10 Horror Video Game Offers You MUST Refuse

6. Prey - Choosing Violence

Prey game
Arkane Studios

Throughout Prey you may not realise at the time how important each little decision to make is. If you don’t know what it’s all adding up to, you may think little of your choice to go with the typical action-man style of play, slaughtering every Typhon you meet with no remorse.

You might think it’s a wonderful thing to be offered all these upgrades to do amazing things, with the only catch being that you have to take on more and more alien DNA.

Only when you get to the end, however, do you realise that the offer of shooting the place up and becoming an inhumanly buff, advanced killing machine was in fact definitely not an offer you should’ve taken.

Each neuromod you accept and each kill you carry out is weighed against you as it is revealed in the end that this has all been a simulation designed to see if you, a Typhon (I know, shocker right?) are capable of empathy and making humane choices. If you’ve exploited the world for all the shoot-em-up fun it's worth then you’re destined for the bad ending, in which you fail the empathy test and are destroyed.

At this point though if you’ve managed to be deemed ethical enough to live you are made an offer you’d have to be a psycho to refuse: to go and save mankind by bringing peace between humanity and the Typhon. There is literally no downside to this offer and you have to be a special kind of person to reject it and kill the very man who proposed it to you.

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