It was an app that locked my screen, opened a window, and systematically deleted every folder in my main C: drive before crashing. Then the screen went black and a message popped up that said "Thank god it's only a game."

The exe was an ad for some indie Doomclone FPS game where the levels were your computer's file structure and the walls of the rooms would be decorated with the images stored in your folders. I shut down my machine after that. I was shaking for the next hour.

If anyone knows the game, I'd love to learn what it was all about.

[–] cosmic_skillet@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Here's a video of that .exe running:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIgpWGVvfjA&t=203

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[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

Fuck. I've been looking for that for so long. Had the same experience. It fucked me up.

[–] Vuraniute@thelemmy.club 11 points 2 years ago

The game it was advertising is called "Virus: The Game" pretty sure danooct1 made a video on the advert & game.

[–] demlet@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I think that was called "We're All Going to the World's Fair" or something.

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

I vaguely remember seeing a news article about something like that. I think it was a game where killing enemies caused files to be deleted from your computer. It was portrayed as some kind of artistic statement about digital possessions or something.

Someone in the forum where it was being discussed sarcastically said they developed a live action version called "playing baseball inside."

[–] 327@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The game's called "Virus The Game", if I'm not mistaken

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Bingo! Thanks!

[–] original_ish_name@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did it actually delete everything

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

No. It was only a game.

[–] cedeho@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

That sounds awesome