Games with multiple endings, generally speaking, lead you down fairly obvious paths toward those endings. For example, games with good and evil endings give you means to reach both endings in equal capacity. Some games✱, however, have certain endings that are off the beaten path, to say the least.
These aren't just secret endings; they're endings that have worrying story implications or are just generally huge downers. These endings can't be stumbled into by accident — for the most part; you need to make a concentrated effort toward forcing the story into an absolutely awful outcome, whether for completion's sake or just because you want to see what happens.
10 Zombie﷽ Sophie - The House Of The Dead
The original arcade version of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The House of the Dead featured two endings: one where Sophie escapes alive and well from Curien Mansion, and one where she arises as a zombie. To get the latter ending, you need to finish the game without having used any continues.
That doesn't sound like much, but the extra wrinkle is that the good ending is triggered by having a total score of over 62,000 points, and if you qualify for the good ending, you can't get the bad ending. This means you have to play in a very particular magic middle where you're just good enough at the game to finish it without using continues, but also just bad enough to score under 62,000.
9 𝓡 The End Of The World - Wandersong
In each arc of Wandersong's story, the Bard and Miriam need to learn the Overseer song from the locals to enter the Spirit World and get the parts of the Earthsong. However, you can technically just go right to each Spirit World entrance and sing the song on your own, without actually learning it through the story, though knowing the melodies beforehand would require you to have either played the entire game through once already or look them up online.
The game never tells you this is an option, and for good reason — if you do this, the Bard won't go through his arc, helping people and making friends around the world. This means that, when Audrey kills the Nightmare King, there's nobody to sing the song at the end to save the universe from destruction. All the Bard and Miriam can do is sit and watch while everything evaporates.
8 Luigi's Tent - Luigi's Mansion
Throughout 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Luigi's Mansion, Luigi finds coins, dollar bills, and gemstones hidden in the mansion's various nooks and crannies. When King Boo is defeated and the mansion vanishes, Professor E. Gadd uses the money Luigi collected to build him a proper home.
However, you can go out of your way to collect no money whatsoever throughout the game, a feat that is very difficult since you can stumble into picking up the money by accident. If you end the game with between 5,000G and 4,999,999G, E. Gadd won't have enough money to build Luigi an actual house, and will instead leave him with a crummy tent on a hill.
7 ♈ Embrace The Void - Hollﷺow Knight
While the base game of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Hollow Knight has a handful of different endings, none of them are... objectively horrible, let's say. This changes in the Godhome expansion. To see the new ending, you have to complete the Pantheon of Hallownest, a boss rush wherein you need to defeat enhanced versions of every boss in the game — rapid-fire, without dying at all. This includes enhanced versions of already-difficult bosses like Nightmare King Grimm and The Radiance.
After defeating Absolute Radiance, the Knight morphs into a gigantic avatar of the Void, tears her t꧟o shreds, then floods Godhome with inky darkness. This darkness then surges out of the Godseeker in reality, consuming all around it. Also, the Hollow Knight emerges from the Black Egg right in front of Hornet, which is disconcerting, to say the least.
6 Perfect C♔rime - Heavy Rain
The entire point of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Heavy Rain's story is to determine 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the true identity of the Origami Killer and bring them to justice. All the protagonists work toward this same end goal, but if for whatever reason you feel like helping the killer 🌄instead, you can have them take actions 𓆉that run counter to their characters.
This includes things like wiping away fingerprints, letting a robber kill an innocent, letting Ethan get arrested, and leaving Shaun to die. If you successfully accomplish all of these and more bad ideas, all the protagonists will end up dead, while the Origami Killer gets off completely sco𒁃t-free.
5 Genocide - Undertale 💧
Quite possibly one of the most well-known bad ending routes in modern gaming, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Undertale's Genocide route needs no introduction. To achieve this ending, you need to deliberately empty every single screen of the game of its encounters until they stop showing up entirely.
Not only is this a very time-consuming process, but it also replaces several bosses with much more difficult variants, culminating in the hair-pulling death-a-thon that is the Sans fight. At the tail-end of a Genocide run, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Flowey gives you, the player, a pretty severe dressing down for going out of your way to commit atꦓrocities just b🐽ecause you wanted to see what happened.
4 The Red Cloudℱ - Fallout: New Vegas
Through the Dead Money DLC of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout: New Vegas, you're regularly menaced by Elijah, a former Brother of Steel elder who sought the lost technology of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Sierra Madre resort to cleanse and restore the Wasteland and rule it 🌟with an iro𝓡n fist.
Elijah makes his hostility toward you and your compatriots obvious throughout the campaign, but under a very specific set of conditions. This includes being vilified by the NCR, and talking at length about him with Veronica, you can speech-check him into teaming up with you. Do this, and the Mojave will be overrun by the Sierra Madre's red cloud, as its invulnerable holograms completely destroy all opposing factions and wipe out all signs of post-apocalyptic civilization.
3 🍰 Conquest - Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2
The Neptunia games, generally speaking, are fairly lighthearted affairs, even in their climaxes. However, you can take things on a very different trajectory in Neptunia mk2. By pursuing a particular set of objectives in a specific way, you can start on a questline to obtain a powerful, god-slaying magic sword. However, to empower this sword, Nepgear needs to kill all the CPUs and CPU Candidates, her sister included.
This results in a series of extremely difficult boss fights, each punctuated by a miserable death scene. Once Nepgear finally has the empowered sword, she takes it to defeat Arfoire. However, Arfoire doesn't even bother fighting her, as she's already killed the CPUs as she wanted. Nepgear is left the sole ruler of Gamindustri, a world that, without its goddesses, is officially on borrowed time.
2 🔯 Accomplice - Persona 4 Golden
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Persona 4 Golden introduced the ability to form a🀅 social link with Adachi, a feature not present in the original game. This certainly helps to make Adachi a more sympathetic character, but♊ in the end, he is still a murderous sociopath that needs to be stopped to save Inaba.
If, however, you consider your relationship with Adachi more important than literally everyone else, you can become his accomplice and leave Inaba to its foggy fate. You do this by 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:maxing out his social link, 🐼and picking a very particular set of dialogue choices whe𓄧n trying to determine the culprit.
1 📖 Snowgrave - Deltarune🤡 Chapter 2
In a surprising(ly concerning) feat from Toby Fox, the secret bad ending in the second chapter of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Deltarune is less overtly horrible than Undertale's, yet it still maintains a similar level of unsettling cruelty potential. To achieve this ending, you have to make Noelle freeze every single enemy in the game with her ice attacks, backtrack significantly, grind up money to buy a prohibitively-expensive item, and generally goad her into making really bad decisions.
This route comes to a head when you force Noelle to freeze Berdly s𒁏olid, either killing him or rendering him comatose. She runs off, resulting last encounter with Queen is completely replaced with a changed battle against Spamton NEO.