The Evil Within - Story Explained 

Me hearing that Ruben was more upset about his sister’s death than his injuries: awww :( Also me seconds later hearing he had romantic feelings for her: oh.

I just finally played this game. I can't believe how good it was but the story is kind of hard to follow

20:30 I don't believe Ruvik could teleport in the real world like that. He's not alive. Which only means that the sequence at the beginning with Sebastian and crew entering the hospital was a mental reimagining of the events inside of STEM. I believe they were hooked into STEM wirelessly before entering the hospital in the car. Their bodies were later dragged to the wired terminal inside beacon. Its the only explanation. The only way Ruvik would manifest himself into the real world would be through Leslie, which happens at the very end.

Mobius being obsessed with Stem makes way more sense than umbrella constantly making zombies for no real logical reason.

I love the evil within both games are good but i prefer the first one.

The evil within franchise is one of my favorites. Really love both games and hope for a third one 🤞🏻

evil within was actually one of the best horror games of all time. scary visuals that would make you shit yourself if you were in that situation.

As someone who's just now getting into this series, Thank you for the succinct summary! Survival horror games tend to have plots that are... Difficult to digest. Booting up the second game, and being treated to a cutscene of the protag trying to rescue his daughter from a burning house, I pretty immediately figured I should find out what the first game was about.

The first game is more of a line-story, it's not an open world one and that's what I like. Sebastian also looked hotter, just the atmosphere in the first game was creepier, the second one was in a city

I kinda realized that the long haired monster is a projection of Ruviks sister, Laura, but i just now put it together the why she is weak to fire... Because that's how his real sister died ... Damn

Finally gave this game a go, really well made. The first two chapters felt a bit clunky and I was considering not playing it, but I went for a full playthrough and it was really intriguing

I know there are people who strongly dislike the TEW2 I myself enjoyed the first one more but the second has its charm about it they did a good job with the guy who takes pictures and using murder for art I forget his name because I haven't played it in awhile but that villains soundtrack is unforgettable. TEW2 was kind of doomed before it released because whatever reason they decided to use the ID4 engine instead of the already released ID5 from a company stand point I think they did this as a means to not butcher other games that released around its time from the same company I guess they figured TEW2 would totally annihilate its sister games so they diluted it a bit there is a video on RU-vid about this look it up. Its been a minute since I watched it and I can't remember who did a review on it. One thing I do love about TEW2 was the steps they took to make it a different but still give you that same feeling as far as horror like all the employees being viciously slaughtered in the hallway the dark rooms ect.

This game was amazing, but it really felt like work going through it.

I still think that The Evil Within 2 was so incomplete as a sequel of this game. Too many plot points got retconned or ignored. It was so unsatisfying as Sebastian’s story as well, since his personality is too different from the first game and he completely ignores Joseph(like wtf).

this game was so good and the story was a pretty brilliant concept, but my god did the story editor or whoever is in charge of putting the story together did a hotmess of a job connecting and putting the segments together into a coherent story. not to mention blocking the third act behind a DLC paywall. really hope they get to do a third game someday, because the second game seemed to corrected most of the flaws of the first game, but lost some of the first game's atmosphere.

The first game was way better than 2. It had way more original and interesting story.

Sebastian knew Joseph well before he lost lily, in one of the memories you see as Kidman Joseph and Sebastian discuss Lily in a joyous manor

I personally don’t think that the sister's appearance being monsterous had to do with the fire, but were actually a reflection of Rubin's warped affections for her.

The name "Lore and Order" is so apt.

The first game’s story was a lot more interesting than the second one😔

The first game is a masterpiece!! The second one was disappointing tho.

I imagine these videos take fucking forever to edit. Wonderfully done as always. Thank you for entertaining us!

Currently on chapter 11 or 12 of the game. I have some vague idea of what's going on but not really. Saving this video for when I finish the game.

