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: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 the canon ending and the first ''Drakengard'' should perhaps be a testament to [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed the sheer and utter hopelessness of 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'', [[AwfulTruth all 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]].

* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series takes place in the 23rd century, where the entire world is reduced to a post-apocalyptic wasteland, [[AfterTheEnd 200 years after nuclear holocaust]], what is left of civilization is still fighting for survival. Attractions include, but are not limited to: radiation, raiders, mutated animals (and plants), mutated humans, killer robots, crazy religious cults, crazy patriotic fascists, crazy patriotic ''Romans'', malfunctioning technology that looks like it came from the later-er 1950's, ''aliens'', and thousands of deadly diseases. Technological progress has slowed to a crawl, and most tinned foods are the leftovers from the apocalypse, while organic meat has been mutated beyond any safety standards. At any point in time, any non-essential NPC can be murdered by a random wasteland event (or the player character, if they're an ax-crazy sociopath). Also, 'family-traditional' cannibalism is also a thing as well.

** As stated earlier, the ''Fallout'' games are much closer to AWorldHalfFull. While the world is still crappy, with innumerable things that will either kill you or make you wish you were dead, but the stories of the games always end happily. ([[VideoGameCrueltyPotential Canonically, at least.]]) ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' was probably the closest that the series came to this, and even then the main storyline ends with the Capital Wasteland on the path to recovery. The world sucks, but the player can do everything they can to fix it up, and yes, make a long term difference in the Wastelands. Also, the Oasis in Fallout 3 shows that someday, the world CAN get better.

* As far as post-nuclear wastelands go, the world of ''{{VideoGame/Metro 2033}}'' and ''[[VideoGame/MetroLastLight Last Light]]'' often makes ''Fallout'' look downright cozy. Just 20 years after the requisite nuclear war, humanity has literally been driven underground, with the surviving citizens of what used to be Moscow living their entire lives in the metro tunnels beneath the city. The very air of the surface is poisonous and radioactive, and every inch of the ruined city is infested with vicious, bloodthirsty, man-eating mutants that attack from land, sea, and air (and sometimes all at once). People are crowded into cramped, filthy train stations ruled by [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]], DirtyCommunists, or corrupt merchants' guilds, and life is generally a short, unpleasant slog in which death by mutants, bandits, radiation, or war seems almost inevitable. Oh, and there's no afterlife anymore; it, too, was destroyed when the bombs fell. Those who die end up as tortured souls trapped on Earth, unable to pass on and constantly reliving their final moments for eternity. Interestingly, it's telling that they're actually ''less crapsack-y than the books''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' is based primarily in Kamurocho, a highly popular red-light district in Tokyo, and the city's capital for organized crime. Rival yakuza families jockey among one another for control over the district, often violently, and woe befall the poor civilians caught in the middle (which is to say nothing of the other punks that will try to shake you down).

** [[Recap/FateGrandOrderS3E7HellRealmMandala Lostbelt 5.5: Heian-Kyo]] is a Singularity/Lostbelt hybrid world created by Ashiya Douman in the form of a warped version of Heian period Japan plagued with evil spirits, in which the Emperor's Minster of the Left is hosting a twisted copy of the Holy Grail War in which warriors [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunt the heads of Heroic Spirits]].
** [[Recap/FateGrandOrderS3E8FairyRealmOfTheRoundTableAvalonLeFae Lostbelt 6: Avalon le Fae]] tops all of these -- the world itself ''seems'' nice, but its main inhabitants are [[TheFairFolk fairies]] who have truly absurd BlueAndOrangeMorality that leads to them doing truly abhorrent things with smiles on their faces. They go from being friends with the protagonist to wanting to eat them at the drop of a hat, and that's just an early part of the Lostbelt. Even the reason the Lostbelt was supposed to be pruned is more vile than the ones for the last few Lostbelts - [[spoiler:the PointOfDivergence for this timeline was that the six fairies who were supposed to forge Excalibur took a nap that lasted long enough for the White Titan Sefar to scour the surface of Earth of ''everything''. When Cernunnos the Horned God found out about this, he was going to punish them, but instead took pity on them. [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished They promptly poisoned him, used his corpse to make more land, and cut his priestess into six parts so that they could use her to clone more humans to eat]]. It is made very clear that InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves heavily applies to fairies, to the point that Lostbelt Morgan le Fey had to impose tyranny upon them to get them to make a semi-functional civilization. Even worse, ''the world itself is trying to kill them'' as punishment for all the crap the original fairies got away with. Rather tellingly, the bizarre circumstances of this Lostbelt's origin means that, while it must be destroyed to restore Proper Human History, those who live in it can be spared by taking them outside the Lostbelt, which is normally impossible. By the time Chaldea is forced to leave, ''there is no one left to save from this Lostbelt'', because they all wiped each other out]].

