The reason why the game runs so well is because it's actually doing *less* rendering with the dots. The way in which the scanner in game works is how textures and such are actually rendered anyway, except in this case there is less detail being rendered because the textures aren't filled completely in.

Fun fact, if I'm not mistaken, you can start the game again in New Game + with all of the Scanner upgrades and you might find a few... secrets by having the Material Scanner early.

There's a quote in my language that basicaly sais: "It isn't scary to find a spider, it's scary to lose a sight of it", and I agree with that. It's much scarier not to see a spider anymore and knowing it is somewhere near

i dont even think this is a horror game, its so beautiful

Just imagine playing this in VR, would be an absolute experience

Dude this wasn't a game it was a whole movie! The music, the beauty, and the story! This is a diamond.

If you restart in new game +, you keep the material scanner and can find your own body. I petition that Insym does a second play through!

If anyone has Garry's Mod, there's mod named LIDAR where you can use a device like this on any gmod map... and there is some scary stuff too.

Played this in VR, it was terrifying

Theory: You never attempted to exit the cave. You entered via the lift to the mines and travelled all that way and found yourself at a dead end, set up your tent and died. Your soul continues to try and escape endlessly, an echo of the man who once was.

Whoever made this game is an artistic genius. It's so cool and different from any other game! I'm loving it ❤️👌

Your one of the few KZfaqrs that I regularly watch. Keep up the good work. I enjoy how long the videos are compared to the normal 15-20 minute videos.

Awesome to see you playing this, i personaly saw this for the first time with a gmod horror mod which was pretty spooky!

I’m so glad you played this! I played through this game a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it

About the reflections thing - the scanner probably recognizes water as water due to how dots disappear, so it probably auto-adds fake reflections to it so that you know it's water and not just endless abyss.

The ending literally made me tear up, such a beautiful concept and style of the game!

This concept is just genius

Aw man those red dots at the end echoing the rose petals the family was throwing in the lake... what a fantastic game

I love this game so much, I watched it on YT last night, and here I am again watching the same video again because I enjoy watching you play it! Thank you!

I'm so glad you got to play this game! It's so unique and while maybe not "horrifying" I'd say.. "beautifully haunting" better describes it. Definitely an interesting way to tell a story, and I'm sure difficult to pull off. It's in my top faves for how unique and beautiful it is for a horror game :)

i loves everything in the game, the gorgeous colors and cave exploring was my favorite. the music got me in tears and its turns out that we actually seeing those memories whats happens in the caverns. but the ending was heart breaking

Finally, it's here!

That has to be one of the most beautiful games I've ever seen, such a fantastic concept

The moment he said there was a spider on him, I started getting creeped out then a string hit my leg and I damn near broke my neck slapping the string.

I love how big you have grown i remember your first videos from phasmo and just few thousands subs keep it up wish best luck B))

I played this before, it's actually realy dope. Awesome game, my only regret is that there arent more games like this. The thing I loved the most is the way dots change color in to represent the distance. That, and water not getting dots.

Inde games are killing it lately! I love this idea very original! It was a relaxing game to watch.

Scamner sombre is the only game I fully played in vr, but wouldn't call it an horror game. I recommend not to spoil yourself by watching everything or playing on pc and play it in vr yourself. It is such a great chill experience with a few creepy vibes and nice scenery. Edit: Had no time before so made the comment before watching this vid. I have completely missed that the man was turning and later following when you play lol. With the bridges just thought that some stuff fell, lol. Guess sometimes it pays of to play in vr. Did use the scanner to scan everything and made a complete 3D map.

Played this game a while ago and loved it, I'm excited to hear your thoughts good sir!

i remember seeing this game in a KZfaq video a long time ago and could never remember the name, I'm happy that I get to see another playthrough of it

youtube recomanded me a short from this game, and i was like "thats something Insym would play" so i search it and surely im here lol

Ages ago, I went on a tour of Howe Caverns in NY. They had a boat section and came up to this part of the cave where it was pitch black and said “This is what it was like for the founders of the cave”. Quite spooky.

Watched 5 mins of this and had to get it. Absolutely loved every second of this game.

THIS IS SO COOL THE NAME EVEN EXPLAINS IT SCANNING SOMBRE MEANS SCANNING SHADOW SAYING THAT YOU ARE THE SHADOW

using this tool instead of a flashlight has its perks, you would be able to have a wider field of view of whats around you in the dark. youd be able to traverse the environment better. not so good for something moving fast. theyre probably using it to map the cave for back at base or whatever.

I think it was the ringing bothering people. If I turned it down on my earbuds I could barely hear Insym. But at a nice lev to hear him, the ringing was intense with my earbuds.

the game developer has definitely saved a lot of work with textures :D

I HAVE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR THIS

"Do you wake up at night and ask yourself constantly why you're still alive?" Well, yeah...

Yeeees this game was sooo good! I instantly fell in love with this game to the point where I wanted to buy it myself because it was so beautiful. Really enjoyed watching this live! :D

I forgot about this beautiful game. Thanks for reminding me!

the sounds and everything is so sadtisfying and relaxing like it is

This was so beautiful. I want to play this on VR so bad now!

Saw this years ago and it still gives me goosebumps

This game was so good! absolutely not what I expected at all! Its so good as it is but it also has so much potential for being an even more creepy horror game! omgomgomg SO good!

