Video Gamers Podcast - The Evolution of Indie Horror Games - Gaming Podcast

Episode Date: October 16, 2025

Gaming hosts Josh, Ryan, and Ace are diving deep into the eerie evolution of indie horror in gaming. From the early pixelated nightmares that defined the genre to the modern psychological terrors shaping today’s scene, the crew unpacks how independent creators changed the way we experience fear in video games. They’ll explore the rise of cult classics, the bold experimentation that big studios won’t touch, and why indie horror continues to push the boundaries of what gaming can be. If you love video games that send chills down your spine, this one’s for you. It’s a spine-tingling, nostalgia-packed episode of the Video Gamers Podcast!   Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Disratory, Ol’ Jake, Gaius, Jigglepuf and Phelps   Thanks to our Legendary Supporters: HypnoticPyro, NorwegianGreaser and PeopleWonder   Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: ⁠patreon.com/videogamerspod⁠ Join our Gaming Community: ⁠https://discord.com/invite/Dsx2rgEEbz⁠ Follow us on Instagram:⁠ https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/⁠  Follow us on X:⁠ https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod⁠  Subscribe to us on YouTube:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@VideoGamersPod?sub_confirmation=1⁠    Visit us on the web:⁠https://videogamerspod.com/⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Tonight, we're stepping into the dark and tracing the evolution of indie horror. It may thrill you. It may shock you. It may even horrify you. I am your host Ace And joining me I really hope if he woke up in a middle of a forest His first decision wouldn't be

I'm gonna start gathering these random pages It's Josh Now I am a little bit of a survivalist I would not just You know like okay guys The people in Blair Witch Like yo How dumb can you be man

You know like you just leave You just get out of there man You don't need those creepy weird twisted stick things that at some point you just go, hey, I don't think this is worth it, we should probably leave. That's like the solution of 90% of horror movies

like, yeah, we're just not going to stay here. We're going to leave. Like poltergeist? That's, yeah. Conjuring? Yeah. That's like that I forget what, it's like a commercial for something, but the, it's like the horror one. It's like the Allstate commercial. Yeah. She's, they're like, let's go ahead by all those chainsaws.

And she's like, why can't we just get in the running car? He's like, no, you idiot. and he'd never work overnight security for a pizzeria for minimum wage unless someone told him they really needed him to do it for them it's Ryan I don't know man I really like pizza pizza is pretty soft if someone came up just like Ryan I really need you to do this for me you you would fold so fast yeah I'm a Jim Carrey yes man that's me I have hard time you absolutely are yeah that's very true

all right jents it is october it is the spooky month it is time to talk about some horror games what better horror game is there than an indie horror game i mean we've seen what was that what was that look for right i saw that you're gonna get any of the games your internet connection is what's a horror oh sure thing pal whatever i i will say are there any mainstream horror games that come to mind right away? I mean, just like Resident Evil and Silent Hill. Yeah, I mean, that's it, right? Like, I don't even know, like, Outlast Trials is one of the better developed, like, horror games, I would say.

Like, but I don't know this last of us horror. That's not really horror. It's horror adjacent. I wouldn't say horror. More thrillers. It's zombies killing people and people getting legs cut off. I would not qualify Last of Us as a horror game. Yeah, that's true.

Do you count dying light as a horror game? Because really, you're the monster. You're the one ripping them in half with your bare hands. Yeah, those poor zombies just want to be left alone, man. Why are you such a zombieist, Ryan? You know? I hate all the zombies in the world. All the zombies in the world.

You've seen one zombie. You've seen them all. But Andy Hore has been around for a very long time. It has evolved with game development, of course. But starting off, I want to talk about Amnesia, the Dark dissent. Oh, you talk in my languages. I know this was one you're familiar with,

but this was the game that kind of redefined being helpless in a horror game. Most horror games at this point, it was like, you know, you had a gun, you had a knife, you had some way to fight back. And amnesia, you wake up in what, a dungeon with no memory and you just are

told, get out? You get no weapons, you just have a lantern. That's it. I did you play this one Josh I dude I was just about to say I recommend this game to everybody that will listen to me as it is one of if not the scariest games I have ever played now I'll qualify that that psychological horror is my genre of horror it is I gore doesn't do anything to me these you know some of these games with like these creepy looking characters don't necessarily do anything for me. I want that psychological trick my brain. Give me something really weird to where I'm like, I'm like, what the heck is going on? My favorite horror movies are generally the psychological horror one, seven saw the ring, you know, those types of movies. That's what resonates with me. Amnesia of the Dark Descent while it is starting to feel pretty

