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A screenshot of Sad Satan

Sad Satan is a horror game built with the Terror Engine. It was first reported by the channel Obscure Horror Center (also known as Jamie Farrel) on June 25, 2015, in a series of five videos. Due to its dark nature, it was covered by a number of different publications, spawning a subreddit community to discuss the game further. "Sad Satan was also known for its unofficial "true" version.

History and publications

A snapshot of the 4chan thread from a user named ZK, who claimed that OHC has not showed the "true" version of the game.

Following the release, the game was covered by various publications to explain the mystery behind the Sad Satan origin. In particular, the video game blog Kotaku interviewed the owner of Obscure Horror Center, whom claimed that he was requested by an anonymous subscriber in a tip to download the Sad Satan game. The subscriber claimed to have found the game in the forum, from a user only known as "ZK."

Following Kotaku's interview, a subreddit r/sadsatan was formed on the site Reddit to further discuss the game's lore and its origin. At some point, Jamie Farrel revealed the .onion address where the game was supposedly found, but users quickly realized that the link contained invalid characters. According to another interview from Kotaku published three days later, Jamie Farrel said that the link was purposely given in error since the game did contain graphic material and didn't want to take responsibility for disseminating such material, although it has been proven that there wasn't any such material included in the game or in the video.

On July 7, 2015, an anonymous user claiming to be ZK posted a thread on 4chan claiming that the "true" version of "Sad Satan" had not been covered by Obscure Horror Center. Below the snippet of text is the download link to that version, which actually included gore and child pornography instead of the images from the original. However, 4chan users who downloaded the game reported that their computers became unresponsive after running this version of the game; it was revealed to have a trojan installed with it. For instance, one user recalled that he attempted to play the game from a USB drive instead of the computer's hard drive, which caused his computer to fail to boot up normally.

Content

The player controls their character in a a dimly lit corridor while various audio samples are played and looped over each other. The majority of these are audio recordings of interviews with various murderers, including Charles Manson. Others are distorted and reversed musical clips, such as I Love Beijing Tiananmen and Led Zeppelin's rendition of Stairway to Heaven. Later in one of the videos, a slowed-down version of The Doors' "Alabama Song" can be heard, with the lyrics "Show me the way to the next little girl, oh don't ask why, oh don't ask why."

While the player controls their character through the hallway, images will intermittently display, preventing the player from progressing through the game. Most of these images often reference child abuse, especially people investigated and exposed in Operation Yewtree, such as images of Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris. Other images involved crime, including a picture of the convicted child rapist and necrophile Tsutomu Miyazaki. Others included are photographs of Lady Justice, the deceased Cambodian footballer Andrés Escobar, and political figures such as an image of John F. Kennedy before he was shot.

In the "true" version of the game, the player walks through a monochromatic corridor where the images from the original are replaced with extremely graphic content, including the aftermath of a child struck over by a truck, beheaded corpses that relate to the case of Richard Cottingham, and child pornography that appears to show a woman licking a baby's genitalia.