History CrapsackWorld / VideoGames

** Being a [[DistantSequel Distant]] {{Prequel}}, ''VideoGame/Drakengard3'' actually reveals that [[EldritchAbomination the Watchers]] have been trying to kill humanity for a ''while'' now. [[spoiler:[[BotanicalAbomination The Flower]] just happened to be their first attempt, which came to feast off the corpse of the deceased Rose, who resurrected her [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong to serve as a host and reproductor]] for [[MotherOfAThousandYoung the Grotesquerie Queen]], the FinalBoss of the first game]]. Upon attempting suicide as a result of learning this, [[spoiler:[[CloningBlues she was ultimately split into five "sisters"]] of [[MyHeroZero the renamed-from-Rose Zero]], who then became the ruling figures in the lands, being worshipped as goddesses within it. It's for that reason Zero sets off on a quest to both kill her clone "sisters" and works with her dragon partner Mikhail so she can effectively [[HeroicSuicide commit suicide to seal off the threat of the Flower from the world forever]], which she succeeds at doing in both the GoldenEnding (Ending D) and [[CuttingOffTheBranches Canon Ending]] (Ending E)]]. The fact that [[StatusQuoIsGod practically nothing has improved in the timeframe]] between those aforementioned endings and the first ''Drakengard'' should perhaps be a testament to [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed the sheer and utter hopelessness of the universe]].

** ''VideoGame/Persona5'':
*** Somehow managed to up the ante, at least as far as Persona games go. After all, [[SarcasmMode there's no better place to be]] than Tokyo, a city full of {{Ephebophile}} [[EvilTeacher Evil Teachers]], MadArtist [[ConMan Con Men]], {{Yakuza}} [[TheDon crime lords]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Corrupt Corporate Executives]], [[DirtyCop Dirty Cops]], [[spoiler:a CorruptPolitician who came ''dangerously'' close to becoming PresidentEvil, and a LawfulEvil GodOfEvil manipulating everything behind the scenes all to create a WorldOfSilence.]] Best part is, [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror the public is too scared or apathetic to do anything about it.]] Actually, what makes Tokyo such a great place in this world again?

** Being a [[DistantSequel Distant]] {{Prequel}}, ''VideoGame/Drakengard3'' actually reveals that [[EldritchAbomination the Watchers]] have been trying to kill humanity for a ''while'' now. [[spoiler:[[BotanicalAbomination The Flower]] just happened to be their first attempt, which came to feast off the corpse of the deceased Rose, who resurrected her [[spoiler:[[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong to serve as a host and reproductor]] for [[MotherOfAThousandYoung the Grotesquerie Queen]], the FinalBoss of the first game]]. Upon attempting suicide as a result of learning this, [[CloningBlues she was ultimately split into five "sisters"]] of [[MyHeroZero the renamed-from-Rose Zero]], who then became the ruling figures in the lands, being worshipped as goddesses within it. It's for that reason Zero sets off on a quest to both kill her clone "sisters" and works with her dragon partner Mikhail so she can effectively [[HeroicSuicide commit suicide to seal off the threat of the Flower from the world forever]], which she succeeds at doing in both the GoldenEnding (Ending D) and [[CuttingOffTheBranches Canon Ending]] (Ending E). The fact that [[StatusQuoIsGod practically nothing has improved in the timeframe]] between those aforementioned endings and the first ''Drakengard'' should perhaps be a testament to [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed the sheer and utter hopelessness of the universe]].

** Being a [[DistantSequel Distant]] {{Prequel}}, ''VideoGame/Drakengard3'' actually reveals that [[EldritchAbomination the Watchers]] have been trying to kill humanity for a ''while'' now. [[spoiler:[[BotanicalAbomination The Flower]] just happened to be their first attempt, which came to feast off the corpse of the deceased Rose, who resurrected her and upon attempting suicide, she ultimately split into five "sisters" of [[MyHeroZero the renamed-from-Rose Zero]], who then became the ruling figures in the lands, being worshipped as goddesses within it. It's for that reason Zero sets off to both kill them and works with her dragon partner Mikhail so she can effectively [[HeroicSuicide commit suicide]] and seal off the threat of the Flower from the world forever]]. The fact that practically nothing has improved from the best ending should perhaps be a testament to the hopelessness within the universe.
** And because of the aforementioned apocalypse of [[spoiler:the Grotesqueries spilling over into the real world]], it results in ''very bad things happening'' up to the onset of ''VideoGame/NieR''. As a result, seasons and even the daylight cycle have been utterly broken. Wildlife is disappearing, and contact between the few remaining human settlements is being eroded by the ever-increasing hordes of monsters known as Shades literally lurking in every shadow. The few humans that survived are slowly succumbing to a disease known as the [[TheCorruption Black Scrawl]]. Humanity as a whole is slowly facing extinction. The title's [[ChronicHeroSyndrome Chronic Hero]] is doing [[SideQuest whatever he can]] to brighten people's days, but even he can only offer bittersweet closure, not any actual good news. By ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'', Earth has become a global battleground for ''14 robot wars'', all [[BasedOnAGreatBigLie built on a lie]] that [[spoiler:humanity is still alive despite having been dead for millennia now]]. In spite of such, the apocalypse of ''Nier'' is most-definitely not immutably bad unlike ''Drakengard'', and the final ending of ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' actually ''does'' [[EarnYourHappyEnding have things improve by the end]].

