Honestly, one of the scariest parts about this is their bedroom layout. I'd never want a bedroom where I couldn't see everything from my bed. The fact that his bed is around a corner where you can't see the rest of the room is terrifying, and I don't know how anyone could feel safe in a room like that.
Worse is when I've seen layouts where no side of the bed is directly against any wall; it's just "floating," somewhere in the center of the room. I refuse to believe anyone who does that is human. They're a skinwalker or something.
A piece of geniune advice, if you feel someone might legimately be in your house, don't investigate, get out or get to your family. Lock yourself in a room with a weapon if you can't leave. Don't wander and absolutely call the police
This is the main reason why I’m so happy I have a 1 story house.. because there’s really no where to hide and it’s all in safe distance.. while this game has alot of places for the intruder to hide since while your on one floor.. the intruders somewhere else completely!
I mean he got jump scared so badly he wanted to relax the rest of the day and if you where in his shoes you would probably wanna do the same seeing how seàn literally went into the fetal position
@@someney that is true, but if you don't at least know vaguely where the intruder is (second floor, first floor, basement etc,) then you must assume they could be anywhere. Definitely grab a weapon before heading out.
Yeah, at least use the backdoor and not literally the only place where you have a picture of somebody lurking... Also does that mean that the game continues if you listen to the mom?
This gave me the exact feeling I felt when I thought an intruder was in my home. My family had gone to help my nan with a hospital appointment, I was excited to have the house to myself after school. However, as the evening went on, I kept hearing furniture being moved upstairs, footsteps creaking the floorboards and hushed whispers about the layout of the house. I was shitting myself. I spent the evening with a ladel in my hand and a knife in my belt. My eyes and ears started to play tricks on me, seeing things in doorways etc. Never been so happy for my family to come home lmao. Turns out, the neighbours had moved in a day early and we have thin walls. They were moving their furniture around and talking about where to put things. The rest of the sounds and sights were just my brain playing tricks on me. Felt like an idiot haha.
My one was knowing my mum and dad were upstairs and hearing the folding door creep open at 2am downstairs I got so fucking terrified the next morning my mum asked me why she found me asleep under the bed concealed by two large boxes with a knife and a hockey stick whilst under the covers was 3 pillows as well as the door being barred with three chairs a Yamaha keyboard and a chest of drawers Turns out it was my brother who had decided that 2am was a great time to go outside and smoke a ciggie Fuck you louis you scarred me for life
Mom: sends him a picture of a stranger at the front door, tells him to lock the door Jack: Opening the same door the man is standing in front of in the picture
The fact they are real storys immediately makes them more scary, because it immediately makes you feel like this could happen to you. You feel like your in the shoes of the character you play as.
Honestly whenever I see "this actually happened" in these kinds of game I get really skeptical, but it"# not as if this happening is super unrealistic.
I've always said this. Realistic and sometimes real horror stories and games will always be more terrifying than the supernatural types. It feels much more grounded and plausible that it makes you stop and think "Could this happen to me?" This then leads to more paranoia as you put yourself in the characters' shoes and realize that this *could* happen to you. It makes things much more personal which continues to up the horror.
@@sakana12500 I think they mean that this is horror game is not some cheap jumpscares that get you off guard and last or a moment and then it is over, but more of terror where you are terrified the entire experience as it goes on you feel more and more afraid not from anticipation of a jumpscare but fear from the unknown.
Imagine how horrible you would feel as Mason, declining to come over to your friend’s house and then learning that he was home alone when an attacker broke in 💔
8:52 at the exact moment Jack opened the door my phone reminder to take my meds went off and vibrated which made a really loud noise and scared the absolute piss out of me. The best part is I just recently learned how to change the default message and as a goof I put “don’t be afraid” but let me tell you I very much was.
You, a person who obviously likes watching horror stuff, put "don't be afraid" as your message reminder for pills? I don't know if that genius or masochistic
The dread this builds is better than any jump scare. Then adding the one is what made this work really due to us just anticipating the inevitable. I need to give this game a closer look
So crazy that Jack went from now knowing anything about the series, saying that Evelyn suggested it, to voicing one of the characters in the fourth fears to fathom
I had my volume turned up all the way and Jack scared the fuck out tof me in the intro, more than the video. I think I instantly gained heart problems from that
I knew that jumpscare was there but it seemed like he couldn't walk outside so I didn't expect it that abruptly. I jumped so hard and my heart skipped a beat.
Spoiler for the game: It's funny cause Jack doesn't know that there are three endings to that one part, one for you opening the door, one for him being in the parent's bedroom and you hiding until the cops come.