** The first Lostbelt, the [[Recap/FateGrandOrderS3E1LandOfBeastsAnastasia Russian Lostbelt]], is a terrible place to live. The EndlessWinter with incredibly strong winds and temperatures as cold as 100 below zero makes farming plants and breeding animals impossible and [[EverythingTryingToKillYou demonic beasts trying to kill you]] are the only food source, along with the fact that the [[BeastMan Yaga]] are so obsessed with survival that they turn against their fellow kind just to see another day in this miserable world that shows no signs of getting better, and the fact that [[LivingIsMoreThanSurviving "to survive" and "to live" are two completely different things]], with the World deciding that this timeline has reached its end, thus pruning it. It was ''even worse'' near the beginning, as the Yaga hadn't fully figured out how to properly hunt Demonic Beasts, so they were forced to resort to [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibalism]] to survive.

** Lampshaded by Dr. Warren in the first game. He said that there's no difference between the time of the Third Crusade and the time of the future, that people were just as violent and destructive than as now. And the second game reveals that the time of the Renaissance was even worse than both of them together.

* [[WidgetSeries Of all games]], ''VideoGame/VisceraCleanupDetail'' manages to be a [[BlackComedy bleakly comedic]] version of this trope. Let's not beat around the bush, life in this universe ''sucks''. Even ignoring the monsters and {{Gorn}}-inducing catastrophes, this is a universe packed full of corrupt [[MegaCorp mega corporations]] who are unapologetic about putting their workers in harm's way and squeezing every last cent out of normal people. And [[IncompetenceInc Aerospace Sanitation]] is no better, being a company that treats its workers like crap, views them all as expendable, and doesn't take kindly to any kind of insubordination or protest, as the Uprinsing level demonstrates. Worse is that it's packed full of spiteful [[JerkAss jerkasses]] at best and [[EntitledBastard entitled]], AxCrazy psychos at worst. Do well? They send you jealous death threats. Do badly? They KickTheDog by sending you letters cheering your firing. [[spoiler:Even worse is that according to Bob's notes, the company itself has ties to several illegal operations throughout the galaxy]]. Honestly, it's enough to make you want to ''try'' to get the company shut down with a horrible performance sometimes.

** Oh and by the way, even if you do manage to somehow survive the City, avoid getting murdered and manage to reach a 'stable' life: congratulations, you're now working forever at soul-sucking corporate jobs with no real hope of advancing your career until the day you die. It should be noted that they're [[AuthorTract South Korean games.]]

** Oh, and as a reminder, the [[VideoGame/MegaMan Cla]][[VideoGame/MegaManX ssic]] [[Videogame/MegaManZero Time]][[VideoGame/MegaManZX line]] [[VideoGame/MegaManLegends canonically ends]] with the Earth almost entirely flooded, rendered so hostile to life that both humans and reploids went extinct and had to be replaced by Carbons, a race of artificial humans specifically designed to survive the deathworld that Earth became, and society entirely reliant on salvaging a finite supply of energy crystals to power everything. And unlike any of the previous examples, TheHero can't sort things out on account of the series ending with him trapped in space and awaiting a rescue that, with Legends 3s cancellation, [[DownerEnding will never come.]]

** [[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/TheNewOrderLastDaysofEurope''.
** '''And how'''. It's a GameMod for ''VideoGame/HeartsOfIronIV'' where Nazi Germany [[AlternateHistoryNaziVictory handily won World War II]]... and lost the peace. Germany itself is victorious but internationally isolated from its former fascist Italian and Spanish allies (after [[HostileTerraforming the failure of the Atlantropa project]]) and facing economic ruin. England is occupied, Free France is still clinging to West Africa, the Soviet Union is a distant memory and Russia is now split between various feuding mercenary warlords pushing every ideology under the sun, and if that wasn't enough, not only is a nuclear holocaust quite ''likely'' but Heinrich Himmler (who now controls Ordenstaat Burgundy and has gone so far off the deep-end that he considers ''Nazi Germany'' [[EvilerThanThou to be too liberal]]) [[spoiler:''actively plans for this to happen'' (in the name of exterminating the entire planet of undesirables and allowing the Aryans to repopulate)]].

