The Truth About Lethal Company (Theory) 

I am made aware that life support still applies to oxygen as well. I apologize for overlooking that detail. With that said, I still don't think the life support in game is just oxygen. When you go into water, you still drown. You may argue it's due to the pressure, however that's not the case since the player's body floats back up to the surface. Anything that is crushed with enough pressure, will remain underwater. Plus, the shallow bodies of water would have to be really dense for that to happen at all. I admit, there a still a few flaws, like how Sigurd is hired at the same time as the others, and Richard doesn't return (at least not to rejoin the crew). One potential explanation is that Richard's body was recycled so much that it was beyond repair, and finally destroyed/consumed. That would explain why Richard smelled far worse than the others. When Sigurd claimed to see Richard on a hill, perhaps it was a mirage of some sort. Of course, that may seem like a stretch, but the theory is still fun right? More content is coming, but I'll release stuff early on my patreon patreon.com/braycynical

The first red flag is that you weigh less than a jar of pickles...

In corporate speech, humans are usually seen as resources, not assets. I know English makes it a little bit nebulous and calling someone an asset to the company isn't too weird when you hear it the first time. And then you focus on how the remix kinda slaps. But then after a bunch of restarts, where you got dumped into space, and there's no "retry" "load" or anything like that, you're just right back where you started....It feels more an more like you're a literal asset, something acquired by the company.

bro imagine taking off your suit while working for the company and its just a dead body underneath

6:08 I think he says he is pale because Vow is where Richard died

I've still gotten penalty charges even when we did recover the bodies. So not only is there a tax for reviving your dead coworker or the whole crew, they also charge you for shipping and handling. Also had the Idea that the Employees could be clones too, and that the hazy memories they have are just the memories of the original, barely being there, from how many times they've respawned. Like a "genetic memory" or something. I remember reading an article years ago about how some people who got organ transplants started developing habits they didn't have before the operation, but were those of the donor. And to paraphrase one of the republic commando novels: "Whatever we inherited from Jango, a like of dark tunnels wasn't one of them." anyone else have "Clones" by Ash in their heads now.

Very interesting. Since I started this game I've always subscribed to the theory that Employees aren't human, especially considering that they knowingly answer to some kind of cosmic horror entity and somehow they're completely OK with that. Perhaps they *were* human at one point, but regardless, they're now The Company's disposable worker golems. When we die out in the field (or get spaced for failing to meet quota), we either gain control of a new golem, or we're resurrected to try again.

well now i feel bad for constantly dying after yelling as loud as i can 💀

i think we play as sigurd, and we lost our memory, bit by bit until we became someone else entirely. Us.

Life support would also go offline if the o2 was disconnected. Since oxygen is life support

I think my favorite player theory is that we are clones.. But now I'm imagining that you break into the company below to save someone only to see some horrible human factory like Quake or The Resistance.. Thatd be insane..

i was playing lethal company once, i went exploring in the company buildjng then i saw a battery that had "DON'T TELL", lore company.

Lethal company reminds me ALOT of this book i've been reading (the murderbot diaries) about a safety robot which is partly made from organic materials and is taken to different moons and planets to mostly provide safety for the crew. and it reminds me so much of lethal company that i feel it can be influenced by it. so many of the things are same or similar.

When Richard died they got a new guy with your theory would you he be Richard and wouldn’t the crew notice if it was him if Richard doesn’t remember him being there before or dead the crew would notice that it’s just him all over again

Bro the quality on this video is so good it deserves more views

I think their memories are real, but that they are being reanimated. However you didn't mention much about the memory lose, how the longer they stay there the less they remembered. Given that there is evidence that the company has been doing this for hundreds of years, I think it's likely that the the old crew never died, at least not permanently, and that the players are these characters who forgot themselves as the died and were reborn in a cycle for centuries.

Not to mention, the company was theorized to have made the creatures within the facility if I'm not mistaken, its certainly not out of the question for them to create their employees too. Cool video! really made me think about the little details in this game more :D

so there's fully automated life support to make crewmates undead bodies to function properly? thats wild

This one was terrifying to me man! wow . . .

