A Dark Place

A Dark Places are a species of corruption based on the puzzle-horror game "A Dark Place"; which utilizes many joke programs and harmless malware for entertainment purposes. The game was released in 2018 by XerStudios and can be run on both Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh Computers.

Throughout the game, the puzzles must be completed and four music boxes have to be found. As time goes on, an villain that takes the form of an eerie white face begins to hunt the player, intending to stop them from finding said music boxes. This being is deemed as the "corruption" by XerStudios, and is said to be responsible for controlling certain events ingame and within the computer as well.

Being completely harmless to the user playing it, A Dark Place will find the needed times to create screen popups, shut down the PC, and change the desktop background. Its Other payloads are built more towards inducing fear and scaring players, even if it has to access the webcam or threaten to mess with the hard drive.

Role in Battle
While A Dark Places are practically harmless ingame, they're skilled as a support units similar to Ghostgrams. They are frail but work well only putting themselves into danger to inflict an effect. In the case with these characters, an A Dark Place can cast complete blindness to surrounding enemies around themselves for nearly 5 seconds until it wears off. While blinded, an image of the game logo momentarily appears on the screen before disappearing. Through pitch-black darkness, the nametags of other players can be seen and are good indicators of location and danger until the effect wears off.

Trivia

 * As A Dark Place casts blindness, a Super Mario Boo laugh plays. This likely indicates that the character makes the noise as they laugh at their blinded enemies.