Soulslikes are infamous for being incredibly hard, but these games craft a perfect balance to help players hone their skills.

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Most games let you choose how difficult the experience is, but not all. Some games are so brutal that they go down in history as the hardest games of all time.

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Both Bandai Namco games feature difficulty levels, which is not unheard of at least for the Tales of series. In Scarlet Nexus, players can decide between Very Easy, Easy, Normal, Hard, or Very Hard.

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Once you learn them, though, Hollow Knight becomes fair, at least for the duration of the base game. It’s actually when you start playing the DLC that you realize how insane the difficulty spike is.

Maybe the world would be better off destroyed by a giant meteor. And those are 10 recent examples of cruel difficulty spikes in games – and some of these are no-joke tough.