
User.exe
User.exe is a psychological horror experience that takes place in WinShade Operating System. Inside lives User, a virtual assistant trapped in the system, asking for help to finish a failed mission: install a virus to destroy Admin, a digital entity tied to urban legends and missing people.
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About User.exe
WELCOME TO USER.EXE
The system is running.
The administrator is watching.
User.exe is a psychological horror game that takes place inside a forgotten operating system. Explore a simulated desktop, uncover hidden memories and help a trapped virtual assistant finish the mission that almost destroyed the system.
🏆 Winner of Best Horror Game by Critical Reflex at EVA 2025.

🖥 EXPLORE A LIVING OPERATING SYSTEM
Navigate through folders, applications and hidden directories.
Open programs, inspect files and uncover secrets left behind by previous users.
The desktop changes as you progress, revealing new applications, memories and mysteries.
🧩 SOLVE FOURTH-WALL PUZZLES
Manipulate files.
Edit documents.
Move programs between windows.
Use the operating system itself to solve puzzles that extend beyond the boundaries of each application.
Some problems can only be solved by thinking like a real computer user.
📖 DISCOVER USER'S MEMORIES
Meet User, a virtual assistant trapped inside the system.
Experience interactive memories, investigate the disappearance of her mother and uncover the truth behind WinShade and the entity known as Admin.
Your choices determine how much of the story you discover.
👁 SURVIVE THE ADMINISTRATOR
Admin controls the system and reacts to your actions.
Avoid its traps, survive aggressive pop-up attacks and fight back as the system begins to break apart around you.
The deeper you go, the more unstable reality becomes.

FEATURES
Psychological horror set entirely inside a fictional operating system.
Interactive fourth-wall puzzles and file manipulation.
Multiple hidden secrets and optional story content.
Minigames embedded inside applications.
Dynamic desktop exploration and environmental storytelling.
GDI visual effects and system distortions.
⚠ CONTENT WARNING
Contains:
Psychological horror
Disturbing imagery
Flashing lights
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System requirements
Minimum
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i3-6100 / AMD FX-6300
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti / AMD Radeon R7 260X
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 250 MB available space
- Sound Card: Compatible con DirectX
- Additional Notes: Recommended play in a dark room with headphones.
Recommended
- OS: Windows 10/11 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-10400 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1660 / AMD RX 580
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- Sound Card: Compatible con DirectX
- Additional Notes: Recommended play in a dark room with headphones.











