I'm Utterly Confused: A Descent into Madness

As I stand here, I'm not entirely sure what's going on. I've lost track of my surroundings and have no idea how I got here. There's a drape over a painting, but I have no idea why it's there or what the significance is. I wander around, searching for some kind of key, but it seems to be nowhere to be found. I start to wonder if I was supposed to retrieve something from this place and what that could possibly be.

I stumble upon a key, which is a welcome relief, but it doesn't seem to unlock anything. I'm left wondering why I was searching for it in the first place. As I continue to explore, I come across a log or a piece of wood with a slightly unilluminated section that I'm supposed to cross over. However, my eyes are unable to perceive the greatness of the wood that's in front of me, and I stumble into darkness.

Just as I'm starting to feel like I've lost all sense of direction, a voice guides me through the darkness. I'm told there's a wooden plank or a chair that I was supposed to step on, but it seems like I made an incorrect assumption. As I continue to follow the instructions, I find myself in a hole or a pit, and I realize that this is not where I wanted to end up.

I take a moment to catch my breath and try to make sense of what's happening. The voice tells me that there are chairs here that I was supposed to step on, but I'm not sure why. As I continue to explore, I start to feel like I'm losing my grip on reality. I wonder if this is some kind of test or game, and I'm just a pawn in the process.

Just when I think things can't get any worse, I stumble upon a candle that's supposed to be helpful, but it ends up being less so than not having it at all. The darkness seems to be more oppressive now, and I start to feel like I'm trapped in some kind of nightmare. As I continue to navigate through the darkness, I start to wonder if anyone is even listening to me or if I'm just shouting into the void.

As I finally stumble out of the darkness, I realize that I've been talking to myself for quite some time. The voice that guided me through the darkness seems to have disappeared, and I'm left feeling a bit foolish for not realizing it sooner. Despite the confusion and frustration, there's something almost liberating about being in this state of uncertainty.

The experience has been more than a little unsettling, but I have to admit that it's also kind of exhilarating. There's something thrilling about being on the edge of sanity and wondering what will happen next. As I make my way back to the surface, I start to wonder if this was all just some kind of experiment or game. Was I meant to navigate through the darkness and come out the other side? Or was it just a wild goose chase?

Regardless of how this experience ends up playing out, one thing is for sure: it's left me feeling a bit shaken and unsure of what's next. But as I look back on the journey so far, I have to admit that it's also been kind of fun. There's something to be said for embracing uncertainty and seeing where it takes you.

The commentary in this episode was slightly different from usual due to my voice being a bit sore from recording multiple episodes in quick succession. However, despite the slight difference in tone, I hope it still managed to convey the sense of confusion and disorientation that I was feeling at the time.

If you enjoyed this episode, there's a link in the description to the website or development page for more horror games that I've done. As always, be sure to check out the annotations for additional content and recommendations from me. And if you have any feedback or suggestions for future episodes, please don't hesitate to reach out.

