10 Most Shocking Video Game Plot Twists Of 2018

10. Vincent's Betrayal - A Way Out

A Way Out seemed like an odd game from the very beginning; an ambitious project backed by EA, it seemed the sort of indie darling the publisher usually wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole. That said, it turned out to be a triumphant—if somewhat flawed—success.

With such a heavy emphasis on co-operative gameplay, A Way Out asked two players to team up to escape a prison and eventually orchestrate a plot to reclaim a priceless heirloom from an antagonizing crime boss.

It would have been a compelling ending... were it not for one major twist.

Toward the end of the game it is revealed that Vincent - one of the two protagonists - was working with the police all along, and the game’s grand jewel theft was a P.D.-sanctioned mission from the get-go. In the end, it just goes to show that no one can be trusted.

It felt a bit Shyamalanian to some, but was a fantastic way of unseating players before the game’s conclusion. Though the prison escape sequence, a highlight of many of the game’s trailers, was well over by the time the halfway point rolled around, this unexpected twist was one of 2018’s best.