Your Brain Makes This Game 1000000x Scarier 

That subtle echo on your voice in the large room was so good and added a lot, and I wanted you to know that at least one person noticed it and appreciated it

Thanks for playing! P. S. -- thanks for finding a bug for me to fix. I didn't think it was possible to skip the rooms in the reservoir (and see the black figure without it dissapearing lol). Clearly this beta isn't IGP-proof!

Whoever made this game. Props to them, this is so uniquely unsettling....

This game really messes with the players mind. IGP himself started to doubt if he actually saw the stuff, that's good horror game design.

some liminal spaces can be calming or nostalgic at times. all things liminal intrigue me very much. weirdcore is also a cool style thats almost based off it, very strange but cool stuff

I was an over night security guard for a college campus and it was all this eerie! The buildings used to be a hospital and morgue for the soldiers during the civil war. The only new building was the gymnasium but it still was built a few decades when it was first turned into a girls college which was shut down after multiple drowning instances in the pool. They claimed they were suicides. They would find the girls in the pool in the morning. No matter what building I would go to I would feel watched. When I first started it was fine, at the end of the week I realized things were happening I had no explanation for. I began asking staff members about things like the electrical or if they left certain objects in their classes. By far the worst location was the third floor in the literature arts building. I would see people at the end of the hall, at first I thought it was students sneaking on campus later I disproved that with an incident probably better saved for a reddit story. One of the professors fell asleep one time and I woke him up at the start of my shift he freaked and said he never likes staying after dark while laughing at himself. I told him I hated this building the most at that when I got to the third floor I would literally run down the hallway to get done with my checks as soon as possible because of the intense feeling of dread I felt. He then told me the literature building used to be the hospital, the first floor was intake and patient rooms the second floor was staff offices and the third floor was the morgue. He then left in a hurry. I quit after 6 months because things just kept getting more and more unexplainable and intense, I felt like I was going crazy. I try to forget.

If hell had a more personalized psychological bent to it, this is kind of like how I always imagined mine. An endless maze of liminal spaces based around various workplaces, living spaces and key moments of my life tinged with my insecurities and general character flaws, with a neverending sense of unease and the notion that someone or something is always just around the corner behind me.

The level of immersion man. I love the way he edited his voice to match the echo in the pool. I F LOVE IT.

I immediately was freaking out about him being in that first pool because obviously that's a pool a shark would be in 😫

i have a feeling the figure is another person trapped in the space. because a liminal space exists outside of normal reality, it's possible the laws of physics work differently there, leading to the teleporting. who knows? maybe the laws of time are different too, and the figure is actually you at different points in your journey. i mean, it's probably just a spooky guy, but liminal spaces usually don't resort to typical paranormal horror. could be something else 🤷‍♀

Now we know what IGP would act like if he was in Stranger Things.

wow this is one of the most uncomfortable games ive seen. Like backrooms was something, but this is that with a hint of crack. please play more of this i am so stoked to see where it goes

This whole game just got me thinking, how it would look like for my local water parks/swimming complexes when they're closed for the night. I'd be awestruck by its quiet ambience at night when it would have been full of people in the morning. We have closed malls and stores and buildings, but closed swimming pools give a whole other vibe to it, and I'm guessing the water adds to that vibe.

idea for the pool with something in it at 12:06; if there really is something at the bottom of the pool, you might be able to get deep enough to grab it by falling in through the hole above it like you did at 14:42.

Damn, the dark pool gave me thalassophobia vibes mixed with that uneasy liminal feeling. I physically cringed when you jumped back in.

When i was a kid, every new place i visited gave me liminal space vibes. And whenever i was going through serotonin syndrome, EVERYTHING gave me those scary vibes. terrifying

God, it gives me chills when you think of it as your house, and the realism...

The slight echo in igp's voice in the swimming pool area is a nice touch

Finally a game that captures all my phobias at the same time.

Great now I’m gonna freak out every time I park in my underground parking lot thanks igp

New fear unlocked: liminal spaces

This game looks like The Backrooms in a nutshell. Whoever didn't know about it, the backrooms is a creepypasta that said to be located in an alternate universe/dimension that every place is abandoned and in some places entities are more frequent.

