CreepsMcPasta Creepypasta Radio - "Don't play the Hatchetman Cove game" Creepypasta

Episode Date: July 2, 2021

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At first, I wrote this entire post as a way to get people to uninstall and remove the game Hatchman Cove from their Steam accounts. But I soon realize pretty much no one has ever played it. But if you by any chance happen to own a copy, please, I urge you. Remove it. Uninstall and forget it. Don't look back. Don't touch it ever again.

I'll tell you why. friend of mine bought a three pack of Hatchman Cove back in 2009. It was a multiplayer game where three people are paired up against a single strong player on the opposite team, kind of like an early Dead by Daylight game. This game might very well be the spiritual predecessor. The similarities between those games are pretty eerie. I'm sure at least one person on the Dead by Daylight team has a steam copy of Hatchman Cove, and that kind of worries me.

See Hatchman Cove was this game where you played in cycles Kind of like a red-light green light game Three people play survivors from a ship that crashed into a cove And the fourth player gets to play as the killer The killer wasn't necessary some slasher with an axe It could be a vengeful angel, a grim reaper Or several other kinds of killers At least that was the original plan

So the game would alter between having bright lights all over the map going on and off. While they were on, the killer would notice any kind of movement with a ping. When the lights were off, survivors could move any way they want, as long as they didn't draw too much attention. They could set up traps to delay the killer or sabotage the lights to get more time. The killer, on the other hand, would try to grab the survivors and drown them in a well at the center of the map.

Once a survivor was grabbed, the other survivors are given a choice to either try and intercept the killer using traps or use the time to gain an advantage. The problem was that Hatchman Cove didn't sell very well. The developers had some legal trouble with their publisher, who were mad about the developers backing out of an exclusive deal with Unlive. Check it, it's on Wikipedia. There was no promotion on Steam or anywhere else, as the publishers didn't want it released on another platform.

They didn't want it released at all for another six months. until the game at the proper infrastructure. The dev screwed up and published it on Steam anyway, and the whole thing was a mess. Still, during the months that it was active, there was a fairly regular player base. My friends and I played it pretty much every day for about a month. I made Sturgis as a survivor,

the Norwegian fisherman who could lure the killer using his fishing rod. As a killer, there were only two options at the time. The Hatchman, and the Blameless. I prefer to play the Hatchman. He was straightforward. You got a hatchet, could destroy shelters, and had a certain resistance to traps. The Blameless, she was just...

Weird. They never managed to balance her right. The Blameless was an old woman. She was slow, but she floated around the map and avoided all ground-based traps. She always had this warm smile And a passive ability Was just the weirdest

If she was far away She would look like a random ally in your team Only when she got closer She would reveal that sinister smiling face Hatchman was just a murderer But the blameless was downright creepy But the game didn't get any updates Because of the legal battle

No updates, no new survivors no killers, nothing. Instead, the game went silent. We stopped playing, and a few months later, the game was unceremoniously unlisted and removed from the Steam Store without as much as an apology.

I uninstall Hatchman Cove and didn't think about it for years. Just one of those games that rest in the back catalogue. I forgot I even had it, but... This is where things get weird. Last December, I was gifted the new Harvest Moon game as a Christmas present, and some primal parts of my reptile brain clicked back in on Hatchman Cove.

The friends I used to play with had moved on with her lives, but the game still had a distinct community page. I checked the store page, and it was empty. The game couldn't be found on Google either. The game was completely hidden. If you don't actually have it in your library, you won't find it without a direct link. that in itself is kind of weird

most of banning games can still be googled but Hatchman Cove still had a very very active community there were plenty of discussions on the forums but they didn't make any sense the speech was almost garbled

I'm sure whatever they discussed made sense to them but to an outsider it just seemed like nonsense a few examples topic How much GW2 finish No Min? I want to finish no Min

I don't know yet Just don't GW then Get yourself together You'll never go Min If you don't GW Just commit The discussion forum It's just a mess

That example was the most legible thing I could find And I still have no idea What it says So I started checking out the community content like videos and screenshots The way the community played the game was completely different from when I played. Pretty much no one played Hatchman anymore.

The killer seemed limited to the blameless. Not a single screenshot of the Hatchman, just the blameless. But the weird thing was how the players interacted with the killer. Instead of hiding, they'd come running up to her. They run up to her with their microphones on, screaming at her, screaming. begging, pleading for her to kill them. Not with funny voices or anything, no. There were people crying in chat.

