A Game Crash Rattles Shoto During His Spooky Scary Sunday Horror Stream

INDEPENDENT — Shoto, an independent streamer on Twitch, was visibly shaken when a horror game crashed on his screen during his Spooky Scary Sunday stream. “Wait, what happened? My game crashed. Oh dude, I’m actually scared,” he said, then asked whether the crash had done something to his computer.

He allowed that it may have been scripted, though he said he was not sure, and joked that he might have installed a Bitcoin miner by accident. By the time he moved on he was positive about the game: he liked the graphics and the sound design, called it creepy and said the noise had been a bit loud. Moments before the crash, he had remarked that the red-lit skies in the games he had been picking lately had become a common occurrence.

“Wait, what happened? My game crashed. Oh dude, I’m actually scared.” — Shoto, when the game crashed

The stream ran 288 minutes and was built around horror games. Around the 54-minute mark he wrapped up a game in which he played a hamster, saying he should not have taken it so seriously and had hoped for a stronger story. He then started a game about a cat, which he realized he had already tried as a demo. Roughly half an hour later, in a game that opens with a village folktale about the last Oni, he weighed whether to open the door when someone knocked at night. Chat was split between “open it” and “don’t.” He joked, “I am the content,” opened the door and was killed. Later stretches had him hearing about a tall ghost said to target young boys, and finding that another monster he had been wary of was, in his words, “a little misunderstood.”

After the crash he started another game, and a message appeared in his notepad, which he read aloud: “Right now you’re seeing your own reflection on the black glass of his monitor. But the pupils in that reflection aren’t yours. Don’t blink.”

Near the end of the stream a game tallied his results: 7 of 31 customers served properly, 24 served incorrectly. He said he could not believe the character who had been so nice to him earlier then killed him, and closed with, “that’s our spooky Sunday.” He said he would be back the next day to play Outlast Trials with Gerard, Axel and Dubstep, with the stream after that on Wednesday or Thursday. Chat closed with cheers of “W spooky sunday.”