The Bad Ending Game

The walking dead: Lee dies telling Brenda to put the gun down bitch.

The walking dead season 2: clementine drowns in a frozen lake

This war of mine: Arica gets fucked by a soldier in the supermarket while saving a girl from getting raped

Democracy 3: the nuns assassinate me
 
The Talos Principal:
[insert player name here] fails to climb the tower over and over forever, and gives up.
the dam holding the last bastion of human knowledge collapses after 100 thousand years and all humanity is erased

Superhot: The plot never happens, the player character lives out his life normally. this is the good end
 
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Half-Life: You get a heart attack from the resonance cascade you caused at the beginning of the game out of fear.

Portal 2: You just never woke up from your slumber, and the game never happened.
 
Heroine's Quest: The eponymous heroine is rescued from the avalanche and finds something to eat. She then wanders out into the woods to see what's out there. A wolf attacks her, she slays it and takes its pelt. However she doesn't have the right sort of knife to cure it and refuses to drape it over herself in its current shaggy and matted state. She begins to feel a bit cold. In the evening, she's jumped by a troll near a glowing willow tree and runs back to town. But the intense cold and the sudden physical exertion is too much for her. She manages to evade the troll and clamber over the city walls but then collapses in a heap five feet from a place of warmth and safety and dies needlessly of frostbite. The Big Bad manages to kick-start Ragnarok. The gods are defeated. Heat death of the universe ensues.

Elite Dangerous: Having traded, smuggled, and bounty-hunted his way to a nice shiny new Imperial Courier, and having had its normal-space thrusters given a warranty-voiding modification, Commander [insert name here] decides to test out its much-vaunted speed and ultra-lightweight carbon nanotube construction by attempting to boost out of the space station on full throttle. He lifts off and accelerates to 620 m/s in the blink of an eye then realises that his trajectory is all out of goose. He collides with the aperture to the docking bay and explodes ignominiously. The rest of the galaxy completely fails to care in any way whatever other than his mates, who secretly guffaw at his foolishness.

Nethack: Ser Wankpuffin the knight sidesteps to his left, failing to notice a pit immediately there. The pit is lined with razor sharp spikes, which are poisoned, and the poison is instantly lethal. He does not want his possessions identified.

Mass Effect: Commander Shepard, having failed to pass his Mako driving test, decides it'd be fun to treat the clifftop road on Noveria as a rally course. He slides off the edge to his doom. The Reapers devour all life in the galaxy.

King's Quest V: Graham eats a pie. For reasons that are too complicated to explain here, this means he cannot defeat the big bad many frustrating hours later.
 
These are meant to be bad endings, but my view is that at large, it's a good ending for someone else. Just not the actual protagonist(s).

Undertale:
Frisk gets caught by Toriel and becomes her (and the other monsters') sex toy. Frisk is fucked brutally... but enjoys it so much regardless that he/she ultimately forgets that he/she wanted to go home and is never ever, EVER heard from again.

Megaman Battle Network (Pick any game for those that care enough, this should work for ANY of THEM.):
Lan Hikari (the main protagonist of said game) gets into a fist fight with one the game's human antagonists. He gets (ganged up on and) beat to DEATH because he can't fight all that good. Wily stands unopposed as Megaman.EXE was the only one who could truly foil his plans (Eugene Chaud and Protoman.EXE (the rivals to Lan and Megaman) just don't compare as well, sadly.)). Que Wily taking over the world with an army of actual robots, as well as controlling all technology through the internet. Everyone lives miserably ever after but all agreed that leaving the fate of the world in the hands of two kids who fight with each for pride - ridden, dumbass reasons and their card - battle game computer toy nonsense was never considered a good idea to fucking begin with (now was it!) and grow to accept not relying on technology for everything.

Front Mission (Again, pick any game you want, as this scenario could happen in any of these):
A cooperative government-type group of aliens with better technology and military weapon than either side invade and fuck up everything... and then proceed to rebuild the war - torn world into a utopia. Any and all surviving humans who cooperate with these invaders are allowed to become citizens of this utopia. All they have to do is put on Type B - Devices that turn them into hermaphodites to help grow the fledging alien population(s) now dominating the world.

GAME OVER


Yeah, these games I'm describing are old as fuck (Save for Undertale) and I don't care.
 
Earthbound: BuzzBuzz fails to protect Ness at the beginning of the game and the whole party is killed. Paula remains a victim of the Happy Happy cult and is brainwashed. Jeff never leaves his boarding school, and spends the rest of his life wondering where his father disappeared to. Poo is forced to complete his training early, and is forced to try and take on Giygas's forces alone and is defeated, and w/ the power vacuum created by the Royal family's disappearance Dalaam is thrown into chaos. Giygas continues to grow in power, enveloping the universe in a darkness, and without Porky to turn off the Devil's Machine he remains in complete control.
 