As I continue on my journey, I realize that there's no guarantee of what will happen next. Will I stumble upon more keys or logs? Will I encounter more darkness or will I finally find my way back into the light? Only time will tell, but one thing is for sure: I'll be here, navigating through the uncertainty and trying to make sense of it all.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everybody my name is Mark abl and welcome to another indie horror game this one called wooden floor because nothing is more terrifying than remodeling your home or something like that I actually don't know a lot about this game but I'm going to find out now I know that it's about wooden floors of some sort you're in a log cabin and that guy in the painting was giving you an awfully intense stare I think he might be into you guys oh look I might be waking from a drunken stuper this would be a delightful start to any day especially my own and there's no one in my bed so I'm just going to be here alone goody goody goody gumdrops press e to use or manipulate an object well okay then I have a book did oh I'm just picking up I thought that might have gone in my inventory or something but apparently not can I let that go please thank you this game is actually made on the unity engine as opposed to some of the games that I've played that were no it's not on the unity Eng it's on the unreal development kit which means that it's um slightly better technology than the old older Unity engines but actually I've been proven wrong that Unity is oh hello Mr key are you going to guide me to from place to place hello are you for you yes indeed you are but one second hello nothing in there nothing at all good good I wouldn't make want to make this too easy on me so oh hello oh you look okay thank you for that friendly advice I really appreciate it I really appreciate it any ghosts in this house house good glad I can make that announcement anyway back to this strange painting you seem slightly Disturbed at what's going on here although you're staring up as opposed to that actually I shouldn't stare at paintings in general that's had bad luck for me in the past so I'm just going to move on here oh good the horror music is started it's awfully dark in here could I get a flashlight or something I don't actually have anything else to help me so there may be more behind a shut door than just another wooden floor that's a very good rhyme you should write poetry that was beautiful in every way elegant even and where the hell am I going does not move that's good for it why does it not move does not move does anything move in this house does anything bump and groove not bup and groove but bumping Groove is what I meant to say so oh hello thank you conveniently placed illumination is there something here unlocked oo well hello so I should shut all the doors behind me was what that intense message told me hello oh you're just a skull okay anything over here something a book I whoa oh hi I didn't even notice that at first I wasn't sure what happened are you comfortable up there you want anything else okay I'll just go on my way then please visit me again ah is this going to be one of those games where every time I close a door and I reopen it it's going to be different uh ah nothing different in here gosh it is dark the blacks in this game and the Shadows are very very intense so it's hard to see what's in the darkness ah it is one of these games I love these type of games that change everything cool cool cool cool nothing in the drawer over there but something is different about this cupboard ooh I like it already I like it very much so I can't wait to get thank you thank you for that wasn't there supposed to be like a Kool-Aid man that was bursting through there saying maybe oh yes or something along those lines I don't know is there something in there that I need hello darkness hello darkness my old friend I've come to see you again all right wait a minute was that door always there or did I just turn around for a second and change stuff on me maybe maybe not but I'm going to find out hello thank you illumination of lightning very convenient for you to be there for me so now I need to go over here and see what's oh hello I heard that over there you can't fool me I heard you okay maybe you were over there I'm not sure which direction I was supposed to look did you sometimes feel like going the wrong way all of the time my name is Mark applier and if if you did not know I do that a lot I don't go into any game actually knowing what I'm going to do oh oh I like this very much let me always close it does not move but you told me you gave me a very important lesson that I was supposed to hello fantasm how you oh hiy are you still there in the darkness are you about to kill me okay my camera's moving slightly that was weird cool I saw a fantasm or a ghosty goo as the technical name for it is all right anyway so that was something that was great what that happened there but now I'm going to move on and never experience it ever again this game sure is slow paced on the jump scares I kind of like that actually is that a door or am I just twiddling my dongers here oh good not only did that chair fall but everything has been nailed to the ceiling that's going to be very inconvenient for things in the future I wonder what's going going on in this room is that a note up there hello what do you say how did I get up here very good question how can I open anything else in here is there something that I need I can't see anything it is literally Pitch Black in the shadows oky dokie wait a minute what the you were not that big before that's what she said but also you weren't that big before is this open is that something is any of this something what the hell is going on here everything seems to be changing on me and I don't much appreciate it but in reality I very much appreciate it because it makes things much much much more interesting God but it is so dark okay what have you got for me game bring it what oh excuse me okay my brain is okay my brain is melting out my ears what is going on here do you like my books um what have you written the books that I picked up or the books that fell from the ceiling because I don't know which one I'm supposed to like is this a door I can open it is locked so I need to find another key oh where oh where could another key be that does not move so I'm hoping that things have changed back from Once I came the Ambiance in this game is good I kind of do like the slow pacing of it it's messing with me but in very short increments I don't think that there's a save system so has something changed in here maybe I need to close it oh no wait it didn't move did it oh no that did move okay so if I close that and I try to open it again maybe