Playdead's INSIDE and a sticker mystery handed to the viewers
Ten years after the game's release, oddheader's thirteen-day-old video invites fans to help crack a puzzle that a GitHub tracker and a community of sticker researchers are still chasing.
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The Video Game Mystery We Never Solved (But YOU Can) (INSIDE)
What does oddheader do when nothing new goes up? Lets the audience do the detective work. The channel posted no videos over the past seven days, and the one carrying it is a thirteen-day-old invitation: "The Video Game Mystery We Never Solved (But YOU Can) (INSIDE)."
The subject is Playdead's INSIDE, the wordless, grey-toned puzzle platformer from the Danish studio behind LIMBO. A decade on, the description says, the game still holds one of the great unsolved secrets, and it points viewers toward a sticker tracker on GitHub built by Twinysam, with research credited to Raezores and other community members. It is less a closed case than a case file passed around the room, and it has already passed 1.3 million views. It is still doing the bulk of the channel's daily work.
Behind it, two older pieces keep a slow, steady pull: a 219-day-old roundup of seven unsettling mysteries, from Half-Life and Gex to Deltarune, and the long Mt. Chiliad deep dive into GTA V's UFOs, murals and alien egg, which is nudging toward a million.
With no new upload, the channel ran well below its usual daily pace and added about a thousand subscribers, settling at 812,000. Among similar gaming channels it sat in the middle by views gained, while Luke Stephens had by far the biggest week and Infinite Bits ran warmer than usual. Zeltik, also between uploads, had a week much like oddheader's.
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The videos drawing views on oddheader right now
- Channel
- oddheader
- Subscribers
- 812,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 752,428
- Videos published this week
- 0
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Which game did Playdead release before INSIDE?
Playdead released LIMBO in 2010, six years before INSIDE came out in 2016.
