10 Hardest Moral Choices In Recent Video Games

Developer Quantic Dream's Detroit: Become Human is arguably the most conceptually successful of their line of narrative games built around player choice. Themes of AI vs. human conflict, robot servitude, free will, etc. aren't new, but Detroit treads them exceptionally well, casting the player in alternating roles as three different androids whose actions change the world around them.

One of these characters is Markus - reluctant leader of the movement for android independence. Trusted with this authority, you're frequently forced to make difficult decisions and sacrifices. One you'll repeatedly come up against is a choice between peaceful or violent forms of protest.

And the game does an excellent job of making choices difficult. If you decide early on to pursue pacifism, you're constantly tested. Do you kill a fleeing witness whose report to the authorities would likely get your friends killed?

Do you spare the police who shoot a peaceful android in a panic? As your people are gunned down one by one during your peace march, do you fight back?

Your people will be killed either way. But if you can't peacefully change hearts and minds, is it worth it? Or is it better to die fighting for change?