Game Theory: Is the Lost Level of Accounting+ Real? (Zoo Level Mystery)

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  • @GameTheory
    @GameTheory  5 년 전 +11891

    It exists...we found someone who is able to dig even deeper into the code and we're just now finding the pieces.
    He's in the RAW code and it's still a struggle to figure out how exactly it's hidden.
    But it's there. Definitely.
    We'll let you know what we find!

  • @rivaledrandom1282
    @rivaledrandom1282 5 년 전 +4556

    It's called the zoo level becuase the developers are watching us try to figure this mystery, like how people watch animals at the zoo.

  • @volrag
    @volrag 5 년 전 +138

    I think the zoo level might be a paradox. If google is to be believed, there are 2 major definitions for "zoo", the first we all know and love:
    "an establishment which maintains a collection of wild animals, typically in a park or gardens, for study, conservation, or display to the public.".
    The second? Well, it's:
    "a situation characterized by confusion and disorder."
    That's the paradox, in finding the zoo level, and in particular failing to find a zoo level creates the zoo, you are the zoo level. The zoo level only exists when it doesn't, and discovering the zoo level causes it to cease to be.

  • @jonahmiller7
    @jonahmiller7 4 년 전 +591

    I have an Oculus Quest. I bought the game, put my headset into developer mode, turned off the guardian boundary. Then I found a big room and went after the yellow and black cartridge on the floor that normally can't be reached. It scurried away from me like a rat.

  • @tashangina9615
    @tashangina9615 4 년 전 +2185

    it’s almost 2020, MatPat. where’s that zoo level?

  • @Drakefance5
    @Drakefance5 5 년 전 +1883

    There's always the possibility that the zoo level isn't a part of the base game, Payday 2 had a secret ending and upon completion it triggers a 2gb update for the game itself adding extra content as a reward. A similar system might be in play here. You can't find the zoo level files as they might not be there until you figure it out, In which they automatically download and install themselves.

    • @luisalvarezsoto9250
      @luisalvarezsoto9250 5 년 전 +80

      That was my guess as well.

    • @idkandidcscrewit3150
      @idkandidcscrewit3150 5 년 전 +71

      That was my guess and who know it might even bring you to a website and you have to download it

    • @RetoskiCat
      @RetoskiCat 5 년 전 +18

      Or something like what edmund mcmillen did to unlock the secret character

    • @punkboybaby5593
      @punkboybaby5593 5 년 전 +27

      Drakefance5 reading payday 2 outside of their associated meme channels threw me for a loop

    • @gaarakabuto1
      @gaarakabuto1 5 년 전 +12

      Even then there must be a file associated with the link to download the extra file,with all this digging mat did there should be provided anything IN game codes that might lead to NEW files or sites.

  • @panayiotispanayi
    @panayiotispanayi 5 년 전 +243

    Matt, if you look above in the clown level, there is a pipe where an animal slides through in the first second. You have to break that pipe. Everything in that room is trying to distract you, that's why the clown is so hyped

    • @panayiotispanayi
      @panayiotispanayi 5 년 전 +7

      I don't know if this is true, it's just a theory

    • @goldengifts3830
      @goldengifts3830 5 년 전 +4

      Someone anyone give this likes so that matpat can try!

    • @ChengDayuan
      @ChengDayuan 5 년 전 +2

      Good thinking

    • @goldengifts3830
      @goldengifts3830 5 년 전 +1

      Yeesss! YOU HAVE GON ABOVE GAME THEORY’S OWN COMMENT! NOw he shall surely do it!

    • @Idengard
      @Idengard 4 년 전 +2

      Golden Gifts try it yourself, idiot

  • @Bailey_Dreamfoot
    @Bailey_Dreamfoot 3 년 전 +413

    MatPat: Makes a 15 minute video explaining why the level doesn't exist
    Also MatPat: Leaves a comment on his video saying they found the zoo level
    Me: Dont do that... Dont give me hope...

  • @abbyw.8143
    @abbyw.8143 3 년 전 +175

    What if it’s an independent download? You’ve had to interact with websites to get the clues, you might have to do the same for the zoo level.

  • @shamelesstisi955
    @shamelesstisi955 5 년 전 +961

    The next update is gonna be the zoo level with a sign that says ‘suck it matpat’

  • @uzunaruMelonness
    @uzunaruMelonness 5 년 전 +319

    MattPatt, try searching for bars. Specifically iron bars. You're not supposed to be looking for a zoo. The "zoo" is where you place some familiar animals(The Gang) after they got arrested. It's a prison or jail.
    Play the xylobone with Save the animals.mp3. Ignore the animal sounds and play the specific notes of the song.
    I think the frog in the car chase is the one we should be trying to save. After all, it's in the song. The frog is the clue.

    • @omnicode
      @omnicode 5 년 전 +18

      I like this thinking. That's what I'm talking about. I'll try this out tonight or tomorrow. Just got the game, and mostly because of the zoo secret xD

    • @LadyMoss17
      @LadyMoss17 5 년 전 +14

      @@omnicode And then report back yeah? I want to know how this plays out.

    • @Firestar-rm8df
      @Firestar-rm8df 5 년 전 +8

      You should try getting in touch with the discord dedicated to the zoo level. They need active seekers like you: discord.gg/rJyntX4

    • @Jacob-rt6on
      @Jacob-rt6on 5 년 전 +1

      Didn't the gang all die though

    • @darthgrif6543
      @darthgrif6543 5 년 전 +1

      krplus.net/bidio/gratoaZ7gK_UgZQ you can do alot with sound

  • @faudelgrey5047
    @faudelgrey5047 3 년 전 +64

    Once you realize there is no Zoo level, you ascend, you become the expectator of everyone else as animals trying to find something that dosn't exist, that why Matpat posted a comment saying it does exist, he's part of the crowd now, he's watching all of us like animal, he's letting the zoo to go on.

