8 Video Game Bosses That Subtly Told You How To Beat Them
6. Lavender Town (Escape From Lavender Town)
While Escape From Lavender Town doesn't contain any boss fights in the traditional sense, the town itself is basically a giant boss puzzle that you have to solve, with the whole point of the game being - as the title suggests - to escape from Lavender Town.
And, at first, the solution to this puzzle is far from obvious.
You're left to wander around the town, interacting with a couple of NPCs and reading a few signs (neither of which will prove helpful in the slightest), but nothing you do seems to get you any closer to escaping, with dead-end buildings and inaccessible pathways at the edge of the screen instilling a sense of futility in your escape efforts.
But brilliantly, the clue is in the title: "escape". Simply give the ESC key a tap and you'll be able to finish the game. You can do this at any time, so you don't even have to waste time wandering around like a headless chicken looking for answers. Which, by the game's design, you will otherwise end up doing.