I can't imagine the horrendous stench if smell was a thing in this game.

The parasite scenes from a third person perspective look like a ritual

RIP HR Giger. You made an impact on the artworld.

1:54 because they had plans for multiple endings, we were supposed to get back to this place.

I really, REALLY appreciate how in-depth you've gone into investigating this universe. This feels like more of an art project than a game.

So sometimes devs will leave extra game assets and crap outside the map for 2 reasons: 1 they want to use it later on possibly, and 2 they forget about it or didn’t feel like cleaning then up. Just fun fact as to why there’s so many random things in games outside the map.

I wish the game's primary ending was this bad ending that the vast majority of players would get, but if you did some really specific things that only the most keen players would catch (probably equipped with remarkably esoteric knowledge), that through great difficulty you could unlock a good ending. Although making it so difficult and pretty vague that it could take everyone playing it possibly a year or longer to discover how to get the good ending. Wish that were the case.

Wait I’m i the only one that caught this? On 22:41, if you look above the fully assimilated parasite all the way above the castle, there is literally an angel watching your character, i humanoid angel too. You might be right about that being another form of ascension since they did meld to minds together

24:56 They framed that winged form at the top...you would have to turn around approaching the portal to even notice that. Amazing.

17:53 Fun Fact: Back when scorn was still on kickstarter it was supposed to be split into two parts. Then they raised enough money to do both parts at the same time and started all over again. The First Part would've included everything up to and including the Crater Queen, the only thing from part 2 that made it into the final game was Polis (the wierd Temple with the half assed bossfight) meaning, we really only got part 1 and and a rushed together sneak peek at part 2. And if communication is anything to go by, the devs dont seem to keen to add the missing stuff back into the game wich is really sad because it would make this game so much better.

Scorn is a visual masterpiece! Sure it's short, but the artstyle is just incredible.

I really love the style of Scorn, even if it isn't my type of game, the art is amazing.

scorn is clearly the sort of game that gets overlooked right now. but then later on. it finally clicks with people as a haunting, despairing masterpiece of fiction.

Everyone treated this game like a darker version of doom, which is why the ratings plumetted This is a horror game, not an action game. They only gave you a weapon as a last resort

this game made waves for the horror art community: and as a horror artist, i couldn't be more happy.

i don't know if anyone else noticed this but those statues at 20:14 look a lot like the crater queen, especially with those long, droopy necks and lanky limbs. also, the statues at 14:40 being obviously pregnant women and the one at 14:05 having clear phallic imagery really imply this concept of birth, and how ascension is essentially like a second birth, right down to the gate at the end heavily resembling the female reproductive system. i also noticed that certain places look a lot cleaner, while still keeping a biomechanical look that reminds me of the matrix. obviously there are some areas of the game where this is not the case, leading me to agree with him that the humans were breeding each other too quickly at an ascended level (if this is earth, scornguys aren't normal humans- they've already progressed through some parts of the process) and some form of virus or std was released, mutating everything into the blood and gore we see in the game. i don't believe it was always like that. but keeping with these themes of birth, and right down to scornguy's failure to make it through the gate, i ultimately think its meant to symbolize a miscarriage. the c-section imagery, the scoop or saw puzzle, everything leads me to believe that its not just mindless gore, but a lesson to make sure you're ready to bear a child, because the results if it goes wrong are catastrophic. a minor side note, but during the second operation scene (16:09), a tube attaches to his reproductive organ, which leads me to believe they were harvesting some sort of ascended sperm that can fertilize something else, like the parasite when scornguy 1 dies after the cannister of it falls on him and exposes him. i don't know if any of this actually made sense, but i had several epiphanies at once, and this game has done things to me lol

