There's No Players Online In This Horror FPS Game who's playing with you? 

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I’d love one of these “I found an old haunted computer” games but it takes place in the future and the old crappy haunted computer is a modern computer.

so in the minefriend dating sims whenever you mark a mine it says something that makes it sad BECAUSE IT'S A RED FLAG! nice pun from the devs

I didn't realize there was a remake of this game. I remember playing the old version a few years ago.

I always felt like the game was missing a real resolution, despite its secrets, so I'm glad the dev chose to expand upon the original

So some guy made a realtime 3D shooter all the way in the 70s and had to wait like 20 years for it to become playable on PCs in 1993. That's the real horror of the game right?

During Minefriend + Summer Days, everytime you put down a Red flag for a bomb... your character spoke an actual dating Red Flag too.

You might think the ominous ambiance is there because of spirits haunting the OS. In reality, it represents the pure EVIL that is cheating in in Mine Friend. For shame.

I feel like the mine sweeper dating sim is just a bit too good to be just a small part of the game. That idea itself can already be a really good stand-alone game, and you get to date other characters from all the old-school Windows minigames.

"This song could kill a small Victorian child." is a great way to insult a song.

This game is back? Updated Completely? That’s freaking awesome! I really liked this game a lot in the OG, it felt like it really played on your paranoia while also giving you an actual, non-cheap reason to be paranoid.

41:57 Man that's truly horrifying. Getting prison for piracy.

11:42 Manly: Is that a Player? My dumbass: Yeah, its a "Music Player"

That sadface bluescreen is a very recent thing a REAL blue screen was solid blue with white writing on it.

Most unrealistic thing about this is that the game would be hosted locally and not on a server. It's only a modern thing that games have servers by the devs. Back in the day we use to host them ourselves either locally or on a server we rented/set up.

The OS and ambience is supposed to give you a chilly dark feeling, but really it gives me a warm feeling, like an old friend also i absolutely love The noclip to giant boss fight it's something I've thought would be amazing for years! The idea of noclipping always had an eerie feeling, but something actively hunting you outside of it, is terrifying!! nonetheless I can't believe it's back! No Players Online is one of my favorite horror games despite the original being so short but THIS makes up for it in so many ways

Manly, you are the best comfort horror RU-vidr ever. I’m currently super sick, and I tried to go to sleep early but I woke up in a mess. And lo and behold, you posted 3 minutes ago. Now I can suffer just a little bit less as I take a few pills, drink a bit of water, and watch the video till I can sleep again! Edit: thanks everyone who wished me well. I’m still feeling very much like I was hit with a truck. But perhaps just a bit better. One step at a time.

"Jason is just a big tsundere. Not like I wanna use your song baka." 😂😂😂 Manly's out here with the bbq giving roasts 🔥

I remember the original from years ago, this demo already surpasses it pretty easily. The original was good for what it was, but this has so much going for it. Just the concept of using two games into one gives this a ton of creative potential.

Oh, man...I grew up with MMORPGs in the 90s and there is always this unsettling feeling if you're grinding/passing through the less-player saturated areas...moreso if you play the offline version. This game captures that feeling perfectly. And being a child back then, I definitely googled some urban legends of that game, lmao. There is even a manga and anime franchise based on being literally trapped in a MMORPG game - .hack, if you're familiar. I still get this feeling nowadays, even in single player online games like Honkai Star Rail. If I play late at night or in the dead of the afternoon, I checked my friends list and no one's online...well, I always get the same feeling, even if the game's normally a single player one. It's funny that there's apparently horror games and possibly subgenres of horror games that explores and exploits this uncanniness. Thanks for the video, I really enjoyed it.

Strange that the developer picked 1973. We only got 256 colours in 87. From 84 to 87 we had EGA which was 16 colours. And before that from about 81 to 84 we had CGA which was max 4 colours at one time.

This game really flexes on the others in this genre, I honestly thought at first this was the typical "le spoopy ded online game:)" idea that I feel like is getting beaten to death, but it goes way beyond that and earns its spot. I can't wait to see the finished product. It reminds me that MOTHERED was really good at what this game is doing too, although not quite the same concept. If anyone reads this, be sure to check out his playthrough it's really cool.