dated, which is probably why this is in your origins part, is one of the scary. games I've ever played, dude. It is masterful at creating the atmosphere. You do feel helpless because, again, you don't get guns. You don't get anything that's going to help you. And man, it does such a good job of just really, really messing with your head. You can't hide the whole time either, because if you go into the dark, your sanity bar just just goes down. Did, uh, I guess what was the, what was the one we all three played last year? the outlast trials outlast trials does is this similar to that like it kind of has drew some from from no no no this is amnesia the dark descent is you don't know who you are thus the amnesia and you're in

this castle and all you know is that some something is like stalking you and there are many times in the game where this thing that is stalking you shows up um but the game does a such a good job of not just revealing like what's going on right like it's like those horror movies where it's like you don't know what the monster is until they finally reveal the monster as much as that can be annoying sometimes like there is benefit to that and like amnesia of the dark descent it just it does it masterfully in my opinion dude like some of the scenes where this thing is chasing you through a room or you know the sewers and you can see its footsteps in the water and the sound that goes with that freaks you out dude it is i love this game dude i i i love this game dude i i

absolutely love this game i did like even on the trailer on like this their steam page you could see um the things coming at them they go into a room to run away and then they like slide a desk in front and you could just see the boom and the thud and then it starts to jiggle boom another one it starts to jiggle more and then they go and they like hide in the cabinet and you can hear it bust into the room so yeah no that is i can definitely feel like why there would be the suspense and why it like kind of feel that way. To me, though, the scariest part is that it's 15 years old and it's still $20. That's because it holds up.

It does hold up. I don't know, man. $20 for a 15 year old game? I think it's Morgow that is played. Somebody in our Discord server literally said I'm in the middle of playing like Amnesia the Dark Descent. A few people have played it recently. Yeah.

But someone's actually in the middle of it. I think it's morgo. I think you're right. I recommend it to everybody. It's the scariest game I've ever played, like legitimately. Oh, really? All right. Yeah.

The next one here is Slender the Eight Pages. This came out in 2012, but I'm unsure how familiar you guys are with like creepypastas and Slender Man and things like that. But the face tells me everything. Creepypastas are basically anthology short horror stories written online by users. And this is one that was adapted into a game that spread like wildfire on YouTube. It was so popular because it was just. So simple. You spawn in as a character, in a forest with a flashlight, collect pages, there's a faceless

monster chasing you. That's that simple. Okay. So I watched all these trailers, even the games I've played and I knew I rewatched the trailers for them just to kind of see how they advertise this game. This one, Ace, I will say this. As I'm watching this trailer, masterful job at suspense. A flashlight in the woods at night.

is creepy as anything. They do a good sound of like your footsteps crunching through the leaves in the forest. I had to laugh when you go into a tiled hallway and your footsteps are still the crunching leaves. And I'm like, you probably should have rethought your sound design on this one. Like all you had to do is have some footsteps on a tile. And so that part made me laugh.

The faceless guy, they kind of reveal him right at the end. I know who Slender Man is, you know, and it's like it's not that scary to me like if you're gonna have a horror guy like have them be scary at least but the atmosphere which is probably why the game was so popular they actually did a really good job with

like it is it comes across as creepy like right away yeah you can you can see it and these these are the ones that like atmospheric like creepiness and the worst part for me is with like jump scares or any of that is the anticipation because I'm on pins and needles the whole time waiting for something to happen

and then when it does I lose my mind so you could definitely feel just watching the game like how it does look like it kind of sucks you in to this just world and you're you can't really see and you're not sure where everything is so

yeah it looks pretty cool sometimes I'd say the minimalistic like low poly aesthetics to this game kind of add to that creepy factor of it yeah a little bit makes it more yeah I was going to say sometimes the fear of a jump scare is more scary than the jumps

yeah yeah I kept waiting during just the trailer to for the jump scare yeah and then like just that I was like oh I don't feel good about this yeah you hear the drums getting louder and louder just like oh here it comes all right moving on to when we all are probably familiar with at this point in our lives

you can't escape it it's everywhere but five nights at Freddy's which came out in 2014 which saying that physically hurts me fucking old age age yes yeah like oh

