10 Most Difficult Video Games Of The Decade
3. Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy
The premise of Getting Over It is simple. Control a naked man inside a cauldron and use your mouse to guide his climbing hammer to ascend the mountain before you.
The execution is anything but simple.
Constantly battling with gravity, with the slightest knock in the wrong direction potentially costing hours worth of work, the difficulty here is in managing to keep trying long enough without bursting a blood vessel. An obstacle that took you an hour to overcome can very easily be undone in mere seconds.
While you are battling to maintain your composure, Mr. Foddy will happily chant words of encouragement to you, which almost seem to have an adverse effect.
Getting Over It quickly became popularised through online reaction videos on YouTube and Twitch. We as gamers have a morbid fascination with watching others suffer, it seems.