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

4. Joel's Turn - The Last of Us

The relationship that grows between Joel and Ellie is one of the best to ever be depicted on screen, let alone be committed to code. There is just such a natural progression from two humans just trying to make it out of situations alive to the father-daughter bond they eventually grow.

It is one of the reasons the first game is so special.

In the closing hours of the game, it is the choice that the player doesn’t get to make which makes this title so memorable. On finding out that Ellie won’t survive the procedure to synthesise a cure for the fungal outbreak Joel loses it.

Returning to his Hunter roots, Joel kills the one doctor that could make the cure, Marlene and destabilising the FireFlies for years to come, all to save his surrogate daughter. In a twist that still divides players to this day, you can’t help but think how Joel possibly damned humanity even if he did it in the name of love.