10 Horror Video Games With Shocking Twist Endings

This particular twist is a good one because it’s something quite different. There’s no double-agent enemy reveal, no revolutionary dream sequence- Tecmo really thought outside the box for this one.

Not directly related to the first Fatal Frame game, Crimson Butterfly follows twins Mio and Mayu as they find themselves in trouble with a dead town and a failed ritual. They learned that the town was swallowed by an abyss when they failed to complete a ritual, in which the younger of a pair of twins born in the town must be sacrificed to sate it.

The implied fate of the girls throughout is that Mio, the younger of the twins, is destined to die and complete the ritual. However, nearing the end of the game it is revealed that in the town the idea of an ‘older and younger’ twin is reversed: the ‘younger’ twin is thought to be the one who is born first, as the ‘older’ twin allows them to do so because they are weaker.

This reverses their destinies, so that Mayu is now the ‘younger’ twin and the one destined to die. There are multiple endings to the game but the ‘true’ ending is confirmed in the next game as being the one where the twins complete the ritual and, with their new-found knowledge, Mio kills her twin and fulfils the ritual.