10 Absurdly Hard DLC Modes You Never Beat
6. Death Wish Mode - A Hat in Time
Perhaps one of the most underrated indie titles ever, A Hat in Time is a warm, cutesy nostalgic throwback to 3D platformers of the past.
Arriving as part of the Seal the Deal DLC, Gears for Breakfast included an optional challenge mode because, presumably - like the developers of many greats of the genre - they wanted to see their fans suffer. Death Wish mode is 111 new tough-as-nails challenge maps that will make you want to eat your hat.
It’s hard to know what the worst aspect of Death Wish mode is. It might be that completely certain challenges unlock some cool cosmetics and there’s even an additional story between Hat Kid and the villainous Snatcher to be seen if players can complete enough of them.
It could be that a lot of its increased difficulty feels incredibly cheap, arbitrarily increasing enemy and obstacle count to obscene levels and giving players incredibly tight time constraints on top of everything else.
Perhaps it’s that the DLC is so hard that it had to be patched by the developers to make it at all manageable.
A Hat in Time? More like A Hate in Time.