10 Video Games That Make Losing Truly Painful

Surviving on a heartless, brutal, unpredictable planet on the edge of nowhere in the modern Indie classic RimWorld is no small feat. It'll have you addictively supplying your colonists with shelter, food, clothes, medicine and weapons for hours. All in the hope of taking off in search of greener pastures some day.

Then suddenly, twenty hours in, Ralf your lazy, pyromaniac farmer decides to burn all of your crops, to spite you, for not supplying him (and his dog) with all the hallucinogens they can eat. This would be fine if it wasn't four days before winter sets in and the fire hadn't left you with a food supply consisting of a single, particularly sad potato.

The snowball effect that can set in during this exceptional colony management simulation is equal parts infuriating and hilarious. There's a straw waiting to break your camels back behind every single tick of the clock.

The constant uphill struggle makes It difficult to play without becoming deeply invested in your base, colonists and their progression, but that's exactly what makes dying here such a gut punch.

There's something about watching your final colonist be carried away by raiders while your base burns in radiated fog... that just hurts.