History EverybodyDiesEnding / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed II'''s [[DownerEnding Dark Side ending]] has Starkiller's DiabolusExMachina clone kill him and his allies before going on to do the same to [[TheBadGuyWins the entire cast of the original film trilogy]]. Sidious turns on Vader for violating the RuleOfTwo and threatens to have him killed as well before subjecting the clone to a BolivianArmyEnding.

** They deleted the Kill 'em All ending from ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' as well.

** ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception Deception]]'' [[DroppedABridgeOnHim drops a bridge]] on most of the older characters at the beginning of the game, including Cage, Sonya, Kitana, Jax, Liu Kang, and Raiden.
** Liu Kang was actually already killed [[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance in the previous game]]. And as for Raiden, it's not like death keeps him down for long -- he's unlockable anyway.

* 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]] or [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Jerry]][[/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''.

** Liu Kang was actually already killed [[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance in the previous game]]. And as for Raiden, it's not like death keeps him down for long -- he's unlockable anyway (as the CameBackWrong [[FanNickname Dark Raiden]]).

** In the non-epilogue ending, Walker is horrified by a revelation after confronting Konrad, and kills himself out of guilt over his actions, resulting in Walker joining the already huge body count.

* ''VideoGame/Inscryption'' ends with P03 murdered in front of you and the game itself being deleted, all of the characters you met along the way dying without a goodbye as all the remaining three Scrybes use their final moments to play one last game with you. As if that wasn't overkill, even the player of the game, Luke Carder, is then murdered shortly after.

** ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' plays with this, in that Earth survives the demonic invasion, but the game closes off the overarching story of Argent and the Maykrs this way: the Khan Maykr and all three Hell Priests are killed, potentially dooming Urdak due to the pact between them and Hell being broken; the Doom Slayer kills the Icon of Sin stopping the invasion and causing all surviving demons to flee, and the long-extinct Aggadon Hunters turned Doom Hunters are extinct ''again''. Once again are the Slayer, Hayden and probably [=VEGA=] are left in terms of the most primary characters.

* ''VideoGame/{{Alundra}}'' is the epitome of this trope. Its story revolves around villagers being killed through their dreams, and the titular dream walker Alundra trying to save them. However, [[spoiler: he fails to save most of them, and by the end of the game, most of the cast has been killed off, including, depressingly, every single person who Alundra had rescued from a nightmare earlier in the game.]]

* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar 2: Retribution'' has this occur in the Tyranids' ending: the resurgent Hive Fleet drives off the Inquisition, then proceeds to devour the subsector, killing 94% of all Guardsmen stationed there, and every last loyalist Blood Raven... to say nothing of the billions of civilians in the subsector. The last shot in the ending is bugged as far as the eye can see.

** And then finally the ending of ''VideoGame/DeadSpace3'' where Isaac and Carver make their HeroicSacrifice as Ellie escapes... until the post-credits Stinger.

*** Since Jensen returns as the main character in ''Videogame/DeusExMankindDivided'', the "Cover Up" ending is the canon one. As it’s revealed that Adam was rescued and recovered... [[NoOneShouldSurviveThat somehow]].

** ''[[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, [[spoiler:Noel, Hope, Fang]], and even [[spoiler:Snow]] are alive and well, along with some form of civilization.

