The ending messed my kid brain up back then, I was so used to resetting for a better outcome... But when I couldn't, it truly gave me a sense of literal hopelessness.
I know! Before games had permanent consequences like they do these days, we really never expected this, and I'll be the first to admit, as a younger player, you typically don't think of your consequences until it's too late! XD
I remember how horrified I was when I didn't know you couldn't reset the game and as I kept refreshing and restarting it always was just the shot of him "sleeping" by the bench
Same here! When I was younger, I didn't realize that the title itself was delineating the nature of the ending - you only have one chance to do things! I thought the game was broken and it became so annoying for my little-kid mind back then, which I suppose contributed to its long-lasting impact for me.
oh my god. i watched markiplier play this and it was genuinely heart wrenching. i havent even watched the video but im still too scared too just remembering the game.
Seriously! It's a very impactful story, and I suppose it's more effective when you play/watch this a while ago, then return after you're somewhat older since you understand everything just a little bit more!
I remember watching mark play this and thats about it reading other comments helped me a bit but for younger me the game never really stick to me. ( maybe because I never understood what was the game about.) bumped that I probably will get the same feeling that others got from playing the game.
I remember that game... When I was kid I played this on flash game website, I thought about that game last time but i didn't remember what name of this game was. Fate decided to bring me here.
Crazy how that happens! What also is crazy is that just like you, so many other people who played this game remembered the images, but not the name, and here you are!
Would it really be that bad for John to choose to die alongside his daughter? I mean, there are nobody else around. What would be the point of being the only two people alive and left in the world, especially since John lost his wife and his daughter is going to grow up learning what happened to her mom and possibly see her own dad die. Meaning, she'll be the only person left on earth. Both of her parents gone, her friends, everyone just gone! The only thing this reminds me of is 9, but at least that had somewhat of a happier outcome because 9 still had others to be around.
a really bad thought i had was that since there is only 1 girl and 1 man so they gotta.. reproduce. or not, you know.. getting away from that, i like living and i would assume most people would too so thats likely their motive. plus he has a kid, that is likely barely in elementary
what- man I just spent the time having fun and staying with my family, and the correct answer was to not enjoy your final days and just work??? I severely misunderstood the game....
I would guess that it's because the news of the incurable nature of the airborne disease, to which people decided they would select how they were going to go out instead of falling to the disease.
It's a very memorable game, even after a whole decade! I would chalk it up to the simple graphics, gameplay, and the premise is so "out there" that you can't help but remember the game!
Same i remember seeing markiplier play this years ago and for some reason this game has stuck with me since. I always randomly remember it every so often
I remember watching a big lets play youtuber(probably markiplier) play this game as a kid. The game made me so scared that it was hard for me to sleep for a few nights lol. The idea that everyone in the world slowly dies like this was very terrifying for me as a child.
I totally can relate; I remember this game as one of the most prominent narratives I played through, and let me tell you, I couldn't pay attention to any story very well when I was younger, so this game definitely was something special!
Another element I wish you would've mentioned, is the message at the start of each day. It starts with "you have one chance", but on the last day, it turns into "you had one chance". This is one of those things that just makes me feel a knot in my stomach from this game.
It's a bit of a cheaty game too. If you try anything besides work, at any one point - You get one of the terribad endings. At the day where the boss told me to go home, I did and spent the night with the family hoping it would cheer up the mood. Also you do need rest to work more efficiently. But I got the bad ending regardless, where at the finaly day going to work Molly dies in the floor. I felt extremely cheated. "That one 'mistake' ruined it all".
I remember this game so vividly for years except one thing, its name! Over the years every time I tried to find it I failed and it got to the point where I just accepted that it must have been some sort of fever dream I had. Thankfully this popped up in my recommended and the second I saw the thumbnail I knew it was it. So thank you, this has provided some closure and knowledge that I haven't been insane for the past 10 years
Wow, what an insane twist! I'm so happy you were able to find the game once again! It's unbelievable that the game is *that* memorable for so many of us! Thanks for sharing!
