Sometimes you find something in a video game that makes you think ... Well, I guess I won’t be needing this anymore... Aw crap... I guess I gotta order a new PlayStati... Oh god! [sigh] This is why today we’re diving into 8 video games
with unexpectedly dark secrets. And only 7 days left to secure
yourself an oddheader plushie, only available until October 30th and after that, never again. So, if you want to be one of the only people own one of these guys, this is the last chance. Snag one on Makeship with the link down below! Tower Unite. Thanks to RanchChan for submitting this discovery
on the oddheader discord. Tower Unite is a game that can’t seem to
escape this channel, constantly being covered for increasingly strange mysteries, despite
being a title just about playing games like putt-putt with your friends. Discoveries have included a mystery door out
of bounds as well as a hidden bulletin board
out of bounds that supposedly led to an incredibly creepy hallway before it was removed from
the game. But besides all that, RanchChan found something in
the files that seems to take reign as now the strangest thing found in the game. Throughout the environment the player can
find a variety of Plushies such as a foxes, penguins, and teddy bears… but lurking in the folder that stores the
plushies in the game’s data, a particular asset can be found that couldn’t be further
from being a cute and adorable plushie… As- Oh god! As under the name PlushManSpider can be found
this enormous and unnerving creature that clearly doesn’t seem to belong anywhere
near this game. Now that is a huge asset. Nobody on my discord could figure out what the discovery's purpose was... But it was definitely agreed it made no sense this creep was found in the Plushies folder. As not only is it bigger than any of he other plush toys, but it's also pretty clearly the last thing that anybody would ever want to snuggle with. Did RanchChan uncover some sort of twisted joke, or is this ugly freak still somehow waiting to be found? I truly pray it isn't. 'Cause, I mean look at this thing! Hot Shots Golf Fore. Thanks to Meryn for submitting this through
my website oddheader.com, as they found a video uploaded by CaptainSpeedruns this year
that presents an intriguing discovery that exists on course 5, hole 6. As at the start of the golf tee, if the player
were to take the camera and zoom all the way to the other side of the course A strange
figure can be seen near the hole looming over in the distance. And of course, the moment we try to get a
closer look, it instantly dissipates into thin air. What the [bleep] was that? Playing the game, I wasn't able to find anything else like this anywhere else in the game. And it's quite puzzling what we're even looking at, as it appears to be a metallic open-mouth robot thing in a maiden dress... With some seriously messed-up hands. And sometimes it even flashes before it disappears. Intriguingly, the figure appears to have an effect on it known as billboarding which means no matter which way the camera is facing it the figure is always looking it straight down. And after the figure disappears it doesn't reappear again until you restart the map. What's with all the golf games and extremely unsettling discoveries? Outer Wilds Thanks to SwagGuy47 for submitting this mystery on my discord server. Outer Wilds was a sleeper hit of 2019, sticking players in a 22-minute time loop as they repeatedly explore an enormous universe until the sun explodes and destroys everything sight… But aside from that premise, the player is going planet to planet in a pretty quiet and ominous adventure Which is why it was particularly odd that players crawling through the data of the game were able to find references to a number of curious things that were never found in the game, such as an invisible planet, rooms that were labeled as haunted, and even a neck-snapping ghost, At one point referred in the data as NeckSnapGhostController, with even a special event tied to its killing state called “Ghost Kill Player”. Obviously, this is completely unfitting to anything in this game, with no signs of a neck snapping ghost that anyone knows of. And while nobody's head has been ripped off while exploring through the game, it is very open ended... ...meaning there may just be an invisible planet lurking in the game that anyone's yet to find... So if you want to be the one that uncovers the truth behind the NeckSnapGhostController just make sure you're protecting your neck at all times. Psychonauts Psychonauts is a bright and colorful platformer
from Tim Schafer, where you play as Raz who enrolls in a camp that trains psychic children to become government spies known
as Psychonauts. At one point in the adventure, Raz finds himself
inside the head of the disco-obsessed camp counselor Milla, where players noticed they
could veer off course and find a hidden room containing a memory of Milla working in an
orphanage, grimly revealing she left one day and a fire ignited and killed all the children
inside. In the same room is a chest, where inside
can be found the ghosts of the same children screaming for help, which is an unbelievably dark hidden
moment for a normally bright and lighthearted game. "Why did you let us die Milla?" "Help us Milla!" Even more unbelievably, cut dialogue was found
in the files of the game that revealed this easter egg was even darker than what we’ve already
