History CruelAndUnusualDeath / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'':
** The protagonists of [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys1 the first game]] and [[Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 its sequel]] get one in the game over: the animatronics take them and stuff them inside a suit. This wouldn't be a problem if the suits were fitted for humans, but as it stands they have a bunch of crossbeams in the torso and sharp mechanical parts in the head, essentially grinding the protagonist's face into paste and leaving only their eyes and teeth intact.
** ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'' reveals the existence of spring-loaded animatronics known as "springlock suits", which allow humans to wear them as costumes without harm (or rather, a FlawedPrototype of such). Wearing the springlock suits incorrectly, as described by recordings of Phone Guy, will result in one's body being crushed and impaled at once. The completion of Night 5 leads into a minigame which reveals that William Afton hid in one such suit to escape the ghosts of the five kids he killed, only for the spring locks in the suit to fail, causing the compressed parts to be released, visibly crushing him to death in a shower of ''blood'' (well, red pixels, given the Atari look the minigames have).
** ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation'' gives us The Scooper. [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman The animatronics can't feel it, of course]], but [[MegatonPunch Michael]] [[OneHitKO sure can]]... And that's not even going into [[GenuineHumanHide what happens]] [[GrandTheftMe when Ennard]] [[CameBackWrong takes over]]. Then there's what Baby [[EatsBabies does to Elizabeth, William's daughter]], [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone against her own will]]...

* Some of the deaths in the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' main series games are pretty brutal. Some that come to mind:
** First game: Neil Marshall, impaled on an ornamental suit of armor.
** Second game: Russel Berry, hit in the head with a metal bust.

* In ''VideoGame/TheSilentAge'' time travelling is explained as getting all the more imprecise the farther one travels. In the most distant location there's a corpse of a guy, that apparently was transported right INTO the wall and never got out. Also the consequences of [[spoiler:getting infected by [[ThePlague the virus]]]] are described as horrible: people getting their spines cracked in convulsions and whatnot.

** Walter Sullivan slits his own throat with a sharpened, prison-issue spoon. And that's perhaps the tamest death in the whole game…

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'': [[spoiler: Either Galeem or Dharkon suffers one at the hands (or tendrils) of the other in ''World of Light'''s bad endings: Galeem is ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice, while Dharkon is reduced to a fine mist.]]

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* The ''VideoGame/{{Deception}}'' series are made of this. The number of possible cruel deaths would take pages to list. Some mundanes ones include knocking an enemy into a wall fan to watch them get chopped up, sending them flying into a brazen bull to get cooked alive, shoving them under a giant guillotine blade, feeding them to a mechanical alligator and so forth…

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''

** Olga Marie after the conclusion of the prologue is revealed [[spoiler:to be dead from the explosion that started the attack of Chaldea, but survived by sending her soul to rayshift along with the protagonist to Singularity F. The mastermind of the attack, Lev Lainur, drags her off from the Singularity and throws her into the copy of the Earth's soul Chaldeas, which right then was a molten slag of magma because of the Incineration of the Human Order caused by the aforementioned attack. This poor woman's soul is burning in literal hell for all eternity and in the anime ''First Order'', we see from the front row seat on how she was drowning in the scorching liquid fire as she screams for help]].
** In the SE.RA.PH chapter, Mabel Macintosh [[spoiler:was locked inside a battle royale between Chaldea personnel, chased by her crazed coworkers, before she was shot by the above mentioned EMIYA Alter. Her corpse was flayed by the chapter's ArcVillain, Kiara, who would then prance around in her skin as a disguise to fool the protagonist]].

* ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'':

** ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'' reveals the existence of spring-loaded animatronics known as "springlock suits", which allow humans to wear them as costumes without harm (or rather, a FlawedPrototype of such). Wearing the springlock suits incorrectly, as described by recordings of Phone Guy, will result in one's body being crushed and impaled at once. The completion of Night 5 leads into a minigame which reveals that William Afton hid in one such suit to escape the ghosts of the five kids he killed, only for the spring locks in the suit to fail, causing the compressed parts to be released, visibly crushing him to death in a shower of ''blood'' (well, red pixels, given the Atari look the minigames have).
** ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation'' gives us The Scooper. [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman The animatronics can't feel it, of course]], but [[MegatonPunch Michael]] [[OneHitKO sure can]]… And that's not even going into [[GenuineHumanHide what happens]] [[GrandTheftMe when Ennard]] [[CameBackWrong takes over]]. Then there's what Baby [[EatsBabies does to Elizabeth, William's daughter]], [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone against her own will]]…

* Chara of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', if you do the research. All the game actually ''tells'' you is that they died from eating buttercups -- you have to look up [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculus#Toxicity the symptoms]] of buttercup poisoning on your own to realize just how nasty it was.
** Speaking of flowers, [[FoulFlower Flowey]] also has quite the horrifying one at the end of the Genocide Run. After realizing that Frisk is planning to kill him after having murdered every monster in the underground, Flowey [[DirtyCoward begs for his life,]] trying to convince Frisk that he's useful, and that he can help. He even goes so far as to invoke the image of his former self as Asriel Dreemurr, to dissuade you from killing him (as he still believes Frisk is Chara, the Fallen Child). Frisk, not shaken in the slightest by Flowey's pleas for mercy, repeatedly chops the crying flower in half and brutally crushes what remains afterwards to a pulp. Made worse by the fact that Flowey's face begins to fall apart from each strike, [[EyeScream his eyeball falling out and hanging from his socket]] as he is bifurcated and crushed at the same time. By the time Frisk finishes with poor Flowey, there is absolutely nothing left of him.

-->'''Sullivan:''' (Deploys [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system skyhook]]) ''We're the good guys, Chuck. Not you.''
-->'''Chuck:''' ([[LandMineGoesClick Handcuffs Go Click]])
-->'''Sullivan:''' ('''OhCrap! I'm handcuffed to the damn building!''')
-->'''Getaway Plane:''' (snags skyhook)
-->'''Sullivan:''' (Is '''[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe torn in half]]'''.)
-->'''Player:''' '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI89TD66CT8 CAN I GET A, HELL, YEAH!]]'''''

** In [[VideoGame/FatalFrameII the second game]], the rituals are centered around causing as much suffering as possible. One involves systemically torturing the victim before throwing them into a hell gate. The other? [[spoiler:One twin has to strangle the other to death.]]

* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' and every other fighting game with fatalities in it exist by this trope. Even characters that are supposed to be the good guys show remarkable cruelty.

** The White Rabbit ends up SquashedFlat under the heel of the Mad Hatter-like an insect.
* The old vector graphics game, ''VideoGame/AnotherWorld'', is practically made out of this trope. Not only does everything on the planet want to kill him, it wants to kill him in the most gruesome way possible. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdq7sDvIuLo&feature=related Roll the clip!]]

** One of the most disturbing deaths is that of Andrew Ryan. After just finding out you've been mind-controlled the entire game and the guy who has been trying to kill you this whole time is your father, he asks you oh so kindly if you would assist in Ryan's suicide. You could technically have just whipped out your revolver and put a bullet in his brain to make it more humane, but nope, he decides to have you ''beat his face in with a golfclub'', and doesn't even go down until three more brutal whacks to the cranium, while his face becomes more horrifyingly mangled and distorted, as he lets out a few more disturbingly garbled screams for you to obey. Top it off with part of the golfclub breaking off and lodging into his cranium with a final spurt of blood.

* ''VideoGame/BloodRayne'' allows the player to do a variety of these frequently -- Carnage kills begin with a chained harpoon catch and end in a fling into one or more impaling objects (or electrocution, fire, or industrial meat grinders.) In one kick move, Rayne jumps onto an opponent's shoulders, catching the neck between her feet, then flips forward to stomp the head into the ground. But the most splatteriffic is when she lifts an enemy by one impaling blade, spins them in the air with a flick of the other then lets the edge of it hack off all limbs and head before throwing the pruned torso away.

** In ''VideoGame/ClockTower3'', a 12 year old girl has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Pe4no4Pbo her face smashed with a sledgehammer]], a man and his old mother are pushed into a vat of acid and another man falls off a balcony where his head hits an ax and splits in half.

* ''Videogame/DeadByDaylight'': The killer will hang his/her victims from a hook in most cases, where, after some (usually) futile struggling they get [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabbed]] by some sort of [[EldritchAbomination ghostly sky-spider]].

