10 Brutal Video Game Punishments For Breaking The Law

10. Death By Desecration - Salt & Sanctuary (2016)

Sanctuaries are the much-appreciated safe havens in the fiendishly challenging Metroidvania adventure, Salt and Sanctuary, and claiming them in the name of your Creed will grant you a permanent place of respite away from the island's hideous inhabitants.

Some of them belong to a Creed you're not a part of, however, and while they still replenish your healing items and allow you to level up, you don't get the full benefit unless that sanctuary is allowed to become yours.

There's a good way to do this, and a bad way. And with the bad way being much more accessible, the curious and/or evil player will not hesitate to give it a whirl.

Using a Stained Page at the altar of a sanctuary will desecrate the idol placed there, summoning legions of powerful warriors that will swiftly turn you into a pile of salted caramel.

It's possible to fight them off if you're a high enough level, and players who are rotten to the core will know that desecrating a sanctuary leads to some particularly treacherous hidden content. But, the more likely outcome here is that curiosity got the better of you, and now the game is going to be sure to make you pay for your transgressions.