10 Video Game Enemy Designs You Can’t Unsee

It's fair the say that the majority of people aren't frightened of mushrooms, unless they're the potentially poisonous kind. The Last of Us realised this - and presumably realised that people enjoy mushrooms in a variety of meals - and decided to get to work ruining a wholesome vegetable forever.

Because the creatures we see in the Last of Us aren't the conventional zombies, but rather humans infected by an unusual type of fungus, which takes them through four increasingly gross phases of transformation.

Firstly come the Runners, who follow the usual pattern of "enemy that runs way too fast and makes you freak out about the fact you can't hit them". They're usually passive, but get too close, and you have a speeding murderer three inches from your face.

Things quickly get grosser with the Stalkers and Clickers, where the fungus begins to totally overtake the person it's infected, growing seemingly out of their facial orifices to overtake the face with gross mushroomy glory.

Finally, and most awfully, are the Bloaters. While they're less disturbing in the sense that you can't totally tell they used to be human, the knowledge that they once were and now don't resemble a person at all makes up for that. Half bloated corpse-like human body, half gross fleshy mushroom armour, they're enough to make you want to leave the fungi out of your next pasta dish for sure.