9 Nerve-Wracking Video Game Moments You Barely Made It Through

5. That Last Sliver Of Health - Dark Souls

Dark Souls has a tendency to force players into gambling with success: Whether to push forwards in search of a bonfire, or retreat to safety. Whether to grab that suspiciously placed item and risk the ambush... or just ignore it. And of course, whether or not to rush in and land that finishing hit on a boss or wait for an even more perfect moment.

Everyone has had that feeling in a boss fight. You've been playing for hours, you have no more healing left and the boss is one hit away from death.

Do you risk it and charge into to land that last hit knowing that you might end up getting hit yourself or do you wait for your opening knowing full well that every second you wait is a second in which you can and probably will slip up?

Take the chance - it might pay off... or it might send you back to the last checkpoint, ready to dodge all those attacks all over again.