7 Video Game Villains You Didn't Realise Actually Won

1. The Institution - Inside

You'd be forgiven for thinking that Inside didn't have a story at all, never mind obvious heroes and villains. The abstract indie is purposefully vague when it comes to its narratives and themes, relying on iconography and inference to piece together its dystopian world.

That said, its climax has all the hallmarks of a happy ending. After merging with a creature to form an amalgamation of bodies, you transform from the hunted into the hunter, causing untold destruction and firmly sticking it to the scientists working to literally dehumanise the people of this oppressive world. The title ends with you not only freeing this blob of husks from their confines, but bursting out of the walled city in general, rolling into a spot of hopeful light on the coast.

That's all well and good, but there's a major hint tucked away that this is exactly what the scientists had planned for you to do in the first place. Tucked away in the facility is the model of a constructed seaside setting - which just happens to perfectly mimic the final shot of the whole game. It indicates that you weren't on a path of revolution at all, but simply confirming a scientific hypothesis had expected to happen.