10 Worst Possible Alternative Video Game Endings

Considering the immense amount of satisfaction that comes from uncovering the absolute best endings in video games, there has to be the same appreciation for the ones that are just so inexplicably bad they require just as much time and effort to uncover.

Sometimes the games just don’t seem to want to let you screw up their perfect little worlds, and they’ll to do everything they can to prevent you from earning your coveted disastrous ending. But for those of us who are determined enough, there lie dozens of hilarious, tragically awful, immoral, and downright dumb possible conclusions for us to gleefully unlock. Some will require more effort than others, but all will leave you feeling like a delightfully terrible human being.

Better still, if you managed to get any of these endings completely by accident, then you are truly a God among disasterpieces, and perhaps you scare me, and we shouldn’t be friends.

There are a few obvious entries omitted - killing your entire crew in Mass Effect 2, butchering all the Little Sisters in Bioshock, massacring absolutely everything and everyone in Undertale - pretty much any well-known ending that involves gleeful slaughter. For this list, we will be looking at some of the more cruel, confusing, and sometimes silly examples of what gaming can offer us, not necessarily involving copious amounts of murder.

Most of the time, it's actually the complete opposite!

Dark Souls 3 has several possible endings. You can choose to usurp the fire entirely, embrace the hollowing curse, or marry and then promptly murder your wife and take your place as the Hollow Lord. Although this all sounds pretty grim, it isn’t actually the worst possible ending you can reap in Dark Souls 3.

That involves a betrayal far more unexpected, and spontaneous.

All throughout the game, Firelink Shrine’s Firekeeper has been your light in the darkness. She is blind, but if you collect the Eyes of a Fire Keeper and gift her them, she fearfully explains that this means setting off on a path of betrayal together, to create a world without flame. She makes completely sure that this is what you want, before the two of you meet once more at the kiln of the first flame, after defeating the final boss.

Obediently, the Firekeeper begins to take the first flame, fulfilling your wishes for a world without fire. As the fire is fading and darkness creeps in, you can kill her!

She’ll collapse, still clutching the precious flame. Unceremoniously, the chosen undead will stamp on her head and steal the flame from her dying grasp.

The ending is reminiscent of one of Demon’s Souls’. It is unspeakably cruel, and by far the worst way you could choose for your adventure’s conclusion.