10 Most Important Video Game Deaths This Decade

1. The Boy/The Huddle (Inside)

When you first look at the mass of limbs and skin called 'The Huddle', you probably don't think it'll be a being conjuring up any emotion within you other than disgust. However, by the end of your playtime with Playdead's brilliant cinematic platformer Inside, this hunking mass will teach you a valuable lesson about freedom, the evils of mankind, and the desperate drive to survive. And it does this without ever saying a word.

The game takes a massive tonal shift as the unnamed protagonist boy who we've been playing as throughout the game gets absorbed into The Huddle. Now, the power has shifted in your favour and with this extra mass you destroy the facility and make a break for the outside. It empowers the player and despite the confusing images on screen, you feel determined to escape, yet this is a misdirection designed to make the ending all the more powerful.

Tumbling down the side of a hill, battered, bruised and broken, The Huddle finally comes to a rest outside of the facility in a single ray of sunlight. It has made it outside, but it has perished in the process. The emotional gut-punch of this is completely unexpected but one that really lives on with the player long past the credits. A fantastic delivery if ever there was one.