8 Video Games That Reward You For Breaking Them
Thought you'd seen everything Ocarina of Time had to offer?
There are many ways to break a game. Sometimes that means poking around in the code to trigger certain events and scenarios that wouldn't naturally occur, and sometimes it means exploiting an in-game weakness or oversight, destroying a level of balance the developers originally intended.
Regardless as to how a game is broken, for the vast majority of studios this is a bad thing. Game developers don't like their titles being manipulated, especially when it can cause the experience to be trivialized. Most will try and stop you, either by patching out mistakes, causing games to crash when tampered with or doing something else to try and deter the player.
Yet, there are some games out there that reward a player's curiosity, containing interesting details and bizarre surprises. Some of these are considered intentional, others a product of chance... but all of them are worth checking out.
Here are eight video games that totally reward you for breaking them.
8. Undertale – Dirty Hacker Ending
Released in 2015 for the PC, Undertale very quickly became one of the year's most talked about games. Playing as a human child who falls into the appropriately named Underground, the game gives players the choice as to whether or not to kill those they come in contact with. It's turn-based RPG, but you can always choose to spare monsters instead of destroying them.
What this ultimately means, is that the game has multiple different endings depending on how you choose to play, including an ending for killing monsters and bosses, and one for sparing literally everything. Yet, another ending that many players don't know about, one that's only achievable should you choose to try and break the game by hacking and poking around in its files.
Should this occur, tucked within is an ending that involves the appearance of Sans the skeleton (with the soundtrack tune “Dogsong” playing in the background) who admits he has no idea what the protagonist has done to trigger such an event. Sans suggests contacting the developer so the game can be fixed, but then states “Chances are, though... you're just a dirty hacker, aren't you? Yeah, get outta here”, chastising the player for hacking the game but at the same time offering a neat little reward.