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3. Super Meat Boy - The Dark World Levels

There's a certain gaming trope associated with our beloved medium that centres around 'proving your gaming mettle' i.e. some of us just can't turn away from a challenge, and if your friend or the general cultural response to something is "Betcha can't beat this!", that's a call to button-pushing arms if ever there was one.

Enter Super Meat Boy, and with just a two-man development crew, Team Meat managed to tap into that insatiable well of curiosity and challenge the medium was built on - providing a slew of pixel-perfect levels that if you can't nail the landing or path just right, will have you for breakfast. Throw in the Dark variations on these levels that add in even more random things like spinning blades and restrictive pathways and it's no surprise only 0.8% (according to Raptr.com) of all players actually finished them all.