The Penjikent Creature

Markiplier| 00:25:35|Mar 24, 2026
Chapters8
The host introduces the premise and warns about legal responsibilities while emphasizing that the viewer should read the terms carefully.

Markiplier dives into a branching horror exploration of The Penjikent Creature, solving attic puzzles, collecting clues, and facing multiple endings with witty narration.

Summary

Markiplier guides viewers through a playthrough of The Penjikent Creature, infusing humor and tension as he uncovers a mystery surrounding an ancient mural and a lurking creature. He negotiates a tense starting setup about terms and responsibilities, then ventures to a remote Louisiana farmhouse to meet Miss Bertha and her mural. The journey hinges on solving a symbolic combination, exploring an attic full of relics, and reading a journal that hints at Penjikant murals in Tajikistan. As the stream of discoveries unfolds, Markiplier finds a handgun, navigates claustrophobic spaces, and encounters chilling visions that threaten sanity. The game rewards curiosity with branching endings and new landmarks on the map, which he reveals unlock further content and endings. Throughout, his commentary blends playful self-deprecation with sharp observations about who survives and why, keeping the pace brisk even as the atmosphere thickens. The ending he discusses teases at least one more closure, inviting fans to replay and uncover additional outcomes. This video showcases Markiplier’s signature delivery: humorous, improvisational, and highly engaged with puzzle-driven horror.

Key Takeaways

  • The protagonist must collect and interpret symbolic clues from multiple locations (shed, attic, journal) to progress and unlock safe combinations and new map landmarks.

Who Is This For?

Essential viewing for fans of Markiplier’s lore-driven horror playthroughs who enjoy puzzle-centric endings and branching outcomes. Viewers who like a mix of humor, exploration, and suspense will get both entertainment and potential strategies for navigating similar narrative-driven games.

Notable Quotes

"Hello everybody. My name is Markiplier and welcome to terms and conditions."
Opening setup and signature introduction setting the playful tone.
"It depicts mass hysteria caused by a creature from the Sian folklore known as [clears throat]"
Marker of the mural’s lore and the game’s mythic pivot.
"I found still 04. I shot Yay."
A moment of humorous self-satisfaction after using the gun against the threat.
"Your map is updated and the landmarks are unlocked. This will guide you to find the remaining clues."
Game mechanic explanation for progressing to new endings.

