7 Bad Endings You Can Easily Get by Accident 

The number of times I stumbled into the bad ending, thought "wow, downer ending, ok" and then years later found out that there were multiple endings

Arguably the Dark Souls ending you got was the good one. It's theoretically the end of Gwyn's Age of Fire, being rid of the manipulative gods and beginning an Age of Men. You're king now, the serpents are there to welcome you, it's not their fault they're gross and weird. It's also not humanity's fault the power of men is dark, and results in the abyss and terrifying monsters like Manus... But at least you weren't used as fuel. ...Even more arguably, there is no good ending.

Majora's Mask: simply forgetting to use the Song of Time and watching as then Nightmare Moon destroys everything.

Man that Oddworld ending wasn’t kidding around, jeez.

So, hilarious thing about that "switch characters" prompt for Revelations 2? I was playing the game co-op with my husband. He was playing Claire. I was playing Moira. When this prompt appears in co-op, BOTH characters get to button-mash for it. And my husband is the superior gamer when it comes to button-mashing, so of course, he got the gun and we got screwed out of the good ending. We had to google what we did wrong and how to get the good ending because we were super confused.

"Did the Empire kill ANY Jedi that day?" Yeah, Aayla Secura, sadly. And Shaak Ti, four different ways.

Poor Luke. He’s going to get inundated with comments about how, “the Dark Lord ending is the good ending ACTUALLY”

Blasphemous automatically locks you into the bad ending unless you perform an obscure mechanic involving dying several times while equipping an otherwise useless trinket and exploring the map to complete several arena encounters.

Punctuation is important! When someone is talking about how you’re gonna die, “I know exactly what we’re gonna do” sounds a whole lot more hopeful than “I know. Exactly what we’re gonna do.”

Yoda: "When gone am I, the last of the jedi you will be ...along with your father's former apprentice Ahsoka. And some guy called Ezra. And Baby Me. And Gungi..."

Corpse Party: Not only does it have bad endings, but also wrong endings that are essentially just game over screens in which you have to sit through a thoroughly described + voice acted scenario of just how horribly your character is being killed. And all of them can be acquired terribly easily.

In the original Dishonored, I got caught sneaking on the first level because I didn't know how to play the game yet. I killed so many people trying to escape that I had permanently bad reputation, and even though I played the rest of the game silently and non-lethally, I still got the bad ending. Oof.

That resident evil ending was so annoying for me. I didnt know what i did wrong. Had to look it up online afterwards and then noticed the other button i was supposed to press.

I love how insistent Luke is that the Cyberpunk ending wasn't completely telegraphed and he absolutely did not deserve that richly deserved cyber bollicking.

I love how Grunty is too big for her own creation so she has to squash her head down to get inside.

That "Like a Dragon" analogy is funny, because it implies that it would've made even an ounce of more sense had they been playing with you.

The Cyberpunk bad ending was pretty easy to assume with how V insinuates what they want to do. That said yeah, probably should've been a bit more black and white with it. Thankfully it doesn't force you into some "final quest" that you have to do before you realize your accidental choice. Just a cutscene and then you can reload.

I'd put forwards Hollow Knight as an easy bad ending. Given it's a metroidvania-style game, you wouldn't think (on a first playthrough) that you could be missing anything critical to the end of the game if you can already get there, but if you fail to assemble the Void Heart, you only succeed in extending the time the infection is contained, leaving your player character doomed to become the next failed vessel. Bonus points to the fact you can get a nearly identical ending if you fail to recognise how to get from the first "phase" into the next even if you DO have the Void Heart.

I want an entire video that’s just Andy and Luke complaining about and slandering every Jedi that survived Order 66.

Persona 4 comes to mind, where you have to select a bunch of dialogue options to essentially stall for time during a trying moment for all of the characters. And even when you do that, you then have to know during the game's emotional epilogue, basically identical to the one from the previous game, you need to go to a specific place you'd have no real reason to believe was important anymore, interact with an elevator to be told "You no longer have a reason to come here", then interact AGAIN to gain access to the final dungeon and boss for the true ending.

