10 Horror Video Game Fates Worse Than Death

There’s really no good position to be in in this game, whether you’re our terrified protagonist Linn or one of the many sad spirits trapped in various states throughout the forest.

After a car-accident leaves Linn and her brother Lukas stranded in the woods, the two quickly realise the forest is filled with terrifying creatures from Scandanavian folklore, from a hollow-backed female spectre to huge, towering trolls.

One of the monstrous forms occupying the woods takes ‘being one with nature’ to a whole new level: trees bearing miserable human features and voices.

Assumedly each of these tree-people were long ago bitten by the Skogsrå, the naked woman (who isn’t really a woman but rather a horrible monster) who bit Linn’s arm. Slowly and painfully, this bite causes your body to become consumed by roots, cementing you to the spot while you complete your transformation.

These tree-spirits are evidently conscious and lucid enough to count as alive, as when you have to set fire to one in order to fit through a narrow passage, it begs you not to. It makes it all the worse that this particular tree is shaped like a mother holding a baby, complete with the infant’s wails as you douse it in gasoline and spark it up.

Completing the game you find that the evil Näcken is keeping Linn in a loop, with the implication being that everything resets whenever she reaches the end. As if it’s not bad enough to be trapped as a tree, being periodically burned to death with your infant in your arms is really the icing on the bad-day cake.