Secret levels and Easter eggs are now an accepted facet of gamer culture. As soon as we pop a new disc into our consoles or start up a game we just downloaded, we already assume that developers have hidden goodies for us to find. It's no longer a question of if there will be a secret; it's where the secret will be located. A desire that aᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ lot of gamers share is a passion for working out the riddles of a game. There is nothing more satisfying than discovering a secret level that has been expertly hidden. You feel as if you are the king of the world and that all should bow before your brilliance. Of course, there is also nothing quite as hilarious as accidentally stumbling onto a secret level and being thr🦩ust into an absurd and confusing situation that you can't seem to get out of. Either way, secret levels mean you are in for a fantastic time.
With the advent of the Internet, it's easier to uncover Easter eggs than before. Just using a search engine could help you find millions of entries that exist solely to help you solve ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚthose puzzles and access those cheat codes. Whether that cheapens the experience of finding the secret or not is entirely subjective. But the fact of the matter is, if someone has discovered the location of a secret level, odds are his or her findings will be posted somewhere. That wasn't always the case. 🌼Back in the olden days, intrepid gamers had to thoroughly examine every inch of their games on their own.
We've gathered together a list of 20 secret levels from several games that you might hav🍰e missed or never found yourself. No matter ho🦄w old the game is, a secret is a secret, and we included it on our list.
20 ♔ ꧟ It's-a Me! Zombie Mario!
Zombie survival games make for popular games, and Dying Light is no exception. This open world, first-person survival game contained great graphics, a dynamic day-night cycle, and excellent combat. And if the story was a little on the bor🀅ing side, the fun you had scaling rooftops and avoiding 🀅zombies more than compensated for the lackluster plot.
The gritty survival game took a turn for the lighthearted with its secret Mario level. If you're running along the rooftops of Old Town, there's a large brick building near the southern edge of the area. Inside one of this building's chimneys, a tiny green Mario pipe is nestled quite comfortably. Jump inside and you'll be transported to a rendering of a Mario level, complete with a zombie goomba.
19 ꦕ 🐈My God, It's Full Of Stars
Super Mario World is heralded as a superb entry in the excellent Mario series. It showcased its graphics on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) and was welcomed for its simplicity while still remaining engaging. I don't know about you, but I could play Super Mario World for hours. It's like Mario invented replay value. It strides along that lin♛e between tough and eaಌsy so expertly that you can be challenged, but never frustrated.
While not exactly hidden, Star World had to be unlocked by completing tasks across various maps in order to reveal Star Roads. Each Star Road opened a level in Star World. There were five lওevels in Star World, and if you found the secret Star Road 6 in the fifth level, you unlocked 8 special levels.
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18 💧 ꧅ Mining In The Borderlands
No one forgets their first time playing Borderlands. The humor, the unique art style, and the downright addictive cooperative play created an experience that is unforgettable. Borderlands 2 continued the tradition of a high-flying fun adventure that was partly a wacky Western, partly a science fiction romp, and partly a trip into insane good times. And with such a se🌳nse of humor, of course the developers would want tꦬo include a zany secret area.
If you head to the Caustic Caverns, the northwest corner of the area has two mine tracks with carts on them. If you follow the track on the right all the way to the end, you will find dirt blocks you can melee out of the way. After that, the path to the hidden Minecraft area is open. From there, you have the opportunity to collect a Minecraft skin and head. And ꧒you have the chance to meet a few Creepers. That too.
17 Adventure Is Ou🔥t There
When I first saw Adventure (made for the Atari around 1980), I thanked my lucky stars that I had been born in an era where my game protagonists were no longer little squares. But for its time, Adventure was a game that brought many concepts to the table that hadn't been there befor🅰e. Most notably, its inclusion of an Easter egg made the 🎃idea of secrets in a video game widely popular.
Developers weren't given as much credit for their work as they are now. Warren Robinett, a developer of Adventure, wanted to correct this oversight. If a player collected a near-in🎃visible dot as a key to open a wall near the Yellow Cas𓃲tle, they were treated to a small room with the developer's name displayed for the clever few who reached it.
16 🎐 🥀 Attack Of The Giant Ants
The Command & Conquer series is an undeniable entry in the legacy of real-time strategy (RTS) games. The scope of its numerous games have eaꦡrned it a spot in any RTS hall of fame. Deeply rooted in science fiction, the game has you pit factions against each other as they fight for control of Tiberium, a crystal th🉐at is simultaneously a valuable resource and a dangerous toxin for the planet.