I'm always so impressed at how he notices people and things moving in the background. I'm oblivious as all hell. 9/10 times I'm sitting here thinking everything's fine until he reacts to something and I have to go back and see what it was lol
As someone who is watching this while they are home alone, while it is dark out with dogs constantly barking at something I can’t see this was highly entertaining
Is there an ending linked to going out the back door? 😂 I probably would’ve legged it out the back door or front door and across the street the moment I saw those footsteps going upstairs.
He just needs to calm down. I don't blame him for needing a break after that, especially since he's still recovering from the Rona on top of allergies.
Most of these horror games don't get a scare out of me, but that genuinely gave me a deep feeling of anxiety. The last jump scare there was absolutely terrifying.
It's probably because games like Fnaf 99.99% of the time won't happen. But this happens a lot and you know if could happen to you, I knew there was gonna be a jumpscare the moment he opening the door but I screamed like a bitch when it happened
this game makes me glad my house doesn’t have attic entrances through the closet ceilings. i’ve heard too many stories about people squatting in attics. at least i know if they come down it’s from a single entrance that does NOT lead to my bedroom! edit: also very glad i have a big dog and two brothers so i will never TRULY be alone at night 💀
@@Godviahh This wasnt even the end lol ive played the game it still had a good 5 mins jack just died here and wasnt suppose to open the door cause if look out the blinds closest to the door u see the person and its a mild jumpscare and ur suppose to go hide under the bed no leave and get urself killed lol so theres a another one or two jumpscares
@@narstietokez3713 Obviously, I would too, but being there *with them*, and not knowing if they’re going to hurt you or not, or if they know you’re there
For me it’s worse knowing the likely hood of being robbed as I have been whilst out with family so then there’s the constant fear of if they’ll come back. Absolutely horrifying
ikr? Like, if im away, cool. break in, take what you need, I'm just glad no one's got hurt. If I or someone else is in the home, too, that adds a new level of scary. Like, you're completely at ease in a comforting environment. you're at your most vulnerable, and some stranger violates that safe space and puts you in danger.
"Stories are true base on the person who survived." The first episode wasn't finished sean meaning you have to find a way to know the rest of the story
@@BloodMoonCosplays He wasn't supposed to open the door. He was supposed to do what the mom told him which was lock the doors and go upstairs and hide. I can't remember exactly how it ends but that *is* what you're supposed to do to finish the story.
you know how much of a good person Sean is just by the fact he says sorry for allergies when realistically he has done so many videos and brightened so many days that he could stop uploading if he just felt slightly off. Thank you.
Alternate story: you are sitting on the couch, eating burnt lasagna. You glance at the stairs, then freeze as you see a pair of footsteps step up them, one at a time. You think it's your friends pranking you, or maybe a hallucination from lack of sleep, so you go to investigate. You find nothing, so you try to go to sleep. You end up staring at the ceiling, willing yourself to close your eyes, but you can't shake the feeling that somethings wrong. That's when you see it. A shadowy figure standing at the foot of your bed, staring directly at you. You are gripped with fear and can't move. The figure crouches down next to your head and that's when you hear: "I've been trying to reach you about your cars extended warrenty."
This made me sweat so badly from just watching because it somehow unlocked a memory of mine. My parents house was set up to where a mirror was on the landing for our stairwell. So if you were at the top of the stairs you could see the kitchen and if you were at the bottom you could see the upstairs bathroom. My mom had a nightlight in the kitchen for us that was always on. One night I came out of the bathroom and I looked in the mirror and could see a figure at the bottom of the stairs and I just assumed it was my dad and went back to bed. A few nights later I was waiting in line for the bathroom and my brother came out and we both saw the figure in the mirror then my dad snored loudly from his bedroom so we ran into my brother's room and the door knob started to jiggle. Nothing was ever missing and no doors were broken and our alarm never went off. To this day we have no idea if it was something paranormal or what.
I LOVE A GOOD SCARE. I'm currently playing through the Five Night's at Freddy's games. After not playing them for so many years they are literally making me scream for reals
The closest I've come to a situation like this was back when I lived in a not-so-good apartment community. Someone knocked on the door while I was home alone and one of my dogs went crazy barking, so I got up to check and no one was there. A few days later I found out a handful of apartments were robbed. The robber would knock and if no one answered they assumed no one was home and broke in. If my dog hadn't gone nuts I probably would have ignored the knock and went back to sleep (as a young petite woman there was no way I would have answered alone). What would have happened if she hadn't barked and I hadn't answered and he broke in and found me sleeping? To this day I credit her with possibly saving my life. RIP sweet Noel.
