10 Most Intense Moral Choices In Video Game History

7. Murder The Sasquatch? (Red Dead Redemption)

In Red Dead Redemption’s Undead Nightmare DLC you’re tasked with the mission to hunt down and kill every Sasquatch lurking in the mountainous regions of the game’s map.

At first it seems like a regular Red Dead mission; hunt down the wild animal that’s been murdering and stealing babies from near-by villages, return home to collect your reward and job's a good one.

That is, until you’ve whittled the game’s population down to a single remaining Big Foot. Unlike the other times you've hunted animals in the game, this final monster actually speaks to you, and drops a bombshell that completely recontextualises the entire mission.

See, the townsfolk who set you out on the task, and even John Marston himself, completely misunderstood the Sasquatch diet; they don’t eat babies, only berries and fruits that grow naturally in the woods. The species never posed a harm to anyone, and yet you’ve rode around for the past few hours trying your best to aid their extinction.

It’s here the lone Sasquatch gives you the final decision: put him out of his misery or let him live to roam the reminder of his days in solitary as the last of his kind. Whatever you choose, it in no way scrubs away the guilt that lingers after finishing this oddly poignant quest.