20 Video Game NPCs You CAN'T Afford To Lose

Until Dawn is a story-based horror game, where your choices matter a lot. Every single character in the game can die, and you obviously don’t want to lose any of them, but what the game doesn’t tell you is that some of the lives under your protection are more important than others.

Because if you deliberately lose them, like Ashley, you’ll trigger a domino effect of death.

Ashley is the timid part of the survivor group that is the secret crush of the group’s comic relief, Chris. Early in the game, Ashley and Chris are put inside a Saw-inspired trap where Chris is forced to shoot either himself or Ashley to appease their mysterious captor.

The plot twist is that the entire decision is fake, and the killer who makes Chris choose is actually his friend Josh pulling a mean and quite frankly insane prank on the couple.

Now, you’d think this is a good thing since nobody dies. However, if you decided to let go of Ashley during this scene, you lose the girl’s trust forever, and later in the game, when Chris is escaping from a Wendigo, Ashley will not open the door to safety for him, letting him get devoured.

Your selfish decision to lose one person ends up killing the one you cared about to begin with.