10 Video Games Where Everyone Can Die

3. Until Dawn

Until Dawn
Supermassive

It's honestly shocking to me that Telltale-style games had been around for almost a decade before someone finally decided to say "hey this would make for a sick as hell slasher game!"

Until Dawn centers on a group of friends being trapped up in the mountains with a pack of angry and VERY hungry Wendigos. It's up to the player to decide how many, if indeed, any of our helpless victims make it out alive.

Until Dawn is very much not kidding with this aspect, ANYONE can die in this story, and there are multiple death flags for each character that the player needs to watch out for. There are no do-overs if a character dies, you just gotta keep moving and hope you save the next one that's in danger.

This merciless attitude towards the peril its characters are in makes the game all the more harrowing to play, and every screw up feels all the more painful because of it.

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John Tibbetts is a novelist in theory, a Whatculture contributor in practice, and a nerd all around who loves talking about movies, TV, anime, and video games more than he loves breathing. Which might be a problem in the long term, but eh, who can think that far ahead?