Questions This Video Answers

  • How do branching endings work in The Penjikent Creature and what affects them?
  • What are the key puzzles in Markiplier's The Penjikent Creature playthrough?
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Full Transcript
All right. Ah. Hello everybody. My name is Markiplier and welcome to terms and conditions. Why do you have terms and conditions? Liixian, read over this and make sure that I'm not going to be sued or anything. It'll be entirely on you. You will be fully responsible for any legal ramifications that I endure from betraying every single one of these terms and conditions. All right. Look real close. Read real fast. All right. Hope I'm not sued. Let's start. All right. Thank you. You bear all responsibilities and you get none of the benefits. That didn't make you like CEO or anything. You get you you are the fall guy. SO FALL. ALL RIGHT. GOOD. Welcome to the penicant creature. Whatever that means. I'm going to confront the penicant creature. All right. Location 76 milesi away from Long Creek County. A brief invest. So not in Long Creek County. So somewhere else. I'm literally not where you say it. Anyway, a brief investigation into the history of the Smithman family reveals that in 1876 they played a key role in excavating many historical sites in Pentican Tajikistan. Their descendants [music] are still in possession of some of the artifacts that were uncovered from these excavation sites. As a passionate archaeologist, you have contacted one of the only remaining family members to share what you know about their strange findings and to finally see one of the artifacts with your own eyes. Righty ho. So saith you. So go with me. Oh look around using my mouse. I don't know if I need to. I should keep my eyes on the road. I know how these games go. It's going to get real dangerous. Hold right mouse button to zoom. I'm good. Need my full field of view. Need to be able to see where I'm going, what I'm doing. That's all. I knew it. It was a test. If I'd have looked anywhere, I would have crashed. So, man, these people live in though. Middle of nowhere. All right. So, I got a car here or here. Here. Old truck. That must be where I am. Some kind of driveway. Some kind of house. All right. Can I get out? Oh, I had a hand. Open door. Yes. All right. Lovely rain. Lovely truck. It did say that there was something over there. Locked, I guess. All right. So, I don't think that there's a run now. I'm just stuck walking. Hello? Anybody home? Usually I would knock on the door, but I see a key over here. Mysterious key. Well, maybe this mysterious key is for that mysterious door. Oh, yes. These people wouldn't mind if I just go in a little bit. Well, what have we here? Is that a plug in the wall? Is this a whole lot of nothing? Was there no point in being here? All right. Well, that was useless. Don't know why I did that. Hello. I broke into your storage shed. Are you proud of me? Hello. Oh, good evening, Miss Bertha. It's great to finally meet you in person. Come in, young man. Oh, wow. What big eyes you have. It's bucketing down outside. Does it always rain so much here in Louisiana? It was quite a long drive to get here. I don't think I came across any other farms in the last few hours. I can't move. I like how your face completely changed from the moment you open the door to later. Come take a seat in the kitchen. Yes. Thank you, sir. Andor madam, would you like some coffee or black tea, young man? Coffee, please. I'm not really a tea guy. Interesting. Well, not into tea. Definitely not one of those. Don't mind the fridge bulb. Nothing stopping anyone from replacing their fridge light with a red bulb. Could you tell me more about this mural that we've talked on the phone about? My greatgrandfather first uncovered it in an excavation site in Central Asia. That was a long time ago. After all these years, why do you want to see it? Well, Miss Bela, this is what's great about my job as an archaeologist. We discover new things constantly. This artifact that you have is a lot older than you might think. It's likely painted around the sixth century. I believe it may be part of an ancient penicant murals in Tajikhan. [laughter] I don't know [clears throat] that much about it, young man. The pieces of the mural that you have might be over 1300 years old. What your great-grandfather found was likely one of the earliest known murals in that area. It depicts mass hysteria caused by a creature from the Sian folklore known as [clears throat] With your permission, I would like to take a closer look at it for my own research. I have a funny feeling I'm the creepier one in these two of these two people here. All that mural did was bringing bad luck to the family. It's upstairs in the attic. Come with me if you want to see it for yourself. Yes, I do. All right, go on without me, I guess. Here's the way to the attic. [music] I am way too aged to climb this ladder now. It's probably a bit dusty up there. My greatrandfather used to keep his notes in an old journal. Take this lantern with you. If you need anything, let me know. Well, you seem nice enough. Good thing I'm evil. I mean, bad thing. Too bad I'm evil. All right. What do we have here? Some kind of combination. H I see. But they're not of letter. Wait, I know one of these symbols. It was that thing. It was like