I have similar feelings about games too, and I love that you were abLe to find closure... I have about a dozen that I still haven't found again, and I'll probably forget them sometime soon. Such is life
Its name burned into my memory… I chose the path where I kept working on the cure. With each heartbreaking decision, I told myself I have one CHANCE! That is working on the cure. And the last day, it said YOU HAD ONE CHANCE. That gave me chills. I thought it was over. I was chasing pipe dreams while my wife and child died feeling unloved. …But it worked!
I just finished the game, and my thought process through the whole thing was "Screw spending time with my family, I want to go to work!", thinking this would be the worst possible outcome and would lead to the game telling me there is no cure for the virus and that I should have valued the time I had with my friends and family because you never know when it could be stripped from you.... You can imagine how shocked I was when I found out this was the good ending
It's definitely a shock, considering that it appears that everyone in the game wants you to spend time with one another instead of working, but no! Work ends up having the best outcome!
Dude, when i played this as a child I tought the mom died BY THE PLAGUE while she was taking a bath, NOT KILLING HERSELF. My thinking must have been like "damn, maybe it made her shit blood or smnth". Fuck. I was stupid.
I totally understand! I actually was like that, too, when I first played this game back when I was way younger. I think when you revisit the game once you're older, you can really appreciate the finer details sprinkled throughout the game!
I feel like there were surprisingly many sad games like this made between 2010 and 2017 that made you feel alone and not in control. I remember watching Markiplier play presentable liberty in 2016 and feeling devastated by the ending. Recently I remembered the game and searched it up to look for secrets or an alternative ending of some kind. Instead I found out that Robert Brock took his own life in 2018. To me games like these feel more like a glimpse in the mind of their author rather than just sad and shocking content which is why I will always keep occasionally remembering and coming back to replay or at least rewatch them. .
SPOILERS: Ahh.. this game was very well made, I remember being young and having this weird sick feeling whenever the song played where the mother took her life, and only amplified with the one ending where the co-worker kills your daughter. it made me feel so weird for a while. such a helpless situation. This one and "quiet time" are on par with the eerie/helpless feeling in horror games
I’m so happy someone is talking about this, I found this game in a lets play years back as a stupid kid and it still sticks with me as a stupid teenager.
That's awesome to hear! The game definitely stuck with me the same as it did for you. How could anyone forget the unique circumstances of the game, right?!
There are two types of game/media that gives me nightmares: -Horror obviously -Games or other things that makes me feel like im responsible for some kind of bad thing which scares me on a existential level
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one that remembered this during COVID. I replayed this twice in the last year, and the tears keep flowing. What a beautiful flash game, man. When you beat the game, it locks you to the ending screen whenever you come back so you can't just play again unless you refresh your cookies. I didn't know that as a kid, so I never got to see the other side of it until recently, and I'm glad I found it again. I'm even more-so happy that everyone else found it and isn't going to soon forget this wonderful game.
It's amazing how prominent this game can stand out in your memory, right? I think One Chance, even with all of its flaws, is a masterpiece, as you said! Also, if you don't want to refresh your cookies, playing this in Incognito Mode on your browser will let you play it over and over again. Thanks for sharing!
>Wake up >Work on cure despite people having already given up >Reject thot >Disarm armed attacker with bare hands >Become last survivor of humanity along with daughter Based protagonist
@@catxolotl atleast life on earth survives life will evolve again i say that because in the good ending the trees are green so i assume they release the cure into the air
Don’t see any reason to believe they’re the only two left. Trees are alive at the end therefore there’s no reason to think lives weren’t also saved. Can’t imagine he went around injecting trees. It’s far fetched but my optimistic brain says he was able to use the same thing that spread the cure in the first place again. Would of had to, as it was all living cells; oxygen would start to drop as nature does out. I dunno he spread the cure and the trees were green once more so it wasn’t to late, hooray!
I always thought the implications were that the apocalypse _was_ the result of the drug being tested - that all it took was that one, seemingly insignificant mistake to eventually spread and kill everything.