** 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.

* ''VideoGame/{{LISA}}'' ends with [[spoiler: all of the primary characters (excluding Buddy) dead. As for the background characters, there are the scattered remnants of the Joy Boys, and Widdly 2 Diddly's followers, with the other half of Olathe's fate being left unclear]].
* The [[MultipleEndings appropriately named]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Armageddon Ending]] in ''VideoGame/LiveALive''. The worst part is that since you're playing as the bosses (which means you've ''already'' passed the MoralEventHorizon by [[spoiler: picking [[BigBad Oersted/Odio]] as your [[VillainProtagonist final chapter protagonist]]]]), it's ''you'' who gives the command to nuke all of existence. And to gain access to the ending, you must let the heroes [[DesperationAttack beat you within an inch of your life]], so you pretty much ''[[EarnYourBadEnding have to go out of your way to get this ending.]]'' [[YouBastard You just HAD to get 100% completion, didn't you?]] The Sad Ending also counts, despite having a far lower body count, because [[spoiler:you still kill all the heroes]], and at the end [[spoiler:Oersted]] wanders around his now-empty kingdom, suggesting that he slaughtered the inhabitants before the chapter begins.
** As far as individual chapters go, the Ancient China, Present Day, Far Future, and [[spoiler:Medieval]] chapters end this way, and the player [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential has the option]] of invoking it in the Feudal Japan chapter. However, it’s downplayed as in each case, [[OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding the hero of the chapter lives]]. To wit:
*** China: Halfway through, the villainous kung fu school [[spoiler:invades yours, and kills the two students who aren’t the successor]]. The Master and [[spoiler:surviving]] student [[StormingTheCastle break into the villain’s lair]] to avenge their deaths, and slaughter each of the {{Big Bad}}’s minions in the room. Just after the Master passes on his final technique, he dies while taking the last of the {{Mooks}} with him, and the successor kills Odi Wang Lee.
*** Present: [[spoiler:Each of Masaru’s opponents]] is killed by Odie Oldbright, who is then killed by Masaru in self-defense. This is seven out of eight characters.
*** Future: The only survivors of the starship are Cube himself, [[spoiler:Kato]] (who is badly injured), and [[spoiler:Darth]]. Technically, [[spoiler:OD-10]] is still alive in some sense, but as all its memories were deleted and it was forcibly shut down [[spoiler:with its murderous personality destroyed]], its original self is pretty much dead too.

*** [[spoiler:Medieval]]: After the DiscOneFinalBoss, [[spoiler:Hash]] succumbs to the plague which he had the whole time [[CriticalExistenceFailure but did not affect him before now]], and [[spoiler:Straybow]] 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 Demon King seated on the throne, [[ButThouMust and kills it]]. Only for it to turn out that [[spoiler:the Demon was an illusion]], and he just killed [[spoiler:the real king]]. He’s arrested, and [[spoiler: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 Forbidden Zone, where he tries to set things right by killing the Demon King once and for all. He makes it to the top, only to learn that [[spoiler:Straybow]] faked his death, and arranged the whole thing. They fight, and [[spoiler:Straybow]] dies for real this time. And when Oersted finally finds Alicia, she [[spoiler:commits suicide]] because of all that happened. This triggers [[spoiler:Oersted’s [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy Maddening into Misanthropy]], he completely snaps, and ''becomes'' Odio all along]]. The final chapter, which is a sequel to this one, shows [[spoiler:everyone in Lucretia]] as ghosts, so [[spoiler:Oersted/]]Odio killed them too.

** The climax of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'''s story mode kills off a pretty sizeable chunk of the cast. By ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', some of the characters are brought back, albeit as [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies revenants]] [[spoiler:(although [[DeathIsCheap some get better]])]].

* By the end of ''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'', a large portion of the main cast dies with only [[spoiler: Emil, Yonah, and either Nier or Kaine, (depending on which ending you choose)]] being alive at the end. However, [[spoiler: Ending E from the UpdatedRerelease/[[AllThereInTheManual Grimoire Nier]] ends with Nier BackFromTheDead.]] Which makes it optimistic until you realize that, thanks to Nier's actions, [[spoiler: all of mankind dies between this game and ''VideoGame/NierAutomata''.]]
** Its sequel, ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'', both plays it straight and subverts it during [[spoiler: Route C/D which begins with the Bunker and most of the [=YoRHa=] units dying, 2B being infected by the [[TheCorruption Logic Virus]] and being killed by A2 (by 2B's order). Later, the virus infects Pascal's village, ending with a few slew of survivors (all of them children) who commit mass suicide, and you can kill Pascal as well if you want. Devola and Popola sacrifice their lives later to allow 9S to proceed to the final area to defeat the Terminals who are the ones behind the whole war. Ending C ends with A2 performing a HeroicSacrifice with a stinger who implies that 9S also dies, while Ending D ends with 9S killing A2 and, depending on the player's choice, 9S dying on earth.]] [[spoiler:[[{{Subverted|Trope}}In Ending E]], the pods, having gained emotions, rebuild 2B, 9S and A2, giving them a second chance at life, making it the [[GoldenEnding happiest outcome]] in a Creator/YokoTaro game.]]\\