Never played this game but I've fallen into a binge of your content and your voice is so relaxing

Fantastic video! I thought I took everything in but just wanted to make sure and I’m glad I did because you picked up on a couple small details I had missed :)

My theory on the end of the game (and I apologize if I misspell names). I believe that Ruvrik traded places with Leslie when he evaporated him, Ruvrik was outta stem and now Leslie was in control of it all but due to being completely unstable mentally Sebastian’s sub Consciousness dominated Leslie’s thus why the boss fight at the end of the game was so Chaotic and bizarre with Sebastian surviving being Impaled, why the bazooka was so Convenient for him, why he was in a military truck shooting a machine gun like a action hero outta movie. I think Sebastian was so caught up in a moment that his Subconsciousness created this Ridiculous boss fight and the thing he killed at the very end was actually Leslie considering he had traded places with Ruvrik.

The fact that I work by A beacon mental hospital makes this more scary

the only criticism I have for the game is it's in widescreen and there's no way in the options to turn it off

Such a good explanation, thank you

Evil within my favourite horror game no doubt

Damn, been a while since I see this. My ex and I used to watch play throughs together and I remember being obsessed with Leslie 😭😭😭 he really liked this game a lot

Such a great video

I have binged watch your channel in 2 days. Love your lore vids, keep at it!

love how the game somehow explained the silent hill esque metaphysical stuff happening in this game.

Honestly I really wanted to see Leslie again I was so disappointed when I played 2 and he wasn’t even mentioned because at the end of 1 you see him walking out the hospital like we are gonna see him again and has an unfinished story but no nothing of him In the second game

Fantastic video I absolutely love this game and you explained the story so well!!! The Evil Within definitely deserves more love!!

Awsome Man❤

Fantastic timing, I just beat this game for the first time today, and I came looking for a good video.. was stoked to see you had done one. Thanks a ton for this man. Such an interesting game. I need to play the DLCs now for sure.

You explained everything very well. Great video

Please do the same for Evil Within 2, this is my favorite saga ever, I think the first Evil Within was just so perfect, we can feel the gameplay mechanics and the story of the game was perfectly polished, and the ambiance is very intense, even safe zones made me sweaty some times

I have the og xbox one I bought within release season (helps to work in a box store) and it still runs and I have both games. Theyre goood games, i recommend.

I rlly loved both tbh great game

So underrated this game 🎮 I wish they would make a 3 😢

I love your videos man, you know your subject, you explain well, and you're creative in the art of fear, the music which plays on your videos, the sound effects, the cuts I can tell you mastered it as I work music and sound design a lot, and a bit of video making.

I just finished playing this game for my channel and it was amazing. I liked learning about the charachters lore and im glad you did this video 👍👍

Love these videos! Could you do the Bioshock series please! 😀

You good sir create some amazing content!! I’ve been hooked to your lore & order series 🤩😂😤🙏🏽🙆🏽‍♂️😁 WOOOOT

The Evil Within is the one horror game that needs a remake.

'she is different...maybe it's the hair' aaahahahaha subscribed just for that line

Looking forward to seeing the vid on the second one! You break these down really well

The first video game that got me into video games...❤

The first game is always the best one. I was deeply disappointed with the sequel.

Good shit, please keep making these types of videos. Especially for horror games that aren't super mainstream.

Evil within 3. Wireless stem reactivates pulls krimson city entire population into its hellscape. Ruvik reappears starts taking over. Joseph is also a villain because of trauma caused by tew1. Sebastion kills both of them fights stem itself beats but is now stuck inside void. It all turns out he was a patient in beacon all along after his daughters death. The past games has been him falling into a delusion as a way to cope with his daughters death and his wife's disappearance(leaving him) with stem being a attempt to heal him only for his trauma to cause it to malfunction

These games gave me nightmares the monsters were so freaking terrifying and the environment 🥶🥶

Loved the first game. Hated the sequel.

been waiting for this ty

Thanks for this! Just finished the game and this has really helped me understand what the hell was going on lol (great game though).

