10 Video Games That Pose Extremely Deep Questions

This underrated neon-drenched masterpiece doesn't screw around when it comes the hard questions.

The player controls Jacket as he takes assassination missions from his mysterious animal masked employers. Most of the levels in the game are completed through repetition. The more you try and fail, the more the key to success gets wired into your muscle memory.

Why keep at it though? There's no real reward besides a feeling of accomplishment that doesn't come close to making up for all the frustration. So, why do you keep going? Is it because you're told to? That you want to? Does it just simply make you feel good? What Hotline Miami is really doing under the surface is asking you why you're so determined to indulge in such brutal violence.

Like the previous entry mentioned, escapisim is often a reflection of the self. It may be just a game, but something inside us keeps us wanting to play despite the extreme difficulty. Is there a primal desire for violence buried somewhere inside our nature? Are we nothing more than animals wearing masks of civility?

It's questions like these that really keep a person up at night.