* 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/RomancingSaga3'' plays with this trope a bit. If you lose against the FinalBoss, it destroys the planet and kills everyone. If you win against it... it destroys the planet and kills everyone only for the earth and its inhabitants to return shortly after thanks to the efforts of the two chosen ones and the Death Eclipse [[note]]Morastrum in the official english version.[[/note]] is permanetly over.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', the cinematic for the "World of Light" adventure mode shows the cast standing against Galeem, who absorbs an enormous amount of energy, unleashing devastating destruction upon the entire universe, killing the entirety of the cast... [[SoleSurvivor except Kirby who managed to reach safety.]] This is downplayed, as the adventure centers around rescuing all the fighters and taking down Galeem [[spoiler:and his evil counterpart, Dharkon, too.]]

** [[spoiler:As of Season 2 Episode 1, they survived for a few months before Omid was killed, then nearly a year and a half later Christa goes missing and her fate is unconfirmed]]
** [[spoiler:Season 2 ends with only Clementine, AJ and possibly Jane or Kenny surviving, depending on the player's final choice.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', ''you'' can do this, earning the most difficult FinalBoss and the 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]] or [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Jerry]][[/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''.

* The second half of ''VideoGame/Everhood'' involves Red the puppet killing every character in the game.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', ''you'' can do this, earning the most difficult FinalBoss and the 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, 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 the bad ending of ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'', the final boss fight is against your former party members, ending with them all dead, as it's impossible to lose. It's then implied that your character goes on to end humanity as the credits roll over a black background.

* By the end of ''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'', a large portion of the main cast dies with only [[spoiler: Emil, Yonah, and either Nier or Kaine, (depending on which ending you choose)]] being alive at the end. Also, thanks to Nier's actions, [[spoiler: all of mankind dies between this game and ''VideoGame/NierAutomata''.]]

** In Nocturne: The True Demon ending involves preventing creation from ever happening again, breaking the cycle of destruction and rebirth.

** The Same thing happens in the original ''VideoGame/FarCry''.

* Tecmo's ''Deception'' series (and its [=PS2=] sequel ''Trapt'') winds up with almost every single character dead by the end of each game, that's any mook you see, any minor or major character along with the main character too, none of them are safe.

** Its sequel, ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'', both plays it straight and subverts it during [[spoiler: Route C/D which begins with the Bunker and most of the YoRHa units dying, 2B being infected by the [[TheCorruption Logic Virus]] and being killed by A2 (by 2B's order). Later, the virus infects Pascal's village, ending with a few slew of survivors (all of them children) who commit mass suicide, and you can kill Pascal as well if you want. Devola and Popola sacrifice their lives later to allow 9S to proceed to the final area to defeat the Terminals who are the ones behind the whole war. Ending C ends with A2 performing a HeroicSacrifice with a stinger who implies that 9S also dies, while Ending D ends with 9S killing A2 and, depending on the player's choice, 9S dying on earth.]] [[spoiler:[[{{Subverted|Trope}}In Ending E]], the pods, having gained emotions, rebuild 2B, 9S and A2, giving them a second chance at life, making it the [[GoldenEnding happiest outcome]] in a Creator/YokoTaro game.]]\\

* The ending of ''VideoGame/AgarestSenki'' implies that everyone except the party members are going to die. And guess what? This is not the bad ending or the normal ending. This ''is the TRUE ENDING''. Justified because the gods have supported the world and since you just kicked their asses, the world now belongs to the mortals but first, the ones who live at the continents have to die first.

* Staying true to the [[Franchise/{{Alien}} movie franchise]] it's based off of, ''VideoGame/AlienIsolation'' kills off all characters except for [[TheHero Amanda herself]]. There are only two characters in the whole game whose fates are [[UncertainDoom uncertain]], but they most likely didn't survive either.
* ''VideoGame/{{Alundra}}'' is an epitome of this trope. Its story revolves around villagers being killed through their dreams, and the titular dreamwalker Alundra trying to save them. However, [[spoiler: he fails to save most of them, and by the end of the game, most of the cast has been killed off, including, depressingly, every single person who Alundra had rescued from a nightmare earlier in the game.]]

