10 Video Game Bad Endings You Can Get By Pure Accident

10. Don't Do What You're Told! - Dredge

Dredge is an interesting fishing game with an eldritch twist. Instead of a relaxing time in nature, it puts you in dark waters filled with Lovecraftian horrors, where you have to catch only slightly less Lovecraftian fish.

The game has a main story with two radically different endings that are determined by completing its main objectives.

Now, you’d think that this would mean finishing all of the main objectives would lead to a good ending, but no. It’s actually how you get the bad one!

Yes, if you unknowingly follow the main story without exploring the world, your character is devoured by a huge monster as they accidentally attempt to summon an old cosmic entity.

This is because the game reveals to you that the objectives were implanted into your head by the eldritch god in question, and the entire time you were unwittingly following their orders.

To avoid this fate, what you actually have to do is ignore the main quest completely and follow a chain of clues scattered across the entire world.

Considering a lot of new players don’t even know how to operate their boats, you can probably tell how many first playthroughs accidentally conclude with the bad ending.