I'll try to find something else going on here hello ah nothing changed you were supposed to change bro okay maybe I'll go back the way I came I'm not exactly sure what I'm supposed to be expected of here am I supposed to to do something or am I just kind of along for the ride maybe if I close oh this one does not move well I guess I can't go back the way I came because it's not going anywhere do you feel sometimes like going the wrong way uh yes exactly like that how about right now that that thought is kind of crossing my mind here it's been a long December and there's reason to believe that I may not find the exit to this game maybe someday I will wander through the door and then I will get to where I am supposed to be please don't sue me Counting Crows because I don't know your song and I hope that you will not be listening to this video oh hello ah I found my marbles that's good do I do anything about that do I do anything about that come on you have to let me do something about that those conveniently placed balls that fell on my face this guy got to be something for that please fine ooh oh oh oh I randomly went up to a painting and I clicked the use key and it worked I got a key somehow I don't know how that worked but it did and that's all that matters in this game so thank you so much thank you so much random painting person oh it doesn't open all the oh I don't think that door open okay what are you doing okay cool that's great but why why is that that okay that's good that's good for you I thought there's going to be monsters that okay good great great I've already got the heebie jeebies please don't chill my spine any more than it needs to be chilled dead body how about this one is there a dead body in here ooh did you ever hide yourself in a wardrobe well I have many times I'll do it again oh well I guess okay uh do I need to hide is hiding a necessary skull to my survival can I all right please do that move so it's like The Prestige and I just clone myself and the other me is trapped in there or drowned in a tank by the way if you haven't seen Prestige go see that movie it's very good and very disturbing much like this game why is that covered okay why did that go out I do not like this Sam IAM I do not like this even a little bit hello Frederick Don duchin Heimer have you won many wars is this my bed am I supposed to go to sleep do I like your what is that I have a book I think I have a book good would anyone like to read my book should I take a nap I think I will or maybe I won't I have no idea what's going on in this game what do I do I don't know I'm utterly confused I hope there wasn't something that I was supposed to retrieve from that I need a key good what am I supposed to find one of those why was there a drape put over that painting is there something that I'm supposed okay good I found a key I was wondering if I was going to randomly press the use button if I could spit anymore it would be delightful thank you where am I going what am I doing where am I what happened what happened it just got dark uh oh I'm Wonder okay oh good this is exactly what I wanted to do with my life where am I going now okay I fell oh good there was a slightly unilluminated piece of wood that I was supposed to cross across good for me thank you so much for being a giant doucher now if you could only give me the other side of the log so I could actually walk across it uh where is it is it here it's in the darkness that I cannot see my eyes cannot even perceive the greatness of the wood that is in front of me is this why it's called wooden floor because reasons and also because I need to take a leap of faith oh come here come here you I'm going to get you I'm going to ride on top of you and you're going to take me exactly where I need to go and no frankly ghosty goo I do not like the books that you are selling me that was not what I I I made it damn it you and your douchiness God damn it there was a log there stop telling me there aren't logs when there are logs stop making me drop off I can't exactly scream right now I've got my microphone set High I do not want to yell directly and bleed the ears of my audience they're very nice people God damn it why do I not have a flashlight of any type that would be extremely helpful to my situation in this area because I can't see what you're doing to me where is the wooden plank if you could come out of the darkness for Just 2 seconds maybe I could actually there you go thank you for not being a giant a-hole I'm trying to be family friendly here but not really because not her douche MC nugget okay so there are chairs here that I was actually supposed to step on I was mistaken in my go okay so if you're there this is going to turn in that's going to get flat and you're about to get flat oh yes I am the winner I am the winner of everything I have won all the awards okay so oh did I just fall in a hole did I just fall in a hole ho hello oh hi hi there if you could um take my candle oh thank you this is very helpful except that it's not very helpful ooh you are a beautiful lady are your legs also arms because that's very uh convenient for my uses not that I'm strange or anything not that you need to be concerned of why I need your arms to be legs but just saying don't look into it all that much okay can I say that this candle is actually less helpful than not having the candle and why am I walking into these Darkness oh no no that was actually really good besides a few points of it being too dark that was actually very very good oh man that was actually a lot of fun guys I I I made the commentary a little bit different in this episode if you notice that um I wasn't speaking as rockish as I usually do because my voice is a little bit sore been recording a lot of episodes in a sequence here so either way hope you enjoyed it um it's a little bit different than it should be or maybe it won't be different at all and maybe you guys didn't even notice and you thought it was better so thank you all so much for watching if you enjoy this there will be a link in the description to the website or the development page of this game it was actually really cool the changing up of things was very interesting although I think it didn't push the horror aspect enough it could have been a little more engaging than it was but either way it was really cool just wish I could have seen what was going going on so thank you all so much for watching uh check the description for more horror games that I've done Click The annotation for more horror games that I've done and as always I will see you in the next video bye-bye nothing there's nothing value in here just have to create some barrels shut up there's no key Either I guess there's nothing to do but wait until they return hope they're not criminals