  • @kaizo9321
    @kaizo9321 4 년 전 +205

    Hey mat remember that code you found that said save the animals?
    Maybe that's it, like what if there's a hidden animal in each level and you have to find them?

    • @galladegamer3579
      @galladegamer3579 3 년 전 +8

      @Michael Pietz
      You deserve a medal for that one

    • @sbifuelv9837
      @sbifuelv9837 3 년 전 +1

      Then get the game everyone

    • @toad8576
      @toad8576 3 년 전 +3

      maybe, MAYBE, a reference to super metroid in the final part of the game? did the creators of accounting+ have any connection to metroid?

    • @susanpicanco7576
      @susanpicanco7576 13 일 전

      Wait the upcoming zoo horror game zoochosis has the same tag line of
      'Rescue the animals'!

  • @zachfirestormyt1721
    @zachfirestormyt1721 4 년 전 +356

    “The logic is that there IS no logic”
    *Very Logical*

  • @ikaras425
    @ikaras425 3 년 전 +273

    Maybe the real zoo level, were the friends we made along the way.

    • @kovencartoons
      @kovencartoons 3 년 전 +4

      Yeah

    • @amorte9078
      @amorte9078 3 년 전 +3

      Dont you think this zoo level is Just a ritual that players Will do until they cant, the zoo level is driving me craze now i am still searchean for the zoo level.

    • @eclipticsolar5441
      @eclipticsolar5441 3 년 전 +1

      or a rick roll

    • @jzforsegaming3093
      @jzforsegaming3093 2 년 전 +1

      @@eclipticsolar5441 dude imagine someone finds it and the background music is rickroll

    • @eclipticsolar5441
      @eclipticsolar5441 2 년 전 +1

      @@jzforsegaming3093 that would actually be pretty funny

  • @Lemon-xd3yn
    @Lemon-xd3yn 4 년 전 +529

    Dear Diary,
    It's been 6 months. I've lost hope. The Zoo Level doesn't exist. It can't be found. I'm lost. Help...

    • @mikeexits
      @mikeexits 4 년 전 +7

      Look at the top pinned comment made by the channel. It exists, it's confirmed.

    • @Eldudiogrande
      @Eldudiogrande 4 년 전 +7

      Ye but now it’s been 10 months

    • @haruhatsumi4918
      @haruhatsumi4918 4 년 전 +3

      Liam Whately lol you guys are still curious like me? I’m dying to see the zoo level

    • @mikeexits
      @mikeexits 4 년 전 +1

      @@haruhatsumi4918 Look at the pinned comment on this video

    • @mikeexits
      @mikeexits 4 년 전

      @@Eldudiogrande It's a complex mystery made to be convoluted and difficult to solve. So in my opinion, of course they haven't found it yet. These things, they take time.

  • @TheSeppomania
    @TheSeppomania 5 년 전 +249

    Perhaps the zoolevel isn't in the game itself, but somewhere in the internet. Not putting the level in the game would be pretty smart of you don't want anybody to find it in the source code.

    • @uzunaruMelonness
      @uzunaruMelonness 5 년 전 +2

      What if the zoo level is not a zoo but a prison for the gang? The same gang in the car chase.

    • @biteybeast
      @biteybeast 5 년 전 +1

      So you're thinking of something like ilovebees, for instance?

    • @ember3579
      @ember3579 5 년 전 +3

      Yeah, that would be smart. Binding of Isaac made that mistake when they tried to turn The Lost into an ARG. Peeps were getting pretty far too, but then some wet fart cracked the source files and just posted all the pieces at once. It bummed out the peeps doing it properly at the time, too.

    • @vulcaireh2528
      @vulcaireh2528 5 년 전

      yeah that's what I thought they were going to do too

    • @llamanade
      @llamanade 5 년 전 +2

      What if it's a file that you have to download and put into the game files

  • @ConnorTheUndying
    @ConnorTheUndying 5 년 전 +170

    I can only imagine the intro is how MatPat plays all video games.

    • @tehspoon1643
      @tehspoon1643 5 년 전

      you know you could have waoled past a clue and the devs hjst didnt want to send thst batchnuo data into tue game yea that or youre ahead ofnthe game ajd you figured oit all the clues when they werent done witu the level so they justbthoight it woild be easier to create a gooses chase

    • @ConnorTheUndying
      @ConnorTheUndying 5 년 전 +1

      @@tehspoon1643 I love and appreciate the reply, but I can hardly read it.

    • @ultrainstinctshaggyalmight6429
      @ultrainstinctshaggyalmight6429 5 년 전 +3

      @@ConnorTheUndying I believe he said something like : "You know, you could have walked past a clue and the developers just didn't want to send that batch data into the game yet. That or you're ahead of the game and you figured out all the clues when they weren't done with the level so they just thought it would be easier to create a goose chase."
      Correct me if I'm wrong, and if you still didn't understand, my attempt of explanation is: You could've missed something because the game designers hadn't created it yet. Or you are just to quick to solve their mystery and decided to scrap it and tease the rest of the community.
      Don't question the effort I put into this reply. I doubt anyone will even care. [**Overly dramatic music plays as the neglected commenter walks away with his head down**]

    • @rainbow2.028
      @rainbow2.028 5 년 전

      @@ultrainstinctshaggyalmight6429 Thank you for the translation, you could make a career out of this, some people translate Chinese to English, you translate KRplus commenter 😂 I am truly grateful because I rarely take time to decipher the scramble nonsense some people take as words.

