10 Video Games With the Best Twist Endings Nobody Saw Coming
From Spec Ops: The Line to Link’s Awakening, these 10 video games have the best twist endings, with reveals that recast everything before them.
From Spec Ops: The Line to Link’s Awakening, these 10 video games have the best twist endings, with reveals that recast everything before them.
The short version
- The best twist endings in video games change what you thought you were playing.
- A great one makes you want to start over to spot the clues, and a perfect one hides those clues in plain sight: in dialogue, in chapter titles, perhaps even the controller you’re holding.
- These ten games span three decades and nearly every genre, from horror to puzzle-platformers to a Game Boy adventure about a dream.
What happened
But they all have one thing in common: Every one of them had us totally fooled the first time. [ Ed. note : This article contains spoilers for the twist endings of these games.] The twist : Konrad has been dead the whole time. The man guiding Walker over the radio is a hallucination Walker built to blame someone else for the cruelty he enacts against soldiers and civilians alike.
Why it matters
Walker eventually finds Konrad’s corpse and then, in the final moments of the game, has a potentially damning choice to make… The twist : Booker and Comstock are the same man, split by a baptism that sent two versions of him down different paths.
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