15 BRUTALLY Hard Video Games (That Are Actually Fun)

15. Super Meat Boy

The original Meat Boy was a Newgrounds sensation 10 years ago. The simple flash game where you had to guide an anthropomorphic cube of meat through increasingly difficult levels became an instant classic and became the launchpad for the full-fat experience: Super Meat Boy.

Super Meat Boy tasks you with saving your cube-shaped girlfriend Bandage Girl from the evil Dr Fetus by traversing over 200 deadly levels. All the different maps will have you dodging spikes, crevasses and buzzsaws in a bid to get through. Super Meat Boy runs at an electric fast pace, and death on each level is almost guaranteed. What makes the gameplay loop so addictive is Super Meat Boy's controls and aesthetic.

The controls and maps designs are incredibly tight. When you do inevitably fail on a certain part of a level, it will never be because the controls were twitchy or the map didn't allow you to pull off that move (as much as you will like to tell yourself the contrary).

When you do fail, you know it is because you are missing something. This intrigue drives you to try again, knowing that you will eventually crack this fleshy code.