    • @roaringthunder115
      @roaringthunder115 5 년 전

      I know right

  • @NeroThacher
    @NeroThacher 3 년 전 +37

    Has this even been found yet?
    Imagine if this was just the Ultimate Meta-Dis, simply telling us all to go OUT to 'A Zoo Level'

  • @anthonygervez7154
    @anthonygervez7154 4 년 전 +41

    More than a year already and Rumours said MatPat shaved his head and started going to basketball games because the zoo level changed him forever.

  • @kiister8126
    @kiister8126 5 년 전 +757

    Or maybe the zoo level is downloaded the moment the player unlocks access to it.

    • @baleycus
      @baleycus 5 년 전 +71

      or you download it from a site

    • @lunaronion9970
      @lunaronion9970 5 년 전 +43

      yes glad I'm not the only one who thought this

    • @HudsonU
      @HudsonU 5 년 전 +18

      Maybe from a server online?

    • @HudsonU
      @HudsonU 5 년 전 +13

      TIME IS TICKING

    • @navetal
      @navetal 5 년 전 +27

      That can easily be tested by searching the game's code for anything that hints at this being a features, like importing certain libraries that are used for communications over the internet or a suspecious address of some sort...

  • @Alistocrat
    @Alistocrat 5 년 전 +335

    *plot twist* : The Zoo level exists in a different game

    • @Justanotherpretzel
      @Justanotherpretzel 5 년 전 +3

      Alistocrat that would be absolutely hilarious!😂

    • @daniel_w0085
      @daniel_w0085 5 년 전 +1

      Mind blown

    • @PrimemasterLP
      @PrimemasterLP 5 년 전 +8

      That's exactly what I was thinking. Maybe the creators are hinting towards a new, or even better yet, old and super unknown game. It's unlikely, but it would be amazing

    • @pikmineer
      @pikmineer 5 년 전 +1

      It might be in that new game SquanchGames is making...

    • @berthadongus2595
      @berthadongus2595 5 년 전 +5

      OOOOR: the creators themselves forgot where the zoo level is hidden and are trying to reach it with the help of the players...

  • @Deadpool-ri3rq
    @Deadpool-ri3rq 3 년 전 +20

    "The Rey's parents of gaming"
    Hoo boy, MatPat, you're gonna be eating every single one of those words.

  • @mcrsrm
    @mcrsrm 3 년 전 +29

    What if the developers patch the game years from now, with no hint that they did, to add the Zoo level, and also, changed all the codes people know are dead ends into the actual hints of how to reach it 🤔

  • @emilia8307
    @emilia8307 5 년 전 +334

    On the H3H3 podcast with Justin Roiland, Justin does say that the zoo level exists and the creators went out of their way to make sure you couldn't just go through the data to find the level.

    • @michaeltechfs
      @michaeltechfs 5 년 전 +13

      Do you remember which podcast this was with him and roughly what part it was? I went looking and there's three podcasts with him and they're all very long.

    • @emilia8307
      @emilia8307 5 년 전 +25

      M B it’s uh #99 and he starts talking around 7:37:00 about it

    • @hancecabredo7242
      @hancecabredo7242 5 년 전 +8

      @@emilia8307 Well, guess MatPat needs to do more digging.

    • @ChaseMoneyNotViews
      @ChaseMoneyNotViews 5 년 전 +1

      peeps gotta start likeing this

    • @AD-cy4vj
      @AD-cy4vj 5 년 전

      .

  • @rubbers3
    @rubbers3 5 년 전 +336

    The Zoo Level is in fact *OUR WORLD.* Like, _the real world,_ outside the game.

    • @ArcaneMaiden
      @ArcaneMaiden 5 년 전 +15

      Considering how nerdy philosophy is right now? You might actually be right. :)

    • @ObsidianKingSlade
      @ObsidianKingSlade 5 년 전 +8

      Are you calling us animals

    • @ticetvoed5568
      @ticetvoed5568 5 년 전 +2

      «If i might interject, that sounds positively ridicoulus.»
      -Talking mobie bubbles
      I had to

    • @ArcaneMaiden
      @ArcaneMaiden 5 년 전 +1

      @@ObsidianKingSlade Well. We are. o_o _Mammals_.
      Also, Mat just posted there is a potential, after all. So, we'll see. :)

  • @-whiskey-4134
    @-whiskey-4134 4 년 전 +16

    Yeah, the zoo level is the entirety of the ARG imo. The whole thing is crazy and driving everyone crazy, merging our world and the VR world together, keeping you playing the game even when youre not. A deeper “level” of VR than the deepest one in the game because it made our world the next level. You’ve been playing the secret level all along and it started since you heard about it. That’s what I get from all of this. The joke was the “level”

  • @user-bv3yy8sq3f
    @user-bv3yy8sq3f 4 년 전 +147

    what about the iconic moment in goonies where they literally played a bone piano to get past the trap and continue on? its nearly an identical concept, did you try their song?
    also, holdup. game grumps helped make this game? ha... ya, chances are the zoo level is complete tomfoolery then

    • @galladegamer3579
      @galladegamer3579 3 년 전 +3

      Xylobones are everywhere at this point...

    • @sbifuelv9837
      @sbifuelv9837 3 년 전

      Maybe just get the game and play the song if you can?

