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Petscop

Horror web series review

Data snapshot Aug 18, 2026

As of Aug 18, 2026, Petscop has 25 episodes and 24,344,209 total views on YouTube. No public rating exists for it, because YouTube does not publish dislike counts.

Series facts

Episodes
25
Total views
24,344,209
Likes (sampled episodes)
642,241
Comments (sampled episodes)
97,956
Subscribers
415,000
Running
Mar 2017 to Nov 2019

Episodes, views, likes, comments and subscribers fetched from the YouTube Data API. Likes and comments are summed over the episodes we sampled, not the whole channel. Real fetched values, attributed, never blended.

ReviewPond analysis

Is Petscop worth it in 2026?

Petscop is a 25-episode horror web series published on YouTube between 2017 and 2019, accumulating over 24 million total views. Viewers describe it as a captivating, tense experience, praising the detailed effort put into creating a fictional PS1-era game to tell its story. Many comments highlight the series' unique sound design and the voice of the narrator, Paul, often expressing a fondness for his early, more talkative demeanor and specific memorable lines.

Best for

This series is best for viewers who enjoy deep, immersive horror narratives that unfold slowly and encourage extensive theorizing.

Watch out

Some viewers note that the series can be confusing, with many stating they did not fully understand the plot even after watching multiple episodes.

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Pros

  • sound design5
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    • I love that little dude's walk cycle and the sound that his walking makes. Bip-boop-bip-boop-bip-boop.
    • I just want to appreciate the cool sound corruption at 0:14. It's subtle and effective.
    • I fucking love the snapping noise sounds too damn clean. every noise is great
  • paul's voice4
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    • I love the way Paul says "please let me know" at the end. It sounds so genuine and like this genuinely began as a sort of let's play or walkthrough. You can sort of hear him smilin...
    • death and weird theories aside, Paul’s voice is actually really nice. I miss it
    • im just watching this to hear pauls voice again lmao
  • memorable quotes4
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    • Wise words from Paul "That's a dead kid."
    • i just love how blatant he was when he said, “that is a dead kid”
    • "That's a dead kid" is my new favorite unofficial meme
  • game's craftsmanship3
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    • Even if this is probably fake, the fact that someone went through the trouble of programming all of this to look like an era-appropriate PS1 game must be commended. A lot of work w...
    • this guy had to plan out, time develop, write, code, script, and synchronize a FICTIONAL game to tell a story on a youtube channel for 3 YEARS mad respect for this dude
    • Nobody appreciates how well animated, made, coded, whatever this is. It looks legit like holy
  • captivating experience3
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    • To anyone watching for the first time, I envy you, I want that experience back again
    • This series genuinely got me through college and a shit break up. I wrote a paper for a contemporary media class about this series and we got to watch an episode in class twice a w...
    • Fake or not, this is extremely tense yet captivating.
  • soundtrack3
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    • I never thought Petscop would actually post the OST damn, these are pretty neat soundtracks!
    • This soundtrack is so fantastic that immediately after listening to it, I walked downstairs and when I got to the bottom, I turned the right and became a shadow monster man. Thanks...
    • So this is how Petscop ends, not with a bang… _but with some BANGERS!!!_

Cons

  • paul's silence5
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    • damn i miss the old times when paul was still actively talking
    • I love the way Paul says "please let me know" at the end. It sounds so genuine and like this genuinely began as a sort of let's play or walkthrough. You can sort of hear him smilin...
    • death and weird theories aside, Paul’s voice is actually really nice. I miss it

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