2014 huh you were like yeah you were like 50 back then right yeah I was sure this popularized what I like to call the sit and survive horror game where you stay statically in one place

and you control multiple tasks to avoid getting got it also popularized the mascot horror genre which we'll get into more later but what are your guys's opinions on five nights of freddies i respect it i don't find it to be overly scary in my opinion like my kids like every other kid in the world absolutely love five nights at freddies we have the vr one uh they have everyone that's ever been made like legitimately oh wow like i they love it they love five nights of

freddies i respect it for what it is i don't personally find it to be scary because it's like I get that they're creepy animatronics, but like, it's a kid's game. So, like, they can't really lean into horror that much. So it's like they try to make the jump scares and the eyes looking at you in the dark kind of the thing that you're supposed to be weirded out by. And maybe it's just because I'm older. So it's like, I'm not scared of the dark. I'm not scared of something being under my bed at this point.

So it, like, doesn't really do it for me. But I do like the fact that you have people that have said, hey, let's talk. target like young adults and do like creepy kind of horror that is appropriate for like young adults there's really not any gore there's not anything that would make a parent be like no you can't play that and yet it's still like classified as horror and creepy so i like i respect it for what it is it's just not really my kind of horror yeah that's fair i'm along the same vein as uh as josh with this as as a dad um my kids weren't ever really into it but i also i had some nieces and nephews that were to me all i can think about is chucky cheese like i just see the i just

the characters and i just think this is just chunky cheese with like spooky night time but uh but yeah no it's cool i do i do like giving giving a type of genre to like younger people that that without making it like gory and bloody and nasty and stuff so they can experience kind of for whatever reason humans like we like to get scared for you know we do it on two ourselves for i don't know why but but it's enjoyable like getting that jump scare or doing those things like it's it's enjoyable so to give them the option to do something like that i think is unique and cool and they they i think they did it in the right way um i mean it's obviously like you said ace it's everybody knows it everybody knows five nights at freddies so uh second movie

comes out in december i think so oh really geez yeah all right we're moving on to the what i call the middle era of indie games with one that kind of piggybacks off of the mascot horror genre started by FNAF, which is Bendy in the Ink Machine. This is a very stylized game. It is stylized in like this 1930s animation aesthetic cartoon style with a very simple plot. You were an animator that worked at this studio. You received a letter to come back to this studio. Now you're trapped in the studio with a giant ink demon.

Have you guys, do you have any kind of familiarity with this series? I bought this game for my kid when she was like, Dad, I like Five Nights of Freddy's. There's this game called Bendy and the Ink Machine. So I'm actually pretty familiar with this one. I watched her play it a decent bit. Like, the art style is fantastic. The gameplay seems really good. Like she quite enjoyed her time with it.

It stands out as a unique game. You know, I didn't really get to see like the horror elements part when she was playing because I didn't like watch her play it nonstop or anything. So I don't really know what the horror is. But in my mind, it's just, again, it's just kind of like an iteration of Five Nights of Freddy's where it's like there's probably some creepy looking thing that is chasing you down a hallway or that you come across

and you're supposed to be scared of and that kind of thing. So I don't know if that's a fair representation of it. But I do know that it is like a creepy, you know, like it's weird to call like some games horror because like, I mean, I know they are, but creepy is a better term when it comes to, like, kids games, in my opinion, because you're not really getting it's like horror games. But, yeah, she quite enjoyed Benning the machine and the art style, and it's great, dude. That's what really makes it stand out is that art style.

I agree. That's what I mean, I love the old, you know, kind of like a steamboat, you know, Mickey Mouse and stuff like that, that style back then. I really enjoy. This one actually looks pretty cool. I honestly have never. heard of this game before I'm surprised. I look at this. Yeah, I mean maybe the name is vaguely familiar, but yeah, my kids have never really been into this style of games or these types, you know, so I never had too much exposure to it.

And I was, you know, too old. I wasn't really interested. But yeah, it looks super cool. I like the aesthetics of it. I like that. I think that's a good name for it. It's like more creepy games than horror games. Yeah, I agree with you on that. Yeah, I can't believe this came out in 2017, though. Oh, yeah, that just shocks me. And this is one, uh, something I talked about in our grumpy gamers episode was like,

I don't like episodic game releases. Bendy started off like that, which now they sell it, I think, is a full package, which I'm so glad they do that now instead of just like, oh, yeah, we're going to sell you each individual piece. Yeah, yeah. But yeah. Moving on to Tormented Souls, which came out in 2021. And I know you hate when people do this, but, uh, I know you hate it.

