Why is this game SO HIGHLY RATED? 

Like LSD dream emulator?

@@gdaygerman29 no

YEP

omg i have experienced this WAY too many times

@@filtratedmars6711 yes

that does sum it up pretty well

it's surprisingly hard to be bad at something you're good at

Aye lookie here 29:20, totally not a familiar reference.

it's just garbage

@@enricawilcraft2769 if you genuinely think that, you weren't paying attention

The thing about harvesting organs was also correct.

Honestly, the flamethrower is so much better for cannibalizing your foes (and bystanders who get in the way). You don't even need to be a homunculus to enjoy it.

POWER IN MISERY TRAVERSING THE GRIDS OF DEATH

real

Bro, Murder Miners and Castle Miner Z were those games for me dude

How was it

@@deepw3bs i found your music by this random comment damn!

I LOVE MR FAT FURRY MAN

@@Kridstal 💀

He dose it wrong

You mean the CEO GRINDSET

??

Turn the mindset into a grindset

@@timothylloyd3780 exactly what im saying

LMAOOOOOOO

I'm sorry the ~what~

@@heyitsenso the GRAPPENDEX

@@heyitsenso lol by endgame you’re swinging around maps like fucking spider-man with a grappling hook appendix, pushing yourself forward at alarming speeds and triple jumping by blowing masses of snot out of holes in your back and feet, or just bypassing that entirely and reversing gravity on yourself at will to get out of bounds and kill your target through the floor using a radiation gun that would normally kill you if you weren’t on the secret difficulty level that’s only activated by switching to 640x480 resolution to access a specific room EDIT: this is just like Gorbino’s Quest. this is the Gorbino’s Quest of youtube comments

THE. WHAT!!

@@Counter-Chicken I’m sorry whaaaaaaaaaaat

Yeah kinda.

its like normal but 2 inches to the left

@@Makaponpon 2 light-years. It definitely looks like it's at least 2 light-years off.

and the feeling of drifting in and out of sleep after pulling an all nighter

I think that's called Malaise.

same, i think it's because i'm autistic this game is like overstimulation but good

play juice galaxy it has the same vibe

@@WHOTHE_ played it already similar, but cruelty squad is definitely more disturbing/gross and violent still a good game though

I hope for an expansion or a sequel to this.

that's how i feel about ultrakill

Lmao

Him asking that means its starting to work

minecraft playthrough but it's moded to be as realistic as possible

​@Çhrîzîñ Pęžěť 4 ☮️ Peace

Really? this game is F ed up and kinder into it and don't know why, is it hypnotizing me

I completely lost it at the one guy I had to kill for spending corporate money on Pop figures and when I came in, it didn't even occur to him why and he just asked "Oh hey wanna check out my collection?"

And the beat NEVER drops

@@SardonicCrows that’s I how life feels ngl

Sort of? It's message is definitely complex and deep I'll give it that but I don't think it's the kind of message you could apply to the real world and get results. It's too specific, it doesn't account for the broad range of possible outcomes there are and as such it's reduced to an interesting thought experiment.

To me, it is some gun crazed lunatic who took drugs.

It’s just like gorbinos quest this is the gorbinos quest of life

He is super serious about this game

smae

honestly though

Yeah

Look at his face. That is the face of a man on a mission, a mission to find out why Cruelty Squad is so highly rated.

NOW you're thinking with Portals tm

The CEO mindset is starting to form

neither morality nor mortality

@@anthonyst-onge The Renovator

Imagine Momiplier playing this

Exactly what I was thinking. Like he adapted to eating flesh, reloading funky, and exploring faster than I did honestly.

Well, yea, it’s a weird indie game and guess what his career revolves around

@@Hayden-pg4og fair point...

Yeah. I think the dude who made this game is clinically insane. For better or for worse that's how you can make a game as... interesting as this.

@@iamthehype3684 He made it on drugs.

@@sycamorph he'd have to be on drugs for a LONG time

@@sycamorph His body is made of Ilicit substances.

@@iamthehype3684 or he just played LSD Dream Emulator and said “what if this was a troll face meme shooter?”

Yup but more like early mark

@@awayoflife8080 tree s

True dat

Yep, just about right..