seen, as hackers uncovered deleted audio of Milla crying in terror as she was forced to
stand by as the children met their horrible fate. [Milla cut audio]: "The children!" "Someone save the children!" "Oh! God! No" "The babies! I can hear them!" "They're screaming!" "Please! Stop crying!" "Please!" [Crying] Well, I can understand why Milla locked this memory away as after seeing that I kinda want to shove this
deep down in my own psyche myself... Shadow Tower. Shadow Tower is a first-person dungeon crawl
for the original Playstation developed by From Software, which is oftentimes referred
to as a spiritual predecessor to Dark Souls. Redditor DonovanKirk decided to play the
Shadow Tower this year with a Playstation emulator using a widescreen hack. He was turning the corner near the
beginning of the forgotten realm in the Human World, when he saw something strange stick
out of the corner of his eye that appeared to be trapped in the wall... As only visible by forcing the game into widescreen
mode, a corpse can be seen hanging in the wall that normally never actually appears
in the game. I spent some time investigating the
scene myself without the widescreen hack and I found if I placed the camera just right I could actually
see a good deal of the figure... but it still fell too far outside the render distance to
truly be seen… whereas with the GTE widescreen hack which increases the game's draw distance… The whole thing is right there...wow. Donovan Kirk has pointed out that there is a huge number of secret areas in the game but it appears nothing here has ever been documented... So while it's possible there is a secret room here that's just never been found... I did notice myself a similar scene that appears to have been cut, shows up in one of the game's Japanese trailers. So I'm leaning towards they thought this was pushing things too far and censored it at the last minute… Although poorly. Not that anyone ever noticed except...well... Everybody who's now watching this video 21 years later. Half Life: Decay. Thanks to Lucius for submitting this discovery through oddheader.com. Half Life Decay is a co-op adventure released
only on the PS2 version of the original Half Life. Developed by Gearbox, Decay has you assume the role of Colette Green and Gina Cross at Black Mesa during the events of the original game, where a mishap at the facility opens up a rift to an alternate dimension. In the original Half Life, at one point
protagonist Gordon Freeman ends up knocked out by the military, only to end up waking up in a trash
compactor. In a cut mission of Half Life Decay, we were originally going to explore how Colette and Gina were the ones to rescue Gordon
during this sequence... But it didn't make it into the game. Fortunately, hackers such as YouTuber MarphitimusBlackimus were able to compile all the unfinished assets to recreate what this scene would have originally looked like, and rather surprisingly found if players were to have lost the mission, they’d be treated to this rather grim display of Gordon Freeman being assassinated on screen. Well I think it was a good call they removed that, as I think showing the beloved hero being casually murdered
and tossed into a pit like he was a bag of steaming garbage would have been a
bit much for Half Life fans to handle. Even for me, this one hurts. Kamaitachi No Yoru 2. Thanks to CapybaraMan1000 for submitting this
through the oddheader reddit. This is kind of an unusual example game for me to cover on the channel, but this mystery was just too good to pass up. Kamaitachi No Yoru is a murder mystery visual novel series that’s only had one US release on iOS, where players go to an island to solve clues to a series of cryptic murders. This mystery has apparently been discussed for years over in Japan, so I'm quite shocked that no discussion of it has ever really made it here overseas... Besides one Spanish video from Argentina by NicloasLoquendro that CapybaraMan sent me on reddit… Anyway, after the player has seen all the endings
in the game, if the player restarts the game again and replays the adventure, at a random
point out of nowhere the game appears to completely crash. Whether or not this is intentional has been argued among fans, though personally I feel these effects are fabricated. A strange text block appears
with four nonsense options which translate as follows: Curse.
Choose Suffering. Attention.
Why do you die? Then one of four different outcomes will play at random, some of which seem to have something to do with a disgruntled developer that worked on the game. For instance, in one result the game will
suddenly switch to a blue animated background where an ear-piercing audio and gibberish
text scroll across the screen, talking about Christ, how to apply lotion, frog dissection,
and repeatedly saying “there is no help for being cursed” over and over. The second tells an unusual and cryptic story
about one of the writers who worked on the game, which seems to imply he may have snuck
this into the game without the other staff knowing... All while an ODD HEAD slowly fades in and out on screen. The developer explains in the message that while working on the game they began to hear a voice and saw serious delusions in the office, only to later be diagnosed by a doctor that they had a neurological disorder.