Seems something went very wrong with the ascension part. Either the accident (the liquid seems to be used to let the higher "elites" to mutate to their ascended form?) mutated an "unclean" specimen. When you aquire your keymechanism, that one seems to be one of the pure "elite" caste who is purosed to ascend in some sort of ritual (he even got the third eye as depicted on the murals). Either you are just a "worker caste" or the natural way the scorn people are born after a huge amount of time of evolutionary engineering. And they refined that process further to create the perfect specimen, to improve themselves and breed in that pod machine. Like if only a pure perfect specimen can mutate the right way to become the perfect form and ascend further. My guess here is that the "natural" born not so perfect Scornguy just attemped the same procedure to get out of his misery. While the first one got caught in the accident a long(er) time ago, mutated to an unperfect ascended form. Searching a vessel. In the book it is mentioned they fuse with a shell and the shell becomes their (the ascended forms) new body. So it could be that Scornguy2 is seen as vessel for that accidentally created "ascended" (unperfect) form of Scornguy1. That's why he could be driven to fuse with him in the end as we've seen. It may be just a step in between as well, before the full "perfect" (but for natural born Scornguys deformed) form. And in the end, where they fused together, Scornguy1 resembles even more the descriptions in the Book. But just deformed by his not so perfect DNA eventually. In the end Scornguy2, who also attempted to reach another new way of ascension (maybe the door was a further developement of ascending of the elite caste, while the "parasite" form was a predecessor to that. Another way to get closer to the perfect form to ascend into a new plane of consciousness.), got interrupted by Scornguy1, who attempted the "old" way. The race of Scorn, these "humans" lived for driving their consciousness to next levels. To perfect "humanity" further. That's why Polis (the Tempelcity) is full of sculptures in explicit poses. Because feelings and emotions in that state was seen as one of the highest states of consciousness humans can achieve in their normal bodies. They where also obsessed with birth, some sort of ascending of a living being into the world. So it could be that Scornguy1 and Scornguy2 wanted to reach total different goals at all. The timespan is not told between Scornguy1s attempt and Scorngu2s attempt. Maybe the "parasite" form as mentioned in the books was a different "inbetween" step to the door ascension itself. Or the door was a new, improved or the "real deal" of ascension. While the parasite form "just" was a way to improve your own consiousness between your own bodies possibilities. Scornguy1 just stumbled into that part when the accident happened and an "instinct" like urge developed to fuse with a "shell", unfortunately for Scornguy2. Well, hope the grammer isn't that bad while english isn't native to me. :D

Very disappointing people didn't enjoy this game... It was mostly meant as an art exhibit than it was to be an actual game. I loved it, was amazing to explore the landscapes that they came up with.

The position of the human part of the parasite's face in the final looks wrong, inverted. Throughout the game, he had the left human half of his face, but in the finale, it becomes the right half.

Well I guess since the 'parasite' didn't want the protagonist to go through or wanted to go with him but hindered him instead, the protagonist still determined to reach higher heights, caused it to start mutating/evolving him into that 'ultimate being'...

This game is disgusting, horrifying, and beautiful all at the same time loved every second of it I wish there was more to the ending.

I have trypophobia and seeing those holes with things coming out of them sent horrible waves of grossness through me 😂

that cinematic section you put together at 13:39 was incredible, love the combination of the visuals and soundtrack. mad props for giving this game some well deserved love in that aspect.

11:16 This is definitely inspired by that frog species that gives birth through its back.

I could almost smell all the flesh and blood and decay while going through this game. My mind would periodically short circuit when it remembered that the entire space, the floor, walls, literally everything is made of bone and guts

I hope this team keeps making games in this universe. It's gross, it's gorgeous, it evokes the best of H.R. Giger's work. I love what we got but damn I want more!

I don't even know what console/pc this is on and I'm totally enamored by it. The HR Geiger-esque art is gorgeous. Looks beautiful. Like who the fuck thought this shit up and put it in a game?!

13:58 what was the people who built this statue smoking when they made it💀

Matrix originally was meant to use humans not as batteries (which is silly), but as processing power Hence the matrix could even be hacked with human mind from the inside

The parasite grew so fast in the end cause now the guy could not fight back as much and now had more time to continue his gG it’s work from before and even then the fade to black sequences lead me to believe it took way more time than what we’re seeing.

seeing that final scene of assimilation/ascension in third person and hearing your theory took the story to a new level for me. its so obvious how much the artists cared about the world of scorn beyond its sheer gross out factor. I'm not intending on playing the game but i'll probably buy the artbook now.

This is why you were the first KZfaqr that I subscribed to. Your curiosity about the lore of the games that you play and what the creators were trying to communicate. It's awesome that you pay attention and explore this because so many others just dont get this deep. Appreciate the content IGP. Thank you.

18:55 "breeding for resourses" reminds me of "if your not having kids who's going to take care of you when your older?"

