8 Video Games That Punish You For Doing NOTHING!

8. Bloodborne (2015)

More often than not in FromSoftware games, NPC questlines feature a make-or-break moment that can either win that character's favour completely, or scupper your progress for an entire save file.

The story of Eileen the Crow is particularly hard to get right, especially if you're under-levelled and not totally at home with the game's combat. Your second encounter with her (or first, for the inattentive), is outside Oedon Chapel, where she will warn you of an old hunter, Henryk, who has gone mad.

She tells you where not to go to find him, saying she can handle him herself. But Eileen is an old woman by this point, and any fight she gets into without you stepping in to help will result in her death.

From the upper ledge of the Oedon Tomb, you might watch this fight unfold, thinking, "Yup, she's got this one in the bag", only for her to keel over a second later and ruin your whole playthrough.

Worse still, you might not go there at all, dooming Eileen to later turn to madness herself and attack you.

This one's absolutely a just punishment. If you did nothing to help Eileen here, you should be ashamed.