I remember being in elementary when I first saw people doing lets plays of the game. Hard to believe it's been 13 years since this game came out, almost feels like yesterday that it left such a huge impression on me as a kid. Thank you so much for making this, I almost feel emotional seeing it again.
Dude, I know exactly what you mean; I had a very similar experience, too! I remember playing this game, but during my younger years, I simply didn't take in the fine details, such as the newspapers each morning, and made the worst decisions. Probably the worst, however, was that I didn't even understand the meaning of "One Chance" and thought the ending was a glitch! Gosh, 13 years ago makes all of us feel old, right?!
feel like for the good ending, since all the plant live has recovered in seemingly such a short time, then im guessing at the very least 5% of the human population survived, so at least they should be able to survive and recover
I would also assume that others survived as well, and here's why, everybody in the main story knew that the world was screwed when the gas was released, and we can safely assume that prepper-type people would have also known this news, and went into their bunkers, or a similar hermetic structure that would keep them safe. Obviously, we don't know if they came back out after John finds the serum, but there's got to be somebody else other than John and Molly who survived. Now, whether or not they could ever meet up to form communities, that's another rabbit hole!
bit late, but considering the plant life is back, i'd have to assume it was mass produced and administered in the same way the original "cure" was, leading to anyone eventually returning to the surface realizing it's all fine now
@@synthetic_creaturethat’s what I said in another comment. They managed to gas the entire planet with this cure. So naturally it was done again. Some large infrastructure was surely still in place if they had only spread it 6 days prior. Government probably shared with some that a cure was still being worked on. So homie got out there and did work.
This game was honestly my first experience with hopelessness and, what felt like to me, a young kid, actual death and loss. It was fucked. But also eye-opening and such. I think about this game fairly often, at least once every couple months or so.
I totally relate with your experience, too! I remember thinking how terrible it would be if the entire world was ending - what would you do? I mean, at that point, what is anything any more? I would say that as we got older, this game becomes more meaningful, given how we are forced to handle our issues not as kids any more, but as adults now.
I played this game. I was confused as to why the screen would look the same after the ending you chose, because i was probably some dumb, naive teenager, (or kid) but now i realize it. You ONLY get one chance. Once it's done, it's done. That's it. No NG+, no load save file, not EVEN play a new game, nope, once you got the ending, it's truly game over. And this is scary too. To think that something like this could actually happen irl.
Exactly! I remember I tried to refresh the game to be able to play again, but nothing! Now, though, I reckon that many of us can understand the reasoning behind the title!
From what i gather chemotherapy in real life is very similar to the symptoms they explain in the game. It’s used to kill cancer cells but never actually stops killing causing the human body to deteriorate. It’s honestly horrific.
Definitely a shame that Flash as we knew it is gone, but man, this game is one of those games that you've just gotta try once! Even if you're undecisive, you'll get an ending no matter how good or bad! XD
Ruffle allows you to play Flash games in the browser again, it is pretty far in terms of supporting everything Flash supported and it will only get closer/better
Considering the gas kills all life on earth, the fact him and his daughter are immune is irrelevant to the fact that they will starve to death because humans need to consume other living things to survive.
They could still live off non-perishable goods like canned foods and other preserved goods. The setting is evidently modern, and considering there's no need for competition since everyone's dead except him and his daughter, scavenging through somewhere like a local supermarket would be pretty easy to keep John and his daughter fed. It won't be a healthy diet, but they won't starve. Still is a pretty miserable existence, nonetheless.
They may suffocate, the only reason we have oxygen is because of cyanobacteria and plants, the total oxygen content would slowly diminish as atmospheric oxygen reacts with pretty much everything. Not sure if that wou,d be a process too slow for it to matter, or fast enough it would happen in their lifetime.
@@cold1895If you return to the game and obtain the good ending opon loading back into the game it seems like all the green came back to the environments! So there is hope about things being okay!
