10 Video Games That Punish You For Showing Mercy
6. Save The Fake Rachni Queen, Get Betrayed - Mass Effect 3
In the first Mass Effect, players are given the choice of either killing or freeing the insectoid Rachni Queen.
Whether you let her live or kill her, the morality of your actions are left relatively ambiguous, given the lack of a guarantee that this Rachni Queen will avoid following in her forebears' destructive footsteps.
If you do kill the Queen, however, in Mass Effect 3 the Reapers will have created a genetically engineered version known as a Breeder.
Once again, the player is given a choice, to spare or kill the Queen, which in this instance has had its mind warped by its own artificial creation.
Yet after the anguish of the first game's decision, many players no doubt decided to grant mercy to this variation, no matter its unnatural origins.
But if you do grant the Breeder a stay of execution, she'll eventually prove more trouble than she's worth, turning on Shepard and causing catastrophic losses to the ongoing war effort.
You'll receive 100 points of damage to the Alliance Engineering Corps and Aralakh Company will be destroyed, resulting in a total loss of 200 war assets. Conversely, if you leave the Breeder to die, Aralakh Company will join your side.