8 MORE Video Games Where The True Ending Is The Bad Ending

8. Blood Omen: Legacy Of Kain

Whilst the Soul Reaver games are arguably the jewel in the Legacy of Kain crown, they only happen depending on certain events in the first title.

Blood Omen introduces the dark fantasy world of Nosgoth and stars Kain, a recently awakened vampire who intends to enact revenge for his murder and winds up part of a bigger plot over the balance of the land. At the end of the game, players are given a simple choice: either choose the side of heroics and sacrifice themselves to save the world or raze it and rule over the ashes.

If the player chooses to be a goody two shoes then vampires are vanquished from the realm. However, if they choose the canonical ending then they turn Nosgoth into a wasteland and become a megalomaniac.

Even aside from the tradition of saving the world in video games you’d naturally assume that sending Kain off into the afterlife after fulfilling his unfinished business might be the right thing to do but that’s not the case. In choosing selfishness, Kain becomes the antagonist for the next game in the series Soul Reaver and the ravaged Nosgoth becomes the setting for the whole franchise.

The future of Legacy of Kain literally only exists if you not only let evil win but become it.