10 Gaming Endings That Get Worse The More You Think About It

Jonathan Blow's ingenious puzzle-platformer Braid concludes with the jaw-dropping revelation that, in fact, you're hardly a chivalrous adventurer risking life and limb to rescue your beloved damsel-in-distress from a horrible monster.

Instead, protagonist Tim is revealed to be the very monster the princess is fleeing, while the knight she appeared to be running from is really her saviour.

This plot twist is unveiled in mesmerising fashion in the game's final moments courtesy of its time-manipulating mechanics, where time is "reversed" - though actually played forwards - to reveal that Tim wasn't quite the hero we all thought him to be, but actually chasing the princess down.

Though Braid ultimately keeps narrative specifics to a vague minimum, that really only allows its stunner of an ending to leave a deeper impression with players.

It's a reveal that, beyond this single moment, causes players to rethink the entirety of the game and their time spent playing this character who, unbeknownst to them, was actually a secret douchebag all along.