I feel like there’s so much behind the scenes because they didn’t end up making the game they originally wanted to. I think it had a much bigger scope.

I never truly appreciated Scorn's art until now. That compilation and seeing the attempted transcendence gave me such a weird inexplicable feeling. Like seeing something outside of our capacity to comprehend. It wasn't dread or horror, I can't think of what you call that feeling.

The parasite in the book is like...the perfect form But since there was a malfunction during the prologue mission, I do believe it corrupted the process and it mutated the parasite to an inferior form

10:55 this happens in real nature aswell. For example there is a type of frog i think that grows its babys in its back. and they pop out eventually

I also think the end could be a brain, and you're going into between the two hemispheres

So impressive how the developers actually did all the hidden animations and so many details. Really loved this game and I'm waiting for the hard cover book that's coming out it 2023

Oh man I decided to order the physical artbook and I am just so excited for it! This game is a complete work of art and I can't wait to learn more about the artistry that went into it.

thank you for your investigations man ! It really put some light on this crazy game, and the level of detail is so dense ! I really enjoyed your video ! :)

The Art direction, Models, Animation, atmosphere... story "when read in the art book" is all amazing. Absolutely amazing. But the GAME NEEDED MORE *GAME*

Thank you so much for doing this. I loved watching your Scorn paythrough, as I feel you were the only one that really grasped the ugly beauty of it all, getting pulled in. I loved the little video you made of the "flybys" set to music, and would love to see more like that if you ever decided to make another.

i wish the cutscene at the end of the game would cut to YEARS LATER and see if the parasite had grown into something like the crater queen

its also some level of practicality in the details. less models need to be made if you just put the full one off screen, loading in the full assets before their fully used saves on loading.

11:00 Holy fuck my tryphobia just acted up

I agree the artbook is fantastic. Not only the pictures but also the way its written, is really beautiful

This is a universe where the "5 Second Rule" never works

I feel Like they’ve captured exactly what real Hell looks like

The Scorn team proved they can create nice looking art. Now they just need someone who will put their skills in use to make more gaming game.

11:10 The Surinam Toad is exactly like that. The eggs are developing under the skin on her back and a few months later the toadlets latching through the skin of their mother. Maybe that toad was a reference here?

6:30 They animate him because he's a copy of an asset that they use outside of the pod. They created him to be outside flopping around; may as well use him there, too, I guess? You never know when and where a producer might just decide to have one or more of those pods open up.

Absolutely loved that, thanks for uploading and giving us a peek, was like an out of body experience lol...

Not played this game yet but it seemed to me more of an art and a tribute to H.R. Giger than an actual game. Not sure how the game plays but the art style in it's own way is beautiful. There are games that meant to tell a short story others have many meaningless content to extend a gameplay.

Wow! The artistry in this is unbelievable! So much work that wasn’t used or realized. Thank you IGP! Disturbing as much as it is beautiful.

I always love the videos on this channel. Its just always well edited, thought out or hilarious. Thank you for your dedications. Keep it up😁

Worst part of the game is when it ends; I wanted to spend more time exploring this alien civilisation. Could've literally been a 50-100 hour long walking sim, I loved every second of it even though combat was more annoying than fun. I want to remain in their world, repeat playthroughs just don't scratch that itch!

This vid is fantastic. Thank you so much for taking the time to create this. It makes me appreciate the game so much more. While I was playing, I sooo wanted to just wander off and explore this amazing world, and you helped us do that. And I'm so glad about little dude in the beginning.

Scorn Devs: Our ending is going to be so depressing! Players: Ha ha. Milk machine.

Seeing the ascended form, I got huge H.P Lovecraft vibes, especially with the idea of jumping into other minds and such. And the whole idea of that entire structure being made up of organic material really freaks me out, the entire thing being grown rather than built. Had it never been said this was on Earth, I would have thought this to be some dystopian alien civilization overcome with some unknown infection. Really cool game, thx for sharing this IGP.

this game is terrifyingly beautiful

This isn’t fun to watch while eating dinner. Lol

the parasite, the player and the ascended form with the third eye are all three stages of consciousness... combining into one being, like animal man and god as one... trippy crap man

It's so cool when you do deep dives into the game like this. It's nice to just be able to be formless and look around at everything.

