The Tunnel

''I just wanted to let you know that this isn't any spinoff or sequel to any other pasta. Any references to other pastas are coincidental.''

Haven't heard of this game? Good. Let me tell the stroy of the game called "The Tunnel". The Tunnel was released in 1998 by small game company named "Freedom Software International". Not much is known about this game, because it was most likely overlooked back in the day it was released. People who have played it tell it is an First-Person kind of horror game, much like "SCP-087-b". Game is told to cause fear and visions among some players of the game. What is that made people lose their minds?

In game you control character, possibly male and you move in dark tunnel in the middle of night. The title screen of the game showed a dark tunnel with no ending in sight. Game had 4 choices:

New Game

Load Game

Options

Quit

Pressing "Options" would make the game crash and "Load Game" and "Quit" didn't do anything, leaving "New Game" an only option. At very start of the game there's instructions and little back story of the game.

Instructions:

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Use WASD to move.

Use MOUSE to look around

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Back Story

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It's evening. You went for a night walk in a park. You stumbled across an old tunnel and you walked inside. Now you must find your way out before it's too late.

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After instruction screen game plays like any normal First-Person game. If you look back at very start of the game you will see nothing, but a brickwall. When you progress in the game it might seem pointless. You just walk in the same environment over and over again. But players who didn't throw away their discs and preceeded with the game, started hearing noises. First they seemed to be ambience sound, but when they continued the game they started disconnect from the background and started sounding like they were closing in. If you still continued with the game you might encounter a humanoid figure. Figure is said to be about same height as normal human being. If figure noticed you he would start chasing you until you get away or he catches you. If player manages to get away he get's to continue the game. If the figure catches you game will make "thump" sound effect and show your characters dead body on a floor.

After this happens the game will crash to desktop and the game's data will be corrupted and game is no longer playable. In rare occasions gamers whose game didn't crash, got to continue the game. Only now the game has more slippery controlls as if the player would be sick or tired or something. If player continues with the game he will start hearing noises again. This time noises are more clearer and you could actually hear some whispers. There are 3 lines of 5 that were understadable to translate in english.

Line 1: "It will...."

Line 2: "You can't...."

Line 3: "OUT...."

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Two other lines are hard to comprehend, but gamers say that they said: "Never Stop...(unexplained mumbling)" and "I AM...(unexplained)". After progressing some more in the game gamer tell that they saw the "figure" again, but this time it looked bit different. One difference is that creature now had shining body, like the body had something on it(probably blood, who knows?) and that it's legs were bend backwards. If it saw the player it would scream and start running towards the player at maxium speed. This time no matter what, "figure" would always catch the player. When this happened screen would cut to black and after that something horrid would happen.

The real answer isn't clear, because everybody who talks about this game, refuses to talk about this screen. Only thing they say is "Never Stop Running" repeatedly before going insane. Every people who are known to suffer, because of this game are classified as insane or mentally unstable. Only thing we can asume that the game over screen it "something truly awful".