** Diane Ames had the same tongue thing, was stabbed in her side and ''appeared'' to be left to bleed out. But she was actually strung up above a huge and very spikey metal statue, which would have impaled her, had the ropes broken. And when ''that'' is avoided, the statue ends up falling and smashing her to bits.

** In ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'', Sullivan [[JustBetweenYouAndMe attempts to justify the zombie outbreak Chuck was framed for.]] Given that Chuck lost his wife to the previous outbreak, he's not impressed. The following [[ThatOneBoss boss fight]] -- where GunsAreUseless and ''[[NoGearLevel Chuck can't use melee weapons]]'' -- just make it easier to hate him. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg2r_J6EcbA But Keiji Inafune makes up for all of this by several orders of magnitude]].
-->'''Sullivan''': (Deploys [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system skyhook]]) ''We're the good guys, Chuck. Not you.''
-->'''Chuck''': ([[LandMineGoesClick Handcuffs Go Click]])
-->'''Sullivan''': ('''OhCrap! I'm handcuffed to the damn building!''')
-->'''Getaway Plane''': (snags skyhook)
-->'''Sullivan''': (Is '''[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe torn in half]]'''.)
-->'''Player''': '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI89TD66CT8 CAN I GET A, HELL, YEAH!]]'''''
* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace''. The death scenes are certainly enough to qualify, in ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'' they just get ''worse.'' Poor Isaac...

* The ''VideoGame/{{Deception}}'' series are made of this. The number of possible cruel deaths would take pages to list. Some mundanes ones include knocking an enemy into a wall fan to watch them get chopped up, sending them flying into a brazen bull to get cooked alive, shoving them under a giant guillotine blade, feeding them to a mechanical alligator and so forth...

** Obok has now gone from a MemeticBadass to an {{Unperson}} thanks to one particularly cruel death inflicted on an elven child: He made her fight to the death against another child, and when she "won" he proceeded to rape her until she bled to death.[[labelnote:Note]]His player modified the game files to give them the anatomy needed for the rape.[[/labelnote]] So horrified were the readers that this story played a huge part in the deletion of a thread dedicated to cruel and (debatably) funny things the players did.

** In [[VideoGame/FatalFrameI the first game]], the central Ritual involves tying ropes around the VirginSacrifice[='s=] neck and limbs, which are then pulled tighter and tighter.....until she's torn to pieces. After the mansion fell under the Curse, victims suffer a similar fate.
** In [[VideoGame/FatalFrameII the second game]], the rituals are centered around causing as much suffering as possible. One involves systemically torturing the victim before throwing them into a hell gate. The other? [[spoiler: One twin has to strangle the other to death]].
** In [[VideoGame/FatalFrameIII the third game]], the ultimate fate of Priestesses is either to be FlayedAlive if they fail.....or to be crucified if they succeed. The punishment for breaking the Kuze Code is also crucifixion.

** In [[VideoGame/FatalFrameMaidenOfBlackWater the fifth game]], lesser sacrifices and men rejected by the "brides" had their limbs broken. This allowed them to be stuffed into a water-filled box while still alive....

** ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation'' gives us The Scooper. [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman The animatronics can't feel it, of course]], but [[MegatonPunch Michael]] [[OneHitKO sure can]]… And that's not even going into [[GenuineHumanHide what happens]] [[GrandTheftMe when Ennard]] [[CameBackWrong takes over]]. Then there's what Baby [[EatsBabies does to Elizabeth, William's daughter]], [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone against her own will]]...

* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' allows you to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu inflict this on the Greek Gods themselves.]]

* ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'' has Volecheck planning to execute two prisoners by boiling them alive... as a public execution at the full moon festival. One of the condemned is ''[[WouldHurtAChild a little girl]]''. Even some of the city folk ''actually look forward to this event.'' Luckily, your party manages to prevent this from happening.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', a hapless monkey is accused of kidnapping the Deku Princess. Her father tortures him for a confession by repeatedly dipping him into a pot of boiling water. Each time Link visits him the monkey gets dipped again. Do this too many times and the monkey is ''boiled to death''.

* In one of ''Madou Souhei Kleinhasa'''s bad endings, Roze ends up being raped to death.

--->'''Little Eddie''': Savagely thrashed with his own EpicFlail, which is then used to completely crush his head.\\
'''Jude the Dude''': Shot repeatedly until literally nothing of him was left. A removed version had Jack [[AssShove shove his guns up his ass before shooting him into the sky]].\\
'''Von Twirlenkiller''': Punched into the sky with one of his own arms, then [[TurbineBlender shredded to bits by landing in his own severed wind turbine arm]].\\
'''Rinrin''': Eaten by a large animatronic statue.\\
'''Shogun''': Impaled through the crotch by a spiked roof fixture. (Alternatively, bisected by his own dual chainsaw)\\
'''Yokozuna''': Used for fireworks and then incinerated [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill by landing in an erupting volcano]].\\
'''The Shamans''': Chained to Jack's bike and [[WhatADrag dragged along the ground]].\\
'''Frank''': Killed by his own hand cranked electric chair.\\
'''Elise''': Spanked hard enough to send her flying through a window.\\
'''Kojack''': Exploded by his own bike.\\
'''The Masters''': One is impaled by Jack and forced to use his powers to toss the other around, then they're thrown together and kind of explode.\\
'''Martin''': Also exploded.\\
'''The Black Baron''': Used for Man Darts.

** The process by which people are turned into Husks is a nasty way to go. [[BodyHorror This process involves laying people onto spikes, draining them of fluids and turning the organic parts of their bodies into synthetic components]]. And then there's...[[AndIMustScream Reaper indoctrination]]. What the [[EldritchAbomination Rea]][[SapientShip pers]] do is slowly destroy your free will and when they are done with you they leave you to rot as a mindless shell.

* In ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvAlternative'', there's the infamous [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin CHOMP scene]] where Marimo has [[EatenAlive her head bitten in half by a Soldier-class BETA]]. It's notable for being extremely disturbing to the player. But that's not all for that particular death... Takeru proceeds to run away to the world of "Extra", where Marimo is still alive... until she's promptly killed by having her head shoved into a meat grinder.

*** Shove them into a cookie-cutting machine and watch the slicers go crazy with your victim's body...

* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' features -- in cutscenes -- disembowelment, vertical bisection, suicide by grenade-in-mouth, another vertical bisection followed by being blown up, an EyeScream followed by ''another'' vertical bisection performed by a huge buzzsaw, being TRISECTED, and a fist shoved through somebody's sternum (but Travis survives that last one) along with the usual beheadings and impalement. There's also Cranberry Chocolate Sundae, a LimitBreak based on the concept of killing as many {{Mooks}} this way as possible.
** And the [[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle sequel]] has -- decapitation, horizontal evisceration, head explosion, being chopped to pieces, arms being chopped off followed by decapitation, then having the still living head being sliced to bits, another decapitation with the same result, being stabbed through the head, the having the blade grind into the skull, machine gunned, disembowelment, suffocation, and finally being sliced in half from diving at Travis.

* One of the worst ways to die in a video game, happens in the OlderThanTheNES text adventure ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail''. One bad end you can come to is to die of dysentery. Dysentery is an inflammatory condition of the intestines caused by bacteria, viruses, parasitic worms, or protozoa. Symptoms include diarrhea with blood, fever, abdominal pain, and rectal tenesmus.[[note]]That's when you think you have to poop, but you can't.[[/note]]

* ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'':
** The protagonists of [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys1 the first game]] and [[Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 its sequel]] get one in the game over: the animatronics take them and stuff them inside a suit. This wouldn't be a problem if the suits were fitted for humans, but as it stands they have a bunch of crossbeams in the torso and sharp mechanical parts in the head, essentially grinding the protagonist's face into paste and leaving only their eyes and teeth intact.
** ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'' reveals the existence of spring-loaded animatronics known as "springlock suits", which allow humans to wear them as costumes without harm (or rather, a FlawedPrototype of such). Wearing the springlock suits incorrectly, as described by recordings of Phone Guy, will result in one's body being crushed and impaled at once. The completion of Night 5 leads into a minigame which reveals that William Afton hid in one such suit to escape the ghosts of the five kids he killed, only for the spring locks in the suit to fail, causing the compressed parts to be released, visibly crushing him to death in a shower of ''blood'' (well, red pixels, given the Atari look the minigames have).
** ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation'' gives us The Scooper. [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman The animatronics can't feel it, of course]], but [[MegatonPunch Michael]] [[OneHitKO sure can]]… And that's not even going into [[GenuineHumanHide what happens]] [[GrandTheftMe when Ennard]] [[CameBackWrong takes over]]. Then there's what Baby [[EatsBabies does to Elizabeth, William's daughter]], [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone against her own will]]…
* ''[[VideoGame/MeatBoy Super Meat Boy]]'' has a vast variety of deaths, including buzz saws, floating teeth monsters, salt, saws, maggots, lasers, ''demonic'' floating teeth monsters that [[AsteroidsMonster split]], and saws. And yet, special mention should be made for Dr. Fetus' death. After coming out of his suit, he is curb stomped over and over by Bandage Girl until he is nothing but a puddle. He deserved it.

* ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'': Multiple:
** Walter Sullivan slits his own throat with a sharpened, prison-issue spoon. And that's perhaps the tamest death in the whole game…
** The deaths of many of his victims, e.g. Jasper being burned alive, Richard being slowly electrocuted, Andrew being impaled and drowned.
** It's implied the Water Prison was still holding a number of children when Walter's ghost came back for vengeance; the kids would have starved to death in short order when the cell doors jammed shut. The notes scattered around the place show [[HarmfulToMinors it wasn't exactly a safe place before then either]].
* Judge Holloway got a drill shoved through her jaw in ''VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming'', though given what her actions were in the game, and the fact that she was in the middle of trying to use that same drill on Alex, [[KarmicDeath she had it coming big time.]] If you fail the [[PressXToNotDie quick-time event]] immediately prior to this, Alex can suffer the same fate instead.
** And Alex's father gets sliced in half down the middle by Pyramid Head.
** And, if you choose not to put her out of her misery first, Alex's mother is slowly ripped in half by a ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''-esque death machine.
** Failing some of the [[PressXToNotDie quick-time event]]s can result in an adversary performing one of these on Alex.
* Gremio from ''VideoGame/SuikodenI'' is slowly devoured by a flesh-eating fungus. [[EarnYourHappyEnding He can get better, though.]]

* ''VideoGame/TheSexyBrutale'': There are your usual causes of death in this game, like gunshots or electrocution, but then there's…
** Clay Rockridge. He drinks spider venom so potent that before he's even dead it's melted the flesh away from his mouth.
** Trinity Carrington. Eaten by a {{giant spider}}.
** Tequila Belle. Fatally lacerated by a window that she shattered when her singing voice hit a high note.
** Greyson Grayson. Crushed by SpikesOfDoom inside a Faraday Cage, bound via a ClutchingHandTrap so he can't escape through the trap door.
* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' brings you its RocksFallEveryoneDies ending, in which Bishop and Qara have their skulls ''literally'' smashed open by chunks of the falling ceiling.
** This is assuming they had high influence and thus were not killed via crossbow bolt to the throat.
** Earlier in the game, Shandra gets [[KillItWithFire set on fire]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill and blasted to pieces]] by her own grandfather.
** In the expansion, you can inflict this to numerous people by sucking their souls out and eating them.
* ''Blood Omen: VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' gives you several lovely options for inflicting deaths like these on your enemies (or even random villagers), with "suck the blood out of their wounds from 10 feet away" being the most mundane. Other highlights include instantly flaying their flesh from their bones, and crushing their bodies into the size of a marble.
** ''And'' Soul Reaver 1 gave us the horror that was Melchiah's "Death by spinny blades of doom that descend on you from the ceiling."
* Many of the Boss monsters in ''Videogame/TheAquaticAdventureOfTheLastHuman'' die in pretty gruesome ways.
* One of the worst ways to die in a video game, happens in the OlderThanTheNES text adventure ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail''. One bad end you can come to is to die of dysentery. Dysentery is an inflammatory condition of the intestines caused by bacteria, viruses, parasitic worms, or protozoa. Symptoms include diarrhea with blood, fever, abdominal pain, and rectal tenesmus.[[note]]That's when you think you have to poop, but you can't.[[/note]]
* Bowser's deaths in the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series. Some of them include being dropped into lava, thrown into the sun, sucked up by a black hole, crushed by a dinosaur, and getting hit by a train.
* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' features — in cutscenes — disembowelment, vertical bisection, suicide by grenade-in-mouth, another vertical bisection followed by being blown up, an EyeScream followed by ''another'' vertical bisection performed by a huge buzzsaw, being TRISECTED, and a fist shoved through somebody's sternum (but Travis survives that last one) along with the usual beheadings and impalement. There's also Cranberry Chocolate Sundae, a LimitBreak based on the concept of killing as many {{Mooks}} this way as possible.
** And the [[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle sequel]] has — decapitation, horizontal evisceration, head explosion, being chopped to pieces, arms being chopped off followed by decapitation, then having the still living head being sliced to bits, another decapitation with the same result, being stabbed through the head, the having the blade grind into the skull, machine gunned, disembowelment, suffocation, and finally being sliced in half from diving at Travis.
** The [[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroesIII third game]] has being cut to pieces before being vaporized by a WaveMotionGun, skull crushing, getting bludgeoned with a highly corrosive rock and then stabbed through the face after being cut in half, decapitation, being skewered by multiple CombatTentacles, disembowlment, suicide by poison, melting due to stress, being [[LudicrousGibs blown to pieces]] with a laser, and being head-butted until your head explodes.
* ''VideoGame/MadWorld''
** To go into detail, while you can inflict some ''very'' esoteric deaths on normal enemies (catapulting to the moon, [[ExorcistHead snapping someone's neck a whole 180 degrees]], shoving a street sign through their face, or hitting their head off with a golf club, for instance), Jack takes care of the bosses in even flashier ways. Most of the bosses are [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine killed with their own weaponry]]. Here are all the methods used by Jack to eliminate the bosses:
--->'''Little Eddie''': Savagely thrashed with his own EpicFlail, which is then used to completely crush his head.\\
'''Jude the Dude''': Shot repeatedly until literally nothing of him was left. A removed version had Jack [[AssShove shove his guns up his ass before shooting him into the sky]].\\
'''Von Twirlenkiller''': Punched into the sky with one of his own arms, then [[TurbineBlender shredded to bits by landing in his own severed wind turbine arm]].\\
'''Rinrin''': Eaten by a large animatronic statue.\\
'''Shogun''': Impaled through the crotch by a spiked roof fixture. (Alternatively, bisected by his own dual chainsaw)\\
'''Yokozuna''': Used for fireworks and then incinerated [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill by landing in an erupting volcano]].\\
'''The Shamans''': Chained to Jack's bike and [[WhatADrag dragged along the ground]].\\
'''Frank''': Killed by his own hand cranked electric chair.\\
'''Elise''': Spanked hard enough to send her flying through a window.\\
'''Kojack''': Exploded by his own bike.\\
'''The Masters''': One is impaled by Jack and forced to use his powers to toss the other around, then they're thrown together and kind of explode.\\
'''Martin''': Also exploded.\\
'''The Black Baron''': Used for Man Darts.
* In ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest III'', getting shot by the pirates will trap you in a solid block of green jello. For not heeding your janitorial duties, [[HaveANiceDeath death]] by suffocation is [[IncrediblyLamePun just desserts]].
** The endodroid in ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest VI'' will eagerly tear all of Roger's internal organs out of his body.
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' and every other fighting game with fatalities in it exist by this trope. Even characters that are supposed to be the good guys show remarkable cruelty.
* ''VideoGame/SoldierOfFortune''. Full stop. This franchise's schtick is destructible ''bodies''. The developers literally called it the GHOUL system in marketing materials. It could get... rather messy.
* ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden 2'' (2008) is full of this, [[BloodierAndGorier cranking the violence from its predecessor]] UpToEleven, from getting your [[OffWithHisHead head cut off]], dismembered limb from limb, or [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe torn in half]] vertically OR horizontally (sometimes both) with a [[ExoticWeaponSupremacy variety of different weapons]], such as the [[KatanasAreJustBetter Dragon Blade]], [[SinisterScythe Eclipse Scythe]], [[WolverineClaws Falcon Talons]], [[DualWielding Dragon's Claw and Tiger's Fang]], [[SimpleStaff Lunar Staff]], and more. Also, the Ninpos can cause enemies to be [[KillItWithFire burned alive]], [[LudicrousGibs torn to chunks]] [[RazorWind by wind blades]], and more, and that's just for the {{Mooks}}. For bosses, you have plenty of [[EyeScream facial mutilation]] and {{impal|edWithExtremePrejudice}}ation to go around and the [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank amount of bloodshed involved]] is staggering (with waves of both human blood and AlienBlood galore).
* In ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar 2'':
** Rookie [[SacrificialLion Benjamin Carmine]] (along with the rest of his squad) [[SwallowedWhole are swallowed]], helicopter and all, by a gigantic riftworm. The rest of the squad survives, but when Carmine is found in [[WombLEvel the thing's cavernous stomach]], he falls victim to what can only be described as "digestion parasites" and is half-melted/eaten alive.
** Most of the multiplayer executions count as well: Being chainsawed into pieces (sometimes by more than one person at at time), being curb-stomped, and being roasted with a flamethrower are just some of the ways to take out a downed enemy.
* Anyone killed by [[StringyHairedGhostGirl Alma]] in ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon FEAR]]''. Doug Holiday, and later Jin Sun-Kwon are mangled and thrown around like VideoGame/GarrysMod puppets by invisible monsters. Half of TheSquad in FEAR 2 endure a similar rag-doll treatment before being shredded by black spectral tentacles. The [[RedshirtArmy Delta Force escorts]] get off lightly - Alma just liquefies the flesh off their bones.

