10 Video Games That Judge You For Playing

5. Game Dev Tycoon

If Dark Souls punished those who got the game early through (possibly) legal means, Greenheart Games, the developers of Game Dev Tycoon, devised a similarly creative means of shaming players who dared to pirate their new game.

Well aware that the game would be pirated extensively, as any game is, they made the bold move of uploading a cracked version of Game Dev Tycoon to torrent sites themselves - but packed with a special surprise.

Those who played the dev's own pirated version would be periodically met with messages about how piracy can bankrupt studios, and to really hammer the point home in gloriously meta fashion, the player then starts hemorrhaging money until their firm goes bankrupt.

Other games have similarly implemented creative anti-piracy measures, such as Batman: Arkham Asylum disabling Batman's glide in illegal copies, but the fact that a freaking game about developing games had to resort to such methods makes it the most deliciously poetic example.