* ''VideoGame/CognitiveDissonance'': In the Bad Ending, the heroes all die trying to distract Gigyas from Zarbol travelling through time. [[DoomedByCanon Zarbol then promptly dies as per canon.]]
* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar 2: Retribution'' has this occur in the Tyranids' ending: the resurgent Hive Fleet drives off the Inquisition, then proceeds to devour the subsector, killing 94% of all Guardsmen stationed there, and every last loyalist Blood Raven... to say nothing of the billions of civilians in the subsector. The last shot in the ending is bugs as far as the eye can see.

** ''Dead Space 2'' repeats the pattern. Everyone except Isaac and Ellie end up dead or turned into a Necromorph.

* ''Videogame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' can end up this way depending on your actions, with only Frank Pritchard, Megan Reed, the Tongs and Bob Page as the certain survivors (with all but Pritchard being DoomedByCanon).
** Of the key characters who die, Zeke Sanders, Isaius Sandoval, and Faridah Malik can all die if Jensen doesn't intervene. Bill Taggart, Hugh Darrow, David Sarif and protagonist Adam Jensen also die should the player choose the "Cover Up" ending and destroy Panchaea along with most of the protagonists/antagonists.

* Not only does everyone die in ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'', the final dungeon is itself the afterlife (which is deep within the Sun!). Amazingly, you can still wrangle a good ending out of this.
* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''. By the end of the first episode every single living character, no matter how minor, is confirmed dead. That's every single one of the scientists your crew was sent to check up on, every single one of your teammates no matter what station, and the protagonist himself is killed in the episode finale to boot.

** This is once again the case for ''VideoGame/Doom2016'', as the Doom Slayer does his work in killing every demon he sees. The body count ends with MissionControl [=VEGA=] performing a HeroicSacrifice, and BigBad Olivia Pierce turning into the Spider Mastermind and dying in battle. By the end of the game only you and Samuel Hayden are left.
** ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' plays with this, in that Earth survives the demonic invasion, but the game closes off the overarching story of Argent and the Maykrs this way: the Khan Maykr and all three Hell Priests are killed, potentially dooming Urdak due to the pact between them and Hell being broken; the Doom Slayer kills the Icon of Sin stopping the invasion and causing all surviving demons to flee; and the long extinct Aggadon Hunters turned Doom Hunters are extinct ''again''. Once again are the Slayer, Hayden and probably [=VEGA=] are left in terms of the most primary characters.

* Lu Bu's ending in ''Videogame/DynastyWarriors 6'' can count. In the final stage, an alliance has been formed against Lu Bu and his men. This alliance has many warlords including Liu Bei, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Sun Quan, Zhang Jiao and Dong Zhuo. Even the likes of Liu Yao, Liu Zhang, Yuan Shu, Liu Biao, Zhang Lu and Kong Rong get involved. When their first attack plan doesn't work, they all attempt to attack Lu Bu together. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV25hHhh7l8 No points for guessing how it turned out.]]

* The way ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' plays, almost no NPC's are essential (children are, as usual, always essential), and thus nearly anybody can die with few particular exceptions. The only NPC you cannot permanently kill at any point is Yes Man, as he will always reappear in Benny's suite and state he uploaded to a new Securitron. The only other real exception is the DLC "Dead Money" where you cannot kill the other [=NPCs=] until the very end of the DLC due to plot reasons, and the same for Old World Blues where you cannot kill the [=NPCs=] until the end. Beyond that, it is open season on every other NPC you normally come across, and can murder the whole Mojave if you're so inclined to do so. This can make the game incredibly difficult as you lock yourself out of XP dumps from quests, and you will lose every vendor in the game if you end up killing them all.
* This is the ''good'' option in the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' ''Nuka-World'' DLC: the Open Season quest is to kill all three Raider groups who are living there instead of working with them. Of course, you can always wait to do so until after you've gotten all the equipment and perks from completing the evil stuff. Can also be done in ''Far Harbor'' if you feel like being a jerk. There's even a unique perk for doing so.

** Same thing happens in the original ''VideoGame/FarCry''.

* ''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 in order 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 are 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 with the exception of 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 are 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]].

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'', after fighting his way to the capital to clear his family name and defeat the real villains, Sigurd and his army are 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.

* Surprisingly, ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' features this type of ending, with every member of the main cast dying by the end by the end of [[VideoGame/GodOfWarIII the third game]] with the exception of Kratos, who has a DisneyDeath that he survives.

