10 Scary Video Game Urban Legends Everyone Believed Were True

Going back to more traditional fare for our next myth, we come across the mystery that is Killswitch.

Killswitch was, allegedly, a limited release game made even more limited by the developer's curious decision to have the game wipe its own code upon completion. That, plus some other curious design choices (making one of the player characters invisible, thus impossible to control) and the game's supernatural themes made it a natural candidate for urban legend status.

That legend only deepened when a copy of the game was allegedly sold on eBay for $733,000 to a man named Yamamoto Ryuichi. Despite promising to livestream the entire game, the only clip that surfaced showed Yamamoto crying in despair for nearly two minutes. That video has since gone missing, and the above clip is from someone claiming to have the only existing copy of Yamamoto's stream. To recap: A game that deleted its own existence purportedly managed to erase the only livestream of it being played.

Given the lack of tangible evidence around it, Killswitch exists more as an exercise in faith than a video game. And as most of human history shows, just because you can't prove something exists doesn't mean people won't believe in it.