History EverybodyDiesEnding / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'':
** ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'' is happening ''after'' an "Everybody Dies" Ending; both the Classics and the Toys have long been destroyed by now, the night guards of the previous games are either dead or old men due to the time gap, and the SoleSurvivor[[note]]Until the following games revealed more survivors, that is[[/note]]] is Springtrap; who is, [[BookEnds fittingly enough]], [[BigBad the man who started it all]]. The game ends with even Springtrap ultimately dying in a fire (until he was later revealed to be NotQuiteDead) while the GoldenEnding has the souls of his victims moving on to the afterlife.

* The [[MultipleEndings appropriately named]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Armageddon Ending]] in ''VideoGame/LiveALive'', where [[BigBad Oersted/Odio]] nuke all of existence. The Sad Ending also counts, despite having a far lower body count, because you still kill all the heroes, and at the end Oersted wanders around his now-empty kingdom, suggesting that he slaughtered the inhabitants before the chapter begins.

*** Present: Each of Masaru’s opponents is killed by Odie O'Bright, who is then killed by Masaru in self-defense. This is seven out of eight characters.

*** Japan: One of the paths the player can take is to kill all 100 people in the castle, including prisoners and innocent bystanders. In this route, the only survivors are Oboro himself, and Ryoma, the man whom he rescues from the dungeon (and it’s implied that [[ForegoneConclusion the latter will soon be assassinated anyway]]).
*** Medieval: After the DiscOneFinalBoss, Hasshe succumbs to the plague which he had the whole time [[CriticalExistenceFailure but did not affect him before now]], and Streibough is then crushed by a collapsing ceiling trap. What’s left of the party returns to the castle, and, in the middle of the night, Oersted sees the Lord of Dark seated on the throne, [[ButThouMust and kills it]]. Only for it to turn out that the demon was an illusion, and he just killed the real king. He’s arrested, and Uranus uses the last of his power to break him out, and then dies. He is then forced to slaughter all the guards who try to apprehend him and escapes to the Archon's Roost, where he tries to set things right by killing the Lord of Dark once and for all. He makes it to the top, only to learn that Streibough faked his death, and arranged the whole thing. They fight, and Streibough dies for real this time. And when Oersted finally finds Alethea, she commits suicide because of all that happened. This triggers Oersted’s [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy Maddening into Misanthropy]], he completely snaps, and becomes Odio, the new Lord of Dark. The final chapter, which is a sequel to this one, shows everyone in Lucrece as ghosts, so Oersted/Odio killed them too.

{{Everybody Dies Ending}}s in VideoGames.
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* In ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsIII'', almost every single named character (even the [[NoNameGiven nameless Player]]) is dead by the end of the campaign.
* In ''VideoGame/CallofDutyInfiniteWarfare'', nearly every character is dead by the end of the game; the only ''Retribution'' survivors are Salter, Brooks, "Boats", and Kloos. Additionally, a large majority of the armed forces of both the SDF and the UNSA have been destroyed; the latter, at this point, has ''literally'' no navy.

* [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in ''The Classroom''. Although nobody actually succeeds in passing all the tests, many students are eliminated in non-lethal ways -- fighting or being caught cheating and removed from the classroom, or implicitly disqualified from continuing offscreen. However, all of the main cast (appears to) die(s) -- the geek is blown up by the grenade attack on day 9, the teacher is shot by the third student on day 10, and the protagonist is DrivenToSuicide by this. Several other students also (appear to) die, including the initial suicide victim, who throws themselves out of the window, as well as the victims of the grenade attack, the only other student besides yourself to attend on the day of the shooting, and [[MurderSuicide the shooter]].
** And the vague nature of the game [[{{WMG}} makes it possible to hypothesize]] that [[LighterAndSofter none of the apparent "casualties" died, merely were grievously wounded and recovered]]. At least the protagonist survives this way until the sequels.

