1:50 Can we fucking acknowledge that this dude took the entire pizza out of the box and *set it on his bare desk,* no plate no napkins, just entire fucking pizza slapped onto bare wood that he only took a single slice from

Game: *says ripples* Mark: *says nipples*

This is the most dramatic way I’ve seen someone say *”Dont do drugs”*

Can we all agree that this house was probably completely normal but this guy was just TRIPPING BALLS

He's a Minotaur (metaphorically), the Minotaur was cursed to wander a maze for eternity.

_"Just like all of you. You're all my imaginary friend, you don't really exist right? You're all just in my head."_ *He's onto us*

Why is that voice for the main boy so SOOTHING

I swear to god every time he said “This game is so weird” or anything along those lines, the game suddenly got weirder.

"That's the real story of the minotaur!?" You better believe it, Mark. Greek mythology gets downright weird in spots, and this is one of them. According to legend, when King Minos was competing for the throne of Crete, he prayed to Poseidon, god of the sea, to send him a snow-white bull as a sign of support. (As Crete is an island, having the god of the sea on your side was kind of a trump card.) The snow-white bull would then be killed in honor of Poseidon. Except, well, the bull was such a spectacular specimen that Minos decided it was just too good to sacrifice. Instead, he sacrificed one of his own bulls to Poseidon. Poseidon, being a Greek god, did not take kindly to getting short-changed. So, since Minos loved the bull so much, he made Minos' queen, Pasiphae, love the bull even more. She contacted the craftsman, Daedalos (or _Daidalos_ ) to build a hollow wooden cow, and... well, the pictures in the game cover the next bit. (They're from actual Greek art.) Being the unnatural offspring that he was -- a monster, literally a warning from the gods -- the minotaur turned savage as soon as he was weaned from his mother's milk. Being a monster, he had no natural food supply, and had to eat human flesh. On the advice of the Oracle at Delphi, Minos had _Daidalos_ create a massive labyrinth to contain the minotaur, where he remained until Theseus, aided in some versions by Minos' daughter Ariadne, killed him (in order to end the regular tribute of young men and women that were fed to the monster).

*_…floating down a river with barely any nipples…_* ~ Markiplier 2K18

I sometimes find myself watching him play a really good game only to realize that he recorded the video like 3 years ago

Jim: Caretaker: Seinfield and chill?

Markiplier: wtf Game: wtf Markiplier: *WTFFFF*

You know, the caretaker would make for decent cosplay.

I’m 99% sure that that first “cheerful clown” is Tim Curry’s Pennywise

13:13 Ok. Am I a terrible person for laughing at Mark's reaction to the minotaur mural? I just love "I don't like this" type reactions and Markiplier... oh man! "Putting all the pieces in the correct order won't unlock any mechanisms, it will just scar you for life." XD

52:52 " Mark E.F. (Me) " " Sean *MCLOGHUHN* "

2:36 “... I’m floating down a river with barely any NIPPLES...” I think he meant ripples.

53:00: Ooh, a list of KZfaqrs that played the game. Very interesting.

Mark just now discovering the myth of the minotaur is peak hilarity

12:53 Yep, that is how the Minotaur came into being. In Greek mythology, Minos competed with his brothers to rule over the island of Crete. Minos prayed to Poseidon to send him a sign of support; a pure white bull which Minos was to sacrifice to honour the deity, but instead he kept it because of it's beauty and instead sacrificed one of his own bulls, thinking that Poseidon wouldn't care. To punish Minos for this, Poseidon made Minos' wife Pasiphaë fall deeply in love with the white bull. Pasiphaë had a craftsman named Daedalus create a hollow cow, which Pasiphaë then climbed inside in order to mate with the bull. The offspring of the bull and Pasiphaë (a woman and a beast) was the Minotaur. Unable to be satisfied with normal foods, the Minotaur consumed humans for sustenance. Minos gained advice from the Oracle Delphi, and had Daedalus construct a labyrinth in which the Minotaur could be held.

