I don't want to play this game anymore 😭

so I was just unlocking a waypoint when I saw a quest icon over a computer looking thing.

One hour later, I am discovering the literal horrors of the lore of this place. "bloodied notes", people dead; the place crawling with rifthounds.

I could hear this door opening and shutting from the elevator, and when I got here, these robots were wandering aimlessly through the room in a panicked manner.

I went through the door and got JUMP SCARED.

On one hand, the ambiance and music and visuals are AMAZING! I haven't been this sucked into a genshin quest EVER. Literally on the edge of my seat.

On the other hand, I think I need a new pair of pants...

WHEN DID GENSHIN BECOME A HORROR GAME???

Commentaires

zedzsz2026-01-17 08:28

I’m sorry but this is very funny lol

JadeDragon20052026-01-17 08:41

It's more funny now that I've finished the quest lol. Lots of tension built for almost nothing. Pretty cool boss fight, though.

rW0HgFyxoJhYka2026-01-18 09:17

You sure about that? That it was for nothing...?

LivingASlothsLife2026-01-17 08:33

Bro accidentally walked into a Resident evil game

JadeDragon20052026-01-17 08:40

Fr 😭

ghostyspice2026-01-17 09:43

I’m pretty sure it’s a Fallout game since [unless there’s another horror section I missed] it >!takes place in an apocalypse bunker that may or may not have used its residents for twisted and horrifying experiments!<.

99cent-tea2026-01-17 10:14

It’s absolutely Fallout inspired, idk what the other guy’s smoking or they didn’t even play it and just assumed on the pic alone

FallingRhinestones2026-01-17 10:26

Also paimon said something about broken water purifier so there is that

ComposedOfStardust2026-01-17 17:12

And the jovial tone of the bunker system's automated messages with the tech also looking vaguely 50's-esque....

Yeah this is definitely a nod to Fallout

HellBoundPrince2026-01-17 13:26

Pretty sure their thought process was something simple like: "Haha you went from a colorful fantasy into a horror game"

But the first horror game they thought of was RE so they mentioned that. No need to beat them up for a simple joke

Jotaoesehache2026-01-17 17:00

Also, I would assume more people have played RE games than Fallout games so

bruhhh_bama2026-01-17 16:23

It can be both bro you don't gotta be weird about it 😭

99cent-tea2026-01-17 21:13

Nah it’s not weird in the slightest, there’s terminals everywhere some floating, some not and talks about apocalypse experiments in an underground bunker

Which is 100% Fallout inspired, there isn’t a single callback or homage or mechanic inspired by any RE game and anyone who actually played this area would know

bruhhh_bama2026-01-17 21:33

The Fallout reference is obvious, but this quest also has a horror atmosphere that people dont immediately associate with Fallout. Resident Evil is probably just the first horror game that comes to mind for a lot of people.

LarryKingthe42th2026-01-17 14:57

Metro also fits cuz Sheznaya but its a fallout refrence.

snowtater2026-01-17 18:46

The horror section was 100% deadspace

Dickniiiiipps2026-01-17 22:17

residents?! are they evil?

DisulficAcid2026-01-17 08:37

Ok but why is your shit so yellow

JadeDragon20052026-01-17 08:40

My night light is on. It makes your screen more orange. It's supposed to help you sleep 🤷🏼‍♀️

Cold_Judgment56662026-01-17 10:28

Ngl that's giving fallout pip boy screen 😂 it looks mad good

Sanrial2026-01-17 23:54

which is weirdly appropriate for that quest. my first thought was oh is this a fallout bunker when entering.

Hayaw0612026-01-17 09:04

automatic when you connect via Mexican IP address

s0me_guyy2026-01-17 10:16

Oh thats also why my insta shows unli tacos

Ball-Blam-Burglerber2026-01-17 18:47

Yunli tacos?

mp65212026-01-17 13:37

Paimon, we have to cook.

brooke3602026-01-17 18:14

Yeah, traveller! Yeah, science!

Semiyazad2026-01-17 16:23

I'm seeing a an aggrresive humanoidal Cacti with sombrero very often recently. Is this the the reason?