* In ''VideoGame/DeadRising'', after you defeat [[MonsterClown Adam the clown]], he drops his still-running chainsaws and falls on them. He dies [[LaughingMad laughing like a maniac]] while blood is spraying everywhere.
** In ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'', Sullivan [[JustBetweenYouAndMe attempts to justify the zombie outbreak Chuck was framed for.]] Given that Chuck lost his wife to the previous outbreak, he's not impressed. The following [[ThatOneBoss boss fight]] - where GunsAreUseless and ''[[NoGearLevel Chuck can't use melee weapons]]'' - just make it easier to hate him. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg2r_J6EcbA But Keiji Inafune makes up for all of this by several orders of magnitude]].
-->'''Sullivan''': (Deploys [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system skyhook]]) ''We're the good guys, Chuck. Not you.''
-->'''Chuck''': ([[LandMineGoesClick Handcuffs Go Click]])
-->'''Sullivan''': ('''OhCrap! I'm handcuffed to the damn building!''')
-->'''Getaway Plane''': (snags skyhook)
-->'''Sullivan''': (Is '''[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe torn in half]]'''.)
-->'''Player''': '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI89TD66CT8 CAN I GET A, HELL, YEAH!]]'''''
* The fate of those taken by the Collectors in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': being rendered down into goo by nanites while conscious and screaming and leaving bloody smears as you scrabble at the glass of your {{p|eopleJars}}od. Lovely.
** Some of the abilities at Shepard and crew's disposal are surprisingly brutal, particularly the biotic ones. Warp is implied to rip the target apart on a ''molecular'' level.
** The process by which people are turned into Husks is a nasty way to go. [[BodyHorror This process involves laying people onto spikes, draining them of fluids and turning the organic parts of their bodies into synthetic components]]. And then there's...[[AndIMustScream Reaper indoctrination]]. What the [[EldritchAbomination Rea]][[SapientShip pers]] do is slowly destroy your free will and when they are done with you they leave you to rot as a mindless shell.
* ''VideoGame/{{Kenshi}}'' has the Peeler Machines, torture devices that slowly [[FlayingAlive skin alive]] anyone unlucky enough to be placed in them and commonly used by factions like the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Skin Bandits]].
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' allows you to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu inflict this on the Greek Gods themselves.]]
** Special note goes to how Kratos deals with Helios in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'', viscerally [[OffWithHisHead tearing off his head with his bare hands]] right square in front of the camera as an interactive QTE. Not even ''Mortal Kombat'' goes to such detail of showing how brutal it is to remove someone's head with one's hands.
* In one of ''Madou Souhei Kleinhasa'''s bad endings, Roze ends up being raped to death.
* ''VideoGame/BloodRayne'' allows the player to do a variety of these frequently -- Carnage kills begin with a chained harpoon catch and end in a fling into one or more impaling objects (or electrocution, fire, or industrial meat grinders.) In one kick move, Rayne jumps onto an opponent's shoulders, catching the neck between her feet, then flips forward to stomp the head into the ground. But the most splatteriffic is when she lifts an enemy by one impaling blade, spins them in the air with a flick of the other then lets the edge of it hack off all limbs and head before throwing the pruned torso away.
* ''VideoGame/NaughtyBear'' has this as part of the gameplay, being the SpiritualSuccessor to ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt}}''. One example is slamming a teddy's face into a spinning turntable.
** The sequel, Panic in Paradise, really turns up the violence. A lot of the mission targets require a KarmicDeath.
*** Shove your victim [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice onto a saguaro]], or maybe you'd prefer tossing them onto a bamboo fountain?
*** Throw them to the [[FedToTheBeast fluff-eating plants]] or to the ThreateningShark’s and dolphins, which also come in ''aquatic'' versions.
*** Shove them into a cookie-cutting machine and watch the slicers go crazy with your victim's body...
* The old vector graphics game, ''VideoGame/AnotherWorld'', is practically made out of this trope. Not only does everything on the planet want to kill him, it wants to kill him in the most gruesome way possible. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdq7sDvIuLo&feature=related Roll the clip!]]

* An early level in ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTriad'' starts with a glass wall and a group of enemy soldiers in a wide hallway on the other side of it. The game kindly warns you of the danger of this hallway (posts lined with rapidly spinning blades, moving along interlaced tracks in the floor) by pureeing the hapless guards between the two converging rows of sawblades while you watch from your safe position on the other side of the (now-bloodied) window. See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M7jfjgVI0E here]]. Yes, that is a flying eyeball.

* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace''. The death scenes are certainly enough to qualify, in ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'' they just get ''worse.'' Poor Isaac...
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIdkR85kpKs Enjoy sleeping]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ6noeD8qKU tonight.]]
* ''Videogame/ResidentEvil4''. Not as bad as its younger spiritual cousin Dead Space right above, but still horrifying. Deaths include getting eaten alive by a giant lake monster, torn in half, crushed by a boulder, stabbed in the throat by your own knife, having your head get cut off by a rusty chainsaw, or even insects vomitting acid over you, melting your face off.
* In ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter'', if you hold the taser on someone for too long, they burn to death, often screaming.
* ''VideoGame/AoOni'': Most versions have some variation of this, including head-chomp, being used as an exercise mat and being swallowed whole implied, via Version 6.23's ending). Also, ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''-mode has particularly brutal death scenes.

* ''VideoGame/ClockTower''
** In ''VideoGame/ClockTower3'', a 12 year old girl has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Pe4no4Pbo her face smashed with a sledgehammer]], a man and his old mother are pushed into a vat of acid and another man falls off a balcony where his head hits an ax and splits in half.
** The [[VideoGame/ClockTower1995 first game]] in the series is quite mundane with its death scenes, but one that stands out is what happens if you fail to pick up the ham before getting locked in the shed; Simon Barrows will ''eat Jennifer instead''. Also, some people theorize that the reason no blood is seen on Laura (as well as her face being hidden) in her shower death scene is because she was scalded to death with hot water (the 10-page manga changes this to her being stabbed while hung in the shower).
* Let us count the ways the player characters in ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' can die shall we? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhwc0ouTl4o Take a power drill up a very sensitive place]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrnkIz3GzF4 fall into a trash compactor while handcuffed to your own car]], have half of your body run over by a crane, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV2nweDPkS8 being stabbed in the crotch with a katana]] or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-bUcGmAH9o getting hit on the head with a plasma TV or sledgehammer]].
* [[LargeHam Inspector Cabanela]] can die this way in ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'' if the player Ghost Swaps the bullet that was supposed to hit him with a nearby helmet mid-flight. The Pidgeon Man says it best: "[[{{Understatement}} That didn't go well.]]"
* Some of the deaths in ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'' may vary, from being torn apart vertically at the eyes by Fritz, to getting your own skull knocked off of your head.
* A guillotine is a device that was designed to ''prevent'' a victim from suffering. However, in ''VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice'', the White Queen is executed this way by the Red Chess pieces ''facing upward'', for no other reason than to instill terror.
** The White Rabbit ends up SquashedFlat under the heel of the Mad Hatter-like an insect.
* In ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvAlternative'', there's the infamous [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin CHOMP scene]] where Marimo has [[EatenAlive her head bitten in half by a Soldier-class BETA]]. It's notable for being extremely disturbing to the player. But that's not all for that particular death... Takeru proceeds to run away to the world of "Extra", where Marimo is still alive... until she's promptly killed by having her head shoved into a meat grinder.
** Of course, considering KillEmAll, Marimo's death is far from the only case of this trope showing up, it's just the most well known.
* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne 3'': The Cracha Preto horribly murder Marcelo Branco by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklacing necklacing]], partly out of sheer cruelty and partly out of trying to pin the crime on the favela gangs. Victims of necklacing executions can live for over fifteen minutes after ignition.
* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' has several of these, but notable in the sequel is the Tendril power. The primary attack attaches tendrils to the victim's legs and arms, which attach to the nearest wall or ceiling. They then ''pull,'' tearing the victim into two or three. The tendrils and the body stays where they are, meaning that you can have a room full of grisly limbs and black tentacles hanging around everywhere. No puppet jokes, please.