Ok, the failed suburbia at the start is weird, not just the mowed lawn but like how long ago does it take for a community to be considered failed but for the sign to look so new

Oh my gosh. I swear It feels like I held my breath that entire time. Absolutely, terrifying. Also your commentary is my favorite IGP; half analyzing the game and doing things for your fans, and half complete terror and terrified groans lol. Thank you for another fantastic promotion of an indie game! p.s. - You definitely saw all that stuff you thought you saw, because I saw it too.

It's awesome how many liminal space aesthetics are put into this game, even with the calming open scenery at the beginning. I (along with plenty of others) use this aesthetic to cope with different sets of trauma we've experienced. Commonly we only remember these moments as an isolated area stuck in time, so the photos can be both nostalgic and haunting. What a beautiful game, thank you for the playthrough!!!

Did watching this give anyone else extreme anxiety and paranoia? It starts as confusion then turns into that of panic for me who has dreams of endless dark halls and the feeling of being watched while alone this game really gets into my head

I played this game some months back and I must say it was an experience. I was soooo hyped to see this uploaded.

1:45 the school hallways after school is a prime example of that feeling.. I remember a staircase we had in our old home and we had a three way switch, one at the top and bottom and to turn all the lights off you had to switch the bottom off and sprinting up the stairs always felt like pure tragedy because you could see the entire basement dark and the hallway was the onlt light

Dude that echo on ur voice in the large spaces is dope as hell

Leave it to IGP to find some of the best horror games

God, I've actually gotten this feeling a number of times over the past couple months. I work as an AV guy, hanging TV's, putting in speakers, and also running the wires FOR those things during the time that a house is actually being built. These past couple months, I've actually been sent to a couple of these houses later in the day to run some wires, and it always ended with me being the last one there, working in the dark via work lights. It wasn't usually the "Scared of the monsters in the dark" feeling I would get either, but a "Am I supposed to be here?" feeling, even though yes, I was a worker, I WAS supposed to be there doing my job. Watching this reminded me of how I felt at those times, and how I'd feel so much less tense after loading everything into my van, and leaving the house to drive home for the night.

My mind was playing tricks on me just watching this. When he was walking up the slide at around 18 min, I jumped because I thought for a split second there was something coming down towards.

Another spooky video right before bed to keep me up at night🙃

At the beginning I thought this game was lame, but then I realied the purpose of the game is to make you feel eerie in a big space where you are all alone, and then make you feel despair at not being able to find the exit, it was actually quite nice

I really hope this indie horror game gets finished and they expand on the story. Such an awesome concept for a psychological horror game and so unsettling.

A swimming pool like that is a competitive swimmer’s dream

Imagine actually having to experience the locker room.

13:08 I love how your immediate thought was "Oh, I guess since they're on the side of my screen, the game won't make them go away. You know what, this is the perfect time to sound really smart and cool!" and then turning just for them to stay there.... Not terror, but a sense of "Oh... Oh shit".

I have the opposite reaction to most liminal spaces, I find them calming and melancholic or exciting and freeing, now being 1000s of feet underground with no way out and with a shadow man or possibly something causing hallucinations is scary though

Jesus that exit area had me sooo on edge.

IGP never disappoints.

If this has VR, you could put people on a threadmill and they'd power whole cities with panicked running through these spaces.

Everytime one of your videos drop, I know it's going to be a good day. Scary. But good.

liminal spaces are probably my biggest fear. I found that out when I was at the airport super late at night, I was walking through the food court and no lights were on and nobody was around. like, if I woke up in something like this I don't think I could even move, he whole time watching this video shivers were just going up my spine.

I remember having nightmares like this as a child. Fuelled by seperation anxiety. I would dream about beeing in places like this desperately searching for an exit, always feeling a strange familiarity with my surroundings, but also quite paranoid about how each cycle changed the place I was in. Sometimes a door would disappear or everything would slowly be reduced to just one sealed room making me panic and wake up.

3:46 listen how calm the character is when he said that “at least the water is warm”🙂 IGP: I don’t care if the water is warm I’m getting out!!!!!😬

Idk if it's the movie's or something else. But I haaaaatttte walking alone in a empty hallway or something. I feel like it's something not human behind me.

This game gets a solid "Fuck. That." on my "Will I play it?" scale.

