10 Video Games Where The Bad Ending Is Canon

10. Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain

The first entry into the beloved Legacy of Kain franchise, Blood Omen, ends by offering players a choice - sacrifice yourself to ensure the vampires are rendered extinct and the land of Nosgoth is saved, or selfishly embrace your vampiric curse, leave Nosgoth a decrepit hellscape, and bask in your own all-powerfulness.

It couldn't be any clearer which ending is good and which is bad, and yet, sequel Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver opted to unexpectedly take the hellscape ending as canon, picking up with Kain having expanded his tyrannical influence after refusing to lay down his life.

The big rub, however, is that we don't play as Kain this time around. We instead control his lieutenant Raziel, who Kain kills at the start of game, before Raziel is resurrected by The Elder God and sets off on a roaring rampage of revenge.

Making the protagonist of the first game the antagonist of the sequel is certainly a fun hook, and it's pulled off quite brilliantly here.