There's hardly a game out there that does not deal with concepts of death or tragedy. Sometimes video game deaths range from the comical as seen in The Sims franchise, to the downright heartbreaking deaths of Telltale's The Walking Dead. Usually, once a character kicks the bucket, that's the end of it. Yes, there may be a short cameo or two in an upcoming sequel, but it's rarely a given. You can't really play as someone who is dead... or can you?
A jaunt in the afterlife makes for a memorable journey in and of itself, and some exceptional g🅠ames truly up the ante when it comes to our ideas of life after death. From unknowingly slipping into the Underworld to solving murder cases as a ghost,💦 gear up for an experience that takes you beyond the lands of the living.
Warning: Some of these gam🥀es reveal the death twist late in the narrative so expect spoilers ahead
8 🍰 Dark Souls ෴
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In all three installments of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dark Souls series, you play as the cursed undead or The Ashen One, with the sole purpose of linking the Flame to continue the declining Age of Fire.
Undoubtedly one of the greatest game franchises ever created, Dark Souls displays the desperation of a dying world holding onto the halcyon days of a past long gone. Journeying through one of the most complex and wonderfu💮lly fleshed-out ꦜpieces of lore, you battle the series' 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:famously difficult bosses only to reach the end and discover that you have 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:other options rather than just continuing a futile cycle. In a world of pain and death, maybe it's up to you, an undead corpse, to herald a new Age.
7 🐼 Murdered: Soul Suspect
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Square Enix's Murdered: Soul Suspect might seem like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a classic whodunnit game, but its first cutscene already sets the tone for the rest of your gameplay. During his investigation of a series of murders done by the infamous 'Bell Killer', Ronan was pushed out of a window by the culprit and is now relegated to solving his own murder - and many others - as a ghost.
Murdered: Soul Suspect is set in the gloomy town of Salem known for its bloody past as a den of barbaric witch trials and the resulting unjustified killings. In this spooktastic adventure, Ronan must navigate his new (after) life and find The Bell Killer in order to move on. But a shocking, yet absolutely tragic twist is in store for Ronan as he inches ever closer t☂o apprehending the murderer.
6 Valheim
This gritty, yet realistic open-world survival game sees you traverse this monster-ridden realm of Valheim as a fallen Viking. Valheim's world is rich with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Norse mythology, setting you off on an unforgettable adventure to prove your worth to Odin by 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:battling bestial creatures in order to gain admittance into the hallowed halls of Valhalla.
But of course, it's a long journey to eliminate all the evils in Valheim. In the meantime, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:growing your own food and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:building your own shelter is still very much a necessity if you want to survive long enough to see Valhalla itself. You can even 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:build your own ship to travel to other biomes on the map, as well as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:battle fearsome sea serpents along the way. Valheim really emphasises that there's no such thing as eternal rest in the Nordic afterlife!
5 🌳 Grim Fandango
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This underrated 1998 adventure game is the perfect blend of humour, mystery and the gritty noir genre. Inspired by the Mexican 'Day Of The Dead' and Aztec folklore, Grim Fandango takes you on a journey through the Land of the Dead as your resident ferryman-for-the-dead or so-called 'travel agent' Manuel Calavera.
Calavera is dead himself but works as a ferryman in order to clear off a debt and move on to the afterlife. The game takes a refreshing outlook on how the Land of the Dead technically works as a capitalist government, where the richer and 'holier' you are granted you a fast track to the afterlife from four years to four minutes. Does this mean you have to die the Pope to reach the Land of Eternal Rest?
4 The Forgotten City ও
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Originally a popular Skyrim mod, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Forgotten City is a game set in an 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ancient Roman city where citizens are in the iron grip of the tyrannical Golden Rule, which turns everyone into gold should just one person commit a sin. In the offset, the game does not outright tell you that you're dead. Instead, there are tons of glaring clues littered about the game that hints that you're actually in the Underworld, which is the eventual big twist revealed in 'The Common Thread' quest.
But knowing that you're in the Underworld merely changes the objective into finding out a way how to escape the place. With 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:four drastically different endings you can obtai🍬n, The Forgotten City shows that death does not necessarily mean invincibility or an end to all your problems. In fact, all of your problems follow you in𒁏to the afterlife.
3 The Dark Pictures Antholog☂y: Little Hope
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168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Supermassive Games' second iteration of their 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dark Pictures Anthology sees you take on a virtual horror-fest in the form of five characters lost in the abandoned town of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Little Hope. Seen mainly through the eyes of our protagonist Andrew, the game starts with a horrible house fire that kills his entire family, which becomes a glaring clue to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the twist at the end.
Fast-forward into the 21st-century and the specter of a little girl seems to be haunting them everywhere they go. As they emerge from the nightmarish town, it is revealed that everyone except Andrew was actually dead, and it was all merely a figment of Andrew's traumatised mind.
2 SOMA
Frictional Games' survival horror game SOMA brings about both an adrenaline rush and an existential crisis. The game puts you in the shoes of Simon Jarrett, whose involvement in a deadly car accident causes him to volunteer in a brain scan experiment. Simon awakens nearly a century later, discovering Earth's demise... but there are far worse problems.
Like an episode of Black Mirror, Simon finds that his consciousness had been installed into someone else's body. This makes you wonder if Simon is still the same Simon he was before the experiment, or if his old self is dead. The entirety of SOMA 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:triggers a philosophical argument that willꦛ have you reeling and introspecting for hours.
1 🦄 U𝐆nforgiving: A Northern Hymn
An indie horror survival game steeped in Swedish folklore and Norse mythology, the story of Unforgiving: A Northern Hymn is truly a tragic tale. It begins with the protagonist Linn, who finds herself with her hands tied in the back of her brother's car. She kicks him in the back of the head, and they end up in a car crash.
Leaving the car behind, Linn finds herself in a hellish realm filled with nightmarish creatures and a nude, cackling man playing the violin wherever she goes. Although it is never said outright, there are clues peppered throughout that hint that Linn's actually dead and in Purgatory. Now she is stuck inℱ an endless time loop of suffering, surrounded by the things that defined her alcoholic and drug-rid🌠den life.
