Warning: This article discusses disturbing topics and imagery.
Sad Satan was discovered in 2015 by a YouTube channel called Obscure Horror Games. Claiming that a subscriber sent him a link to download the game from the Dark Web, the channel’s owner posted five videos of gameplay. The shock was immediate, and the videos went instantly viral. Despite its amateurish appearance, the game terrified viewers who wondered if there was more to it than meets the eye.
The dark aura surrounding the game only intensified when the owner of Obscure Horror Games claimed, in an interview with Kotaku, that playing Sad Satan caused his computer to behave bizarrely.
“It was getting a bit strange…a note pad file that went along with the game kept appearing on my desktop each time I played the game...