* According to Creator/TetsuyaNomura, at one point in development in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Creator/HironobuSakaguchi and Creator/KazushigeNojima both wanted to kill off every character in the party apart from Cloud and the two other party members the player brings with them. According to them, they were getting pretty excited until Nomura managed to talk them out of it, saying it would rob Aerth' death of its impact.
** While no confirmed, Cait Sith would have likely survived if this idea happened since Reeve would have been in Midgar and could have made a new Cait Sith like what happened in the Temple of the Ancients.
* ''Videogame/FinalFantasyXV'' also featured a lot of the main cast killed off. First off King Regis is killed during the invasion of Insomnia, a lot of Niflheim's generals including Loqi, Caligo, and Iedolas are also killed in the boss battles. Lunafreya gets murdered by Ardyn, which causes the starscourge and turns a lot of innocent people into daemons, and he kills her brother Ravus soon after. Noctis sacrifices himself to permanently destroy Ardyn in the spiritual world after defeating and killing him in the physical one. The fates of Ignis, Gladiolus, and Prompto are left ambiguous as they are last seen about to fight a bunch of Iron Giants while Noctis performs his sacrifice but WordOfGod has confirmed they did survive to rebuild the world in his absence. Cid and his granddaughter Cindy were revealed to have lived as was Gladiolus' sister Iris. Talcott was also confirmed to be still alive at the end of the game as was Aranea Highwind.
* Depending upon your interpretation of the ending of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'', it might be just this. Every villain is killed, possibly all of House Beoulve the entire playable cast might have been blown away by the Final Boss's death explosion in the Airship Graveyard, and as for Delita and Ovelia, they have a frank discussion of their mutual differences using knives. Every non-playable character you meet is murdered somehow. By the end the last surviving characters are the ones at Ramza's funeral -- and one of them is said to have been executed by the Church in the frame story. Valmafra, Mustafo's dad, and ironically Aerith is the only confirmed survivors. Orran also survived long to have produced at least one son but is mentioned in the epilogue to have been executed.
* At the end of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyType0'', everyone from Class Zero except Machina and Rem (and she died once) dies from the final battle and the epilogue says that Machina dies with a smile after 50 years of bliss with Rem. The NewGamePlus ending gave them all a much happier ending, but you still have to see them die. And even then, this is a "what if" ending so, canonically, Class Zero is all dead.
* In ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 Final Fantasy X-2]]'', losing, or taking too long, against the final boss Vegnagun will result in it [[BadEnd firing, obliterating not only your party but all of Spira]].
* ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2 Final Fantasy XIII-2]]'' is just heartwrenching. Despite all the multiple endings, only one of them is actually canon, and it's the worst ending possible. In the true ending, [[TheHeroDies Serah dies]], then '''EVERYONE DIES''' (except for Noel, maybe). And then it's revealed that Lightning has been TakenForGranite. [[DownerEnding The end.]]
** ''[[VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII Lightning Returns]]'' clears up some of the confusion though. While it is revealed that not ''everyone'' died, a good chunk of the population was eradicated during the TimeCrash. And the trailers for ''Lightning Returns'' show that Lightning, Noel, Hope, Fang, and even Snow are alive and well, along with some form of civilization.

* ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'': ''Extraction Point'', the [[CanonDisContinuity non-canon]] MissionPackSequel to ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon FEAR]]'', ends with all the protagonist's teammates dead, the protagonist himself on the verge of death, having failed to defeat the BigBad, and TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt looming.
** The actual canon continuation, ''FEAR 2'', isn't much better...Every ally that protagonist Michael Beckett comes into contact with except one dies throughout the course of the game, and Beckett himself is ''raped'' by the BigBad at the very end, his fate after that left hanging.

* A self-imposed challenge is done by players of the ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'' series of games.

* In ''[[VideoGame/HotaruNoNikkiTheFireflyDiary htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary]]'', there are only four characters -- the main character Mion, her mother, her father, and her dog. Mion is killed while she is sleeping and her parents try to bring her back by creating clones of her. Things return to normal, but the spirit of the original Mion is angry to find herself replaced and kills the entire family. The spirits of her parents become the fireflies Lumen and Umbra who lead a cloned Mion through dangerous ruins. Eventually, in the true ending, they encounter the original Mion's spirit who kills the clone Mion and possesses her body which brings her back to life. However, the clone Mion's spirit becomes enraged at having been abandoned for the original Mion and kills Lumen and Umbra, destroying her parents for good, and causes the original Mion to be unable to use her body. After the clone and original reconcile, the two bask in the sunlight before their spirits disappear.

