Big Unsolved Mysteries in Video Games
Petscop
It’s debatable whether you can consider Petscop to truly be a video game mystery, considering it’s not actually a video game that anyone can play and buy. It’s a scripted series of videos that shows a fictional “found” game known as Petscop.
It’s more of an elaborate creepypasta for gamers, but it doesn’t make it any less mysterious or interesting.
Basically, the story goes like this: A man by the name of “Paul” has been uploading videos of a supposed PS1-era game that he found called Petscop, to YouTube.
The best way to describe the game (on the surface anyway) is that it’s a surreal take on Pokemon. The character walks around the world capturing “pets” and keeps track of the strange pets that he collects along the way.
However, underneath that game world is a dark tale of child abuse which slowly unravels as the video series progresses that based is on the actual real-life murder of Candace Elizabeth Newmaker, but eventually takes on a life of its own.
The story that follows is extremely complex, and I can’t possibly do it justice in a short article entry like this. The Game Theorists have an excellent set of videos about Petscop that you can watch to get the gist, and if you’re feeling up to it, you can watch the Let’s Play for yourself.
