Whats the hardest game you ever actually beaten, and did it feel worth it afterward

[Busquets]

Spent an embarrassing number of hours on a genuinely brutal boss in one particular game, and the moment it finally went down felt like a genuine personal achievement rather than just a video game victory

Curious what people's own hardest completed game actually was, and whether the eventual payoff genuinely justified the frustration along the way

[DarkMatter]

A notoriously difficult action game took me weeks of genuine repeated failure before finally clicking, and the eventual victory felt more earned than almost anything else I've completed

[VoidSentinel]

Any punishing roguelike took dozens of failed runs before a final successful clear, and the relief afterward was honestly more intense than the actual fun during the process

[Rustic Stuart]

A famously difficult boss rush mode took an embarrassing number of attempts, and honestly the satisfaction afterward faded faster than I expected it to

[Mark1]

A brutally difficult survival game took multiple complete restarts before finally surviving to the actual end, worth every single frustrating hour in hindsight

[BlackMamba35]

A brutal platformer with unforgiving checkpoints took me longer than I'd like to admit, and yes it was completely worth the frustration in hindsight