I covered an early demo build of this a couple of years ago, but the full game's just been released! It's based on the story of the same name by H.P. Lovecraft and sees you entering the ruins of a mysterious city that doesn't seem to have been built for humans. It's an actual Lovecraftian horror game, rather than a horror game with tentacle monsters in it. :)

@jeremytitus9519

4 ай бұрын

Ah, I thought it looked familiar. Thanks for covering it-there really isn’t a lot of quality _cosmic_ horror out there, and this seems to be doing it right

@joeyj6808

4 ай бұрын

Pretty damned good job! The creator did a lot of great work.

@riphopfer5816

3 ай бұрын

I’mm really struck by the beauty of the architecture of the city as one finally finds one’s way in to what seem s a structure that spans at least two ‘universes’

I appreciate that ABG tried to use the "dispel barrier" action on one of the coffins, and I'm a bit grateful it _didn't_ work.

On the other side of the veil, where dreaming gods lie, is a vaporwave mall.

@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus

4 ай бұрын

Knowing how the nameless king rolls? . . . The odds are pretty high that the dream land has one.

@andreaholcock8992

4 ай бұрын

The Cult of Saint Pepsi

I really LOVE those book adaptations, all the mainstream lovecraftian games are like: Scary sea creature with tentacles

@costcorotisseriechicken2520

4 ай бұрын

"lovecraft is when fishpeople. The more fish the people, the more lovecraft it is" - most game devs

@pedroKwiecinski

4 ай бұрын

@@costcorotisseriechicken2520 Dude, literally

@WobblesandBean

4 ай бұрын

​@@costcorotisseriechicken2520 It's sad that the closest thing we ever got to actually capturing the vibe was "The Sinking City" which could have been decent had it been allowed to cook a bit longer. I kinda liked the idea of Cthulhu having spawned a daughter, and the game had sparks of genius like Joy Hayden's story, but the animation was incomplete and the game was a bit janky. It needed more polish.

@ianfinrir8724

4 ай бұрын

In Fallout 4 there's a character named Pickman, after _Pickman's Model_ (my personal favorite Lovecraft story) but nobody at Bethesda even bothered to actually read the story because Ghouls are a thing in Fallout and Pickman has nothing to do with them.

@mikhaelgribkov4117

4 ай бұрын

@@costcorotisseriechicken2520 Yeah, Sinking City did remember the monkey people.

The "eye icon" when you hover over objects is giving me such sweet nostalgia, love games like these. 👁

@markd.s.8625

4 ай бұрын

the eyecon if you will

@jeantarr1314

4 ай бұрын

amnesia and penumbra the first things that are coming to mind

@Yoni123

4 ай бұрын

it's been used since the 80s... @@jeantarr1314

ABG: Sorry, I'd R'lyeh rather not. Monster: YOU THOUGHT, N-

I love how the in game dialogue of the nameless protagonist uses the style of speech one finds on all of Lovecraft's stories, including, of course, The Nameless City.

@WobblesandBean

4 ай бұрын

I just wish he would have learned how to pronounce basic words like "arose" and "mere". He's all AROUSE and MURR

Those gliphs and the "magic" system reminds me the brillant "Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem" vibes. Awesome atmosphere

@WobblesandBean

4 ай бұрын

Yes! It's like an 8 bit Eternal Darkness!

@lynxf

4 ай бұрын

AROTAK NAROKATH PARGON

@definitivamenteno-malo7919

4 ай бұрын

@@lynxf PTSD of the 9-circle and the PARGON spam

Thank you so much for playing the game! I loved the headshake on some parts of the video haha

@AlphaBetaGamer

4 ай бұрын

You're welcome! Loved the game. It really captures the spirit of Lovecraft's cosmic horror. Awesome work! :)

@ubx9563

4 ай бұрын

I just finished it. Really good work on this!

@horizonmage_o1839

4 ай бұрын

You guys did a great job!

@paradnightstudio

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! :D

@The-Man-On-The-Mountain

3 ай бұрын

Bobbert's signature along with the little dance every time there's music.

There are so many HP Lovecraft inspired games out there but so few of them get it right. I'm hoping this one is one of the exceptions. Thanks for the video though.

