10 Cruel Tricks Video Games Played On Co-Op Players

With the launch of their Until Dawn spin-off series The Dark Pictures Anthology, Supermassive Games introduced a novel new feature called "Movie Night" - effectively a form of pass-the-controller co-op multiplayer.

Between two-and-five players can take part, with each player controlling a number of characters throughout the story, the controller simply being passed between players when the perspective shifts to one of their characters.

While in theory the idea is that a group of friends will work together to ensure all of their characters' collective survival, the Dark Pictures games naturally make it rather difficult to get everybody to the end in one piece.

Beyond the split-second QTE sequences, players are regularly forced to make some tricky decisions, often having to weigh up whether they want to risk their own character's fate in order to save another.

Basically, to stay in the game and not become a passive observer, you're encouraged to keep your own characters alive above all others.

This sometimes requires you to make decisions which either cause the death of other characters or at least increase the likelihood. It's quite brilliant, really.