _Keeps leaving the dog behind at every available moment._ 😐

Goddamn the setup for this game is awesome. They didn't just put your character in a simulation or have you work for the government fighting aliens, they had alien ships rain from the sky, and one of the soldiers fighting them reaches out to you, only for your rescue attempt to fail, for them to die and for you to be affect by their matter power thing and have to survive being in the middle of an apocalyptic alien war.

I really love how it’s also going from right to left instead of the usual left to right in the Playhead games

Would love another nostalgia week. Tons of games that deserve a revisit.

you know when you just sit there after you finish a game with an amazing story and ending and you just kind of don't know what to do with yourself because your brain is still trying to unpack what you just watched.

Not me casually SCREAMING at Sean to help that dog off the ledge!! 😭😭😭 no man left behind!

Can we all just agree that Jack playing as a baby is hilarious?

Jack: I kinda wanna play Inside again Also jack: wants to have another nostalgia week Everyone: YES!!!

the ending options feel very simple (unless I'm missing something) you either give up and live a lie, choose violence or learn from the little ball guys and communicate with the aliens and choose peace, I guess... also a replay of inside would be awesome

Inside was one of my favorite playthroughs. I would love to see it again for nostalgia week. I feel like it's one of those games that you can always find new details in with each play

1:42:01 damn that moment brokes me makes me so emotional and thinks about of me is that how it feels to become an good dad for our kids and give them true much love 😭😘♥️ and protect them.Hats to you man you make an such an incredible game this game deserves true much love ❤️❤️😘.

The fact that this game hits on one of my favorite things in fictional media, large scale battles, within the first few minutes is enough for me to want to play it.

The aspect ratio is phenomenal! Can't wait to finish watching 3 hours of Jacksepticeye. 😊💜

for some reason the darn intro cutscene made me cry what the hell its the music combined with the scenery that reminds me of something ive never had i think

Jack: I wonder what festival this is The pyramid stage in the background: only the best baby

As soon as the balls showed up my thought was to learn how to communicate with them and their alien friends, this game was incredible to watch! :D

Jack mentioning war of the worlds makes me want to rewatch it another 23 times. Absolute masterpiece movie

This game was so awesome to watch. Love the mechanics and that sound design was phenomenal. Awesome concept. Thank you for playing it for us! :D

9:00 You can't be playing as Daithi. There's nowhere enough RRRRRAAATS!

Jack is killing it with getting videos out so fast!