it, Josh. This is a modern survival horror which combines aspects of resonant evil and Silent Hill. You watched the trailer, Josh. What did you think of this one? I thought that this game looks like the best game on your list, dude. At all, like, legitimately, legitimately, dude, I, you know, well, I say that there's like a couple of the newer games like reanimal and ill, I think, look really, really good. But like, if we're talking the older games that we're covering, I even message you guys, man. And I was like, bro, what is this tormented souls game? How did I not know about this? This game looks great to me, dude. Like, legitimately looks great. And it's, you know, you say Resident Evil, but I almost want to say

like Tomb Raider a little bit in there as well, just because you have the protagonist. I can see it. Like, you have the female protagonist and she is wandering around. She seems tough. She seems like, you know, you don't mess with her kind of thing. And. I am super curious about this game because the monster design really weirds me out there's moments in the game that are really creepy that just make my brain go like

what's like what is going on like out of all the games on this list dude I would probably be most likely to actually pick this game up and play it because it looks like a full-fledged game with horror like I think the genre is horror but the game itself seems like a very well-rounded, fully fleshed-out

game, and I love how they designed and, like, presented the horror aspects of this game. Yeah. This one for me looks really cool, too. I have one other one that I'm really interested in, for sure, on Aces' list, but anytime they have, like,

a morgue setting, and then they have, like, catacombs, and all that kind of stuff, it just, it just breeds, like, creepy, nasty horror nature. And, yeah, I liked it. I liked it. I like the look of it. It, like you said, Justin, it looked like a full kind of

unique experience, a good, unique game. So, yeah, this one actually looks really good. I've actually played a bit of this one. And it is really good. It is hard, though. Like, if you remember the original Resident Evil where you had, like, limited saves, limited ammo, things like that.

You felt like two bullets at time. Tank controls. Like you open a joy, you're like, oh, thank goodness bullets. Oh, it's the best thing you could ever give me. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. tape. I can't believe it. But yeah, no, this one, Termin to Souls is actually fantastic

and it has a sequel coming out this month. That makes me want to look up the sequel. I don't, like, because it's like the only complaint that I could give about this game not playing, it was just, you know, the graphics are a little dated. I mean, they're not bad by any means, but like, it makes me really wonder

like, where did they go with this? Yeah. All right, fellas, before we lose our sanity bars completely, why don't we take a little break? all right we are back talking about the evolution of indie horror moving on to faith the unholy trinity from 2022 is more they already looking at me weird this is an eight-bit game with rotoscope animation within it which really makes it creepy honestly the rotoscope animation is what makes this game you need How would you describe rotoscope, Ace, to somebody that doesn't know? Roto scope is like take the full body, like the live action full body of a person and actively translate the movements in real time. Like it's the outline of people almost.

Yeah, it's like the outline of people. Yeah. It's not quite right. Like, you know, like how Polar Express just looks off? Yeah. It's like that. Yeah, it definitely looks off, dude. like this game dude like

it looks like someone like pixelated trauma this game this game looks like Windows 95 ran on holy water and fear it's it's like this game looks like it's like MS paint discovered religion and

regret at the same time this game looks like someone tried to summon Satan using basic it's like this game's like the devil's first PowerPoint presentation man. For real, exactly.

This game looks like Silent Hill was remade using a graphing calculator. Poor faithy on Holy Train. For my eyes! What are you talking about it? My eyes! This game makes the finalistic graphics, all right? It's like a cutting edge game, dude. It's from the future.

It's minimalistic graphics with a deeply unsettling theme, all right? They really leaned into the minimalists for sure. Yeah, minimalists, as in like, There's four pixels on the screen. Look, you can't make a horror game when you don't have room to put blood on somebody. At one point, there's a character. There's five pixels walking around, and four of the pixels are blood. And I just, I had to laugh so hard at some of these scenes in this game because I'm like,

this is why I wanted you to describe RotoScope, because like RotoScope basically means nope, more like Roto Nope, because the graphics in this game, are the worst graphics I have ever seen in my life and bro we've been seeing a lot of Mena the Hollower lately and this is saying something

dude I couldn't I couldn't make out half the time what I was supposed to be seeing on the screen and so instead of being a It's a blue blob running dude it's a blue blob running

what do you mean? And I'm like is this my character? Is this like what is this guy I Ace is just like Whatever guys get it out I can't say it out Get it out guys

The horror of this game Is watching this game Like that is the horror But like I like legitimately I don't know how You try to make a game scary If I can't tell what I'm looking at The pixel art people are going to come for you do

The unsettling nature of the unknown The unknown is very scary So when I watch this like And I think the trailer is like a minute and 20 seconds. For a minute and 20 seconds, I was very unknown what I was watching. Yeah. The whole game's unknown. You can't tell what it is.

