Sad Satan

Footage uploaded by Obscure Horror Corner shows Sad Satan from a first-person perspective, with the player walking through dark, largely monochromatic corridors amid blurred or shifting visuals and repetitive, heavily distorted audio. Listeners have identified some samples as altered recordings involving Charles Manson, "I Love Beijing Tiananmen", the interval signal of the Swedish Rhapsody numbers station, and The Doors’ rendition of "Alabama Song", although reliable independent sourcing for these exact identifications is limited. Images involving children, Jimmy Savile and the NSPCC led contemporary observers to interpret child abuse as one of the game’s themes. A slowed sample attributed to “Alabama Song” reportedly includes the line “show me the way to the next little girl.”

While the player moves through the corridors, photographs and other images periodically obscure the screen before disappearing after a few seconds. Contemporary reports identified images of Savile with Margaret Thatcher, Rolf Harris, Japanese serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki, John F. Kennedy, and a photograph by Roger Ballen. Several publications interpreted the recurring images of children and convicted or alleged child abusers as references to child abuse.

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. In an interview with Kotaku, the proprietor of the YouTube channel Obscure Horror Corner, identified as “Jamie”, claimed that an anonymous subscriber had sent him a link to Sad Satan, which Jamie said he downloaded from an onion site. The subscriber separately told Kotaku that the link had appeared on a dark-web forum in a post signed “ZK”. Kotaku was unable to verify this account and later expressed increased skepticism about the game's alleged dark-web origin. The channel's videos of the game were picked up by a number of English-language publications and later internationally.

On July 7, Kotaku updated its report after Jamie acknowledged that he had provided an incorrect onion address. He claimed that he had withheld the purported real link because it contained "gore pictures" and child pornography alongside the game. Jamie did not provide the link to Kotaku, which stated that this made his account less credible.

Some Reddit users speculated that OHC had created Sad Satan as a publicity stunt, although Jamie denied creating either the original game or the clone. In January 2016, Jamie told Vice that activity on the channel had ceased amid harassment, while leaving open the possibility of uploading additional videos. The sanitized version brought the game further attention and was played by PewDiePie in August 2015.⁠