JadeDragon20052026-01-17 18:36

No lol

SomethingAndAnything2026-01-17 17:16

I thought that the first comment was funny but this reply takes the coke...I mean, cake

ankitjad2026-01-17 09:22

Shit is normally yellow coloured

gama-senpai2026-01-17 09:34

Buddy, bro, my guy. If your shit is yellow "normally", go see a doctor.

genshin_impact-2026-01-17 12:49

Either that, or theyre on a strictly corn diet. Only corn for breakfast lunch dinner and even water is corn

_Carcinus_2026-01-17 17:06

What a bile answer

HiroshiTakeshi2026-01-17 10:17

AI in Mexico

ChilenoDepresivo2026-01-17 14:27

Piss filter turned itself on

IceyYouu2026-01-17 08:42

Fallout vault ahh

s0me_guyy2026-01-17 08:42

Theres a part where you go near a door with a small window, the camera view transitions to peak inside showing some horror contained.

That legit made me wonder if im still playing genshin

Cursed__Neon2026-01-17 09:55

WHERE EXACTLY I WANNA SEE

TheArcher352026-01-17 14:05

Small island on the left of the foggy zone

_Carcinus_2026-01-17 17:07

Reminded me of a Dead Space baby necromorph scene

OnumGru2026-01-17 23:56

Yeah, I was wondering when this became Silent Hill

Dracorvo2026-01-17 08:43

Haven't done the quest where Traveller straight up murders a Fatui for aducting kids? This game has its dark moments.

MysticDragon00112026-01-17 08:51

It's funny, because the options for that quest are that the traveler executes them near the village, or let's them escape only to get torn to shred by rifthounds in the old home of the Aranara

TetraNeuron2026-01-17 11:27

Wasn't that guy from the House of the Hearth too

Traveller murked one of Arlecchino's children (though it could have been Crunchybeans)

Admirable_Register892026-01-17 11:37

No at that time crucebena should have been signora'd

QueenSnowTiger2026-01-17 20:02

are we all forgetting the upside down venti statue from the mondstadt aq? Or Jeht’s quests? or when we’re roleplaying rerir and the training dummies turn into children…

The game comes off as bouncy and fun but it’s so dark.

Charybd1ss2026-01-17 08:56

Short af quest. Funny shyt tbh. Remember that 2nd phase where a branch comes out suddenly when you turn a corner?

expensive-toes2026-01-18 02:55

That thing terrified me! 😂

Sariyan1922026-01-17 09:04

This whole place reminded me of BioShock 🤣 Especially these old looking but futuristic machineries.

Narissis2026-01-17 09:25

Between the retrofuturism, the general theming, the premise, and a number of direct references in the text, it's for sure a Fallout reference.

But also there are elements of Dead Space and other horror games thrown in.

It also reminds me of Wildstar's infested Eldan labs but that one I think is coincidence, especially considering the Chinese release of WS never happened, lol.

Sariyan1922026-01-17 09:30

I've never played Fallout. Well, BioShock either, but at least I watched Let's Plays of it a few years ago.
But, yeah, I am also sure, that the whole setting, the retrofuturism are references for other games.
It is not the first that Genshin does this and I love it 👀

Narissis2026-01-17 09:34

Yeah, it really demonstrates that the Genshin developers are also gamers themselves and are eager to give nods to other titles!

GCFS092026-01-17 12:19

well, this is NOD krai after all.

Adventurous_Sky61152026-01-17 09:36

Would you kindly play Bikshock ? You will love it

Sariyan1922026-01-17 09:46

I know how good BioShock is. The story is amazing but I don't like to play Horror Games. Watching them is fine but I'm to scared to play them by myself 🤣

pyrakanthaa2026-01-17 09:51

WILD STAR. Man did I really enjoy that game. The aesthetic was fun as hell.

Narissis2026-01-17 09:58

And the level-up "sounds". Especially level 50.

"HEY, NEATO! ....well, they can't all be $@%#ing gems."

99cent-tea2026-01-17 10:16

I JUST SHOT UP IN BED BECAUSE OH MY GOD ANOTHER WILDSTAR FAN IN THE WILD 😭🙏

I will forever despise NCSoft for abandoning the IP and leaving it to rot

Narissis2026-01-17 10:19

There are dozens of us! DOZENS!