the anxiety this video and game gives me is insane like holy shit like i had to pause the video so much just so i could cool down and then unpause it god this still gives me chills
I grew up in a house with three large sliding glass doors on the rear of the house. Once I was babysitting my little siblings and had put them to bed upstairs. I locked the sliding doors and drew the vertical blinds. I stayed downstairs watching tv with a sliding door to my right and the other sliding doors along the wall behind me. This was before smartphones and everyone having a flashlight in their pocket. I say that because suddenly a flashlight beam swept through the sliding door where the blinds were broken (by us kids). I was terrified out of my mind. I sat still listening for any movement or voices but hearing nothing. I turned my head and watched as the flashlight beam moved toward the neighbors yard. I crept closer to peek between the blinds. An adult man carrying a flashlight was moving through my backyard, moving in a strange pattern around the bushes and perimeter of the house. He walked off around the side of my house and toward the street out front. About 5 minutes later my parents came home to me terrified. Turns out the man and his wife were looking for a lost family dog.
My grandparents for YEARS, put those large yardsticks used for mixing paint in the little channels for sliding doors. Even if somehow someone unlocked the door or if we forgot, the stick would prevent someone from entering or at the very least, give you extra time to get away.
@@BagelBites246 I currently have a sliding door in my house, and we do that too. My father would cut wood according to the measurements and then placed it there so if someone tried to break in, they couldn't
Dude. You had 100% reason to be scared. He could have been a thief, or worse..... hell, if I was you I would have called the police on the guy. He had a flashlight, in someone else’s yard, shining lights in other people’s houses. He wasn’t saying anything(?) so who’s to say he wasn’t scoping the place..
I love how jack interacts with us like when we got jump scared he talked to us about his fears and asked if we got scared too AND I WAS TERRIBLY TERRIFIED
That’s probably why Jack didn’t think there were any other endings though, like there was just one linear path in the code to the “right” ending. He did want to just wait under the bed but, you wouldn’t know how long you’d have to wait to see if that’s a viable option in the game.
We must change that, imagine you sit in corner thinking if i dont move i wont trigger that thing so im cool, then you see eyes from the darkness watching you, waiting - next moment that thing rush you and disapears, complete silence. So after 10 - 20 s you are feeling like - ok now i can move and than jumpscare with loud scream and lights go out completley but you dont lose you must get out..
My cousin just told me a terrifying story from when she was a kid. She used to wake up a lot in the middle of the night, and she got in the habit of going down to the living room to watch tv. She told me that one time, in the dead of night, she was downstairs watching tv when a man came into the living room. She said they looked at each other for a minute and then he just turned around and left. She said she always thought it was a ghost but like….that was 100% just an intruder who saw a kid and realized he should leave.
I don't watch much video game content, but I'm glad I watched this one. Your reaction at 15:34 had me laughing my ass off. But it got me too...I did not expect that at all
I’ve been a very paranoid and weary person my entire life and I’ve had this exact same feeling in my own home alone, seeing and hearing things,mistaking normal household ambience and shadows for figures and breathing,it was the purest primordial fear I have ever felt in my existence like a helpless sheep being stalked and preyed upon by a wolf
well as a paranoid person too cause of some trauma! your brain knows that it is alone, and with the “empty” feeling of being alone, your ears and eyes compensate for it which causes a feeling of dread and haunting or someone being there, and what you see is your brain trying to wrap itself around everything! hopefully this kinda helps? or u might just have some cool ghosts with you hehe
if you see the intruder at the front door, you can start locking all the doors as your mom advised, especially the back door and then hide. By doing so, it delays the intruder from trying to get in and Paula will be rushing towards the front door, enough to scare the intruder away. She'll be ringing the front door as usual and soon after, the cops arrive. It saves you the stress of dealing with him indoors.
The suspense built and built until that ending. And I was watching this with my mom sleeping in the next room, so I was trying not to make any scared sounds. So creepy!
I felt this before and actually saw feet walking down the stairs and fainted because I didn't take my meds- - until I woke up and saw both my parents and siblings calling the hospital - it was actually a stranger btw my whole fam was down here in the kitchen 😭😭😭😭
Dude, I took low level classes, and figuring this kid actually could yell at the intruder (which is an achievement) or open the door, despite your mom saying otherwise, tells me this kid was lower than that, lol. I completed my homework in like 1-2 hours, and this is secondary/high school so it ain't a matter of the amount of homework, it's how hard it is for that kid, lol. I hardly had homework, since it's a "finish your schoolwork at home" type of homework... or papers (which, again, class time was provided, since this is an era where kids my age didn't have a personal computer or the best access to computers in the library/school computer room. If you had loads of homework, congrats, you're the slow kid.
