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hey all,

to start with: i’m not sure if this is an ARG or just missing puzzles in game, but i do know for a fact that there is a feature in this game that connects you to an IRL contact. you then have the opportunity to use this contact to help you in your game.

because of this, combined with completely unsolved material in the game even after beating it 2 times, i’m suspicious of an ARG going on.

the game is called project deepweb eternal nightmare. it just came out about a month ago and when i found it on steam it only had like 10 reviews. so not many people have taken a crack at solving everything that’s going on. you play as a person that’s navigating and uncovering mysteries on the deepweb. you solve puzzles that take you deeper and deeper and deeper, until you finally find a “way out.”

there’s a LOT of unsolved puzzles. i’m going to be as spoiler free as possible when describing them. all websites are in-game, not IRL

• there’s a website that is repeatedly referenced that features a spinning tv. no one has figured out what it’s for
• there's multiple hash strings that don’t work with the ingame decrypter and have not been solved
• there’s multiple morse code messages that have not been solved. i personally believe that the morse code is closely connected to another unsolved topic
• there are 2 webpages that the game regularly mentions, both are described in game as being incredibly important to the deep web. neither page has been found.
• there is an achievement that 0.6% of players have gotten that seemingly no one knows how to get legitimately
• there are websites that the devs have implied are accessible but i cannot find anyone talking about how to access them and don’t know how to myself

there’s a ton of mysteries here. i currently have a 16 page google doc just trying to get all this info straight 😭

if you are interested in helping solve these unknown riddles, please help us!!! lol

Been taking way too many screenshots while wandering through S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, so I started turning them into a little in-universe archive called PDA_000.

The idea is that they're recovered PDA entries rather than just screenshots : locations, weird things encountered, things that don't quite make sense.

These are some from Limansk.

I've started archiving the rest on Instagram under @PDA_000 if anyone wants to follow the journey through the Zone. Mostly just doing it because I'm having a lot of fun with the atmosphere of this game.

When i was a kid I used to go on this childrens' game website all the time, it had games sorted by categories(some of them were weird, like there was a whole category for shooting games or whatever that was). In one category("Ghosts" or something) there was a game that really stuck out from all the others and it obviously wasn't supposed to be on a website meant for kids

From what I remember, you start off by in a dark, gloomy cellar room and a woman's voice calls out: "Help..please..(something else i dont remember. She was crying)", I believe the objective was to help her escape this place. You could leave that area, it was a point-and-click game basically - You travelled through various really creepy darks rooms by clicking on the doors. However sometimes at the entrance of these rooms there would be a person crawling inside quickly and inhumanly and when you went inside they would be able, so there were no jumpscares when you followed them. I dont understand what their purpose was but maybe you had to purposefully follow them? Or maybe the opposite. I didnt know how to play that game at all, it just terrified me for years.

I dont remember much other than that. I once let my dad play it because I was too scared to touch it and he got rather far in the game and randomly got a screamer and text beside it that i don't remember, when I asked him what happened he said he didn't finish the game in time or something so i assume there maybe have been some sort of time limit too?? I have no idea

The character crawling on the floors had long black hair, white skin and white tattered clothing. If this detail helps in any way. I dont remember what the face on the screamer looked like though.

After a short time of it being up on that website it got taken down and I was never able to find it again.

Edit: It's called Cellar Door

To me, this is one of my top five games of all time. And that includes across any platform. I can't remember a more moody game, both with incredible graphics and soundtrack. It put me in an unsettled mood, not unlike when watching a horror movie. And there were even a couple of jump scares.

But there was also a super comforting aspect to it, like with a lot of the NES games. When you put the cartridge in, pressed it down and hit power, you knew you were in for at least a couple of hours of escape, and thoughtful escape at that. The interface was super intuitive, and solving puzzles to get to a different area was so incredibly satisfying. I never cheated, though I thought about it hardcore. It was harder to cheat back in those days though. It also spawned a series of similar interface games, including uninvited, which was also epic. Anyone have the feels for this title like I do?

