Now that’s the sign of a brutally challenging game, one that doesn’t let real life get in the way of its challenge. It’s true that Myst isn’t the most difficult in the series, that honor goes to Riven in our opinion, but the original is still the best, and it’s hard to forget the headaches the game brought on as you struggled to tackle the then unique enigmas on offer.Īround its original release in 1993, it was even reported that people lost jobs due to spending so much time solving the game’s puzzles, and even marriages were broken up.
Solving these puzzles was a truly daunting task, and when you succeeded, you felt like you achieved much more than completing a task in a simple game. The slide-show presentation of the game’s surreal worlds put many off, but for those who saw past the limited aesthetics and became drawn into the beautiful and mysterious worlds, there remained a tough mental challenge that tasked you with solving all sorts of logic puzzles that required masterful use of problem solving, memory, and environmental awareness.
Myst is undoubtedly one of the best examples here, and is one of the most famously challenging puzzlers ever released. It’s all too easy to consider a hard game one that kills you over and over again or provides a reflex-demanding battle of skill, but there are more ways to stop a gamer in their tracks, including stretching the old grey matter. These are games that will chew you up and spit you out without the need for you to select a greater challenge. We’re going to limit the list to games that are hard by default, not relying on selecting a hardest difficulty to raise the bar. This also means we’re looking at single player, as multiplayer is only as difficult as your skill and those you play against. This is simply artificial, often unintended difficulty, not a true challenge. We’re focusing on games that are hard by design, that present a good, solid challenge, not games that are difficult due to poor design, bad controls, or other issues. And we’re going to celebrate some of the most notorious here, with our top 25 picks for brutally difficult games.Ī couple of caveats. There’s no other way to play them, you either step up or you give up. Oh no, these are games that, right from the off are brutal, unforgiving, and simply difficult. These games don’t pander to our specific levels of skill, or try to hold our hands, letting us get better, learning as we go before we master them. Sometimes, however, that’s not always the case, and some games exist purely to see us squirm in agony as we’re put through the grinder of gaming challenge, whether we like it or not. Games have variations on the usual easy, normal, and hard modes, and for the most part, regardless of the game we’re playing, we’re able to pick our ideal level of challenge.
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