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9 Hidden Video Game Enemies You Weren't Supposed To See
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29/04/2025
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Exploring every nook and cranny of a new game can lead to a whole bunch of incredible surprises,
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and sometimes this includes hidden enemies that 99% of players will simply never encounter.
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So to celebrate those today, I'm Josh from WhatCulture.com,
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and these are 9 hidden video game enemies you weren't supposed to see.
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Number 9. K-Nook Amnesia The Dark Descent
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This enemy in seminal horror game Amnesia The Dark Descent is literally an invisible monster.
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Showing up in the waterway levels, this beast is only identified by the splashes that it makes in the water,
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with the player being forced to use these visual and audio cues to avoid it at all costs.
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The whole point of Amnesia is just what's lurking out of sight,
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with the game even punishing you for staring too intently at any one of the monsters.
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So an invisible enemy like this is perfect, and proved to be one of the scariest things in the whole game.
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Of course, the mystery of the creature only led to fans eager to know what it would look like if it could be seen by the human eye.
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I mean, it clearly has a defined mass, so it must have some kind of shape and appearance, right?
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Well, concept art actually revealed what the K-Nook would have looked like,
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and essentially it's a big creepy monster dolphin, and that's pretty cool where I come from.
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Number 8. The Cow King Diablo 2
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The first but not last bovine-related enemy on this list,
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the Cow King has come to occupy a soft spot in the hearts of many video game fans in the decades since Diablo 2 launched.
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A secret boss inside a secret level, in order to find the Cow King,
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you first have to find the secret cow level inside the RPG.
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This hidden environment does pretty much exactly what it says in the tin.
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It transports players to a big field full of demonic cows eager to rip and tear their flesh.
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Known as Hell bovines, these not-so-cuddly creatures will mess your day up plenty,
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and the king of these can be found as you venture further into the level.
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Now, the Cow King might be the most well-known hidden enemy on this list today,
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but back when Diablo 2 first dropped, his existence was a complete surprise to the players who stumbled across him.
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Number 7. The Smoke Monster Just Cause 2
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Remember Lost? Remember when that was like the biggest pop culture thing around?
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Well, if you're a video game fan, then you absolutely will,
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because even if you didn't watch the show,
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you were inundated with references to it in all the biggest releases from the late 2000s.
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Just Cause 2, then, is just one of many big-budget games from that era,
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which boasts a reference to the smash hit TV show,
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and in this case, it's specifically the series The Smoke Monster
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that made viewers so intrigued across the earlier seasons.
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The reference to that creature here, though, is kind of rudimentary to be kind.
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In fact, it's almost like the developers just slapped it together in 5 minutes,
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and then forgot all about it.
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See, at a certain point on the map, you'll find a random enemy
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that's followed by a billowing trail of smoke,
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who can't be killed with conventional weapons, but can be grappled to death.
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Upon finding him, this dude will just follow you around,
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with him, his smoke machine, and his cheap Halloween costume haunting you wherever you go.
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Number 6, The Lord of the Pies, Dragon Age Inquisition
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When it came to The Lord of the Pies Easter Egg in Dragon Age Inquisition, though,
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the developers couldn't believe that players had stumbled across it in a mere two days.
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This mysterious pie in a top hat was hidden under the Skyhold environment by designers just as a joke,
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something which was unintentionally discovered by fans who accidentally glitched out under the map.
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Sporting a top hat, this giant pie lurks just out of the reach of players.
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But it begs the question, what's his game?
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Does he mean us harm?
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Where did he get such a sick, custom-made top hat?
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We had a lot of questions after seeing these stills.
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And while this large beast was never supposed to be seen,
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the developers responsible did say that other, smaller variants were similarly hidden around Skyhold.
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Which is only for the best, really.
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I mean, it would be a little bit depressing to be Lord of the Pies if you were the only pie around.
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Number 5, The Bovine Defense Force, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt.
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The whole premise of The Witcher 3 is that you play as a character whose job it is
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to literally hunt down evil creatures from every corner of the Earth.
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However, one job Monster Hunter Geralt can't take on through regular means
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is that of the Bovine Defense Force,
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the name given to a gnarly high-level hidden enemy in the sequel.
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In order to fight this dangerous, horny chart, you have to be a little bit of a cheeky chappy.
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See, all RPGs struggle with players finding exploits to get quick access to immense resources,
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and The Witcher 3 was no different.
