10 Video Games That Punished You For Buying Them

4. Manual Samuel

Though absolutely one of the better games on this list - in that it's an honest-to-God attempt at making a "real" game - Manual Samuel feels no less torturous as a result.

Players take control of Samuel, who makes a deal with Death, that he'll be given a reprieve of his demise if he can manually control his body for 24 hours. 

And so, players are left to perform every mundane action possible - blinking, breathing, and so on - as quickly becomes nothing short of infuriating.

In case it somehow isn't clear, the game is 100% in on the joke, and Manuel Samuel is clearly made with enough passion and artfulness that one can't simply deem it a lazy cash-in like other games mentioned here.

However, the "artificial difficulty" of its unwieldy controls still makes it a hair-pulling slog to get through, even at just two hours in length - which, it seems, is probably the point of it all.