* Appears frequently in ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}''; for example, a Big Daddy can kill you by running you through with a giant drill. The plasmids that the player character uses can do this as well, such as sending killer bees at your enemies with the Insect Swarm plasmid, burning them alive with the Incinerate! plasmid, or shooting electricity at them when they are standing in water with the Electro Bolt plasmid.
** One of the most disturbing deaths is that of Andrew Ryan. After just finding out you've been mind-controlled the entire game and the guy who has been trying to kill you this whole time is your father, he asks you oh so kindly if you would assist in Ryan's suicide. You could technically have just whipped out your revolver and put a bullet in his brain to make it more humane, but nope, he decides to have you ''beat his face in with a golfclub'', and doesn't even go down until three more brutal whacks to the cranium, while his face becomes more horrifyingly mangled and distorted, as he lets out a few more disturbingly garbled screams for you to obey. Top it off with part of the golfclub breaking off and lodging into his cranium with a final spurt of blood.
** ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'': After Comstock continues his decades-long abuse of Elizabeth, in person for once, Booker will grab Comstock's head and repeatedly smash it against the baptism basin, followed by drowning.
*** Also, Elizabeth summons a portal that leads to a ''midwestern tornado''. The asshole victims beg her to stop until they're inevitably sucked in.
*** Yi Suchong was impaled by a Big Daddy drill, then smashed into the table and drilled until it ripped off the Big Daddy's arm. You get to see this yourself in the Infinite DLC.

* ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' has Regime!Shazam's death. To clarify: Regime!Superman starts off by choking him. When Regime!Shazam attempts to counter by summoning his magic lightning with "Shazam!", Regime!Superman cuts him off by freezing his mouth and throat shut. Then Regime!Superman uses his heat vision to roast through Regime!Shazam's skull to the other side. For bonus points, he's [[WouldHurtAChild still a child]] in a grown-up body.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''
** From the series' backstory comes Pelinal Whitestrake, the legendary 1st Era hero of mankind/[[FantasticRacism racist]] [[TheBerserker berserker]]. Believed to have been a [[EternalHero Shezarrine]], [[GodInHumanForm physical incarnations]] of the spirit of the [[GodIsDead "dead" creator god]] Lorkhan (known to the Imperials as "[[IHaveManyNames Shezarr]]"), Pelinal came to [[FounderOfTheKingdom St. Alessia]] to serve as her [[PhysicalGod divine champion]] in the war against the [[AbusivePrecursors Ayleids]]. When Alessia and her army was too struck with fear to attack the White-Gold Tower occupied by Ayleid leader Umaril the Unfeathered, Pelinal [[OneManArmy charged in himself]] and defeated (though could not kill) Umaril before he himself was slain. His body was cut into eight pieces by the Ayleids to mock the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Eight Divines]]. His head was left behind and discovered by Morihaus, with whom he [[LosingYourHead had one final conversation]] that is now lost to history.
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'', during the Siege of Kvatch, many people are killed in violently cruel ways by the invading Daedra, if the gore left behind is any indicator. One victim was St. Jiub the Eradicator, the AscendedExtra EnsembleDarkhorse from ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]''. All that is left of him when you find his "corpse" is a severed head with a large chunk of his skull missing and a look of sheer terror on his dead face. Whatever the Daedra did to him, ''it wasn't pretty''. (For added cruelty, ''Skyrim'''s ''Dawnguard'' DLC reveals that they also [[YourSoulIsMine soul-trapped]] him, condemning him to an eternity of wandering the bleak [[SpiritWorld Soul Cairn]].)
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' has an off-screen example from the Great War between the Empire and the Aldmeri Dominion. When the Empire crushed the Dominion at the Battle of the Red Ring, Emperor Titus Mede II captured the Aldmeri general, hung him from the top of the White-Gold Tower, and kept him alive for thirty-three days. On the thirty-fourth day, he finally expired and was carried away by a winged daedra. Given that this general was responsible for the sack of the Imperial City and related atrocities... He kind of deserved it.

* Some of the deaths in the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' main series games are pretty brutal. Some that come to mind:
** First game: Neil Marshall, impaled on an ornamental suit of armor.
** Second game: Russel Berry, hit in the head with a metal bust.
** ''Investigations 2'': Horace Knightley, stabbed in the throat. Isaac Dover, bludgeoned to death with a rock-salt ornament, then hidden inside an ice sculpture for over 10 years. Jill Crane, beaten to death with an auction gavel, ''then'' stabbed in the chest with a candlestick. Jack Cameron, hit in the back of the head with a brick. Di-Jun Huang's double, crushed to death under a hot air balloon's basket (the autopsy report for this one was so brutal everyone was convinced he must have been stepped on by a {{Kaiju}}-esque monster). Not to mention the game involves a ProfessionalKiller whose main weapons were [[RightHandAttackDog his dog]] and ''woodcarving chisels''... yeah, this game has a lot of brutal deaths.
** ''Dual Destinies'': Metis Cykes very narrowly avoided getting posthumously ''dismembered'', Jack Shipley was initially thought to have been killed by an orca, but actually fell head-first into a drained pool.
** ''Dai Gyakuten Saiban'': John Watson is paralyzed by curare poison, paralyzing his respiratory system and causing him to suffocate, all while his hand is stuck resting on a plate hot enough to burn the logo on the plate into his flesh.

* ''VideoGame/FatalFrame'' features numerous such deaths throughout the series.
** In [[VideoGame/FatalFrameI the first game]], the central Ritual involves tying ropes around the VirginSacrifice[='s=] neck and limbs, which are then pulled tighter and tighter.....until she's torn to pieces. After the mansion fell under the Curse, victims suffer a similar fate.
** In [[VideoGame/FatalFrameII the second game]], the rituals are centered around causing as much suffering as possible. One involves systemically torturing the victim before throwing them into a hell gate. The other? [[spoiler: One twin has to strangle the other to death]].
** In [[VideoGame/FatalFrameIII the third game]], the ultimate fate of Priestesses is either to be FlayedAlive if they fail.....or to be crucified if they succeed. The punishment for breaking the Kuze Code is also crucifixion.
** In [[VideoGame/FatalFrameIV the fourth game]], a six-year-old girl died as a result of experimental surgeries, with her diary describing her suffering greatly before finally succumbing. She describes her "head turning red", her hair falling out, and crying bloody tears.
** In [[VideoGame/FatalFrameMaidenOfBlackWater the fifth game]], lesser sacrifices and men rejected by the "brides" had their limbs broken. This allowed them to be stuffed into a water-filled box while still alive....
* The ''VideoGame/{{Deception}}'' series are made of this. The number of possible cruel deaths would take pages to list. Some mundanes ones include knocking an enemy into a wall fan to watch them get chopped up, sending them flying into a brazen bull to get cooked alive, shoving them under a giant guillotine blade, feeding them to a mechanical alligator and so forth...

