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10 Most Rage Inducing Games Of All Time - GameRant

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  • Games like Getting Over It and Only Up offer extreme challenges and frustrating obstacles that have caused many gamers to rage over the years.
  • The Soulsborne franchise, known for its old-school difficulty, induces rage with its challenging bosses, making it unlike any other major gaming franchise.

There are a lot of ways in which games can frustrate gamers. From being excessively difficult to providing challenging puzzles or a lack of direction about where to go next, gamers love to play, but sometimes it inspires a lot of anger release while they continue playing through a wide variety of games.

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While many games want to give players a challenge, and thus become frustrating as a side effect of that hardship, some games are actually out to enrage players, making them particularly unfriendly games, but ones that feel unusually incredible to actually defeat. Such games are just the sort of thing for gamers who love particularly difficult challenges.

Updated on January 9, 2024, by Chris Harkin: There are so many games that continue to enrage players, whether through extreme difficulty or by purposefully adding frustration as an element. This popular idea, made even more so today by streaming and YouTube content, will always encourage more developers, particularly indie ones, to try and get their name out in a wider way by creating games that can cause extreme frustration for players. Though no major new fad game has appeared recently, there will always be a space for a trending game that provides huge difficulty to arrive and deliver new rage content for gamers to enjoy, or hate.

10 Only Up

Metacritic User Score: 3.8/10

only-up-how-long-to-beat-1

A game that has recently gained a lot of popularity with streamers and YouTubers Only Up is another climbing game that has more recently picked up the style of games like Getting Over It and built an open-world 3D game that works similarly. A young boy from the Favela begins to climb up a strange assortment of objects, with a bizarre and philosophical sequence of narration occurring throughout.

The real rage of Only Up is that many of the objects players have to jump between on their way up are extremely tricky and make it very easy to fall. Worse still, if players fall they can easily land at the very beginning of the game again, and there are no checkpoints along the way, players can’t even leave the game without their progress being erased. Only Up speedruns have become a huge deal for many streamers as they attempt to find different ways to skip parts of the game.

9 Jump King

Metacritic User Score: 5.1/10

Jump King bracing to jump over another floating ledge

Jump King is another game about simply moving upwards, and in a similar vein to Pogostuck or Only Up, it is all too easy to fall backward when attempting to get further up. Jump King has simple controls, but the precise nature of many jumps that have to be made helps to make the whole game very difficult to ever complete.

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Though Jump King is considered by many to be a little easier than some of the other infamous rage-inducing climbing games, it has always produced a lot of rage when gamers fail to hit the toughest jumps, making for a lot of painful experiences taken from this one for a variety of Twitch Streamers in particular.

8 Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy

Metacritic User Score: 5.8/10

Climbing in Getting Over It

It is difficult to begin talking about rage games without speaking about the masterpiece of upsetting players. Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy was developed as an indie game about a man inside a cauldron, who is tasked with climbing a mountain of strange objects using nothing but a hammer to propel him and his cauldron upwards.

The game is narrated by Bennett Foddy, who talks about many things, including the gaming industry and how it has changed. He also references inspirations like the classic “B-game” Sexy Hiking. The punishment of Getting Over It, including the many rage-inducing challenges and steep cliffs that must be navigated, is significant and has caused many gamers to rage over the years.

7 Pogostuck

Metacritic User Score: 6.9/10

Pogostuck Rage Game-1

Pogostuck is another climbing game but with the most horrible sort of twist. Instead of a game such as Getting Over It, which requires players to get up a mountain while trapped in a cauldron but with a solid level of control over their hammer, Pogostuck puts players on a pogo stick and forces them to find a way up even more chilling obstacles.

The difficulty of Pogostuck is enormous, but before even getting to the horrible obstacles that players have to find a way past, they first have to learn the very challenging controls of the pogo stick, leaving them with various levels of perfection they have to achieve over the controls before they can even have a hope of defeating the game.

