10 Worst Video Game Choices You Regretted The Entire Playthrough

Video games allow you to make your own choices, even if it means making the wrong ones.

The silver lining in making bad decisions is that the consequences don't last too long. The quest may end terribly, but at least you're able to move on and try to do better next time.

However, sometimes the consequences of your poor choices can stick with you for the rest of the game!

Some titles don't treat bad choices lightly. A single wrong move can have a lasting effect on your entire playthrough, as the game will constantly remind you of your failure and make your life harder for it.

The guilt of losing a friendly NPC will keep creeping in every time people blame you for it, the disease you were infected with will never disappear after you lose the cure.

There are many different ways in which you can make mistakes. However, the following choices are the worst possible mistakes you can make, as they will haunt you for the rest of your playthrough. If you come across these decisions, be sure to take a long time picking the right option.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II tries to deliver the most realistic depiction of medieval Bohemia a video game can achieve, and this naturally has to include the Dark Ages' punishment system.

Since in the good old days, hanging people for minor offences was considered perfectly fine, the game features similarly harsh punishments. And while killing off the protagonist for every little misdeed is obviously a big no-no, the game does feature death penalties for serious crimes, as well as some really bad permanent consequences.

If Henry gets caught murdering someone and doesn't end up getting killed himself, the guards will come up with the second-best option for giving him his just comeuppance—branding.

On the day of his punishment, a cutscene will play showing Henry getting painfully branded with a hot iron, and once his murderer mark is in place, he gets a permanent penalty to his relationship with NPCs, making it impossible to trade with pretty much every merchant in the game.

The brand will make you wish you were dead, so try not to kill anyone. Or at least, choose to do it quietly.