When Elias’s roommate returned that evening, the apartment was freezing. The computer was gone. The only thing left was a single CD-R sitting on the desk with "EG2" scrawled in permanent marker.
However, if you look deep into the game's credits today, under the "Special Thanks" section, there is a list of names of players who went missing between 2007 and 2010. And if you ever find an old hard drive with a 1.4GB archive named after the sequel, the advice from the old forums remains the same: Evil-Genius-2.rar
By the time the actual Evil Genius 2 was announced by Rebellion Developments years later, the "rar" legend had become a ghost story for the broadband age. Most dismissed it as an early "creepypasta." When Elias’s roommate returned that evening, the apartment