** [[FromBadToWorse And it actually gets so much worse from there, too]]. Every ending past Ending A ([[spoiler:where our "heroes" [[BittersweetEnding actually succeed at saving the world, but at the cost]] of [[HeroicSacrifice Angelus, the player's dragon mount, sacrificing herself]] to serve as the next BarrierMaiden in the now-dead Furiae's stead]]) ends up being [[SerialEscalation a gradually escalating]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt world-ending apocalypse]] that [[DownerEnding usually happens entirely outside]] of [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed what the heroes are able to save]], from Ending B ([[spoiler:Furiae [[CameBackWrong coming back HORRIBLY wrong]] and getting cloned in the thousands as [[AngelicAbomination twisted, angelic-like horrors]] whose [[HellIsThatNoise hellish screams]] signal the end of the world]]), to Ending C ([[spoiler:dragonkind [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters deciding humanity is too long gone]] and ensuring a GuiltFreeExterminationWar with humanity on the ''receiving end'']]), Ending D ([[spoiler:the Watchers actually resurface as a combination of both all the seals being broken and as DivineRetribution for killing the BigBad who was possessed as their voice, leading them to appearing as [[AngelicAbomination giant, angelic baby statues of marble with teeth]] who then [[ToServeMan would've devoured the rest of humanity]]) before being barely stopped [[TimeStandsStill by literally freezing time around the area]]]]), to the [[GainaxEnding now-infamous]] Ending E ([[spoiler:practically the same ending, but not only with the apocalypse continuing unimpeded in the ''Drakengard'' world, but spilling over to ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou our world]]'' and culminating in the apocalypse that caused the events of ''VidoeGame/{{Nier}}'']]). Put simply, ''Drakengard'' is [[CosmicHorrorStory in a universe that's fundamentally-hostile to civilization and sanity]], and trying to improve things only often makes them so much ''WORSE.''

* ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'' is [[{{Understatement}} not a nice place to live in at all]]. Set in an alternate universe version of medieval Europe after [[TheMagicComesBack The Magic Came Back]] and [[AfterTheEnd the ensuing chaos]] reorganized it as Midgard, the world only manages to maintain some semblance of normalcy with the Seals keeping [[AngelicAbomination the Watchers]] from descending and destroying the world. And even ''with'' the Seals in place, it's still a horrible place to live in; what was once Europe has had its culture diluted into two superstates of the Union and Empire, [[ForeverWar which are at total war with each other and have been for a long time]], with countless innocent people suffering due to TheChainOfHarm, and the world often devolving into a methodical slaughter on both sides. As a demonstration of the world's [[InherentInTheSystem inherent problems]], the first game's "[[NominalHero heroes]]" consist of a a [[AxCrazy murder-happy]] [[TheSociopath psychopathic]] [[HeroicMime mute]], said mute's [[TheCynic cynical]], [[PunyEarthlings disdainful-of-humans]] dragon pact partner, LittleSisterHeroine BarrierMaiden who's both TheLoad and [[spoiler:[[BrotherSisterIncest with secret incestuous feelings for said mute]]]], said mute's [[TheLancer Lancer]] QuirkyBard who goes [[FaceHeelTurn bad in a big way]] due to his [[LoveMakesYouCrazy unrequited feelings for said sister]], a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]], [[TheOphelia insane]] [[TheFairFolk elf woman]], a PedophilePriest, an [[OlderThanTheyLook immortal child who's well in over his head]] and [[BreakTheCutie broken]] ''[[BreakTheCutie hard]]'', and a [[NonActionGuy bald old man with no ability to fight]] who despite ''also'' being [[TheLoad borderline-useless]] is your MissionControl. And for the record, the PedophilePriest is openly the most ''heroic'' of the bunch by virtue of being a virtuous pedophile who refuses to indulge his paraphilia, which should tell you the standards of this world's bar for heroism.

* ''VideoGame/NieR'' has magic infecting an unsuspecting world via the inverted GoldenEnding of ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}''. As a result, seasons and even the daylight cycle have been utterly broken. Wildlife is disappearing, and contact between the few remaining human settlements is being eroded by the ever-increasing hordes of monsters known as Shades literally lurking in every shadow. The few humans that survived are slowly succumbing to a disease known as the [[TheCorruption Black Scrawl]]. Humanity as a whole is slowly facing extinction. The title's [[ChronicHeroSyndrome Chronic Hero]] is doing [[SideQuest whatever he can]] to brighten people's days, but even he can only offer bittersweet closure, not any actual good news. By ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'', Earth has become a global battleground for 14 robot wars.

* The world of ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'' is [[{{Understatement}} not a nice place to live in at all]]. Set in an alternate universe version of medieval Europe after [[TheMagicComesBack The Magic Came Back]] and [[AfterTheEnd the ensuing chaos]] reorganized it as Midgard, the world only manages to maintain some semblance of normalcy with the Seals keeping [[AngelicAbomination the Watchers]] from descending and destroying the world. And even ''with'' the Seals in place, it's still a horrible place to live in; what was once Europe has had its culture diluted into two superstates of the Union and Empire, [[ForeverWar which are at total war with each other and have been for a long time]], with countless innocent people suffering due to TheChainOfHarm, and the world often devolving into a methodical slaughter on both sides. As a demonstration of the world's [[InherentInTheSystem inherent problems]], the first game's "[[NominalHero heroes]]" consist of a a [[AxCrazy murder-happy]] [[TheSociopath psychopathic]] [[HeroicMime mute]], said mute's [[TheCynic cynical]], [[PunyEarthlings disdainful-of-humans]] dragon pact partner, LittleSisterHeroine BarrierMaiden who's both TheLoad and [[spoiler:[[BrotherSisterIncest with secret incestuous feelings for said mute]]]], said mute's [[TheLancer Lancer]] QuirkyBard who goes [[FaceHeelTurn bad in a big way]] due to his [[LoveMakesYouCrazy unrequited feelings for said sister]], a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]], [[TheOphelia insane]] [[TheFairFolk elf woman]], a PedophilePriest, an [[OlderThanTheyLook immortal child who's well in over his head]] and [[BreakTheCutie broken]] ''[[BreakTheCutie hard]]'', and a [[NonActionGuy bald old man with no ability to fight]] who despite ''also'' being [[TheLoad borderline-useless]] is your MissionControl. And for the record, the PedophilePriest is openly the most ''heroic'' of the bunch by virtue of being a virtuous pedophile who refuses to indulge his paraphilia, which should tell you the standards of this world's bar for heroism.

