10 Seriously Dark Video Game Endings

6. Limbo

Playdead’s Limbo was Inside before Inside was Inside. Well, there’s no giant amorphous meat blob but otherwise the hallmarks are all there. You play as a little shadow boy in a puzzle side scroller where everything is already pretty bloody dreary.

You awake in a forest and a spider tries to kill you after which you take off trying to find your missing sister. While seeking her any humans you encounter are either running for their lives or also trying to kill you.

When you reach the end of the monochrome hellscape, you’re thrown through a pane of glass and land back in the forest where you find your sister and then the screen cuts to black.

There is no narration in the game and the events are up for your interpretation but a leading theory is that given the main screen after you’ve finished the game shows the very same final area with flies buzzing around the two locations of the characters in this scene, this is where the boy and his sister both died.

Perhaps they fell from the treehouse and died, perhaps the boy is stuck repeating this series of events forever. Whichever theory you like, few of them look good for our hero.