@@cold1895 Either that or that there is a chance that some people were immune to the spread which can be possible. But again there is a reason why it left to be so mysteriously perhaps for peoples interpretation
I got the same ending, the first time i played this like a decade ago. Nice to see I wasnt the only one who got a traumaticly depressing feeling from this game. Even if you spend all your time working, instead of trying to live up what time you have left, its a bittersweet ending at best as although you saved yourself and your daughter. However your wife, all your friends, for the most part your lifes work, and 99.9999 percent of humanity(and if theres less than 500 people in the world after the end then it doesnt matter regardless because theres not enough genetic diversity for humans to continue) are all dead, and to top it all off you are probably carrying around the burden that its your fault for the rest of your life. Its like that one ending to SCP Containment Breach *You escaped but the world is already over*
Right, it poses that question, would it be worth it to stay and enjoy the time with those that you love, or would it be better to throw your remaining energy and time towards a cure, one that, even if successful, will mean little, as no one will be left? I agree with you, the emptiness that is left behind as a result would be extraordinarily difficult to reckon with. Glad to see you got the same ending, too!
@@itsoracle if there's less than 500(and more accurately probably around 1000) humans left in any population, there will not be enough human generations to phase out each person's genetic diversity(which decreases by 50 percent each time down to less than 1 percent to prevent inbreeding). If there's not enough humans left to do that, the population is automatically doomed due to inbreeding.
@@itsoracle Inbreeding results in normally suppressed alleles becoming dominant, usually undesirable ones. Effects of inbreeding include reduced fertility, reduced birth rate, higher child mortality, reduced adult size, reduced immune effectiveness, increased risk of heart disease, facial asymmetry, and increased risk of genetic disorders. All of those in combination means fewer humans will survive to be sexually mature. In short, below a certain threshold, there is no hope for the race to recover.
I’ve had the bathroom scene in my mind for YEARS it was one of those things you see and forget where you saw it from. Im so glad this got recommended to me :)
And I am very glad you shared that! You're absolutely right about that particular scene. There's something so eerie about that, and obviously, it's very resonant to the many people who actually unfortunately experience feelings that the wife did and I think that's the key reason to why so many of us remember that scene!
The ending where you make a cure isn't even a happy one... Sure you and your daughter are saved, but the world is rotting around you and is now uninhabitable. Global ecosystems are dead and the only thing you and your daughter can eat is canned food and that'll eventually be gone. All you can do is endure a depressing and dead world until all the remains are microbes deep within the earth's crust.
For that matter, the daughter likely won't even grow up right in the head given that a child needs to experience talking to others their own age, which there are none left, and with only her father left to be with her, it really would be a depressing existence. You're absolutely spot on. On the bright side, though, you could walk around anywhere, any time without any repercussions!
@@qliqoei Yeah, pharma companies would never make drugs available for widespread purchase and use that could harm people. The owner of the company that made elixir sulfanilamide infamously said "We have been supplying a legitimate professional demand and not once could have foreseen the unlooked-for results. I do not feel that there was any responsibility on our part", it really isn't a plot hole when shit like this can and has happened in the past
@@qliqoei Maybe the effects weren't apparent from lab testing Maybe only after being released on such a large quantity did the effects become apparent
In the game I played you had to pointlessly walk to the balcony and back to the lab to get the cure. I did what you did but got the end where you stare at the X on the screen and die.
I think the key to finding the cure is working whenever you have an opportunity to do so, and in your case, you may have skipped a day of work? If your family leaves, then this shows whether or not you skipped a day of work. If you look up 'One Chance All Endings', a Russian RU-vidr has a flowchart of all actions that lead to specific endings!
GOD it is so good to see someone finally talk abt this game, i remember playing it and trying desperately to reset what i had done to get another ending it's such an experience to play
I know exactly where you're coming from! I, just like you, tried so hard to reset the game over and over again to play again, not knowing that the permanency was the intended ending!