Back in the day i used to roam around multiplayer maps in Half Life 1 and 2 on my own, and especially with 2 there was always this uncanny feeling. This setting reminds me of that.

Man people must of thought we were super high tech in 93, you were lucky if you had a color screen much less a gui operating system

Ah, this is a classic. The ending still gets to me. Just the thought of her, trapped in there, terrified, panicked, confused, and alone. Looking up at the graffiti her husband left, dawning on her that her soul was stuck there, maybe indefinitely.... it's hard not to feel horrible for her.

"I think if grab the flag, I win." **kicks flag** "I win..."

I just finished this today, haven't seen any content around it until now. Just have to say, this has potential to be an absolute horror classic.

Huh, another game getting a full release. Interesting!

It is interesting to see they push/set the game's time back to 93(?) instead of late 90s like we all assume for the original game

The mixing and matching of games is a great concept, I wonder if mixing and matching game assets would also produce different results and/or unlock some secrets when fused together.

this game would go crazy if the idea of a cpu or bot game wasn't as prevalent

The anti-piracy thing was hilarious, most creepy anti-piracy rumors in games are just myths tho, usually devs will just block playability all together on a game and call it a day if they detect its a pirated version.

I do wonder if the developer is going to do the whole ARG thing again with this like they did with the original No Players Online game, because there was a whole ARG aspect to it in order to see the "true" ending and such. Probably not, considering how little of that ARG exists now outside of the codes in order to progress through that ARG bit in the game itself.

Lmao, I literally ran across this game independently at the exact time this video got uploaded. Almost downloaded it, too! XD Edit: Okay, so this game has a functional side-scroller and a 10-11 minute "dating sim", that's crazy! This game has way too much depth to not get coverage, I'm glad you played it.

Is it just me who prefers the old ghost design from capture the flag game mode? That ghost was way more creepy looking

oh, whats this? Another bedtime story? Why, i’d be delighted.

I'm so glad that the dev made a full release of this game I saw a video when then "demo" came out and it was terrifying. Love your vids Manly. Keep up the awesome work and I hope you have an amazing day.

They lost me when a game from the 80s had ADS. Thats such an early 2010s trend.

I love this game, but the thing that takes me out of it is the same thing that takes me out of FNAF at times. In an attempt to make the tech "old and forgotten" they've set the game in a period where the technology simply wasn't able to suppport what they're trying to do. A random forum user wasn't making a fully 3D multiplayer FPS in 93. It just wasn't happening. It was a huge deal when Quake came out in 96 because of its fully 3D graphics, hell, the original Doom only came out in December of 93. And this doesn't go without saying that Windows style OS weren't a thing in 93, everything was still command line. The fully web 1.0 graphical websites weren't either. Setting the game in like 98 wouldn't negatively impact the story and would make way more sense.

Are we not gonna talk about Manly's godly Minesweeper skills?

"You forgot to program damage for your gun! I'm not saying you're a bad game designer, but you're a bad game designer." Well if he's using soul/evil magick to make a game, instead of doing the actual work in making a game, no shit they're a bad game designer! XDDD

Honestly I didn't even know there was a remake. Neat! I've always been curious about this game ever since seeing Nitrorad's video on the original lol

The ambiance of the machine, like the beepings... reminded me of a certain interactive story with regards to virtual people. 6:58 a kitty made that story that I could vaguely remember... It has fantastic UI and sound effects for a flash game.

Manly's impersonation of mom is really personal lmao

Btw Manly, in the diving mini game, I'm can't be certain without playing this myself, but un most games, typing -1 in the value placement for air supply should theoretically give you unlimited air

I remember watching this game on RU-vid years ago; kept searching for it ever since but just couldn't find it. Glad to find it here though, thanks Manly

“ you think I would go out with a thief like you?!?!” Genuinely extremely funny anti piracy methods I laughed for a whole 5 mins fr

I am so glad to see you play this demo! Been watching you for so many years Manly, when no one even knew your name and I'm a little emotional now to see how big you've gotten!

i remember when you first played this game, im so happy the developer decided to make a full version of it!

I remember seeing your first video years ago at this point. Insane that they kept going, but I'm glad they did!

