To reach the true ending of this game you have to do some serious digging! Here’s a how you get all the relevant info: **Spoilers Ahead** First play the game. You can get the original ending by returning the third flag or you can get the hidden ending by exiting when the dev tells you to, then returning to the game collecting the flags and shooting the dev’s eye when it turns up (as seen in the vid above). Either one of those endings gets you booted from the servers so you need to enter the Konami Code (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A) to get them up and running again. Now exit the game, here’s where it gets interesting… You can actually email the “dev” at john.mullard@yahoo.com and you’ll get an automated response which links to his website johnmullard.itch.io/eye containing a new game to play called eye.exe. (the playthough of that starts at 08:25 in the video above). After playing through eye.exe a creepy VHS video plays which has a poem in it with one word blanked out. That word is “haunt”, which comes in handy for the main game. Now you need to load up No Players Online again and in the server screen you type the word “haunt”. This brings you to a secret screen where you need to type the code “25467” (found via the dev’s tip here papercookies.itch.io/no-players-online/devlog/109311/complete-save-file ). This removes the mesh from the middle of the map and allows you to fall down it. Now you just need to enter the code “19 14 21” on the center console to access the true ending. This code can be found by digging around in the game files of the Linux version of the game, but a legitimate way of finding it still has to be found. There are a few clues though… “John Mullard” has a couple of bandcamp pages with some intriguing tracks one seems to contain a morse code message that includes the phrase “Key:Dog”: johnmullard.bandcamp.com/album/no-players-online johnmullard.bandcamp.com/album/to-see-noun Also, the website for “John’s” game dev company is offline but if you look up the WHOIS record for the website whois.domaintools.com/enuitltdgames.com you’ll notice that certain letters are capitalised EnUitLtdGames.com (GLUE?) and “Enuit” is an anagram for “Unite” and Enuit Ltd is an anagram for “Untitled”. God knows how much deeper this thing goes and there are probably a few red herrings thrown in there. Fingers crossed for a v3.0 update!

Scariest part about this whole video was the reload sound being 14x louder than everything else

"No views" So does that mean there really are No Players Online?

Player: Oh my God, what is that monster?!? John_dev: Hey let me explain you everything.

This started off as an interesting concept and got so stupid so fast. "I can code a game to bring the dead back to life but I can't figure out how to password a server or ipban somebody."

this game: has an interesting concept and seems fun john_dev: let me explain everything for you

everyone's gangsta until they make you watch a vhs tape nothing more scary than obsolete technology

This was great until John_Dev spills his guts. You really don't want to tell people everything about the plot five minutes into a horror game.

The game was great till “this game has the power to raise the dead”. That made me not take it seriously haha

When your pc magically turns into a TV. Relatable.

so true. i feel like everyone gets this creepy vibe when playing alone in a online server.

This game is like your typical reddit creepypasta "I put in a Nintendo Cartridge and the Nostalgia Critic and Peter griffin bled at me."

This game has serious potential, I feel like it has gone to waste though. The whole concept of being in an empty server is something that most people as gamers have experienced, and even outside of a horror game this whole concept is quite spooky. As many other people have stated, the whole raising the dead plot kinda kills the mood. Something about the “monster” of the game being revealed and explained makes it a lot less scary. Honestly, I think the game without any plot at all would be better. Not having any sort of regular interaction with other people will keep the feel of being on an empty server “alone” still alive. As for all the secret content, I think it’s nicely put together, but really feels much more like the main game rather than a series of Easter eggs (which is how I assume it was meant to be). This section adds more to the plot, but yet again takes away from the title concept. In the end, I can’t really tell what the developer wants this game to be, but I think it is very nice looking and could be a well designed horror game with some more development put in!

I’m calling it right now: this game is going to blow up and then be ruined by a horrible fanbase.

For real, can I just say how one-sided this game would be if CTF maps were like that one?

