10 Video Games That Made You Pay For Essential Features

10. Starting A New Run - Mighty Doom (2023)

Being a free-to-play mobile game, players can expect a tonne of grinding in top-down roguelite MIghty Doom to upgrade the Doom Slayer's arsenal enough to progress in later levels. Getting the materials for said upgrades therefore takes numerous runs to acquire.

However, starting a new run in this game isn't as straight forward as it should have been. Instead of simply opting to try again after dying (which will happen a lot), beginning a new attempt is tied to an in-game currency known as Energy, which players will need to have five of if they'd like to play the game.

When Energy is depleted, the choice is to either wait for hours until the resource replenishes itself or to spend real money to get the Energy required to play.

More annoying is that this cutesy version of the gory run-and-gun shooter only allows players to hold a maximum of 20 Energy at a time. This means that players can only play a measly four games before they're forced to either wait or throw money at the game for the privilege of trying again.

Even for free-to-play games, being encouraged to pay to play the game is absurd.