David Szymanski, the developer of Submarine Horror game Iron Lung, has expressed his discomfort online following a sales spike. This increase in interest has seemingly come following the dissapearance of the OceanGate submersible.
"This feels so wrong," Szymanski writes on Twitter, alongside a graph showing a sharp increase in Steam sales. Szymanski would follow up by stating: "I definitely see the dark humor in this whole Titanic sub thing, it's just... like, 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."
As of writing, those inside the real life submersible have roughly just under three hours of oxygen left (it is predicted to run out at 1PM BST / 8AM ET), assuming the hull has not been breached. In replies following his initial tweet Szymanski expressed his intent for Iron Lung was to make "a scenario involving a sub that was as nightmarish as I could dream up." He was also asked whether this experience would ruin how he sees Iron Lung as a whole, to which he replied that he "was not sure tbh."