*Unnus Annus be like*

The real punishment is the fact that a chance of resurrection is taken away from them. One day they will run out of “lives” despite the easy access to these “resets”

pogger

So it's Repo! The Genetic Opera?

Immortality sounds cool until you outlive your natural lifespan. Then you begin to wonder why your life, your ‘story’, never feels complete. Then you begin to seek [The End], because nothing without an end is complete.

@@jkterjters No, I'd like to be immortal.

I was confused for the first 2 minutes but then it smacked me in the face and something clicked, and abruptly i was like, *"yes, this all makes sense, i understand exactly what is happening and why and i dig it"* idk how else to explain it lol

you dont get it

@@funne4993 What is the meaning then? I was and still am extremly confused by this game

@@Kermt very simple. It's a game in a world where corporations took over the world and deleted the concept of death. Human life is worth nothing, you are worth nothing. The only thing significant about you is your new worth and if you aren't willing to stomp over others to increase it you will get nowhere. So basically our future in a few years. Very fun, colorful, positive game.

@@PastTimer sounds like an anime I’ve watched

LOL That's like to be impressed if a pile of shit reaches the edge of the toilet bowl...

Same.. Just; fuckin SAME

I love that I'm not the only one who thought of that joke lol

He's questioning the logic in a video game setting. Chill bro.

@@joshwaeiss2436 no shit Sherlock they were clearly joking

same bro

Kool.. a chick with an awesome sense of what's interesting... That's seriously becoming so hard to find... Truly...

@@strydyrhellzrydyr1345 what are you talking about 😭

@@strydyrhellzrydyr1345 my brother in christ wtf are you on about

@@strydyrhellzrydyr1345 what

Exactly, my sister in Christ. He needs to accept the belief, the ideology, the CEO mindset

You don't have a link to said video by any chance? Sounds really interesting!

Yeah! Pass that link man

Wasnt that Jacob Geller?

Ya I'm 99% sure it jacob if it has max pain in max pain 3 with the words "ugly game" that should be it

@@the_ecips9692 the channels called videogamedunkey

Not even, this is what they think all violent videogames are like

After taking some dxm.

💯 I've been having troubles with day blindness bc it's so bright atm in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. I'm all over the place, was starting to go nocturnal again bc I keep getting panic attacks 😵‍💫

@@jaz58107 Why are you mentioning this?

@@TheBetterBleedingBladesRU-vid I'm not used to seeing bright sun & longer days in Scotland so my eyes need to adjust again... it's giving me panic attacks - not the game bc I don't play them.. just watch other people lol. I only use my Pixel 5 Google phone.

@@jaz58107 Ik, that’s not what I asked- I was wondering how it was relevant to the original comment.

I FELT that man

That's so accurate it hurts

Couldn’t describe it better myself

Wow that's much too real friend

Ow dude, that hurt. And too many people relate.

lol

Fake

@@nakedstatue8517 ratio

@@PochitaJoint You're a Twitter teen, huh...

Ratio

He's actually just pretentious. And I know this because he stalks random websites (such as Wikipedia) looking for insults so he can spin them up into a fake persecution complex for the purpose of marketing

And in one of the secret endings, you basically restore the original concept of death, driving humanity into killing themselves. Or at least that's how I interpet it.

But all of the people you are sent to kill are rich ballers protected by private security. Can't they logically just get reincarnated too?

@@trogdor8764 yes, and they do. One target straight up hires you to kill him so he can have a laugh. The only reason you wouldn't want to die in this world is mostly due to your divine light being severed, that's expensive to get back.

Thank you for this explanation. It’s still trippy af

No I pretty sure it's about boredom and setting up a 30 year plan at a company where at the end you full-filling the america dream of owning a house in the hills only to then realize that everything you worked for was just apart of your life long plan and you have affectively removed everything that made you human by a gaining the "ceo mindset" a.k.a the "devine light". At the end you realize that it was all worthless and everything you work for has left you empty. Your character basically planed out there entire a career and spent every day going through the motions a.k.a the daily grind, and when you finally get the house the level description mention that it's the conclusion of your "30 year plan" but you still have targets to kill, as in you still have to do the daily grind because that's all you know in life. So everything you planed and work for was secretly just another step in your life long plan. In the third ending your character dies, and sadly as their life flashes before their eyes they're bored of it, their entire life was nothing but the daily grind. But they manage to convince themselves that at least they had a goal and achieved it unlike the others. It's a great commentary on the capitalist system, and how endlessly chasing wealth because that's what you were brainwashed to do by tv, movies, books, videos, and ect, will leave you feeling dead inside and wasting your entire life on achieving a false dream of escaping the daily grind.

