10 Video Games Where You Were Doomed From The Start

10. Firewatch

The doom you have in Firewatch is very different to the type you have in many other games - largely because it doesn't involve your character slowly dying throughout the course of the game.

But it's no less painful in spite of not involving your death. Because - for anyone who hasn't played the game - the introduction to the game revolves around your character, Henry, and his love interest and eventual wife Julia. Their relationship is sweet, and appears to be going great until Julia starts to suffer from a disease that effects her memory, which complicates both the pair's dynamic and Henry's ability to cope.

After he gets a DUI and Julia is either taken home by her parents or sent to a nursing home, Henry goes off to be a Firewatcher - to try and clear his head and to try and escape his current situation.

So, not only does the end of Firewatch reveal that the big mystery was actually just a sad story of child death, but we also head back to exactly the same situation we left at the start of the plot - possibly further complicated if you fell for Delilah on the way.

While some dialogue implies that Henry is going to visit his wife when he goes back and try to sort things, even this isn't exactly a happy ending: just better than the other possibilities.