That bit at 4:14 made my stomach drop. When I was little and walking with my mother up to a convenience store at night, if I caught a glimpse of the back, I would think "damn that looks creepy, glad I'm with my mom and not back there." I used to look out of the car window at deserted streets late at night like "damn it's creepy out there, glad I'm in here with mom." This whole map recreates a very specific feeling I didn't know could be accurately recreated

Get cozy, fellas

Hello, librarian, I recommend you explore Gm_Vacant_Industry when you have the time, it's an incredibly huge map with plenty of secrets and it'll probably have you spending hours trying to find every little thing on it. Side note: Haven't watched this whole video yet but I already know it's gonna be an absolute banger

Maps like these just make me think of 'Ara and the Empty Universe'. Specifically, what the titular character likely was going through as she drove to each town and city looking for any signs of people... and just finding ghost town after ghost town. Maybe even finding houses with lights still on or other electronics still going, music playing, and having that brief moment of thinking you found someone else but upon checking it out you find you are still indeed alone.

SPOILERS If you take the painting that you saw in the sewer and put it on the wall in the haunted home's cellar, it'll trigger an event!

33:40 the blue street lamp may be meant to be an older LED, as they age the yellow phosphor starts to break down causing them to eventually turn purple. some also do this very early due to quality control of LEDs being a lot more expensive than bulbs, which makes it done a lot less

Going for long walks late at night is a great way to clear your head. Just be careful and always be aware of your surroundings. Also I really dislike the new LED street lights, the sodium vapor lights were so much easier on the eyes.

When your friends are too busy to hang out so you watch the librarian

Most people from High school and College can get this feeling during night whenever they are going home at this late hours. Imagine when someone goes missing and never got found the next day

It is ironic to me that after tossing and turning for over 5 hours trying to go to sleep after PTSD kicked in, I find comfort in a horror channel talking about all the reasons things are scary. Thank you for providing that solace tonight Librarian. It's greatly appreciated.

About that question pretty early on. As a “young’un” I can confirm that this map exudes perfect creepy and comfy feelings. I may have never lived in a place akin to this, but it still feels incredibly nostalgic. I think there’s only one place I’ve ever lived in that exudes something similar to this creepy and comfy feeling. There was a really new apartment complex that I lived in, and it had large fields around it on all sides. There was basically nothing else built besides this new apartment. The wide grass fields on all sides were so incredibly dark at night. The only thing that had shone light for miles was this place, and the little road next to it. At least, that’s what it felt like. Looking back at it today, the fields and woods surrounding it aren’t nearly that large, and there’s a couple of buildings around the area. But even so, in my young mind I remember looking out my second story window, and seeing the orangish glow of the street lights barely keeping the darkness of the fields out, barely keeping me safe from whatever lived in the long wispy grass..

*ignores "windows 12"* *sees flatscreen tv* "Huh, maybe it's not the 80s or 90s."

There is only one thing worse than a jumpscare... *Reveals the whole phrase is "Minor jumpscare"* *Gasp!* A minor!

im definitely not the only person to say this but one of the comfiest things about this channel is how, without fail, it always seems like we're right next to librarian as he plays, like.. we're all just a part of his friendgroup, i find myself almost.. talking *with* librarian as he plays, like he could hear me, cause the things he says seems so.. directly to YOU. and not just.. like gameplay, but theres someone speaking too its.. just a seriously nice thing, and a big part of why librarian is my comfort youtuber

My mans really got spooked by the closing staff slacking off 😭

7:26 i love how this is like doing an on-stage presentation for an audience of none

A youngin’ here, I don’t know, these GMod maps like Shambles, this and that British highway map are just really calming, they always remind me of walking back to my car after going to a party, or Halloween. Shambles at day too has a really peaceful vibe. (It makes me with for a foggy morning version of this map like Shambles has)

Hey there, Librarian! Over the past two years, I've had a tough time fitting in at school, but every time I watched your videos, it felt like I could momentarily forget about my situation. It seemed like I had someone who shared my thoughts, loved the same things, and that truly made my day each time. I'm incredibly grateful for your content, and I hope you continue creating many more videos. By the way, your voice has this oddly comforting and soothing effect. Greetings from Belgium!

