10 Insanely Confusing Video Games Levels You Got Totally Lost In
9. Wood Side Apartments - Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2 is a game intentionally designed to be disorienting, as you wander around in a psychological and literal haze trying to figure out why you received a letter from your supposedly dead wife from the titular town. One of the first buildings you enter in the game - the Wood Side Apartments - embodies that confusion perfectly.
Spread across three almost pitch-black floors of corridors, rotting apartments, and the infamous mannequin monsters, the corridors look near-identical to each other, and the map is intentionally obtuse. It doesn't show you your current location, forcing you to rely on red scribbles that show you which doors are locked as you attempt to open them.
As well as being geographically confusing, the apartments contain several logical-yet-cryptic puzzles involving clocks, rubbish chutes and coins, which can take a long time to figure out. It's a deviously confusing and tough start to a challenging game, feeding perfectly into the tone the devs wanted to convey.