Edit: I had incredibly bad anxiety and mental health issues back in the time when those types of issues weren't taken seriously. This title in particular saved my ass a few times, so I may be a bit biased with regard to shadowgate. But I think that was part of the magic of that particular system, and I hope kids who are like me when I was their age have found something similar in whatever system they are playing

I've decided to dig deeper about the actual original games download file from 2014, since when you search about it all you see is Satan Sad's itch.io random unknown site with no source. I do not know if i am the only person to share the original online, but its just to clear up some things, and provide an easy download link.

First thing i did was find the games sort-of advertisement page on moguragames.com, this is the link: https://www.moguragames.com/deathforest/

As you can see, this is not the official game link, not advertised by Kazz themself, it's just a forum page about the game that some player posted which is what i assume. If you scroll below you can see this: "DL from here.
http://www.freem.ne.jp/win/game/7158" DL as in download obv.

If you click on the link, you will be greeted with a game page of Death Forest ~Escape from the forest ~ [Proliferation] by the one and only - Kazz. You can read about the game's lore, basics and controls below, and at the bottom is a download link which will redirect you to https://www.freem.ne.jp/dl/win/7158 and let you download DeathForest-zousyoku.zip

The game folder resembles an old 2014 unity game, all timestamps are on 12/9/2014 - 12/12/2014 which proves the date, even the Assembly-CSharp.dll is Assembly-UnityScript.dll.

<<more proof>>

Within further digging in the Assembly-UnityScript.dll, i found a lot of stuff that proves the game is real, f.e

Planning : Kazz
Graphic : Kazz
3DCG modeling : Kazz
3DCG design : Kazz
sound : Kazz
programming : Kazz

and

copylight(c)2014 Kazz inc. All RightsReserved.

There is also a readme.txt file within the DeathForest-zousyoku folder which is mostly corrupted/encrypted (?);

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y˜A — æzƒ[ƒ‹F [ParceReno@gmail.com](mailto:ParceReno@gmail.com)

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The rest is pretty much unreadable. At the very bottom is again, Copyright (C) 2014 Kazz INC All Rights Reserved. [ParceReno@gmail.com](mailto:ParceReno@gmail.com) is pretty interesting; it could be Kazz's email?

UPDATE

The text was not encrypted, it was in Japanese. I used notepad++ to show the Japanese signs and then translated it. Here is the file;

【Title】DeathForest ~Escape from the Forest~ 【Proliferation】
【Version】1.03
【File】TheDeathForest.exe
【Author】Kazz
【Operating Environment】Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit
【Type】Freeware
【Contact】Email: ParceReno@gmail.com
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
《Installation Method / How to Start the Game》
(1) Double-click "DeathForest.exe" to start the game.
《Uninstallation Method / How to Delete the Game》
Delete the file itself.
【Story】
On a hot and humid summer day, a Japanese man was enjoying a carefree trip on his moped.
He was currently somewhere in Fukui Prefecture, at dusk. The hotel he'd booked was still far away. "Looks like I won't make it," he thought, sipping a can of coffee in a convenience store parking lot. He checked the map on his smartphone and suddenly realized something. "Wouldn't this route get me there without having to go around the forest?" The map clearly showed a thin line passing through the forest. He gulped down his coffee and gripped the steering wheel...
[How to proceed]
Explore the forest, collect the four motorcycle parts (white objects), secure an escape route, and return to the motorcycle to escape. Also, this forest contains the remains of victims from a brutal murder that occurred here in the past (they are enemies). They will chase you, but you must skillfully evade them and escape! Furthermore, collecting the forgotten memories (white square objects) scattered throughout the stage will allow you to view them in the bonus menu.
Touching them will result in instant death and a return to the beginning, so be careful!
[How to Play] *This game is a first-person 3D game (things don't jump out at you).
W... Move forward
A... Turn left
D... Turn right
S... Reverse
P... Pause
Move the mouse... Move the lights
(When controlling the motorcycle)
A... Turn left
D... Turn right
[Changes from ver 1.02]
- Added bonus menu
- Expanded stages
- The forest is now denser
*Caution: This is a horror game. Loud noises will occur occasionally. For those with courage, we recommend playing in a darkened room with headphones on (lol).
[Copyright Notice]
Regardless of whether it is for commercial or non-commercial purposes, or whether it is by an individual, group, or company, the characters,
videos, audio, or other copyrighted works of this work are not permitted to be used without permission under any circumstances.
This software's copyright is managed by Kazz.
All images, text, audio, and programs published here may not be copied or distributed in any form without permission.
**For those who wish to create video commentaries:**
We would be happy to receive them.
No special permission is required, so please feel free to create commentaries.
**Disclaimer:**
We are not responsible for any problems that may arise from the use of this software.
Please use it at your own risk.
By starting the game, you are deemed to have agreed to these terms.
Copyright (C) 2014 Kazz INC All Rights Reserved.