@AlphaBetaGamer

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, lots of games seem to just think Lovecraft = tentacle monsters. I think this is one gets it right though. It's respectful to the source material and is more about fear of the incomprehensible than cheap scares. :)

@sukamadik5983

4 ай бұрын

@@AlphaBetaGamer Well I'm definitely glad to hear that. I'll take any win I can get on these types of games.

@redlightu

4 ай бұрын

Ironically a lot of good games that do eldritch horror justice are loose adaptations (Bloodborne, Signalis, Darkest Dungeon, World of Horror) Rather than most of the known direct adaptations of Lovecraft stories (Call of Cthulhu, The Sinking City)

@sukamadik5983

4 ай бұрын

@@redlightu I actually like the Sinking City but Signalis tackles the subject matter better than most games I've ever seen.

@WobblesandBean

4 ай бұрын

​@@redlightu I wouldn't call Signalis eldritch or lovecraftian in any way. It's a different kind of horror.

This looks great. I remember reading this story in a book containing most of Lovecraft’s stories. This story was one and still is one of my favorites.

I like to think the spikes on the buildings aren't just decorative but eldritch pigeon spikes

@CrowSkeleton

4 ай бұрын

byakhee poop is hell on the masonry, after all.

Love the atmosphere on this and that we never really get to see the cityfolk, dead, alive or translated to another realm of being.

The first view in the game looks a lot like one of my favorite surreal paintings, The Entire City by Max Ernst.

welcome the abyss, where you find something or die trying and never come back

Love this, the atmosphere is just mesmerizing, captures aspects of the story that my mind couldn't truly form on its own when reading the story.

I love how you're running around unleashing abominable horrors into reality, while the entire time there's this bird in the background just vibin'

Those AI generated images when he touches those artifacts really scare the living soul out of my body, an interesting way to use non-human drawing on a game based on novels about the non-human.

One of my fav Lovecraft stories!! Awesome, thanks so much!

The sound in this game is amazing

I was really expecting a jump scare as he crawls down the sloped tunnel.

@zerrodefex

4 ай бұрын

Like that that "thing" at 34:45 that ran ahead of him down the stairs that we never see again?

There should be a tabletop game that takes ideas from Lovecraft's work, maybe use one of his most famous stories from the cthulhu mythos as a selling point title, with rules that involve investigation and resisting madness. I'd call it "Lovecraft and the Spookasaurus!"

@jeremytitus9519

4 ай бұрын

Woah! Hey buddy! Easy going! There’s a reason _Spookasaurus_ has never been republished; why even “Complete Works” and other such compendia never include it among their corpus. That benighted tale should remain unread, and unremarked…..

@esoessify

4 ай бұрын

There are quite a few, the one that I tried and liked a lot was called Eldritch Horror

@Charlie.G506

4 ай бұрын

You're gonna get so excited by hearing that we have one! CoC reached its 7th ed a couple of years back!

@conelybiscuit4985

4 ай бұрын

...one of the most famous TTRPGs of all time sir! On the bestseller lists and cover of every magazine for 18 months! What were you thinking!? ... I mean thank you, fhtagn again

@xAxCx

4 ай бұрын

Did anyone tell him about Call of Cthulu ttrpg yet?

I'm a huge Lovecraft fan frm way back; also R. E. Howard & Clark Ashton Smith. I've read "The Nameless City" several times & I gotta say you've captured the "Lovecraftian" feel Perfectly! Especially liked the low ceilings, the primordial skeleton-thing, the magical spells usage & most of all those funny sand-swirling statue things! Also you've got the graphics Just Right! Hugely impressed! Very Well Done!

More emotion and atmosphere than 100s of million dollar games.

Oh yassss, I loves me a good Cosmic Horror

Hey, does anyone remember a short game with a city with its inhabitants changing their line/behavior every time you died falling of an edge?

I was listening to the audiobook earlier today while doing dishes. I absolutely love this❤

When scaring the player with the monsters is no longer possible, the solution appears to be to try and scare the player with the graphics.

We're gonna party like its 1997!

i lost my old youtube account and im so glad i found you again!

Great game despite its limits. Sometimes less is more, especially concerning Lovecraft.

You've played so many of these obscure games that I would love to see your personal top 10 or 20 games you've played from them.

I watched the whole thing and it was great.

28:07 Was that your way of saying you knew better than the archeologist’s theory Bobby?