the truck doodad. That's definitely one of them cuz I saw it out in the shed outside. So I already got that one. Oh, well that's handy. What is that? It's a symbol. So one of the symbols of the combo nation. H I don't know why they needed to close it behind me. Sure is drafty up here. Flip switch. All right. What did What did that do? Oh, got some power on up here. There's a whole other house up here. Or hey, it's another doodad, I guess. Now, where's this painting? I don't know. Remove cover. Don't know why I'm doing that. Ah. Oh. Okay. Well, that's horrifying. Fascinating. Let me get a good look at that. Whoa. Where's this journal? I feel my soul being corrupted as we speak. Ah, good. Good. Search cabinet. Why don't I do a papa kent? Yes. Yes. Yes. Very good. If I ever build a house, it's going to be singlestory only, except for the biggest labyrinthian basement of your life. I want a place where it's like it's like two bedrooms, right? Or at least it seems that way. But the basement goes on for miles and miles and miles and I kill all the people that actually help build it. Why? You don't need to know. You're going to find out soon enough. All right. Hold D. Hold A. I can't see this. Some people wearing hats or something. I don't know. Some dude wearing a hat in a cave symbol. HEY, it's another one of the symbols. It's a duad. Irish should really have a notebook or something. I do. I do have a notebook. I got a notebook right here. I got a notebook. Oh man, my notebook's out of batteries. Kind of dumbass notebook. I Ah, man. So I think it was I think it was okay. The right one is you know the two there and I believe the other one was like the truck looking thing. So I got the right to I could guess it from there but I'm not going to worry about it. All right. We got some kind of moose. Uh got an ant colony there. Got a minus tithth on the top left there. We got some caves. Blood caves. And then we got the the painting on the bottom right there. That's nice. All right. ass man of culture. I see the end. I'm guessing you're looking at the the projector. And wait a minute. Did I see something over there on my right when that flipped? Did Did I Did I see something? Oh, beautiful. All right. I hate this. This is terrible. Wait, what's happening? I'm pressing A. Is that not to progress? Okay. I The other book had me pressing A to prog. I thought Okay. Hey, wait a minute. Oh boy. Oh, that's Oh, I don't Oh, I don't like that. Oh, that's what you call not good. Good thing it's on the other side of the screen. Good thing I don't need to worry about that. Good thing that's not getting closer. Good thing that's not a problem for me. Good thing I don't need D. Oh, sup. Yeah, I'mma come closer to you. Yeah, you better run. That's what I got to say about that. Oh, interesting. So, uh, what do you What's up? What's up with you? What's up with you? It's fine. Everything's fine. Also, by the way, say goodbye to this. I was supposed to get a cut already before I came back making videos, but it's it couldn't for circumstances, you know, need to worry about. But say goodbye to this. Going to get a cut short now that Iron Lung's finally done. So, this is talking about the things on hooks, right? Let me at least draw them as I see them in the order that they appear in relation to the uh the map there. So, this is the top right one. It's that one. Guessing it's kind of in order. Oh, the rain stopped. Maybe this is saying that hook is the first one. I mean, I thought I already got a letter from the shed outside. Did I not? I should probably flip the switch. Definitely nothing up here with me. Flip. Oh, no. That's fair. That's fair. That's fair. That's fair. That's on me. That's on me. Yep, that's on me. Yeah, that's on me. That I should have should have known that was going to happen. Oh, I'm done. I guess I didn't survive the mystery. Wait a minute. Hold on. Hold. I found one, two clues. I didn't even get it right. I didn't even get it right. Opening the safe unlocks new areas of the house and can even result in completely different endings. Your map is updated and the landmarks are unlocked. This guy This will guide you to find the remaining clues. Yeah, I didn't do too good. I'm going to guess I didn't do too good. Let's try this again. Do I got to talk to Mrs. Bera again? Beer. Betha. Beer. Oh, now your eyes are Oh, it just looked like they weren't open before. Okay, can I just go up to the attic, please? Do I have to go through all this? Can I just go up to your attic, please? I just had the strangest feeling. Almost like a deja vu. You ever get one of those deja vu? It's almost like I've been here before. Anyway, thank you for inviting me after our phone talk. Come take a seat in the kitchen. Yeah. Hey, nice picture of a cat. I don't remember that. Maybe there is something different here. I would like the attic. This mural in your attic. [laughter] Wait, how do you know where the mural is? Oh, well, you must have heard me climbing the ladder. Hey, wait a minute. Hey, wait a minute. Climbing the ladder. You said in your old age you couldn't. Wait, you said you can climb up this ladder. Maybe I'll join you up there. Take this lantern and go upstairs in the attic. [sighs] All right. Okay. Weird. Okay. Well, at least I got two of these. What if I look at this? Does that do anything for me? Nah. So, I know that