Markiplier, the famous YouTube content creator, has surprised the film industry by adapting the indie horror game Iron Lung into a movie that has already grossed 21.7 million dollars globally. Recently released, the film managed to earn 12.5 million dollars during its opening days at the box office, significantly surpassing its estimated budget of 3 million dollars. Iron Lung is dominating the box office. The game’s creator, David Szymanski, expressed his astonishment at the film’s success, commenting on social media: “What the fuck.” This comment came after realizing that […]
Markiplier, the famous YouTube content creator, has surprised the film industry by adapting the indie horror game Iron Lung into a movie that has already grossed 21.7 million dollars globally. Recently released, the film managed to earn 12.5 million dollars during its first days at the box office, significantly surpassing its estimated budget of 3 million dollars.
Iron Lung is dominating the box office
The creator of the game, David Szymanski, expressed his astonishment at the success of the movie, commenting on social media: “What the fuck”. This comment arose after realizing that some graphics did not show the film’s earnings, to which he responded with a Starship Troopers meme that said “It’s afraid”. The movie was written, co-produced, directed, and starred by Markiplier, and is based on a game that, lasting approximately an hour, revolves around the experience of piloting a windowless submarine in a blood ocean of an alien planet.
The adaptation has been seen as a promising example for movies based on video games, especially those that do not rely on large production studios or famous faces in their cast. This fact could open doors to new adaptations, offering an alternative to more conventional proposals, such as those that have presented iconic titles like Mario or Sonic.
Despite the success of Iron Lung on the big screen, questions arise about whether the experience of watching the movie is really superior to playing the game on YouTube. According to PC Gamer’s senior editor, Christopher Livingston, the debate continues, but the truth is that this development is positive for the video game industry, regardless of the quality of the movie.
If you don’t know what to do for Halloween, the perfect retro FPS has arrived on PlayStation 4 to spend a whole day of incredible shots and scares
Few dates have as much significance as Halloween. The terror. The scares. The sense of community. Everyone celebrates it in their own way, and that makes it even more special: the absence of a standard way to celebrate makes it more genuine and authentic. More interesting. And for many, celebrating Halloween means staying at home with their headphones on, controller in hand, and playing as many horror games as possible. For them, for all of you, we have great news.
New Blood Interactive has announced the release date of DUSK on PlayStation 4, and the date is today, October 31, 2023, Halloween. Priced at €24.99, it is now also available on Sony’s console. However, you might have already enjoyed this game before. Dusk was originally released on PC in December 2018 after spending nearly a year in Early Access, and on Nintendo Switch in October 2021.
If you’re not familiar with it, Dusk is a retro first-person shooter developed by David Szymanski, the creator of games like Chop Goblins and Iron Lung. Set in the fictional rural town of Dusk, Pennsylvania, players must navigate through cultists, demons, and the possessed to prevent the rise of an ancient entity that could potentially end humanity.
Heavily inspired by Doom and Half-Life in terms of gameplay, Dusk aesthetically aims to replicate the visual style of Quake, with a low polygon count. Similarly, each of its episodes draws inspiration from different references. While the first episode draws more from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Redneck Rampage, the second episode is clearly inspired by S.T.A.L.K.E.R., creating its own unique approach in the third episode.
If you haven’t played Dusk yet, or if you want to replay it on your PlayStation 4 for Halloween, there’s no better opportunity. And if not, you can always wait until December when it will receive a major update on PC, adding completely optional HD textures. However, these textures somewhat take away the Halloween charm of the original version with its crispy polygons.
After the tragedy of the Titanic submarine, we recommend a handful of games about submarines or the sea to get rid of the bad taste in your mouth.
The ocean is dangerous. The ocean is dark and full of mysteries. Mankind has known that for a long time, but some people still don’t want to hear it. So that you don’t have to pay exorbitant amounts of money to find out the hard way, we have decided to make a selection of some of the best games that take place under the sea or that take place directly inside submarines. Because we understand that these days tasalophobia and morbidity are going to hit many people hard, so, at least, let’s take the opportunity to play good games.
Operating a submarine requires many people working together and Barotrauma takes care of letting us know it in absolutely every step we try to take in this intense game for between two and sixteen people. Probably the most acclaimed cooperative game of all those that have come out in recent times, our purpose is to investigate the mysterious oceans of Europara while we complete missions on a procedurally generated map and try to keep the submarine running while the ocean, and everything that inhabits it, puts us all the problems you can imagine.
Launching on June 5, 2019 in early access, having its official release on March 13 of this same year, this game by FakeFish and Undertow Games is the perfect mix between survival game and cooperative game. A video game that never allows us to be calm, always trying to predict what is the next thing that will try to kill us down there.
Iron Lung
The earth is uninhabitable. There are no resources in the unknown universe. You are a prisoner who will never see the sunlight again. You are given a proposition. If you agree to investigate an ocean of blood on a desolate moon in a tiny rusty submarine with no windows and all the doors welded shut, you will achieve your freedom. If you make it back alive. Knowing that you’re not going to make it out of where you are alive anyway, at least on the Iron Lung, the name of that submarine, it sounds like you have a chance of survival.