* This is essentially '''the entire goal''' of ''VideoGame/{{Hatred}}''. The unnamed main character, his hatred for humanity having reached its boiling point, arms himself with as many weapons as he can get his hands on and goes on a rampage, killing everyone and anyone in his path.

* A self-imposed challenge 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 through 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 leads a clone 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.

*** China: Halfway through, the villainous kung fu school [[spoiler:invades yours, and kills the two students who aren’t the successor]]. The Master and [[spoiler:surviving]] student [[StormingTheCastle break into the villain’s lair]] in order to avenge their deaths, and slaughter each of the {{Big Bad}}’s minions in the room. Just after the Master passes on his final technique, he dies while taking the last of the {{Mooks}} with him, and the successor kills Odi Wang Lee.
*** Present: [[spoiler:Each of Masaru’s opponents]] are killed by Odie Oldbright, who is then killed by Masaru in self-defense. This is seven out of eight characters.
*** Future: The only survivors of the starship are Cube himself, [[spoiler:Kato]] (who is badly injured) and [[spoiler:Darth]]. Technically, [[spoiler:OD-10]] is still alive in some sense, but as all its memories were deleted and it was forcibly shut down [[spoiler:with its murderous personality destroyed]], its original self is pretty much dead too.

*** [[spoiler:Medieval]]: After the DiscOneFinalBoss, [[spoiler:Hash]] succumbs to the plague which he had the whole time [[CriticalExistenceFailure but did not affect him before now]], and [[spoiler:Straybow]] 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 Demon King seated on the throne, [[ButThouMust and kills it]]. Only for it to turn out that [[spoiler:the Demon was an illusion]], and he just killed [[spoiler:the real king]]. He’s arrested, and [[spoiler: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 Forbidden Zone, where he tries to set things right by killing the Demon King once and for all. He makes it to the top, only to learn that [[spoiler:Straybow]] faked his death, and arranged the whole thing. They fight, and [[spoiler:Straybow]] dies for real this time. And when Oersted finally finds Alicia, she [[spoiler:commits suicide]] because of all that happened. This triggers [[spoiler:Oersted’s [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy Maddening into Misanthropy]], he completely snaps, and ''becomes'' Odio all along]]. The final chapter, which is a sequel to this one, shows [[spoiler:everyone in Lucretia]] as ghosts, so [[spoiler:Oersted/]]Odio killed them too.

* Most of the lead and supporting cast of the ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' games is dead by the end of the second game, with only Max himself and one of the minor secondary characters surviving, unless you beat the game on the hardest difficulty, in which case Mona Sax also survives.
** ''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).

** The Elf Wars that took place between the ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' series resulted in the deaths of 90% of all reploids on Earth and 60% of all humans. It's safe to say that every character in the ''X'' series who's not X or Zero probably died during this period, or in Copy X's purges after he took control of Neo Arcadia, since none of them appear again afterwards.

* In ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare2'', only three characters of the main storyline survive. The same three that surived the first game. In the Washington side plot, everyone with a name seems to survive.
* In ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare3'', Soap dies at near the end of the game, and Yuri [[HeroicSacrifice buys some time]] so that Price could kill [[BigBad Makarov]]. Price survives, along with Nikolai.

* In ''VideoGame/NetHack'', some advanced players choose to accept the "extinctionist" challenge, a special form of play where you have to drive every single monster to extinction. This can be accomplished by casting an appropriate spell on the monster you want to wipe out, or killing 160 of it. ''[=NetHack=]'' being [[NintendoHard how it is]], most of those players' characters end up dying anyhow.