This is amazing! But instead of making it literally about summoning the dead it would be interesting if he "summons the dead" by creating an avatar that resembles his wife perfectly and this game, somehow, tries to create a whole new "reality" with her still "alive". The creator of the game at first is aware is not truly her, but he gets so invested in his idea of bring her back through this project that it gets to a point where he can't tell the difference between reality and fiction: in a moment he does think is her real soul in there and the player is now stuck with a mentally unstable, heartbroken, unpredictable and desperate developer in his also unstable game, a game where the main character has almost no control of what's going on. And they are dealing with this alone, nobody else is there to save them. Since this is a game and a virtual reality one, anything might happen there. There would be nothing supernatural, but is still scary to, somehow, end up trapped in somebody else's damaged mind, which is represented as a game. I got really interested in this story as I think games can also be a valid medium for storytelling and this one has lots of potential.

The story in this is wacky AF. Why couldn't Admin just kick/ban the player from the server? In all honestly he had NO reason to tell the player about his wife or the fact that this game can supposedly "bring back the dead" It's a very atmospheric game, but writing is Sonic.exe tier.

Notice that the music box splits blood when you shoot it and also the wall at 1:05

The real horror is that this map was designed with absolutely NO pickups.

The game would be so much better if they just retconned the whole “dead wife” thing

Not gonna lie, the original was pretty lame but this is a huge improvement.

I got recommended at 11 PM, and every time you shoot after 30s of silent, it scare the shit out of me.

What makes horror work is the unknown. If john_dev would’ve been very insistent on the player leaving the server but elusive on his motivation, this would’ve worked better

FUN POLICE OPEN UP: Camcorders weren't commercially available until the early eighties. Hell, I'm not even sure if news crews had magnetic tape cameras until the LATE seventies, considering when VHS was released. Digital displays and overlays were more of an eighties thing too, so your handy timestamp is somewhat out of place. If I'm expected to believe that footage was shot with a commercially available camera from 1975, you'd want to aim for a film grain effect, rather than magnetic tape distortion. Anyways: When you fake history, you never go before 1985 unless you want to be up to your ass in mundane technical research. Good ambiance though. That's the most important part!

Ah Blue and Sentimental is the name of the jazz song that is playing on the record player, and the texts that was in the VHS video is the lyrics by Nat King Cole, I think.

11:21... Those cars driving by were definitely made after 1975

This is the roblox equivalent to when randomly a "ghost player" would join your single player halo 3 forge map

9:48 testing water physics XD

Can we examine the design of the FPS game itself for just a minute? The map has only one path to the flags. The other routes either lead to dead ends or ineffective shooting spots. There aren’t even weapon or health pickups either. And the map is really small. The character moves at a reasonable speed for an FPS, but in a multiplayer FPS, high speeds and quick reflexes tends to be desired. Finally, the one gun you do get has a magazine size of around 5 before reloading. Unless it’s absurdly powerful or a decent weapon to use, it’s pointless. Edit: and also, you apparently need permission from the host to use chat. A jerk of a host can easily disable chat permissions from the opposing team, effectively crippling their capabilities to work as a team. With all that being said, I like the atmosphere of the whole game itself. A good concept that’s pulled off almost well enough.

Plot twist: john is trying to make her waifu irl

I can't believe this is what Half Life 2 Deathmatch became.

The focus and tension are kind of gone here, alot of effort was put in and I respect that but narratively it's kinda held together with string and popsicle sticks. Great ambiences, great visual work, good ARG tricks, but pretty poor narrative. Too many concepts floating around which kind of takes away focus and any intrigue. Get a solid writing foundation or focus first. That'll keep people attached and more dedicated into admiring all the work you've clearly put into it.

This game idea has so much potential... if the dev dropped the dead wife thing. Empty old game servers have an almost backrooms kind of creepiness to them. I'd love to see someone really take this idea and run.

It quickly become a LoFi Music Video lol

i find the piano playing in the credits absolutely beautiful.

This reminds me of that one 4chan thread where someone had left open a Quake 3 Arena server with bots, and how their AI actually developed enough over time to actually just stop fighting each other and when the player joined the game and shot one of the AI they all started killing him. creepy shit

this extra stuff is a bunch of completely unrelated vignettes. the idea of "its an abandoned 90s shooter" is completely thrown out the window so the dev can do whatever random 'scary' stuff he can think of. hes got a decent grasp of the 'old game' aesthetic, but everything else here is just silly and poorly conceived. i dont want to be an ass, but everything about it just screams "the dev thinks hes totally deep". **shrug** i dunno. i think this whole project started off as a really neat idea that instantly spiraled off into nonsense.

