This game is actually more realistic than you think. I used to work at a 24/7 laundry mat and I'm noticing a lot of similarities - Pizza place and hardware/appliance store next door - Weird customers that probably aren't allowed near schools/kids - Secret areas behind the walls - Random moments of pitch black where I zone out and forget what's going on - Attendant that didn't get paid enough to deal with that crap Brings back a lot of memories
@@arissumin1420 As someone who explored laundromats of many kinds as a kid, I can confirm that a few of them had some suspicious looking walls and detergent dispensers.
I painted a whole laundromat owned by a very sus couple. But yea there are rooms you never expect, but laundry places, like any building has rooms haha
Why is every cop in these retro horror games always alone? It's like, "Yeah, we just got a call in the middle of the night from a clearly panicked woman in a part of town where the super serial killer that targets pregnant women is roaming around. Johnson, you go alone, because what could possibly go wrong?"
@@this_is_patrick You're telling me! These no good, two bit, Gen Z, Serial Killers, they just ain't sticking to their shtick! Lemme tell ya, kids these days, no respect!
Look at the earbuds he’s wearing, I’d be surprised if he could even hear anything, let alone get scared. Also it’s only in one ear.. it’s a cop out. He wears em like that for every horror game.
This game may be about laundry. But it has something scarier than any other serial killer video game: Someone trying to sit beside you on an empty bus!
I think the funniest thing about the premise is that the protag takes the last bus to the laundromat, so she has no way back that doesn't involve walking all the way home from the ass end of town. She was going to go into that interview sleep deprived as hell, which is way worse than needing extra deodorant.
"At their best, you don't want horror games to look like something you bought off Steam. You want them to look like something you found on a CD in an abandoned warehouse." -Jacob, probably.
Honestly the only reason he doesn’t jump or even flinch is because he’s wearing those old cheap ear buds, and it looks like he’s only wearing it in one ear. Horror games depend on sound, if you choose a cheap earbud it’s easy to not be scared, because you can’t hear anything.
@@Mar-5016 or the fact you are the type that gets scared easily not all people get scared of the same thing you might get scared by what certain people think is scary and they might get scared of what you think is scary so cheap ear buds or not same thing applies
@@Mar-5016 not true I usually leave only one side of my headphones on one ear and still get scared when playing horror games. Perhaps maybe the reason he doesn't get scared is because...He just doesn't find the game scary???? Crazy and wacky I know
Just an FYI for everyone, this game isn't actually by Puppet Combo, it's by Jordan King (Black Eyed Priest) and Henry Hoare; the confusion is definitely understandable though :)
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It’s always these non-hyper realistic, ps2-Hagrid-energy style games that are the scariest. Hyper realism, and good graphics are great and all, but your game has to he scary to he a good horror game.
most hyper realism go with the most generic monster sometime like a girl with white clothes,black figure thingy and the hyper grapich kinda ruin the fun
Then you'll love puppet combos other games. The dude makes all his games in that retro ps1 style with old vhs filters. Despite them being newer games they feel nostalgic
Man, my trips to the laundry are never this eventful. All I have to deal with is the occasional portal opening up to a Lovecraftian dimension or some kid with spiky hair and leather pants trying to challenge me to a children's card game.
Lucky, i got to usually deal with these two adults with their cat talking about some kid beating them or something, or a fleshy pile of sentient mass asking for spare change.
Oh man, you two were truly blessed! Last Time I went to a LaundryMat, there was a tweaking Women having Meth or Heroin Withdrawel. She was screaming like a Pig beeing gutted and after half an Hour she was picked up by the Police
Fr! Like,dude had every damn right to pop him then and there. Plus since the guy already killed someone he has FULL authorization to use deadily force since it's VERY CLEAR THE GUY IS WILLING TO MURDER!
One thing I will say, it's clear Charlie has never had an apartment in the northeast. Those basement laundry systems are everywhere and look much worse than this
i wonder why they don't have a washing machine in their apartment? I would hate to use the same washing machine as my neighbours..not saying they're disgusting,but ...
@@Eisenwulf666 my man this concept is not that easy to grasp at once, but many ppl couldn't afford it and have nowhere to place the machine in the apartment, especially if we're talking about college students who had moved to another city.
@@Eisenwulf666 A lot of cheaper apartments just have a laundry room in a common area versus laundry machines in each unit. Like a laundromat but just for your building or complex. I prefer to have them in my apartment though. People will steal your stuff, throw it out, whatever in communal laundry rooms. And I can do laundry whenever I want in my own apartment instead of fitting it in while the laundry room is open.
lmfao forreal my mom would always make me do the laundry at the sketchiest times i would shit myself everytime and i would see homeless people shooting up all the time. bronx nyc btw
So she's been burned alive, shot in the chest four times, opened up and had her insides removed, and she's STILL alive? I know it's a horror game but bruh
props on her for getting that demonic strength, running around with 3 .38 specials in her chest like nothing happened, lifting a grown man off the ground with one arm, surviving beyond death after no less than 4 shots, i need to find out what is her diet and regimen
1:50 that’s clearly why his name changed to just “Jo”. They just assumed he was a Hobo because of the clothing he wore. This is clearly a very deep and powerful statement about society.