This is such a brutal AND well made game! Creepy as all hell too lol

Absolutely awesome insight into what seem to be one of the talked about games at the moment! I know it just a theory, but with the ending it had you feel that your video has a little explanation to a crazy game 👍🏾

All of the eyes look so…sad 🥲

This is horrifying but awesome at the same time 🤣

This style and genre truly terrifies me, I'm not quite fond of it usually, but this is so well done I really love it, this is a beautiful game, and really really cool artbook !

Wow this is so cool!! Seeing all this now and hearing/seeing about the art book... im surprised the game wasn't longer and that they hid so many details... it was in development for so many years so it's crazy to think about how many more years it would have taken to make this game like 12 hours long. I wonder how big the crew was and if this was their full time gig throughout all those years...

Thanks for the ride, just so cool to see how Mr giger influenced so many people around the world and myself, such a piece of art

I've been searching for more info on yt, but i'm glad you have done a better job to explain to us then every other video i saw. Thanks a lot i really appreciate this truly masterpiece.

That simple edit at 3:02 had me in tears omg.

Dude your humor makes this go down easier. Thank you for the splains!

That's so stunningly awesome. Thanks a lot! A cinematic flight over the city looks breathtakingly!!!

Thank you so much for providing this perspective IGP... It's mesmerising! It makes me think of how some people use each other to get what we want, and in the process destroy each other without thinking about it. Fascinating.

Hey igp!!! I've been watching for a while and I love your videos! I've always enjoyed watching whenever life gets slow, thank you for making content!!

i love your appreciation clip starting at 13:40 as a lover of Art, i see that you are a man of culture as well. when playing such games i do stand still from time to time and take in all the wonderous creations the devs came up with. aside from gameplay driven games such as dota or doom, i do like games like scorn especially for its creativity in art design. was a pleasure to watch, will check out the artbook as well

This game is so immense, I was like having a lucid dreaming while playing it! What a masterpiece not similar with anything else I've seen!

11:05 Inspiration from the Surinam Toad!

THIS IS SO COOL. Thanks for giving us extra looks and lore :D

the parasite mother gave me horrible flashbacks to pipa pipa/surinam toads. their eggs come up through their back, and they release tadpoles through the holes the eggs create. it's gross.

They detailed the behind god damn 10:50

18:26 - The artbook outright states they have a skull / extra "face" on their back to symbolise seeing all sides at all times, being fully aware of their surroundings in that state. Also yes, Moldmen are grown and packaged in those "eggs" for transport, and they're used as building materials as well as everything else. The organic nature of the walls, meaty interiors with a bone outer, are constructed using creatures as raw materials. They don't go into detail how they shape and construct everything, but that's how it's done. I'm guessing buildings being "alive" means they don't need electricity or fuel anymore, other than somehow "feeding" the buildings to stop them from dying and rotting away.

This is brilliant. The art of scorn is incredible, and your bts tour is equally so. Thanks.

I was intrigued by the artbook I bought it. Love that they properly reference all the old era artist before the contemporary and modern ones.

that detail about the wings on the final mutated being is kinda mind-blowing, ngl. and i havent even played this game, it's just so interesting and beautiful.

Thank you for going so in depth about this game, this is super rad! :) I love this game because of its design and art, even though the game itself is a bit rough.

10:43 IGP: Wow isn’t that nice? Me (who has trypophobia): 😰noo

you missed an angel figure at 22:41

Everything feels so unimaginably painful

23:21 Kind of also reminds me of the cocoons at the beginning of the game. It’s almost like with the death of the parasite and it’s host, new life is still born… from a stillborn!

24:35 up in the background there’s a silhouette of what looks like an angel

Holy crap I got so many goose bumps during that portion with the visual showcase

Nice to see other people give this game the appreciation it deserves. Will check out more of you vids!

that's pure love honestily, i can personally say this but only a real honest love for one's work could bring out something so dettailed and in depth.

IGP is amazing thanks for playing these games I love the videos you make and watch your videos immeditly when they get posted keep it up :)

I know IGP loves a game that tells a story through it's environment so it's was only natural for him to delve deeper into this masterpiece. Thank you for giving us more insight on the insanity that is Scorn!

Thanks for sharing this experience. It's like I'm tripping through giger's world and a lil' bit beksinski vibes' megastructure. This is so beautiful.

The ending is a true horror. So close but never reaching perfection.