I didn't understand the pencil and paper bit, the poems, or why the soul transfer vessel... Help please?

it's interesting how this game was made, unfortunately, I think it needs to go deeper about how her wife became a part of the game and how he put her soul in there... or how he made it so the server is untimately connected to the soul... also, revealing he did so on purpose is not really a good idea, like, saying some strange symbols were added to the game code at random when he was working on it and couldn't get rid of said lines for one reason or another would be a... dunno... better than that... just my thought, tho either way, it looks like a good game, hope my computer would run it also, your wallpaper looks cool, I want it too :3 also, wow 100k subs, congrats! :D *throws confetti*

That music freaked me out, cuz I've listened to all six stages of "The Caretaker". Old ballroom music will never NOT be disturbing ever again...

Love this game. Wish there was even more to it. All the secrets and endings are neat though

Alpha beta gamer: shoots a eye Ad: Hey you want coca-cola?

the channel is awesome, one of my best youtube findings of the year!

Everyone: tHe wiFe tHing rUineD tHe gAme Me: *why is the game so depressing- like- even the world looks depressed*

bro you make some good videos keep up the good work my man

So there's a secret ending that's connected to another game, and you need to discover something by entering the game files? Who made this is a a genius

Thank you so much for sharing these gems

Imagine no players online but your friend is there

"random characters and letters" joins the game gave me a goosebumps, however it ruined it when the dev joined and chatted the player. It suddenly felt like one of those dev commentaries in FPS like l4d, lmao. I would prefer just me alone playing in a "dead server" with random scares, getting goosebumps from the atmosphere and slowly getting to the truth on what's behind the "dead server".

When i was little I always used to be scared to roam the multiplayer maps alone without any players. It just seemed so unsettling for some reason

Are we not gonna mention how cool the sound effects are?

JOHN_DEV : How did you even get access to this game? Me : *watching whole link for game in google* huh?

When I first watched a play through of this i thought it would go along the lines of a guy who managed to code a game into trapping some kind of supernatural entity into an old abandoned fps. The whole dead wife thing really lost me lol. Would be better as “DO NOT WHATEVER YOU DO PUT THAT FLAG THERE” A moment And then “ITS THE ONLY THING KEEPING IT HERE” And if one completes the game the entity is released and humanity is endangered. You could maybe spend the rest of the game with help from the dev trying to either successfully complete the game without delivering the flag or managing to defeat the entity entirely.

ill be honest, i wasnt impressed with v1, mostly because the "my dead wife lives in an old quake server" thing was ridiculous. but this is a really neat expansion

only thing scary about this is how terrible that map layout would be for an online shooter

this is like playing Slender all over again but this time you have a gun

The lampposts and trees keep reminding me of The Beginner's Guide.

I come back to videos on this game every now and then bc it’s so,,, nostalgic. like, idk it’s kinda calming, too. I remember learning about this last year or the year before and it still spooks me at 18 yrs old, but man, idek, it’s rather nice, ig.🤷🏼‍♀️😂

I watched the first part when I was confined at the hospital. Got interested in your content. Thank you for making my hospital stay not boring at all.

John_Dev: Don't shoot the music- * BOOM BOOM BOOM * Player: *Shoot the music?*

My god!...this game Is freaking scarry as the Hell nice job!!!

4:08 Dio (as player) :hoo are you approaching me ??

Congratulations for 100k subs!

This is like that Godzilla NES creepypasta. A near 10/10 for creepy actual physical footage, but it sinks really quick for an unrealistic plot heavy device that just takes you right out of it.

I don’t know why but I absolutely hate this. I mean it’s a good concept, but then it feels like a crappy .exe story when you play it. (Lowkey I was expecting some kind of Ghost of Lockout story.)

