Nightmare Submarine game becomes popular as the search for the Titanic Sub continues

As you probably know, five people are currently missing aboard a tourist submarine which was headed for the wreckage of HMS Titanic. We still don’t know what went wrong and whether those on board are still alive seems unlikely at this point, but a full-scale search for the Titan and her crew is still underway. Meanwhile, a small horror game on Steam is blowing up thanks to its unsettling similarity to the real-life situation.

The idea of ​​being trapped, completely enclosed in a small submarine, and sent to the depths of the ocean, doomed never to return, is a nightmare scenario that no one wants to experience. So it made sense to use that configuration to a 2022 horror video game, Iron lung. But then some people got into a probably unsafe submersible, bolted the door, and recreated that nightmare in real life. And unsurprisingly, as the search for the submarine continues, viewers morbidly curious about the whole gruesome situation have started buying and playing. Iron lung, which caused an increase in its sales on Steam. Its creator behind the game isn’t quite sure what to make of it all.

On June 21, as the world became increasingly aware of the disappearance of the Titan submersible, Iron lung creator david szymansky tweeted a picture showing a huge increase in sales of the little horror game.

Was Iron lung Inspired by the lost Titanic submarine?

And over the last day or so, Szymanski has responded to people who have asked him questions about the game and how eerily similar it is to the Titan submarine. For example, in the game, the player assumes the role of a convict locked in a submarine and sent on a mission to find something in a grisly ocean of blood. Of course, that last one, the grisly ocean of blood, is not part of the Titan story. But the nightmare part about the people inside literally bolted inside the dead end sub It is really true.

When asked online if this part of Iron lung was inspired by the Titan or similar submersibles, Szymanski said no, explaining: “I thought I was really screwed hahaha”

Others asked if the general history of Iron lung—a man trapped in a small submarine, sentenced to die with no hope of escape or rescue—was based on a real or worst-case scenario for a submarine like the Titan. And again, the creator explained, that was not the case.

“No, I just made up a scenario involving a submarine that was the nightmare I could imagine.” Szymanski tweeted.

While Szymanski admits that many of the jokes about the situation have been “funnyHe also added that “nobody should have to die like this.”

“I definitely see the dark humor in this whole Titanic submarine thing.” tweeted. “It’s just… like, I did Iron lung The scariest thing I could think of, and knowing that real people are in that situation right now is pretty horrifying, even if it was their own bad decisions.”

my city contacted Szymanski for comment.

Also, if you were wondering, Iron lung it actually has controller support. 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 when asked if all this real-life horror and tragedy will affect how Szymanski feels about Iron lung or the upcoming movie based on the gamehe simply replied:I’m not sure.”