Opening it in an incognito tab always worked for me when I was trying to get every possible combination of choices. You could probably also just delete whatever cookies the site had saved, but I'm not sure if that actually worked or not since I never tried it. With flashpoint, the game files and runtime environment are all on your own computer, so in that case you can just delete the save if it's even a separate file or redownload the game which even for the crappy centurylink DSL that I'm stuck with, it only took around 30 seconds for substantially bigger flash games. for clarity my download speed was at best 2 megabytes / sec, although it should've been somewhere within 3 to 3.5 megabytes / sec. (33.018 megabits is the exact listed speed)
I remember when I first heard that school was closed for good when Covid first hit. One of my immediate thoughts was a flash back to this game, specifically when Molly asks John about her school. Why is school closed? Why can’t I go to school today? Back during Covid, at its height when everyone thought the world was ending, this is what I thought of. One Chance and another game called Presentable Liberty.
I remembered playing this game and I honestly still think about it. I got the ending where the protagonist lives and sits alone on the bench. All because I thought it would be okay to show the daughter the fate of the mother, idk. At that moment I thought that it was better to show her the truth rather than lying. Or some cringe thing like that. I tried resetting it to change the ending to try and save the child, but all I saw was the protagonist, alone, in the bench. Knowing that my decision couldn't be undone. Good game tbh. Would play again.
This is why I always found it silly when people end themselves before an impending doom, like, why the hell would you do that? I don’t get it. Especially if it is a quick death anyway.
@@callmezeldaonemoartime Seriously! There was almost nothing good that happened, given how the tribalism gets just about everyone in the grocery store. Even with the military rolling through in the end, the main character's got no one left any ways. You're right, such a depressing movie, indeed!
the 'no reseting the game' bit me in the ass because it froze on the wife dying and it wouldnt let me continue at all. i wasnt even able to get an ending cus of it
Thank you so much! My intention of this video was to take viewers on a journey through John Pilgrim's perspective and it looks like it worked! Glad you enjoyed watching the video!
This game was quite the fascinating experience, but not exactly the saddest I surfed the most obscure flash games back in the day, and found several that were as sad if not more so. Here's a list of emotional flash games you could try, reader: RPG shooter: Starwish (side-scroller with a small spaceship. Lovable characters, humorous tone(before X happens and the atmosphere gets much dourer), sad story, ending depends on your choices and which characters you got closest to. Quite a pearl) missed messages. (not a typo) A game about a girl with depression and you're her roommate and help her. Feels cringey but maybe some would find it sad and worth playing? Air pressure Kind of an airtight game. It's still about depression but much more implicitly than the previous one. Actually I'm not sure what it was about anymore; but it made you think a lot about... stuff. Train of Afterlife Translation is iffy(feels like a VN made by chinese authors, peculiarly enough), and layout makes story hard to understand but it's a pretty good experience. Has multiple endings, some more difficult to grasp but it's honestly an experience. Public version is a demo, you need the full version(which I can help provide, cuz I am a sort of custodian for good but forgotten flash games) (the maker has a few other VN-like emotional games that I never tried tho. X-note, Phantom Seeds, Area X and others) Vorago Inspired by Silent Hill and The Mist(2004), a biblical apocalypse-themed horror game and quite fun actually. Surprisingly good VA and animations, a fun 30-60 minutes play Looming Didn't really understand it cuz played it REALLY long ago, but it gives off a Yume Nikki vibe and there's quite likely more to it than meets the eye. Not really an emotional game, but a mystery/philosophical one, the kind you might play if you're in the mood for emotional games but got no emotional games I woke up next to you It's really weird, gives off an 'off' vibe and an aethereal feeling. Didn't play it through, but looks like it has a lot of potential He beat her Only heard about this game, and that it might be good, but can't find it The Grey Rainbow I think it was an emotional game but can't remember much. Similar to 'A book of Living Magic' that I'll make a passing reference to Personally I found Starwish to be the saddest, because you get attached to the characters much more than you would in a 10 minute game. But author, can you please pin this comment so others can see it and know to seek these good, almost forgotten diamonds?