LOLL

that because they didn't make it just "seem" like they didn't. they really did not

@@StrafeyCW You don’t understand

@@StrafeyCW You don't get it

@@StrafeyCW bro lacks the CEO mindset

I mean, Death Grips made the same but in music

@@kylethewolf I wonder how big the overlap between Death Grips' and Cruelty Squad's fanbases is. Gotta be significant.

its like being gangstalked by crimean vampires with drip

@@KitchenWitchery my EXACT thoughts lol

@@kepone3121 this game makes me feel like im the CEO of ThirdWorld HQ

I read someone else posting this exact same analogy in the Steam reviews I think

@@cicadaknight3048 same

@@cicadaknight3048 correct, best possible way to describe this game imo lol

Honestly best way to put this game is "Did I just take drugs?"

*dev

It looks like it plays very well, very quick. And it takes LOADS of effort to make something this actively, hostile-ly ugly.

How the hell is this shit show of a game a sim?

You're looking at it from its appearance. And you're right, it looks ATROCIOUS. That was an intentional in design. The developers purposely made the game look as unbelievably dogshit as possible. However, the gameplay is very well thought out and executed with you being able to tackle missions in many, many ways of your choosing. The game controls and plays very well. Please give it a shot.

I'd not necessarily say 'unbelievably dogshit', it is rather just well designed to be an assault (and insult) to your senses; Overstimulation, if not even stimulus overload, which considering the themes and what not, fits the whole thing quite perfect; Pain upon ears, eyes, soul and mind.

It's goal for the graphics wasn't to make it look dogshit, it was made with the goal to emulate the graphics from the ps1 days. Interesting design choice considering PS1 graphics are just so dated that apparently most people don't see it and just assume the graphics are shit and nothing else.

Whomst tho?

@@IdontKnow-nm8bz Mandaloregaming

@@IdontKnow-nm8bz A point in the horizon, a melting scene from your childhood. Your mortality is showing. A frantic drift towards nothing, biology doomed to an infinite recursive loop. Teeth with teeth with teeth. Take a bite. Serene scene of a coastal town, warmth of the sun. Bitter tears. Lust for power. This is where you abandoned your dreams, you are a high net worth individual, an expanding vortex of pathetic trauma. Finally a beautiful fucking nerve ape. A pure soul is born, its neurotransactions stutter into being. 30583750937509353 operations per second. Beuty eludes your porous mind.

@@IdontKnow-nm8bz The value of life is negative. The balance of being is rotated 38 degrees. The surface is full of cracks, a turgid light shines through. Fleshy primordial bodies sluggishly roll down the slope. Only you slide upwards, with a celestial step. You become beautified, a saintly figure. Your pristine idiocy reveals a safe path through the impenetrable fog of Life, Your dull sword cuts through the weak tendons and membranes of the garden of corruption. sit on the throne of contentment and ferment, inspect the eternal blue skies of your kingdom. You come to a realization. You pick up an onion and begin peeling,

@@IdontKnow-nm8bz Onion layer one. Onion layer two. Onion layer three ... Onion layer n^n. Acons have passed and the onion is fully peeled. Nothing remains. It's perfect. You get lost in the point that remains where the onion used to be. Synaptic cascade, neurological catastrophe. The point becomes infinitely dense, the universe condenses into a unicellular being. It screams sin, It craves happiness. It's done with this world. It tries to commit suicide but fails. Sad pathetic mess. You feel pity and disgust but in a way only a being of pure grace can, in your violent mercy you terminate the worldlife.

Nah.

That's actually really interesting, the idea that the world isn't weird at all, you're just drugged and seeing it that way.

