10 Best 'Dead And I Know It' Video Game Moments

10. Tess Finds Hope - The Last Of Us

Though The Last of Us' world is often quick and brutal when it comes to deaths, the nature of the zombie-like cordyceps outbreak means that some characters have to reckon with their demise before it actually happens. After all, being bit in this universe is a death sentence (unless you happen to be the one girl in the world who's immune).

It's Tess who first succumbs to this fate though. Joel's companion in the hard years after the death of his daughter, Tess finds redemption in helping immune Ellie out of the quarantine zone in the hopes of delivering her to the Fireflies, who are making a cure. Her journey doesn't last long though, as she's bitten and sacrifices herself to give Joel and Ellie time to escape.

Her confrontation with Joel is the particular highlight. Angry and frustrated, she's instrumental in talking sense into him and forcing him to believe in the cure, and to become Ellie's guardian on the treacherous journey. It's a genuinely heroic moment in the face of death, and one few would muster in a world as desolate as The Last of Us'.

Also, Sam's realisation he's doomed deserves an honourable mention here too.