10 Video Games That Secretly Punish You For Playing Well

A deepest of deep cuts now with 1986's graphic adventure game Ravenskull, which tasks players with defending the village of Austberg and retrieving a stolen silver crucifix, which has been split into four parts and scattered throughout the game's four levels.

The player's performance is graded on a percentage scale, but this ultimately serves up a major drawback for cream-of-the-crop players who manage to complete a perfect run through the game by accomplishing every single possible task.

In a massive design oversight, the game only keeps track of two digits, meaning that if you do actually get 100% completion, the game will in fact perceive it to be 0% and therefore deny you the win.

And so, to beat the game legitimately, the most skilled Ravenskull players need to intentionally miss a task or two to ensure that the busted game counter keeps track of all their work.

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