10 Video Game Characters Who Got Undeservedly Brutal Deaths

10. Pious Augustus - Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem

GameCube exclusive cult classic Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem is a grim tale indeed. The plot centres around Alex Roivas, a young woman who unknowingly picks up the torch her family has carried for generations: saving humanity from the threat of the Ancients.

To do so, she travels between the chapters of the Tome of Eternal Darkness, each time taking the role of a different person from throughout history who has their own role to play. The protagonist of the first chapter is Pious Augustus, a Roman Centurion who happens upon the Forbidden City and the Ancients’ artifacts. As Pious, the player must select one, and Pious is immediately killed by its power as he touches it.

He doesn’t only die, though. As the game demonstrates in awful, protracted detail, he becomes a powerful Lich, doing his chosen Ancients’ bidding and opposing the player (killing several other protagonists in various ghastly circumstances) for the rest of the adventure. It's a terrible, centuries-long un-end for this noble warrior.