I Wanna be the Guy

I Wanna Be the Guy is a brutally difficult platformer that takes the cheerful conventions of classic games and gleefully turns them against the player. Almost everything looks familiar: platforms, spikes, fruit, enemies and nostalgic scenery. Unfortunately, almost everything is also trying to kill you. The game is famous for traps that appear only after you have already committed to a jump, creating a special kind of comedy in which failure is both inevitable and strangely entertaining. Its deliberately unfair design became part of its identity, inspiring countless rage-filled playthroughs and imitators. If you enjoy old-school platforming with an unusually cruel sense of humor, I Wanna Be the Guy is practically a rite of passage.