** One bit character mentions that Antarctica's "low" homicide rate of 70 per year and 100 000 inhabitants make it sound like a paradise. As of 2020, the only countries in the world with homicide rates over 50 per year and 100 000 inhabitants are active warzones.

* Life is not kind in the world in ''Franchise/BlazBlue''. To wit, the half of humanity died from the Black Beast's rampage across the world and said monster's fumes destroyed virtually the whole planet's ecosystem. The humans who managed to survive that are now governed by a totalitarian institution known as the NOL. This totalitarianism eventually resulted in several Hierarchichal Cities to defect and form their own sovereign nation, only to be destroyed in the Ikaruga Civil War, which put the NOL's authoritarianism on full display. Furthermore, the government imposes restrictions on anyone who uses magic artifacts known as Ars Magus, and anyone violating them will be killed on sight. And what about the NOL's authoritarianism? It is actually a case of [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well Intentioned Extremism]], and if they disappeared, random people would be able to start picking up dangerous [[ArtifactOfDoom Artifacts Of Doom]], enabling seeds of further war and chaos to spread in this world that is already teetering on the edge of destruction. So it's either totalitarianism, or a world in utter chaos. But it's actually worse than that. The main three characters [[DysfunctionJunction are traumatized, broken, neurotic and mentally unstable to begin with]], and the rest of the cast is similarly lacking in mental faculties. Also, the entirety of existence basically revolves around the Hedgehog's Dilemma, which is the philosophical notion that if you go near other people, you become Hell to them and they become Hell to you, but when you go far from them, you cannot survive. The biggest idealists and those who aren't [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]] {{jerkass}}es are basically the resident [[TheChewToy chew toys]] and generally laughed at. Furthermore, virtually the entire world's ills can be traced to a master manipulator named Yuuki Terumi, and if you're female, enjoy being [[BreakTheCutie broken physically and mentally by him]] [[ForTheEvulz for his own amusement.]] Adding to it is that he's accompanied by a MadScientist who wants to turn everyone else into lifeless dolls so he can be God, and a literal Death Goddess who wants to reduce the whole world into nothingness, [[spoiler:who actually manages to do that and it took a ''lot'' of effort from the main protagonist to make a new one, [[AWorldHalfFull and one that's at least livable]] at that]].

* The world of ''VideoGame/{{Arknights}}'' is plagued by great Catastrophes— manifesting in forms such as storms, earthquakes, and falling meteorites — forcing civilizations to adopt a nomadic lifestyle with the help of mobile cities. The mineral left behind in the site of these Catastrophes, Originium, is valued as a wonder material that can be used in all sorts of applications, but are also able to fuse with living flesh when handled incorrectly, leading to the emergence of the Infected. The Infected are discriminated heavily because they become living vector of Oripathy, which have 100% mortality rate. That's still not counting [[AristocratsAreEvil the corrupt aristocrats]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corporate big shots]], and [[MadScientists less-than-sane scientists]] that litter the world.

* The world of ''VideoGame/{{Arknights}}'' is plagued by great Catastrophes— manifesting in forms such as storms, earthquakes, and falling meteorites — forcing civilizations to adopt a nomadic lifestyle with the help of mobile cities. The mineral left behind in the site of these Catastrophes, Originium, is valued as a wonder material that can be used in all sorts of applications, but are also able to fuse with living flesh when handled incorrectly, leading to the emergence of the Infected. The Infected are discriminated heavily because they become living vector of Oripathy, which have 100% mortality rate. That's still not counting [[AristocratsAreEvil the corrupt aristocrats]] that litter the world.

** ''Mists of Pandaria'' shows us why the Titans sealed up the Old Gods instead of killing them. When Y'shaarj was killed, its dying breath corrupted the land, and created a race of energy beings that feed off negative emotions, the Sha; so killing an Old God, just makes things worse. If all the Old Gods were killed, the resulting corruption would be so severe that the only option would be to vaporize the planet and rebuild Azeroth from scratch.

** Perhaps made most abundant by ''VideoGame/FarCry5'', where the game's [[CuttingOffTheBranches canonical ending]] is [[spoiler: a civilization-destroying nuclear war breaks out, vindicating the words of cult leader Joseph Seed, who now has the [[AloneWithThePsycho Junior Deputy]] trapped in a bunker with them and plans to indoctrinate them to his cause as they wait through the fallout.]]

* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'': Your home base is continuously rife with famine, crime, chaos, plagues, and bandit raids. The surrounding areas are filled with bandits, cultists, deep-ones, {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, homunculi, monsters, mutants, undead, vampires, and they all want to kill you. Your team of 'heroes' is made of deluded ex-KnightTemplar, criminals, cultists, and outlaws, all of whom are continuously driven insane by frequent suicide missions.