6 Spelunky

Metacritic User Score: 7.3/10

Spelunky 1 Gameplay
Spelunky
Released
October 21, 2008
Developer(s)
Mossmouth
Genre(s)
Platformer

Another platforming game, Spelunky is known for using randomized levels to create a unique and highly challenging experience. Mixing roguelike elements with the most general platforming style, Spelunky made a name for itself by providing gamers with some of the hardest challenges ever seen in the gaming industry.

Successfully garnering itself a sequel and considered by fans to be a much harder version of popular games like the Mario franchise, Spelunky has caused a huge volume of rage quitting from players over the years. Spelunky is easy to hate and almost as easy to love and produces a great atmosphere which will find players angrily attempting the same levels over and over again.

5 Geometry Dash

Metacritic User Score: 7.8/10

Geometry figures of square and triangles
Geometry Dash
Released
2013-08-00
Developer(s)
Robert Topala

One of the most recognizable rhythm games ever, Geometry Dash, has been around for over ten years, and in that time, it has been beloved by many but has managed to enrage and frustrate many more. A simple premise, Geometry Dash is about a square block that players can make jump, having to do so at precise times to survive the many different obstacles on each course.

Beyond the high level of difficulty that can be found in the game's levels, there is a thriving community of player-created levels which provide even more ridiculous levels of difficulty. Players will find themselves rage quitting after only making it through 2% of a level on some of the most challenging levels, named "demon" levels and known for being almost impossible to complete.

4 Super Meat Boy

Metacritic User Score: 7.9/10

Super Meat Boy
Super Meat Boy
Released
October 20, 2010
Developer(s)
Team Meat
Genre(s)
Platformer

One of the most notable platform games for being horrifying from start to finish in difficulty terms, Super Meat Boy is another indie game made to be frustrating for players. However, there is a lot more to the content, instead of merely trying to climb a mountain, Super Meat Boy is filled with over 300 levels as well as player-created ones, so the frustration never ends in this hugely important indie game.

While it is split more with less of the possibility of horrific falls that steal back precious progress than some of the other most rage-inducing games available, Super Meat Boy is still a brutally tough game that has enraged many players into quitting over the years.

3 FTL: Faster Than Light

Metacritic User Score: 8.3/10

Ship overview showing intruders in FTL Faster Than Light
FTL: Faster Than Light
Platform(s)
PC
Released
September 14, 2012
Developer(s)
Subset Games
Genre(s)
Strategy , Roguelike

Another roguelike game, which includes various strategic and management elements, FTL was a Kickstarter project which was done correctly. Gathering crowdfunding to create something unique in the gaming sphere, FTL is a mixture of genres which, despite the lower focus on graphics, managed to be so successful it has helped create a new genre.

Popularizing the idea of a "rogue-lite" game which includes some, but not all, the aspects of a roguelike, FTL is credited alongside games like Spelunky for this challenging genre. Gamers will surely find themselves struggling with the challenges presented by FTL, but they will likely love it if they are into similar games such as The Binding Of Isaac.

2 Cuphead

Metacritic User Score: 8.5/10

Cuphead, Mugman
Cuphead
Released
September 29, 2017
Developer(s)
Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc.
Genre(s)
Platformer

For many gamers, the most rage-inducing moments of their gaming lives will come in platformers against a boss that they just can’t quite figure out. Dying continuously against powerful platform bosses is one of the most frustrating ideas that many gamers will experience, however, Cuphead takes that idea to a completely different level in one of the hardest co-op games ever made.

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In Cuphead, one or two players must work together to tackle a series of levels, mostly all featuring tricky bosses, which require incredible precision to defeat. By the time players have gotten past just a couple of these levels, they will already be feeling incredible levels of frustration at the predicament in which they find themselves, and the DLC is even harder.

1 The Soulsborne Franchise

Metacritic User Score: (7.9-9.0) /10

Soulsborne Game Lore

Though it is difficult to pin down one particular entry in the electrifying difficult Soulslike series, this franchise induces the most rage thanks to the games made by FromSoftware, where all their games are built to have an old-school gaming level of difficulty that few games can beat.

The entire list from Demon's Souls through to Elden Ring has a long list of hugely challenging bosses that take players a huge number of attempts to beat. The challenge behind this franchise and the way it angers gamers is unlike any other major gaming franchise in history.

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