10 Best Video Game Boss Battles Of The Decade

8. The Spider (Limbo)

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Limbo is one of the founding fathers of one of the cornerstones of indie gaming: big headed children in bigger, scarier world. Hey, it was perfectly original when Limbo did it, don't make fun.

When people play Limbo, there is only one thing that everyone takes away from it universally. That being that the giant spider is absolutely terrifying. Not shocking, considering that anyone who says they aren't afraid of spiders is a damned liar and should be treated as such, but the spider in Limbo is especially frightening simply due to how little you know of it, and how helpless you are.

Because of the game's art style, it's unclear whether or not this is an actual spider or just another of the game's odd, terrifying machines that just has a particularly nasty grudge against you. All you do know is that there's basically nothing you can do against it.

All that you can do throughout the game is try to outsmart it, but in the last confrontation, the goal is to simply escape it and hope that this time, it doesn't follow you.

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