this one is that and I know that this one is the two butts touching. Okay, let me flip this clunk. Now, where's this painting? I knew it was right here. Weird. Very pendicant. [screaming] Fascinating. Feel like I've seen this before. All right. Oh, it's in the right drawer. I didn't need to do that. Panjent. Wonder if any of this is going to be different or if it's all going to be the same. Uh-huh. That same moose. Uh-huh. Uhhuh. Okay. Look in the doorway. No. No. Thought I was crazy. I was crazy Out of my mind. All right. So, for some reason, this one's D. D. It's gone. D. Nope. D. Nope. D these nuts. I see you. I see you. What you doing there, boy? Oh, you destroyed my lantern. Fair enough. So, it's a square and then I'm not going to go that way. That's death. So, there must be something else that I'm missing. Unless dying is part of what I need to do and then loop around again. What? Three. Wait. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. What in the how? How did Wait, what? How do I How do I How do I find three around the farmhouse? Not everything is out of seam. This mural and myth beer. They aren't normal. Check your map for any clue locations. You can always try to brute force a safe it absolut if if absolutely necessary. Oh, I can. But I don't want to. But I don't want to. Oh, I'm up here. Hey, wait a minute. I said there's a safe clue over there. What do you mean there's a safe clue over there? Hey, I ain't going to complain now. I basically got it. So, Oh, I didn't even have to brute force it. I just got it. I am that good. Oh god. Now, a gun. [laughter] Yes, please. That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. Baby, you have a limited number of bullets. Oh, do I? Well, good. Left click fire. F fires the weapon. Hanging metals can be shot. Why would I do that? Do I need to do that? Kabingus. Nice. Nice. Bonk. Then this one I can only shoot when it's actually open, right? Okay. Whatever you say, man. Those are heavy metals. Wonder if I shoot that if that'll be good. Oh, you're speeding things up, aren't you? Oh, as you should. As you should. Do you know you're about to be shot? Yeah. Try me. Try me. Oh, yeah. Oh, wait. No, that Whoa. Okay. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Easy there. I got a gun. A kabus. So, where? Why did it say that there was a clue? Somewhere here. Okay, whatever. I ain't going to question. Enter hole. Nice. Whoa. Grand grandma miss the what the [ __ ] I did not do that. Also, I see a costume. I definitely I see blood. So, I definitely got a shot off. Huh. easy come, easy go. Or some kind of platitude to say there. I'm out of bullets, so that's something. Oh, good. A dead end. Look through. Yeah, I'll look through at this dead end. Ah, I see. Why is there a hole here? I wonder. I wonder why. Good thing my back's turned. Press space to return. Oh boy. Oh boy. Ah. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. I'm glad I did this. Good. Hi. Hey. What's up? What is up? What even are you? I mean, I don't think that I don't think that really could still be. Miss Bertha, don't come any closer. I'm warning you. Uh-oh. Uh, jump. Yum. Bang. All right. Just an old lady. What do I got to worry about that? I got to get to my truck. It's going without me. It's making me go to my truck. A crazy old woman tried to murder me. I've never seen anything like this. She locked. Looked exactly like a pickle, but like more eerie. Craziest thing I've ever seen. Dude, says an unemployed. And he handy the equipment with an old lady. She had incredible speed for her age. And there was something something d about her. But I never expected this. After the police had arrived the farmhouse, she was nowhere to be seen. Mysterious creature in the woods. Some locals say they something. A dark farm in the woods with glowing eyes. Can it be real? Can't believe I could read a lot of that. AI could never. All right, there you have it. I'm not sure if that's actually the ending or if that's just one of endings. It might just be one of, but that was very good. I imagine there are more endings. I found still 04. I shot Yay. [screaming] YAY. HOW ABOUT USING your weapon on the creature without entering the sliding door at all? Oh, I'll leave that up to the glorious, beautiful, andor handsome fans out there. Oh, your map is updated. New landmarks are unlocked. This will guide you to find the second ending. What could that be? You'll just have to play it for yourself to find out. Can't have all the fun for you. It can't be that compelling. Or is it? It It is. It is. It is not. It is. It is not. Oh, it's starting me. Oh, wait. I guess it could. All right, fine. [ __ ] I almost got you there. All right, watch this. Get ready for it. Nailed it. Well, I just murdered an old lady. And you know what? She deserved it. La. Old woman found fatally shot in her attic. It was horrifying. Whoever murdered that poor lady, something got away with it. cannot get away with it. I'm not going to read the rest of that. All right, there you go. That's the the other secret. I bet there's another one. I bet there's another one. I bet I bet there's another one. Okay. I bet there's another one. Okay. Yeah. All right. That's it. Thank you everybody so much for watching and as always, I will see you in the next video. Bye-bye.

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