10 Video Game Secrets So Well Hidden Developers Had To Help You Find Them

The Story of Serious Sam's Sacred Yards secret is probably the most layered one on this list. It's a story of a secret within a secret and developers passing down knowledge from one to another.

Despite being a pretty straightforward shooter, Serious Sam had plenty of secrets. Each stage had a certain number of them, and the player would receive a prompt whenever they discovered one. This was the case for every secret in the game except one, which was discovered by SolaisYosei.

The man discovered how to skip a huge portion of the hidden Sacred Yards level by interacting with specific objects. Solais' discovery came as a shock to a lot of players and proved that even after all these years, Serious Sam could still surprise them.

However, the story didn't end there. A while ago, SolaisYosei started working at Croateam and decided to ask Serious Sam's lead designer, Roman Ribaric, about the secret he discovered. Ribaric told him that the Sacred Yards level had hidden switch puzzles that allowed the player to skip the entire level, and that what SolaisYosei did was essentially using that mechanic unknowingly.

This story just goes to show how deep some secrets can really go.