10 Video Game Easter Eggs Nobody Understands

Who among us doesn't love an Easter egg?

The expansive potential of video games allows developers to include supremely sneaky surprises and references that only the most curious and committed of players will ever discover - before showing them off to the world and making them go viral, of course.

Most of the time an Easter egg will either expand the lore of the game's world in an interesting and appropriate way, or it'll simply be an in-joke for fans to get a kick out of.

But not all Easter eggs are created equal, as sometimes they're made simply to confuse the hell out of players, and maybe even creep them out for added measure.

These 10 video game Easter eggs, all from some of the most popular and acclaimed games of all time, have mystified fans for years or even decades, with their true meaning left infuriatingly unclear.

Ranging from the hilariously weird to the unsettlingly surreal, these Easter eggs sit among the most peculiar the medium has ever seen, and to date nobody from the development side of things has shed any light on what they really mean...

The Hitman franchise hasn't ever shied away from including surreal and deranged Easter eggs, what with Hitman: Contracts famously allowing players to garotte a freakin' ghost on one level.

But while that at least made some contextual sense given that you were traipsing around the abandoned wing of a hotel, there's little explaining the appearances of a UFO and a damn talking hippo in Hitman 3.

In the Berlin level, you can find a piece of graffiti on a wall depicting a UFO with the number "1993" next to it. Take a picture of this, eliminate the mission targets, and then make your way to the gas station up the hill.

Here you can input 1993 on the nearby payhone, which will prompt a UFO to descend from the heavens and pick you up, ending the mission.

Beyond the fact that The X-Files started in 1993, it's completely insane that Agent 47 would get abducted by aliens and it never be referenced again.

But a somehow even weirder Easter egg is possible in the very same mission, as if you manage to grab the gold idol from the manager's office and place it on a chair out in the marshlands, a hippo will emerge from the dankness and start talking to you.

He'll say, among other things, "Don't dance the dance of death. Don't trust anyone. You are on your own. You always were, and you always will be."

It sounds more like it belongs in a Lars von Trier movie, honestly. Utterly horrifying and totally unexplainable.