| Sad Satan | |
|---|---|
 Title screen | |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Release | 2015 |
| Genre(s) | Horror, alternate reality |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Sad Satan is a horror video game released for Microsoft Windows in 2015. The game was allegedly created by a dark web user operating under the pseudonym "ZK".
In the game, the player walks down dimly lit corridors in a first-person view while being periodically interrupted by flashes of full-screen images. There are no goals or win conditions.
There are two prominent versions of Sad Satan; footage of the earliest version was uploaded to the YouTube channel Obscure Horror Corner on June 25, 2015.[1] The channel's videos of the game were picked up by a number of English-language publications[2][3][4] and later internationally.[5][6][7] A later version of Sad Satan, informally known as the "clone" version owing to the substantial differences between it and the earlier version, gained notoriety for containing extremely graphic imagery, including photographs of mutilated corpses and an instance of child pornography.
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