  • @sanshds7174
    @sanshds7174 5 년 전 +464

    Maybe you have to play spooky scary skeletons on the xylophone

    • @carmenparra6254
      @carmenparra6254 5 년 전 +33

      Sansh Ds not maybe. You have to. You can’t not take that opportunity

    • @bluebro3380
      @bluebro3380 5 년 전 +1

      Sansh Ds lolllll

    • @sofiacaudillo5603
      @sofiacaudillo5603 5 년 전

      Boi

    • @ps7678
      @ps7678 5 년 전 +5

      Could work as one of the developers is a jokester

    • @rhudezooka6320
      @rhudezooka6320 5 년 전 +3

      What if you put the first letter of the animal on the picture of the zoo level and if it is a code then crack it

  • @narkiplier
    @narkiplier 5 년 전 +301

    Justin Roland is probably just sitting back in his chair like "dude its just a bunch of horseshit yelling, but keep going, go ahead"

  • @The_Shimp
    @The_Shimp 년 전 +19

    maybe the true zoo level was the friends we made along the way.

  • @johnnyk6927
    @johnnyk6927 4 년 전 +90

    did you try playing that mp3 file on the zlyabones?

    • @tinyrick4459
      @tinyrick4459 4 년 전 +5

      Dragon Kang i was looking to see if someone else thought of this! needs more likes

    • @sugarsprinkles9875
      @sugarsprinkles9875 4 년 전 +7

      Dragon Kang What I’m waiting for is for someone to make the mp3 file into a graph. The type that reveal pictures through sound waves.
      Edit: Spectrogram. It’s called a spectrogram.

    • @stellanovaluna
      @stellanovaluna 3 년 전 +3

      @@tinyrick4459 IKR

    • @fennecrocks770
      @fennecrocks770 3 년 전 +3

      @@sugarsprinkles9875 I tried that and nothing www.deviantart.com/fennecrocks/art/Secret-Zoo-level-spectrogram-852261568

    • @sugarsprinkles9875
      @sugarsprinkles9875 3 년 전 +3

      @@fennecrocks770 Darn it! Thanks for trying :)

  • @always5809
    @always5809 5 년 전 +663

    What if ZOO stands for Zone Of Overthinking

  • @larsclerbout1913
    @larsclerbout1913 5 년 전 +286

    What if ZOO stands for something else but distracts you by making you think it's a zoo

  • @cocoalpsbackup90
    @cocoalpsbackup90 3 년 전 +47

    Wait wait - so in the previous episode of this theory, didn’t he find some mp3 file titled save the animals? So maybe that’s what he has to play on the xylophone??

    • @jesmadelher
      @jesmadelher 2 년 전 +5

      instead of xylophone it is xylobone

    • @x3Rmal
      @x3Rmal 2 년 전 +3

      Or the animal piano.

  • @loueli1826
    @loueli1826 3 년 전 +13

    Here I am, still waiting for this zoo level, We're almost done with 2020..
    :(

  • @matati22
    @matati22 5 년 전 +151

    It is possible that the Zoo Level doesn`t exist, BUT its also possible that an update will come when the mystery is solved. EG. of what i mean is The binding of issac : afterbirth, there the players had to solve a huge mystery even including a reall world tresure hunt without knowing the prize after that we got an update with a new character (still had to figure out how to unlock him in game tho). it mighut be like this here too.

  • @lyntlau6772
    @lyntlau6772 5 년 전 +281

    What if the whole game is in the “Zoo Level”, dunnnnn Dunnnnn DUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

  • @Pikagirl541
    @Pikagirl541 4 년 전 +8

    "Zoo" is sometimes used to describe something that's crazy or a mess, right? So maybe the zoo level is the chaos of searching for it. Rather than being a literal level it's a self imposed level.
    I don't know how common this is, but when I was a kid I made up levels within levels of Super Mario World. Things like making a shell bounce between two pipes and seeing how many times I can jump over said shell before it hits me or time runs out (I called this "deadly jump rope") became a new level for me to play when I needed a break from whatever real level I was stuck on.
    So the zoo level would be special because it gets players to set goals and complete tasks that they wouldn't normally do.

  • @alexandroshuang6747
    @alexandroshuang6747 4 년 전 +10

    New person:*finds zoo level*
    Also new person:”Nah I don’t want to go”

  • @fredgamer2298
    @fredgamer2298 5 년 전 +74

    I think if the zoo level does exist, it's just a blank room containing something pointless, like a cage with a dead rat inside.

    • @crake9510
      @crake9510 5 년 전 +2

      Why so specific tho?

    • @imhappysavage5059
      @imhappysavage5059 5 년 전 +3

      I can see this being entirely possible

    • @elijah7835
      @elijah7835 5 년 전 +1

      No.... With.... A RAT'S HEAD WITCH IS ALWAYS SCREAMING!!! :D
      (bill cipher reference...)

  • @ShadowCorgo
    @ShadowCorgo 5 년 전 +413

    Matpat: *Sees button*
    *THEORY INTENSIFIES*

    • @24ultraflowey17
      @24ultraflowey17 5 년 전 +1

      True of a theorists true potentials of secret easter eggs or secret levels.

    • @kleinpeterjill
      @kleinpeterjill 5 년 전

      I know that there is something looking for fortnite cold they're cheaper and more importantly what were those rocks that made you invisible what was the cube and how to fit into the new season

    • @kleinpeterjill
      @kleinpeterjill 5 년 전

      Oh by the way matpat the one that I just wrote route was for you

    • @cara_melly
      @cara_melly 5 년 전

      XD

    • @solo3r_san954
      @solo3r_san954 5 년 전

      Hey matpat do a flim theory on bird box

  • @vincentoconnor767
    @vincentoconnor767 4 년 전 +25

    Matpat: wow look at this good game mind if I compare it FNAF.
    Everyone Else: O boy here we go again.

