20 Video Game Hard Modes For True Masochists

20. Mein Leben - Wolfenstein II: New Colossus

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus follows the tradition of its predecessors by giving the player a wide variety of different difficulty settings. There are seven difficulty modes in total, and the final secret one, “Mein Leben,” is the absolute stuff of nightmares.

“I Am Death Incarnate” is the highest available difficulty by default and is considered to be one of the most challenging hard modes, not just in the New Colossus, but also among other first-person shooters released in the past decade. The enemies take dozens of bullets to kill each, and certain sections are slightly altered to make them even more difficult to survive.

Now imagine this, but give the player only one life while also disabling saving, and you end up with Mein Leben difficulty.

Yes, this special game mode, unlocked by finishing the New Colossus at least once, puts you on the highest difficulty setting possible and then tells you to finish it without dying once and while having no way of creating backup save files.

If I Am Death Incarnate can make people rage quit even at the early stages of the game, it goes without saying that the same experience with no reloading would give you free admission to a mental asylum.