Rohan played for three hours. The game crashed twice. The sound cut out after halftime. Once, the ball turned into a square.

He double-clicked the icon.

It was impossible. The original game was nearly 6 gigabytes. But the comments were five pages long, filled with cryptic keys like “Thanks, bro!” and “Use 7-zip, not WinRAR.”

Scrolling through a forgotten forum with a black-and-yellow colour scheme, his eyes locked onto a thread: “PES 2018 – Super Ultra Highly Compressed – 300MB – 100% Working.”