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10. Kill The Dog To Maintain Cover?! - The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil In Me (2022)

Throughout our time in The Devil In Me’s recreation of H.H. Holmes’s “Murder Castle”, developers Supermassive Games ask us to partake in a selection of cruel choices which can determine which of the plucky group of survivors will make it to the end of the night and which will be gruesomely killed. However, no choice you're presented with is as ruthlessly heartless as when you meet the wonderful dog Connie.

While being pursued by Du’Met, you'll encounter the lovable but loud canine in the farmhouse. As the killer approaches, you're presented with the dastardly option of killing Connie to remain undetected. Depending on who’s left alive, this scene can play out slightly differently. But it's the version where only Kate makes it there that's the most mischievous.

Though the game encourages you to kill the pooch with a quick time event, doing so would be the last thing that you'd want to do.

Showing the animal mercy instead will lead to Kate being discovered. the killer swings his axe, and a large blood spatter on the wall signals Kate's demise.

In some deceitful misdirection, the “blood” was nothing more than tomato soup, and both Kate and Connie escape with their lives.