10 Video Games Where You Were The Bad Guy All Along

To call this sequel to the PlayStation first-party classic divisive is likely the understatement of the century. 

Recently, there was a whole repeat of events thanks to the second season of the TV show, which followed the first half of this game. The warm critical reception of the first season plummeted with critics, ratings, and snarky YouTubers. It all felt a little déjà vu.

Yet… if this game worked for you, it was truly an experience like no other.

Taking the beloved (yet terminally flawed) protagonist, Joel, from the first game and having him brutally killed in the opening moments was never going to go down well. But putting his surrogate daughter, Ellie, in the driver’s seat for a brutal, bloodthirsty revenge mission to avenge him wasn’t subversive - it was kind of expected. So far, so typical.

Then, midway through, the game dares to flip the entire concept on its head - making gamers play as the killer, Abby. Turns out she had her reasons to kill Joel, and several colleagues that Ellie has already put to waste at this point were less deserving of their fates than expected.

Whether it worked for the player personally or not, there’s no denying it takes the revenge story and flips it inside out, forcing the gamer onto the other side of the narrative and leaving them conflicted at best, infuriated at worst. It had the audacity to present the scenario not as black and white, but smothered in grey.