Mermaid Swamp:

Secrets Ending: Yuka and Yuuta live, but Yuka is still terminally ill and Yuuta has no idea what's going on. Seitaro dies by your hand. Rin (the protagonist) succumbs to despair and plunges herself below the murk, drowning herself. Yuuta wakes up in time to get shot.

Forever Deep Ending: Yuka and Yuuta die. Seitaro lives but he and Rin can't find a way out. They are condemned to die slowly, forgotten on the estate grounds. They ponder suicide.

Yaobikuni Ending: Yuka dies. Yuuta is dead. Seitaro is dead by your hand. Rin investigates and finds the truth about the "Mermaids," and is locked in the dungeon. She goes insane over the next week and to survive, does something unspeakable. She is released, her sanity shattered, cackling with glee as she flees into the woods.

These are all actual endings.
 
Witcher 2: During a flashback Geralt forgets how to change his sword and gets killed by drowned men, he realizes that the dungeon he is in is actually purgatory
 
In STALKER, the Marked One is saved by Savior and sees his mission is to hunt down Strelok. Over the course, he could find out he is Strelok. Instead of doing that, his life prematurely ends when he accidentally walks into the anomalies near the area he starts in, ironically finishing his mission to kill Strelok.
 
Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest: Your battle with Fuga and the Wind Tribe proves that the Avatar (you) are unworthy of your sword, Yato. Fuga claims Yato for himself from your cold, dead hands and continues your mission to stop the Hoshido and Nohr conflict. Even with the sword's help, the fact that he only has a single tribe helping him, he may fall.
 
Warcraft III: Frozen Throne: Arthas slips to his death upon attempting to climb up the said throne in the end.

Silent Hill: Harry gives up finding his daughter out of fear and psychological trauma inflicted by the town.

Castlevania: Simon gets rabies from a bat that bit him.
 
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Dragon Age 2: unable to see the whole map the protagonist puts itself in a situation where he's stabbed in the back and left bleeding to death, spared from running around the same four maps 200 times for dumb fetch quests
 
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Red Dead Redemption: Instead of John Marston being rescued by Bonnie after being shot, he bleeds out and dies
 
Metal Gear (NES): The truck Snake is hitching a ride on crashes violently.

Suikoden II: Instead of ending up on a side of a river and getting saved by a couple of guys the main character is carried down the stream completely, and dies by either drowning or hitting some rock somewhere at a rapid speed. That, or he was killed in the midst of the raid during the beginning. Or he falls into his former best-friend's trap but no one saved him.

Final Fantasy VIII: Squall was killed off for real at the end of the first disc instead of waking up unscathed in a prison.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted: Some of the blacklists hired a hitman to assassinate you. Just to prevent you from stripping them of their reputation. The hitman succeeds.
 
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Shadow of Mordor:
Despite years of training, the ranger forgets how to swing his sword and is unceremoniously killed by an orc grunt. The grunt is promoted as a reward.

Alien Islolation:
Ripley is shot and killed by looters not long after leaving the station space flight terminal area, the alien continues to fuck the station up and everyone dies, happy end.

Roma Surrectum II (rtw mod):
The two kings of Sparta, after unifying Hellas in under five years, were feeling brave and decided to lead the troops into battle against Macedonia in northern Greece. Before they could engage in battle two large, flaming tar covered rocks fell from the sky and killed them both. It turns out Spartan training didn't account for stone throwing ballistas. The heirs to Sparta abdicated in embarrassment and the Spartan kingdom collapsed shortly afterwards.
 
Silent Hill 4: Henry spends a while fiddling around in his apartment, gets bored and then spends eternity standing in one place

Silent Hill Origins: Travis puts on a fursuit and runs around in a book store, gets bored and then spends eternity standing in one place
 
Final Fantasy VII: not being an actual super soldier, cloud dies in the mako reactor as others flee only to get arrested by Shinra. They are put on trial and put to feat as terrorists, then sephiroth destroys the whole world. Still no way to revive aeris after that
 
Total War Warhammer: Balthasar Gelt, as befits himself in the lore, explodes himself trying to cast a basic armor strengthening spell during the initial battle against some cucks trying to secceede from Reikland, and the world is doomed to fall to the Chaos Invasion because this causes Karl Franz to never get his Empire sorted out. Balthasar Gelt's ghost blames people for not trusting Balthasar Gelt enough.

All hail the Supreme Patriarch Balthasar Gelt.
 
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PW:AA TT - The poisoned small bottle that Phoenix stupidly swallows at the beginning is still potent and it kills him in the courtroom. The series never happens and is probably heading towards a much more darker future.
 
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