@BirKanwar-hf2vj

4 ай бұрын

😂

I loved the story of HP Lovecraft's Nameless City

I love cosmic horror I am gonna watch this

Ooo i really enjoyed this thank you! Would love if you did more games like this! Sincerely-a non gamer fan of game lore😁

@AlphaBetaGamer

4 ай бұрын

Yeah I really love the lore in this one! It sounds like you'd probably like the Dagon adaption too: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z4Vm28engNzWgLg.html

SO these psx graphics, do they they add to the horror for young people? Do they give a game the same vibes as a VHS filter on "found footage" horror? I was 22 when the psx came out so this was just yet another step up in graphics for me back then. I feel like I'm not getting the intended vibe from the current retro use of these kinda gfx.

@pishposh3306

4 ай бұрын

These graphics effects I think are best for the game and for the developer. They're simple enough to be done by one or very few people in a reasonable time, while still fitting the uncanny, eerie atmosphere of Lovecraft. For relatively simple graphics compared to what gaming is capable nowadays, this GFX is still suited to the intended atmosphere of the game.

@jonahulichny9874

4 ай бұрын

Much of lovecrafts work centered around horror’s incomprehensible to the human mind. It often relied on the reader’s imagination to make a picture of just what the un- showable monster looks like. Because the human imagination is capable of rendering a pretty scary image when trying to come the unknown. Rendering the graphics in a way where said horror is show in great detail ruins that effect, now the un-showable sanity blasting monster is being shown in a very un-sanity blasting way. But by using more primitive graphics, the player is forced to use their imagination to build the un-showable monster, like what lovecrafts work originally did

@The-Man-On-The-Mountain

3 ай бұрын

I was 14 when the PSX came out and yes, this graphics style makes some games scarier and unsettling to me, but I get what you say because it's exactly what happens to me with all the liminal spaces trend: I just don't get it. That sht doesn't trigger in me any fear/horror or whatever that all the people seem to feel. I just see empty spaces which, some of them, give me traces of nostalgia. That's it. So I understand why you haven't got that vibe from these graphics.

Beautiful.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! there are so many lovecraft's stories that could be great for a videogame, like "the white ship". Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh wow

Seems nice, never read any of HP lovecraft's book but i like the concept of these lizard people worshipping multiple eye god

6:49 "we were trying to reach out to you about your empire's extended warranty"

Lovecraft always translates so well into games

See, this one I appreciated and enjoyed. It had a purpose, it was unnerving and frightening and it ended in such a way that I can say "I feel satisfied". Sure I'd like to know more about wtf this is about, but at the same time, if not done right, it may ruin the story. I'd rather live with an illusion in this case. A part of me believes that aliens did live on Earth once and a lot of the old civilizations were crafted by them...some of those sites seem impossible to have been done by man so long ago...

This is one of his best stories probably the best one(to me) . Thank you for this alpha-beta gamer!

this looks cool

My name is Memphis !! Who elses name is Memphis?!

@capnjackgallows3204

4 ай бұрын

Very nice I take it you were named after the place due to your parents love of it?

@meepda1731

4 ай бұрын

@@capnjackgallows3204 nope from gone in 60 seconds:)

@meepda1731

4 ай бұрын

@@capnjackgallows3204 nope from the movie gone in 60 seconds!

This game gives me Uru vibes. Thanks for sharing!

Shades of Eternal Darkness! Should have more insanity effects.

Yes sir

Unspeakably entertaining.

If you call a city "The Nameless City" then it isn't a nameless city, that's a real oxymoron we have here.

@AlphaBetaGamer

4 ай бұрын

Haha, the city would now like to be known as "The City Previously Known as The Nameless City" :)

@sukamadik5983

4 ай бұрын

@ZoomerStasi I call it the Shortbus City

@sukamadik5983

4 ай бұрын

@@AlphaBetaGamer That doesn't fix the original problem but it's a step in the right direction for now, thank you 🙏

@tremorstudio9766

4 ай бұрын

It’s the same you say something is nothing. If IS ‘nothing’ (noun or adjective) so IS something

@user-qr6eb4jg9n

3 ай бұрын

Well you see. The city does have a name. It's just that the name is incomprehensible and beyond the ability of any man to even think of, let alone speak out loud. A name so horribly unthinkable that your mind is stricken from all recollection. So we just call it "The Nameless City"

Endless city? So endless buildings? With endless chests and bookcases? So endless looting? Sign me up, and I'll take my eldritch horror on the side, pliz.

