10 Video Games With Little Hope For Humanity
1. Soma
Frictional Games' Soma is a brilliantly atmospheric survival horror game set on an underwater remote research facility, PATHOS-II, in the year 2104.
Protagonist Simon Jarrett, a man from 2015, wakes up on PATHOS-II and comes to learn that humanity was wiped out by a comet.
His initial task appears to be to escape the facility, but Simon then discovers he is actually a digital brain scan of the real Simon, which has been uploaded into the modified body of a PATHOS-II crew member.
Ultimately Simon's true objective is to secure the ARK, a digital black box containing a simulated world and all the brain scans of the PATHOS-II's crew, and send it off into space.
Simon completes his mission, but the ending is still a hugely depressing one: the last digital remnants of humanity are hurtling through the cold vacuum of space, and though a copy of Simon's consciousness is onboard, the Simon we've been playing as is left trapped and alone in the facility with no means of escape.
The idea that the immensity of human existence could end up boiled down to a black box flying through space is enough to have you waking up in a cold sweat.
Like everything else, on a long enough timeline humanity is destined to perish - but hopefully a long, long time from now.