For the most part, the Command & Conquer series has been layered with a seriousness that only the apocalypse and war could bring. In the Red Alert collection, things decidedly change from serious to comedic. In the Counterstrike expansion for the first Red Alert game, players could access a secret campaign﷽ called "It Came From Red Alert!" In this campaign, players learn that the Soviets have been replaced as opponents by these giant ants. You can then wage war against🐻 the ants as a faction in their own right.
15 𒐪 Old-Time Nightmares
Wolfenstein has a reputation to protect. This is not a reputation built on stodginess and prim manners. It is a reputation built on undermining Nazis and foiling their plots. While the first two games in the Wolfenstein series are good games, it was id Software's Wolfenstein 3D that popularized the franchise and the first-person genre. When MachineGames, developer of the 2014 Wolfenstein: The New Order, got a hold of the reins, they did not disappoint. Not only was the gameplay fast-paced and fun, they included a secret Easter egg where players could revisit the halls of Wolfenstein 3D.
In Chapter 5 of The New Order, if players guide their character to a poster of Wolfenstein 3D, they can enter the "Nightmare," and play the first level of Wolfenstein 3D, old school graphics and all. It's a touching tribute to id Software's revolutionary game. Yes, I'm using the word touching 💯to refer to a game about this.
14 ✃ Egyptian Nightmares 🐻
GoldenEye 007 is a pinnacle of achievement in terms of first-person shooters. It had immersive environments and a definite magnetism when it came to playing multiplayer with friends. It was also chock full of secrets that players could try to sniff out. The secret we are focusing on is the bonus level Egyptian. It was the last bonus level, and it could only be unlocked by completing every other mission on the hardest difficulty setting. If you managed to achieve that, besides being prouder than a guy who just beat Dark Souls, you had the chance to obtain the Golden Gun.
What's the Golden Gun, you might ask? Only a gun that can kill nearly all enemies with a single shot. In order to get✨ it, you had to navigate Bond across a tiled room along a specific path. If you took a wrong step, indestructible guns would appear and whittle you to death unless you booked it out of there and started the whole puzzle again. Wor🦋th it? Well, once you're actually holding that shiny yellow gun, I'd say it was totally worth it.
13 The Painted World Of Pain ༒
I mentioned Dark Souls in that last entry as an example of a game you should be proud to beat. Dark Souls is infamous for its riveting boss battles and its insane level of difficulty. Passing the game is a feat to be immensely proud of. No amount of happiness can compare to a gamer's upon defeating a boss after the hundredth time fighting it, reducing its health bar millimeter by millimeter. So it only stands to reason that a secret level in a Dark Souls game would be tough to reach and tough to pass.
In order to get to this world, you must retrieve the Peculiar Doll that rests at the very beginning of the game, and then take it all they way back to Anor Londo, more than halfway through the game. Using the doll, you can go into a painting. This takes you to the Painted World of Ariamis. Once there, you can't get out eღasily. You have to go to the basement area, unlock the boss area, and then traverse the area between the basement and the boss area. There are enemies for you to fight the entire way, and any of them could swing the blow that ends you and sets you back to the bonfire. Once you reach the boss, Crossbreed Priscilla, you have the option to fight her. If you're like me, you left her well enough alone.
12 The Prince Of Secret Le💖vels
When you think of the Prince of Persia, it is my dear wish that you do not think of the Jake Gyllenhaal Prince of Persia first. Before it ever landed on the big screen, Prince of Persia was a video game. It was a solid action/adventure platformer. And when its successor, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, 𒆙released to critical✤ acclaim as well, the franchise was considered one of the greats.
From the main menu of the game, if you press certain keys on your controller (and the keys depend on which system you're using to play the game), you will unlock a Secret Level based off of the original Prince of Persia. Once you play and complete this hearkening to the older platformer, you will become the proud new owner of a brand spanking new sword. Or actually, since the Prince discovered i💟t within all these caverns, it's probably a💫n ancient sword.
11 And T♈hey𒈔 Called It Seal Love
Imagine a game where you have to rescue adorable baby seals who have found themselves trapped in various locations. Welcome to the secret co-op mission from Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent. With names lik🥂e Muffin and Pepperoni, seals are scattered in various hidden locations, requiring you to find codes to safes and coins for vending machi🥃nes in order to free them.
When you think of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, baby seals named Vanilla are not the first things that come to mind. Using your wits and reflexes, in Splinter Cell: Double Agent, you're supposed to remove enemies wꦰith extreme deliberation and complete objective🐻s judiciously. Rescuing a couple of baby seals with a friend is a nice break from all that heavy stuff.