8 Video Game Plot Twists Revealed OUTSIDE The Main Story

ALWAYS listen to the audio logs.

by Josh Brown
Konami

We've covered plenty of instances of great foreshadowing and amazing plot twists in lists before, but sometimes it's not quite as simple as a major narrative reveal being either well executed or coming off as embarrassingly sloppy. Sometimes, video game developers include rug-pulls in their releases that most players don't even see.

Although a major piece of plot information being left out of the main story would kill a book or TV show, games can get away with it because the scope of their narratives - and especially the delivery of them - are so radically different. In some titles the story is delivered through cutscenes, in-game dialogue, audio-logs, text boxes and sometimes even tie-ins like comics and novels that players might never get around to investigating.

As a result, the complete view of a story might be completely lost on some, because the developers and writers decided to place major reveals in areas you'd never usually look.

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Josh has over 11 years of experience as a published writer, having worked nine of those years as a full-time content producer at WhatCulture. In that period he has created hundreds of articles, videos and podcast episodes for multiple WhatCulture channels, specialising in gaming, horror and film & TV. He now primarily works as a senior content producer and presenter on WhatCulture Gaming where he co-hosts the WhatCulture Gaming Podcast, a top 3 UK most listened to gaming podcast that he co-created in 2018. Over the years he has reviewed several high-profile gaming releases, covered industry events with on-site reporting, opined on breaking news, and even kicked off his interviewing career by chatting to childhood hero, Tommy Wiseau.