** ''VideoGame/Doom2016'' subtly implies this; apparently, the energy crisis has gotten so bad on Earth that the UAC is willing to ''mine Hell itself'' for Argent energy. Needless to say, it goes ''poorly'' - and it's implied that the Doomguy's destruction of the Argent energy processing facilities during the game have basically doomed the entire human race.

* Crisis City from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' can be considered this as the entire city is on fire thanks to Iblis. This, in turn, causes Silver the Hedgehog and Blaze the Cat to turn to Mephiles and travel back to the past in an effort to save the future. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, this involves the killing of Sonic the Hedgehog himself.]]
* The ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'' universe. Earth's government oppresses its inhabitants and exiles its criminals and political dissenters to the Koprulu sector. Said convicts found the [[TheEmpire Confederacy]] which proceeds to oppress its inhabitants. The Sons of Korhal overthrow the Confederacy and found the Terran Dominion in its place, which also [[RuleOfThree oppresses its inhabitants]]. Then Earth's government comes to bring order to the lawless and war-torn sector (read: [[OverlyLongGag oppress its inhabitants)]]. All while embroiled in a seemingly HopelessWar between the Protoss and the Zerg.
* Depending on the what kind of star nations spawn in any given game of ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'', the galaxy can be a SugarBowl full of peaceful xenophiles... or a nightmare to rival ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', where AliensAreBastards and various shades of warmongering imperialists and genocidal maniacs constantly war for supremacy.
* ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRogue'' takes place in one. Put simply, the government is corrupt, average people are less than helpful in general, the resistance, which the player is part of, is only marginally better than the government, although at least it seems to care just not always enough to do something about all the problems.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Strider}} 2'', the world is on the verge of a cataclysmic annihilation, suffering from overpopulation, constant wars and pollution, all of which has led to the destruction of the environment and the spread of chronic diseases and genetic mutations. The world governments are part of a NebulousEvilOrganisation and are corrupt to the core, funding crime groups and amoral pharmaceutical organizations while letting crimes (and suicide) rates skyrocket. {{Transhuman}}ism is in full vogue, with people willingly getting cybernetic implants, genetic surgery or enhancing drugs. The early stages in the game are a window into this world (the first stage, for example, shows Hong Kong having turned into an overblown megacity for the rich, while the poor had to make a living in the ruins of the old city, underground.) The 2014 ''Strider'' is only marginally better, although we don't really get to see the world outside Kazakh City. The city itself, however, has become a massively overpopulated and polluted complex ruled over by [[TheCaligula General Mikiel]], a madman who demands perfection and full obedience from is subjects under threat of incarceration or even execution. Citizens live under constant martial law, are forced into labor and have very strict curfew times. Those trying to escape are faced with the possibility of being killed or, worse yet, [[FateWorseThanDeath captured alive to serve as guinea pigs]] in the research facility. Even those who manage to escape the city can only go to the nether regions of the city, where survivors live in hidden imporvished towns suffering from constant hunger and attacks from mutant BigCreepyCrawlies lurking around.
* '''Any''' setting in ''VideoGame/TheSuffering.'' It's bad enough that Carnate Island had seen just about every sort of crime and punishment in history ''before'' its infestation by the Malefactors; it's even worse when the city the PC hopes to escape to is a fetid den of urban decay and misery that promptly suffers a Malefactor infestation of its own.

** 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 the canon ending and the first ''Drakengard'' should perhaps be a testament to [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed the sheer and utter hopelessness of the universe]].

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' has its fair share of worlds razed by war, but due to the series being mostly on the neutral end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism, most of them either make due during the war or recover fine when the war is over. But there's at least two exceptions as a wholesale:

