10 "Harmless" Gaming Items That Will Secretly KILL YOU
You haven't truly died until you've lost to a watercooler!
Video games are full of dangers, both known and hidden. An experienced gamer knows to watch out for traps, ambushes, and surprise attacks at every corner, which is why some developers have come to hide dangerous things in the most unexpected places.
Including regular, everyday objects!
Since items are meant to serve the player, most people tend to not suspect they could be their end. This is exactly why the more nefarious game designers like to replace them with secret traps that wait to be picked up and then unleash the worst possible fate upon the player.
The deadly surprise can be anything from an enemy masquerading as a trinket to a craftable item that secretly kills you when you use it. The point, however, is to always keep the player on their toes so that nothing can ever make them feel safe.
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If you'd rather not be fooled into becoming the lunch of a fake treasure chest or get a game over because you interacted with a cup, watch out for the following items! They might look harmless, but in reality, they can be deadlier than any enemy in their respective games!
10. Typhon Items - Prey
Prey is an underrated immersive sim in which you try to survive on a space colony infested with mysterious alien creatures known as Typhon.
The design of these aliens is utterly disturbing, but their true form isn't actually what's going to terrify you the most.
That would be your average office junk scattered throughout Pytheas's base.
Everything from a pencil to even a sheet of paper can be secretly a Typhon masquerading as a prop to ambush you. Yes, the aliens are expert shapeshifters, and the game makes this pretty obvious early on by showing you a group of scientists being massacred by what seems like a regular mug.
Because of this, you can never be sure if an item you're approaching will be a simple object or a deadly predator. The only point of reference you have are post-it notes that some unnamed hero had the foresight to put on a few items on the station to let you know they aren't a Typhon mimic.
Still, not every object is labeled, so every time you interact with a bare cup or office utensil, you're risking getting ripped apart by an alien.