AnonUSA3822026-01-17 09:05

Deadspace inspired

DiamondMiner32026-01-17 09:05

This was my favorite world quest lol

HuhBannedCuzSusAct2026-01-17 09:17

What region? Sounds hella interesting.

DiamondMiner32026-01-17 09:22

Nod-Krai. It's a little south on the coast of the Pillar of Embla. On the little Rock island.

__mymelody2026-01-17 09:22

it's on a small island west of piramida, you'll see a little robot thing and get given a keycard

Narissis2026-01-17 09:23

Nod-Krai! Specifically the bit of it that was just added in the latest patch.

Agantas2026-01-17 11:10

What others said - northern Nod-Krai. There's a teleport point on the island, so it is easy to see the quest when you go get it.

survivorr123_2026-01-17 10:13

it was nice but it also lasted like 20 minutes so we didn't even get much lore out of it,
on one hand its better for just getting your rewards, but i miss long world quests chains that had actual story and lots of lore

HeavenBeach7772026-01-17 16:34

i mean it definitely had lore. its tied to Reed Miller and other world quests in that area. But i do agree tho that the storytelling has been a little too fragment, and i definitely prefer more direct storylines back in Sumeru and Fontaine.

and the lack of actual NPCs that goes alongside you makes the issue more apparent because all of the lore needs to be pieced together by yourself, and there is a good chance that you end up missing some because u accidently skipped one note somewhere in the questline. For example the Echoes of a Forsaken Song quest is incredible in terms of actual lore but like to actually figure out wtf is happening you needed like so much prior knowledge that most people gets completely lost (i was helping out randoms with the new area and i did this quest 5 times with strangers and none of them knew wtf is going on lol)

_Carcinus_2026-01-17 17:08

Nothing passage quest was also like that. A very self-contained horror story.

LunaAncunin2026-01-17 09:07

I loved this quest, even though I wasn't entirely at ease 😅

violet-crow2026-01-17 09:15

What quest is this?

LunaAncunin2026-01-17 09:15

A quest in the new Nod-Krai zone; the name means "everything in its place," I think.

Cocoatrice2026-01-17 09:07

It was mild horror at best. You literally have Inazuma, when people died, went insane etc. Tsurumi Island has a quest when a kid was sacrificed to a bird, who was worshipped as a god and they literally killed that kid and the chalice was filled with his blood. This is one of the goblet you can have in the game. The bird was angry, destroyed whole island, literally killing everyone here, went to another island, when she was sealed away. So the Fallout quest is not even that bad.

__mymelody2026-01-17 09:24

i think it's less about the topics more about the presentation with the eerie music/sound effects and jumpscares

erae112026-01-17 09:43

yeah no. same dark topics, but this one has far better execution, given that it releases years after inazuma

survivorr123_2026-01-17 10:16

nothing passage is probably the best horror lore wise, but it has barely any execution

aiyafem2026-01-17 10:58

thats different type of horror

Chrisarts20032026-01-17 09:10

what quest is it and where do i find it?

Starkeeper_Reddit2026-01-17 09:16

The quest is called Return to Sender, it's in the new area, on the small island directly west of Piramida

Chrisarts20032026-01-17 09:17

Noted. Thanks

ilCapitanoNemo2026-01-17 09:11

Is this from the new big island on No-krai or was it already in the previous three? Haven't played it yet and would love to.

Starkeeper_Reddit2026-01-17 09:15

In the new area, on the small island directly west of Piramida

ilCapitanoNemo2026-01-17 09:49

Great, thanks!

asiangontear2026-01-17 09:16

This quest I really loved, but at the same time it really highlights the weakness of [Paimon] as a plot device. As you go through the quest, things happen like the one you described, and they even sprinkled some environmental storytelling there ala Fallout or Skyrim, but Paimon kept loudly narrating everything and describing her feelings about them. Like "whoa! That was so suprising, it made Paimon jump! This is so scary, can we leave this place?" Like sometimes there is value in not having dialogue for an event, you know?

pagerunner-j2026-01-17 09:17

I loved it. Total vibe change, it put the Traveler front and center (I appreciate how much more they feel like a proper character now), and it managed to do the "take your weapons/skills away" thing without making anything punitively hard or annoying. Such a fun find.

