10 Video Games That Made You Work Out The Answer Yourself
8. Red Dead Redemption
The Question: Who is the "Strange Man"?
In the first Red Dead Redemption, the stranger side mission "I Know You" introduces players to the Strange Man, a suited-up, top hat-wearing individual who speaks largely in esoteric riddles and asks John Marston to complete two tasks intended to test his morality.
John will then meet the Strange Man once more, at which point the man will refer to a nearby patch of land as "a fine spot," which just so happens to be the very place where John and his wife Abigail will be buried. Even when John shoots his guns at the man in frustration, he is unharmed.
The Strange Man also reappears in Red Dead Redemption 2, with a painting of him hanging in an abandoned shack north of Saint Denis. Better yet, enter the shack and peer into the mirror as John during the game's epilogue and you'll see the Strange Man behind you.
Following the first game's release, fan speculation ran rampant on the man's identity, many suggesting he might be the Grim Reaper, God, the Devil, or perhaps even the spectral figure of a bystander killed during one of John's many crimes.
The sequel clearly leaned into this, though at the same time refused to commit to any single interpretation of who indeed the Strange Man might be. Whether supernatural or flesh and blood, he remains an elusive and fascinating enigma.