My experience of Monstrum with The Fiend

[Doc October]

The last few days, Monstrum was becoming a bit boring and repetetive to me. It was always the same: I either had the Brute stomping around the ship in search for me and I would simply hode when I heard him nearby or I had the Stalker wandering about the pipes and occasionally crawl out of an air vent next to me. The game was still challenging, but I was bored with the two monsters.

Then Update 0.9.5 came out. I read the changelog and also the part about the flickering lights and electric hums, but I didn't think anything about it. I started a new round today after some time playing other games. When I didn't hear the Brute I assumed, I had the Stalker again as he usually takes his times crawling out of the vents, but it was strange that I didn't hear any of the sounds he usually makes when he's in the pipes. I roamed about the sixth deck of the crew quarters without any monster appearing, not that I'd complain about that, and then went down to the fifth deck. I walked around some corners and was about to get into a room as the lights started flickering. I thought: "Well that's nice. These flickering lights give the game a whole new atmosphere...". I thought it was only for cosmetic reasons. Giving the ship a spookier, darker atmosphere and adding to the whole ambience.

I couldn't have been more mistaken. Just as I turned to the next door I heard electric humming and that strange sound like an old man with asthma breathing in. Then I saw a dark figure down the hallway rushing up to me. I knew right then that it must be the new monster, the Fiend. I was shocked and didn't move the character away from him, because I wanted to know what it looked like.

This hovering, legless, alien-like creature surrounded by that purple mist was by far the most terrifying thing I've seen so far in all the horror games I've played.

I've played again several times with the Fiend as the monster and I'm still terrified when the lights around me start flickering. The scariest thing about him is not really his appearance, but rather the way he affects the surroundings and that you can't really see him in the darkness he creates around him until it's almost too late. I once was in the submarine bay without the lights on, waiting for him to arrive. I barely noticed him as he came floating through the left door and out of the middle one. I only saw that purple mist or nebula around him. When he turned around, he spotted me up on the catwalk and rushed through the bay and up the stairs. I almost got a heart attack.

Dear TeamJunkfish, thank you for giving us this horrifying asthmatic abomination hovering about the ship and snapping our necks with telekinesis. You couldn't have made a better third monster and I'm really looking forward to the upcoming release of the game. Continue with your amazing work.

[Nukesys]

I was terified when it killed me its like he has a hole different abillity! when your hiding he will sometimes pick the locker or cab your in and he will rip it open without his hands take you out forcefully and will crush your heart, ending the game... that was very creepy and the only way i get the feeling he is near is if the lights flicker on and off alot...

[Nukesys]

i am also very disapointed by the ghost you see in markipliers video though i thought he was the fiend as a easter egg :(

[Nukesys]

may be photoshoped but...

[Doc October]

I too thought that that humanoid thing in the video would be the new monster. Nevertheless, I'm glad they made the fiend like he is now.

[Urgash]

A ghost would be cool!
He could perhaps go throw walls and chase you more easy ;)

[TheMasterSwitcher]

Sulphur96 I understand you, I have the exact same experience as you, at first it didn't came to my attention that, the brute was spawned, and after that I thinked "Was it the stalker?" but no, when I just turned a corner, down in the "Cargo Hold" I just saw this dark humanoid figure, just standing there, as I remember this time, not even the lights were flickering around him, maybe a bug, but still I got a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ heart attack, when I first noticed him!! I thought I bricked my pants, my headphones were loud, and I couldn't run at all, he just took me by surprise, and then he killed me. I thought One more gameplay of this, I NEED TO SEE HIM. When I crashed into him on another playthrough, then I saw him, he was at the far end corridor, staring at me, definitely approaching me, without further hesitation, I picked my phone which was lying in front of me, and switched to "Camera-mode" after that, I was aiming at the screen, took several pictures in a row, to see him. I was shocked after I saw them photos :O

[master00340]

Unfortunately I'm not scared by it's design but the AI gets me every time, I did some testings by hiding in a locker in a a room with an open door I didn't attract it's attention so it patrolled the ship without entering my hiding spot and after it was gone i dropped a glowstick at the doorstep and the next time it checked the very room I was hiding in. It noticed a change I'm impressed so far, still trying to escape that thing.

[Mp18]

Fiend goes everywhere you go
There's no escape ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Also it's hunter not stalker
stalker was scrapped