Yeah. Mortis. At least it has voice acting. No, it doesn't because it uses that weird robotic voice from the old Robo Wars Atari game. Or I can't even remember the game. Yeah, it adds to the feeling of the whole game. What's the feeling? Pain.

Yes. Pain. Pain and torture? Torture is pretty horrific, Ace. all right fine moving on to what I consider the modern frontier of indie games where we are currently at

Poppy Playtime you've heard the name I'm sure I think you even had someone who was a voice actor for this game onto the show at one point we probably did my son cosplayed Poppy Playtime yeah okay yeah very popular the main character actually just got out of Fortnite

as a skin of course of course it is you enter a toy shop, a toy factory, whatever it is, you get trapped inside, the monster chases you. This is our new mascot horror that slowly, I wouldn't say usurping FNAF, but it's taking its place in the children's eyes.

So unique. Where teens have taken a whole of Phaf. Hey, Ryan, you know what we should do if we want to make like a horror game? What if we made it about something that kids like, like either like Chucky Cheese or toys? And then we just, you know, made it where those toys or those anima, metronic things were scary

and then that would be creepy but then we could market it to kids because kids don't get to play horror games very often but we need some inspiration for this game so let's rip off the game from 10 years ago and then we'll make it our game but we'll make it

almost exactly like the other games but we'll just call it something different and maybe we'll throw in some puzzle into the game so that we can say it's different. You forgot the part where you don't finish the and you keep releasing. Oh, but then you have to do the episodic thing that we know Ace hates where it's like,

hey, we're going to do episode one, episode two. But how do we make toys scary? Just add teeth to them, guys. That's it. If you just add a whole bunch of teeth, it's scary. Yeah. Oh, gosh. How is this any different than Five Nights of Freddy's, man?

Five Nights at Freddy's needs to follow Nintendo and get some lawyers. Get some good lawyers. Like, it's all about the lore stuff with these kind of, these kind of games now too, man, where people just really sink their teeth into the lore and the theories and things like that. Well, I'll tell you one thing. Having a child, he's, my son is nine. He's been on Poppy's playtime for a while. I had no clue what it was until something showed up at the house. I'm like, what is this giant blue rectangle head thing that's furry, you know? And so, um,

the thing is he's never played the game, but he watches YouTube videos of people playing these. And that's what a lot of these kids do. That's how these games get broadcasted out to all these kids is they all sit and they just watch YouTube players, you know, where people are playing them. And then that's how they fall in love. That's like their TV shows.

Yeah, it's wild. But man, I bet this thing is making so much money. Oh, dude, it is making bank. Oh, but moving on to Lethal Company. We all played Lethal Company. Yeah. We freaking love Lethal Company. What makes Lethal Company so special, though, Ryan?

um gosh among many things um the suspense nature with with the the kind of proxy chat and i i know we we poo-poo on bad graphics quite often i don't know how much i would like lethal company if it was really really solid graphics i i think the grainy nature of it the the graphics that aren't as good kind of help the game I think it leads to that suspense I can't really see I can't really tell the audio is good

I love lethal company I'm such a weirdo I would play it at like six in the morning sometimes before work by myself like yeah it's it's a solid one definitely good for spooky season oh dude generally

we always have a good time when we boot up lethal company and with the proximity chat that just makes everything so good it's iconic at this point Like, legitimately, I would say lethal company is iconic as a game. It started the friend-slop trend. Finally, moving on to mouthwashing, which came out last year.

This is a, like, dreamlike PSX style game with psychological horror elements. You're a crew of this spaceship delivery company that's gotten into a horrible accident. Your captain is in not good shape. and your entire crew is falling apart every moment. I like how the one part you walk through like a hallway of eyeballs looking at you. You're not doing good. I thought this one looked kind of good, man. Yeah.

Oh, it's great. People love this game. I kind of am curious on this one. It's weird enough to peak my interest the, I like alien spaceship type stuff. That's scary. That's a good atmosphere. You know, dead space, aliens, that kind of thing. and there's something about mouthwashing

that kind of piques my interest, to be honest. So I'm actually curious about this one. And it's got almost... I think you'd enjoy it. It's got almost 22,000 reviews overwhelmingly positive. Yeah, which tells you something, man. Yeah. People wanted it to win indie game of the year last year.