Video was marked as GW and various states littered the community page, each with people crying and screaming and begging to die. The volume maxed out immediately, and most of the time, all voices were nothing but a crackling mess that could easily blow out your speakers. I couldn't stop watching. I'd never seen anything like it, not even back in the days when I was still playing.

That wasn't the way you play the game. No one was hiding or looking for objectives. I'd see players using my old main, Sturgis, and just rushed to Blameless as soon as the match started, seeing the 3D model of the old bearded man running up to the blameless, pleading to die. That was uncomfortable. I made the mistake of posting my own question on the discussion forum. I was just too curious.

You have to remember, at this point, this was still just a weird blip in my Steam library. I made my own topic and just asked what the hell happened to the game. I got no responses in a week. Nothing. After that, things have gotten weird, real weird. It started with CSGO. One night a teammate came on and just started screaming.

No big deal at first, just another troll. But he was screaming at me specifically. Screaming at me, begging me to shoot him. I was crying. He was desperate, asking me to please team kill him. He offered to send me money, trade rare skins, whatever I wanted. He got kicked before I even knew what to say. Two games later, the same guy joins my team with a different username in Clantag.

He keeps screaming, crying and begging. The teammates laugh, but I was getting uncomfortable. I stopped playing. Hearing a grown man, barely being able to breathe between sobs, is just too much. That wasn't a prank. That was desperation. But... It didn't stop there.

From that point on, in several games, people started joining and begging me to kill them. It could be by text and steam chat, by voice, whatever they could. Once in Four Guys, there were two people with the usernames, Kill Me and Kill Me Too. How? You can't even pick your own username in Four Guys. They just stood there, waiting for me to push them over the edge. These colorful little blob people just made my face. stomach crawl, because I knew that whoever controlled them was sitting there, screaming,

and complete panic behind the screen. It just kept going. In Red Dead Redemption 2, I used to have the setting to hear and be heard by everyone enabled. But I had to stop. Naked users kept running at me while I was camping out at Strawberry, and I turned off all audio as soon as I saw them. I was shaking, as I realized the mute setting didn't work. and force-closed my game.

I swear, for a few seconds after the executable had closed, I could still hear them. I threw my headphones across the room and walked away from the computer, just holding my head and quivering. I didn't know what to do. I could barely be at my computer. I went back to the Hatchman Cove Steam forums and just started reporting people.

I also reported all videos to YouTube, and it just flagged everything. I know, I abused the report system, but things were getting out of hand. I was being harassed, so they took it down. Not just the forums or the videos, but everything. The entire Steam page, gone, including the community page. I could still see the name Hatchman Cove in my library at that point, but nothing showed when I clicked it.

YouTube and Steam probably didn't care much and didn't bother to do a review of my report. It was easier to just pull the plug And for a while That did the trick I actually got back on CSGO Then It got worse than ever Random people started joining our Discord server

Just screaming into our ears No matter how many times we banned them or muted them They just kept coming back My friends noticed that As long as I was offline the voices stayed away so my server figured I was playing a prank or something

at first they thought he was kind of funny but the more it happened the more they were getting frustrated some were getting scared and sent me private messages asking me to please as friends stop today I'm permaband

I can't even log back onto Discord without getting messages from random accounts begging me to come online and kill them It has gotten to the point where I've uninstalled pretty much everything. I don't even have Skype. I don't play games anymore. And I don't think I'll be browsing Reddit much longer either, since I've started getting messages here too.

Not just here, but on my phone as well. Texts in the middle of the night, random calls from unknown numbers. Last week, I found traces of handprints on my kitchen window. Not just one or two, but dozens. A neighbor told me there'd been someone shouting outside my door when I was out buying groceries the other day. I'm considering calling the police.

But I don't know what to say. I don't even know if I'm in danger. I can't get the bland face of the blameless out of my head. I dream of her asking me without moving a crinkled mouth if I wanted it all to stop. And I say yes. I go to her dressed as old Sturgis. standing alongside the others with my fishing rod.

First, I ask her to end it all, but the others speak louder, and she can't hear me. Then I ask again, trying to speak over the others. Soon I find myself screaming. We all scream louder and louder, begging, pleading, crying for attention. We all want it to stop, and she refuses to oblige. Instead, she just smiles, holding some sort of beautiful secret behind a pixelated, dead eyes. I don't know what it is, but I want it. I'm starting to understand, but at the same time, I'm disgusted.

Please, stay away from Hatchman Cove.