Elias hadn’t found it on any official store. It had appeared in an archived thread on a forum that shouldn't have existed, posted by a user whose name was just a string of broken Unicode. The version number was wrong, too—the official game had stopped updates long ago. When the download finished, the room felt suddenly colder.
The notification sat at the bottom of the screen, a pulsing blue bar that seemed to hum with a life of its own: . File: ScourgeBringer.v1.60.0.zip ...