8 Characters You Didn't Realise Secretly Died In Their Own Video Games

As far as arcade side-scrollers go, there aren’t many out there that reeled this writer in as effortlessly as Limbo, an addictively dark piece of art that seems simplistic but unravels a more complex storyline.

Death is an integral part of Limbo, given that it’s named after the term used to refer to Purgatory: the space between heaven and hell where lost souls wander.

The most common conclusion of the game suggests The Nameless Boy begins in a forest, “The Edge of Hell,” but is working his way to prove his place in heaven.

Or hell. Some people might prefer hell.

It’s only when we reach our sister at the end that we seem to move on, but perhaps not in the way many think.

One theory posits that it’s in fact our sister who has died (possibly both siblings, for that matter) and it was The Nameless Boy who was responsible. Our journey through wilderness, cities, past spiders and seas, is all supposed to be a representation of our fears and guilt, forced to relive our great shame over and over.

Limbo can make you feel many things, but this is definitely the saddest outcome to contemplate.