10 Cruel Tricks Video Games Played On Open World Players

6. Killing Off Your Ride-Or-Die - Cyberpunk 2077

One of the nastiest things an open world video game can do to you is help you bond with a charismatic, kind, or delightful companion only to unceremoniously kill them off. Final Fantasy and Cyberpunk 2077 and both culprits of this particular entry as they both use excellent writing to endear you to a character that you’d assume you’d never be saying goodbye to only to flip the switch on you in the cruellest of ways.

Spoilers for Cyberpunk in this next bit so if for some reason you don’t want those, come meet us over at the next entry.

This one was especially puzzling as the character in question, Jackie Welles, featured in all of the marketing material for the game and seemed like your ride or die bestie... only to be killed off relatively early in the game.

This has ongoing implications for V who spends a lot of the game processing Jackie’s death as he continues to come up in her journey.