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While Tabletop Simulator has tools for allowing players to be blindfolded - and therefore not see cards being passed around or other hidden information involved in social deduction games - the Secret Hitler mod makes dishing out secret roles automatic, as well as giving you a handy reminder of how many players belong to the liberal and facist factions and whether Secret Hitler himself is allowed to know the hidden fascists trying to get him into power.
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Whether pacey dogfighting or epic tactics are your bag, both X-Wing and Armada are available as Tabletop Simulator mods, letting you try out the miniatures games with a full fleet of ships before investing in the real models.
In the age of the internet, it generally doesn't take long for secrets to get found out. Entire movie plots are spoiled before the movie is even released and anonymous sources dish on the secrets of everything from politics to pop culture. Gamers love to discover every last bit of information about their favorites, so it is practically impossible for an in-game secret to stay hidden for long.
According to Forbes, Atari did not want their programmers to receive credit for the games they created: they were worried that developers who created a string of hits might start asking for royalties or even be lured away by other companies. This reluctance bred the very first in-game Easter egg: a hidden screen that merely tells players who created the game. It may sound like a far cry from the video game secrets of today, but Adventure's hidden screen is the first known Easter egg; it is even where the name "Easter egg" comes from.
Yes, that's it. But, again, this was a big deal at the time it was discovered. First Person Scholar writes that, nine months later, a player found the secret and wrote to Atari about it. Manager of Atari Steve Wright, rather than being upset about the secret, was amused and likened it to "finding an Easter egg." This is still the term we use today for hidden content in games.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a game full of secrets and hidden details, so it makes sense that certain aspects are still turning up years after the game's release. John from GameXplain points out one such secret links Breath of the Wild back to its 2002 predecessor, The Wind Waker. Turns out that the starting location in The Wind Waker, Outset Island, is located in its entirety in the southeast corner of the map in Wild.
Legend of Zelda games have always been good about hiding secrets, so it seems likely that some more will crop up in Breath of the Wild before too long. That's especially true when you consider that the Easter egg isn't even much of a secret; it was just unnoticed!
Some secrets offer outrageous new ways to play through your favorite games. Others break the game in extremely interesting ways, and still others reveal a whole new outlook on why certain things happen in a game. This secret from classic Resident Evil 4 does ... none of those. It's a cardboard cutout of a random man. That no one found for twelve years.
Another game already rife with mysteries, BioShock hid a lot of what made its world tick under the hood. Some of the best secrets in games are the ones that affect the world without you even realizing it, and a simple bit of code hidden in the game's enemies actually helps to make the shootouts in BioShock so memorable.
We're talking about some iconic games on this list: Grand Theft Auto V, BioShock, Gumball ... wait, you don't remember Gumball? 1983's Apple II classic Gumball? Ok, chances are a lot of people don't have Gumball on their radar. Which is probably why it held a secret in its code for over three decades, the longest wait on this list.
If you played Animal Crossing on the Nintendo GameCube, you may remember that your character in the game could purchase an original NES, and there were even a few games that you could play on it. What you might not know, however, is that Nintendo may have had bigger plans for that little item, as it was actually a full-blown NES emulator. Ars Technica writes that, almost twenty years later, a security expert discovered this secret and how to load any ROM you want onto it.
Seemingly right up there with the Contra Code, Totaka's Song is one of those legendary secrets that has appeared in dozens of games. It is named for sound designer Kazumi Totaka, and is a simple nineteen note riff that is often hidden several minutes into other songs or buried in obscure moments of the games that the designer has worked on. The most recent game the song was found in is Pikmin 2, a GameCube title that was first released over 15 years ago. 2ff7e9595c
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