No jumpscares and I am still shitting my pants.

I am back... after a little while to Liminalcore. Probably one of the scariest games I have ever played. Even scarier than Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion. But unlike that game, this game doesn't actually have jumpscares. It just more... very unsettles you. And let me tell you... I was very unsettled.

Starting off with Chapter 3, I find myself in a giant ballpit stranded in a fake cloudy sky. Seriously those clouds could not be more fake. No matter, I climb up the ladder and on we go. A very red hallway with a checkerboard floor is were I find myself. Among the hallway are rooms with more fake outsides for walls. It almost seemed like this area was some abandoned school. Especially since one of the rooms literally resembled a classroom. Chilling. Heading down furthere and now we're once again defying all rules of physics. Because why should we right? It's a video game! Anything can happen in a video game! Though a... very... ordinary door I go... and I am greeted with more fake clouds... and a lot of closed doors. All of which open to... large... creepy... distorted... heads... did I mention how large they were... like... holy fuck. Like I said this game has no jumpscares but something like that willl definitely make you jump. Okay one of the doors had no head inside it. It did have a nice pit though! No I did not jump down it. Heading further, there is a lone slide in a room. And that my friends... is my only way out. Heading down the slide and I am in another ball pit! I think this game likes ball pits. Oh yeah I'm also greeted by my minion looking... "friends". Looking around, it seems to be more than just a ball pit. It's a full on play area with one of those kids cage run around sets. I traverse my way through the play area and slide down to another fake outside... man this game really wants me to believe I am free. But I know I'm not. There's one opening that eventually paths me to a small maze of the children run around halls. Or whatever the hell you want to call them. I managed to find my way out relatively quickly. But that was just the easy level. After going through the... colorful and curvy corridor, I find on the hard level of the childrens run around maze.

Also at this point I was getting sick of how slow my turning was. But as I was adjusting it, only then would some... medieval music start playing. Almost something you'd hear out of ALTF4. How the music started... well that's beyond me. And that's unsettling. I take... a very... very trippy slide ride down. And for about the next 10 minutes, I am running around in what feels like circles trying to traverse my way through this childrens labyrinth. Even when I think I am out, I just realize that no... I'm not actually. I'm just back at the start. Oh yeah there's also clowns on this set. You know I was never really afraid of clowns... now I might be. They're just standing there. Laughing at me as I just have no damn clue how to get out. I feel like I face more dead ends than exits. But eventually I make my way out of that labyrinth where I am face to face with a... jagged little path. Oh yeah there seems to be a frozen dude looking out their little balcony. One can only know what dude was looking down at. But of course. The childrens labyrinths nightmare is sadly not over. There is once again... another damn labyrinth. Great. And it took me what felt like forever trying to escape the last one. Thankfully it only took me like 3 minutes to get out of that one. It was a lot more linear. I am faced with a couple jagged paths. The first one I go down leads me to another ball pit... wow this game really likes ball pits. And a bulging wall... okay that's kind of weird. Heading upwards, there's a couple more frozen dudes... and a phone... man poor guys. They were waiting for a call and they got blasted with skin freeze instead. I don't think that phone is ringing any time soon. There's not much to do here as the open doors ahead of me go to closed off balconies. So time to see where the other jagged pathway leads. Another ball pit! Who woulda thunk it? Further down is... a very demonic ball pit with an ominous tone that plays... can I go back to the other ball pit? No? Ugh... you're no fun.

So I push myself through the demonic pit. At least when I step in, the red lights get a little brighter. Not like that makes it any better. Headed down the slide and I finish Chapter 3. Chapter 4 dumps me right into a massive pool. Oh my gosh an actual pool. Filled with water. Not balls. Yeah this area is basically a massive pool room. Pools as far as the eyes can see! One of the more bigger areas plays some... ominous yet strangely soothing music. Heading further, there's a very... very red lit corridor that almost reminds me of some space ship from Star Wars. I don't know why. For some reason I run down it... it takes quite a while to do so... a left and a right path await me. I take the left. Over there, there's a gravity defying room. Hey why defy gravity in a video game right? There's a massive room with... well I'll just assume it's a very innocent looking massive vacuum cleaner covered by a massive blanket. Yep. That's what it is. There's a massive open door ahead. Can't go down it through. And I think I'm glad I can't. I don't want to know what the fuck is down there. So I take the safer, smaller door that I can go through. I walk down the several more pool rooms and find myself in a very... very dark room. Oh yeah. I guess a beast lives in here too. I can't see it. But I know it's there. And boy do I hate it. It's only after I go full YOLO that there is actually a path I can walk down in this room. Through the door I go and... I am... right back to the red space ship... so the left path was a waste of time. Of course... maybe because I was tired... I forgot there was a right path and for some reason I started to back track thinking I missed something... I didn't. And I wasted even more time. I take... a very long ass way back to the red ship only to remember OH YEAH THERE WAS A RIGHT PATH! Of course had I gone to the right the first fucking time, I wouldn't have had to waste any time. Oh well. Everywhere I go here, it's just filled to the brim with pool. The whole place is a pool. There are arches contained in the massive pool. It's just so much fucking pool! Thankfully the arches aren't much of a maze. There's a nicely lit door... or... doors just straight ahead!

And now I am in a room that is a maze of... stairs... just... so many fucking stairs. Stairs as far as the eye can see. That's just... so... so horrifying. I some how manage to make it through the stairs without falling. I wish I could say the same for the room of slides. All I had to do was walk in a straight fucking line and I failed miserably to do that. At least I got an achievement from falling!... yay? This time I successfully walk in a straight line and... welp... there's a massive hand that is pointing for me to join the illuminati! Or... just... walk through the massive triangle door that it's pointing to. Potato Patato? More stairs to walk up. Man I think this game is trying to teach good cardio! Down one more slide and... okay... I'm now in the deepest depth of Hell now. I don't know where I am. But I hate it. And I want out. But I can't. So I walk on forward. Eventually the voices of the demons themselves start speaking to me. yaaaaaaaayyyyyyy... (sigh). I take the door that doesn't have the fucking demons talking to me. Straight ahead, there's a poor frozen dude who is cursed until the end of time to watch static on a TV. Sucks to be that dude am I right? Headed back, I take the open door on my left and trot my way through the halls of hell. Literally. This is hell. There's a lit up hallway with a very damp floor. At the end of it... you know... I don't think I'm in hell. I think I'm in a human body. Because I am face to face with the biggest beating heart I've ever seen. I don't know whose heart it is. But miraculously, it's beating. I get close to it. Eventually I am not controlling myself anymore. I get one good look at the heart... the screen fades to black... and a long tone can be heard... is this supposed to symbolize something? Perhaps the heart stopped beating. Did I stop the heart or did it stop itself? We may never know... because that... is the end of the game.

Well... what one fucked up ride this was am I right? If I'd have to describe this game... it would definitely be an iceberg kind of game. Where each layer just gets darker than the last. With Chapter 1 starting me in a light and bright, quiet and peaceful pool area. Chapter 4 sending me in the deepest depth of hell itself. This game was very scary to say the least. But... it didn't have any cheapos like jumpscares right to your face. It was much more psychological. Nothing ever pops out at you. It's more of the ambience of it all. Quite similar to POOLS. Both very psychologically unsettling but something you're comfortable playing because you know nothing will just jump out at you. Definitely an experience these games were. Maybe I'll have to see if I can find another game like this. A psychological horror found footage kind of game. Of course... I'll just have to learn not to fucking play it at 1 in the fucking morning.