* The final battle of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' is the aptly-named "SuicideMission". AnyoneCanDie, up to and including [[PlayerCharacter Commander Shepard]] him/herself if you're insufficiently prepared. Anyone except [[NonActionGuy Joker]], anyway. Do note that the worst case scenario for that mission isn't canon, as Shepard's death would make the events of Mass Effect 3 impossible.
* The Refusal Ending of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''. ''Everyone from every civilization in the entire galaxy is killed by the Reapers.''
** Also the low-EMS Destroy ending, in which the Crucible misfires and causes massive destruction on Earth and presumably throughout the galaxy. While the final cinematic in the Extended Cut shows that some people survived, every main character is implied to die except Admiral Hackett, who is shown to be in a situation where he probably won't be alive for much longer.

* The vast computer system that controls the {{Precursors}} of ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends''. Good thing Mega Man's the only surviving entity that can override it, or else it would've actually happened. ''Twice''.
** Similarly, though it hasn't happened yet, the Classic Megaman Franchise must end with everyone dying to kick off the events of the X Franchise. Most of the fandom agrees that Zero will end up murdering them.

* ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' has one of the main characters as well as his entire squad, a pilot he just rescued, and countless other Marines, dying in a nuclear explosion. On the SAS side, the player is forced to watch as his entire squad is slowly killed off before being able to kill the BigBad once and for all.
* In ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare2'', only three characters in the main storyline survive. The same three that survived the first game. In the Washington side plot, everyone with a name seems to survive.
* In ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare3'', Soap dies near the end of the game, and Yuri [[HeroicSacrifice buys some time]] so that Price could kill [[BigBad Makarov]]. Price survives, along with Nikolai.
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat''

* In the ''Persona'' series, this tends to be the bad result...except for ''[[VideoGame/Persona2 Persona 2: Innocent Sin]]'', in which this is the ''only'' ending; the world is destroyed except for Sumaru City, and party member Maya Amano is speared to death. You go back and change it, wiping the party's memories of each other in the process...until the protagonist remembers, causing the events of ''Persona 2: Eternal Punishment'' when it all happens ''again''.

* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'' One of the possible endings in the game, the Genocide Ending can be achieved if the player kills all the characters except for Senpai and the few other unkillables in the first day. Yandere-chan does this so nobody can come in between her and Senpai, whom she later kidnaps.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', ''you'' can do this, earning the most difficult FinalBoss and the [[EarnYourBadEnding absolute worst ending in the game]] for your troubles, aptly nicknamed by the fandom: '''Genocide Route'''. Emphasis on ''all'' -- you must grind until [[AntiGrinding ''there are no more monsters'' ]] in each area so that random encounters only say "but nobody came", because you killed them all. And if you spare even one Boss or UniqueEnemy [[labelnote:*]]Barring very, ''very'' few exceptions like [[WarmupBoss Napstablook]][[/labelnote]], or you kill a boss before killing every monster in their area, you get one of the Neutral endings instead depending on which bosses you killed and how many mooks you killed. But if you do succeed in your slaughter of ''absolutely everyone'', you'll kill Sans, Flowey, and ''the world itself''.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', ''you'' can do this, earning the most difficult FinalBoss and the [[EarnYourBadEnding absolute worst ending in the game]] for your troubles, aptly nicknamed by the fandom: '''Genocide Route'''. Emphasis on ''all'' -- you must grind until [[AntiGrinding ''there are no more monsters'']] in each area so that random encounters only say "but nobody came", because you killed them all. And if you spare even one Boss or UniqueEnemy [[labelnote:*]]Barring very, ''very'' few exceptions like [[WarmupBoss Napstablook]][[/labelnote]], or you kill a boss before killing every monster in their area, you get one of the Neutral endings instead depending on which bosses you killed and how many mooks you killed. But if you do succeed in your slaughter of ''absolutely everyone'', you'll kill Sans, Flowey, and ''the world itself''.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', ''you'' can do this, earning the most difficult FinalBoss and the [[EarnYourBadEnding absolute worst ending in the game]] for your troubles, aptly nicknamed by the fandom: '''Genocide Route'''. Emphasis on ''all'' -- you must grind until [[AntiGrinding''there are no more monsters'']] in each area so that random encounters only say "but nobody came", because you killed them all. And if you spare even one Boss or UniqueEnemy [[labelnote:*]]Barring very, ''very'' few exceptions like [[WarmupBoss Napstablook]][[/labelnote]], or you kill a boss before killing every monster in their area, you get one of the Neutral endings instead depending on which bosses you killed and how many mooks you killed. But if you do succeed in your slaughter of ''absolutely everyone'', you'll kill Sans, Flowey, and ''the world itself''.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', ''you'' can do this, earning the most difficult FinalBoss and the [[EarnYourBadEnding absolute worst ending in the game]] for your troubles, aptly nicknamed by the fandom: '''Genocide Route'''. Emphasis on ''all'' -- you must grind until ''there are no more monsters'' in each area so that random encounters only say "but nobody came", because you killed them all. And if you spare even one Boss or UniqueEnemy [[labelnote:*]]Barring very, ''very'' few exceptions like [[WarmupBoss Napstablook]][[/labelnote]], or you kill a boss before killing every monster in their area, you get one of the Neutral endings instead depending on which bosses you killed and how many mooks you killed. But if you do succeed in your slaughter of ''absolutely everyone'', you'll kill Sans, Flowey, and ''the world itself''.

* ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}''[='s=] endings both qualify. At ''most'', the merchant, the tutorial's teacher, a single NPC, and a BonusBoss survive. Otherwise, you and the Batter literally pull the plug (or rather, the switch) on the entire world and everyone in it.

** According to "The Secret Song of King Wulfharth", this was the fate of nearly all of the leaders at the [[GreatOffscreenWar Battle of Red Mountain]]. Wulfharth blinded Alandro Sul with a [[LanguageOfMagic Thu'um]] [[MakeMeWannaShout shout]], but was himself struck down with "grievous wounds". Meanwhile, Nerevar, Dagoth, Dumac, and Shor who had been reunited with his [[CosmicKeystone Heart]] all killed each other but not before Nerevar was able to cut out Shor's heart once again.

EverybodyDiesEnding in video games.

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'', after fighting his way to the capital to clear his family name and defeat the real villains, Sigurd, and his army is betrayed and killed by Arvis. Just before killing Sigurd, Arvis even shows off his new wife Deirdre who used to be Sigurd's wife before being kidnapped and brainwashed. The second half of the game picks up after a TimeSkip, with Sigurd and the rest of the army's children having to pick up the pieces.

** ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' had one that was DummiedOut but available with the Restored Content GameMod. Once again the [[EarnYourBadEnding correct sequence of choices]] as well as throwing the fight between Atton and Darth Sion will lead to only four (TheExile, Bao-Dur, T3-M4, and HK-47) of the eleven crewmen of the Ebon Hawk alive.

** ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' originally kicks this off with Max Payne, Alfred Woden, Vladimir Lem, and Vinnie Gognitti being the only major characters to live to the second game (with the Gognitti barely doing so when Max leaves him bleeding to death in an alley).

* In one ending for ''VideoGame/NotForBroadcast'', all of the main characters die. Jeremy Donaldson dies during his mental breakdown (either [[DrivenToSuicide by his own hand]] or via DeathByCop), Peter Clements dies off-screen when Julia Salisbury has him assassinated after he speaks out against her [[NukeEm using nuclear weapons on other countries]], and in the finale, Alan James assassinates Julia Salisbury, shoots Colin and Jenny, then detonates a bomb vest in a SuicideAttack, killing everyone in the studio (possibly including you). The only named character that survives all this is Geoff Algebra -- and judging by how depressed he is in a humiliating role on a shitty children's show, he probably wishes he was dead, too.