missed messages, he beat her, and i woke up next to you are all by the same person. i’ve played them all through fully, he beat her is kind of hard, and i woke up next to you is a little unsettling, but i would recommend all three edit: he beat her is about a man being accused of domestic violence, and he has to prove he is innocent, and that his girlfriend was actually abusing him. the game is basically to find clues to prove to the jury that you’re innocent. i woke up next to you is,,, weird? idk it’s about a one night stand except it becomes more than a one night stand and like i think it becomes an unhealthy codependent relationship i don’t remember it was like 5 years ago i played it. ALSO by angela he (creator of these 3 games) is ‘you left me’ which is about loss and unhealthy coping mechanisms and grief, very sad u can find her stuff here - zephyo.itch.io edit 2: ok this comment sent me down a rabbit hole where i relived my angela he addiction so i just want to point out there’s this game that’s rlly similar to one chance in the sense that it’s a virus that’s gonna wipe out the whole earth and you need to come up with a cure for it and the game is called ‘grey plague’ but i never played it bc it’s decision heavy and im indecisive. also ‘there’s this girl’ is a cute short sapphic romance story OK IM SKRRY IM DONE
Ooh, those are definitely interesting games to explore! I can also recommend "The Visit," which has a mix of humorous and sad, mainly at the "You're a sad man" ending. The game is a funny way to show what consequences are like. There's also another game, "We become what we behold" which represents social media in general. Absurdity and Satire about the sad truth.
Many people have also pointed that out! Having only one opportunity to experience the game and resolve the problem is one of those feelings that you can't replicate!
this game was probably the first time i ever experienced true hopelessness. it was very effective. however, now that i have knowledge of scientific research, i am horrified by the utter lack of preliminary trials and tests before they unleashed it on the world. this is why clinical rials are important, y'all.
Crazy how they just let the gas out on the entire world without even checking, right?! Hopelessness is definitely the appropriate feeling for such negligence!
I remember as a young kid seeing a gameplay video of the game, it made me cry so much at first. But then it started to make me aware of how fragile life is.
In it's own ways it is also suprisingly sturdy. If anything, life and all life forms are shaped by versatility. I have seen and heard of so many people who should have been dead and lived long and fruitful. And the opposite, too. People who died from something that would seem unreal. You can't exactly mark it down. Many factors apply.
My friend, I appreciate that so much! For this video, I wanted this video to take the audience on a journey, and allow those who have played this game to take a stroll through memory lane, and at the same time, invite those who have not had the opportunity to play the game. I'm so happy that you enjoyed the video! Thanks, once again!
Remember that time when Markiplier played that game and he thought he got the bad ending but instead he actually got the best possible ending in the game?
That's right! Or some others will clear out their cookies, but I like your method better! You get to keep all of your cookies! (Who doesn't like cookies?!)
"Everyday the same dream" is another game in the same vein, and you can see the influence on this game immediately. I don't agree fully with its message, but it's still a work of art. If you want even more games like that, then the "Art Games" list on Newgrounds is basically a bunch of games like this minus a few joke entries. Don't Look Back is another favorite of mine.
Thanks for making a video about this master piece of a game. Coincidentally, i was thinking about it couple of days back. I used to saw videos of people playing it when i was a kid, It was one of the first games to make me tear up
Playing this game as an innocent little kid is quite impactful, given the simple words and narrative, and I definitely know what you mean when you say it made you tear up; who wouldn't feel _something_ while playing this masterpiece, right?
Somehow, I completely missed on this one. However, I did play a game based on the same idea of YOU ONLY HAVE ONE SHOT, which was instead a platformer… and not an easy one, so I lost quickly, lul. Dam, I wish I've played this back in the day. I know I would've reached the same ending. Even when I was absolutely depressed, I would be too stubborn and refusing the loss and pain to NOT attempt one final push.
I heard a lot about One Shot from other commenters here, too! Haven't played through it, yet, unfortunately. That's awesome to hear that you'd get the same ending I got! Similar to you, I said to myself, "Why quit when we're so far in?!" while playing through again! When I was younger, however, the attitude was the exact opposite!
the most eerie issue that most of you have not even though about is... if literally almost everyone and everything has died... then, who will continue humanity, allow it to spread? if the only survivors are the protagonist and his daughter, then.... well, i won't grace it with a description
Right?! But, given that the game focuses on England, you can bet on the possibility that someone somewhere, perhaps a hard-core prepper, definitely have that contingency planned for!
