10 Video Game Plot Twists That Totally BROKE You
2. Bugsnax Are Parasites - Bugsnax
Even before cutesy, colourful adventure game Bugsnax was released, some theorised that it actually had some decidedly darker subject matter percolating underneath the surface, and that sure turned out to be correct alright.
You don't merely spend the entire game collecting adorable insect-like critters which just so happen to resemble food - at the end once you track down missing explorer Lizbert Megafig and discover that she's now a monstrous creature made of various Bugsnax, the horrifying truth is revealed.
It turns out that the Bugsnax are actually parasites who turn anyone that regularly eats them into Bugsnax themselves.
The climax sees the player fighting to rescue Snaktooth Island's residents from the attacking Bugsnax, in what's nothing if not a complete tonal 180 from everything the game was doing up to that point.
It's certainly an effective twist, albeit one which belies just how aggressively child-friendly Bugsnax was until the very end.
And in case you haven't finished it yet, MAJOR SPOILERS will follow for Act 1 of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33...