as you probably know Five people are currently missing on board a tourist submarine This was on the way to the remains of HMS Titanic. We don’t yet know what went wrong and if the people on board are still alive – that seems unlikely at this point – but a full-scale search for the Titan and her crew is still underway. Meanwhile, a small horror game explodes on Steam thanks to its uncanny resemblance to the real situation.
The idea of being trapped – totally imprisoned in a small submarine – and being sent deep into the depths of the ocean, doomed never to return, is a nightmarish scenario that nobody wants to experience. So it made sense to use this setup a horror video game from 2022, Iron lung. But then a bunch of people got on what was probably an unsafe submersible, locked the door, and re-enacted this nightmare in real life. And not surprisingly, the search for the submarine continues and onlookers, curious about the whole horrific situation, start buying and playing Iron lung, resulting in an increase in sales on Steam. The game’s creator isn’t quite sure what to make of it.
On June 21st, as the world became more aware of the missing Titan submersible, Iron lung Creator David Szymanski tweeted a picture shows a big increase in sales for the little horror game.
was Iron lung Inspired by the missing Titanic submarine?
And over the past day or so, Szymanski has been responding to people asking questions about the game and how oddly it resembles the Titan submarine. For example, in the game the player takes on the role of a convict who is locked in a submarine and sent on a mission to find something in a spooky ocean of blood. Sure, the last part – the spooky ocean of blood – isn’t part of the Titan story. But the nightmarish part with the people inside the being literally Stuck in the sub with no way out true indeed.
When asked online whether this part of Iron lung was inspired by the Titan or similar submersibles, Szymanski said no and explained this: “I thought it would just suck, lol”
Others asked him if the overall story of Iron lung– a man trapped in a tiny submarine and sentenced to death with no hope of escape or rescue – was based on an actual scenario or worst-case situation for a submarine like the Titan. And once again, the creator explained, that is not the case.
“No, I just came up with a submarine scenario that was about as nightmarish as I could imagine.” tweeted Szymanski.
While Szymanski admits that many of the jokes about the situation “hilariousHe also added that “no one should die like that.”
“I definitely see the dark humor in this whole Titanic submarine thing.” he tweeted. “It’s just… like I did it Iron lung It’s the most nightmarish thing I can imagine and knowing that real people are in this situation right now is pretty terrifying, even if it was their own bad decisions.”
my city asked Szymanski for comment.
And in case you’re wondering: Iron lung actually has controller support. It was added in March, a few months earlier the Titan submersible and its infamous Logitech controller disappeared somewhere deep in the ocean near the Titanic.
And to the question of whether all this horror and tragedy will affect Szymanski’s feelings in real life Iron lung or the Upcoming movie based on the gamehe simply replied: “I’m honestly not sure.”
