10 Bleak Video Game Endings You Can't Escape From
1. V Is A Goner No Matter What - Cyberpunk 2077
The world of Cyberpunk 2077 is a dystopian nightmare, but at least the characters you meet along V's journey to Night City's legend status may fill you with hope for a better future.
Too bad that no matter what you do, there's no way your character will stick around long enough to witness it...
Although Cyberpunk features more than five endings, including variations within specific paths, none of them end with V surviving the Soulkiller virus infecting their brain.
Your only choices are to accept your fate and die, die fighting, or let Johnny take over your body.
Even the Arasaka ending, which promises to keep you alive, kills your character in some way, as they require you to enter their special program for preserving people's digital engrams, which is basically the corporate equivalent of giving away your soul to the devil.
In the best-case scenario survival-wise, your character has six months to live tops or gets transported to a virtual fishbowl, and in the least depressing endings, you can at least spend your last days surrounded by your loved ones.
If you hope V gets a happily ever after, Cyberpunk is simply not interested in this kind of storytelling.