10 Dumbest Ways We've All Died In Video Games

The Sims is the ultimate dollhouse.

I’m sure the designers’ intention was to create a serene and engaging toolkit - one for you to reimagine a utopian mansion for facsimiles of yourself and Sharon from high school who is now your wife and laughs at all your jokes for real this time.

Yet, before long, your evil side kicks in, and the desire for more ornate dado rails and intricate second bathrooms can no longer sate you.

Soon, you start thinking of ways to turn the snooker room into a torture chamber, and before long, your entire street is nothing more than an elaborate array of scenes from the Saw films.

They start off simple enough - a swimming pool with the exit ladder removed, a lone firework set up in a basement full of lovely flammable bedding. Eventually, you’re crafting bizarre single-person-wide rooms with no doors, watching Sharon from high school repeatedly wet herself because she deserves it, that’s what you get for pulling my shorts down in PE, you evil witch.

It’s all fun and games until your mum comes through into the computer room circa 2001 and witnesses the beast you’ve become. Congratulations. You now have a milestone to refer to, when she later refers you to a psychotherapist for “deep-seeded emotional issues”.