Screenshots from "Sad Satan"The Deep Web makes up the back alleys of the internet. It’s not indexed by search engines and is reserved for the unknown: think password protected forums, private sites and the unlinkable. So when YouTube channel Obscure Horror Corner claimed to have found a game in the darkness, a Mexican wave of goosebumps entailed.Rumour goes that a Sad Satan link was sent to one of the Obscure Horror Corner founders. He gave it a playthrough, till the game started altering his computer. Text began to appear, which was later translated to “I can track you” by a bunch of Redditors. Sufficiently creeped out, the game was deleted.
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The only existing footage of Sad Satan comes from five gameplay videos that were eventually posted. It’s a first-person hallway thriller in the vein of Guillermo Del Toro’s P.T., but despite some intense searching (and theorising) on Reddit no one can find out who made it.The design is rustic; shifting hallways cut awkward lines through a pitch-black landscape. This, alongside found footage, creates a pretty disturbing effect. The name presumably heralds from the age-old practice of reversing records to hear the words of the devil. Led Zeppelin’s "Stairway to Heaven" provides the title reference, just one of the game’s mysteries uncovered by Redditors. Others include audio of Charles Manson, JFK and Hitler, as well as black-and-white photography of Jimmy Savile, Margaret Thatcher and Franz Joseph. Creep yourself out below.
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