I think gm_nightlight is my new favourite map

I’m in this routine of putting on the librarian close to bed time and envying how he gets so into the game his voice puts me to sleep

Hey Librarian! I have a map suggestion for you. It’s called RP_NYCity. It has a day and night version. The map is honestly breathtaking with the detail. Would love to see you do a video on it.

To answer your question, Librarian, yes it does. I both want to curl up beneath one of those lamps and watch the skies for the movement of something truly imaginary.

Me and the homies boutta cuddle and watch some new librarian 💯

Hey librarian, I'm happy to hear you tell stories about night walks n such! I wish I could take night walks around my town but I'm a girl and don't exactly feel safe in that type of environment lol 😖

4:12 “This isn’t just darkness, this is advanced darkness” -silly little sponge

The breakdown and dissection of the psychological elements present in the horror games you play, is what makes your channel. I mess around with small game projects as a hobby and your explanation of the effects of light, form, and sound on perceptions is pretty valuable. Keep doing you.

We still have these nice yellow light where I live

10:06 Car wrecks with nobody around feel soooo eerie.

Liminal spaces, creepy and comfy and concepts like that are special for everyone i think, like for example American childhoods and Eastern European ones are very different, while American people will find some stuff creepy or see it as a liminal space people that had different childhoods will see them as completely normal places. So that means concepts like liminal spaces and etc. are special for everyone which is really cool! (mb for bad wording, English is my 2nd language)

Im much younger, but i still get the creepy comfy vibes from what you describe. I think its less about nostalgia but more about similar situations and experiences-like weather or being in a forest. Although, i think nostalgia can help, like some people are nostalgic for different video games while others arent. For me, being in a car, sort of scared because you're shrouded in darkness except for the light reflecting off of signs, is that creepy comfy feeling. Especially when its raining.

As a “young’un”, I related a lot with this, reminds me of my hometown. Sneaking over to the convenience store at night getting pocket change by cleaning for them, although as I’m scared, not of the dark, but if being attacked, I’m paranoid so I always have my pocket knife on me. The creepy and comfy vibe of this map is definitely there, and I like the creepy and comfy vibe, hence why I’m here.

This map really reminds me of my home town of nampa, especially the outskirts of the downtown area, Nampa is a suburb of Boise, but has been around ever since Boise was established. It’s a railroad town so its planning is horrible, the grid is shifted. This map really reminds me of driving at 2 in the morning with my brother going to my house from my other brothers apartment, Listening to snoop dog or whatever. This map just really gives me that bittersweet feeling, abandoned supermarkets in shopping centers and random houses off highways. And the best part, they still use those sodium vapor lights all along downtown.

You talked about doing walks on the morning and getting scared by leaves and bags and I can relate to that. I usually go for walks at dawn cause I don't like going for walks with people around and I always get scared by random noises and shadows that look like a person lurking in the dark. I normally walk while listening to my favourite musics and bands but sometimes I just go for a silent walk. And sodium vapor lights were a thing until early this year here on my city. I loved taking pictures at night with the fog and amber lights. But now it's all LED light that are just boring.

The Leprechaun bringing awesome maps as always. These videos are the only vr content I really watch, so thank you for this series :)

1:27 during the night your hearing is way more sensitive than during the day, not only because things are quieter but because it is actually easier to hear minor sounds during the colder temperatures of the night, i do military night watches from 11 pm to 6 am, you can hear a leaf falling on the ground from a 100 meters away, im glad im not a jumpy guy but doing it is not for the light hearted

Part of what makes the nostalgic buildings like schools and churches in the dark of night so exciting and creepy is the cognitive dissonance of them being murky and empty. Your mind is so used to it being light and crowded that it can't internalize the opposite idea of dark and emptiness, despite being stared in the face by it.