* Beruga from ''VideoGame/{{Terranigma}}'' gets cut up by his own airship's propeller.
* Chara of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', if you do the research. All the game actually ''tells'' you is that they died from eating buttercups -- you have to look up [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculus#Toxicity the symptoms]] of buttercup poisoning on your own to realize just how nasty it was.
** Speaking of flowers, [[FoulFlower Flowey]] also has quite the horrifying one at the end of the Genocide Run. After realizing that Frisk is planning to kill him after having murdered every monster in the underground, Flowey [[DirtyCoward begs for his life,]] trying to convince Frisk that he's useful, and that he can help. He even goes so far as to invoke the image of his former self as Asriel Dreemurr, to dissuade you from killing him (as he still believes Frisk is Chara, the Fallen Child). Frisk, not shaken in the slightest by Flowey's pleas for mercy, repeatedly chops the crying flower in half and brutally crushes what remains afterwards to a pulp. Made worse by the fact that Flowey's face begins to fall apart from each strike, [[EyeScream his eyeball falling out and hanging from his socket]] as he is bifurcated and crushed at the same time. By the time Frisk finishes with poor Flowey, there is absolutely nothing left of him.
* ''Videogame/LifeIsStrange'' heavily implies that Rachel Amber was drugged, raped, butchered, violated violently, beaten, and left BuriedAlive by a SerialKiller who abducted her. The player finds her remains and Chloe suggests that it looks like she ''struggled'' to get out of her predicament.
* ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'':
** Pretty much ''anyone'' who's DevouredByTheHorde.
** Sarah gets EatenAlive by a group of zombies while crying out for her family to rescue her.
** Luke dies drowning underneath a frozen over river, desperately banging under the ice while Clementine tries all she can to crack it in order to save him to no avail or possibly getting dragged down ''deeper'' underwater by zombies. Either way, he'll die a painful death drowning and will most likely return as a zombie [[AndIMustScream permanently stuck on the bottom of the river.]]
* ''VisualNovel/DayshiftAtFreddys'' includes death by springlocks, usually PlayedForLaughs with loud screaming in the background. The springlocks activate any time you come into contact with liquid, move too hard inside the suit, or piss someone off to the point they activate it themselves, resulting in rusty metal spikes piercing through your lungs as blood sprays on the screen. Then, just to add insult to injury, your boss tells you that dying is against the rules and you're fired.
* Essentially the entire point of ''VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}'' is to find the most creative ways to kill enemies, after which you get given points based on your creativity which function as currency. Or at least, that's the point until you realize nothing can ever truly rack up points as quickly and easily as simply [[BoringButPractical locating the nearest set of spikes and kicking every enemy into them one by one]].
* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'':
** EMIYA Alter inflicts this with his Noble Phantasm, Unlimited Lost Works. First he shoots his opponent with an Origin Bullet. Shortly after the bullet enters them, dozens of swords erupt from their body.
** Olga Marie after the conclusion of the prologue is revealed [[spoiler:to be dead from the explosion that started the attack of Chaldea, but survived by sending her soul to rayshift along with the protagonist to Singularity F. The mastermind of the attack, Lev Lainur, drags her off from the Singularity and throws her into the copy of the Earth's soul Chaldeas, which right then was a molten slag of magma because of the Incineration of the Human Order caused by the aforementioned attack. This poor woman's soul is burning in literal hell for all eternity and in the anime ''First Order'', we see from the front row seat on how she was drowning in the scorching liquid fire as she screams for help]].
** In the SE.RA.PH chapter, Mabel Macintosh [[spoiler:was locked inside a battle royale between Chaldea personnel, chased by her crazed coworkers, before she was shot by the above mentioned EMIYA Alter. Her corpse was flayed by the chapter's ArcVillain, Kiara, who would then prance around in her skin as a disguise to fool the protagonist]].
* ''VideoGame/RandalsMonday'': Matt is subjected to this every Monday. He keeps killing himself in ridiculous ways with his outlandish appliances.

* ''{{Franchise/Metroid}}'':
** The scans of some of the corpses throughout the ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy'' reveal some details about their deaths. On the Frigate Orpheon in the [[VideoGame/MetroidPrime first game]], we have cases such as Space Pirates having their joints fused together by acid (and leaving them paralyzed) or having their internal organs eaten by parasites while they were still alive. In the [[VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes second game]], we have examples of some Federation Marines accidentally getting gassed to death with insecticides (which were meant to protect against giant predatory insects), Luminoth prisoners being used as target practice for young Warrior Ing and one Luminoth soldier starving to death while holding their post. Many of the Federation Troopers on the ''Valhalla'' in the [[VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption third game]] have suffered cases such as asphyxiation, ExplosiveDecompression from a cracked visor, or having their Phazon Enchancement Devices malfunction, causing the [[SentientPhlebotinum Phazon]] to slowly devour their remains.
** One of the Pirate Logs from the first ''Metroid Prime'' reveals that the Pirates tried to make their own version of Samus's Morph Ball. For context, the Morph Ball is a Power Suit ability that allows Samus [[ShapeshifterBaggage to compact her body into a sphere one meter in diameter without any apparent lasting physical harm]]. However, no one knows how it works (and the species that invented it is allegedly extinct), and the prototypes for the Pirate version ended up crushing the test subjects to death.
** The beam combos in ''Metroid Prime 2'' are [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill unusually brutal]]. The Sunburst essentially boils down to firing a miniaturized sun at your enemies, and if they aren't incinerated by a direct hit, they will be set on fire from the rays and eventually burn to death. The Darkburst creates a rift to a [[EldritchLocation dark dimension]] that sucks in enemies like a [[UnrealisticBlackHole black hole]] while ripping them apart molecule by molecule. The Sonic Boom fires a faster-moving projectile that creates a crack in the fabric of reality when it hits a target.
** All three of the corrupted bounty hunters besides Samus in ''Metroid Prime 3'' meet some rather brutal ends. Ghor and Gandrayda are both [[CannibalismSuperpower absorbed alive by Dark Samus]] after their respective boss fights, and this was after suffering [[PhlebotinumOverload Phazon overload]] (causing Ghor's PoweredArmor to explode while he's wearing it, and Gandrayda to go through a ShapeshifterSwanSong). While Rundas is already dead when Dark Samus absorbs him, he gets [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice skewered to death]] by at least three of his own giant icicles from underneath and frozen before that (whether it was Rundas's [[PhlebotinumOverload Phazon overloading]], [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Dark Samus executing him]], or Rundas [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled committing suicide]] after coming to his senses isn't clear).
** Crocomire in ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' gets backed into pool of acid and has its skin melted off while it's still alive. What's also horrific is that it survives long enough as a skeleton to get out before dying.
** Death by the titular Metroids is no walk in the park either. They latch onto their victims with their larger mandibles and suck out their life-force with the smaller ones, leaving behind a brittle husk that will collapse into dust with even the slightest bit of physical force against them.
** X Parasites from ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' are one of the most dangerous creatures in the cosmos, and for good reason. They can infect any creature through even the tiniest pore in their skin, attack the creature's central nervous system and spread throughout their body, eating them alive from the inside out while absorbing their DNA and memories. Samus would have died this way at the beginning of the game had the Federation not given her vaccine made from the cells of the last Metroid (as they were made by the Chozo to be the X's predator), and while her Power Suit may have prevented her from immediately dying, the infection was enough to put her in a coma.
* VideoGame/GuildWars2 minimizes the horror by not showing the gore, but most of the player stories get hit with this from the word 'go'.
** If a human street rat doesn't save their friend Quinn, they'll hear later how "half of him was in the lake and half was in the fountain."
** If a Synergetics asura chooses revenge over rescue, the Inquest murders Pol by throwing him to an incinerator golem.
** A sylvari going up against the Green Knight has the option of beating him to death with an enchanted hammer.
** All charr players messily lose their entire warband (and their leader, too, if playing Ash or Iron) to Ascalonian ghosts. And to make matters worse, said leader gets brought ''back'' as a grotesque shambling zombie.

* ''VideoGame/PeretEmHeruForThePrisoners'' has several of these in the form of the various punishments your companions can receive when judged. Among the most horrifying: Rin Tsukihara gets thrust and crushed through a wall by a bronze statue carrying them through like a demented Kool-Aid Man. They're then pinned against ''another'' wall with the statue's arm punching through their stomach, leading to them bleeding out before anyone can hope to help. By the by, [[WouldHurtAChild Rin is all of nine years old]].
* In ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'', Kieran Duffy, who defects from the Colm O'Driscoll gang to the Dutch van der Linde gang, is abducted by the O'Driscoll boys and has [[EyeScream his eyes gouged out]] and is then decapitated by them and put on display for the Van der Lindes to see.
** Also implied to be how Dutch's lover, Annabelle, died in the hands of the O'Driscoll gang. Dutch simply says he can never forgive Colm O'Driscoll for what he did to her, and the aforementioned death of Kieran makes it plain that they're not above torture.
** The player is allowed to kill non-playable characters in [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential some pretty brutal ways if they so choose]]. The player can do anything from hogtying an NPC and placing him or her on a train track, to feeding them to an animal, to even strangling them to death.
* Poor Sakuri in ''Demonophobia'' is regularly subjected to horrific deaths during her traversal of Hell itself. And to twist the knife, she eventually remembers every last one of them.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'', a lot of the non-hitscan projectiles result in this, like getting an [[https://i.imgur.com/fT3hfZv.png ice shard through the face]], [[https://i.imgur.com/X9kv5eH.png an arrow through the skull]], [[https://i.imgur.com/pNqCyH1.png or even an arrow through the eye.]] [[BloodlessCarnage Even without the blood and gore stuff]], it looks more than a little unnerving.
* ''VideoGame/{{IMGCM}}'':
** In Chapter 4 Episode 5 of the main story, Kaori is fatally injured and dies in an agonizing way after being ambushed by a demon from behind, fully voiced and completely shown onscreen. This [[FateWorseThanDeath leads to her]] [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie subsequent corruption into a demon]] with crunching, squishing, and gurgling noises included.
** In Chapter 6 Episode 5 of the main story, all magical heroines (only 6 out of 12 are recruited at that time) are killed after being brutally ambushed by demons, complete with a CG of their onscreen deaths: they died with [[DiesWideOpen opened eyes]] and [[BlackBlood pink blood]] dripping out from their dead bodies.
** In the {{NSFW}} [[HotterAndSexier DX version]], all the heroines' death scenes are accompanied with {{gorn}} and {{gratuitous rape}}s with [[TransformationHorror horrifying transformations into demons]].

