10 Video Games That Punished You For Buying Them

10. Meme Run

Let's kick this list off with a game that's unabashedly a troll in video game form - 2014's Wii U-exclusive endless runner Meme Run.

As its title suggests, this runner is meme-themed, with the player navigating a series of meme-packed levels while controlling a stick figure with a trollface.

Pre-release sentiment criticised the game's evident low quality, prompting 20-year-old developer Jordan Schuet to respond that the game itself was a feat of trolling, before dubbing it "Game of the Year 2014."

Basically, Schuet made an intentionally poor game "for the lulz," which in tandem with universally poor reviews, really only left players to blame if they dared to shell out five bucks to play it.

They didn't have too long to do so, though, as Meme Run was removed from the Nintendo eShop less than three months after release, when the creator of the trollface meme, artist Carlos Ramirez, filed a copyright takedown claim. Oh, what a shame.