Cheaters never prosper and these games will make damn sure you take that seriously. Whether they mock you mercilessly, erase your save file or even ban you for life, here are 20 humiliating ways games trolled those who dared tried to cheat at them. Note: I won't be counting answers to piracy, since that's a list for another day.
#20: Animal Crossing Series: Mr. Resetti
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| Go ahead. Get on this guy's bad side. |
Don't even think about resetting without saving in this series or Mr. Resetti will visit you. He gets angrier and angrier each time you do it, eventually forcing you to apologize if you do it too many times.
#19: Fabel: Frying Pan Troll
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| This is what you get for looking up walkthroughs! |
One of the weapons you can get in this Xbox classic is a super powered frying pan. There's a catch, however: The pan's power depends on how many clues you got during the treasure hunt that rewards it. If you get to the end without any clues (most likely via online walkthrough), the pan will be as worthwhile as a subscription to Qubi.
#18: South Park The Fractures But Whole: Tom Brady
If you're gonna unlock any code based doors in this game, you better not get the codes from online walkthroughs. Try to unlock a code based door without learning the code in-game and Cartman will appear to scold you (and compare you to Tom Brady for some reason).
#17: The Impossible Quiz: No Tabs Allowed
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| This game said it, not me! |
For this serious the message is clear: Try to find the answer with tab and your game is up!
#16: Super Monkey Ball: Konami code
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| Can't say it wasn't worth a shot. |
In many games the Konami Code gave you some neat benefits, like 30 extra lives in Contra. Some games instead trolled you for using it, like this game for example.
#15: Tomb Raider 2: Nude code
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| If you really wanna see Lara nude, just go online! Deviantart probably has a thousand pics of that! |
After years of rumors of getting to see Lara Croft nude in the first game, the developers actually added a code in the sequel. JK! All this cheat does is make Lara explode into a million pieces.
#14: Link's Awakening: Thief
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| That's what shoplifting gets you! |
In this game, you can get a free item from the shop by going to the wall behind the shopkeeper and running through the door before he has time to turn around. Be warned, however, for everyone will somehow find out about it, including the electrocute happy shopkeeper.
#13: Heretic: Doom code fails
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| Good luck beating this game's enemies with a stick! |
In Doom, the codes iddqd and idkfa will activate God Mode and give you all weapons respectively. In Heretic, these codes instead kill you instantly and leave you with nothing but a useless staff respectively.
#12: Postal 2: Insulting cheat codes
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| Sorry, I don't talk to sissies! |
Like many games, Postal 2 has a variety of cheat codes. The catch here is you basically type that you're a sissy before you can use any of them.
#11: Crusader No Regret: Jessica16
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| Well you're screwed. |
Good news: Some of the cheat codes from the original Crusader No Remorse show up in this game. Bad news: All they do here is set you up on a date with 8 super powered enemy mechs.
#10: The Witcher 3: Bovine Defense Force
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| Peta sent that demon! |
In early versions of this game it was possible to get infinite money from endlessly slaughtering the cows on the White Orchard. In later versions, doing this too many times results in an army of bull demons spawning to kill you.
#9: Gradius 3: Boom Socka Locka!
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| The Konami Code strikes again! |
In previous Gradius games, the Konami Code gave you all the weapons in the game. In this game, all it did was make your ship explode into a million pieces.
#8: Undertale: Dirty Hacker
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| He knows... |
Being a computer game, it is possible to go through the files in search of endings. Go too far, however, and Sans will catch you and call you out on your dirty hacker ways.
#7: Grand Theft Auto V: Dunce Cap
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| Cheating in online games is for dunces! |
Quite a few games combat cheaters by restricting them to "special" servers where all they go up against are other cheaters. GTA5 ups the ante by making all it's cheating VIPs wear humiliating hats while they troll along.
#6: The Jade Empire: The gambler's death
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| Oh my God! You killed Daoshen (that this guy's name)! You bastard! |
In Imperial City there is a gambler who you can bet with to gain money and like many games you can use save states to always win. Unfortunately the game is ahead of you, so if you manage to win 20 times in a row the gambler will spontaneously explode and be unavailable for that save file.
#5: Banjo-Kazooie: Save file erasure
Among the cheat codes available in this N64 classic are some illegal codes that can unlock other worlds. If you make the mistake of using three of these codes in one game, Grunty will erase your save file. Turns out there's some lines even she won't cross!
#4: The Stanley Parable: The Serious Room
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| It's the time out corner all over again! |
If you so much as dare bring up the cheat menu in this game, the narrator will sentence you to a long time in the Serious Room!
#3: Afterlife: Death Star
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| Have fun building all of that again! |
In this after life sim there is a cheat code that gives you a ton of money. Use this code too many times, however, and a Death Star will show up and start destroying the afterlife you spent probably hours of real time making.
#2: H1Z1: YouTube apology video required
Those caught cheating in this battle royal game were banned from competing in future online matches. To get the ban reversed, cheaters had to upload videos of them apologizing for their cheating ways onto YouTube and email them to the developers.
#1: Donkey Kong 64: Game Shark suicide
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| You gamesharked on the wrong game, fool! |
Trying to use GameShark codes on this Rare classic turns the game into a glitchy, unplayable mess. Even turning the codes off didn't fix this, so you were pretty much screwed.
Heed my advice: Just play by the rules and no one gets hurt. Some honorable mentions include Return of Superman's Not So Super achievement (achievements you don't want is a topic for another list), SimCity wrecking your city for using a money code too many times (The Afterlife example was funnier), Slender 2 sacrificing you to Slenderman for getting out of bounds (That's more scary than funny), and Star Wars Dark Forces LAIAMLAME code (It's similar to the Postal 2 example). For those of you who play by the rules, thanks for reading and have a happy Easter.