* ''VideoGame/MondayNightCombat'' takes place in one of these, though you couldn't tell by looking at it. Underneath the cartoony art style hide Presidents for Life, food dispensed from tubes, a life expectancy of 28, and ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking churros]]''.

* Whilst ''Franchise/MassEffect's'' future is pretty similar to the present, there are some pretty awful places to live: Omega and Tuchanka being the obvious ones, and territory controlled by the Batarian Hegemony is presumably not especially nice.

* ''VideoGame/MineCraft''. Just about every humanoid thing is out to kill you along with every humanoid thing that isn't you that doesn't want to kill you. The only peaceful people live in constant fear of a zombie attack and the player themselves can never outright exterminate the plague of undead. This [[http://www.deviantart.com/art/Minecraft-262995153 picture]] particularly shows it.

** [[FromBadToWorse And it actually gets so much worse from there, too]]. Every ending past Ending A ([[spoiler:where our "heroes" [[BittersweetEnding actually succeed at saving the world, but at the cost]] of [[HeroicSacrifice Angelus, the player's dragon mount, sacrificing herself]] to serve as the next BarrierMaiden in the now-dead Furiae's stead]]) ends up being [[SerialEscalation a gradually escalating]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt world-ending apocalypse]] that [[DownerEnding usually happens entirely outside]] of [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed what the heroes are able to save]], from Ending B ([[spoiler:Furiae [[CameBackWrong coming back HORRIBLY wrong]] and getting cloned in the thousands as [[AngelicAbomination twisted, angelic-like horrors]] whose [[HellIsThatNoise hellish screams]] signal the end of the world]]]]), to Ending C ([[spoiler:dragonkind [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters deciding humanity is too long gone]] and ensuring a GuiltFreeExterminationWar with humanity on the ''receiving end'']]), Ending D ([[spoiler:the Watchers actually resurface as a combination of both all the seals being broken and as DivineRetribution for killing the BigBad who was possessed as their voice, leading them to appearing as [[AngelicAbomination giant, angelic baby statues of marble with teeth]] who then [[ToServeMan would've devoured the rest of humanity]]) before being barely stopped [[TimeStandsStill by literally freezing time around the area]]]]), to the [[GainaxEnding now-infamous]] Ending E ([[spoiler:practically the same ending, but not only with the apocalypse continuing unimpeded in the ''Drakengard'' world, but spilling over to ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou our world]]'' and culminating in the apocalypse that caused the events of ''VidoeGame/{{Nier}}'']]). Put simply, ''Drakengard'' is [[CosmicHorrorStory in a universe that's fundamentally-hostile to civilization and sanity]], and trying to improve things only often makes them so much ''WORSE.''

** [[FromBadToWorse And it actually gets so much worse from there, too]]. Every ending past Ending A ([[spoiler:where our "heroes" [[BittersweetEnding actually succeed at saving the world, but at the cost]] of [[HeroicSacrifice Angelus, the player's dragon mount, sacrificing herself]] to serve as the next BarrierMaiden in the now-dead Furiae's stead]]) ends up being [[SerialEscalation a gradually escalating] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt world-ending apocalypse]] that [[DownerEnding usually happens entirely outside]] of [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed what the heroes are able to save]], from Ending B ([[spoiler:Furiae [[CameBackWrong coming back HORRIBLY wrong]] and getting cloned in the thousands as [[AngelicAbomination twisted, angelic-like horrors]] whose [[HellIsThatNoise hellish screams]] signal the end of the world]]]]), to Ending C ([[spoiler:dragonkind [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters deciding humanity is too long gone]] and ensuring a GuiltFreeExterminationWar with humanity on the ''receiving end'']]), Ending D ([[spoiler:the Watchers actually resurface as a combination of both all the seals being broken and as DivineRetribution for killing the BigBad who was possessed as their voice, leading them to appearing as [[AngelicAbomination giant, angelic baby statues of marble with teeth]] who then [[ToServeMan would've devoured the rest of humanity]]) before being barely stopped [[TimeStandsStill by literally freezing time around the area]]]]), to the [[GainaxEnding now-infamous]] Ending E ([[spoiler:practically the same ending, but not only with the apocalypse continuing unimpeded in the ''Drakengard'' world, but spilling over to ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou our world]]'' and culminating in the apocalypse that caused the events of ''VidoeGame/{{Nier}}'']]). Put simply, ''Drakengard'' is [[CosmicHorrorStory in a universe that's fundamentally-hostile to civilization and sanity]], and trying to improve things only often makes them so much ''WORSE.''