Why does it feel and look so real wtf

I appreciate, SO MUCH, that you had the reverb of your audio match the room your character was in. *mwah, chefs kiss*

10:45 I literally had to rewind multiple times then I eventually rewinded and played at slowest speed to see what you saw lmao

My final photo project was all liminal spaces in my hometown, it's now associated to me when covid came and ended my senior year

I've never experienced that calming/awe/fear inducing feeling of liminal spaces, and I'm kinda jealous. I can look at the same images, video or even be there in person, but ...nothing. Maybe I'm just not wired right. I remember in college, I took Vet Assistant which meant all the students were on rotation to come in on weekends to walk the dogs, feed the shelter animals, etc. There was one set of tasks in the morning and one at night. Most people went home in between since it was the weekend, but I bussed from across town, so I just stayed. All alone in the vet building which was at the far end of campus near the soccer field. That day a heavy fog rolled in, to the point I could only see the nearest row of cars through the window. Nothing else, not the rest of the school, the street, pedestrians, etc. Nothing. In just 30 minutes, the world beyond the fog just disappeared. All I could think was how perfect a zombie movie scene it was. Then I went back to my homework. That was it, no sense of isolation, vertigo, anxiety, just a thought of "Wow, such a pretty fog. Would be cool if the world out there ended and zombies roamed the earth. Anyway, what's the difference between these types of forceps again?"

damn no warning instant drop, instant jump scare. lol that gave me the chills

The Graphics look crisp af...🙌

I remember working at a mega mall on the 3rd floor in AZ. There was a hallway that led to each store/company in the back. Our hallway's were very industrial like so very rough, the floors with scratches and black marks from dolly's etc. They were just big enough to deliver packages or boxes, which used a really junky elevator that gave me the creeps from all the weird sounds it made. Glad don't have to deal with that anymore. haha.

The text that every time you see a hole in the ceiling it means theres a endless loop of areas because as we saw when you jump over a wall you'll see a hole to fall down and its likely each wall there are holes behind to fall into areas that are still in the same area but not at same time

Glad to see someone realized that swimming pools are a unique setting for a horror game. Really making my childhood nightmares come true :D

I've never really been to bothers by horror games, scared, but not quite whatever it is this game did...

IGP, what are you going on about with this "This would be a good way to trap/traffick humans. Capture them/kidnap them, whatever. It would be so damn easy!"? Oh yeah, sure, just build a multibillion dollar underground waterpark with a trapdoor, easy!

When you jumped into the pool in the first room I literally had a mini freak out even though nothing was there. I had that crazy feeling of eyes watching me the whole play through, you know when you feel that pressure between your shoulder blades.

The architecture reminded me too much of how most of the architecture in my dreams is and it unsettled me... Aslo, apprently, I have a phobia of pools where you can't see their floors... specially when all you see is black/darkness....I really felt on edge to the point of looking away everytime you found a pool like that

“Your brain makes this game 1000000x scarier” Me with no brain: 🙂

You broke the number 1 rule of the poolrooms. Dont go into the area with the dark tiles.

The locker rooms were such an uncomfortable experience 😂

I think the idea of liminal spaces is the suggestible nature of them. The reason they make you feel uneasy is the absence of people. It's always places that are crowded with people. Shopping malls, swimming pools, schools, all these places are never vacant when you are present. It's the idea that people SHOULD be there, and you can't immediately identify the reason for their absence. That's why they have such a unique effect. Next thing to add to that is the suggestion that someone could be there with you. The sounds you hear while playing like the voices and swimming sounds. Because you can't see them, you can't identify a potential threat and it adds to the suspence.

This game went from "Wow, this is amazing" to "Holy shit, this makes me so uneasy" in a matter of seconds.

I hated that locker room level. Something about the choice of colors and the amount of darkness around the corners really got to me.

during the beginning of the pandemic the entire world felt like a liminal space

fun fact: the pool rooms are actually safe expect the dark rooms

Always love it when IGP posts. Makes my day

The human mind makes everything terrifying. Sometimes it is depended on trauma or just fear in general. Just making a place darker can add fear to something. This game is a perfect example of the human mind and the way someone can add fear to something by just a few details.

