10 Disturbing Video Game Plot Twists You Didn't See Coming

6. Role Reversal - Braid

It really does feel like the side scroller is the genesis of all video games, the Primordial Soup of which they all crawled out from. So when Jonathan Blow unleashed Braid upon the world, at first glance we all expected it to be another entry in that genre with some cool mechanics, but by completion, it was clear there was much more to it than that.

A widely known twist by this point, but still one of the darkest in video games to date. Braid takes one of, if not the most overplayed tropes in most media and flips it on its head. The damsel in distress something we all just accept as a plot point for Mario because those games are excellent, but Blow takes this to a darker place.

In the final act of Braid, it is revealed that the player wasn’t saving the damsel, but in fact, they were chasing her down. Shedding an entirely different light on all past event and many years later the twist still hits today.