ComposedOfStardust2026-01-17 17:07

That lack of weapons thing was what really made me nervous, more than the jumpscares or the music. Thank fuck for the new kuuvahki mechanic that gives you shields and attacks or else I would've noped right out of there lol

TimelyToe82026-01-17 19:08

I was a bit worried how to navigate that since I was playing and stumbled into this quest at 3AM 😭 really amped up the horror vibes though! For me it was the sound design more than anything

Mean-Razzmatazz15542026-01-17 21:15

Yeah the sound during the quest was god teir

KuroEclair2026-01-18 01:06

Got a disk from there as well.
So you can play it in your teapot as well lol

JadeDragon20052026-01-18 21:32

REAL

FlinsFantasticFanny2026-01-18 08:05

Also loved it, especially the moment where you stumble onto all the robots. Will definitely be asking for more stuff like this

ZaFurinuSpremni2026-01-22 20:27

heavy dead space vibes lol. Absolute peak WQ

starmadeshadows2026-01-17 09:25

Oh we Zegnautus Keep?

giggity20992026-01-17 09:27

I liked it. You can tell this is inspired by the fallout series

reeeekin2026-01-17 09:29

This was so cool to experience

tbonehavoc2026-01-17 09:31

I loved this quest right up to the end when the boss glitched and stopped shooting or moving. It immediately lost all tension and I had to *SLOWLY* whittle down its HP with the basic attack instead of the more powerful counter attacks.

(Also, I missed the quest way point leading outside and teleported away leaving the quest unfinished 😅)

Schliber2026-01-17 09:35

While i got baited by other people with words like "unnerving" "creepy" i feel like people are exaggerating. Dont take me wrong the quest was really well made and something new and i hope they continue and make world quests even better. The only time i got scared in genshin was with that 1 quest in natlan were we are taken to fight the bakunawa and he roars, literal jumpscare.

SleeplessSeas2026-01-17 13:40

Yeah I also agree it's definitely trying to take inspiration from Fallout but failing completely.

bunnyboy10112026-01-17 09:37

This place freaked me out. Like eleazar hospital

JMH_NotSenpai2026-01-17 09:38

I LOVED the quest it was quite refresching😄

Lunamkardas2026-01-17 09:39

Fallout Vault-Tec Bunkers where it's actually a fucked up science experiment?

In my Genshin?

It's more common than you think

IMakeBoomYes2026-01-17 14:18

F'real. The moment I saw the console at the entrance I went "What in the Fallout is this?" and brain immediately started playing "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire."

arshesney2026-01-17 15:51

Paimon mentioning the main plot points of Fallout 1, 2 and 3 at the entrance was pure gold.

Cormacolinde2026-01-18 02:16

I’ve never played Fallout, yet I immediately recognized the link.

Wonderful-Lab73752026-01-17 09:46

I got spooked so hard by those branches suddenly growing. I was walking on a bridge and then one just burst outta nowhere when I wasn’t expecting it lol. I was thinking about the weird glowing purple thing flying around so I wasn’t focused.

ghostyspice2026-01-17 09:47

This genuinely just made me even more excited for >!the Silent Hill coded abandoned sanitarium!< that Liben teased in Dornman Port!!! Hoyo knows how to do horror now I guess.

ComposedOfStardust2026-01-17 17:16

Ever since I did Tsurumi island I've known these mfers could do horror if they really wanted to. I'm glad they're making more of it and can't wait to see more of what's in store

Rain-Maker332026-01-17 17:45

Yeah, I remember being jumpscared by geovishaps in the Chasm's dark tunnels.

Selthora2026-01-17 10:05

One of the best world quests, felt like an entirely different game for a good hour or so

blkmgs2026-01-17 10:07

I kinda liked the horror/thriller theme of that quest. And the no weapon/you can't fight back rule is refreshing.

