History DownerEnding / VideoGames

** If the PlayerCharacter makes the LastSecondEndingChoice to TakeOverTheWorld, not only do they immediately become DrunkOnTheDarkSide and become an EvilOverlord but they also reduce their TrueCompanions to mindless thralls. If playing as an evil Dark Urge it's even ''worse'' as the world is now in the hands of an OmnicidalManiac. Unlike the good ending this one lacks an epilogue so you don't get to see the full extent of your decisions.

** Killing Demichev results in Renko going back to 1955 and correcting his original mistake (saving Demichev). At first, things seem to have gone back to normal as the game replays the helicopter ride sequence from the beginning. However, this time the helicopters bear hammer and sickle insignias and there's a statue of Barisov in the distance, implying that Soviet Union still controls the world. This may qualify as a BittersweetEnding since the Soviet Union is implied to be less oppressive without Demichev in charge.

** Killing Demichev results in Renko going back to 1955 and correcting his original mistake (saving Demichev). At first, things seem to have gone back to normal as the game replays the helicopter ride sequence from the beginning. However, this time the helicopters bear hammer and sickle insignias and there's a statue of Barisov in the distance, implying that Soviet Union still controls the world.

* All the endings of ''VideoGame/AkaiKatana'':
** Kikyou is mortally wounded, telling Botan to live on in his place, and kills himself with the Blood Katana. He gives her the ability to see, and she says that she can feel him next to her.
** Tsubaki kills herself with the Blood Katana in order to bring Sumire back to life, but then Sumire decides to kill herself because she doesn't want to live without Tsubaki.
** Suzuran crushes Shion to death so that she can have the Blood Katana all to herself, but she ends up losing her youth to it just like Shion had.
** In the [[GoldenEnding True Ending]], all six of them destroy the Blood Katana together, and they all die [[BittersweetEnding for a better world]].

* Season 2 of ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'' ends with Alfred cracking under the stress of not knowing if Bruce will come home at night in addition to the trauma of having been kidnapped and tortured by Lady Arkham at the end of the previous season, and making the decision to leave Gotham and Bruce unless Bruce agrees to stop being Batman. The final choice of the game involves you either hanging up the cape and allowing evil to reign in Gotham once more, or answering the Bat-Signal and losing yet another father. The ending can be potentially even sadder if you kept up your [[DatingCatwoman relationship with Catwoman]] but failed to save her from being an unwilling member of the ComicBook/SuicideSquad.

* Activision's ''VideoGame/{{Apocalypse}}'' for [=PS1=] doesn't even give you a "lesser of two evils" ending. Trey Kincaid ([[InkSuitActor portrayed by Bruce Willis]]), after defeating the four horsemen, comes face to face with the BigBad himself. He says "see you in hell", but before he can fire, the Rev blasts Bruce with a bolt of lightning, [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie turning him into a "demon" himself]], complete with glowing HellishPupils. Who knows what he will unleash upon the universe.

* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'', for every possible ending. Best case scenario, you revive all your friends, send them to Sigil and then and go to the lower planes to suffer for all eternity for crimes committed by past incarnations. Alternatively, you can kill your mortality, leaving all your friends (save, possibly, one) still thoroughly dead, and you very likely facing oblivion. So oblivion or hell, no matter how nice you've been the entire game.

* ''Spinal Breakers'' has multiple endings, and the worst one involves the hero Captain Waffle defeating the final boss and being forced to shoot his wife and daughter, who have become infected. Then at the end of the credits roll, we hear [[DrivenToSuicide one final gunshot]].

** The endings in ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' are all downer endings by analysis. They all seem like they could lead to a better future for humanity: You could choose Darrow's option of telling the whole truth, thus getting the world to all but stop pursuing science and technology, and instead focus on their humanity and morals. You could choose Sarif's option of blaming the whole thing on Purity First and the anti-aug protesters, thus allowing humans to "steal fire from the gods," and by extension, become gods ourselves. You could choose Taggart's option of not revealing anything to the public, allowing the world to be run carefully and responsibly by trustworthy people unseen. Or you could simply blow up Panchea, killing Sarif, Darrow, Taggart, and yourself in the process, and leaving humanity to make their own choices. These all sound like perfectly good endings. That is, until you remember that Human Revoluton is a ''prequel'' to the CrapsackWorld of VideoGame/DeusEx. It doesn't actually matter which ending you choose, since the world ends up going to hell anyway.

* Both of ''VideoGame/EdnaAndHarveyTheBreakout'''s endings. One is much more obvious -- obeying Dr. Marcel leads to Edna willingly having her personality erased -- while the other is less so: choosing to instead push Dr. Marcel down the stairs leads to an epilogue that implies that she died trying to escape. [[VideoGame/EdnaAndHarveyHarveysNewEyes The sequel]], meanwhile, ''also'' features multiple endings, which follow a similar pattern. Choosing to obey Dr. Marcel again leads to Lilli being {{brainwashed}}, choosing to stab him leads to an ending implies that [[TheUnfettered Lilli abandoning her morals as the cost of being free, and the slightly hidden "contradict" ending has Lilli openly abandon the scene, with absolutely nothing being resolved.]]

* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'' has two of the most unambiguously bad endings in a Creator/FromSoftware game, both of which [[EarnYourBadEnding require you to go out of your way to get them]]. In addition, the quest-givers for these endings are open about their intentions, and in one case your companion Melina will outright beg you not to go any further and destroy the world.

** "Blessing of Despair": In this variant of the Elden Lord ending, the Tarnished accepts the Dung Eater's misanthropic ideology and uses his Mending Rune to fix the Elden Ring, dooming all mankind and the land itself to a FateWorseThanDeath that will spread from generation to generation. The narrator, who in other endings mostly sounds neutral, sounds ''horrified'' in this one.

* In the BL game ''Enzai: Falsely Accused'', as can be expected about a game that is riddled with PrisonRape, every ending that doesn't involve your main character being proven innocent and thus leaving prison is one of these. Among others are cases where he gets shot while trying to escape, ends up as an EmptyShell due to all the trauma or gets targeted by the BigBad, resulting in him going downright insane.

** ''Killzone 2 ends with you showing up in the Helghast Emperor's palace in order to arrest him. However, he points out that the ISA have lost millions of soldiers and entire fleets during the war, while the Helghast have lost "nothing" and only his leadership is keeping them in check. In anger, resident EthnicScrappy Rico [[NiceJobBreakingItHero kills him, only for you to find out he wasn't lying, as a substantial Helghast fleet, that had been kept in reserve, begins its vicious counter-attack.]]