10 Stupidly Hard Video Games Clearly Made By Sadists

5. Minesweeper

Unlike the other games on this list, pretty much anyone over the age of 15 that's played a video game before will have played Minesweeper. Obviously we aren't talking about easy mode here, we're talking about hard, and while having to use a specific setting to make it difficult would normally disqualify it from the list we're going to have to make an exception. After all, Minesweeper's hard mode is essentially a completely different game to its easy mode, requiring players to have the brain of Einstein combined with Mozart to win, rather than the Homer Simpson mentality required to complete easy. The rules are simple: you have lots of little grey boxes and inside some of those boxes are bombs, with your job being to click on all the boxes without bombs. Players can't see the explosives, of course, but when a box is picked (provided it is empty) a little number will appear inside it saying how many bombs are surrounding it. One mistake, one clicked bomb, and it's game over. No second chances. Some may think of Minesweeper as the Chess of video games, given you can only win through intense thought and planning. However, there's also a large amount of guessing involved, as the game is designed to make you think you know where the bombs are, to think you are in control, and then kill you. But it doesn't just kill you, it makes you kill yourself. Sadly Minesweeper is a pretty dead title these days, with most people forgetting it even exists. Maybe at some point it'll be rejuvenated and explode back onto the scene, yet considering the amount of competition from companies like Steam, that doesn't look likely.