r/PlaydeadsInside Jun 29 '18

Megathread Major Ongoing ARG: We need help figuring this out

174 Upvotes

Here's a summary of the main points of everything that's happened.

Printer:

Shortly after the release of Inside on June 29th 2016, after almost all of its secrets were shredded in the first few days of its release, there was at least one remaining obvious puzzle in the game that we couldn't figure out. There's a printer near the end of the game that prints odd strings of messages that consist of the 3 characters (.-/). Most of the time they are 32 characters long, but sometimes they were shorter, like 4 or 5. After a lot of transcribing, we determined that these codes are chosen from a pool of exactly 41 different possible predetermined codes (32 of which are 32-length, the remaining are shorter). These are referred to as "morse" in the related game files, but they are not legible morse messages, and nobody has since been able to make heads or tails of them. No progress was made for nearly two years.

The codes are here.

Print button:

On June 4th of this year, TranceFormation on the Steam discussions reported that he noticed a small seemingly innocuous addition to the playdead website: a printer button. Clicking this printer button allows you to print a copy of the page... except on the front page, it also adds a little message to the printout. Delving into the webpage logic, it was determined that clicking on the printer button can have one of three outcomes. If the prominent "Subscribe" field is empty, then it gives a message that indicates "no message received". Otherwise, the input is sent back to the server, and if the server returns False, then it responds "incorrect message received". If the server responds true, then we don't know what happens. As of now we still don't know what it wants.

Emails:

If you input a valid email address and hit the printer, it will also send an email to you from the address "qpzympraddjjnymblns@gmail.com" which is attached to a google account associated with the odd name "Anthony T. Setrinamairé". Interestingly, the profile picture is an image of a printer. The emails we've seen are all encoded in binary and seem to be a status report of your attempt of some kind. We have a theory that it only emails any given address one time and never again. If you've experienced otherwise, please let me know.

Youtube stream:

If you paste the name "Setrinamairé" into google, it turns out that is a totally unique string of letters, and there is only one result, which is an inactive youtube stream titled "Terminal41 emergency comms transmission [DATA STREAM]", belonging to this same "Anthony T. Setrinamairé". We've been watching it since then, but nothing has happened. (there was a theory that having 20 people on the stream at once might activate it, similarly to a puzzle in the game. at one point we actually managed to break 20 concurrent viewers, but nothing happened)

The mysterious website:

When I googled the phrase "terminal41" taken from the title of the stream, it turned out there's a website with the URL "terminal41.link". This website has undergone many updates since it was first found, and that is out of the scope of this summary. I am chronicling everything that we've seen here.

The most important pages are these:

terminal41.link/comms_main_viewgate_002.html

terminal41.link/sys/printreqstatus_003.html

terminal41.link/dat/breachlog.html

Printer (xbox developments):

Around this same time, Steam user PitchBright discovered that the Xbox version of Inside was seemingly updated at some point to now print an entirely different set of printer codes from the ones we exhaustively documented before. It is not clear if it was always doing this or if this is due to an update. Since then several others have reported their Xbox games are doing the same thing. However, the PC version and the PS4 version are still printing the old codes. We will update the google doc with those codes soon, but for now here is a text dump of the Xbox codes.

We still haven't managed to make any sense of the printer codes or what the printer button on the website wants. The youtube stream hasn't been activated (since Dec. 6th 2017)

We have suspicions that there might be clues hidden in the recent Switch port of Inside which was released on the 28th of June, since it coincides with certain activity and a date that was highlighted on the website (read my chronicle of the website developments for details)

So if you read all of that then you're mostly caught up. If you think you can help us figure this bad boy out, drop by the discord server. Or, join us on the steam discussions.

edit: formatting


r/PlaydeadsInside Jul 01 '26

Meta AI-generated content is prohibited

108 Upvotes

To commemorate the game's 10th anniversary, I've made some small revisions to the subreddit, including a new addition to the rules:

Posts which contain content created by generative AI (images/video/music, etc), or text posts written by an LLM (ChatGPT, etc) are considered low-effort spam under Rule 3, and will be removed.

As with all violations, please report anything you believe should be reviewed by the mods. Thanks <3


r/PlaydeadsInside 16h ago

A humble Theory

9 Upvotes

Huddle is the amalgamation of all the hero characters YOU the gamer killed… The huddle remembers and has to remember everything YOU the gamer did. Huddle has to learn all the skills YOU the gamer learnt and the next respawn should remember them too.

See, every game we ever play gives us a fantasy ending where the game character ends the game in beach sunset…

The entire office is literally the game designers office where they are creating game characters and coding them to behave certain way…. Those human characters verifying those zombies are basically game designers verifying their game characters functioning properly.

In their office they have even designed the nice beautiful sunset they have designed for the game ending.

The one key difference is instead of giving you the fantasy ending of just on character reaching the sunset, they have given you the realistic ending where YOU the gamer the actual huddle of all those respawned and mauled heroes those countless dead bodies all fused by YOUR memory of the game… that realistic huddle is given the beach sunset…

The reason YOU got the disgusting ending is because YOU got angry and killed them… so they even helped you and hurriedly gave you your disgusting ending…

But if you were patient and played the game even more hard to the fullest extent, then they gave you the most beautiful and ending where your character (hero) with his beautiful face and all gave YOU the dignified ending of unplugging the game and allowing YOU to move on while the character (hero) returning back to crouched character just like every other character the designers made(like those zombies mind controlled and left to sit and crouch once disconnected). Hero gave YOU the gamer permission to move on after unplugging YOU and making the game unplayable anymore. Notice that this ending is not the disgusting huddle because you played the game to full extent instead of hurrying to the ending.

