Well, the modern version of this is very granular difficulty sliders. In the name of accessibility, a lot of recent games allow you to customize the hell out o

Well, the modern version of this is very granular difficulty sliders. In the name of accessibility, a lot of recent games allow you to customize the hell out of your gameplay experience — things like “how hard do enemies hit?”, “how easily can I find ammo?”, even “how hard is it to make jumps?”, and so on. Hades has a setting called God Mode, where every time you die, you just get straight up 1% stronger, stacking infinitely. Cheats in single player games aren’t dead - they’ve evolved!