  • @Chef_Ravioli87
    @Chef_Ravioli87 4 년 전 +12

    I tried to go up to the secret zoo level case by the basketball hoop on my Oculus quest, and for some reason it flew back! I'm still trying to find a giant room to go behind the case before it flings backwards.

  • @I25mI25
    @I25mI25 5 년 전 +277

    Actually, just because there are no assets/code for that level in the game files does not mean the level does not exists. In theory they could dynamically download all resources from a server, compile and use them only when a certain event is triggered. And even finding the code responsible for downloading and compiling the resources could be really hard to find since it would take only one line of code but could also be created very verbose, hidden in hundreds of different classes and the different instructions do not make sense by themselves (or do something completely different), but with the correct control code hidden somewhere else it suddenly makes sense. Until someone has inspected every single line of code, nobody can really say that the level is not there.

    • @derfzgrld
      @derfzgrld 5 년 전 +14

      There are lots of ways to do that. It is not even necessary to use any assets in the first place. They can be hardcoded in the game (unlikely because this takes a lot of effort and usually looks horrible but it is possible).

    • @wildstarfish3786
      @wildstarfish3786 5 년 전 +3

      has anyone found the password or hacked into the protected file they could hide it in that

    • @new2you123
      @new2you123 5 년 전 +5

      No pat they don't have to be in the files it's like dlc it adds to the code

    • @faisalius
      @faisalius 5 년 전

      Can't you get a link from a website that dowloads the Zoo level, and automatically attaches to the game itself,
      beacuse if that is possible
      then Matt you need to find a link bye solving the 2 Things we got from the episode before this one

    • @MaceWielder
      @MaceWielder 5 년 전 +3

      That’s what I was thinking. What if u did an action and said action caused the game to start updating with the zoo level?

  • @spoopyfern
    @spoopyfern 5 년 전 +477

    Anyone else feel like MatPat is still low-key stuck on Fnaf?

  • @misterboy7043
    @misterboy7043 3 년 전 +14

    I know im like 2 years late but couldn't you get the save the animals audio and put it in that thing you did with the fortnite video where you make it an image

    • @patriciaosborne295
      @patriciaosborne295 3 년 전

      People have already tried nothing shows up

    • @misterboy7043
      @misterboy7043 3 년 전

      @@patriciaosborne295 like nothing as in a black screen? If so why don’t you turn contrast+brightness up?

    • @_TheThirdWheel_
      @_TheThirdWheel_ 3 년 전

      you're here too? My advice: erase this garbage from your mind and re-watch the fnaf theories. You have a better chance of making a feasible fnaf timeline than figuring out this one. Trust me, it'll save you the dissappointment 😟😕😒

  • @bugatti_cuda5959
    @bugatti_cuda5959 3 년 전 +7

    Matpat... it’s 2021 mat... have you found the level yet mat? Be honest now.... do you know how to find it yet?
    Are we done with the zoo level now mat?

  • @adamwarlock8069
    @adamwarlock8069 5 년 전 +218

    "Unless it was completely narrated by a text to speech bot "
    Honestly wouldn't put something like that past them ...

  • @williampittman2432
    @williampittman2432 5 년 전 +166

    Or there's a massive update that just hasn't come out yet.

    • @lavacake3949
      @lavacake3949 5 년 전 +11

      Or the level itself is just a mod that you have to download. To prevent people from cheating their way to the level.

    • @RubyRedSun
      @RubyRedSun 5 년 전

      this and my theory are probably the most possible ones

    • @vaporwave6445
      @vaporwave6445 5 년 전

      Or we can just forget about the game and in turn make us alot preventfull against bad thinks that we dont need and over the years we can learn to live peacfully...CoTtOn cAnDy!!!!!

    • @markielarkie6288
      @markielarkie6288 5 년 전

      @@lavacake3949 I'm telling you it is what can be used to call a mod? An add on, what is the title accounting *+* what symbol do you use to add on? a plus sign (+), notice how the cartridge taunts players outside of players reach *out of bounds* what if you go out of bounds in the water park, or out of bounds on said add-on / dlc, an add-on is also new content new stuff to *explore* so exploring the out of bounds of such addons would give us the answer
      Or you know , the new experience is just the whole searching for the zoo level with no answer

  • @vadtwj
    @vadtwj 7 개월 전 +4

    Its September 2023 MatPat where's that zoo level

  • @jetmusic4997
    @jetmusic4997 2 년 전 +3

    Imagine the level with tree guy is just the remains of the zoo level. So basically the clip with the clown dude is just from the past and you’re like 100 years and now you’re in present day where it doesn’t exist and tree guy lives on top of the remains

  • @potatomasster6266
    @potatomasster6266 5 년 전 +538

    What if ZOO stands for Zone Of Overthinking
    I want MatPat to see
    Always Wright's comment, so i copied it, credit to him

  • @doom87er
    @doom87er 5 년 전 +65

    the zoo level files dont actually have to be in the game. They could be hidden somewhere on the internet as a package that can be downloaded. Either manually by the player, like a mod. Or, automatically from a CDN or some other remote asset hosting service.

  • @physics_hacker
    @physics_hacker 4 년 전 +6

    The intros of this and the last theory on this game really remind me of this weird VR game I watched a playthrough of a long time ago...unless that was some kind of fever dream...