I used to see that stylised operating system when I used to use Twitter... I Did not know it was for No Players Online

Alternate reality where the Internet existed in 1970

Wow, when you opened the file with the directions on how to crack the game, that brought me RIGHT back to my high school/college days of pirating games and using the cracks and key generators. Man, I haven't done that in decades, but that part of your video just dropped a nostalgia bomb on me lol 😂

The game combination stuff was actually super interesting. I always pondered how to do it, but this game pulled it off in an interesting way

The last section with the path/bridge reminds me a lot of one of those procedurally AI-generated music videos, where each frame is individually generated from the source. Makes me wonder if the games' "souls" function as AIs, using their original games as "sources" to try and generate features for the new one.

42:50 i think manly is thinking of a sonic fan made game called "sonic gather battle". the gamedev added a malicious DRM that detects if you tried to access the game's source code/sprites. usually that means stuff like 1. the malicious code will automatically close your browser if you google cheats for the game 2. if it detects any cheats/change in the game. the game plays a creepypasta level to try freaking you out. 3. as manly said that dev will personally screenshot people's desktop and put it in his website as a threat (likely means the game is also a goddam RAT virus) 4. if the DRM has been activated (ie. it detected cheats or you fiddling with the game's code). the game can no longer be ever played normally again in any computer you use because the game dev puts your IP address in blacklist that activates the DRM instantly. 5. he also uploaded people's IP addresses to his website too! 6. the game DRM can detect if you're using a virtual machine and will promptly instantly close the game if you try to play the game in a VM. 7. it will also forcefully close cheat engine if you open it up keep in mind the game is actually free so you may ask why even bother to do all this? well its literally because the author didn't want anyone to "steal" the sprite art of the game. the irony is also fucking hilarious because by all legal means, the sprites would fall under SEGA's property. not the dev's property. thankfully the game was taken down and the gamedev was later arrested by the authorities.

Love you Manly! Have a wonderful day!

Honestly I prefer the original, it was more scary and mysterious

I know the "real" reason is likely younger dev not quite realizing how recent a lot of modern web stuff is but it honestly kinda adds to how unsettling things are with how weirdly modern a bunch of things on this "1980's" computer are.

Bright side to my horrible sleep schedule is being right on time for a Manly video. Yay?

i remember wanting a real conclusion 2 the old version of this game, it was so cool and its been a huge part of why i love this style and genre so much, as under represented as it is. this is more than i could have imagined

This is a very exciting demo! The combining mechanic is fabulous, but the original games are entertaining too. And flavour like the knife fishing game dev's personality. The only thing breaking my immersion is the unrealistic dates. Sure, you were making a game engine in 1966...

I have a quick theory. Maybe something happened to the dev's wife while she was walking the dog, and he used the soul transfer program on her soul somehow? That'd explain the dog appearing and the fact that the dev seems to be in there, as has to be in her transfered memories.

The um...let's say "historical inaccuracies" really took me out of it. Maybe I'm just too old 😭

So… it became a weak Hypnospace Outlaw clone?

I remember playing a remake of this game on roblox. It was framed as just a normal capture the flag/first person shooter game. It was just me in the game I thought this game just wasn’t very popular. When I saw the black white entity peeping around the corner as I was walking through the maze like map i shat myself 💀

The most unrealistic thing about this is that the forum users weren't banned by a janny for double or even triple posting.

I prefer the original no players online which kept its horror and story, this updated version kinda stretch the story a bit too much and took away the horror, idk maybe thats just me

Thank you, manly. You make my day just a little scarier

Damn this is so nostalgic. I used to play a massive MMO called Uberstrike back on 2012 that dates back all the way to 2008. But then on 2014 devs decided to let the game die and on 2016 they finally killed all servers. Nowadays its crazy to think its just a memory. I managed to get working a heavily modified version (aparently some people loved it just as much as me that they went that far on reverse engineering) that allowed me to host my own server and play it again just for nostalgia with friends, but it wasnt the same. It will never be the same.

At 1:12:48 it says " is just a window" which makes sense, since you were looking through windows at the scenes in the previous part. Hope that helps manly or anyone else who had trouble figuring it out! It took me a few minutes myself, haha!

I dont think the dev has any idea when the internet was created or widely used, let alone game development of the 80s and 90s. Some believability goes a long way immersing you into a horror game or it just becomes comical. if its meant to be some alternate reality with a more advanced timeline then so be it but could have made that apparent at all in any way

I have never been so confused in my life lol. Still watched to support though😊 The art is really interesting too

This title reminded me of my perpetually offline steam account, last seen 3 years ago despite playing daily.