Released on March 10, 2022, Iron Lung is a game designed by David Szymanski available for Nintendo Switch and Microsoft Windows. The game is dark, distressing and deeply sinister. Even if all we can see takes place in literally two square meters, we have to move for hundreds of miles blindly, in an ocean of blood, while we hear our submarine slowly unraveling and hear strange things out there. You thought there was nothing worse than prison? Welcome to Iron Lung.
Sometimes surviving in the ocean doesn’t have to be absolutely terrifying, it can just be fraught with tension and the need to think carefully about what we need to do at any given moment to keep moving forward. That’s what happens with Subnautica. Created by Unknown Worlds Entertainment and published on January 23, 2018, it is a seabed exploration game where we will have to collect resources, establish bases and above all, be careful not to be devoured by hostile fauna or end up running out of resources to be able to continue advancing.
Much less dark than most of the games on this list, very focused on the playable loop, Subnautica could be considered in a way the underwater equivalent of No Man’s Sky. A game based on exploration, careful and quiet progress, that may not put huge threats in front of us on a regular basis, but never leaves us without clear purposes to keep moving forward.
Maneater
Changing the subject completely, how about for once we about the danger that lurks under the sea? That’s what Maneater proposes, a game developed by Tripwire Interactive that, inspired by Steven Spielberg’s movie Jaws, puts us in the shoes of a female bull shark from conception until she can finally take revenge on the fisherman who disfigured her when she was a pup and killed her mother.
In Maneater we will have to go through all the stages of a shark’s life. Starting with hunting small fish, graduating to hunting larger prey, to finally terrorize humans and end up with fishermen looking to turn us into trophies. Just because it doesn’t work that way in reality, doesn’t mean that this shark GTA isn’t completely realistic to what fiction has told us about sharks. And for that we curse you, Spielberg – sharks really are good buddies!
Few games are more mythical than BioShock if we talk about games that take place underwater. Even less if we talk about games that take place underwater because of millionaires who make absolutely terrible decisions by ignoring common sense and wanting to avoid listening to experts and having to listen to government decisions. Because BioShock is about Rapture, a city under the ocean, which should be a utopia created for the most brilliant people in the world and has ended up being a dystopia where there is only death and madness.
While it might seem that BioShock is probably that kind of game that hasn’t aged well, the reality is that it has stood the test of time incredibly well. Both its first and second parts hold up to this day as a good pair of games and can be played and celebrated as intelligent and interesting, even by our canons. Sadly, the present day has shown us that the rich are capable of doing absolutely absurd things like Rapture, but if we have to take something good out of it, at least let it be that we play one of these games.
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At the same time that the OceanGate tragedy happens, a submarine game that seems to predict the whole situation has increased its sales to the beast.
For days the main topic of conversation has been OceanGate. With good reason. Lost in the middle of the ocean looking for a live view of the Titanic, this pseudo-submarine carrying five billionaires who had paid a quarter of a million per head for the trip, at this point there is no chance that they will be rescued alive. Even with French, American and Canadian authorities conducting a search operation unheard of to this day, the chances of finding them in time are slim. The ocean is infinite, unpredictable and does not care about human life.
That is precisely what Iron Lung is about. A game developed by David Szymanski that takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where humanity has exhausted all the Earth’s resources and has to explore other planets in search of them to try to survive. Our main character is a prisoner condemned to death who is given a chance to exonerate himself. They will give him freedom if he agrees to pilot a tiny submarine without windows, closed from the outside, in an ocean of blood of a distant planet where they suspect that there may be resources that may allow humanity to continue to exist some more time Our protagonist accepts and there begins our journey: in a tiny submarine, only with the information of a radar and an archaic map, and at the mercy of the elements. A very similar situation in which the OceanGate crew members have voluntarily put themselves.
That’s why it should come as no surprise that since this tragedy happened, sales of the game have increased. Exponentially. According to a graph shown by David Szymanski himself in his tweet, Iron Lung sales have suffered a very high peak from the second half of the 19th, coinciding with the news of what happened with the OceanGate.
In any case, this is something that the developer himself has described as terrifying. In his own words, he made Iron Lung thinking about “the most nightmarish thing I could imagine, and to know that there are real people in that situation at this very moment is absolutely terrifying”. And while he confesses that he thinks some of the jokes that have been made about the situation are funny and that it was all a consequence of his bad decisions, no one deserves to suffer a death as absolutely horrifying as the one his game poses.
Moreover, this is not the only recent occasion in which Iron Lung has made the news. Although, let’s face it, on other occasions it has been for much happier reasons. The game has also received quite a bit of recent attention thanks to the fact that youtuber Mark Fischbach, better known as Markiplier, is set to make his feature film debut making a movie adaptation of the video game. With assistance from David Szymanski in all aspects of production, Markiplier will be directing, scripting, producing and playing the lead role in this quirky adaptation.
Iron Lung is a game that was released on March 10, 2022 and lasts about an hour and a half. Priced at €5, it is likely that many people may use the game as a way to manage their thalassophobia, or sea anxiety, which may have produced this whole situation in many people. Especially since, even with its relatively simple and primitive appearance, Iron Lung may be among the most terrifying games of recent years. In any case, while the situation is being resolved, the one thing that is clear is that Iron Lung is the game of the moment. Even if it is, to some extent, despite Szymanski’s own self-interest.