The Aspects that ruined my Evil Within 2 experience was the constant shifting in the story. Like, we're contrasting between a crazy artist, a religious fanatic and Sebastian's milky wife. One moment you're in a town chasing Stefano than you're suddenly trying to kill a priest which derails the plot because we go from fighting Stefano to fighting Lava guys. Another thing that pissed me off was the passiveness of the MOBIUS team - ''Alpha Team''. Helping the MOBIUS team members felt like filler content rather than contributing to the progress of the story. You have to take a quest from Julius in exchange for resources when logically you should get that shit for free. You wanna leave too don't you? At least we meet a cool chick named Torres who does take action but unfortunately dies because we *shoot her by accident....* this game sucks. the only interesting parts was the confrontation with obscura (camera creature) and Anima (ghost lady)

I felt like the game was a bit disjointed in the first 2 chapters, but as soon as all of the story elements started falling into place more clearly I fell in love with the game. It feels like the curve to get adjusted to the games combat and story is a bit steep, bit once you're over it it's so much fun. Every little note, new piece of dialogue etc was so intriguing. After chapter 9(ish?) When Marcello reveals the group is in a shared consciousness, with everyone's shared memories warped and combined under Ruviks control, I just fell in love with the game completely. What a cool twist for an "alternative reality" plot line! It did feel a bit jarring towards the latter end of the game when it switches from the rural environments to the more urban areas (the hospital, city etc) but still fun. I also enjoyed the mixed storyline of Sebastians missing wife and daughter alongside the overarching plot. The monsters were amazingly designed. My absolutely favourite has to be the sister/spider monster. The fact that you fight her prior to learning about her and then afterwards it feels like a eureka moment! The long hair, the fire weakness, it was so cool. Even when I struggled with the game it never frustrated me to the point where I didn't enjoy the experience anymore, personally I felt the "challenge" of the areas and enemies to be moderately mixed and nothing felt far too difficult or far too easy. My only gripe is that after the 10th or 11th chapter the plot just gets slightly too messy. When they introduce the Kidman shooting Leslie thing it just added another side plot when things were already kind of full. I feel like they were trying for a "gotcha!" Moment but it didn't do that, it just felt a bit confusing because you then had to consider if a 3rd party was involved in this whole thing. And one final note, absolutely loved the nurse in the safe haven. I genuinely loved the mirror teleportation and the idea of a safe room with a unrelated character who helps you buff your skills or unlock items. Really cool mechanic for a game of this nature, I'm not sure if a traditional shop keeper would've fit the tone !

what version of the game is this? I've never seen this gameplay at all

So technically ruviks just like obito uchiha , ruvik being burned and obito being crushed by a huge boulder ,then their lover , ruvik (laura) and obito( rin) died. Then they try to make their own imaginary world ( stem for ruvik) and infinite genjutsu for obito) where they could live a happy life with their lovers

The first one was way better than 2.

I think The Evil Within 3 will never happen, because they forcibly concluded Seb’s story in The Evil Within 2(such a terrible sequel). Now Seb doesn’t remember Ruvik and Joseph means nothing to him. His character totally depends on his daughter now because the devs now think video game male protagonist should be a sad dad(and nothing else). It’s sad to see Seb’s character and potential getting destroyed in such a way, but I had a really good time playing The Evil Within 1 and waiting for the sequel. I’m still grateful for that.

Finally some one giving this game its due credit ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

OMG I have been watching you for so long and just noticed I wasn’t subscribed. New Subscriber. sorry, you were always in my feed I didn’t know. Keep up the good work.

Your content perks up my day when work gets monotonous. Thank you and keep up the good work!

If he had complete control over everything, or the last say, and the intention was to kill everyone, our main protag would not have survived. My fave monster is box head. Annoying, yet fun. Fave moment is realizing an escape by closing off a door was not an escape at all, and it just offs itself to spawn in the room I was in.

Happy to see more of these lore videos.

one thing i found funny about the game was that Sabastian can get injured badly then walk it off but then the end fight shows him being thrown arounds like he is superman and get impaled then second later he is walking around like nothing happened i bet he has a Deadpool level healing factor

I always thought tatiana was made by sebastian. Like she's sebastian's idea of something, maybe a caretaker or a favorite nurse even his desire or whatever.