This is an interesting reimagining of the original concept, though I’m not sure that the addition of glaringly anachronistic tech, internet, and user interactions is necessarily a good idea. Like I’m all for alternate history stories, but when the game is supposed to be focused on nostalgic/analog horror that _revolves around_ found media, it’s hard to stay immersed when you see a 2000’s chatroom or a modern bluescreen on a 90’s computer that was somehow built in the 60’s

Ah, minesweeper. Ill always remember being tasked with coding minesweeper when we were learning about calling array functions. Minesweeper is deceptively really challenging to program! At least it was at the time, ill probably get a bunch of 12 yearolds telling me they did it just now on lunchbreak. I, however, was very pleased in finishing it. Im 32 now, so this was 16 years ago.

Theory: the two people with profiles on the computer are the same souls trapped in the game, the dating sim may also act as the story of how they met and it’s going to be our job to free them by the end of the full game

So this is what happens when game servers are taken permanently offline.

Being able to combine the souls of games could be interesting. I wonder how some real world games would turn out. Mario 64 and Silent Hill. Animal Crossing and Candy Crush. Halo and Flappy Bird. And just to be horrifyingly inappropriate, Pokémon and Honey Pop.

I usually dislike horror content, but I like watching Manly playing it.

thanks for making the cursor dance to the songs 🎶

Ah, I saw 8-Bitryan play this a few years ago, and I loved it! Glad to see it again.

The UWU definitely wasn’t a thing back then.

The combining the souls of games seems super interesting, i love how the end product looking like it was barely being held together which I'm assuming is because the gameplay is so different in each game. I hope you'll play the full release whenever that comes out

also, "the game is just a window, look within, find me there"

"I feel like some people missed the keygenerator era" Me: Wait, when did that era end? 😆

Alright, here's my new theory. The soul of the dev's wife is in the machine, and fuses with every game you "merge". She drowned while walking her dog one day and I would assume the dev somehow trapped her soul in the machine/transfer program and her memories are infecting every game. Minefriend + dating sim -> You learn that the yellow face works at the museum. Minefriend + fishing -> You go diving for a "dog" and you die at the end. Dating sim + fishing -> You have a relative, you go walking a dog, the dog makes a horrible drowning sound. Capture the flag megamix -> After reaching the final room, you learn that the wife is a painter, linking her back to the museum.

These developers are quite creative. If you look at the bottom of the screen when your in the create a game lobby is says "C 1973". This is interesting because in 1973 ARPANET was first established, which was test bed of the modern internet in the US government consisting of 45 computers linked together. Just a neat reference.

I loved the quick one they did, can't wait to watch this and see how they expanded on it❤️

You have no idea how happy it made me to see a keygen being used and it having music. Ah, what a time it was! And the music was -almost- always so good.

The mine+fish section reminds me of that godawful old TMNT game where you got zapped every time you got within breathing distance of a wall in the underwater bit. They'd need to add a timer for the authentic experience, though.

its always a good day when manly posts a new video. this game has me hooked, i gotta play it myself now ! the forums really took me back

Commenting before watching this OMG I've been secretly waiting for this game for so long (since one of Markipliers video if I recall) that when you told us it was an old thing from 4 years ago + the title I somehow knew which one you were talking about but FINALLY

First time watching a video from RU-vid on my TV and WOW the surround sound on my Sonos speakers is paired brilliantly with this videos render

I love a good retro callback, but how did all these people join that forum in the 70's when the internet wasn't invented until the 80's or public until '93 ?? What did people even do on ancient computers before the internet? Was it just a fancy typewriter with games and storage?

John's desktop music is dope as hell. Hope this game and the devs involved best of luck. Oh boy I am hyped for the full game!

Game devs are now young enough to mistakenly think 90s PCs had a built-in, always on VHS filter.

I feel like empty multiplayer maps are an underused horror medium. I spent ages as a kid walking around empty maps and some of them just became incredibly creepy and foreboding when there's no players.

Oh shit!it’s a full game I remember the whole outside mystery of it.

I love how every time you mark a mine, your dialogue is literally a red flag.