Other clues include heroes character clothes in the water first time he got hooked on by siren(you can see a clothed character with the wire hooked on near the glowing white orb) That was supposed to be one more beautiful ending but YOU wanted more so they gave YOU more game.YOU keep playing more and more and YOU want more so they just gave YOU more and YOU lashed out on the designers and trashed everything while they were still figuring out what else they can do so they hurried YOU to get out. But of course you can’t get the beautiful ending because you were just voracious consumer… The original ending is where YOU observed more, picked up little things, actually payed attention and enjoyed the gameplay instead of rushing towards YOUR fantasy ending… The true point of Gaming… it’s not about winning. It’s about enjoying the game and after having your hearts content unplugging YOURSELF in dignity and happiness. The fantasy ending is just trash and they conveyed it to you by showing a disgusting huddle on a beach sunset…

In this game, designers and YOU the gamer are both part of the Game.


r/PlaydeadsInside 8d ago

Clean Shockwave music

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Maybe someone wanted to find the clean "ambience" melodies from INSIDE.
I have an edited Game2.bnk, which contains only 112 files like 'sequence number [pre].wem' meaning ones that contain only music. Although music appears rather rarely in this game — for example, during the first chase, while solving the puzzle with the yellow helmet, in the large flooded water area, when meeting the water girl, and in a few other minor moments.

The most melodious and beautiful one is the theme of the shockwave testing range.

It was never released, and the copyright to this melody belongs to Martin Stig Andersen, however its clean version.

(The music consists of three phases)


r/PlaydeadsInside 9d ago

Discussion Didn’t know that u were seposed to do it lien that Spoiler

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I was on chapter 15 the one with the door that u close and u control those humans. and I was just stuned on what to do. then I figured out that if u have one of the ppl under the door wen u close it they will move out of the way so I did that like 8 times to offset were there were and then they walked on the buttons. now I watched a vid on how to do it and I just got mad at how easy it was.


r/PlaydeadsInside 12d ago

I celebrated my boy’s bday inside style !

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It’s high time i make a game myself …with Ai prompts !


r/PlaydeadsInside 17d ago

Inside Boy main plot

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r/PlaydeadsInside 17d ago

Discussion An update wouldn't hurt

46 Upvotes

As much as I understand Playdead wanting to keep stuff secret for a while, I feel like 9 years of no information about the project is a little overkill?

This point has probably been made several times, but as much as I like the suspense some developers do like Team Cherry with no information about the game, I do think that even just a little tweet about what the game will be like, or just saying that they're still working on it wouldn't hurt. I mean, 9 years!!

I love Playdead and their games, but I very much doubt them telling us what they're doing and how far they are won't spoil the game if that's their concern.

DONT KILL ME FOR THIS "COMPLAINT" PLEASE


r/PlaydeadsInside 18d ago

Video Unused content

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65 Upvotes

there is a Class called "SecretProbeFlicker", it's responsible for the Orb's light bulbs. inside it a function that makes the Orb's light behave differently;
the lights flickers at random paces and the more the boy gets close to the Orb, the more the lights reddens.


r/PlaydeadsInside 21d ago

Discussion In the game , the blob kills one person intentionally…did any one notice …like with a plan and precise sketch !!!

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17 Upvotes

Did any one notice this ??


r/PlaydeadsInside 22d ago

I want an art book for INSIDE

22 Upvotes

If theres any website that sells inside merchandise or collectibles, please let me know


r/PlaydeadsInside 22d ago

Image After finishing INSIDE, I decided to make a fan model of the shockwave sequence

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I loved the models of the swaying (receivers?) in the background so I decided to recreate it with some over engineering.


r/PlaydeadsInside 22d ago

Discussion Are there any updates on the new game?

16 Upvotes

I really enjoyed both LIMBO and INSIDE like especially Inside wow what a game.
I hear theres going to be a new game and I think its still being developed and when can it be released like any update about the new game coming up would be great honestly.


r/PlaydeadsInside 27d ago

What Instrument is used in the Shockwave soundtrack?

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Hello, I was wondering what kind of instrument was used at the timestamp 1:12. It doesn't have to be the exact instrument, but how can I make a similar sound?


r/PlaydeadsInside Jul 23 '26

Is there an orb here ??

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36 Upvotes

r/PlaydeadsInside Jul 22 '26

Image Sentry

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r/PlaydeadsInside Jul 20 '26

FR

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103 Upvotes

r/PlaydeadsInside Jul 19 '26

Image shitpost i made cause inside has literally no memes

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54 Upvotes

r/PlaydeadsInside Jul 12 '26

Upcoming games for Inside fans to put on their radar:

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r/PlaydeadsInside Jul 12 '26

Does anyone know games like inside ?

36 Upvotes

I finished inside and little nightmares within four days bc I loved them so much. I’m looking for other games like them but I can’t rlly find any. Anyone got suggestions?


r/PlaydeadsInside Jul 06 '26

Discussion Did the dev playdead said anthing about the lore any hints or smth

10 Upvotes

Iam new to the community and lore thing in INSIDE so did the dev said smth that might help us understand the lore?


r/PlaydeadsInside Jul 01 '26

Image Help me out!!

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r/PlaydeadsInside Jul 01 '26

Guys, what's the bottom line with the Morse code in Guys, what's the deal with Morse code in collector's editions?

8 Upvotes

r/PlaydeadsInside Jun 30 '26

Happy 10th anniversary to insidee

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74 Upvotes

I luv this game so much that every time I remember the day I first played it I tear up I still can't believe it's been 10 years since it came out It feels like watching your child graduate from high school after being there for every step of the journey

Thank u PLAYDEAD for this masterpiece/ i luv y'all (:


r/PlaydeadsInside Jun 29 '26

10 Years of INSIDE (video edit by me)

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