10 Video Game Endings Where Nothing You Did Matters
7. The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
It's the 2020s and we're apparently still doing the "everyone else wasn't real!" twist in horror media.
Until Dawn spin-off The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope sees players take control of four college students and their professor after their bus crashes in the titular ghost town, but any suspense or intrigue the game musters over its brief play-time is immediately wiped out by that ending.
Little Hope's big twist is that one of the four students, Andrew (Will Poulter), is actually Anthony, the bus driver. Anthony hallucinated the entire story after inadvertently detouring into Little Hope - the very town where, as a youngster, he survived a traumatic house fire which killed the rest of his family.
It's one of those "Really?" endings which completely undermines any sense of player agency or control, because if most of the characters we're playing as aren't even real, why should we care if they live or die?