This game reminds me of Fran Bow and Never Ending Nightmares.

Game: has a guy named Daidalos. Me: "Hmm. Sounds like Daedalus" Police officer: mentions daedalus Me: "I was right!"

Is this... Is this Stephen King the Game? This is chuck full of references to all his Books :O Either that or he was a huge inspiration to these people :D Absolutely magnificant :D

I, too, feel like I'm floating down a river with barely any *nipples.*

So if almost everything was a hallucination, does that mean that the scene when he kills the dog stuck in a trap, is actually Jim finding his daughter asleep in the other room and strangling her there? If so, the moment when Diane screams when seeing Jim in the cabin could be his wife finding the daughter dead, and the scream somehow making it through to him. She calls the cops, Jim waddles around tripping, then strangles her, thinking she's Diane, and the cops burst inside just a few seconds too late. Wow...

I like the part where he arrives in the room with that hand sculpture and whispers "What the fuck..." and then the character also says "What the fuck..."

Mark just getting grossed out at the myth of the Minotaur in the first puzzle sequence is great.

The puzzle in the beginning refers to the birth of the Minotaur: the queen (Pasiphae?) was cursed to fall in love with one of the prize bulls (of whom the king didn't want to sacrifice). Pasiphae was cursed by Poseidon to love the bull, and so she snuck out in an enchanted bronze cow (made by Daedalus, who agreed to help her), and.. The Minotaur was conceived. It's the actual way it goes.

*”Companied by a cold pizza”* Boi you just bought the damn pizza

Just rewatched this because I remembered how good the game was, but had forgotten the ending. Seeing the main menu screen at the beginning vs the end... The look on his face. He knows what is going to happen. But we just think it's a game. It's just a game, right?

_10/10 very spoopy._

The most surprising thing about this is that the protagonist has the common sense to try and leave the building when the monster thing shows up.

There's nothing like a good ol spartan kick to a grandma's face to make you happy

This will forever be my top inspiration for working toward being a makeup artist and special effects artist and maybe voice actor in the future. This is beautiful. It has a message. It’s unfathomably great. Pixoala rocks.

I'm wondering if the meta-game ending isn't as meta as we're lead to believe. Jim was likely experiencing the effects of the drug in some way, be it a high or withdrawal. He kept saying that the murder of his wife "had to be a nightmare", and what better way to console yourself than to convince yourself nothing actually matters? And then bam, he wakes up. It was all a nightmare, a figment of a game dev's mind. He has the Caretaker to assure him he's in a game, and upon killing the caretaker what happens? He hallucinates his dead wife in a jail cell. I think the ending actually upheld all of the crazy stuff Jim experienced because he furthered himself into his head and refused to see the world for what it was: it _wasn't_ a game. The story of the Minotaur and the labyrinth is that the Minotaur _can't_ leave. Jim is now perpetually stuck in a horrendous reality shaped by fear.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Don't do Drugs.

42:16 You put us all through enough by harming an innocent doggo! We can handle being murdered in strange ways, but a doggo moildle?! You've crossed the line, Horns of Fear!

His mind is a labyrinth and he is the Minotaur forever trapped in the labyrinth.

14:10 "HORRI-*BULL*" "YAAA, I WENT THERE" *Realizes how messed up that joke was*

>Jim >Journalist IT'S DEMONS, JIM.

I can only imagine what Amy hears coming from his office 😂

Me when hearing the dog whimpering: ....doggy no :( Markiplier: I can’t let it suffer...*presses finish button* I’m gonna cry.. Only someone who really loved animals would not let an animal suffer...Never let an animal live in pain...

Those pills scream '' Take Your Joy!!''

2:37 “Nipples”

Huh, Jim Sonrimor is Jim Morrison (the letters are just in a different order) Weird.

Did anyone else notice how Sonrimor is just an anagram of Morrison 🧐🧐🧐

Daidalos is Daedalus, the inventor of the Labyrinth.

47:42 - 48:16 What the fubbernuck?

Love the moment of genuine terror when the error message pops up. I'd have the same reaction lol.