* Life is not kind in the world in ''VideoGame/BlazBlue''. To wit, the half of humanity died from the Black Beast's rampage across the world and said monster's fumes destroyed virtually the whole planet's ecosystem. The humans who managed to survive that are now governed by a totalitarian institution known as the NOL. This totalitarianism eventually resulted in several Hierarchichal Cities to defect and form their own sovereign nation, only to be destroyed in the Ikaruga Civil War, which put the NOL's authoritarianism on full display. Furthermore, the government imposes restrictions on anyone who uses magic artifacts known as Ars Magus, and anyone violating them will be killed on sight. And what about the NOL's authoritarianism? It is actually a case of [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well Intentioned Extremism]], and if they disappeared, random people would be able to start picking up dangerous [[ArtifactOfDoom Artifacts Of Doom]], enabling seeds of further war and chaos to spread in this world that is already teetering on the edge of destruction. So it's either totalitarianism, or a world in utter chaos. But it's actually worse than that. The main three characters [[DysfunctionJunction are traumatized, broken, neurotic and mentally unstable to begin with]], and the rest of the cast is similarly lacking in mental faculties. Also, the entirety of existence basically revolves around the Hedgehog's Dilemma, which is the philosophical notion that if you go near other people, you become Hell to them and they become Hell to you, but when you go far from them, you cannot survive. The biggest idealists and those who aren't [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]] {{jerkass}}es are basically the resident [[TheChewToy chew toys]] and generally laughed at. Furthermore, virtually the entire world's ills can be traced to a master manipulator named Yuuki Terumi, and if you're female, enjoy being [[BreakTheCutie broken physically and mentally by him]] [[ForTheEvulz for his own amusement.]] Adding to it is that he's accompanied by a MadScientist who wants to turn everyone else into lifeless dolls so he can be God, and a literal Death Goddess who wants to reduce the whole world into nothingness, [[spoiler:who actually manages to do that and it took a ''lot'' of effort from the main protagonist to make a new one, [[AWorldHalfFull and one that's at least livable]] at that]].

* In ''VideoGame/GrimDawn'', the world of Cairn is a very good place to avoid at all cost. Between invading eldritch abominations, [[ApocalypseCult apocalyptic cults]], [[RapePillageAndBurn raiders]], [[{{Undead}} monstrosities]], cannibals, [[BigCreepyCrawlies giants vermins]], mutated wild beasts and [[JerkassGods angry uncaring gods]], there are very little places where you can be safe [[EverythingTryingToKillYou from harm]]. And what of the defenders of this world? They are [[GoodIsNotNice fanatical armies]], [[FantasticRacism zealot orders]], amoral necromancers and coven of witches.

* The The first three ''VideoGame/{{Oddworld}}'' games center on industrial excesses taken to such an absurd degree that no-one bats an eye at a meat packing plant planning to make their slave laborers into their next product line, while ''Stranger's Wrath'' takes place in more of a Crapsack World of a Western, where the townsfolk are so exaggeratedly helpless and cowardly they're ''literally'' chickens.

* Yharnam from VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}} isn’t a very nice place to live and was like that even before the [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent Scourge of Beasts]] overran it. The city is run by a CorruptChurch whose leaders are more interested in performing depraved experiments ForScience than running things in a benevolent manner. People are openly [[FantasticRacism distrustful of outsiders]] and hopelessly addicted to the blood distributed by the Healing Church. When the Scourge hit, Hunters and common citizens took to the streets to ward off the Beasts, only to end up dying, going insane, or becoming beasts themselves leaving the remaining citizens trapped in their homes while various monsters roam around. [[spoiler: All of this is before you learn of the CosmicHorrorStory the world finds itself in at the hands of the [[EldritchAbomination Great Ones]]. The game being heavily implied to take place in a literal nightmare probably has something to do with the miserable state you find Yharnam in.]]

** Not only that as the leaders of the Eurasian Dynasty and the Lunar Corporation suppress [[spoiler:information about the planet Eden]] so they can keep rigorous control of the population. Its implied why Mars hasn't gone Earth-like yet is due to the dystopic control agreed by the leaders of the ED and Lunar Corporation]]. The only 'good' leader in this situation is the Phoenix's AI who [[spoiler:went [[MagnificentBastard with a plan to wait until both sides brutalize each other then use its numerous bases across the solar system to overwhelm the other factions with AI driven vehicles]]]].

* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'': Your home base is continuously rife with famine, crime, chaos, plagues, and bandit raids. The surrounding areas are filled with bandits, cultists, deep-ones, {{EldritchAbomination}}s, homunculi, monsters, mutants, undead, vampires, and they all want to kill you. Your team of 'heroes' is made of deluded ex-KnightTemplar, criminals, cultists, and outlaws, all of whom are continuously driven insane by frequent suicide missions.

** The sequel Verdict Day up's the ante with having the "Somlia with mecha" and upping it to a global scale. This series doesn't catch a break, then again most games that Creator/FromSoftware make ever get one.

* Notch's aborted ScienceFiction game ''[[VideoGame/ZeroXOneZeroC 0x10]][[superscript:[[VideoGame/ZeroXOneZeroC c]]]]'' was set in the dying era of the universe, when stars have stopped forming and black holes are everywhere.