9 Toughest Video Game Moral Choices (And What You Picked)

4. Heads Or Tails - Wasteland 3

If you’re the kind of gamer who hates a lose/lose video game scenario, you’re going to have a tough time with the Heads or Tails mission in Wasteland 3.

While moseying about the overworld map of Colorado a bad dude gives your radio a ring to tell you he is holding a civilian homestead at gunpoint. No big problem, you’ll think to yourself. You’ll just head right on over and sort it out. On your way there, however, you get another person radioing in. Once you’re done being impressed over how popular you are today you’ll find yourself in a sticky situation as this second call is to inform you a Arapaho caravan carrying power armour is in trouble and you need to get over there and defend it, stat.

It’s not uncommon in an RPG to have more than one side quest or errand that requires your attention at any given time but in this instance you can only give your attention to one option.

Head over to save the homestead like the hero I know you are and the power armour is lost and taken by the mutants you are supposed to be fighting. Go secure the power armour and you’ll end up sacrificing the homestead resulting in a bloody end for the family and children inside.

According to truesteamachievements.com, this particular moral quandary was especially tight. Of the 77% of tracked gamers who completed the encounter, 38% of players reported they chose to save the family while 39% abandoned the family in order to retrieve the power armour.