I feel like the characters in Lethal Company are mass-produced robots, built for the job they've been assigned to do. It's why you can just *scan* the environment without your character needing to press a button on their visor or how Dead players can vote for the ship's autopilot despite seemingly being dead. In my eyes: The health and Stamina is due to how weak the machines are, they're mass produced and use very simple components to get jobs done, controlled by us, the player, via some kind of link that allows us to go on dangerous escapades near infinitely without needing food or water. The life support is basic mechanical parts to keep the machine running, however the machine becomes completely unusable when the life support system is down, and bringing the corpse of fallen players just means they get fully repaired by the other players during the downtime between moons. They'd need to run on some sort of battery that allows them to sustain themselves for so long, and I think that battery is the two tanks on their back, housing some kind of gas or potentially a lot of electric energy so that these company droids can function for days, possibly even weeks without needing a proper recharge, and due to their simplistic design mixed with a human using it, it allows them to be sent on these dangerous missions to collect scrap daily without any need for a break.

I mean life support in most space games usually refers to oxygen. Neat idea though

I'd assume their memories are real and the memory loss is from the brain-damaging scanner, or being revived so many times.

Also small detail to miss fast is that u always have a cracked window in your helmet on your vision

Kind of a stretch, but considering this, one thing I'd also maybe think about would be the hand color on the interaction icons. It always seemed a little strange to me since it's not black+white, there's a little color to it, but the sleeve isn't orange at all like your suit, which made me wonder if the hand was supposed to the color of the suit glove (which it's slightly different than), or skin color. But if it was skin color, it always seemed a little grayer than a typical darker human skintone. That might be different if it's a little hint that your hand is actually necrotic, though.

I like the idea and it explained somethings but personally I like the idea that your random humans working for for a mysterious company and the revive mechanic is so you can play the game not to do with lore

I have a feeling this is a direct sequel (prequel?) to the upturned. At the end of the upturned a silhouette of a man riding a horse appears and that's the end of the game (not a real ending). In the beginning cutscene of lethal company after all the things happen behind you shows up a silhouette of a man.

Holy moly! 38 views? This is not what I was expecting after watching the video. Great stuff, good points. This theory makes a lot of sense.

"Scream for about 10 min" yep thats true

so u probably won't even read this or cover this but my theory is like yours but basically they are humans but they are all the same because (in the vanilla game) you have four employees just like Richard, Jess, Sigurd and Desmond and they have something on each of their organs like a chip or something so when it is safe they are revived so basically you are playing as former employees👍

I was thinking about the fact that the company wants you to collect bodides as well. However, i assumed the ship had some method of reviving players. If a body was not collected, the employee had to be replaced, which was a "cost" to the company. And i thought about the respawn animation as well. Always as if the person just woke up.

the new eater egg intro is another Proof for this

criminally underviewed

very cool theory but there is one thing i think debunks it look up 1000 quota stare that dont look dead lol

ok but what if were just an iterration of sigurd and his crew like they have been ressurected so many times that they are now just unremembering barely working zombies

My buddy has a similar theory He theorized that employees are just ghosts that inflate the company-issued suits The suits still have value though; that's why retrieving them or selling your friends' dead bodies at Jeb's door still gives some value Idk where the blood would come from, though My theory was that employees are robots with programmed memories; that's why the game opening sequence shows a computer boot-up screen

I cannot look at lethal company the same anymore

bruh they respawn in the game like that so it isnt boring af, in the lore they just get replaced by new crews, and they smell because they ACTUALLY SMELL. i doubt they ever got the shower decor from the store so yeah, they probably do smell. the hands when respawning is probably.. well idk, maybe the respawn theory is true but we definetly arent aliens or smth. and the bodys cost 5 buckaroons because of the suit

reanimated beings with false memory created by chuthululu from its first victims

If U game theory it helps U learn more about the lore of lethal company

Every entity in the game: "we're killing our own?!"

now i havent watched the video yet but i want to point out that when you spawn its pretty suspicious thay u spawn right next to a vent like the monsters

I have a minor flaw that can be explained potentially while i might be late to the theory though when you are chased by something and get out of the situation you can hear your heart beating fast but idk :V

Then why richard wasn't back after getting killed if he respawns ? Oh wait it's surely because they didn't recover his body

oh crap its emesis blue again

So what I get from this is Another day another quota

Not trying to ruin this but I really don't think you get "revived" instead it's new people, seeing people die a lot the turn-over rate is really really high. And the life support? It's your tank for oxygen.

If they undead how their body disappear when killed by a Hydrogere?

but spacesuits have life support systems

Are we just going to ignore i can just scan around you i doubt thats the suit doin that

Compared to other cheap videos I have been watching, this one is kind of underrated.