* The world of ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'' is [[{{Understatement}} not a nice place to live in at all]]. Set in an alternate universe version of medieval Europe after [[TheMagicComesBack The Magic Came Back]] and [[AfterTheEnd the ensuing chaos]] reorganized it as Midgard, the world only manages to maintain some semblance of normalcy with the Seals keeping [[AngelicAbomination the Watchers]] from descending and destroying the world. And even ''with'' the Seals in place, it's still a horrible place to live in; what was once Europe has had its culture diluted into two superstates of the Union and Empire, [[ForeverWar which are at total war with each other and have been for a long time]], with countless innocent people suffering due to TheChainOfHarm, and the world often devolving into a methodical slaughter on both sides. As a demonstration of the world's [[InherentInTheSystem inherent problems]], the first game's "[[NominalHero heroes]]" consist of a a [[AxCrazy murder-happy]] [[TheSociopath psychopathic]] [[HeroicMime mute]], said mute's LittleSisterHeroine who's both TheLoad and [[spoiler:[[BrotherSisterIncest with secret incestuous feelings for said mute]]]], said mute's [[TheLancer Lancer]] QuirkyBard who goes [[FaceHeelTurn bad in a big way]] due to his [[LoveMakesYouCrazy unrequited feelings for said sister]], a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]], [[TheOphelia insane]] [[TheFairFolk elf woman]], a PedophilePriest, an [[OlderThanTheyLook immortal child who's well in over his head]] and [[BreakTheCutie broken]] ''[[BreakTheCutie hard]]'', and a [[NonActionGuy bald old man with no ability to fight]] who despite ''also'' being [[TheLoad borderline-useless]] is your MissionControl. And for the record, the PedophilePriest is openly the most ''heroic'' of the bunch by virtue of being a virtuous pedophile, which should tell you the standards of this world's bar for heroism. [[FromBadToWorse And it only gets so much worse]], eventually spilling over to [[spoiler:causing the apocalypse that happened in ''VidoeGame/{{Nier}}'']]...

* The world of ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'' is [[{{Understatement}} not a nice place to live in at all]]. Set in an alternate universe version of medieval Europe after [[TheMagicComesBack The Magic Came Back]] and [[AfterTheEnd the ensuing chaos]] reorganized it as Midgard, the world only manages to maintain some semblance of normalcy with the Seals keeping [[AngelicAbomination the Watchers]] from descending and destroying the world. And even ''with'' the Seals in place, it's still a horrible place to live in; what was once Europe has had its culture diluted into two superstates of the Union and Empire, [[ForeverWAr which are at total war with each other and have been for a long time]], with countless innocent people suffering due to TheChainOfHarm, and the world often devolving into a methodical slaughter on both sides. As a demonstration of the world's [[InherentInTheSystem inherent problems]], the first game's "[[NominalHero heroes]]" consist of a a [[AxCrazy murder-happy]] [[TheSociopath psychopathic]] [[HeroicMime mute]], said mute's LittleSisterHeroine who's both TheLoad and [[spoiler:[[BrotherSisterIncest with secret incestuous feelings for said mute]]]], said mute's [[TheLancer Lancer]] QuirkyBard who goes [[FaceHeelTurn bad in a big way]] due to his [[LoveMakesYouCrazy unrequited feelings for said sister]], a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]], [[TheOphelia insane]] [[TheFairFolk elf woman]], a PedophilePriest, an [[OlderThanTheyLook immortal child who's well in over his head]] and [[BreakTheCutie broken]] ''[[BreakTheCutie hard]]'', and a [[NonActionGuy bald old man with no ability to fight]] who despite ''also'' being [[TheLoad borderline-useless]] is your MissionControl. And for the record, the PedophilePriest is openly the most ''heroic'' of the bunch by virtue of being a virtuous pedophile, which should tell you the standards of this world's bar for heroism. [[FromBadToWorse And it only gets so much worse]], eventually spilling over to [[spoiler:causing the apocalypse that happened in ''VidoeGame/{{Nier}}'']]...

* The world of ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'' is [[{{Understatement}} not a nice place to live in at all]]. Set in an alternate universe version of medieval Europe after [[TheMagicComesBack The Magic Came Back]] renamed as Midgard, the world only manages to maintain a semblance of normalcy with the Seals keeping [[AngelicAbomination the Watchers]] from descending and destroying the world. And even with the Seals in place, it's still a horrible place to live; Europe has had its culture diluted into the Union and Empire which are at total war with each other, countless innocent people suffering due to TheChainOfHarm, and the world often devolving into a methodical slaughter on both sides. As a demonstration of the world's [[InherentInTheSystem inherent problems]], the first game's "[[NominalHero heroes]]" consist of a a [[AxCrazy murder-happy]] [[TheSociopath psychopathic]] [[HeroicMime mute]], said mute's LittleSisterHeroine who's both TheLoad and [[spoiler:[[BrotherSisterIncest with secret incestuous feelings for said mute]]]], said mute's [[TheLancer Lancer]] QuirkyBard who goes [[FaceHeelTurn bad in a big way]] due to his [[LoveMakesYouCrazy unrequited feelings for said sister]], a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]], [[TheOphelia insane]] [[TheFairFolk elf woman]], a PedophilePriest, an [[OlderThanTheyLook immortal child who's well in over his head]] and [[BreakTheCutie broken]] ''[[BreakTheCutie hard]]'', and a [[NonActionGuy bald old man with no ability to fight]] who despite ''also'' being [[TheLoad borderline-useless]] is your MissionControl. And for the record, the PedophilePriest is openly the most ''heroic'' of the bunch by virtue of being a virtuous pedophile, which should tell you the standards of this world's bar for heroism. [[FromBadToWorse And it only gets so much worse]], eventually spilling over to [[spoiler:causing the apocalypse that happened in ''VidoeGame/{{Nier}}'']]...

