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Markiplier REANIMAL Part 4: What You Need to Know
THE TL;DW
- Markiplier REANIMAL Part 4 drops players into a submerged section of the game he says he wasn’t expecting, calling it exactly as horrifying as it sounds.
- The episode introduces a seemingly harmless “funny little sheep” that becomes a recurring presence in this part of the story.
- The underwater sequence ramps up tension with new environmental hazards tied to REANIMAL’s claustrophobic horror design.
The Jupiter Take
REANIMAL continues to pull from the same atmospheric horror playbook as Little Nightmares, and Markiplier’s playthrough is introducing fans to its unexpected underwater scares. This installment shows the game leaning into disorienting new environments rather than just repeating its earlier bunker-and-corridor horror.
Context
REANIMAL is a co-op survival horror title from Tarsier Studios, the Swedish team behind the Little Nightmares series, built in Unreal Engine 5 and published by THQ Nordic. The game follows a brother and sister navigating a nightmarish, war-torn world tied to a sinister ritual, and its story leans heavily on environmental storytelling rather than exposition. Markiplier began his playthrough in late October, and this is the fourth installment as he works through the game’s increasingly strange chapters, following his earlier episode covered in Markiplier Begins REANIMAL, The Spiritual Successor To Little Nightmares.
The underwater section Markiplier explores in this episode corresponds to a chapter built around a sunken naval wreck, where players must navigate flooded chambers while avoiding a massive sea creature lurking nearby. The sheep he encounters ties into one of REANIMAL’s more unsettling narrative threads, a monstrous figure that grows larger each time it consumes a character over the course of the story. Markiplier’s scary-games content remains one of the steadiest draws on his channel, consistently pulling in large audiences whenever a new horror title drops.