I find it very interesting that specifically horror indie/AA games are sticking to the 5th generational aesthetic. Yooka-Laylee and A Hat in Time are very obviously inspired by classic 5th generation 3D platformers, but they still use a stylized modern aesthetic. In the haunted PS1 demo disc collection there was a 5th generation platformer but that still revealed itself to be a horror game. I suppose it makes cultural sense to associate the 5th generation graphics with horror since that’s when the horror game genre first broke into the mainstream, and also the fact that the mid-to-late 90s were edgy as fuck, but it does seem strange that indie/AA developers that make either RPGs, Adventure games, or platformers tend to stick either to pixel art or modern graphics with little in-between
@@dacat2880 Personally, I feel like the best games that utilize this would be happy's humble burger barn, the connivence store, and even night of the consumers to an extent. I think this game is good, but the story seems far too extreme and unrealistic. If they had just spent more time on the story it would be up there with the games I mentioned.
I watch coreys gameplay of this before bed because it feels like a cozy game, I mean mostly the environments and random people to talk to. How empty it feels but you are on a bus, or at a shopping center with a few stores that are still open. I’m not sure what’s the right word for it, but it feels like a hazy, comfortable liminal world.
I really like the vintage Approach of this game. Maybe it’s just me but for horror games and especially horror movies I think old graphics/quality and sound make it a way more scary experience.
For real. They have a nostalgic feel to them too. The dude at puppet combo is a master at making these games. They all have that retro ps1 style with the vhs filters. It's so charming, yet so rough and gritty.
Lmao so it's proven, Charlie just buys new white shirts! How else would he forget about drying the clothes.. seems suspicious being this is the first time it's came up in a game 🤔 lol love the scary gameplays
Look at the earbuds he’s wearing, I’d be surprised if he could even hear anything, let alone get scared. Also it’s only in one ear.. it’s a cop out. He wears em like that for every horror game.
The game isn't from puppet combo, it's by a guy named black eyed priest or something like that. It's just published by puppet combo and meant to replicate their style
@@lilfacade Not really, it looks like and plays like literally every other horror indie game. I don't even think the graphics and terrible animations in this game were picked just for aesthetic purposes, but because that's all the developer really knew how to do. I think this game was developed in 3 days.
For some reason, the graphics used in this game manage to make it even more unsettling. The graphics and style of this game reminds me of another horror game that I played a while back, called "Afraid of Monsters."
@@kgkomrin that's what made the game so horrifying. such loud subtle sounds stun and confuses you. Like tigers for example. Before they ambush their pray they roar as loud as they can. Basically just stuns the prey for a second or two
Also it’s pretty easy to not get jump scared when you’re looking away from 99% of them. He does it so often at this point that I find it kind of hard to believe it’s just a coincidence.
13:34 He's looking right at it and doesn't care about the jump scare. He's not looking away from them, he just isn't affected by most of them. Once in a while they get him, though.
@@matiasdiaz8913 ehhh idk, ps1 and Nintendo games, even the ones that weren’t even considered horror freaked me the hell out just because of the graphics and the atmosphere it exuded. As a kid I couldn’t even play some parts nor would I dare play it at night just from the paranoid feeling I’d get when playing it. Mario 64 and Legend of Zelda was one of those games, mainly legend of Zelda 💀
Look at the earbuds he’s wearing, I’d be surprised if he could even hear anything, let alone get scared. Also it’s only in one ear.. it’s a cop out. He wears em like that for every horror game.
@@Mar-5016 it's also not exactly a scary horror game. It's only got some basic jump scares and ps1 graphics, there's nothing in there to scare somebody who's played basically any horror game
Why is this game have such amazing game design and voice acting and plot and story but terrible everything else, like this game is actually good in a way.
Puppet combo makes the best horror games I swear. While they may not be as intense as something like visage or outlast, the ps1 style graphics with the vhs filters on their games just makes them feel so damn creepy and gritty. I love it
I love how in every horror game, any NPC or main character in a cutscene become completely brain-dead, even police officers that are trained for situation like these. Also I like how the villain just has some excuse to be somewhat immortal, for example; they do some satanic ritual, or how they have some demon controlling them, just anything in the lines of hell basically. I'll be honest, I love horror games and horror movies! But I lose immersion quick when they do something completely stupid, so that is why I love Scary Movie 1 and 2 (for me one of the best movies out there tbh).
The scariest part for me is when the woman main character with a shitty alchoholic boyfriend went out in the middle of the night and got sat bext to by a clearly dangerous man while the also male bus driver already hated her. I'm just happy we made it off the bus.
It’s so funny how all these other RU-vidrs play puppet combo games or at least games published by puppet combo, if they weren’t developed by them and praise them saying they’re so scary and so cool and they love the retro style, and then there’s Charlie who just says they’re shity bad graphic bad jump scare games but then again he doesn’t get scared by anything except cockroaches
Something about 80/90's VHS aesthetic is unnerving. Also, this game made me think of Golden Light: The Meat Song. tbh, I think the devs of that game are on drugs.