Kitchen_Loan36492026-01-17 10:11

Why is your UI the NV UI color

Lilaschen2026-01-17 10:17

Which quest is it? I

Raze772026-01-17 10:40

'Well, traveler doesn't really NEED a sword to take out some rifthounds, but I can suspend my dis...*this chest has a sword in it!*'

i23432026-01-17 11:13

Since frost nail on the mountain? Or, probably, earlier, man in Mondstadt near the grave of HHS daughter? Upside down waypoint or what was it at the end of act 1?

memelordxth2026-01-17 11:18

There's even a door that you can interact, that you will see what's happening in the room

No jumpscare tho, at least I don't think so

Cultural-Cucumber4012026-01-17 11:23

I didnt play with volume and i also got jumpscared 😭😭

FrostLoop1882026-01-17 11:28

Okay but why is it yellow? Do you not know how to take a screenshot?

ReubenZedix2026-01-17 11:29

Imagine this was 1st person game 😱 someone once did it with mods but at the chasm. I remember it being scarier when they couldn't use their gadget to luminate their surroundings

Looking4DigBick2026-01-17 11:34

Yeah there was even a jump scare when you went pass a certain point. A branch came out of nowhere. And idk why instead of speedrunning the notes i decided to read it just to see the lore. And good lord was i not diaappointed. But real talk Aether did not need to sneak aeound. He can easily kill of them even without the swird and cant he just summon a sword out of thin air? He even mentioned that in his voicelines when talking to paimon. Lol.

Upbeat_Animal2902026-01-17 11:45

I don't think this is the first time they made a horror quest, but I can't prove it.

Dickniiiiipps2026-01-17 22:19

the eleazar hospital one is another one, also the chasm quests, the nothing passage in nod krai, that one quest in liyue

Draw_the_Stars2026-01-17 11:55

I loved this world quest because it was so different 😂 - it was very eerie though!

Hades7712026-01-17 12:34

This entire quest is a fallout reference lol

_xWisteria_2026-01-17 12:53

Man I can't wait to do this quest now xD

Understanding_Simple2026-01-17 13:18

i get the feeling the devs have been waiting for far too long to get a nation themed suitable enough for this kind of quest. absolutely cool and id love to see more in the future especially with snezhnaya and khaenriah having advanced tech as well.

SpiritNo17212026-01-17 13:23

Amazing quest, I absolutely loved the vibe and music there.
Sadly it's still genshin so it's not really scary to me. Especially with just some rifthounds as enemy. But vibes were immaculate.
Hope they do more of this style.

Silver-Kale59552026-01-17 13:33

Devs legit saw players making FNAF and thought why not we make one for our players too

SleeplessSeas2026-01-17 13:34

Im not gonna lie I kinda feel like either you guys are all exaggerating or you just haven't played very many games yet, because while the atmosphere was like spookier than it usually is, it wasn't like actually scary, and the story wasn't thrilling and breathtaking.

Like it was trying to copy the idea of a Fallout vault but Genshin is kinda too handholdy and linear to actually feel like there's any tension imo. The whole thing of "the camera dragged me into a jump scare!" just means that the game can't naturally scare the player, and the "monster behind a door" didn't even show anything.

If the scariest thing the game can come up with are riff hounds and the big eyeballs that already exist in the overworld, then what is the scary part?

EmperSo2026-01-17 13:56

On the one side, players want complex story, unredeemable villains, serious atmosphere, mature game and getting rid of the fairy-tale logic. On the other side, this:

femboy_collector2026-01-17 14:18

ok but what's with the outfit??😧😣

KaptainKangarooroo2026-01-17 14:26

Yes! Finally someone talking about this one. So freaking good. Only so much genshin can do with the mechanics bit the vibes were so insanely good.

NaturalAppointment842026-01-17 14:27

I liked this quest. Really loved the more dark tone than the usual happy colorful one. As someone who loves horror games, this quest felt like a „cute creepy little big planet level“ to me. lol

Pale-Exercise-57402026-01-17 14:48

Where is this??

Darkanglesmyname2026-01-17 14:51

I loved this quest despite the fact that I hate stealth

>!can we talk about the fact that the boss mentioned sampo!<

LibraProtocol2026-01-17 14:52

This ironically actually makes me excited for the new Hoyo game that they announced. The lovecrafting horror game? Hehe so stoked

Gho55t2026-01-17 15:10

Hoyo testing things out for Varsapura lol

Tehwipez2026-01-17 15:19

This is genuinely the first thing I encountered after returning to the game since June and it scared the shit out of me. Nice to see the writers making the Abyss into the eldritch horror it was always meant to be.