The game started great, and the concept was cool, then the creator started chatting... When you explain or reveal, the fear is gone. The best way to scare someone is to exploit humanity's fear of the unknown, the fear of not knowing if you're alone, of not knowing who or what is chasing you, the fear of not knowing what there is at the next corner, the fear of not knowing what can happen next... and to achieve that you can't just say you can revive people with coding in someone's face. Gotta be more implicit. And that heavily requires for someone to get invested by the atmosphere, which is why there has to be some drops of coherence but that also fails. He can code people back to life but can't make a password? Really?

Alright, that's terrifying.

I really loved the background piano pieces.

Neat concept, but some weird decisions lacking common sense by "John". Why program the game to shutdown when the match is won and why not add a password to the server...? Better yet, kick the user as soon as he saw them instead of taking the risk they deliver the last flag while you explain your weird game to them.

11:13 this part makes me so sad

Me: dang this thumb so scary Also me: *clicks*

Cool concept. Also the Kurat 963 rip was cool enough.

This game is interesting and fascinating

this game is so interesting, raising the dead part kinda ruined it tho

The scariest thing ever: It was old game.

I dont know if anybody has every seen or felt this but sometimes for example i'll load up cod and go to custom games to check the maps n shit, the knowledge of the fact that I'm supposed to be alone makes it terrifying when you hear something or see something in the corner of your eye. To me personally, I dont know why, but this is just one of the scariest things that happens to me, far scarier then most horror games in general. Games that you are alone in and gets silent can get fucking terrifying, I really hate it and this game does it perfectly and has the scariest ambience of any game I've ever played. The silence and the loneliness is spooky but just the moment you hear or see something that makes you think you might, just might not be alone, is so terrifying I almost get panic attacks from them

How the hell are you gonna fit 16 players in that tiny ass map?? its 8 v 8 my guy!! Both sides are gonna have 4 protecting the flag and 4 going for the flag which will fail and then its just gonna be 7 people rushing while the 1 poor bastard that no one listen to stays behind. Bruh. Great horror game though 8/10

Even 28 days later scared me also

Thee videos are good you definitely deserve way more subs

“I can literally bring back a dead person to life but i cannot IP ban a player on my own game who can jeopardize my ability to do so”

How does playing a VHS tape give you online capabilities?

Very clever game to me. One of the horror games that actually get me.

That is such a neat premise for a game. Very cool.

Flames bro your gameplay is on point

I know you suggested to get the games and try them for myself, im too lazy plus i enjoy watching you play the games. No dialog? No problem. I just come up with dialog myself

Okay? I guess the player did a soul merge with the dev's dead wife or whatever. Now does the game finally get interesting, or... *Game abruptly ends* ... Yeah, this is garbage. All set up and no payoff does not a good story make.

I really love this game. it doesn't make a lot of sense, but I love the feel of it and the emotional themes it plays with in a rather powerful way.

game was nice and it was creepy with no jumpscares until john_dev came in

11:15 if you put some Lofi music over it then it the VHS rape would just look like an edgy Vaporwave edit

One thing that irks me about this concept is - if its suppose to be an old arena shooter FPS shouldn't movement speed be much faster?

That painting is pretty sweet

NOTICE ME ALPHA BETA GAMER! Firstly, I already downloaded atleast 70% of your creation (including what's on this video) and I adore every game you made! I remember the first game I try to download in your channel is "Gnarled Hag" and it is so absolutely awesome game. I am here hoping that one day, your games will be available to download via Google Play Store as well. Your game(creation) deserves a title in phone users and I can't wait of dream of mine come true.

People are like "Woah the game files are such a cool and original idea!" While I'm just kinda... DDLC... Monika... Game files...? Anyhow, the game is awesome! Keep up the good work, person that made this!

Aaahh, the good old days of 1975 when we played online capture the flag FPS games on our DOS powered PS1 consoles with the VHS drive.

This horror game's dev is really smart than another horror game's dev

oh this game is so mysterious and creepy john_dev: lemme explain everything rq

11:18 The Perspective From The Developer Wife Soul

i really love the atmosphere of this game! at first you think this is just a normal shooter game until you go deeper. imagine this game coming out on android!

It is 11:25pm at the start of this video. It was at that moment I knew, the light was coming on Update, one minute into the video and i'm scared as shit

I was imagining that poem in the style of a swing sing and it made it all so much scarier holy shit