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

9. The Serious Room - The Stanley Parable

The Serious Room
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It’s curious when a game lets you enter a cheat code and then punishes you for it but in this case and plenty of other entries on this list the results are so entertaining we’re not sure they’re punishments at all.

Attempt to enable server cheats in The Stanley Parable and you’ll be sent straight to The Serious Room for a stern talking to.

The narrator tells you that you’ve been taken to the serious room with the most serious table he could find so you could fully understand the implications and disrespect of enabling server cheats. If you try to enable the cheats again once in the serious room the narrator is shocked and again tells you how awful cheating is and how many tables he looked at to ensure the severity of your issues were properly conveyed. You’re condemned to infinity years in the serious room and indeed there is no way out unless you quit the game or restart.

This is the only way to achieve the Serious Ending and for a game with a lot of endings to see that’s probably a good thing as long as you can handle a good telling off.

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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.