Top 10 Games Players Love to Break
Top 10 Games Players Love to Break
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These probably aren't the ways the developers wanted us to play. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’ll be counting down our picks for the Top 10 Games Players Love to Break. For this list, we’ll be looking at those games that have unique qualities or mechanics in them that can be exploited, resulting in ways to play the game that weren’t intended. Whether it’s a mechanical glitch, boundary break, or sequence break, it’s eligible for this list.
#10: Fallout: New Vegas (2010)
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Bethesda titles were bound to show up on this list. First up, is New Vegas. Whether players want infinite bottle caps, exp, or fame, there’s a way to do it in-game without mods or cheats. Most of them aren’t even complicated or tricky to do. Take the infinite money glitch for example; all you have to do is buy one of an item that is sold twice at the lower value, and sell it back to the vendor. Do this over and again until you bleed the vendor dry.
#9: Jurassic Park: Trespasser (1998)
There was a time before this game’s release that had people losing their minds about how revolutionary this was going to be. The scope was huge, and the hype was real. It did get the attention it expected, but unfortunately not the right reasons. The game is a buggy mess, and provided a lot of opportunity for players to exploit. You essentially perform all actions with a bendy, non-responsive arm that flops around, and the dinosaurs you face off against seem to have the same problem with their legs, meaning you can run circles around them and they won’t know how to move. Easy kills.
#8: Destiny 2 (2017)
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All it takes is for one weapon to be deemed overpowered or glitched, and the whole game and community changes. Take the recent Dawnblade glitch for example. It allows the super to go on indefinitely as long as you continue to hit the button, and all you need to do is swap out your current weapon before you activate it. Or, there was a time where the exotic Prometheus Lens was the new meta, literally incinerating enemies in seconds. Everyone had to get their hands on one.
#7: Mario Kart 64 (1996)
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What is it with Mario games and their ability to ruin friendships? Now, most people may call the Rainbow Road shortcut an exploit, but can it not just be classed as skill? I mean it’s not necessarily an easy thing to do - okay, maybe it is. The jump skips most of the track, allowing players that took advantage of it to complete the race well ahead of opponents. It’s a universally known skip that’s brought up before every race as to whether or not it’s allowed.
#6: EVE Online (2003)
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This particular entry has been around for a long while now, and has maintained a fairly large player-base. With its lifespan, brought a plethora of glitches and exploits that players had taken advantage of. Some allowed gamers to dish out major damage, with one infamous example allowing players to track enemies with an infinite range, causing short range weaponry to be effective hundreds of kilometers away, which griefed many others. There are no signs of EVE's lifespan coming to end, which means new exploits and glitches with each update are bound to surface.
#5: World of Warcraft (2004)
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With the previous entry, we’ve seen how certain exploits can have a negative impact on other players in PVP situations. World of Warcraft is no different. Most of them stemmed from broken mechanics that allowed players to deal insane amounts of damage. Over the years, Blizzard had banned a ton of accounts that tried these unorthodox methods, but that didn’t stop a lot of people from continuing to use them. WoW is also home to the biggest griefing exploit of all time with the “Corrupted Blood Plague” incident, an exploit that spread like a pandemic and got so out of hand Blizzard had to restart the servers. Well … That’s one way to break a game I guess.
#4: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017)
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Here, we have a huge, open-world map that is a gamer's playground. With so many different ways to play, and a ton of exploring to do, it’s impossible to not discover ways to cheekily help you on your journey. Hell at times it almost feels like the game is challenging the players to break it. Some have though, like being able to create a flying machine with a death mountain minecart. Speedrunners have also found ways to launch themselves across the entire map, by using the stasis rune on boulders or trees. Honestly with how many exploits are being discovered each day, we’re wondering when they’ll start to run out.
#3: Civilization series (1991-)
The world’s your oyster when it comes to exploits in the Civ series… literally. While the devs are proactive in fixing these, there was a time when you could break the entire world economy. In Civ 6, for example, there was a glitch in where the A.I. traders would bargain against deals you made in your favor. Yep, they would turn down your deal, and ask for something of less value than you had originally offered. Also, who could forget the time Gandhi became mad with power and didn’t hesitate to launch nukes?
#2: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)
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You know how we said these are generally ways NOT intended to play? Well, there are so many bugs and exploits in Skyrim, we just aren’t sure anymore. From infinitely leveling up skills, to generating insane amounts of gold, overpowering any enemy, and infinitely casting magic, this particular entry deserves a list of its own. A couple of our favorite particular exploits are putting baskets on NPC’s heads and stealing right in front of them, and glitching out of Whiterun to get access to the Skyforge’s item chest.
#1: Soulsborne series (2009)
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Where do we begin? The series’ non-linearity and PVP are prime picks for exploits. New ways to break the games and troll other players are still being discovered to this day. It’s also a speedrunner’s paradise. One of the most prominent skips in the first Dark Souls shaves off hours of play time, allowing you to get into Sen’s Fortress well before you normally would. There are also a ton of different ways to absolutely obliterate bosses, making a usually nail-biting difficult game a cake walk.