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In fact, in one of the starting areas, White Orchid,
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savvy fans realized they could go about killing the cows to make some money off their corpses
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and then immediately just do it all again when they respawn.
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As such, this hidden enemy was only included in a patch
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to deter players from indulging in this exploit.
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Should you try it, this big guy will spawn and teach you a lesson for cheating.
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Number 4, The Altered Vending Machines, Control.
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Control's oldest house setting lends itself perfectly to enemies that are hidden in plain sight.
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After all, this is an environment where nothing makes sense,
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where enemies are just as likely to be refrigerators as they are demonic corpses.
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Anything can be possessed by the villainous hiss,
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and inanimate objects can twist the very fabric of space and time.
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This inventive idea thankfully carried through to the game's AWE DLC,
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which included a genius secret enemy, that being possessed of vending machines.
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These things aren't explicitly marked by the game itself,
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however, finding and killing them rewards players with a good chunk of resources.
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Not every vending machine is an enemy though,
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so you're going to have to take a chance on shooting each and every one that you come across just in case.
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Hilariously, the only indication that they're in the game, apart from some trophies,
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is a bit of flavor text about them that you can find in a document,
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leaving it up to the player to put two and two together.
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Number 3, A Whole Bunch of Chalice Dungeon Monsters.
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Bloodborne's Chalice Dungeons are a criminally underrated part of FromSoftware's Lovecraftian masterpiece.
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Though their optional challenge rooms players never have to interact with at all,
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these procedurally generated dungeons house some of the game's weirdest bosses,
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and of course, incredibly rare enemies that you'll never see if you simply blitz the main campaign.
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Due to the fact that every tile set is random,
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it means that players can spend hundreds of hours and never see specific enemies,
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and as such, there are a bunch of Chalice Dungeon exclusives that players might not even know exist.
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The rarest of all, though, is the Labyrinth Mole,
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a grotesque little freak that wasn't discovered until two years after the game hit consoles.
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And considering how vile this thing is, it was probably best left undiscovered for so long.
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Apart from this, though, there's so, so much more to find in these challenge rooms,
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including variations on regular bosses now spawning as normal enemies, so dive in if you dare.
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Number two, The Goomba's Dying Light.
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You might think that the last place you'd see a Goomba,
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you know, those little enemies that Mario so often likes to jump on the heads of,
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is in a mature zombie game, but buddy, you would be a fool if you thought this.
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That's because the superb zombie open-world game Dying Light features a brilliant Easter egg
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that actually transports you into a grimy, apocalyptic version of a classic Mario level.
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It's not easy to find, though, and involves players jumping down a random chimney in a corner of the map.
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Doing so transports the players to this Mario-style platforming level
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where they have to make it to the other end without either missing a jump
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or being hit by the zombies balancing precariously on the blocky environment.
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Of course, it wouldn't be a zombie Mario level without zombie Goombas to launch off of,
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and fortunately, the level delivers these in droves.
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Still, this probably isn't the weirdest gaming crossover I've ever seen, though,
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but we might get to that in another list.
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Number 1, Lisa P.T.
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I know, I know, it's become a bit of a staple of WhatCultureGaming at this point to talk about this subject,
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but it wouldn't be right to talk about hidden video game enemies you weren't supposed to see
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without mentioning Lisa, the creepy ghost from P.T.
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Now, obviously, Lisa isn't exactly a hidden enemy in the teaser for the tragically cancelled Silent Hills.
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I mean, she's the only enemy in the game,
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and someone you see staring at you from multiple angles
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as you try to solve the puzzles of the game's looping hallway.
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What you weren't supposed to see, however,
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is that even when Lisa isn't visible on screen, she is still there in the scene.
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In fact, she's always lurking just over your shoulder, more or less attached to your back.
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That's why you can sometimes hear her breathing down your neck,
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because she quite literally is.
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Players only found this super creepy fact out thanks to a fan
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who broke out of bounds in the game and saw the hallway from a slightly different perspective,
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discovering something that we were probably better off not knowing.
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So that's our list.
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Once you've got to think down in the comments below,
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did you ever find these hidden enemies,
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and are there any cool ones I missed off here?
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While you're down there as well,
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could you please give us a like, share, subscribe,
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and head over to whatculture.com
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for more lists and news like this every single day.
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Even if you don't, though, I've been Josh.
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Thanks so much for watching, and I'll see you soon.
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We'll see you soon.
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