Submarine-based horror game Iron Lung has seen a sales spike following OceanGate’s Titan submersible going missing, something the developer has said “feels so wrong”.
Developer David Szymanski shared a graph showing a spike in sales of Iron Lung that began on June 19, when the media began reporting on the missing submersible. “This feels so wrong,” Szymanski said in the tweet.
“I made Iron Lung the most nightmarish thing I could think of, and knowing real people are in that situation right now is pretty horrific, even if it was their own bad decisions,” they added.
This feels so wrong pic.twitter.com/SMAKC6sOfH
— David Szymanski (@DUSKdev) June 21, 2023
Iron Lung is described as a “short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon”.
The OceanGate submersible, which was on an expedition to the Titanic wreckage, failed to make its scheduled return to the surface on June 19, with searches beginning the following day.
The submersible also made headlines over it seemingly using a video game controller to operate it. A November CBS report showed OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush giving a tour of the vessel, where he showed a Logitech gamepad and said: “We run the whole thing with this game controller.”
A search and rescue mission is currently underway for the submersible, which has five people on board, including one operator and four passengers.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.
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