** And the sequel has — decapitation, horizontal evisceration, head explosion, being chopped to pieces, arms being chopped off followed by decapitation, then having the still living head being sliced to bits, another decapitation with the same result, being stabbed through the head, the having the blade grind into the skull, machine gunned, disembowelment, suffocation, and finally being sliced in half from diving at Travis.

** The scans of some of the corpses throughout the ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy'' reveal some details about their deaths. On the Frigate Orpheon in the [[VideoGame/MetroidPrime first game]], we have cases such as Space Pirates having their joints fused together by acid (and leaving them paralyzed) or having their internal organs eaten by parasites while they were still alive. In the [[VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes second game]], we have examples of Luminoth being used as target practice for young Warrior Ing and one starving to death while holding their post. Many of the Federation Troopers on the ''Valhalla'' in the [[VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption third game]] have suffered cases such as asphyxiation, ExplosiveDecompression from a cracked visor, or having their Phazon Enchancement Devices malfunction, causing the [[SentientPhlebotinum Phazon]] to slowly devour their remains.

** ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation'' gives us The Scooper. [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman The animatronics can't feel it, of course]], but [[MegatonPunch Michael]] [[OneHitKO sure can]]... And that's not even going into [[GenuineHumanHide what happens]] [[GrandTheftMe when Ennard]] [[CameBackWrong takes over]]. Then there's what Baby [[EatsBabies does to Elizabeth, William's daughter]], [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone against her own will]]...

** Walter Sullivan in slits his own throat with a sharpened, prison-issue spoon. And that's perhaps the tamest death in the whole game...

* Gremio from ''VideoGame/SuikodenI'' is slowly devoured by a flesh eating fungus. [[EarnYourHappyEnding He can get better though.]]

* ''VideoGame/TheSexyBrutale'': There are your usual causes of death in this game, like gunshots or electrocution, but then there's...

** Trinity Carrington. Eaten by a giant spider.

* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' brings you it's RocksFallEveryoneDies ending, in which Bishop and Qara have their skulls ''literally'' smashed open by chunks of the falling ceiling.

* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' features - in cutscenes - disembowelment, vertical bisection, suicide by grenade-in-mouth, another vertical bisection followed by being blown up, an EyeScream followed by ''another'' vertical bisection performed by a huge buzzsaw, being TRISECTED, and a fist shoved through somebody's sternum (but Travis survives that last one) along with the usual beheadings and impalement. There's also Cranberry Chocolate Sundae, a LimitBreak based on the concept of killing as many {{Mooks}} this way as possible.
** And the sequel has - decapitation, horizontal evisceration, head explosion, being chopped to pieces, arms being chopped off followed by decapitation, then having the still living head being sliced to bits, another decapitation with the same result, being stabbed through the head, the having the blade grind into the skull, machine gunned, disembowelment, suffocation, and finally being sliced in half from diving at Travis.

** ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' can also have this if you choose the "Kill Killbane" ending; if the Boss beating Killbane up for several minutes before slowly snapping his neck wasn't enough (though [[AssholeVictim to be honest, he deserved it]]), Shaundi, Viola and Mayor Reynolds are all blown up in the statue explosion that ensues; the destruction of the monument gets pinned on the Saints, since all three's bodies were found in the wreckage. This may not look too bad at first sight, but [[AndYourLittleDogToo when it happens to characters who are dear not only to the protagonist but also to the player him/herself]],[[KillTheOnesYouLove as a way to]] [[RevengeByProxy torment or blame the protagonist]], it's pretty horrifying (and, though the game particularly doesn't make it ''too'' emotional, it's also [[TearJerker really sad]] to see your friends go that way.)

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' gives you Blade Mode will allows you to slice your opponents to ribbons. The main purpose of this is to slice them open so you can rip out their spine.''
** "Slice your opponents To ribbons"? More like kibble. You can literally have a single human sized opponent land in 1000 pieces if you want (which even the tutorial makes abundantly clear, and by the end of the game, you're pulling the same thing on a giant robot, using its own giant arm-sword to do it; Platinum Games makes some crazy stuff), and the game gives you a handy counter to track just how many bits you've mauled them into (although, yes, it's inefficient to employ that level of overkill, and blade mode does specifically encourage decapitation in a single stroke, followed promptly by a forceful spine extraction).

** ''Investigations 2'': Horace Knightley, stabbed in the throat. Isaac Dover, bludgeoned to death with a rock-salt ornament, then hidden inside an ice sculpture for over 10 years. Jill Crane, beaten to death with an auction gavel]] ''then'' stabbed in the chest with a candlestick. Jack Cameron, hit in the back of the head with a brick. Di-Jun Huang's double, crushed to death under a hot air balloon's basket (the autopsy report for this one was so brutal everyone was convinced he must have been stepped on by a {{Kaiju}}-esque monster). Not to mention the game involves a ProfessionalKiller whose main weapons were [[RightHandAttackDog his dog]] and ''woodcarving chisels''... yeah, this game has a lot of brutal deaths.

*** Throw them to the [[FedToTheBeast fluff-eating plants]] or to the ThreateningShark’s and dolphins', which also come in ''aquatic'' versions.

*** Throw them to the [[FedToTheBeast fluff-eating plants]] or to the ThreateningShark s and dolphins']], which also come in ''aquatic'' versions.

*** Throw them to the [[FedToTheBeast fluff-eating plants]] or to the [[ThreateningShark 's and dolphins']], which also come in ''aquatic'' versions.

** ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation'' gives us [[spoiler:The Scooper.]] [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman The animatronics can't feel it, of course]], but [[MegatonPunch Michael]] [[OneHitKO sure can]]... And that's not even going into [[GenuineHumanHide what happens]] [[GrandTheftMe when Ennard]] [[CameBackWrong takes over]]. Then there's what Baby [[EatsBabies does to Elizabeth, William's daughter]], [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone against her own will]]...

** And, if you choose not to put her out of her misery first, Alex's mother is slowly ripped in half by a Saw-esque death machine.

** ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'' reveals the existence of spring-loaded animatronics known as "springlock suits", can allow humans to wear them as costumes without harm (or rather, a FlawedPrototype of such). Wearing the springlock suits incorrectly, as described by recordings of Phone Guy, will result in one's body being crushed and impaled at once. The completion of Night 5 leads into a minigame which reveals that William Afton hid in one such suit to escape the ghosts of the five kids he killed, only for the spring locks in the suit to fail, causing the compressed parts to be released, visibly crushing him to death in a shower of ''blood'' (well, red pixels, given the Atari look the minigames have).

** ''Investigations 2'': Horace Knightley, stabbed in the throat. Isaac Dover, [[spoiler: bludgeoned to death with a rock-salt ornament, then hidden inside an ice sculpture for over 10 years]]. Jill Crane, [[spoiler: beaten to death with an auction gavel]] ''then'' stabbed in the chest with a candlestick. Jack Cameron, hit in the back of the head with a brick. [[spoiler:Di-Jun Huang's double]], crushed to death [[spoiler: under a hot air balloon's basket]] (the autopsy report for this one was so brutal everyone was convinced he must have been stepped on by a {{Kaiju}}-esque monster). Not to mention the game involves a ProfessionalKiller whose main weapons were [[RightHandAttackDog his dog]] and ''woodcarving chisels''... yeah, this game has a lot of brutal deaths.
** ''Dual Destinies'': Metis Cykes very narrowly avoided getting posthumously ''dismembered'', Jack Shipley was initially thought to have been killed by an orca, but actually [[spoiler: fell head-first into a drained pool.]]