Great game and a classic

nice job :)

Been looking forward to this video!!!

Nice vid! Thumbs up!

One crucial detail he forgot to mention which ties the story better is that the cult that julis village was involved in was the victorianos’ since they owned the church, and they would essentially kidnap people from the village and animals. The villagers then became fed up and burned the farm in retaliation. Also one of the people kidnapped from the village were the twins which end up being bosses in the church area, they were infants kidnapped and experimented on hence having them in stem as their deformed and crazy looking counterparts with one being named zehn. All of the enemies in game also represent the people in there which change things in the world of stem but ruvik is the one with the authority, for instance the base haunted you see throughout the whole game are just normal people ruvik experimented on but became monsters due to how long of an exposure they had to being inside. The enemy towards the end of the game on the cross is an embodiment of his families religion and pretty much is ruviks vision of rebirth. The sadist, is a serial killer whom was put in there. The invisible boss is symbolism for ruviks desire to stay in the shadows hidden and picking his prey. So I don’t know if this is a plot hole but pretty much juli and ruvik the whole time were close to each other in terms of where they lived, and it’s strange this doesn’t get brought up. Also another plot hole is that the art book never mentioned Sebastian had a dead daughter, only a missing wife, so they definitely added that late into development. Also one more fact, the enemies with the two faces or heads that appear near the box heads area are the real life versions of people and their stem versions colliding. The box head is Ruben’s desire to keep his secret safe, and the spider boss towards the end is a person in stem that didn’t get properly put in and in the process of becoming a haunted became something more, due to maybe more exposure than the others? Also he forgot to mention that ruvik controls everything literally everything, to the point that the mobius agent that haunted Juli wasn’t actually even there and ruvik just used that to keep her in fear, pretty much if you have been in stem before you have the mobius mark in your hand (the one Kidman has) meaning if you have that you’ve been in stem before and ruvik can place you in his world, so another little plot hole would be if Myra at the end has a mark meaning ruvik could have created her in stem why didn’t he? He could have used her to play against Sebastian’s fears and torment him with her.

How they got into Stem always confused me for a while

Does ruvik just have powers? So hes able to follow them and pull them into stem. is it just a mental thing they get pulled into?

Let's gooo!! Another great video my friend, keep it up!

Evil within is the game that gave us closest vibe to resident evil 4

Great explanation of the game, I thoroughly enjoyed it. When is part two (Evil Within 2) coming?

amazing game

Great video.

Bruh that first ad break was timed so perfectly it was like I was watching tv

wow, fantastic explanation, I got to say I loved the first one, but I didn't understand this whole intricate story..now I downloaded TEW2 on Steam and I am good to go

18:00 This is the only part of the story that I don't understand; If Mobius had an injection that could give people the ability to resist the effects of Ruvik's influence, why didnt they give it to everybody instead of just Kidd? Wouldn't that have made achieving their goal a lot easier?

great video

I world without evil within three guys is a nightmare reality I don’t want to live in too many unanswered questions.

It looks so good in 60fps! Huge difference

Awesome lore explained vid!

I love this series!

The plot of this game is batshit insane. Jesus.

Really wish they would bring a 3rd game out i loved the series. The first 1 more then the 2nd but the 2nd was still good. Will they make a 3rd?

The cult may be connected to theodore Wallace from the sequel since that symbol and the fire come up when he takes over stem.

When they arrive at the hospital at beginning of the game the 3 are already connected to the STEM.

Thanks for the vid mate, story got me hooked immediately! 😂 Had me coming from the 1899 breakdown by Heavy Spoilers comment section, speaking of connections 🎉

Oh my goodness yes someone is finally covering this!! 👍👍👍 :D

This animus is less glitchy

I've just finished the fist game. Also have the 2nd one. Haven't tried it yet though.

The gameplay never captivated me enough to play past the first hour of the game. Thanks for the breakdown cause I would have never played the game (or watched someone play it) to know!