* The world of ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'' is [[{{Understatement}} not a nice place to live in at all]]. Set in an alternate universe version of medieval Europe after [[TheMagicComesBack The Magic Came Back]] renamed as Midgard, the world only manages to maintain a semblance of normalcy with the Seals keeping [[AngelicAbomination the Watchers]] from descending and destroying the world. And even with the Seals in place, it's still a horrible place to live; Europe has had its culture diluted into the Union and Empire which are at total war with each other, countless innocent people suffering due to TheChainOfHarm, and the world often devolving into a methodical slaughter on both sides. As a demonstration of the world's [[InherentInTheSystem inherent problems]], the first game's "[[NominalHero heroes]]" consist of a a [[AxCrazy murder-happy]] [[TheSociopath psychopathic]] [[HeroicMime mute]], said mute's LittleSisterHeroine who's both TheLoad and [[spoiler:[[BrotherSisterIncest secretly incestuous with said mute]]]], said mute's [[TheLancer Lancer]] QuirkyBard who goes [[FaceHeelTurn bad in a big way]] due to his [[LoveMakesYouCrazy unrequited feelings for said sister]], a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]], [[TheOphelia insane]] [[TheFairFolk elf woman]], a PedophilePriest, an [[OlderThanTheyLook immortal child who's well in over his head]] and [[BreakTheCutie broken]] ''[[BreakTheCutie hard]]'', and a [[NonActionGuy bald old man with no ability to fight]] and is borderline-useless who's your MissionControl. And for the record, the PedophilePriest is openly the most ''heroic'' of the bunch by virtue of being a virtuous pedophile, which should tell you the standards of this world's bar for heroism. [[FromBadToWorse And it only gets so much worse]], eventually spilling over to [[spoiler:causing the apocalypse that happened in ''VidoeGame/{{Nier}}'']]...

* The world of ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'' is [[{{Understatement}} not a nice place to live in at all]]. Set in an alternate universe version of medieval Europe after [[TheMagicComesBack The Magic Came Back]] renamed as Midgard, the world only manages to maintain a semblance of normalcy with the Seals keeping [[AngelicAbomination the Watchers]] from descending and destroying the world. And even with the Seals in place, it's still a horrible place to live; Europe has had its culture diluted into the Union and Empire which are at total war with each other, countless innocent people suffering due to TheChainOfHarm, and the world often devolving into a methodical slaughter on both sides. As a demonstration of the world's [[InherentInTheSystem inherent problems]], the first game's "[[NominalHero heroes]]" consist of a a [[AxCrazy murder-happy]] [[TheSociopath psychopathic]] [[HeroicMime mute]], said mute's LittleSisterHeroine who's both TheLoad and [[spoiler:[[BrotherSisterIncest secretly incestuous with said mute]]]], said mute's [[TheLancer Lancer]] QuirkyBard who goes [[FaceHeelTurn bad in a big way]] due to his [[LoveMakesYouCrazy unrequited feelings for said sister]], a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]], [[TheOphelia insane]] [[TheFairFolk elf woman]], a PedophilePriest, an [[OlderThanTheyLook immortal child who's well in over his head]] and [[BreakTheCutie broken]] ''[[BreakTheCutie hard]]'', and a [[NonActionGuy bald old man with no ability to fight]] and is borderline-useless who's your MissionControl. And for the record, the PedophilePriest is openly the most ''heroic'' of the bunch by virtue of being a virtuous pedophile, which should tell you the standards of this world's bar for heroism. [[FromBadToWorse And it only gets so much worse]], eventually spilling over to [[spoiler:causing the apocalypse that happened in ''VidoeGame/Nier'']]...

* The world of ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'' is [[{{Understatement not a nice place to live in at all}}]]. Set in an alternate universe version of medieval Europe after [[TheMagicComesBack The Magic Came Back]] renamed as Midgard, the world only manages to maintain a semblance of normalcy with the Seals keeping [[AngelicAbomination the Watchers]] from descending and destroying the world. And even with the Seals in place, it's still a horrible place to live; Europe has had its culture diluted into the Union and Empire which are at total war with each other, countless innocent people suffering due to TheChainOfHarm, and the world often devolving into a methodical slaughter on both sides. As a demonstration of the world's [[InherentInTheSystem inherent problems]], the first game's "[[NominalHero heroes]]" consist of a a [[AxCrazy murder-happy]] [[TheSociopath psychopathic]] [[HeroicMime mute]], said mute's LittleSisterHeroine who's both TheLoad and [[spoiler:[[BrotherSisterIncest secretly incestuous with said mute]]]], said mute's [[TheLancer Lancer]] QuirkyBard who goes [[FaceHeelTurn bad in a big way]] due to his [[LoveMakesYouCrazy unrequited feelings for said sister]], a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]], [[TheOphelia insane]] [[TheFairFolk elf woman]], a PedophilePriest, an [[OlderThanTheyLook immortal child who's well in over his head]] and [[BreakTheCutie broken]] ''[[BreakTheCutie hard]]'', and a [[NonActionGuy bald old man with no ability to fight]] and is borderline-useless who's your MissionControl. And for the record, the PedophilePriest is openly the most ''heroic'' of the bunch by virtue of being a virtuous pedophile, which should tell you the standards of this world's bar for heroism. [[FromBadToWorse And it only gets so much worse]], eventually spilling over to [[spoiler:causing the apocalypse that happened in ''VidoeGame/Nier'']]...

* ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'': When a party made up of a murder-happy psychopathic mute, a cannibalistic elf woman, a pedophile, and a religiously racist old man MissionControl are meant to be the ''good guys'', you know you're in a Crapsack World.

* ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'': When a party made up of a murder-happy psychopathic mute, a cannibalistic elf woman, a pedophile, and a religiously racist old man MissionControl are meant to be the ''good guys'', you know you're in a Crapsack World.

* Welcome to the SharedUniverse of ''Creator/ProjectMoon'''s games (''VideoGame/LobotomyCorporation'', ''VideoGame/LibraryOfRuina'', and ''VideoGame/LimbusCompany''), a {{Dystopia}} which is very frequently many people's vision of "[[HellOnEarth Hell]], Plus [[CityOfAdventure Urban Planning]]". Set in the far future [[AfterTheEnd where all energy sources on the planet have been exhausted]], humanity has retreated to an Australia-sized megapolis simply known as "The City," where twenty-six NGOSuperpower [[MegaCorp mega-corporations]] known as [[OneWorldOrder The Wings of the World]] end up [[OneNationUnderCopyright ruling the entire city with an iron fist]]. The ''best'' you can get to having a normal life is being born within the few sanctioned Nests, corporate sectors that host the upper and middle class, where you're expected to get a job to be able to pay for rent and live with the rest of the Nest, where your only options are working for one of the Wings, or applying as a [[HiredGuns Fixer]]. If you choose the former, [[SarcasmMode congratulations]]! You likely have signed up for a company that has a ridiculous DarkSecret that may very well shorten your lifespan by a factor of ten, like the titular Lobotomy Corporation (or L-Corp, for short) hosting a variety of [[GoMadFromTheRevelation madness-inducing]] EldritchAbomination [[OurMonstersAreWeird monstrosities]] to power the City and serve as a stop-gap for the energy crisis. To add insult to injury, every single one of the Wings aren't just [[EvilInc evil]], they're downright ''[[BlueAndOrangeMorality alien]]'' too with [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} decisions that would get any sensible economist to ragequit at how nonsensical and deadly they are]]. Your only other choice is to become a Fixer, where you'll likely die a very humiliating death fighting [[EverythingTryingToKillYou gangsters, other Fixers or whatever eldritch horror was unearthed recently]] unless you [[TookALevelInBadass take enough levels in badass to rank up]] -- and most don't make it that far, with even the top Fixers, [[WorldsBestWarrior Color Fixers]], all having the prospect of death be a when, not an if. And if you even ''think'' about protesting the way of life here, at ''best'' you'll be kicked to the [[WretchedHive Backstreets]] to likely die in a ditch somewhere, and at ''worst'' the the Head [[IntimidatingRevenueService will send one of its Arbiters to come knocking]], who are in such power of strength they make Color Fixers [[TheWorfEffect piss themselves]] and you will likely not be left alive to see it. Yes, even the ''best'' life to have in this world is "follow your lot in life, or else".

** In this kind of world, being a genuinely good-hearted and kind person [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids is just going to get you killed or worse sooner]], and the ones who ''are'' idealistic yet badass enough to survive are often insane in their own rights (like Don Quixote in ''Limbus Company'', who's a perpetual idealist and also ''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} completely nuts]])''. What truly sells how bad this world is that even discounting the supernatural horror and sci-fi technology for a second, this whole world is merely the offset of a dystopia as a result of the energy crisis destroying the world and giant corporations seizing the ruins to institute their own rules. If it wasn't for the obviously supernatural setting, the sheer level of horror in the setting would rival the likes of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' in how hopeless it all is.

* Welcome to the SharedUniverse of ''Creator/ProjectMoon'''s games (''VideoGame/LobotomyCorporation'', ''VideoGame/LibraryOfRuina'', and ''VideoGame/LimbusCompany''), a {{Dystopia}} which is very frequently many people's vision of "[[HellOnEarth Hell]], Plus [[CityOfAdventure Urban Planning]]". Set in the far future [[AfterTheEnd where all energy sources on the planet have been exhausted]], humanity has retreated to an Australia-sized megapolis simply known as "The City," where twenty-six NGOSuperpower [[MegaCorp mega-corporations]] known as [[OneWorldOrder The Wings of the World]] [[OneNationUnderCopyright rule the entire city with an iron fist]]. The ''best'' you can get to having a normal life is being born within the few sanctioned Nests, corporate sectors that host the upper and middle class, where you're expected to get a job to be able to pay for rent and live with the rest of the Nest, where your only options are working for one of the Wings, or applying as a [[HiredGuns Fixer]]. If you choose the former, [[SarcasmMode congratulations]]! You likely have signed up for a company that has a ridiculous DarkSecret that may very well shorten your lifespan by a factor of ten, like the titular Lobotomy Corporation (or L-Corp, for short) hosting a variety of [[GoMadFromTheRevelation madness-inducing]] EldritchAbomination [[OurMonstersAreWeird monstrosities]] to power the City and serve as a stop-gap for the energy crisis. To add insult to injury, every single one of the Wings aren't just [[EvilInc evil]], they're downright ''[[BlueAndOrangeMorality alien]]'' too with [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} decisions that would get any sensible economist to ragequit at how nonsensical and deadly they are]]. Your only other choice is to become a Fixer, where you'll likely die a very humiliating death fighting [[EverythingTryingToKillYou gangsters, other Fixers or whatever eldritch horror was unearthed recently]] unless you [[TookALevelInBadass take enough levels in badass to rank up]] -- and most don't make it that far, with even the top Fixers, Color Fixers, all having the prospect of death be a when, not an if. And if you even ''think'' about protesting the way of life here, at ''best'' you'll be kicked to the [[WretchedHive Backstreets]] to likely die in a ditch somewhere, and at ''worst'' the the Head [[IntimidatingRevenueService will send one of its Arbiters to come knocking]], who are in such power of strength they make [[WorldsBestWarrior Color Fixers]] [[TheWorfEffect piss themselves]] and you will likely not be left alive to see it. Yes, even the ''best'' life to have in this world is "follow your lot in life, or else".

