10 Video Game Endings That Were Saved By Fans

And finally, dating sim/visual novel Dream Daddy came out in 2017 and was widely lauded for its stereotype-devoid LGBT+ representation.

While a visual novel probably isn't the first type of game you'd expect dataminers to dig deep into, within days of the game's release, they found heaps of unused sprites which indicated an additional ending had been scrapped during development.

This absolutely wild ending would've revealed that one of the datable daddies, a youth minister called Joseph, was actually the head of a demonic cult all along - one which ends up imprisoning the player underground.

Though the ending isn't accessible through conventional gameplay, because the hidden sprites were largely finished in the game's files, modders were able to rebuild the deleted ending with the visual novel engine Ren'py and allow all curious players to witness it for themselves.

While it's easy to see why an ending which painted a queer religious man as a cult leader might've seemed at odds with a game that otherwise flies the flag for positive LGBT rep, on the other hand it's entirely possible this was merely a nonsense joke ending they never intended to include in the game at all.

Either way, thanks to the industrious efforts of Dream Daddy's mod community, this fascinatingly unhinged ending was rescued from the digital ether.