Not only the fear of being that child but also imagine the fear of the parents. Your child is home, you assumed their friends were there with them and then you get that image from your neighbors
Sean, that's not the end of the game... Eventually, he begins breaking windows, and you can hide under your bed. This is the recommended option; if you hide for 5 minutes, the police will arrive, I'm not spoiling what happens in between. If you keep walking around the house and look at him through the windows standing at the door, your mother begins texting you even more and you'll get the prompt to hide. If you leave the bed, something will happen.... Please play through again and this time, listen your mother bro!!!!
JACK, This isn't the real ending! If you're a 14 year old kid, logic and reasoning of running to the other house isn't going to hit you. You're gonna listen to your mom who is telling you to hide under your bed! We as your community would love to see the complete ending, the happy ending where this boy survives.
@@bladeofSteele but you can see the intruder going up the stairs (as the player, maybe not the kid..) jack 100% thought the person was with him already, and then going to a neighbour asking for help is the best course of action
@nigmode445 this story was very poorly written. phrases thrown all over the place, the pacing doesnt even make sense, and quotation marks are everywhere. whoever wrote this story needs to go back to school and get a propoer education. 0/10.
Having someone attempt to break into your house while your parents are gone stirs the worst feelings of dread imaginable, and this game perfectly replicates that.
@@JeloOW Yeah, same here. I wasn't alone, (and probably sleep deprived) but I thought I could hear people in my house go through the door and walk around the hallways.
This really is a situation in which "ignorance is bliss" get a whole new meaning, cause you can't be scared of something you don't know exists, like jack said at some point in this video "i would be way less scared if i hadn't seen him walk up the stairs"
This is honestly one of the scariest games ever. The quality and background noise and how dark it is really makes it feel so real. Something Jack didn’t know is after you get the message from the mother saying to lock the doors, if he went over to the window next to the front door, he could peak outside and see the intruder at the door. Then when he hides under the bed, you can here a constant knock at the door and glass would break. It is honestly such a terrifying scene.
The fact that he was listening for footsteps is something I feel scared doing.I sometimes go downstairs and hear the dishwasher and listen for steps the entire time.
The thing that makes this game even better is that the player knows that there’s a person in the house but they can’t do anything about it, and the actual character doesn’t know so it causes so much more suspense because the character is doing normal things like getting a glass of water at night whilst the player is freaking out about running into the intruder. Such a great game! *edits under here, read if you wish* Edit: this literally blew up overnight, wtf 💀 EDIT EDIT: YALL STOP LIKING THIS I DIDNT EXPECT THIS TO BLOW UP, it’s just me badly explaining dramatic irony 😔
Seriously. Especially considering this happened to a real person apparently so it's more unnerving to know that they is what they actually went through.
I don’t get scared easily at all, especially from horror games, but my god this hit that extremely real fear that is the reason why I just have weapons in my room and why I make sure my closet door just can’t be opened normally. I’m so glad I have three big loud mouth dogs that react to the slightest of sounds, and cats that will guard my door if they hear something downstairs.
Most of the horror games I've watched him play, I'll flinch at the jump scares. But this one woke up a primal fear in me and I literally jumped and gasped so loud I scared my cat! Terrifying
The best horror stories are those grounded in reality. The more realistic, the scarier it becomes. One of the best examples is Junji Ito's 'The Bully'.
I’m a general fan of any type of horror game but one of worst personal fears is anything home invasion related, just from childhood experience. Haven’t started the video yet but I recognized the thumbnail so I’m sure this will be a good one lol
i feel like the key to this genuinely being scary is that is so much more connected to the real world and isn’t made with some monster you know is fake. And i like how it’s programmed so when the player has lost all good and so much fear is built up that they try to leave this house is when they release the jump scare, perfect
I think another factor is the difficulty of the game. Like if you keep failing an objective over and over again and have to keep replaying it, it kinda loses it’s scariness
i've been watching many content creators play horror games for many years. i don't think one has ever freaked me out more than this one. i'm like jack in that i'm not afraid of ghosts or demons but i'm terrified of someone breaking into my home... the only two times i've had sleep paralysis, it was that a man had broken into my house and was in my room. not only do i rarely get freaked out by horror games but rarely does a jump scare get me more than a slight flinch - my anxiety and fear was so high throughout this game that even though i KNEW the jump scare was coming, it made tears spring to my eyes, full body flail, a huge gasp that almost turned into a pathetic wail of some kind. WOW. full body anxiety tingles even now, after the video has ended.
