10 Horror Video Games With Shocking Twist Endings
2. Silent Hill 2 - James Killed His Own Wife
The Silent Hill franchise is certainly amongst some of the most well-known names in the horror game genre. Its second instalment first came out in 2001, following our player-character James Sunderland’s adventure to Silent Hill when he receives a letter from his dead wife (Mary) asking him to meet her there.
On his search for Mary, he encounters other traumatised people around the town and a small variety of hideous monsters. Eventually James finds a tape that shows him euthanising his wife, and the letter he supposedly received from her becomes a blank piece of paper.
He realises at this point that all the monsters he is seeing are products of his own mind, punishing him for killing his wife. Furthermore Maria, the doppelganger of Mary, must be slain again and again to make him relive the painful experience of seeing his wife die. James is the bad guy in his own story, and his trip to Silent Hill is a pilgrimage of repentance.