I hope there’s more videos of this game cause I bloody love it and I was so deep in trans watching you play it and just hearing the lights so loudly and you talking was so good I had to put my headphones on

Is it weird that I found the location comforting? Except for the shadow guy.

Dude, imagine the echo in that pool room...

IGP: "Woah, oh my God. Beautiful." Me: "Oh IGP you sweet talker yo-.... oh wait your talking about the game"

This looks SO disorientating, even seeing it in a relatively small window on my computer. I can't imagine how this is when you have to stare at the screen to navigate and it's taking up most of your field of view.

Why do you have to spoil the awesome atmosphere of the game with such unimportant babble?

this is so amazing! this game gave me the most uncomfy vibes man lmao I'm glad i got to see this done by you! IGP the man of horror games! i love you & your videos so much! I can't wait to see the whats in store next for this one!

10:48 was that sound effect when the shadow popped up added by you? Or was that the game?

Please post the whole game..I'm excited to see all the environments

This is what a game looks like when you turn RTX on.

POV your a cat 12:15

Anyone else see the blood on the diving board?

That sounded like a door opening slowly...

We Need part 2 right now The game is intresting and very Creep

Is it wierd that I find this stuff not unnerving, and actually comfortable? Any therapists here? Lol

Not a bad example of liminal spaces, although it felt a little bounded by the Backrooms. You didn’t play it to the end - a little disappointing, I expect a complete playthrough for these walking simulators. Although, your character dies at the end regardless, most of the time - so I dunno why I bother! :-)

Imagine you were going to hangout all day with friends only for them all to call saying they can't go out, so you head out on your own. Once outside it feels odd, eerily quiet almost like a lazy Sunday, but the intermittent sound of cars isn't actually there. Realizing all you can hear in the streets are the birds and nothing else. Only as you're getting into town do you begin to realize you haven't seen a single person, nor a single car. Shops are closed, buildings quiet, there's no signs of the usual hustle and bustle and so you decide to do something you'd never think of being able to do otherwise out of childish behavior, you lie down at the edge of the road and roll from one side to the other, then back to the middle and just lie there for a few minutes. It's as if everyone in the world had just disappeared, yet you know that behind every house door, the people, the families are all still there. The town feels like a ghost town yet the town is still full of people. This actually happened to me, on the 31st of August 1997. I've had a few similar experiences since due to extreme heat exhaustion which left my brain fried for the better part of a month at a time.

I never enjoyed mazes.... it's fun to trap someone in a maze, but not fun being the one trapped...

Other people: "It's so weird being in a public place without other people around". Me: "I prefer when other people aren't around."

Can this man NOT recognize sound at all? He hears just a violin horror soundeffect as hes like 'DINOSAUR' and hears door open and again 'DINOSAUR' He even hears creepy announcer voice THREE TIMES to recognize that it even is a voice

"I can't do it for you I need you to be here with me" Me: We are right here with you IGP Karen "YoU HaVe To StAy 6ft AParttt"

12:12 So glad you leaped in it. Wish you'd have gone there, I'll need to check it for myself. I'm so fuckin' curious of those creepy dark entrances. EDIT: NVM you did! LEZZZZ GOOOOOOO

I believe the only experience I've had with liminal spaces were when the virus first hit and the city streets were empty. No honking, there were no cars. Store signs on, there were no pedestrians. Completely empty streets that were once brimming with life and action. Extremely unnerving.

Ages ago before I even knew what SCP was, I downloaded the SCP containment facility map for Garry's Mod, but I didn't have any of the entities or anything, just the base map. I started exploring it, just trying to see what the map was like, but there was the unsettling ambience music and various steam hisses and groans from God knows what that were part of the map. I spent a good 30 minutes trying to find the exit before I couldn't take anymore and closed the game.

Got a nice burrito from a real Mexican shop (not shitty Chipotle), a nice coke, AND AN IGP VID DROPS!! What a great way to end the day!

idk why everyone is so unsettled i find this quite wonderful is my weird showing

Awhhh!! Only 24 minutes long!!!😭goes so damn fast. My privileged ass appreciates the 40+ minutes vids so much lol

Uh. I really enjoy places like this. Deserted towns. Hotel hallways at 3am. Closed sections of airports. Amusement parks shut down for winter. Schools after dark. This game made me happy?