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Sad Satan is a horror game released for Microsoft Windows in 2015. The game was allegedly created by a dark web user operating under the pseudonym "ZK".

Gameplay
The original game in the Obscure Horror Corner video has blurred graphics from a first-person view. The player walks down monochromatic corridors while various audio samples are played and looped over each other. Audio in the game leans heavily on recordings of interviews with various murderers, such as Charles Manson, as well as on distorted or reversed audio of such interviews or musical clips, such as the song "I Love Beijing Tiananmen", played in the beginning; reversed clips from the Swedish Rhapsody numbers station can also be heard. Adding to the game's theme of child abuse, The Doors' rendition of "Alabama Song" can also be heard, starting with the verse "Show me the way to the next little girl." While the player controls their character through the hallways, images may intermittently display, taking up the entire screen and preventing the player from progressing any further until the image automatically closes a few seconds later. Most of the images seem to reference child abuse, especially people indicted in Operation Yewtree, such as images of Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris surrounded by children. Other images revolve around crime, and include people convicted or accused of murder such as Japanese child murderer, cannibal, rapist and necrophile Tsutomu Miyazaki. Included also are photographs of Lady Justice statues, Colombian footballer and murder victim Andrés Escobar, and political figures such as former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former US President John F. Kennedy. Works of Roger Ballen and Walter Sanders were also included. The only other "characters" in the game are children who bear a resemblance to each other and simply stand in one place and do not move or interact with the player at all. In the final video posted by Obscure Horror Corner, one of these children does begin to follow the player, causing "contact damage". Since the player has no means of self-defense or any ability to heal damage, the player will inevitably die at this point in the game. The later "clone" of Sad Satan and its subsequent offshoots closely follow the gameplay template of the original, but display different, often far more graphic, sets of images. These images include photographs of mutilated corpses and, in the case of the earliest build, an image of child pornography. == History ==
History
Original game On June 25, 2015, the YouTube channel Obscure Horror Corner uploaded a series of videos showcasing Sad Satan gameplay. There were five parts total uploaded over the course of a few weeks, with the fifth part being deleted 6 years later for unknown reasons. In an interview with Kotaku, the channel's owner, identified as "Jamie", claimed to have downloaded the game from a Tor hidden service after receiving a tip from an anonymous subscriber. The subscriber in turn claims to have found the link via a dark web internet forum, from a user only known as "ZK". ==Legacy==
Legacy
Sad Satan was the last game covered by Obscure Horror Corner, and since then, the YouTube channel has been abandoned. There has been speculation that the game was in fact created by the owner of Obscure Horror Corner as a hoax or attempted urban legend, in an effort to increase the channel's subscription count. The game continued gaining recognition worldwide and was played by famous streamers and gaming YouTubers due to its dark nature. Various other versions of the game have circulated online on platforms like Steam, itch.io, Game Jolt, Roblox, iOS, and Google Play Games. These other versions vary wildly in gameplay and content and seem to have no connection to ZK or Obscure Horror Corner, while some are mostly remakes/ports of the existing games, though with significant visual changes (namely regarding any illegal and copyrighted material) to conform to terms of service requirements. == References ==
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