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Based on a story of a game called Killswitch.

It was created in 1989 for PC. The only colors in the game are shades of gray and red. There are two main characters: Porto, a young human woman, and an invisible demon named Ghast. Ghast is clearly superior as he can breathe fire and has a poisonous coal steam attack, but when these powers run out it is extremely hard to keep track of where he is to gauge jumps and such. So Porto pretty much becomes the default. Her ability is that she randomly fluctuates in size, becoming larger and smaller throughout her adventure. This is supposedly caused by inhaling poisonous fumes.

Porto, who works at a coal mine, wakes up in a small room with wounds on her arms. Seeking a way out, she traverses the mine finding clues about why it was shut down. When production slowed, an overseer was assigned to every miner and would insert small knives into their joints when they were working at too slow a pace. Due to her size changing issues, she cannot continue to the top and discovers that she must ingest some raw coke (a product of coal used to make steel or something, lol I dont really know) to return to her normal size.

And as she's about to crawl out of the final tunnel to the overground, the screen flashes white and, by design, Killswitch deletes itself. The game cannot be replayed and all trace of it is removed from the computer. As such you can never play through as both Porto and Ghast. Outraged players complained to the creators, and they responded by saying that Killswitch was meant to be just as unrepeatable and ineffable as real life. As such, the fates of Porto and her "beloved" Ghast would be as unknowable as our own.

As only 5000 copies of Killswitch were manufactured and with refusal to release more, it was incredibly rare, almost impossible to find one. Players who hadn't finished the game tried playing through as Ghast in an attempt to discover hidden secrets, but as it was far past the skill level of any player, nobody really ever claimed to finishing as him. The final copy was said to have been sold to a man in Tokyo. He claimed he would play as Ghast and post videos to reveal the truth of the mysterious demon. But the only one he ever posted was 1 minute and 45 seconds long. He was at the character selection screen. And he was crying.

If you didn't like my summary go read it here: invisiblegames.net/archives/ki…