History FateWorseThanDeath / VideoGames

*** The good end to the "Tranquility Lane" quest has you [[spoiler:condemning Braun to be trapped in his vault with no possible way to leave or interact with the outside world]]. Rather fitting.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series in general, Ghouls got it especially rough. Just to cite a few aspects in which their life sucks:
** They are permanently decomposing, but the healing they obtain from radiation keeps them alive, just barely.
** The constant pain makes it a challenge to do anything at all, and may send them feral at any given time.
** They are banished from most of whatever remains of society.
** They are effectively immortal, but that immortality comes with an overbearing sense of pain and isolation.
** They're completely sterile, and it's likely most of them had their genitals fall off at some point anyhow.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'':
** The good end to the "Tranquility Lane" quest has you [[spoiler:condemning Braun to be trapped in his vault with no possible way to leave or interact with the outside world]]. Rather fitting.
** [[spoiler:Harold.]] When you find him, he's been [[spoiler:turned into a tree and cannot grow or die]]. He, naturally, [[MercyKill begs you to kill him]].
** On a more humorous note, Liberty Prime believes that "death is a preferable alternative to communism".
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'':
** The option is given of doing this to [[spoiler:Mr. House, if you release him from his life-support unit]]. Even though exposing him to the outside world ensures his eventual death, his longevity treatments will keep him alive for, he estimates, about a year.
** The Marked Men from the ''Lonesome Road'' DLC, who were created by the nuclear explosions that destroyed the Divide. Sandstorms have torn the skin from their bodies, and the radiation from the nukes has mutated them into ghouls, making them immortal. Ulysses tells you that if there's no way to save them (there probably isn't), then it's [[MercyKill "mercy, not murder"]] to kill them.
** [[spoiler:[[ColdSniper Craig Boone]]]] views what would have happened to his wife [[spoiler:and their unborn child]] at the hand of the Legion as this. [[NoWomansLand He may not be that far off.]] So he [[spoiler:[[MercyKill took the shot]]]].
** Joshua "Burned Man" Graham, former Legate to Caesar, [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat was set on fire and thrown into the Grand Canyon]], but unfortunately survived, is in constant pain exacerbated by the daily changing of his bandages, and {{immune to drugs}}.

* At the end of ''VideoGame/Hitman3'', you can subject [[spoiler:[[BigBad Arthur Edwards]]]] in this by [[spoiler:injecting him with a serum that erases his memories and with it everything he has gained in his ambition to become the leader of Providence]]. It's notable that while he was [[FaceDeathWithDignity content in the face of death]], he [[VillainousBreakdown immediately panics]] if 47 approaches him with [[spoiler:the serum]].

* This is what happens to [[spoiler:Kirie and Mafuyu]] in ''VideoGame/FatalFrame1'''s canon ending. They're going to be spending the ''rest of eternity'' at the Hell Gate deep underground, with [[spoiler:Kirie]] making sure that the gate stays closed, and [[spoiler:Mafuyu]] staying with her so that she won't have to suffer all alone.

* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'':
** VideoGame/UltimateCustomNight: You are in control of the [[UnknownCharacter protagonist]] who is eternally imprisoned in Freddy's Fazbear Pizzeria full of homicidal robots to pay for your crimes [[spoiler:for being a child killer]]. You never die, you never escape, you always come back to relive the horror of robots attempting to murder you over, and over, and over again.

** Driven by dreams of the Miracle, the person who was once Ten Piedad took his rest in the arms of the statue seen in the boss area. The Miracle appeared to him one more time, more vividly than before, and when he woke up, his body had transformed into a monster, constantly filled with rage and pain, and he no longer had control over it. In a twisted sort of way, for a boss whose name in Spanish means "Have Mercy", [[JustForPun killing him is an act of mercy]].

** Being [[BrainwashedAndCrazy tempered]] by a Primal is usually cconsidered this by the civilized races, as theere is no known way to reverse it. Tempered individuals captured by the city states are usually put to death to keep them from empowering their primal masters through prayers, and because it's considered a MercyKill.

** Being [[BrainwashedAndCrazy tempered]] by a Primal is usually cconsidered this by the civilized races, as theere is no known ay to reverse it. Tempered individuals captured by the city states are usually put to death to keep them from empowering their primal masters through prayers, and because it's considered a MercyKill.
** The paralell world of the First is plagued with Sin-eaters, beings corrupted by primoridal light. Some Sin-eaters are able to 'touch' other living beings, corrupting them into more Sin-eaters, sometimes quickly, other times [[ZombieInfectee more slowly]] but inevitably. The transformation is also [[PainfulTransformation agonizingly painful.]] Victims of slow corruption are brought to an inn where volunteers care for them until they are close to succuming completely, then euthanized via poison mixed in with a favourite food so that they can die peacefully.

* ''VideoGame/StarCraft'':

* The red flowers from ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' are a PsychoSerum that fill any Mimiga that eats them with such intense rage that not only their sanity, but their entire personality is lost. It is heavily implied that the effects are permanent, and that there is no known cure. Only one Mimiga, Igor, has somehow managed to retain a small part of his sanity after eating raw red flowers. [[spoiler:Adorable, innocent little [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth Toroko]] is forcibly fed red flowers by [[TheDragon Misery]] and Balrog, forcing the PlayerCharacter to give her a MercyKill.]]