10 Horror Video Games That Brutally Punish You
7. Slender: The Arrival
When Blue Island Studios spun their free viral Slender: The Eight Pages into Slender: The Arrival in 2013, many were eager to have the video game scares put up them by the Slender Man in all his ghoulish glory.
The game itself was somewhat of a mixed bag, with its approach and reliance on creepy atmospherics relatively fresh in '13, yet painfully dated when revisited today. Still, one thing that Slender: The Arrival most certainly did in spades, is punish players brutally for trying to take the easy way out.
In Slender: The Arrival, your player Lauren is destined to die regardless of how successful she is in her mission to find her missing pal Kate. If you don't find Kate, you die. If you do find Kate, yeah, you end up joining her in the afterlife, too.
Where this release gets particularly brutal (or extremely smart) is in how it deals with would-be cheaters. Some d*ckheads were able to glitch out of the borders of the game's map in order to avoid ol' Slendy and his chums - and for those who attempted to cheat The Arrival, they'd fall to their death and be greeted by a mocking message from the Slender Man himself.