10 Worst Possible Alternative Video Game Endings

There is an option in the first Danganronpa game to pursue a rather unexpected timeline so bad that even your player character stops you and forces you to rethink your decisions.

During one of the class trials, it becomes exceedingly obvious that the mastermind behind the students’ kidnapping has interfered with the murder, therefore making the investigation impossible to solve. As such, it begins to emerge that Kyoko, the calm and intelligent detective, looks to be the most likely suspect, but it is clear to us that she is being framed.

Should we decide to trust her, and not call her out on her testimony being a lie, our player character ends up taking the fall, and is sent to the executioner’s block in her stead. You would think this would be the bad ending. Nope: accusing Kyoko to save our own skin ends up much, much worse!

Choosing to go against our instincts and loudly announce Kyoko’s lie to the rest of the class will result in her execution, and with her, all hope that the students ever have of escaping the prison of Hope’s Peak Academy.

Completely devoid of enthusiasm after her death, no one attempts another escape, and they simply give up trying. Forever trapped inside the school, the students all resort to having children with the last remaining sane female and no doubt are headed towards a future full of horrific interbreeding or extinction by abstinence.

Doesn’t sound great, does it? Makoto doesn’t think so either.