LogFAQs > #979941827

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8GnM5xD1k4

Yeah buddy this one's LONG. I suggest 30 min chunks of watching.

So this isn't a look at games that are scams or trying to take advantage of people to drum up hype. This is literally just content made to look like a video game, and doing so well that people might believe the games were real.

It's about artists and other creators just putting up concepts in their own art, and weaving together narratives that suggest that somewhere, in some alternate timeline, this was a game one could play.

Beware, because the latter half gets pretty creepy.

For example, one of the projects Eyepatch Wolf talks about is Vermis, a game guide for a game that doesn't exist: https://hollow-press.net/products/vermis-i