10 Video Game Endings That Shocked The World

10. Zero Time Dilemma - Coin Ending

The third game in the Zero Escape series manages to contradict its own formula and title within ten minutes. Escape is more than possible. In fact, there is a fifty-fifty chance it can be accomplished within the first cutscene.

Players may be skeptical when the mysterious Zero immediately appears and offers the protagonists a choice. After all, why would they trust someone dressed as a plague doctor who admits to abducting them? After a speech about how life is unfair, Zero proceeds to flip a coin with one red side and one blue side.

Covering it with their foot, they then ask Carlos to decide for the group whether the side facing up is red, or blue.

If Carlos (through the player) guesses incorrectly, the protagonists will be forced into a game in which at least six of them will die. If they are correct, they will have their memories erased and be set free. Silence is not an option.

If the player chooses red, it is the correct option, but relief may be soon followed by confusion as Zero is seemingly true to his word. The characters are all freed, but nothing is resolved and the game simply…ends.