Nice, but it never gave me the feeling that I was truly in the presence of Yog-Sothoth, Shug-Niggurath, or Sag-Aftra...

So it seems that casting spells in the world of Lovecraft really drains your sanity away by seeing that "nervous system". Funny thing is the elder sign looks like is the only form of protection in the world of lovecraft against most of the aberrations...I remember when I played " dark corners of the earth" that the followers of dagon would cower and run when seeing the elder symbol.

*ʕ♡˙ᴥ˙♡ʔ HEY ALPHA!*

Really good game. Great

Around the 8min mark, during the vision Did anyone else see white wall cupboards?

cool game

They should make organ trail with algebra. They won't never make it to the first stop lol

😮 game

I always thought this story could make a cool game

Oh, hamburgers...

Needs more Pargons.

Too mortis for lovecraftian and Cities

The Nameless Cat

What is the head, brain, and spinal cord on the right-hand of the screen for?

@acev337

4 ай бұрын

Sanity meter.

Night Vale: Origins

This makes me so mad we never got In The Valley Of The Gods

Is this game any good?

@AlphaBetaGamer

4 ай бұрын

I really loved it. It feels like a real Lovecraftian horror game. More about fear of the incomprehensible than fear of tentacle monsters. :)

He wrote really creepy stories just a lot of people are too afraid to say the name of his cat.

Lol wtf does it give away that the inhabitants of the city aren’t humans in the first 2 minutes?

29:18 ABG: *five minutes into exploring* *immediately devolves into a graverobber*

@kitosjek9541

4 ай бұрын

Get a life

*Game:* _Amnesia: the Dark Descent_

@capnjackgallows3204

4 ай бұрын

Amnesia is absolute trash

Unconvincing.

Too much purple. MY EYES...

I’m not even gonna watch the video. All imma say is “homestuck?”

8:42 so *cough cough* to subtly let the guards behind the door know you're waiting at the door for them to open it didn't work, huh?

@AlphaBetaGamer

4 ай бұрын

Haha, no it seems this civilization was more interested in coffins than coughing! :)

@AntipaladinPedigri

4 ай бұрын

Maybe you should've coughed up some money, then?

Watched video at 16x speed ngl

I’m pretty sure the voice actor is AI. There are a number of words it mispronounces.

@AlphaBetaGamer

4 ай бұрын

Hi! No it's not an AI voice. It's the same voice artist from the original demo that I covered a couple of years ago (before the AI boom). I think he just pronounces a couple of things wrong because English isn't his first language.

@bluegestalt78

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, just a silly Italian human trying to do a voice over in english 😂 This said, if you notice any particularly mispronounced words please let me know and I'll fix those, it would be super helpful! (I usually double check the pronunciation of whatever I am not sure of, but I must have missed something)

@ianfinrir8724

4 ай бұрын

Personally, I think the voice being a little off adds to the feel of the game.

I like the argument of using IA garbage because its garbage. But this is an walking sim some effort on the art the bare minimum and they are already doing the quick and dirty psx gimmick. The only thing carrying the alien city vibe is the color filter.

6:38 is it AI? 🤮

This was a boring one...

@capnjackgallows3204

4 ай бұрын

There isnt any , it's called narration. Fool.

@lordlasagna5121

4 ай бұрын

Well at least it has something in common with your videos then.

@CatzK3

4 ай бұрын

@@lordlasagna5121 Aside from the whole getting personal right off the bat thing. Please tell me what exactly of that game did you find so interresting?

Why do you intentionaly waste time? on top of this being a very boring walking simulator, you make it look like it's longer than it is. got paid to promote this aberration?

@lordlasagna5121

4 ай бұрын

Spoken like an angry virgin who's channel is shit.

@ianfinrir8724

4 ай бұрын

Bobbert always tries to explore everything in the games they present.

The most horrific thing about this game is it's voiceacting. I recommend turning off the sound whenever you see letters on a screen.

this voice acting is HORRIBLE

The lo-fi graphics really hobble the atmosphere. Squares of color don't replace textures and blackness doesn't convey vastness or depth.