* Welcome to the SharedUniverse of ''Creator/ProjectMoon'''s games (''VideoGame/LobotomyCorporation'', ''VideoGame/LibraryOfRuina'', and ''VideoGame/LimbusCompany''), a {{Dystopia}} which is very frequently many people's vision of "[[HellOnEarth Hell]], Plus [[CityOfAdventure Urban Planning]]". Set in the far future [[AfterTheEnd where all energy sources on the planet have been exhausted]], humanity has retreated to an Australia-sized megapolis simply known as "The City," where twenty-six NGOSuperpower [[MegaCorp mega-corporations]] known as [[OneWorldOrder The Wings of the World[[ [[OneNationUnderCopyright rule the entire city with an iron fist]]. The ''best'' you can get to having a normal life is being born within the few sanctioned Nests, corporate sectors that host the upper and middle class, where you're expected to get a job to be able to pay for rent and live with the rest of the Nest, where your only options are working for one of the Wings, or applying as a [[HiredGuns Fixer]]. If you choose the former, [[SarcasmMode congratulations]]! You likely have signed up for a company that has a ridiculous DarkSecret that may very well shorten your lifespan by a factor of ten, like the titular Lobotomy Corporation (or L-Corp, for short) hosting a variety of [[GoMadFromTheRevelation madness-inducing]] EldritchAbomination [[OurMonstersAreWeird monstrosities]] to power the City and serve as a stop-gap for the energy crisis. To add insult to injury, every single one of the Wings aren't just [[EvilInc evil]], they're downright ''[[BlueAndOrangeMorality alien]]'' too with [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} decisions that would get any sensible economist to ragequit at how nonsensical and deadly they are]]. Your only other choice is to become a Fixer, where you'll likely die a very humiliating death fighting [[EverythingTryingToKillYou gangsters, other Fixers or whatever eldritch horror was unearthed recently]] unless you [[TookALevelInBadass take enough levels in badass to rank up]] -- and most don't make it that far, with even the top Fixers, Color Fixers, all having the prospect of death be a when, not an if. And if you even ''think'' about protesting the way of life here, at ''best'' you'll be kicked to the [[WretchedHive Backstreets]] to likely die in a ditch somewhere, and at ''worst'' the the Head [[IntimidatingRevenueService will send one of its Arbiters to come knocking]], who are in such power of strength they make [[WorldsBestWarrior Color Fixers]] [[TheWorfEffect piss themselves]] and you will likely not be left alive to see it. Yes, even the ''best'' life to have in this world is "follow your lot in life, or else".

* Welcome to the SharedUniverse of ''Creator/ProjectMoon'''s games (''VideoGame/LobotomyCorporation'', ''VideoGame/LibraryOfRuina'', and ''VideoGame/LimbusCompany''), a {{Dystopia}} which is very frequently many people's vision of "[[HellOnEarth Hell]], Plus [[CityOfAdventure Urban Planning]]". Set in the far future [[AfterTheEnd where all energy sources on the planet have been exhausted]], humanity has retreated to an Australia-sized megapolis simply known as "The City," where twenty-six NGOSuperpower [[MegaCorp mega-corporations]] known as The Wings of the World [[OneNationUnderCopyright rule the entire city with an iron fist]]. The ''best'' you can get to having a normal life is being born within the few sanctions Nests, corporate sectors that host the upper and middle class, where you're expected to get a job to be able to pay for rent and live with the rest of the Nest, where your only options are working for one of the Wings, or applying as a [[HiredGuns Fixer]]. If you choose the former, [[SarcasmMode congratulations]]! You likely have signed up for a company that has a ridiculous DarkSecret that may very well shorten your lifespan by a factor of ten, like the titular Lobotomy Corporation (or L-Corp, for short) hosting a variety of [[GoMadFromTheRevelation madness-inducing]] EldritchAbomination [[OurMonstersAreWeird monstrosities]] to power the City and serve as a stop-gap for the energy crisis. To add insult to injury, every single one of the Wings aren't just [[EvilInc evil]], they're downright ''[[BlueAndOrangeMorality alien]]'' too with [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} decisions that would get any sensible economist to ragequit at how nonsensical and deadly they are]]. Your only other choice is to become a Fixer, where you'll likely die a very humiliating death fighting [[EverythingTryingToKillYou gangsters, other Fixers or whatever eldritch horror was unearthed recently]] unless you [[TookALevelInBadass take enough levels in badass to rank up]] -- and most don't make it that far, with even the top Fixers, Color Fixers, all having the prospect of death be a when, not an if. And if you even ''think'' about protesting the way of life here, at ''best'' you'll be kicked to the [[WretchedHive Backstreets]] to likely die in a ditch somewhere, and at ''worst'' the OneWorldOrder sends one of its Arbiters to come knocking, who are in such power of strength they make Color Fixers piss themselves and you will likely not be left alive to see it. Yes, even the ''best'' life to have in this world is "follow your lot in life, or else".