  • @andrewhornbeck526
    @andrewhornbeck526 3 년 전 +19

    What version is the game on?
    The cartage shows "Version 8"

  • @chalmcal2894
    @chalmcal2894 5 년 전 +130

    Imagine if the song on the bone xylophone was never going to give you up

  • @blokamist5472
    @blokamist5472 5 년 전 +352

    Try playing save the animals on the xylobones cause thats the ONLY song ever mentioned secretly by the developers.

    • @finniskuchanev8395
      @finniskuchanev8395 5 년 전 +9

      I was thinking the same but then thought that he already tried it

    • @zombotanycmc
      @zombotanycmc 5 년 전 +8

      Good idea

    • @GooseWithAPassport
      @GooseWithAPassport 5 년 전

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    • @keenanhall6416
      @keenanhall6416 5 년 전 +3

      I was thinking the same but I also thought about playing it on the space piano since that has actual animal noises on it

    • @blokamist5472
      @blokamist5472 5 년 전 +1

      not bad

  • @acevalentine67
    @acevalentine67 4 년 전 +8

    There’s a dialogue segment I noticed when he’s using a scene playing the xylobone, and it says “Oh yeah bro, now you’re playing them booones.”. What if you had to play Alice In Chains “Them Bones” on the xylobone? Lol 😂Probably not, but it’d be pretty interesting!

  • @catastrophefighter7859

    Mat in the intro: Me ever since I found this channel

  • @masterpoopie
    @masterpoopie 5 년 전 +79

    H3 H3 podcast that Justin was on and he said that they went out of their way to make sure you couldn't find any files that way whenever you do what you're supposed to do to unlock the zoo level it downloads a patch

    • @willowbarrelmaker8269
      @willowbarrelmaker8269 5 년 전 +3

      Personally I don’t think it exists. What makes me so sure, is the fact that they’re so adamant about it.
      The creators are tricksters by nature in my opinion, and if there was a zoo level they would adamantly insist there wasn’t one.

    • @masterpoopie
      @masterpoopie 5 년 전

      @@willowbarrelmaker8269 but what if they know that's how people would think and so they're doing the exact opposite

  • @khatraos7085
    @khatraos7085 5 년 전 +181

    What if we are in the zoo level and we are acting like animals looking for something we see already we just don't think about it

  • @MustardMouse8288
    @MustardMouse8288 9 개월 전 +2

    There once was a man named Gold Roger, King of the Pirates. These were the final words he said:
    "My fortune is yours for the taking, if you find it. I left everything I own in One Piece..."

  • @FisforFenton
    @FisforFenton 4 년 전 +2

    The thing that keeps me up at night is trying to decide if the world would be a better place without me in it.

  • @sebastien-loikntsangou-kan5264

    Well, absurdism is a common theme of Rick & Morty

  • @camdenboyd3857
    @camdenboyd3857 5 년 전 +164

    Interesting how in the midst of this Zoo Level crisis, Crows Crows Crows is creating Stanley Parable 2, (which is at the very least additional game content paired with the original game). Here's where things could get interesting: PERHAPS the Zoo Level isn't even in the Accounting+ game, but in another game entirely, the game that started it all: The Stanley Parable. What if the zoo level has been in Stanley Parable the entire time? And maybe this new update coming sometime this year is in fact the way to see it? Or at the very least, the update includes the Zoo Level itself, hiding in a place no one would think to look.

    • @dan_neal
      @dan_neal 5 년 전 +4

      Unfortunately, I know for a fact that the Zoo Level is not in The Stanley Parable in its current state, but I like your theory of it being in the new version.

    • @killernyancat8193
      @killernyancat8193 5 년 전 +1

      Wait!!! They are?!?!?!

    • @camdenboyd3857
      @camdenboyd3857 5 년 전

      @@killernyancat8193 See the Stanley Parable official site here for more info: stanleyparable.com. Sort of. It's called Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe.

    • @TakaG
      @TakaG 5 년 전 +4

      Could also be a flash game on a random website with the url hidden in the game.

    • @camdenboyd3857
      @camdenboyd3857 5 년 전 +2

      @@TakaG That's actually a really interesting idea! I could definitely see that as a possibility.

  • @franzwolf8082
    @franzwolf8082 3 년 전 +3

    I think the devs of accounting+ are doing the same thing rockstar did in gta v: they put clues pointing to a secret in the game, in gta case was the jetpack; the players create communities to solve the mystery and soon the curiosity becomes an obsession, and people start making lots of conspiracy theories around the mystery, desperately trying to find something that never was in the game and, after several years after the game's release, the devs finally add the so desired secret as a dlc!

  • @beanutbutter2921
    @beanutbutter2921 4 년 전 +4

    "The hunt goes on baby"
    You sound like the main character in ready player one when searching for the key.

  • @tin7139
    @tin7139 5 년 전 +824

    Matt : "What keeps you up at night?"
    Me : "Hentai."

  • @Descending.
    @Descending. 5 년 전 +94

    I mean, the binding of isaac did it in the past, the zoo level isn't there *yet*. When the developers realize someone found the zoo level the level will become available. Maybe the level isn't in accounting! maybe the level appears in a different game! Frog fractions has done it in the past where the second game was hidden in an entirely different game. What Im saying is, the zoo level might exist, you just haven't found the right key to unlocking it, "unlocking it" meaning, discovering where it is or making the devs drop the level into the game.

  • @MiKa-867
    @MiKa-867 4 년 전 +8

    What do I do at night? I’m watching this at night in bed.

