10 Video Games Where Evil Won

Superhot proved a smash hit upon release in 2016. Beginning life in 2013’s 7 Day FPS Challenge, positive reception led to a full release and a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2014. Featuring a minimalistic art style, time only moved as you move and this unique premise led to critical acclaim.

Its plot worked in a metanarrative manner, seeing you play a fictional version of yourself in front of an MS-DOS. Receiving a friend’s message recommending a new game called superhot.exe, it becomes quickly apparent that your actions are being monitored by a presence known only as “the system”.

Receiving increasing warnings from the system to stop playing and finding yourself booted out several times, it engineers you to walk into your own house and knock yourself unconscious.

This apparently wasn’t enough and you continue playing, causing the system to not only relent but actively encourage your progress instead.

After breaking into a laboratory housing the system’s core, you assimilate with it but not before receiving one last instruction. Arriving back in your apartment, you become forced to shoot yourself, finishing this assimilation.

Upon watching the credits, you’ll become instructed to recommend superhot.exe to friends, sending out the same message you received at the beginning. It’s a bleak affair but considering you defied the system’s many warnings, it’s a fate you brought upon yourself.