#The eternal cylinder

[skelizard]

I finished The Eternal Cylinder today so I doodled some of my lil freaks.

[arttsuka]

the Enterprise crew making first contact with the Trebhums from "The Eternal Cylinder"

I tried 😭

[wjbs-aus]

I think every Speculative Biology-adjacent game needs at least one unnatural/artificial-looking creature that sometimes (but not always) has a different aesthetic to everything else in the game and exists solely makes the player's life hell, e.g the Wraiths from Pikmin, the Warpers from Subnautica, the Servants from The Eternal Cylinder, the Grox from Spore (and, to a lesser extent, the Dronox and Insectrox from Galactic Adventures).

[avillanappears]

eternal cylinder is a lovely game about herding a gaggle of long snouted orbs called trebhum being pursued by a giant shape. but even though the plot and main characters are delightful, we’re not talking about them yet. today, it’s all about this thing, the tripobosh!

isn’t this great? let’s soak it in for a bit. you don’t see something like that everyday!

the tripobosh is a pretty unforgettable and, dare I say, iconic creature. a giant, shaggy orb with taloned legs, a hooked beak, fleshy tendrils for eyes, and THREE meaty snouts extended on tendrils. it’s like you fused a hawk and a kiwi bird with multiple star nosed moles, and it’s magnificent. the person came up with a thing like this deserves all the praise! whoever you are, thank you. I want to keep this thing in a pen like a flesh eating quail.

Ingame, the tripobosh are a common hazard in tundra areas. your motley gaggle of trebhum are tiny and delicious, and plenty of predators want to sneak a bite of them, including our subject. these things stalk around, sniffing and snuffling until they catch the scent of a trebhum snack, then they quickly go on the attack. their powerful legs and make short work of your poor dears, while also making them fast enough to outrun you. fortunately, they can’t make sharp turns, and they hate the smell of certain plants. since they can only sense things by smell, I bet awful stenches are like having a flashlight shone right in your face and also you have three eyes. they’re dangerous, but they don’t fall into the “fictional predator that hunts 24/7 and never stop” trope. they’re just big, freaky animals trying to survive, like you.

there’s also a desert relative called the onogrosh, with no fur and some of the trunks traded out for tusks. they’re not quite as charming to me as their chilling cousins, but I appreciate the biodiversity they bring. more speculative biology is always a good thing, and I still like onogroshes a lot. both of these creatures are delightful, balancing alien weirdness and naturalistic biology in ways I appreciate a whole bunch. they don’t match up to any one species, even if they fill a distinct niche, and I think that’s great. very good creatures. 

[glowingvoid]

Screw horror games, play the eternal cylinder if you want to have nightmares.

It's the most terrifying game I've ever played, subnautica being a close second.

For some reason games that are meant to be horror are never as scary as these two.

[swadloom]

If there's a nicknaming system I'm gonna be giving everyone goofy names like Sclunch and Oughaah and Carpet and such EXCEPT for Gunu. Gunu is Gunu forever I must pay respects to the legend

☝ context for followers who have just been watching this arc unfold and don't know what I'm talking about

[mj-makoshark]

Not letting myself play this game until school stuff subsides but GOD I can't wait. What absolute creatures these guys are

[alexthedragon190]

What is your favourite alien design? And why is it your favourite? Also I hope you have a great day :)

I'm guessing we're talking appearance, so I'd say the Angstok from The Eternal Cylinder game. From far away it just looks like it's dead. The only part of it you can see is a tangled mess of bone-like, segmented tubes sprouted from the sand, so you just assume it's a weird plant or something (I did), but when you come close enough to it, it rapidly extends in your direction and it snatches you. It creeps the crap out of me, but it's really cool!

[capricoopla]

I tried to make a Zooshgarg

I dont rlly use the non-creature builders often lol

This stuff hard on vanilla

[clobertina]

Quick Eternal Cylinder doodle of one of the least weird looking creatures from the game.

Game is pretty obscure and underrated. If you love Speculative Biology and a good story, this game is for you! I highly recommend it!

[quinnleyaeroraen]

Playing the eternal cylinder be like

The trebhum ocs referenced

[nomgeonmunchie]

Would they eat the Tonglegrop from "The Eternal Cylinder"?

[kannibalkreatiiions]

Trebhum buddies 🟣🟩

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Purple marble boi and items made by me.

Green spotted boi made by the very talented, @slimjimfiend

Thanks for sculpting with me!

[unsafe-chikku]

I saw my roommate play some of game The Eternal Cylinder and I can’t stop thinking about it. I think about it least a few times a week if not more.

It’s so fucked up bc the protagonist and his buddies they are just little guys

and a giant unimaginably long and humongous shape is destroying everything on their planet with no way to stop it!!!

So I’m buying it myself bc I gotta see if they find a way to stop it or a way to escape or something…I gotta help them…they are little guys…

I think one reason I feel so distraught over these guys is bc it’s actually not too far off from nightmares I had a lot as a kid even a bit into adulthood-> a giant thing is after me and all I can do is run. I’m too small and it’s too large/fast/deadly.

Also bc the existential empathetic dread I feel from the idea of being destroyed by a giant apathetic shape is incredibly acute.

[avillanappears]

eternal cylinder rocks for so many reasons, but a big one is the full on committal to the fact that yes, the main villain of this game is literally just a large cylinder.

all it can do is roll forwards, and it’s an existential threat to your entire world.

[shidraoftheworldpillar]

congrats to anyone who know what the first thing is from