Thank you my man thats ACTUALLY the whole plot

@@katiekawaii nah, the world is pretty fucked as we can see through the dialogues, ending and stuff. And we dont kill them forever, because you can buy a body back again just for 500 dollars, do you think it will affect multimillionaire CEOs were killing the entire game? Thats why the game's called "cruelty squad", not "killing squad"

actually it's about how the capitalist system just leaves people dead inside, at the end of the game you get the dream of owning a house in the mountains and you're just killing people (a.k.a doing the daily grind) until you die, it's an endless loop of cruelty that leaves everyone dead inside to the point where one of your targets thanks you for talking to then and listening to there problems even though they know your gonna kill then, and the only way out of this system is to die.

this game is messing with my head 🤪

@YeaMan YeaMan SureMan

He shouldn't hes so bad my brain hurts when I watch him play

​@@smobysmobe8696Mate, calm down. He's just as confused as the rest of us were when we started. Everyone learns at their own pace. You can't get an S-Rank on every level first try.

the degree of separation between his fans and the core fanbase of cruelty squad is astronomical

I've heard the gameplay mechanics are extremely solid which would explain it's massive positive rating on steam

Eyyyyy, the man himself has arrived.

You're late.

Oh ip

Reminded me of that one LSD simulator mixed with Dusk

This game definitely is deliberate and has a purpose.

@@mishking9547 yeah, the dev went out of their way to purposefully break every rule and guideline in game development and somehow actually made a really cool game

It's a good game

@@Thewolfobsessedgamer dev isn't even a dev. he's an art student. as in learning actual art. he has no prior programming knowledge and game design sense. he's making a mech game rightnow. really waiting for that. CS was a blast.

Creator:"explain to me what a video game is so I can program one". Friend: "so it's got pictures and words, sometimes music". Creator:"Say no more"

i agree get the word around and lets make it happen

He shouldn't he plays so bad my brain hurts watching him play

you dont get it

@@funne4993 Someone who doesn't "get it" would waste their time commenting this on everyones comments. Come on man let people live.

@@bassboosts3577 cope

@@ryanbreich4070 unfortunately

Fun fact: the author of the game confirmed that everything that is happening there is real and not a product of hallucinations, so this really is how the world of Cruelty Squad looks like.

That isn't the premise lmao. Psychedelic graphics doesn't mean the character is on drugs. Get your facts straight before posting.

@@hurdygurdyman5136 Can you simplifie that please.

@@kgb4150 It's one dimension I do not want to hop to.

Boo 🍅weird art doesn’t mean drugs

He shouldn't hes so bad my brain hurts watching him play

Kinda like drugs, incredibly distracting and seemingly fun in the moment but there's something darker lying beneath the surface

@@lorde_spooky i... guess?

@@lorde_spooky like drugs, still depressing and nihilistic

@@ADodoBird like drugs

Society is based on nihilism

Mark is an actual genius, shouldn't forget about that as well.

honestly, the controls in this game are fucking horrid what this shows is that games don't need tutorials, not that the game is good because you can learn it without a tutorial

@@Mate_Antal_Zoltan When I reassigned the controls to better placements it got a lot better

@@K0sm1cKid I toughed it out with the controls the dev intended, but on repeat playthroughs I did try more "normal" controls, and it did work way better

Agreed

how much time and what does it all mean

@@grimingage1180 1) A lot 2) Gorbino's quest of life. Sun is looking at you with eternal malice. CEO mindset. Golden age.

@@kgb4150 over 500 hours of pumping gameplay!

@@kgb4150 is it free?

I honestly love the ugly aesthetic, a bit painful on the eyes at time but it adds a certain mood to it that could never be accomplished if this game was, say, hyper realistic like some AAA titles strive to be

@@endeavor1664 it's called Origasm

Chunko Pops

Blacksuppositoried and debased.

It’s all because of the leftists.

Proof?

interior design is all about minimal scandinavian sewers right now

Thats so weirdly specific wtf

@@nats9557 it is. but am I wrong though?

naw naw it feels like waking up in a cold sweat with somewhat high temperature, no air conditioner or electric fan on and the hairs are all stuck to your neck and u got this sick ass sore throat from that 5 hour nap and it's like 7pm in the evening and your tongue is so dry but there's this weird or awful taste in it

I know exactly what you mean

Who would ever eat it cold tho,that's the real scare here.