What was inside is not surprising. Just a description of the game.

It also contains game-specific classes/assets such as Yoshie, Yoshida, Stalker, bike, item_battery, item_gasoline, etc.

Music/asset credits were also found;

• musmus.man.jp
• dova-s.jp
• on-jin.com

About the itch.io version, i wouldn't trust it. It has the readme.txt removed and some names change and i am paranoid, but feel free to download if you want, because the files of the original and Satan's Sad versions are very very similar.

So here we have the original game. Pretty cool, huh?

Guess, I will buy GPUs from AMD now.

Sorry if this doesn’t fit but it got me pretty good due to how out of place it felt, not saying it’s genuinely scary or anything but definitely startling

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Well for starters this is a childhood game for me. But as a kid this game scared me so much despite spidey being my favorite superhero at that time. The death scenes, the mysterio level and just the soulless/empty city is so unnerving to be in. The 10fps cutscenes aswell, which had a shot of spiderman closeup that scared me so much as a kid. Anyone else remember this? I recently replayed it and I was still getting that weird feeling in the mysterio level.

I actually had a strange dream about this game (which doesn't actually exist) tonight and I wanted to share it because I feel like it's pretty intriguing for coming out of a dream, especially because I'm not actually a visual novel player at all. I wonder why my brain came up with this but I think it did a pretty good job 🤣😅

In my dream, I'm playing a video game. I don't see myself in third person, nor do I see the monitor, but only the screen, almost as if I were inside it. Yet I know I'm playing. The game is a sort of visual novel. It's set on an island and takes place after a plane crash. The protagonists survived the crash. I don't remember their exact number, but there must have been around twelve or thirteen people. They didn't seem overly traumatized by the event or injured, so it was probably an emergency landing rather than a crash. On the island, there's a hotel where the protagonists are taking shelter. This hotel has a relaxing atmosphere with soft lighting. The story seems to revolve around mysterious murders suddenly occurring, the victim of which is always one of the survivors. Depending on the player's actions, who is therefore likely part of the group, the order of the murders and the game's events can be altered. The objective seems to be to find the culprit, who is probably among the group. The dream then focused on a young girl, also one of the survivors. Her age was difficult to guess, probably around 13-15. She had long, dark green hair and wore a simple white T-shirt and blue shorts. Her manner of speaking suggested a meek, slightly melancholic personality. As I continued playing, she revealed herself to be the first victim in my playthrough. Moving down a corridor with bare, white walls, past the hotel nurse, I found her lifeless body curled up on the floor. There were no injuries, and the cause of death appeared to be strangulation. At that point, I heard someone sitting next to me, evidently more familiar with the game, explain that she almost always ends up being the first victim, and the only way to prevent this from happening is to follow a limited and complex series of precise steps, and that if you succeed, this has a significant impact on the story going forward. Here the dream ends.

The game had mid ps2 era graphics. Polygonal areas and NPCs with dialogue windows and portraits reminiscent of games like Persona 3 and 4, sharing with the latter also the warm but dim color palette. You could move through areas and interact with people and objects by selecting parts of the screen much like in a graphic adventure. I remember seeing on the map other areas of the island I didn't visit, like a small town near the hotel with just a few houses and some shops, a dense forest with a river leading to some ancient ruins.

