Have you ever bought a pizza with pieces of broken glass that you first have to take out before you can enjoy your meal? Because that's pretty much the model behind some video games nowadays.

There's a lot of video games that are well made and fun to play, you just run them any time to play alone or with friends and the gameplay is just great. Even if you lose, it's not a big deal, you just start over.

But there's another type of games that introduce some kind of day-by-day progressing, where you're supposed to evolve and save your progress to keep working on it tomorrow...

And these games can be also pretty fun to play if they're done well, they let you truly evolve enough to unlock more of the game's content. Oddly enough, only the really big titles let you actually do that, e.g. Skyrim, Final Fantasy XV, Fallout 4, Witcher 3, Destiny 2, all those games actually let you grow instead of just getting you stuck.

But there's another kind of games I've been playing recently that seem as if they're designed specifically to piss you off AFTER you give YOUR money to the developers!

Surprisingly, it seems to be specifically the plague of indie games and the very same old story kept repeating again and again with each of these titles I tried: Moonlighter, Crypt of the NecroDancer, Moon Hunters, Wargroove... I have a soft spot for pixel games but it seems their market is literally plagued by bad developers.

Why do I call them bad developers? Well, let's say, it's pure psychology but why do we actually keep playing games and what makes them so interesting? The short answer is ART. We want to see more of the pretty content: new characters, maps, new designs, themes, places, stories, etc.

So basically we want to enjoy the work of ARTISTS, meanwhile gamedevs are the evil guys who do everything to lock it away and make it incredibly difficult to see the new pretty things. To the point of making the whole experience no longer interesting and outward pissing you off at some point!

Imagine, you pay $50 to visit an art gallery in hope to enjoy the art, but all of a sudden they say you have to fight through the security guards just to see the paintings! That's just pure nonsense, but that's some of those video games in a nutshell...

As if it's not scam enough to take your money and introduce you to the shitty experience where you literally can't progress anymore after some point because the game is not "challenging" but simply overwhelming, the gamedevs go even further...

You know how you have 2 hours of gameplay to refund the game on Steam? They just make sure your first 2 hours are as easy and pleasant as possible, only once you lose the ability to refund, all the respect they pretended to have for you is suddenly flushed down the toilet.

And then you're on your own against the impossible missions, while beating them is required to progress and there's no way around. And every time you try and die, you keep wondering why the hell did you give your money to the guys who show their middle finger in return??

In the end, dunno about you but I'm really feeling weird when I pay for something and the thing just hates you. I feel kinda sorry for the artists who get involved with the games like Moonlighter and Wargroove that seem to have zero respect for their players. Of course that's just what I played myself, I'm pretty sure there are countless other titles...