8 Video Games That Mock You For Using Cheat Codes

And finally, indie point-and-click adventure game The Longing gets nothing if not points for creativity in how it playfully pokes its tongue out at players who attempt to circumvent the game's wading-through-treacle gameplay loop.

Y'see, The Longing's ingeniously torturous hook is that players take control of a creature called the Shade, who is instructed to hang out in an underground kingdom while the king spends 400 days recovering his powers.

And to be clear, that's 400 days in real time.

Though the timer thankfully keeps counting down even when you're not playing, it's little surprise that some understandably impatient players decided to sprint their way to the endgame by using a speedhack or adjusting their computer's clock.

However, developer Studio Seufz cannily anticipated this - and honestly, how could they not?

As such, the game has a counter-measure built in for anyone trying to manipulate the laws of time - the Shade will be taken to a dark "eternal dungeon," and told that in order to be forgiven, players will need to press an on-screen "repent" button 400 times.

Once you complete the task, the game then hilariously expresses hope that you've learned your lesson, before warning you that it'll toss you straight back in the slammer if you tinker with time again.

In the very least, that's one hell of an inventive way to admonish players for breaking the rules.