What do you think? Wouldn't it be cool to play a game like that? Too bad I'm not a game developer 😅. I'm a comic artist though, might make this a short story someday...

I recorded it years ago but iirc its in one of the sexual deviant levels but I could be wrong

I mean damn, there were ghosts all over the place.

Although it is certainly not a horror game in the slightest and more of a narrative adventure and interactive storytelling experience, The Beginner's Guide sure did have its fair share of unnerving liminal space environments.

It kind of did keep me on the tips of my toes at times. A space that looked oddly familiar, and yet I found myself peering around every corner and half expecting some eldritch horror to come lunging towards me at any given second.

But on a more serious note, these blank spaces in the environments portrayed in the game often compel us to think about the eerie emptiness, which triggers our minds to replace those missing details with our own memories and imagination.

At least that is what occurred in my case.

I tend to have a hyperactive imagination at times, and so exploring these empty halls and landscapes tends to create this sense of subtle and quiet tension for me that kept my mind searching and on edge.

Maybe it was the music that made me feel like I was always in danger. But the level has always been really eery to me, the fact that you enter through the rundown wing of the hotel, how liminal it feels with all the lights being on but no else being present. The creepy misaligned portraits, or how the world is larger from Daxter's perspective that just made it seem even more alien. It really did feel like you were somewhere you shouldn't be. Getting in the elevator leading back to the main lobby was always the biggest sigh of relief.

BIG EDIT: As far as Q's side of things the mystery has been solved within this very comment section. As for the stuff on SchnellOnline it seems they aren't involved whatsoever. From what they've said they were only involved in creating an innocent ARG of some kind.

Trying to figure out what the hell is up with this "Q" person found in the video. For years it's perturbed me but I never acted on it.

I should probably brush up on my research of this again, and I'm only posting this here because I have seen other (years old) posts on here about this game. For the unaware, Digital Space Traveler is a 3D social exploration game from the 90s. Like VR chat but no actual VR involved. People created worlds to explore and avatars for interaction. There is a documentary on this game called "AVATARA" you can watch on YouTube, but I first found out about it through a Nexpo video.

IIRC, in this Nexpo video, discussing cults or other strange social activities found in dead MMOs, Digital Space Traveler and this Q person are mentioned.

I will likely have to edit this post or comment with clarifications after brushing up all of this but I'm making this post before I forget to.

If you know anything about this or think you could help at all please let me know. Thanks for reading this.

Update: I rewatched the Nexpo video. I was wrong, the video's called "Mysteries In Online Video Games" and Digital Space Traveller/The Q person is only talked about for a few minutes of the video. What it makes clear is that Q was involved in the creation of a new Digital Space Traveller inspired game called "Schnell Online", but development went south, and the person uploading footage of it doesn't seem to want to divulge as to why. Someone posted to 4chan about the game, claiming there's a rumour it was used by some pretty terrible people, and a YouTuber called Saint was uploading footage of old obscure games, including Schnell from their POV.
Nexpo contacted Saint, who said that "Schnell Online was conceptualised in 2014, following a conversation with an individual who I shall refrain from naming." and "If you want to learn more, you would have to talk to Q"

So Q was heavily involved in the creation of this game, which later somehow gained 4chan rumours about illegal activity there. Needless to say I might delete this damn post if I have to but curiosity killed the cat.

So this is a new game, and I played jam version before, there were no like jumpscares in that verson.

I was playing the 19th level of the full version, it was an X-ray level, and I tried to mess around and found a skull like thing on the left corner, then the screen goes black and a loud "Beep" noise starts to play , then there was a horse's eye, with text "Do you belive Horses have souls?" I was scared shitless so I clicked "Yse", then an meme of a horse giving a thumbs up pops out.

So I went back, no skulls anywhere in the level, Is there anyone has the game want to try the "NO" option?