10 Video Game Endings That Totally Trolled Players

10. ANOTHER Cliffhanger - Shenmue III

Shenmue III was finally released in 2019, almost an entire 20 years after Shenmue II hit stores and left fans on an epic cliffhanger, with protagonist Ryo Hazuki's quest to avenge his father's death still incomplete.

Though franchise creator Yu Suzuki was upfront about the fact that he had plans for Shenmue IV and Shenmue V, fans still had the reasonable expectation that, given how much effort it took to will a third game into existence, it would bring some sort of open-ended closure to Ryo's story.

Instead, Shenmue III rewarded patient fans by leaving them hanging yet again. Players briefly fight the killer of Ryo's father, Lan Di, right at the end of the game, after which the villain escapes and a closing title insists, "The story goes on..."

Considering the mixed response to the sequel and the likelihood that a fourth game won't muster the same nostalgia-fuelled interest, it was a bold gamble to put fans back in the same agonising holding pattern they were in 20 years ago.

After waiting so long, fans deserved better than a mediocre game which had the gall to effectively beg them to crowdfund the next game to see how the story ends.