The developer explains he was haunted by the deaths of the characters from
the game and at one point seemingly implies that he was let go from the game staff, but adds that he still lives on in the game in the form of this message closing with that there’s still time for you if you haven’t yet heard the voice. The third possibility is perhaps the most
disturbing of all, as a quick succession of horrifying images flash on screen while an absolutely
ear bleeding screech plays in the background. Oh, god! What the [bleep] is happening? During this sequence, the most nonsensical
text displays on screen yet, which starts talking about organs and suffering, until it repeatedly says over
and over “This is such a game” “This is such a game” then, “It is. It is. It is.” Soon after it starts saying “Daddy Daddy Daddy” until it repeatedly says "Game" over and over until it randomly reverts back to the normal game. The last option displays an image of a mysterious
figure on the beach for one second and then resumes back to the game. Without question this is one of the most bizarre discoveries I’ve ever seen, and with the constant argument and debate about the mystery still unresolved overseas for years... It’s difficult to say if this is truly the work of a disturbed individual who was fired from the game... Or if something else is going on here. And if this was really the work of a disgruntled employee who was let go during production... I truly hope they're in a much better state now than they were when they did this. Kanye Quest 3030. Thanks to Gideon for submitting this still-unsolved mystery in Kanye Quest 3030. Kanye Quest was a 2013 indie hit where players
play as the yeezus himself, as they fall into a portal that takes them to 3030 where they
face off against clones of other rappers in a battle to become the ulimate based god of the future, a fantasy that could have easily been dreamed up the rapper himself. The game was considered by critics and players alike as a fun novelty until it was quickly forgotten ... until a suspicious, anonymous pastebin file that was uploaded
a couple years later in 2015 revealed that the game held a much darker secret. According to the user the trail began when
they noticed a broken based info system in an random abandoned building in the game that
seemed to hold a secret message at the bottom that said "Ascend and worship the base god." Later you meet a BasedGod Taskforce cultist
in the street who randomly asks “What do you want to do?” This pastebin user reported that he randomly tried the word ASCEND and was teleported into an extremely ominous area where they were suddenly
a butterfly. And downloading the game for myself I can confirm that this surprisingly works. Inside lies a strange laybrith of computer
servers and an immediate message telling you not to reveal the information of this exercise
publicly or otherwise just go ahead and close the game... ...as it’s apparently time to begin your ascension. In the room is many blocked passages by computers
the require a password. Going south reveals a room that’s a giant QR code that unfortunately
leads to a dead link. What the link originally led to is still unknown. But it didn't end there, because dataminers found all of the passcodes to the terminals... which were lots of seemingly nonsense words such as Jagatai, Petuntze, and Eyen, which googling appeared to tied to a a cult called Ascensionism that according to old posts was uploading cryptic youtube videos with these words years ago, which unfortunately are now taken down and no one has seen since the Pastebin file's upload. Several references of Ascensionism can be found online since the late 2000s, with a Wikipedia user page that's existed since 2006 claiming that Ascensionism is a religion, well before Kanye Quest's release. But if it is a really cult, its one that’s done a fantastic job of keeping its mostly unknown presence online still a secret. Once completing the room and finding the last terminal, the game tells you you've now ascended. It proceeds to say you'll be contacted in two weeks and asks for your information. It’s been thought by many in the years since
that the game may have originally used this information to track the player in order to recruit them to the supposed cult of Ascensionism. To this date, nobody has ever been contacted. However, dataminers have found the game is coded to do absolutely squat with the information once you put it into the game. A now-deleted twitter account was also found called Ascend Records, which was a label with only one artist on it named Nick Lyons,
who is believed to have been connected to the game. And listening to his music is a highly unsettling experience... [Indiscernible noise and audio] Um, okay then. And, unfortunately, that's pretty much where the trail ends. The creators behind the game are largely enigmas online, much like Ascensionism itself. So it's still a question if this was done as a reference to the creator's actual beliefs, or if something else is going on here that we just will never fully understand. Kind of like how we'll never fully understand Kanye himself. If you enjoyed this video, please subscribe. And again, one last chance to own your very own Oddheader plush. Only 7 days left to order one and then it's never available again. So if you want to be one of the few people to ever own one of these collectibles, pick one up on Makeship.com today. And if you know of any other discoveries that were unexpectedly dark for the game they were found in, submit through Oddheader.com join the discord, or even send me a shout on Twitter or reddit. [patrons] Stay tuned!
I’d like to point out that the creature in the golf game is based on an alleged alien called the Flatwoods Monster
That Kamaitachi one is completely out there.
That last two in your video were seriously creepier as shitt.
for anyone interested in the kanye quest game https://youtu.be/hW7n4rh4HaY
I actually heard about number one a while ago when I saw a video about the super Mario 64 iceberg by “sunflower” in which he brings up that the game supposedly contains lot of similar symbols like how it works as a rite of passage specifically with the aspect of defeating a person of power represented by king bob-omb boss and the floor patterns in the lobby supposedly match there colors, a whole bunch stuff that can possibly be a coincidence, but I do like mysteries like this so fitting this time of year
Ha, saw the easter egg!
Yes! I have been waiting for this!!
The Kanye one really disturbed me, I really wonder what the true purpose was for all of those hidden cult messages