10 Video Games That Knew You'd Try To Break Them

If anyone knows a glitch, it's Bethesda.

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You’d think with the love and care that goes into the vast majority of video games, it’s only sensible that we sit back and enjoy the tailor made experience. Then again, it’s also pretty fun to try out exploits, cheats, and generally testing the boundaries of said games.

This joy is only doubled when we learn that not only has a game intentionally or unintentionally left an exploit or breakable option available to us, the developers also knew you were going to try and use it. Whether to chide you for cheating or grant you an easter egg, in each of these games the creators just knew you’d try to weasel out of playing their video games in a traditional way and decided to make sure you knew they knew that you’d stepped out of line.

Even though most of these seem to be having a go at you, there’s something to be said for both the effort that has gone into designing them and your talent at having found these entertaining tidbits.

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Jess has been a journalist and content creator in the games industry for over 15 years and has been WhatCulture's resident Australian import and sorry cop since 2020, upping the quotient of swearing and apologising in WhatCulture Gaming's annual blooper videos considerably. She previously worked at GameSpot for 10 years, most notably hosting GameSpot News in addition to E3 live shows, and PAX panels. She regularly livestreams a variety of games on her 'jessmcdonell' YouTube and Twitch channels and hosts the 'Do It On The Day' podcast. She has won awards for her news and feature work in gaming as well as an accolade for her comedic writing (likely an admin error). She can be found on X at @jessmcdonell and Instagram at @jessicamcdonell sharing her current videogame fixations, industry insights, and videos of her cat, Karma.