10 Brutal Video Games That Kill You IMMEDIATELY

Dying in video games is just about as common as a week being seven days long.

No matter the genre, the death of a character can be a great tool to add some drama to a story. It can also be a way of giving you a glimpse into what the game has in store for you.

The game outright trying to kill you straight away is a whole different kettle of fish.

These titles want you to know as early as possible that you are not safe, you will never be safe, and you should be very afraid of just what might be lurking around every corner.

Prepare for an onslaught of enemies, or a boss fight within the opening minutes that means you are sorely ill-equipped for the encounter, or even a series of quick-time events that, should you fail them, will lead to a classic 'game over' screen.

The blood and viscera is never-ending for these video games, and hey, maybe that's your thing. Maybe you like being punished and brutalised over and over again simply for your own twisted gratification of reaching the end.

Or perhaps I'm just projecting.

Whatever the reasoning, I'm sure you'll find your sadistic fulfilment here.

As a franchise, Dark Souls is infamously brutal, designed to test the very determination of the player and their capacity for unending pain.

In a world previously inhabited by dragons and demons, the flame came to bring light to the world, erradicating these fearsome overlords in the process. Now, the flame risks extinguishing, plunging the world back into the dark.

Bleak, right?

Following this scene-setting, we meet your character-created hero who has been left to rot in a dungeon. After your escape, you are given a short corridor to work out the controls, with other damned prisoners at your mercy to perform some test swings with your broken sword.

At the end of this corridor, you enter a large open atrium in which you encounter the first boss of the game: the Asylum Demon.

That's right, a boss in what is supposedly the tutorial.

Many new players will be deceived into believing that this boss will be easy and will just demonstrate boss mechanics before you begin to play the actual game. Oh no. The Asylum Demon will crush you into an undead pancake without hesitation.