10 Video Games With Permadeath That Will Destroy You

3. Ori & The Blind Forest - One Life

Don’t let Ori’s adorable charm fool you, or please do, in fact, it’s an absolutely gorgeous game with some wicked difficulty and a sweet storyline that tugs on the old heart strings.

Ori and the Blind Forest is a metroidvania platformer. As if the normal mode wasn’t hard enough, there is actually also the terrifying ‘One-Life’ mode, which requires you to play the game, start to finish, without dying once.

“Pfft”, you say, “How hard could it be?” yeah, wow, let’s see the beads of sweat on your forehead as you attempt the chase sequences…