20 Video Games That Secretly Reward You For Failure

In Princess Maker 2, your goal is to raise a child sent by the heavens to become the best person she can be and prove to the gods that humanity is worth saving.

As the title might suggest, the divines prefer your heavenly daughter to get into the royal business, and raising her up to be a princess is how you get the best possible score in the game.

The process is incredibly tedious and requires you to do very specific things perfectly while expertly balancing your child’s weekly schedule. It takes very little to mess things up, but with this said, if you did make a mistake, there is actually a small reward for those who got really close to perfection.

The rarest “bad” ending in the game is the Princess of Darkness ending, in which your daughter marries the Demon King and conquers the world.

To get the ending, you basically have to achieve the same high requirements for the Princess Ending but then neglect your daughter's morality by letting her kill enemies on missions and work in an immoral profession.

Though the ending doesn’t give you a lot of score points, the ending does differ from other bad endings in that your daughter doesn't become a failure but a powerful villain.

It feels rewarding to see your daughter put her education to use. Even if it’s not technically “good” use.