10 Video Games That Judge You For Playing

By Jack Pooley / August 25, 2022

7. Dark Souls

Those who still get their games shipped physically might be lucky enough to occasionally receive them a day or two early, but if you dared to play Dark Souls before its official release date, FromSoftware weren't much happy about it.

Rather than simply stewing about it, the developer besieged premature players by invading their game with enormously powerful level 145 Black Phantoms, who could easily make mincemeat out of anyone playing a few days early.

Because Dark Souls wasn't hard enough already, right?

Granted, you could just play the game offline and avoid FromSoft's top-notch trolling, but to experience the game unharassed as it was fully intended, multiplayer and all, players had to wait until the official street date.