I think empty churches are really slept on in eerie maps. I grew up being in churches at all times of the day, so I doubt most people get the same nostalgia from that that I do. So many other creepy and comfy maps already remind me of waiting in a dark church hall only lit by street lights through the windows, and I think there's so much potential in that kind of setting from a liminal space perspective. It's so comfy in that it's such a familiar space at a time when the street outside is asleep, but still creepy with the sprawling empty offices and meeting rooms from when the church was more popular that are now just filled with old junk. The most unsettling part for me as a child was knowing that the comfort could quickly turn to discomfort depending on what human interactions I had.

God your vivid imagination adds so much to the commentary of these maps. Not even 2 minutes in and you're already rattling on about what you're seeing. Has to be my absolute favorite part of these types of videos.

There is actually a ritual to be completed on this map, and I will say it involves both the spooky basement and the sewer.

Huh, how interesting. At first i thought i saw an ''Exploring gm_Nightlight'' video on your channel about a week before, but about a few minutes ago when i was searching for the video, i wasn't able to find it... And now, you suddenly made a video about it, how coincidental!

I’m addicted to this series, it brings me comfort :)

Does anybody else notice the footsteps behind him at 14:16?

I think that even as a young person the sodium vapor lights still evoke the creepy comfy vibe beacause the lights around my home used to have the same warm glow, but also i think that beacause of the soft warm glow of the lights help with the creepy comfy vibe

I've always been a big night owl so these sorts of environments I find soothing. The brightness, bustle, heat, all keeps me from enjoying just those solitary moments in life where you can absorb yourself in the greater portrait of life. I love seeing the lights following the streets and alleyways, like will-o-the-wisps of modern technology beckoning me towards places like the street nearby I skip all the time, or just an interesting piece of urban/rural infrastructure that often becomes forgotten in the big machine of daily living. Where others are asleep, it gives me the space to walk. Both my body, and mind.

I gotta say, this 100% made me think of gm_shambles. That dark setting dotted with the orange glow of street-lamps is quite an interesting one. Also, my personal take on liminal spaces, analog horror, and creepy-comfy is that these things are definitely rooted in childhood. I think that these places and things are so interesting to people because they were the background filler between destinations during childhood, like a hallway in a mall or school, or the dark, orange-lit streets you saw through the back window of a car being driven home from an event, or in the case of analog horror, news segments on the television that your parents watched and you ignored as you played with toys on the living room floor.

I do indeed get creepy and comfy from this

Hey The Larynx, have you ever thought about doing a Subnautica playtrough? I know that one of your biggest gaming fears is water, and well, the Subnautica world is all ocean and I think it would be cool to see you playing a 'different' game on your channel. At first the game may not sound like a horror game, but when you're 500 (1640 freedom units) meters deep in the dark, in your little submarine being chased by a leviathan class lifeform you start to question yourself if you aren't actually playing a horror game

32:14 "-like you just scared the crap out of me man, cuz he thought he was gonna get drive bye" 32:18 *Proceed to get the scared the crap out of his life*

When I was VERY young (No older than 10) those late night trips from my state to Maine to see my grandfather, and stopping at a gas station or a chain store like Walmart and just sitting in the car waiting for my parents to come back out was an experience. Most of the time my Mother would stay with me but for the times she didn't stay in the car with me, it was almost a whole other civilization or lack-there-of.

This map gives me this vibe when you drove to idk grandma or something far away and you drive back home in the middle of the night and you fell asleep in the car seat

That would be a nice neighborhood to cruise on a bike or play flashlight hide-and-seek with friends.