* [[spoiler:Chara]] of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', if you do the research. All the game actually ''tells'' you is that they died from eating buttercups -- you have to look up [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculus#Toxicity the symptoms]] of buttercup poisoning on your own to realize just how nasty it was.
** Speaking of flowers, [[FoulFlower Flowey]] also has quite the horrifying one at the end of the Genocide Run. After realizing that Frisk is planning to kill him after having murdered every monster in the underground, Flowey [[DirtyCoward begs for his life,]] trying to convince Frisk that he's useful, and that he can help. [[spoiler:He even goes so far as to invoke the image of his former self as Asriel Dreemurr, to dissuade you from killing him (as he still believes Frisk is Chara, the Fallen Child).]] Frisk, not shaken in the slightest by Flowey's pleas for mercy, repeatedly chops the crying flower in half and brutally crushes what remains afterwards to a pulp. Made worse by the fact that Flowey's face begins to fall apart from each strike, [[EyeScream his eyeball falling out and hanging from his socket]] as he is bifurcated and crushed at the same time. By the time Frisk finishes with poor Flowey, there is absolutely nothing left of him.

** Most gruesomely, [[spoiler:stuffing the BigBad into a running ice chipper]].

* ''VideoGame/PeretEmHeruForThePrisoners'' has several of these in the form of the various punishments your companions can receive when judged. Among the most horrifying: [[spoiler:Rin Tsukihara]] gets thrust and crushed through a wall by a bronze statue carrying them through like a demented Kool-Aid Man. They're then pinned against ''another'' wall with the statue's arm punching through their stomach, leading to them bleeding out before anyone can hope to help. By the by, [[spoiler:[[WouldHurtAChild Rin is all of nine years old]]]].
* In ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'', [[spoiler: Kieran Duffy, who defects from the Colm O'Driscoll gang to the Dutch van der Linde gang, is abducted by the O'Driscoll boys and has [[EyeScream his eyes gouged out]] and is then decapitated by them and put on display for the Van der Lindes to see]].
** Also implied to be how Dutch's lover, Annabelle, died in the hands of the O'Driscoll gang. Dutch simply says he can never forgive Colm O'Driscoll for what he did to her, and [[spoiler: the aforementioned death of Kieran makes it plain that they're not above torture]].

* Poor Sakuri in ''Demonophobia'' is regularly subjected to horrific deaths during her traversal of Hell itself. [[spoiler:And to twist the knife, she eventually remembers every last one of them]].

** In the {{NSFW}} [[HotterAndSexier DX version]], [[spoiler:all the heroines' death scenes are accompanied with {{gorn}} and {{gratuitous rape}}s with [[TransformationHorror horrifying transformations into demons]]]].

** ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'' reveals the existence of spring-loaded animatronics known as "springlock suits", can allow humans to wear them as costumes without harm (or rather, a FlawedPrototype of such). Wearing the springlock suits incorrectly, as described by recordings of Phone Guy, will result in one's body being crushed and impaled at once. [[spoiler:The completion of Night 5 leads into a minigame which reveals that William Afton hid in one such suit to escape the ghosts of the five kids he killed, only for the spring locks in the suit to fail, causing the compressed parts to be released, visibly crushing him to death in a shower of ''blood'' (well, red pixels, given the Atari look the minigames have).]]
** ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation'' gives us [[spoiler:The Scooper.]] [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman The animatronics can't feel it, of course]], but [[MegatonPunch Michael]] [[OneHitKO sure can]]... [[spoiler:And that's not even going into [[GenuineHumanHide what happens]] [[GrandTheftMe when Ennard]] [[CameBackWrong takes over]].]] Then there's what [[spoiler:Baby [[EatsBabies does to Elizabeth, William's daughter]], [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone against her own will]]...]]

** [[spoiler:Becky Ames]] has her tongue removed the same way, is flayed alive and then strung up by wires in her own bathroom. Which, when cut, cause a trigger to activate that breaks her neck with her own bloodstained bed sheets.
** [[spoiler:Diane Ames]] had the same tongue thing, was stabbed in her side and ''appeared'' to be left to bleed out. But she was actually strung up above a huge and very spikey metal statue, which would have impaled her, had the ropes broken. And when ''that'' is avoided, the statue ends up falling and smashing her to bits.

* Judge Holloway got a drill shoved through her jaw in ''VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming'', [[spoiler:though given what her actions were in the game, and the fact that she was in the middle of trying to use that same drill on Alex, [[KarmicDeath she had it coming big time.]]]] If you fail the [[PressXToNotDie quick-time event]] immediately prior to this, Alex can suffer the same fate instead.

** Clay Rockridge. [[spoiler: He drinks spider venom so potent that before he's even dead it's melted the flesh away from his mouth.]]
** Trinity Carrington. [[spoiler: Eaten by a giant spider.]]
** Tequila Belle. [[spoiler: Fatally lacerated by a window that she shattered when her singing voice hit a high note.]]
** Greyson Grayson. [[spoiler: Crushed by SpikesOfDoom inside a Faraday Cage, bound via a ClutchingHandTrap so he can't escape through the trap door.]]

* ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden 2'' (2008) is full of this, [[BloodierAndGorier cranking the violence from its prodecessor]] UpToEleven, from getting your [[OffWithHisHead head cut off]], dismembered limb from limb, or [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe torn in half]] vertically OR horizontally {sometimes both} with a [[ExoticWeaponSupremacy variety of different weapons]], such as the [[KatanasAreJustBetter Dragon Blade]], [[SinisterScythe Eclipse Scythe]], [[WolverineClaws Falcon Talons]], [[DualWielding Dragon's Claw and Tiger's Fang]], [[SimpleStaff Lunar Staff]], and more. Also, the Ninpos can cause enemies to be [[KillItWithFire burned alive]], [[LudicrousGibs torn to chunks]] [[RazorWind by wind blades]], and more, and that's just for the {{Mooks}}. For bosses, you have plenty of [[EyeScream facial mutilation]] and {{impal|edWithExtremePrejudice}}ation to go around and the [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank amount of bloodshed involved]] is staggering (with waves of both human blood and AlienBlood galore).

** ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'': [[spoiler:After Comstock continues his decades-long abuse of Elizabeth, in person for once, Booker will grab Comstock's head and repeatedly smash it against the baptism basin, followed by drowning]].

** In Chapter 4 Episode 5 of the main story, [[spoiler:Kaori is fatally injured and dies in an agonizing way after being ambushed by a demon from behind, fully voiced and completely shown onscreen. This [[FateWorseThanDeath leads to her]] [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie subsequent corruption into a demon]] with crunching, squishing, and gurgling noises included.]]
** In Chapter 6 Episode 5 of the main story, [[spoiler:all magical heroines (only 6 out of 12 are recruited at that time) are killed after being brutally ambushed by demons, complete with a CG of their onscreen deaths: they died with [[DiesWideOpen opened eyes]] and [[BlackBlood pink blood]] dripping out from their dead bodies.]]

** ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'' reveal the existence of spring-loaded animatronics known as "springlock suits", can allow humans to wear them as costumes without harm (or rather, a FlawedPrototype of such). Wearing the springlock suits incorrectly, as described by recordings of Phone Guy, will result in one's body being crushed and impaled at once. [[spoiler:The completion of Night 5 leads into a minigame which reveals that William Afton hid in one such suit to escape the ghosts of the five kids he killed, only for the spring locks in the suit to fail, causing the compressed parts to be released, visibly crushing him to death in a shower of ''blood'' (well, red pixels, given the Atari look the minigames have).]]

** ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation'' gives us [[spoiler:The Scooper.]] [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman The animatronics can't feel it, of course]], but [[MegatonPunch Michael]] [[OneHitKO sure can]]... [[spoiler:and that's not even going into [[GenuineHumanHide what happens]] [[GrandTheftMe when Ennard]] [[CameBackWrong takes over]]...]] Then there's what [[spoiler:Baby [[EatsBabies does to Elizabeth, William's daughter]], [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone against her own will]]...]]

** The protagonists of [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys1 the first game]] and [[Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 its sequel]] get one in the Game Over: the animatronics take them and stuff them inside a suit. This wouldn't be a problem if the suits were fitted for humans, but as it stands they have a bunch of crossbeams in the torso and sharp mechanical parts in the head, essentially grinding the protagonist's face into paste and leaving only their eyes and teeth intact.