** For those of you who want humans in your Pokéverse experience, we have [[VideoGame/PokemonColosseum Orre]] or, as a better word, [[DeathWorld Hell]]). The government barely has anyone of note. The police are utterly pathetic and cannot keep two goof-offs behind bars for very long. The deserts which make up the Eclo Wastes are almost utterly barren of life. The police turf in Pyrite Town has ''more hoodlums per square foot'' than any other region to date. Occasionally, these hoodlums form gangs which make life for the locals pretty bad. And then, there's Cipher, the patron saints of ParanoiaFuel in the Pokéverse. The group believes only in power, and will engage in methods to obtain it that can only be described as inhuman - trainer assault, Pokéverse theft, federal subversion, MindRape, ''homicide''... these guys were the undisputed bottom of the morality barrel in the Pokéverse before [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Ghetsis]] showed up, and the two are fighting over that title to this day. The [[VideoGame/PokemonRanger Ranger Corps]] talks about lots of other regions (except maybe Unova due to limited intel) - even ''they'' will not bring Orre up. '''''It's THAT bad'''''.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}:

** What's that? You got kicked out of a Nest? Congratulations, you now live in the Backstreets, which is enough of a WretchedHive as to make [[UsefulNotes/{{Somalia}} Mogadishu]] look like paradise by comparison! Enjoy living in a wretched hive with a crime rate ten times higher than Detroit, where you are ''very'' likely to be mugged, killed, kidnapped, enslaved or ''worse'' by the resident criminals, and every night, all crimes becomes legal no matter how depraved as a means of population control, with resident murderous Sweeper gangs appearing in this time to slaughter any poor people left out at night in death tolls that reach the thousands every night. You want to be safe? Unless you are a damn good Fixer yourself, your best bet is to hire a Rank 3 Fixer in order to stay alive, but everyone in this City is out for themselves, and there's no telling what other kinds of horrors await you in these slums. Basically, the Backstreets are where hope goes to die, and if you're a kind, curious person, you'll die ''sooner'' than the rest of them. Also, most of the Backstreets are ruled by giant Syndicates collectively called the Fingers, who not only impose their rules on the Backstreet population and face no consequences from the Head, but they are constantly at war with one another, ensuring the Backstreets are essentially at constant siege.

** In this kind of world, being a genuinely good-hearted and kind person [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids is just going to get you killed or worse sooner]], and the ones who ''are'' idealistic yet badass enough to survive are often insane in their own rights (like Don Quixote in ''Limbus Company'', who's a perpetual idealist and also ''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} completely nuts]])''. What truly sells how bad this world is that even discounting the supernatural horror and sci-fi technology for a second, this whole world is merely the offset of a dystopia as a result of the energy crisis destroying the world and giant corporations seizing the ruins to institute their own rules. If it wasn't for the obviously supernatural setting, the sheer level of horror in the setting would rivl the likes of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' in how hopeless it all is.

* Welcome to the SharedUniverse of ''Creator/ProjectMoon'''s games (''VideoGame/LobotomyCorporation'', ''VideoGame/LibraryOfRuina'', and ''VideoGame/LimbusCompany''), a {{Dystopia}} which is very frequently many people's vision of "[[HellOnEarth Hell]], Plus [[CityOfAdventure Urban Planning]]". Set in the far future [[AfterTheEnd where all energy sources on the planet have been exhausted]], humanity has retreated to an Australia-sized megapolis simply known as "The City," where twenty-six NGOSuperpower [[MegaCorp mega-corporations]] known as The Wings of the World [[OneNationUnderCopyright rule the entire city with an iron fist]]. The ''best'' you can get to having a normal life is being born within the few sanctions Nests, corporate sectors that host the upper and middle class, where you're expected to get a job to be able to pay for rent and live with the rest of the Nest, where your only options are working for one of the Wings, or applying as a [[HiredGuns Fixer]]. If you choose the former, [[SarcasmMode congratulations]]! You likely have signed up for a company that has a ridiculous DarkSecret that may very well shorten your lifespan by a factor of ten, like the titular Lobotomy Corporation (or L-Corp, for short) hosting a variety of [[GoMadFromTheRevelation madness-inducing]] EldritchAbomination [[OurMonstersAreWeird monstrosities]] to power the City and serve as a stop-gap for the energy crisis. To add insult to injurty, every single one of the Wings aren't just [[EvilInc evil]], they're downright ''[[BlueAndOrangeMorality alien]]'' too with [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} decisions that would get any sensible economist to ragequit at how nonsensical and deadly they are]]. Your only other choice is to become a Fixer, where you'll likely die a very humiliating death fighting [[EverythingTryingToKillYou gangsters, other Fixers or whatever eldritch horror was unearthed recently]] unless you [[TookALevelInBadass take enough levels in badass to rank up]] -- and most don't make it that far, with even the top Fixers, Color Fixers, all having the prospect of death be a when, not an if. And if you even ''think'' about protesting the way of life here, at ''best'' you'll be kicked to the [[WretchedHive Backstreets]] to likely die in a ditch somewhere, and at ''worst'' the OneWorldOrder sends one of its Arbiters to come knocking, who are in such power of strength they make Color Fixers piss themselves and you will likely not be left alive to see it. Yes, even the ''best'' life to have in this world is "follow your lot in life, or else".