10 Disturbing Video Game Endings That Will Haunt You Forever

10. Ending F - Clock Tower (SNES)

Clock Tower is a point-and-click survival horror game from the SNES's glory days that helped lay the groundwork for the genre in several key ways, and throwing macabre curve-ball endings at the player was certainly one of them.

Players must guide orphan Jennifer Simpson to safety whilst she's stalked by Scissorman, a deranged killer with a love for oversized shears and chopping up teenage girls. In total, Clock Tower has eight endings, some of which see Jennifer overcome the cavalcade of horrors that reside within the Barrows Mansion, but most of them see her succumbing to a series of gruesome fates that will cause a very deep pit to form in your stomach.

If certain criteria aren't met by the time Jennifer reaches the titular clock tower, Ending F is triggered. Which sees Jennifer enter an elevator and the doors close behind her. There's a moment's silence before a crashing sound is heard, followed by screaming and the furious snapping of scissors. Blood then begins to seep out from beneath the elevator's doors and the screen fades to black as Scissorman laughs.

As primitive as its graphics and sound effects might be, this one still manages to catch players off-guard with its sudden and implicit brutality.