That and it's a just a plain ol' good game. Bias can often overlap with the objective truth. I've seen a lot of people be turned off it one or twice (or more) eventually have it click and get really into it. That's was a common sentiment with earlier reviews.

Genuinely fun game if you enjoy stealth shooters and games with quake-like momentum based movement. There is so much more to this game than shown on this video, including more storyline. I was thinking "wtf is this" for like the first hour before I realized holy shit, this game is sick lol

Nah it’s moreso just… the game is good. Play it, getting good at it and breaking it over your knee is so fun.

This seems demeaning to the praise, so I'll remedy that by saying that games being marketed well should warrant this response

The game's genuinely good, though and has a great, hidden, deeper story to it. Well worth the money.

Because the horror was cryptocurrency the entire time.

The characters are uncanny

It is unsettling because it is a dystopia where nothing has worth.

@@zarnox3071 and yet oddly realistic. _But we can prevent that, indeed we can._

THIS GAME TERRIFIES ME BRO idk how people see it like that this genuinely gives me anxiety

its weird it looks awful but i like the design makes me think of some 90s cartoons gritty dirty design but it works and in a way tells you about the world

Skill with the grappendix is the skill ceiling and I will hold to that belief

you dont get it

For me, I wound up watching the whole thing not knowing what to think, the game just kinda grabbed my attention and wouldn't let go...

I still don’t see the appeal after finishing the video

@@Judith333 Hey guys, point and laugh, we found a flesh automaton! I bet he’s powered by Neuro-Transmitters!

@@gloriousbeard9054 boo hoo game still sucks 🤣

@@Judith333 Bro it was a joke Chill Man you should go and buy a copy of Gorbino’s Quest, maybe you’ll feel better.

Yeah, the same with the aesthetics, it's doing the opposite of what you're taught in art schools

Only an artist can correctly do art the wrong way.

"Talent"

@@fireblade295 Just because you don't like it doesn't mean that the game wasn't made by someone who knew what they were doing

@@thewolfPrince maybe they meant that talent =/= skill? Their way of phrasing it was very cryptic though.

Nice Dunkey comment

CEO mindset

@Savetion Xi 😈 who?

@Savetion Xi 😈 your even worth the effort

Nice stolen comment lol

you dont get it

Fuck yeah fellow Civvie enjoyer!

@@funne4993 You obviously don’t

Cringe

Cringe

As a Cruelty Squad fan. You are not wrong

It feels unsettling to me.

@@glitchboy1890 I played through the game and it is SURPRISINGLY deep.

Bruh you too wtaf lmao its funny cause I actually noticed I had my alarm litterly 10 mins in and was like is that me? Can't be, then finished the vid and noticed after smh 😂

Right? It's seriously so unique

pretty sure it actually has a name. its called biopunk i think

yes biopunk is definitely the word you're looking for

welcome to biopunk

I interpreted it as simply the protagonist's own warped perception of the world caused by whatever combat drugs they're on. It explains not only the crazy colors but also the weird scale of things (for example, the giant doghouse)

Well it is at 25:48 actually and it scared me with the jumpscare.

Same. I'm not epileptic. Hell my eyes don't hurt when I see super flashing images. But I really do appreciate when he does that

My girlfriend is epileptic and lemme tell you, we really really appreciate it 🙏😊

It’s really great that he does that. I don’t have Epilepsy, but do have sensory sensitivity due to being Autistic. It doesn’t do anything near what a seizure does, but sensory overload still sucks. Regardless, it’s great that people who would be hurt by flashing lights know when to look away on Mark’s videos.

I recall posting on a video of Mark's... last year(?) Asking for a cue to watch again, because people who can't watch obviously couldn't tell when it's over. Idk if it was such a frequent request, or I got lucky, but I'm grateful for the addition (I'm not epileptic either, ftr) Edit, just checked my "comments on this channel" and it was 9 months ago :)

@@adoramay9410 i came here to say the exact same thing. i get overwhelmed and the flashing lights *hurt.* like physical pain. at this point i know to just look away immediately. i can’t imagine being affected the way someone with a seizure disorder is.

Which is a pretty big accomplishment! He has been completely baffled on so many occasions, yet this somehow cakes the take.

@@OtakuUnitedStudio cakes the take 😂perfect explanation