2:37 did he say "i feel like im floating down a river with barely any NIPPLES." XD im not the only one that heard that right????

The ending is quite obvious, to me, at least. Seeing as many people find it confusing, and also saying that the game is about the fourth wall breaking, I will try to explain it, and to justified that this game is only about hallucinations, instead of meta. So what is real and what is hallucinating in this game? Well, for the real part, it's up until the part where he consumed the pills, the interrogation part, and the final part where Jim drops tears on his hand. *_All else is a hallucination._* What happened in reality, is that Jim consumed the Horns given by the Pizza delivery guy(who want to spread disorder on society or something), causing him to hallucinates about the mansion. The hallucinations eventually lead him attempting to strangle Daine(the SM grandma), before he comes to realization for a moment, that what he had done, is instead strangled his wife and daughter. Most likely called by other people in the hotel, polices arrived and arrested Jim, and then the interrogation scene happened. Afterwards, Jim is without questions guilty for his action, and thus put into the prison cell for that. He slept while drowning in confusion and grieve. This time, perhaps dreaming, or still under the effect of the drugs, he dreamt that he is just a fictional character in video game, and a white door appeared in his cell, allowing him to escape back to his room, waking up on his desk. At this point, he is still dreaming in the cell, but in the dream, he thought that he just consumed the pills and fall asleep. The mansion, the cell, all just a nightmare, even the caretaker(who is now likely a manifestation of his inner voice trying to lie to himself) convinces him. Jim tried to leave his house to see his wife, his inner self, a.k.a the "caretaker", tried to stop him from realizing the truth. Through an absurd dream sequence where he utilizes gun and OS, he deleted and defeated his caretaker- the Horns - the maze. Alas, rushing to the hotel, he finally meets his wife. As he tried to reach out to her, he wakes up. In the cell. Well, moral of the story: don't eat drugs given by a pizza delivery guy, I guess?

"Is that your mother singing in the background? She's very good."

You called Diane "wife of the butcher" when she was actually just the butcher, and that was labelled so in the story near the beginning, too.

i like how it putts you in the perspective of a character from a horror game and how THEY have to go through a endless loop of horror

Mark: *"I feel as if I'm floating down a river with not many nipples, just waiting to grow old."* Uh, I think you misread there buddy...

"Horri-BULL" *MARK NOOOO*

I’m so glad I didn’t watch this while high. That constant fourth wall breaking by the end would’ve made my head explode. What a cool story tho.

Markiplier learning about the origins of the Minotaur and being appropriately horrified is something I didn’t know I needed X,D and yes, Mark, that is in fact part of the original myth... and now we are all forced to join in the horror of Not Being Able to Unknow That ;w;

The main characters name in the game is Jim... And there's demons... *DEMONS JIM!! DEMONS!!!*

That's pretty cool when Mr Daidalos calls him Jim Morrison because Sorinmor is just a scrambled mess of Morrison

Mark: "Hate......" Me saying how I feel: "Everything about this room..." Mark finishing his sentence: "Everything about this room..." Me: "What the f-"

As a horror, art history, and Greek myth enthusiast this game is GREAT and I LOVE IT

Is someone watching you? *That would be Markimoo.*

*Every step you make,* *Every breath you take,* *I’ll be watching you.*

37:57 is just a manifestation of all your viewers

One thing I realized, rewatching this, was how, because he wanted to be an artist, but was coerced by his parents into not following his dream, we see so much imagery with art and similar things in the house? Part of me suspects his own Minotuar curse also has relation to his dream of art that was kind of squashed when he was younger. And that underlying urge to pursue it regardless.

This game's existence is such a revival of what almost every horror game is missing these days (Minus those like the Outlast franchise and many others, I'm sure); an overwhelming sense of dread and macabre atmosphere. The tension and build-up leading to well-done, subtle jumpscares, if you can even call them that, are absolutely great.