@@qliqoei sadly though the.. "anti-cure" seems to work via injection, it doesn't spread like the "cure" so unless he finds them before it's too late i don't think it will really matter-
I did not think of reproduction I thought of food. All plant life is dead, as well as all fauna, they could live off all the canned food in stores for the rest of their lives, but not any descendants. They would have there whole lives to think of and create an alternative. They could save what they can with the anti cure and hope there will be enough people, and fauna & flora for an ecosystem. But if not, then they could test tube baby's with minor genetic alterations to combat inbreeding and avoid insest. Alter human DNA to make new creatures to fill in the gaps, It's Humans All the Way down. Or Digitize their minds to make a new world in a computer. But ultimately there isn't enough time or man power to achieve these, they could die of old age before they achieved any of these. But then again Life finds a way. There is enough food for several generations that could win, and a hope that some other form of life could have survived this, it would have to evolve earth all over again, but it would not be the end.
I once found a unique ending, i dont remember how i got to it and obviously i couldnt reatart. It makes me wonder if uears ago i indeed found an ideal secret ending. I remember it involving you finding a cure earlier than usual but during a quicktime event i wasnt fast enough so died.
Can you imagine, you spend your last few days trying desperately to find some way to stop your imminent doom, only to have your closest person back home just abandon you? I'm not sure that I would even bother continuing after that!
Absolutely! If they redo some of the details, such as why the gas is released so quickly without further testing, it would be such a good movie; imagine the tension!
8:16 One shot: Undertale Pacifist(can be played twice only if you do something with files): Yet it's still unique, since these are all the games i can even think of having this abikity
This game is genius, not only because of the concept of you only having one chance, but also due to how well it uses the concept of a game where you can only play once
It's so weird how this game, despite being over a decade old, still stands out so vividly in many people's memory! Glad this video showed up when it did!
I was thinking about this game the other day! I forgot about it except for little bits here and there. I’m happy I found it again, I really liked it when I first watched a playthrough a few years ago.
@@qliqoei Yup while at the time it was like the saddest game Markiplier had ever played so he did get very emotional during that video! I also believe that video was uploaded not long after his first FNAF videos in 2014! :)
I have remembered this game for YEARS but never known it’s name. It always stuck with me because it was so dark and in a way mortifying but also so simple at the same time.
I just remembered that I felt a responsablity to fix the problem, even when things were falling apart I was determined to fix the problem I had caused and in the end it worked. I might not have been able to salvage what I once had with Johns wife but at least other people and Molly would have a future.
It's almost, in a way, John's redemption arc! Despite killing virtually the entire world, he still manages to revert his mistake and save what little was left to set the stage for a comeback one day.
Don't you feel old now?! When I was replaying the game, I thought that it held up pretty well for today's standards. Looks great, music's great, and plays really good.
@@qliqoei yeah still a testament to a game that holds up and something I’d pay good money for opposed to 90 percent of the crap that’s churned out these days
Oh yeah! Happy to help you remember this game! You won't believe how many other people had a similar experience where they suddenly thought of this game, but then this video popped up! It's so crazy! Thanks for stopping by!
I was just thinking about this game last week. I was planning on trying to find it but I didn’t yet. Low and behold this video popped up in my recommended and from the thumbnail I immediately knew it was it. Despite being such a small game and and being pixel art it was still immediately recognizable
i remember playing this on the family computer when I was 10-ish and panicking that I had broken the game when the dad died and the game wouldn't reset or anything - I reset the computer and all. I didn't know until now that it happened to everyone!!
@@qliqoei my personal pick would be : this game only has one level , its just so unique and its still pretty fun and " give up " an extremely hard game which insensitives you to quit and if you close the game or just give up a message pops on saying : that's completely fine , you still have a life to live .
I remember Markiplier playing this many years ago, and this one plus Presentable Liberty and the other one in that duology have really stuck out to me, despite me remembering much of the games themselves, I remember the impact they had on mark.
