7 Video Game Romance Choices THAT KILL YOU

Ok, hold on to your little rubber hats my friend as we're about to get deep with this one and journey to a game so rich and thick with content that if it were a food it'd be a thick rump steak (but with thick being spelled with two c's).

I'm speaking of course about Nethack, the legendary open-source adventure game that dropped way back way in 1987. This title was utterly ambitious, providing procedurally generated dungeons, huge arrays of monsters and items to find and fight, and a permadeath system made all the more brutal by the many, many ways the game tried to kill you and seeing as the title operates on early video game logic, that would happen a lot.

For example, you could be dragged to the depths by a giant Kraken for not thinking to grease your armour or have all your gold stolen by leprechauns because you didn't think to throw away your treasure before fighting them. Then of course you've got the horrible potential to experience death by Snu-snu at the hands of a Succubus or Incubus.

These devilishly attractive demons, appear occasionally and use a skill check to seduce you, making you remove armour for them to steal before teleporting away. However it's not only your dignity they can rob you of, as if you stats are less than their skill check then they have a chance of passing on a negative effect as well.

If you're severely unlucky you'll see that your love tussle with the Succubus has left you feeling exhausted, which will drain between 10-16 points of health, meaning if the demon has caught you with your pants down, you'll be dead as a doornail, dying from "exhaustion" as the game puts it.

And before you say that this doesn't count as a romance choice, the fact that you can initiate the battle with them willingly means it's down to you if you end up busting a nut and a heart valve here.