52:53 *Mark EF* *Mark* *Edward* *Fischbach* *_MIND BLOWING_* _wtf?_

this is, hands down, my favourite video Mark has ever made, I know it was a stream, but it honestly was so nice how he interacted with the chat, and the game was super interesting but mark himself kept the stream super entretaining.

i love the feature at the end where there is a ripple in the screen. such a good touch

I love how u said nipples instead of ripples

10:53 The picture for Miranda is actually a shot of Evelyn Nesbit, one of America's first modern idols... She was also apart of one of the first trails coined the trial of the century in 1906.

“Uhurrrrr....” Ah, yes, my favorite instrument the uhurrr.

This is honestly one of the greatest horror games I've ever seen. Up there with games like IB, Fran Bow, FNAF & The Theater. I wish more games would be done in this sort of style.

This game was a fucking drug trip in itself and I fucking loved every second of it. It seemed weird at first but I got really into it. The story was fucking amazing and the older gaming style of it was really nice too. Please play more games like this if they're out there because I adored this!! I love horror and everything about this was right up my alley. The fact that some aspects of it were handmade too... Fucking loved it, amazing game! Love ya loads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok. Who let the Jims make a video game?

I love the voice Mark gave the main character, puts me right to sleep.

13:51 Yes. It is, Mark. Poseidon sent a king (I forgot his name) a beautiful bull to sacrifice to him. The king thought the bull was too beautiful, however, and sacrificed another. Knowing this, the angered sea god made the queen fall in love with the bull. She sent for the greatest inventor to make a mechanical bull so she could get closer to it. They did the do, and the next thing you know, the minotaur was born.

Isnt a coincidence that this game is called Horns of Fear as like *LAYERS OF FEAR* as well? one was about an artist that was trapped inside his own "layered" hellscape because he was a pretty "bad" person, this is a guy that ended up as a paranormal journalist that always wanted to be an artist like the protagonist in Layers of Fear. The Minotaur's Labyrinth myth fits quite well with the game giving the sensation that you cant escape from your own twisted demons because they are from deep inside your own innermost darkness inside your heart, and when you start to wander off the path into the unknown you will end up losing yourself and everything you love and care, well at least is what i got from this game i think.

The painting, "Scourge of Carpathia" was a Ghostbusters 2 reference.

Oh, that explains the things and objects relating to his personal life in the mansion.

This was really good and really sad. It's such a good game, I love it!

Am I the only on that heard “ Nipples “ instead of “ Ripples” and waiting for him to crack and giggle....?

I feel you, Mark. Anything involving dogs being harmed makes me want to cry. Dogs are life ❤️

“Somethings mithing” Markiplier = mike Tyson *confirmed*

47:50 did i just have a stroke?

This is honestly one of the best games I've seen in a very long time. It was a riveting experience that had me hooked from beginning to end!

I feel like Markiplier would literally do all of his narration even if we were nonexistent. Like especially when the singing comes on and he's like "is that your mom singing?" hahaha

i got really confused half way through the video trying to understand the story line and then i finally understood it after the video. truly amazing game👏🏻👏🏻 i loved hearing mark say “what the f*ck?!” over and over again, made me laugh so hard!

I absolutely love how in this game while you constantly ask yourself “WTF is going on?” The same does the player in the game itself. This is the best way to associate with the protagonist - you both have no idea of what exactly is going on!

People have been smoking weed all wrong. You gotta kiss the joint Maybe take it out for dinner or go to a movie before kissing it

Am I the only one that noticed that Jim in this game is a journalist just like the Jims!?

"I'm not a Ghostbuster or anything" Lmao.. The Scourge of Carpathia is the painting of Vigo from Ghostbusters 2

Im still not over about how the old man got down with the wheel chair

When he said horribull I spit out my soup

The BEST ad happened. After you picked up the batteries, it took me to a Duracell Ad! LOL

42:00 I agree, end it's suffering

The creator of this game really nailed it, everything was amazing, the story, the music, the characters, all, and I liked that everything was conected with the Minotaur myth, just, wow. I need to see more games like this in the future.

"..flowing down the river with barely any nipples.."