Oh, really? That's how much people liked it. Okay. And you love psychological horror, so it's perfect for you. This one just seemed right up my alley and the different characters and something's going wrong. Your captain's, you know,

the premise in the game description is the captain has like not thrown you all under the bus, but basically he is causing you guys to die with him. So there's that whole like weird thing going on. But yeah, this one, it's worth a wish list to me because I want to at some point think about maybe playing this one. Nice. And real quick, we're going to touch up on some upcoming indie horror games,

starting with Reanimal, which is the, I'm going to say this is just the spiritual successor to Little Nightmares. It is, you know, what everyone wanted from Little Nightmares from the original team since Little Nightmares 3 ain't doing so hot, right? No, it's not. You guys actually interviewed someone who worked on Reanimal, right? Yeah. Yeah, the creative director for Tarshire Studios, man. I'll say this.

I have zero interest in the Little Nightmares 3. I know it's not getting great reviews right now, but Reanimal, we will cover Reanimal on this podcast because I know like all three of us are very excited to play it they have a demo out right now for my understanding that they just released but yeah reanimal is very high up my list of games that I am really looking forward to that fall under this like horror genre um I think it's going to be great and it's also going to be a great like stick it to the company that bought Little Nightmares three and then ruined it yeah and then uh ill man where do we start with ill bro oh now you're now we're talking baby you know you know i said like

gore doesn't do it for me right you're taking that back weird blobby really creepy looking humanoid people but then there's a blob of like a hundred of them like bro this physics in this game creeps me like out to like a whole another level man oh dude Yeah, there's something about it. And obviously, it looks good. It looks phenomenal. It looks phenomenal. It's very well designed.

The graphics look amazing. The world building, like the, the, you can tell, like, it's just chaos. Every, every room you go in is just decrepit and stuff stacked everywhere. Like, it's, they did a really good job on setting the scene in this game as well. I can't wait, man. This thing looks, this thing looks good. Like, when I'm talking about, you know, indie evolution, this is. what I mean. We are now blurring the line between indie graphics and triple A graphics. Yes. Yes. And that's

going from Slender Man to this is crazy. If you are a gamer and you have not watched the trailer for ill, trust us when we say you need to watch this trailer. You need to see it. It is it is bananas, dude. It is unlike any other game I have seen. It is a, it's horror on a different level, man. This trailer weirds me out, dude. It weirds out my brain. It is well worth taking a look at. I'm probably more hyped for ill

than any of these upcoming games, to be honest. There's like a ham cut off with like fingers cut off and the fingers are like crawling away. It's so creepy. Yeah, and you're like, oh, and then the sound is like of like them eating the baby section

from Resident Evil 8. The whole game's this way. The whole game looks like this, man. Yeah, I'm super pumped for ill, dude. and real quickly we'll just hit on this one final sentence which is a i've never heard of this a battle royale horror game where you all are in a room typing all at once typing sentences and paragraphs this game's weird man the first person like first person who screws up gets shot in the face like it's squid game it is squid game but for typing like and you can't make it apparently

you can make a mistake or two but like your third typing mistake but you have to type over a certain speed so it's like it's a really neat premise and i like the way that they've presented this because they did a great job with this trailer and kind of showing some of the gameplay stuff but at the same time this one also looks really good it's ultimately just a typing game which like they used to have to do back in like competitive typing i mean i mean but come on man like i don't know it's i think the challenge here is the not making the mistakes right because we can all type fast everybody's been typing since they were born at this point right but it's like but you can't make yeah that's fair that's the problem so then it's like do you slow down but the more

you think about typing the worse you get at it so i don't know i think you said there's a demo going on for this or yeah there's a demo for this i might hop in just to see i don't have high hopes for this one but it is they've done smoke them kids they've done a good job presenting the game i'll say that i agree yeah it looks it looks good the graphics are nice um I do find it funny like you mess up and he's like, wait, no, no, no, no, no, no. And there's a guy standing there and just, boom, and he just blows your brains out. I think it is unique. I think it's cool.

It is like a typing game, but, you know, maybe that's what people need. It's just something different, something unique. So I did think this one was funny. That's what we always love. We always love something unique. Yep. All right. That was a lot of games, fellas.

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