  • @beta4163
    @beta4163 2 년 전 +4

    Game: You're ruining the game with to much attention to detail
    Me: isn't that what theorizing is about

  • @themaskedmen4314
    @themaskedmen4314 5 년 전 +280

    You might have to search for a download link to download a zoo level

    • @spacebeats3680
      @spacebeats3680 5 년 전 +16

      ​@@immaheadoutz4712 R/Wooosh

    • @PolishSpam
      @PolishSpam 5 년 전 +4

      Dude that's what we mean ... You gotta FIND the download link. I'm came here just to say that but seen this comment. What if there is a final point that leads to a website. Try to find a domain that has been purchased by literally anyone in the company that requires a login and password and it may take you to a download file and even then they can shut it down after a certain amount of downloads.

    • @JamesDoesStuff0603
      @JamesDoesStuff0603 5 년 전

      Just_a_kid it actually is

    • @JamesDoesStuff0603
      @JamesDoesStuff0603 5 년 전 +1

      It would be a hidden update or a mod that would add the level to the game

    • @trimpsy
      @trimpsy 5 년 전 +1

      @@spacebeats3680 r/itswooooshwith4os r/ihavereddit

  • @firebreathingfish9782
    @firebreathingfish9782 5 년 전 +651

    Maybe the zoo level is the entire game itself. Because in a zoo you go to see strange and diffrent animals. In accounting+ there are many diffrent strange creatures and people.
    Edit: thx soo much for the likes! this theory is still poking at my brain but i stand by my prediction..

  • @jayzplayz760
    @jayzplayz760 4 년 전 +15

    Im Still Waiting for The Next Vid On This Tbh

  • @bryanl.3370
    @bryanl.3370 4 년 전 +11

    Its been 5 months since his discovery of the zoo level...hes stuck in the level isnt he?

  • @bobbysmith3434
    @bobbysmith3434 5 년 전 +194

    *sees arbitrary detail*
    *spends hours digging into detail*
    *finds nothing*
    rEEEEEEEEE

  • @GalazyProductions
    @GalazyProductions 5 년 전 +125

    Thank you Matpat!
    But our Secret Level is in another castle!

  • @nikorek1470
    @nikorek1470 3 년 전 +5

    what if the developers put in like a sequence of things you have to do and then show you a url to a download of the zoo level and all it's components?

  • @ztsquid3000
    @ztsquid3000 3 년 전 +4

    That has to be the biggest prank they ever pulled! 😁

  • @567secret
    @567secret 5 년 전 +340

    Theory: The zoo is watching people try to find the zoo.

    • @lucianoariasduval
      @lucianoariasduval 5 년 전 +6

      That's exactly what I thought! Being "no headset" headset-ception level 0 and therefore having this level IRL

    • @chaosinsurgency6636
      @chaosinsurgency6636 5 년 전

      krplus.net/bidio/XaqioH2npZrXmYY

    • @luvrlynn
      @luvrlynn 5 년 전

      Oof man sounds leggit

  • @Solstice7
    @Solstice7 5 년 전 +211

    What if solving the codes on the internet provide you with a download link for the zoo level

    • @jace4691
      @jace4691 5 년 전 +14

      Wait you might be on to something here. you should hop on the discord and see what some people think.

    • @KaePengii
      @KaePengii 5 년 전 +3

      If they did that, people could copy and paste the link anywhere and then anyone would be able to access it, without buying the game.

    • @TheZombiewill
      @TheZombiewill 5 년 전 +7

      Yes, the Level's code might be hidden elsewhere or they are waiting for us to discover more clues before showing us more clues...

    • @Jackaroo
      @Jackaroo 5 년 전 +3

      @@KaePengii isn't accounting free though?

    • @Jackaroo
      @Jackaroo 5 년 전 +3

      @@KaePengii and it would just be like a free (secret) dlc and wouldn't provide the full game

  • @abdelrahmanhammad2195
    @abdelrahmanhammad2195 4 년 전 +13

    What if through different codes it leads you to a site that you can download the file from for the level

  • @funnyveryfunny.4930

    what keeps me up at night is ur vids :D

  • @kendelion
    @kendelion 5 년 전 +486

    the zoo level is the real world. We are the Animals.
    Edit:
    Thanks for the likes, i actually feel like this everyday, more like a robot zoo here in Japan!
    Please check out my channel krplus.net/ukitsuneken if you have spare time!

    • @jameson1239
      @jameson1239 5 년 전 +9

      Kitsune Ken I have a feeling that might actually be something they would do

    • @jacobmendonca8571
      @jacobmendonca8571 5 년 전 +2

      Kitsune Ken we live in a society

    • @Lorencius1234
      @Lorencius1234 5 년 전

      @@jacobmendonca8571 Isn't it a comunity?

    • @spaeds402
      @spaeds402 5 년 전 +1

      Thats actually a really good theory but also dark.

    • @fecaplky
      @fecaplky 5 년 전 +1

      Yup, although I think it might be more specific to the people who play it and the viewers watching them, like a zoo
      We may never know...

  • @Snapmare_
    @Snapmare_ 5 년 전 +155

    *_pressing the continue button noises_*

  • @emmav2224
    @emmav2224 4 년 전 +1

    What if the zoo level is like the museum in The Stanley Parable? An organized area that shows you info about the game. It could be put together completely from reused assets and audio, organized to let you look at the characters in a “zoo.” Adding the Waterpark level would hide any shady assets that could only exist in the supposed “Zoo level.” Highly unlikely, but an incredibly slim possibility.

  • @2broschillin23
    @2broschillin23 4 년 전 +12

    Hey MatPat, why didn’t you concert the audio to a image?