** Its sequel, ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'', both plays it straight and subverts it during [[spoiler: Route C/D which begins with the Bunker and most of the YoRHa units dying, 2B being infected by the [[TheCorruption Logic Virus]] and being killed by A2 (by 2B's order). Later, the virus infects Pascal's village, ending with a few slew of survivors (all of them children) who commit mass suicide, and you can kill Pascal as well, if you want. Devola and Popola sacrifice their lives later to allow 9S to proceed to the final area to defeat the Terminals who are the ones behind the whole war. Ending C ends with A2 performing a HeroicSacrifice with a stinger who implies that 9S also dies, while Ending D ends with 9S killing A2 and, depending of the player's choice, 9S dying on earth.]] [[spoiler:[[{{Subverted|Trope}}In Ending E]], the pods, having gained emotions, rebuild 2B, 9S and A2, giving them a second chance at life, making it the [[GoldenEnding happiest outcome]] in a Creator/YokoTaro game.]]\\
...All of which make it sound more optimistic than it is. The ''sum total'' of all survivors in the GoldenEnding are the rebuilt 2B, 9S, and A2, Jackass, Anemone, the minority Resistance androids lucky enough to survive multiple assaults on their base, relatively few straggler Machine Lifeforms wandering aimlessly now their network is gone, and a couple of crackheads out in the desert [[SleptThroughTheApocalypse too stoned to notice the world ending]].
* ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'' ends in [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Ragnarok]] -- the game's five protagonists must each fight against the five harbingers of apocalypse. Fighting them in any but one order (as hinted at through a [[NoManOfWomanBorn series of prophecies]]) results in everybody dying, regardless of the player winning the fights.

* ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}''[='s=] endings both qualify. At ''most'', the merchant, the tutorial's teacher 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.

* In the ''Persona'' series, this tends to be the bad end 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/RadiantSilvergun''. The game ''opens'' with the end of all life on the Earth at the hands of the Stone-Like, with the protagonists conveniently ''not'' being on Earth. Guy dies in a [[SenselessSacrifice senseless]] [[StupidSacrifice (and rather bone-headed)]] [[SenselessSacrifice sacrifice]], ramming himself into the Stone-Like in a futile attempt to destroy it. Tengai loses it immediately after and does the same thing, his suicide run buying Buster, Reana and Creator time to flee into orbit. Buster and Reana are then teleported to 100,000 BC, and are vaporized in one final flash of light emanated by the Stone-Like. Creator, the sole survivor, permanently deactivates years later. Fortunately, this is ''immediately'' after successfully completing and awakening clones of Buster and Reana, the first two human beings, in a bizarre EternalRecurrence plot.
* In the Campaign mode of ''VideoGame/RebelInc'' a possible modifier for a map is "Leaderless Insurgency". Without a formal chain of command to negotiate with, a peace treaty is impossible and stabilizing the region involves killing off every last rebel with a bone to pick with your government.

** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiI'' in the Neutral Ending. Starts off an ordinary day in a modern Japanese town setting. By the end, it's just you, the Heroine and the Old Man left alive in the entire world, more or less. The Lawful Ending has God's chosen people AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence, which [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt sort of fits]]. It's averted in the Chaos Ending, but the survivors have a far worse world to look forward to.

** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'': Siding with The White has you destroying the Yamato Perpetual Reactor (Particle Accelerator) to trigger a massive black hole which engulfs everything. The Law Route involves using it to wipe out Tokyo, [[HeroicSuicide including the protagonist and Merkabah]].
** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'': Siding with Dagda leads you to the "Massacre" route where, in order to [[KillTheGod destroy all gods]] and create a new universe where gods do not exist, you kill [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve everyone who believes in them]].

* ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' has this through all of the endings as part of the [[{{Anvilicious}} heavy anti-war moral]]; ignoring the fact that most of Dubai is already dead or doomed before the game even begins, or that Walker's team dies before he reaches the conclusion, or the additional probability that the truth could get out and ignite another world war, the player then gets a final whammy depending on the ending chosen:

* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', the cinematic for the "World of Light" adventure mode shows the cast standing against Galeem, who absorbs an enormous amount of energy, unleashing a devastating destruction upon the entire universe, killing the entirety of the cast... [[SoleSurvivor except Kirby who managed to reach safety.]] This is downplayed, as the adventure centers around rescuing all the fighters and taking down Galeem [[spoiler:and his evil counterpart, Dharkon, too.]]
* The bad ending of ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia2'' does this by having Ludger turn on and kill off every single member of the party for the sake of his protecting his older brother, who doesn't want to live and needs to die for the sake of the world. You actually have to fight all of them in a proper battle, which understandably [[EarnYourBadEnding isn't easy]], with it being one versus eight (Though mercifully, you only have to fight four of them at a time, with replacements coming in as each one falls).

** The Heavy says this after eating a sandvich.

* 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.