I will say, this map doesn't really touch the "Creepy and Comfy" side of my brain as much as it does others, but I fully agree that it has to do with my upbringing and memories. I was inside a lot when I was younger, and I really only interacted with my close neighborhood and school. The image of the cookie cutter suburban houses at twilight really hits home for me. Another strange liminal "thing" that really hits me for some reason is a typically really busy road at noon being completely deserted. Anyways, keep it up with the great videos, I just wanted to put my two cents in!

32:14 dawg I literally flew out of my bed with that scream

My favorite thing about this map, what makes it extra creepy; is that this looks like a place that’s very clearly meant for people to inhabit. Hell, you even hear the sounds of cars in the background. It helps that it echoes places you can find in the real world. It’s truly as off all this town’s residents just mysteriously up and vanished. However for some reason it left you behind, alive. Taunting you with the false promise of life (the idol civilians in that one store), leaving you to descend to madness with the ceaseless emptiness. Only an ominous feeling to company you, one that won’t leave you even in that church. Eventually you realize something, you could very well be that ominous presence. *_You_*_ could be the monster_

Glad I'm not the only one that takes night walks

The only jumpscare in this video is him yelling in terror after seeing actual human beings

lol i can imagine myself chilling in that car at the dollar tree watching this dude across the street talking to himself at 3am

Him: "This neighborhood is creepy & cozy." Her: "I wish I could renovate this in House Flipper."

One of my family members used to work the evening shift at a church when I was younger, I don't recall any spooky vibes back then but there were a few rooms that definitely felt off, especially the pitch black sanctuary

"What if I saw something?" < *"What if something saw me?"*

Might seem outta place for this kinda comment but im going through absolute hell rn and your gmod videos really help me distract myself from the situations around me and make me feel better and comfortable somehow. Thank you and please keep doing what your doing 🙏

honestly, it gives me more of a comfy feeling, less painful lighting, kind of spread out too. and the darkness, though super dark in areas, it reminds me of a few places i lived at. it just gives me a sense of safety.

Basically the Spiritual successor to gm_Shambles. Still one of the most unnerving asthetics for a gmod map

20:54 those cars driving at the end of the street is the only prove of real human life on the map

I was playing swat 4 and man does some of the levels of that game have the same vibes of this map Fairfax The gas station The concert And a a lot of the user maps I really wish a lot more developers played into these vibes A game that im super excited for is "wronged us" It takes this small american town vibe and puts it to 11 damn that game looks so nice especially the liminal vibes i get from it 29:00 its a good point you make. Your speaking on the before times the big divider being 9 11 and then the shift happening officially in 2006 when the i phone came out. And i love the way you describe the less involved and smaller feeling world. A more connected world feels less personal less comfy and less safe. And with the end of history at the dawn of social media and the transfer of us going from the real to the simulacrum is what your describing. I miss the before times too Having to borrow my moms landline to call my friends and hang out Randomly seeing friends at public spaces and hanging out Only being able to see whats going on at new channels on cable The hear say of the school that no one took nearly as seriously We were outside more and went on more adventures Games seems to have this vibe as well not being always online all the time and having a more personal story to them a lot of the time Games like hitman bloodmoney Shadow of the colosus tony hawk underground Its a different vibe and now everything is so connected to the borg

Something about that orange glow really does evoke the creepy and comfy.

Dude nice video, i almost got asleep cause of the chill night sounds

If I had GMOD or any skills in creation in it, I would create a map that is essentially a compilation of every room the Librarian has every called "Mine!" too.

Sometimes power outages are so fun, i love reading spooky stories by candlelight

The fact there are flat screen computer and television monitors, the computers are all running on Windows 12, and the modern Amazon logo, strongly implies this is NOT set in the 90s. In fact this must be set in the future, because Windows 12 isn't out yet.

this is so perfect, just finished a hard day of getting all my chores done and now I get to sit down and watch this with my food. Absolutely love and look forward to every gmod exploration

LET'S GOOOOO 😂 Always love when the explorations exceed 50 minutes.

yes im looking at the stores and they also give me a creepy comfort feeling

'I don't like the way that car is staring me down right now!' 💀

These videos make me immensely comfortable. I could be having a complete meltdown, and these videos would help cool me down. And that’s something I appreciate.

