10 Times You Secretly Made The Game Harder (And Didn't Even Realize)

10. Bug Fix With A Twist - Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Deus Ex’s world is a dystopian future where secret organizations control everything and everyone from the shadows.

In fact, they can also take control of your game’s difficulty without you knowing!

In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, it is possible to make one of the latter boss fights more challenging by unknowingly picking the wrong choice earlier in the story.

At one point in the starting stages of the game, your character, Jensen, experiences some visual bugs and glitches related to his cybernetics. Shortly after, he receives a message telling him that he can get a free replacement at a LIMB clinic as a form of apology on the company’s behalf.

Since the procedure is free and gets rid of annoying glitches while simultaneously giving you a slight upgrade to your optics, the choice feels like a no-brainer.

However, in reality, the replacement is a trap. Later in the game, when you have to fight Jaron Namir, it is revealed that your free replacement actually allows the villain Zhao to control your cybernetics, and before the combat begins, she completely disables all of Jensen’s augments, making it significantly more difficult!

There’s no such thing as free stuff in cyberpunk dystopias!