10 Video Game Fates Worse Than Death (Commenter's Edition)
6. Pulled Into The Huddle - Inside
Playdead's gorgeous puzzle-platformer Inside ends with an unforgettable sequence where the boy protagonist makes his way through the various laboratories to discover The Huddle - a gigantic, fleshy blob creature comprised primarily of other human bodies.
The boy is soon enough pulled into the Huddle himself, allowing the player to perform a brief rampage as the Huddle while escaping the lab's containment.
It goes without saying that being absorbed into a fleshy mass is one of the most existentially terrifying things imaginable, made only worse by the game's ambiguous ending, where the Huddle escapes to the coast and just...stops moving.
Whatever truly happened to the boy, it was clearly a whole lot worse than drowning, getting ripped apart by dogs, or suffering one of the many other deaths throughout the game.