Can't get enough of these Librarian gmod adventures. Love them!

Wow, those sounds hit differently-- I don't live in a city anymore, but living in a town shaped my childhood and everything about this was very nostalgic for me, especially the cars, the dark backyards, and the street lights (which I always found annoying as a kid because the light would always come in past my curtains right onto my bed). With all that atmosphere, I half expected to hear the clang of the flagpole alongside everything else.

8:42 100% I loved exploring the elementary school and sporting club we would have meetings in.

32:17 this is the most scared I've heard the Librarian be

I’m always comforted when I hear the, “Hello everyonnnne!”

Great video love it these kind of videos make me smile. Your awesome man! 👍

Those Orange lights always take me back to the late 90's when my parents would drive us back up home after spending friday nights visiting my great grandparents. always remember just watching my shadow appear and disappear as the orange lights overhead passed by in the back of the front seats of my parents.

32:17 First time I've heard this man raise his voice

I watched this video, inside of Voices of the Void, on the little tv honestly, a cool experience

this is probably one of my favorite videos you have made now :D

I love the long videos I’m sure they are a lot of work and i really appreciate them

Really appreciate both how genuine your reactions are and your meta commentary on horror/immersion from a viewers perspective. There's good info for creatives there too

I explored this one, loved the bench in the garden, sitting on it and just chilling listening on the sound effects and meteo was great

I literally just got this map yesterday perfect timing

Librarian, I absolutely love your videos. They are literally my comfort videos. They way you talk and describe things is such a breath of fresh air. In fact you kind of inspire me to do what you do, I loved your Minecraft series and I’m so excited to follow you on your continued journey on KZfaq❤️❤️

2 uploads in one day? Nice Upload 12 of asking for night in the woods

You make me think of Jery Seinfeld when you walk slowly and overly describe things or come up with stories

Yes. Neighborhoods like this definitely still exist. Reminds me of an area I used to live in. Thanks for sharing this. :)

I was waiting for you to play this map. When I first start playing it I knew it was something you would play and enjoy.

You really make my day dude or night lol your vids are so good

Man, this is just t h e v i b e s. That orange light vibe was still pretty common when I was younger, especially on highways. Also the feelings about being alone at night in your church or similar place hits home because I frequently got to do so growing up; that feeling of knowing the realest version of the building as a constructed space is very unique.

Always a good time when librarian uploads.

As a younger person, I'd say the creepy/comfy feelings still apply, less so due to nostalgia and more so because of the atmosphere itself. The yellowish-orange lamps illuminating the place with warm light, inherently making the place more comfortable, contrasted with the dark sky, empty stores, and dark areas filled with trees. And it seems to be the early 2000's, I spotted what looks to be a 2004 Ford Expedition at the party house (26:23). (Edit: just loaded up the map myself, it's actually an Explorer, and seems to be 2000 and not 2004.) I don't normally comment, but I just liked the questions asked in this video, and I love it when you explore maps in VR. Keep up the great work man!

This reminded me of feelings I haven’t experienced in such a long time. I remember going out at night as a kid felt like a event like you said. A few years ago I explored my neighborhood at night and it felt so similar to this. This map is just oozing with Atmosphere, to the point I forgot I was watching a Garry’s mod video. It reminds me of a time as a kid. A time of being super curious about the world at night, yet still creeped out by the environment, but it was It was in a fun way. Thank you for sharing this experience with us. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I kinda wanna play the map myself now.

Love your videos. I was very into night walking from around 2012-2016. I used to spend hours alone in these kinds of environments multiple nights a week. The way you describe the nostalgia and other feelings triggered by the late night urban areas is spot on.