3:57 he said it

Very cool theory 😎👍

This is kind of funny that the title calls this the truth but then it calls it a fucking theory

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Help!!! Help me got me dying🤣

I play as todo from Jjk with mods so none of this applies to me

How come some employees last longer than others, I believe in the logs Sigurd signed up at the same time as everyone else so how come (I think) george (Is his name) outlasted sigurd to write the final log

WTF Might as well call the bad quality animations 'robotic movement' therefore you are dead at this point

But thats just a theroy a game theory

tuff

Or or ... they are furries! ... BUT HEY!!! ITS JUST A THEORY!!!!

nah

Moons not planets

Good quality video but its annoying when people tryin to make 1000 theories about some indie games that doesnt even have story.

Why I'm inclined to believe the player characters aren't human: I'm a furry and I always assume everyone wearing a face concealing mask is actually a furry of some kind underneath 😅

So you're telling me. I'm basically a space faring pirate zombie

This is definetely a crackpot theory AND I LOVE IT. KEEP IT UP, MAN

My theory is that you are clones of the original Sigurd crew, just a lot dumber and a ton of memory lost. I also theorize that it took over 500 years (hence the current year in game) for the functional clone to explore moons and collect junk for Jeff.

6:59 this part had me cracking up for some reason

Ima be honest man you way overthought a lotta this

Obviously Desmond wasn’t human, he was a bear. On a moon… one could say he was…. A moon bear

Woa, super eerie. This is easily the best game I’ve played in two decades.

You're definitely a balloon android with chemical batteries like Baymax in Big Hero 6. Employees sold for 5 bucks means you are also made out of scrap. The Loot Bug considers your corpse a loot. Employees weigh less than a jar of pickles so you definitely mostly made out of air. "Sigurd" can't remember what happened between his departure and first day job, so it's most likely he got that SOMA brain scan treatment. Your first login shows "Systems Online" meaning it was offline before and you should not have that message if you're just a human needing constant life support. Your orange suit is labeled in game as "Decoy Suit" so you are treated less than human. The Company can revive you at will and puts a tax for unrecovered Decoy Suits unlike how human died. None of us can last an entire season of work with the Company, which wouldn't make sense how this is sustainable business with 100% work turnover rate. The Forest Keeper can choke and vomit nauseating gas when consuming an employee, which might be in some parts, means the employee is made out of weird chemical concoction. The Mask's method of possessing employees is by overriding the system and vomits chemicals on the employee. Despite Apparatus radiation warnings and Coil Heads exposure, employees seems to withstand it pretty well. Lastly, the company was started as Halden Electronics 500 years ago, so it makes sense that they eventually able to create advanced robotics.

Have you seen the film Moon starring Sam Rockwell? I won't spoil the midpoint twist but I always thought the "Company Crew" were probably in a similar situation as the main character in that movie.

I like the theory, but I'm not too sure about it being true

I think we all know the company was brainwashing the employees, but this is a whole other level, also the "you're in good hands" poster could be saying something like "don't worry, death is not the end for you, yet" or maybe I'm just delusional

update 60s opening "kind of" disproves this theory unless we are playing by SOMA rules

that sound's like a good theory. But the story can't end vell cus i think you and you're crew vill destroy the thing in the company building beacus there us a GIANT drill under the landing pot, And i don't thin its there for no reason, and if the life support is powered by the company if you kill the you would die. I mean at least the whole univese is saved. Another think this dose not conecct to the previous things i said. But isn't it weard that you collect useless garbage. Why dose a company that big needs it anyways. Like is it eateing the garbege to get bigger and consume the whole moon gordion?

Dude “they smell like rotten tuna” that doesn’t sound like an undead creature that just sounds like a horrible work environment I mean you try defying death for weeks without a chance to bathe! I can understand the whole “spitting out the rinds” thing though and that is cause for the lore alarms

“Hey who turned out the lights?!”

I think they could also stink because they have no showers lol but if this whole thing is really the case then the current crew would be sigurds crew

what is the player is an android like from neir? they believe they are human but in reality, you are an android

this needs a revamp because it’s now V56

The truth (theory)

Well there are no showers in Lethal company so that explains the smell

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Daamm good theory

2:19 😭😭😭

Decent theory

Life Support is Oxygen. (Fire Fighter here) The SCBA [Self Contained Breathing Apparatus] is considered a ‘Life Support system’ as it allows us to work in untenable environments.