stealing stuff from my bunker how dear they what if they hiding something in here and now they have picked it up they won't come back wait what that's why you're worried if they're not oh never mindhello everybody my name is Mark abl and welcome to another indie horror game this one called wooden floor because nothing is more terrifying than remodeling your home or something like that I actually don't know a lot about this game but I'm going to find out now I know that it's about wooden floors of some sort you're in a log cabin and that guy in the painting was giving you an awfully intense stare I think he might be into you guys oh look I might be waking from a drunken stuper this would be a delightful start to any day especially my own and there's no one in my bed so I'm just going to be here alone goody goody goody gumdrops press e to use or manipulate an object well okay then I have a book did oh I'm just picking up I thought that might have gone in my inventory or something but apparently not can I let that go please thank you this game is actually made on the unity engine as opposed to some of the games that I've played that were no it's not on the unity Eng it's on the unreal development kit which means that it's um slightly better technology than the old older Unity engines but actually I've been proven wrong that Unity is oh hello Mr key are you going to guide me to from place to place hello are you for you yes indeed you are but one second hello nothing in there nothing at all good good I wouldn't make want to make this too easy on me so oh hello oh you look okay thank you for that friendly advice I really appreciate it I really appreciate it any ghosts in this house house good glad I can make that announcement anyway back to this strange painting you seem slightly Disturbed at what's going on here although you're staring up as opposed to that actually I shouldn't stare at paintings in general that's had bad luck for me in the past so I'm just going to move on here oh good the horror music is started it's awfully dark in here could I get a flashlight or something I don't actually have anything else to help me so there may be more behind a shut door than just another wooden floor that's a very good rhyme you should write poetry that was beautiful in every way elegant even and where the hell am I going does not move that's good for it why does it not move does not move does anything move in this house does anything bump and groove not bup and groove but bumping Groove is what I meant to say so oh hello thank you conveniently placed illumination is there something here unlocked oo well hello so I should shut all the doors behind me was what that intense message told me hello oh you're just a skull okay anything over here something a book I whoa oh hi I didn't even notice that at first I wasn't sure what happened are you comfortable up there you want anything else okay I'll just go on my way then please visit me again ah is this going to be one of those games where every time I close a door and I reopen it it's going to be different uh ah nothing different in here gosh it is dark the blacks in this game and the Shadows are very very intense so it's hard to see what's in the darkness ah it is one of these games I love these type of games that change everything cool cool cool cool nothing in the drawer over there but something is different about this cupboard ooh I like it already I like it very much so I can't wait to get thank you thank you for that wasn't there supposed to be like a Kool-Aid man that was bursting through there saying maybe oh yes or something along those lines I don't know is there something in there that I need hello darkness hello darkness my old friend I've come to see you again all right wait a minute was that door always there or did I just turn around for a second and change stuff on me maybe maybe not but I'm going to find out hello thank you illumination of lightning very convenient for you to be there for me so now I need to go over here and see what's oh hello I heard that over there you can't fool me I heard you okay maybe you were over there I'm not sure which direction I was supposed to look did you sometimes feel like going the wrong way all of the time my name is Mark applier and if if you did not know I do that a lot I don't go into any game actually knowing what I'm going to do oh oh I like this very much let me always close it does not move but you told me you gave me a very important lesson that I was supposed to hello fantasm how you oh hiy are you still there in the darkness are you about to kill me okay my camera's moving slightly that was weird cool I saw a fantasm or a ghosty goo as the technical name for it is all right anyway so that was something that was great what that happened there but now I'm going to move on and never experience it ever again this game sure is slow paced on the jump scares I kind of like that actually is that a door or am I just twiddling my dongers here oh good not only did that chair fall but everything has been nailed to the ceiling that's going to be very inconvenient for things in the future I wonder what's going going on in this room is that a note up there hello what do you say how did I get up here very good question how can I open anything else in here is there something that I need I can't see anything it is literally Pitch Black in the shadows oky dokie wait a minute what the you were not that big before that's what she said but also you weren't that big before is this open is that something is any of this something what the hell is going on here everything seems to be changing on me and I don't much appreciate it but in reality I very much appreciate it because it makes things much much much more interesting God but it is so dark okay what have you got for me game bring it what oh excuse me okay my brain is okay my brain is melting out my ears what is going on here do you like my books um what have you written the books that I picked up or the books that fell from the ceiling because I don't know which one I'm supposed to like is this a door I can open it is locked so I need to find another key oh where oh where could another key be that does not move so I'm hoping that things have changed back from Once I came the Ambiance in this game is good I kind of do like the slow pacing of it it's messing with me but in very short increments I don't think that there's a save system so has something changed in here maybe I need to close it oh no wait it didn't move did it oh no that did move okay so if I close that and I try to open it again maybe I'll try to find something else going on here hello ah nothing changed you were supposed to change bro okay maybe I'll go back the way I came I'm not exactly sure what I'm supposed to be expected of