I just watched your Observation Duty stream, haven't been to one in a while, keep up the good work

I keep waiting for the character to smack into a pane of glass. The laser would see straight through it and you'd never know it was there til you walk right into it.

It is relaxing, it's the first game that almost captures what it's like to be underground with your own thoughts, though it's generally far less scary and you know we have lights :)

Insym loves bursting quickly and effectively

Digging the colors immediately!

So good to see such a unique and beautiful game.

I played it once in 2020 or 2021 i think (and i hate to play Horrorgames) but THIS game ist soooo awesome i love it and i love it even more to see you play it! (i didnt even started to watch your video atm ^^) Love you keep it up

Hey, Insym! Have you played Painscreek killings? If not i sntrongly recommend playing it. Thriller-detective game with great plot. Much love!

this would be such a sick game to play in actual vr

lol Insym talkin bout Venice while im having holidays in Venice xD

The idea of being blind in a cave and the only thing that let's you see is pixels on a vr headset is a super terrifying thought

this probably is a banshee since theres ghost orbs, dots and it has the after print of their bodies what is close enough to fingies

You can take me to an abandoned cave in the middle of nowhere ANYTIME if that's what I'm gonna see.

I think the reason the game runs so smoothly is because the number of dots which are loaded at the same time is not that big. Its just our brain using the limited information about the formation und distance of the dots which makes the cave look so smooth.

It's about damn time for him to play scanner sombre

The intro always scares the f*** out of me when I forget that I leave my volume level high

legend has it he is still using echo location

This game seems really good, especially with the vfx. My only issue is that the high pitch from the scanner hurts my ears a bit. Especially when it's focused to a point.

You can explore the areas again with the upgrades. My suggestion is to check around every nook and cranny with the material scanner.

I love these vids

This was a very beautiful game

Very fricking cool! It's implement Echolocation or sonar somehing on this game , this could be used on Underwater horror games too! Or some like barotrauma gamrs

i think the reason you use the scanner is because it says you can't remember this memory, so you have to use the scanner to re-remember the cave. Also at the end when all the dots disappear you forget everything that happened and have to re-remember all over again.

About Subnautica, it is an amazing game! Especially without spoilers there are so many things to explore and so many monsters to discover, ive played both one and two it is an experience 10/10 would recommend!

I watched it from start to end, THIS HAS AAA POTENTIAL WITH HUGE BUDGET ITS SO GOOD LOL

Its a LIDAR technology or what most 3D scanning works, using Infrared Laser and Camera to generate digital data

Introversion is just an unbelievable company.

This was made by Introversion Software. Makers of Darwinia and Prison Architect FYI

This reminds me a lot of the unfinished swan

I can't let you do that Insym

This game gives me some major Skyrim vibes going on. "Nobody has been down here for thousands of years. Oh, look! A map viewer!"

ive been trying to create this game with quest 2 passthrough API, im not sure its even entirely possible yet but i have the scanner working in the virtual world at least, I think it would be so cool to be able to play this game in the real world

such a well made game, wow.

"message of the day: 18th august 2018" Fascinating game... wonder what else they got up to after this

Hey Insym, what about random challenge wheel again, but you add more and more challenges throughout a game. Depends on the map, but on Tanglewood maybe something like every 1.5-2 min you have to add one more challenge. So if you didn't get Spirit Box evidence yet and you get No Spirit Box challenge, then you just won't be able to use it in this game anymore. Obviously remove Asylum and Nightmare mode challenges and add some other fun stuff. Some of the ideas: chat = ears (it would be interesting to see how it might turn everything around); speedrun (you have to figure out the ghost in next X minutes or you lose/add 2 more challenges); 0% sanity (if not possible, then just use your cursed possession or roll another challenge instead if already used).

this games premise was also modded into garrys mod under the name "Lidar"(i think)! its a incredible looking vision system that looks awesome even in other games

They really do use lidar and laser mapping of caves The lidar wouldn't penatrate the water but laser scans would

Imagine the headset runs out of battery main character: ⬛😦⬛

turn on something aclled material scanning i think and scan the left side of the tent, you will find a surprise there.

Woooah. I looked up the original this is based on (LIDAR) and it actually is quite a lot better done! I admit this map is very impressive, but the original does horror elements a lot better! (for example the dots program in the tool crashes and loses your dots that you scanned and you feel totally lost at times when something threatening may be around nearby.) The scanner tool overall is much more developed as well. I recommend checking that out.

NOO im so early theres no comments to read while watching... this is the best type of vid to read comments on

Legend has it, that when you comment early, Isym will like your comment. Because the dude a legend

the game is so sick

This more art then horror

Chat in the top left at 24:50 😂😂😂

Disney movie feeling 🥰

"Lidar" how i remember

Awesome game. I would have played it a long time ago, if only it didn't have the horror tag back then. xD

Just to let you know that at the start you can see the corpse of the protagonist laying on a rock, the problem is that is difficult to see it in the rgb distance mode

i played a game similar to that one where you scan but it was way more scarier

Be worse than not sleeping after like 3days in the water your skin starts to fall off

well... the first half of the game my anxiety was screaming

lidar games are getting cooler

i'd love to see some more phasmo minecraft. heck, even just a regular minecraft survival world, why not?

You should try the game “The Talos Principle.”