10 Horror Video Game Fates Worse Than Death
5. Solarix - Inevitable Death In The Great Expanse
It is nothing new in space-based horror to have someone’s fate be a hopeless traversal of space, with no potential for survival and no means by which to survive. This doesn’t make it any less horrific though.
After going through all the trauma of being the sole survivor of a human colony ravaged by a zombifying virus, protagonist Walter also becomes a target of a group of mercenaries on something of a cleanup mission.
Even after doing everything in his power to try to amend the situation, it is still not enough. Walter finds that not enough of the serum supposed to cure the infection was created to ever be viable, and with everyone apart from himself dead he is hurled into space as the evil alien machine that caused all these problems detonates the planet.
No one is around to pick him up, no one is alive that knows how to help him and he is without a ship or any supplies, simply floating in space.
It’s a pretty grim fate, dying knowing that you essentially accomplished nothing, especially when this death comes in the form of a prolonged, lonely float through the cosmos.