10 Most Important Video Game Deaths This Decade
4. Chloe (Life Is Strange)
Now, this death is one that the player can choose to enact, but the decision is a truly difficult one to make. No one will blame you for choosing to bid farewell to Chloe in order to save the entire community of Arcadia Bay.
Chloe might be a character that is in her own words "hella" annoying at times, and almost completely at odds to the life that her friend Max is looking to achieve, but underneath all of the punk crust is a character looking to make meaningful connections and validate her own existence.
The pair need each other - that's made painfully clear by the end of the first season of Life Is Strange - and their movement from fractured relationship to deeply connected is genuinely enthralling. Yet it's a connection that was, at its core, never meant to be, as the player finds out that Max's ability to rewind time to change the past is actually putting Arcadia Bay on a path to destruction.
Therefore, she needs to make a choice: stay in this current timeline where Chloe lives and the storm ravages the bay, or choose not to save Chloe from being shot and saving everyone who lives there. It's interesting to note that through death Chloe achieves what she always wanted: to make a difference to a town she'd always felt trapped in.