10 Video Games Where It's Impossible To Have A Happy Ending

10. Limbo

Boy saves girl is a tale as old as time. Sure, it's been modernised and role-reversed, but the basic tenet is still there. Protagonist A saves Objective B, happily ever ending resolved.

When this doesn't happen, and fates are left ambiguous, we often refer to these states as "being in limbo". The fates undecided, the players unsure as to what happens next.

So kudos to Playdead, then, for hitting that nail of the head with their 2010 debut, Limbo. Delivering a haunting platformer with its minimal looks and eerie sound design, it creeped many players out with its tone. And the disgustingly massive spider, too.

It's not that Limbo has a bad ending, it's just that it doesn't have a seemingly good one, either. For all intents and purposes, our hero finds his sister in purgatory, but as he does, the screen fades to black, leaving us... well, in limbo, obviously.

It's this ambiguity, the lack of resolution and the crushing realisation that this might be it, that means there's no happy ending, and the pair are doomed to stay like this forever.