here am I supposed to to do something or am I just kind of along for the ride maybe if I close oh this one does not move well I guess I can't go back the way I came because it's not going anywhere do you feel sometimes like going the wrong way uh yes exactly like that how about right now that that thought is kind of crossing my mind here it's been a long December and there's reason to believe that I may not find the exit to this game maybe someday I will wander through the door and then I will get to where I am supposed to be please don't sue me Counting Crows because I don't know your song and I hope that you will not be listening to this video oh hello ah I found my marbles that's good do I do anything about that do I do anything about that come on you have to let me do something about that those conveniently placed balls that fell on my face this guy got to be something for that please fine ooh oh oh oh I randomly went up to a painting and I clicked the use key and it worked I got a key somehow I don't know how that worked but it did and that's all that matters in this game so thank you so much thank you so much random painting person oh it doesn't open all the oh I don't think that door open okay what are you doing okay cool that's great but why why is that that okay that's good that's good for you I thought there's going to be monsters that okay good great great I've already got the heebie jeebies please don't chill my spine any more than it needs to be chilled dead body how about this one is there a dead body in here ooh did you ever hide yourself in a wardrobe well I have many times I'll do it again oh well I guess okay uh do I need to hide is hiding a necessary skull to my survival can I all right please do that move so it's like The Prestige and I just clone myself and the other me is trapped in there or drowned in a tank by the way if you haven't seen Prestige go see that movie it's very good and very disturbing much like this game why is that covered okay why did that go out I do not like this Sam IAM I do not like this even a little bit hello Frederick Don duchin Heimer have you won many wars is this my bed am I supposed to go to sleep do I like your what is that I have a book I think I have a book good would anyone like to read my book should I take a nap I think I will or maybe I won't I have no idea what's going on in this game what do I do I don't know I'm utterly confused I hope there wasn't something that I was supposed to retrieve from that I need a key good what am I supposed to find one of those why was there a drape put over that painting is there something that I'm supposed okay good I found a key I was wondering if I was going to randomly press the use button if I could spit anymore it would be delightful thank you where am I going what am I doing where am I what happened what happened it just got dark uh oh I'm Wonder okay oh good this is exactly what I wanted to do with my life where am I going now okay I fell oh good there was a slightly unilluminated piece of wood that I was supposed to cross across good for me thank you so much for being a giant doucher now if you could only give me the other side of the log so I could actually walk across it uh where is it is it here it's in the darkness that I cannot see my eyes cannot even perceive the greatness of the wood that is in front of me is this why it's called wooden floor because reasons and also because I need to take a leap of faith oh come here come here you I'm going to get you I'm going to ride on top of you and you're going to take me exactly where I need to go and no frankly ghosty goo I do not like the books that you are selling me that was not what I I I made it damn it you and your douchiness God damn it there was a log there stop telling me there aren't logs when there are logs stop making me drop off I can't exactly scream right now I've got my microphone set High I do not want to yell directly and bleed the ears of my audience they're very nice people God damn it why do I not have a flashlight of any type that would be extremely helpful to my situation in this area because I can't see what you're doing to me where is the wooden plank if you could come out of the darkness for Just 2 seconds maybe I could actually there you go thank you for not being a giant a-hole I'm trying to be family friendly here but not really because not her douche MC nugget okay so there are chairs here that I was actually supposed to step on I was mistaken in my go okay so if you're there this is going to turn in that's going to get flat and you're about to get flat oh yes I am the winner I am the winner of everything I have won all the awards okay so oh did I just fall in a hole did I just fall in a hole ho hello oh hi hi there if you could um take my candle oh thank you this is very helpful except that it's not very helpful ooh you are a beautiful lady are your legs also arms because that's very uh convenient for my uses not that I'm strange or anything not that you need to be concerned of why I need your arms to be legs but just saying don't look into it all that much okay can I say that this candle is actually less helpful than not having the candle and why am I walking into these Darkness oh no no that was actually really good besides a few points of it being too dark that was actually very very good oh man that was actually a lot of fun guys I I I made the commentary a little bit different in this episode if you notice that um I wasn't speaking as rockish as I usually do because my voice is a little bit sore been recording a lot of episodes in a sequence here so either way hope you enjoyed it um it's a little bit different than it should be or maybe it won't be different at all and maybe you guys didn't even notice and you thought it was better so thank you all so much for watching if you enjoy this there will be a link in the description to the website or the development page of this game it was actually really cool the changing up of things was very interesting although I think it didn't push the horror aspect enough it could have been a little more engaging than it was but either way it was really cool just wish I could have seen what was going going on so thank you all so much for watching uh check the description for more horror games that I've done Click The annotation for more horror games that I've done and as always I will see you in the next video bye-bye nothing there's nothing value in here just have to create some barrels shut up there's no key Either I guess there's nothing to do but wait until they return hope they're not criminals stealing stuff from my bunker how dear they what if they hiding something in here and now they have picked it up they won't come back wait what that's why you're worried if they're not oh never mind\n"