  • @Lasshatry
    @Lasshatry 5 년 전 +361

    What if the clues just lead you to a real life zoo

  • @catgamerzxd
    @catgamerzxd 5 년 전 +210

    Or maybe it's a human zoo...the game is the zoo...the game trap humans and entertained them.....(sees matpats comment)....ooooooor I might be wrong and needs to wait for another theory

    • @bioshockbrat9171
      @bioshockbrat9171 5 년 전

      I was thinking along the lines: "they're animals" a human zoo full of crazy people?

  • @brookebcreativity1001

    Now that it’s a new year and there’s new information you guys should do an update to this theory

  • @huh2019
    @huh2019 8 개월 전 +2

    Let’s sue them for false advertising

  • @alyssakeefe1013
    @alyssakeefe1013 5 년 전 +257

    Maybe next season of Rick and Morty will have an episode called "Zoo Level" 😂

    • @axolotlife677
      @axolotlife677 5 년 전 +7

      If there is a new season.
      ALSO THE CREATORS SAID THEY WOULD RELEASE SEASON 4 IN 2018, BUT LOOK IT IS 2019 YOU LIARS

    • @zombotanycmc
      @zombotanycmc 5 년 전

      Great

    • @gaymohammed3137
      @gaymohammed3137 5 년 전 +1

      @@axolotlife677 oh no a overhyped cartoon with a awful fanbase didn't release a new season...

    • @Onliest
      @Onliest 5 년 전

      @@gaymohammed3137 The fanbase really isn't all that horrible.. People just take things too far. If you want to look at a terrible fanbase, look at Steven Universe.

    • @gaymohammed3137
      @gaymohammed3137 5 년 전

      @@Onliest Steven universe fanbase is full with left propaganda lover, feminazi and cuckolds. Rick and morty just has the annoying over exaggerated man child's that are mid twenties or older and behave like 10 year Olds. While a bit of a childish side should everyone keep their fans are just to much

  • @WhistlinDixie5000
    @WhistlinDixie5000 5 년 전 +178

    So what if you can't find the related code, not because the level doesn't exist but, because the level is DLC? You follow the clues and you eventually get a download link for the level.

    • @tokyoteddybear8560
      @tokyoteddybear8560 5 년 전 +9

      That would make a lot of sense

    • @kamesama9992
      @kamesama9992 5 년 전

      That was my fault.

    • @GooseWithAPassport
      @GooseWithAPassport 5 년 전 +3

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    • @DrTheRich
      @DrTheRich 5 년 전 +1

      exactly what i was thinking....

    • @Kira_Nakasashi
      @Kira_Nakasashi 5 년 전 +1

      That's what I thought

  • @thetubemz937
    @thetubemz937 3 년 전

    So glad we got a part 3 of this

  • @Gamer_Wolf.
    @Gamer_Wolf. 3 개월 전 +2

    Didn't the Clown say when he showed the trailer "that isn't even a zoo that's the back of my apartment."

  • @kraztar
    @kraztar 5 년 전 +265

    im incredibly dissapointed you didnt ply the intro on the xylabones

  • @jorja6880
    @jorja6880 5 년 전 +88

    This will probably be debunked, but what if the zoo level is a mashup of the other levels? This might explain why there's no new things, you wouldn't need to add new features if you're just recycling features from the other levels. It also might show why it's called the zoo level - like a zoo, it's a collection of things (like animals) from different places?
    Idk it might not mean anything, just a random thought

    • @thibaultfernandez
      @thibaultfernandez 5 년 전 +9

      That's literally what he said could be possible in the video

    • @SteveOnlin
      @SteveOnlin 5 년 전 +1

      my thought that when you get to the level you download it

    • @johnholland5419
      @johnholland5419 5 년 전 +1

      I'm thinking of the museum from Modern Warfare 2 where there's just a bunch of the games major moments on display only it's a zoo so it's the characters on display, saying their usual lines, stuck in cages of existing assets for you to wander around

    • @MrNolan
      @MrNolan 5 년 전 +1

      r a y v e n yeah sounds about right

    • @viktoria_pikovsky
      @viktoria_pikovsky 5 년 전 +1

      As someone who is currently learning 3D animation I want to disagree and say that you would still need some new models for the level, like cages and stuff, as new models need to be first CREATED as new models in order to be put into the game, yet I'm totally on the same idea as you in regard of reused assets. What I mean is that nothing is stopping the creators from just taking old models from official levels and randomly throw them into a new level area and reusing existing textures and animation keys for them. Heck, they might even reuse voice lines and audio files too, like game designers did in the good old days. MatPat did mention after all that there are two strange level files that doesn't seem to match any of the already existing 14 (15?) levels, so one of them could be the Zoo level, made up entirely of already existing materials.
      It would be strange tho for the creators to do something this lazy and stupid, but in a game that literally lacks any logic that would not be so much out of place. Especially if the so called Zoo level isn't a literal zoo, but rather some kind of randomly generated game area with randomly generated models and audio tracks all made up from stuff that are officially already in the game.

  • @kyutazumi6303
    @kyutazumi6303 년 전 +1

    "Orville, not every story has to have significance, ya know? Sometimes uhh, you know, sometimes a story is just a story. You try to read into every little thing and find meaning in everything anyone says, you’ll just drive yourself crazy. Had a friend do it once - wasn’t pretty - we talked about it for years"

  • @ralphwiggum4107
    @ralphwiggum4107 4 년 전 +4

    I love watching these videos for the satisfying ending that explains it all. I literally died because there was no, secret, no zoo, no nuthin. IM DEAD