10 Seriously Dark Video Game Endings

7: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - The Bad Ending

The Witcher games are famous for some truly heavy questlines, many of which don’t ever have a ‘good’ outcome. And some where you think you’ve made the right choice only to find out some devastating consequences unfolded as a result of your choices. I’m looking at you Bloody Baron.

This narrative approach is also super present in the end of the main game, if you get the bad ending.

In this series of events, Geralt finds himself at the end of his tumultuous journey alone, having tried to romance Yennefer and Triss and, you know, chicks don’t love that. If he doesn’t have enough faith in Ciri, she either never becomes a Witcher and leaves him to become Empress, or she straight up dies, unable to return from the other world because she’s become too reliant on you. Which is obviously worse.

At the very end monsters close in around Geralt looking gravely defeated in a house and it’s highly suggested that he doesn’t make it. It’s also a pretty heartbreaking reflection of the person Geralt has become through his bitterness and expectation that he will die alone.

And I’m sure getting that ending after the dozens or hundreds of hours you poured into this epic made you decide to take a break from video games for a while.