8 Secret Video Game Endings You Didn’t Know Exist
3. The Dog Ending - Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2 delighted survival-horror fans with its multiple outcomes and the debate over which one is definitive still rages to this day. Not many of them tend to argue that the Dog Ending is the pick of the bunch, though.
This conclusion takes a bit of legwork to unlock and your reward for doing it is a dramatic tonal shift. One of the scariest games ever made quickly descents into a canine-controlled farce.
The doggie treat is only accessible for players who've completed the game at least twice. After that, the Dog Key appears in a doghouse located in an open yard near Jacks Inn. This is used to unlock Observation Room on 3F of the Nightmare Lakeview Hotel, where a surprise awaits.
This is where players find out that a dog named Mira was in control of the entire story. Protagonist James falls to his knees in despair at this revelation, and most players likely did exactly the same.