7 Video Games Where Every Ending Is The BAD Ending

7. XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Ahhh XCOM, a heart attack delivered with a side of RNG !*$%. My type of meal.

I have feasted upon this ripe and succulent buffet of pain for years now and even though the series has continued to fart in my open mouth with the likes of Chimera and XCOM Legends I still will proclaim my love for the prior tight-as-hell squad-based experiences.

That being said XCOM 2 really started on a bit of a bleak note, didn't it? And by this I mean you are told you lost the war with the aliens and the entire world has been taken over and enslaved by this extraterrestrial menace.

It's honestly a great starting point gameplay-wise because it means that you're on the back foot from the off, but it does paint the events of the original game in a new light, as here in XCOM: Enemy Unknown, no matter whether you saved the Earth from destruction or just bought us more time from the alien threat, the sequel states that canonically you done failed my friend and now we're all dealing with E.T jamming that extra-long finger right into humanities eyes.

Long story short, XCOM is the type of franchise to punish you for winning a game by telling you "Actually no you didn't"