Since the international news about the tragic submersible Titan going missing, submarine-based horror game Iron Lung has seen a big spike in sales.
The game’s developer, David Szymanski, shared a graph showing the spike that initially began on the 19th June, when news first broke of the missing sub.
Szymanski’s tweet reads: “This feels so wrong.”
Szymanski, at the time, added: “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.
Iron Lung is a “short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon” and it’s available to buy on Steam. Here’s a screenshot of the game below:
The OceanGate sub has been all over the news recently due to the fact it lost contact and then failed to return to the surface as scheduled on 19th June. Searches began the following day, although it’s now believed the sub ‘catastrophically imploded’ just hours into its journey.
Also profiting, apparently, is anyone selling the now infamous game controller – which was used to steer the submersible – on Amazon. Despite its developer Logitech’s stock value reportedly taking a nosedive.
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush was shown in one recording holding the game controller, and saying: “We run the whole thing with this game controller.”