I feel like you could easily argue that the dark lord ending of DS1 is better than the fire linking ending, but it’s also not canon and prevents DS3’s arguably better good ending from happening

Fable III for me. You spend the last act on a time table, doing missions that each move you a month to the deadline. Until you get to 120 days left. There, instead of having a little mission after your decision, it just throws you straight to the final fight, no warning or anything, just Bam! Then it autosaves. So, if your gold is anywhere else than your treasury, congrats, now everyone is dead and it's all your fault. I remember being so mad at that, that I didn't even finish the game even though there was only like 10 minutes left. I just got up, ejected the disk and but it back on the shelf.

Another example: Witcher 3. Be just a little too much of a helicopter parent at very specific dialog moments, and next thing you know, Ciri's dead and Geralt's throwing his life away.

Myst. If you weren't curious enough to look at the last book, or you actually trusted whichever brother you were helping and were too afraid to touch it... you'll be in for a much longer stay.

A really easy-to-get bad ending is in Chrono Trigger. When you get to the End of Time, the Old Man specifically tells you to not open the portal in the bucket behind him. If you're curious and/or have a "you can't tell me what to do" attitude and open that portal, certain death followed by one of the game's bad endings awaits. There are multiple bad endings, but this is the easiest one to get.

Okay, I gotta bring up Disgaea 1's normal ending, even if it might not quite count as a bad ending. In order to get this ending, all you have to do is get at least 1 ally kill. This is really easy to do on accident in Disgaea 1, thanks to AOE attacks and geo effects. And so thanks to randomly killing that one generic unit one time you have doomed Laharl to thousands of years stuck in a penguin costume for daring to sacrifice himself to save his funny angel friend.

I personally give this one to Persona 4. Since it's really easy to not pick the right dialogue options in a certain hospital room and doom the story to a bad ending! Good thing you get to save before that section of story so you can keep trying to find the obscure path to a better ending. Where a kid doesn't remain dead!

Bit of an odd choice to choose Soulstorm over the original Oddworld. You get the bad ending for not saving enough people, and you can only save one at a time Abe gets dropped into a shredder while begging for his life! (But if you kill everyone then you get a grenade launcher)

One that you missed, in my opinion, is Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow. About 2/3rds of the way through the game, in order to not get the bad ending, you have to put on a normally useless accessory before walking into a cutscene. There is no warning, and no hints.

It's surprisingly easy to get the bad ending for the Witcher 3, because the key choices which affect Ciri's courage aren't always obvious. For example, one of them involves whether you should destroy a room full of scientific research

Makes me think of Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Justice For All. While it is pretty obvious what evidence you need to present at the end, there is always the chance you misclick and doom Phoenix to guilt ridden life of helping a guilty man go free and an innocent woman get imprisoned. All while also throwing away the efforts of your friends. Got to love being in the wrong for just simply doing your job.

Detroit: Become Human. Characters who you've come to feel seriously attached to for 10 hours can just freakin die because of one bad quick time decision. And the story just moves on without them.

Dying in Fallout 1 and 2. Ron Pearlman has a unique line depending on where you perish that tells you how everyone in the wasteland and your village/vault is doomed to die.

As a child, I had much anxiety while playing Banjo-Kazooie specifically because of this game over ending. I never finished the game and never played Banjo-Tooie and I have terrible emotional memory of the game because of how bad it made me feel.

Looking around leads to loading more graphics. More graphics leads to more render load. More render load leads to delayed redraws. Delayed redraws lead to buffering.

Donkey Kong 64 also gave you a GAME OVER every time you quit and that drove me nuts! Collecting all those bannannas was no small task and I had to share the console with two brothers. I always turned the N64 off as quickly as possible so I didn't have to see the island destoyed.

Don’t forget metro last light. You have to be a veritable saint and explore every inch of the missions to get the good ending

V sounding broken and suggesting a final solution while sitting at a buildings edge should've been huge red flags that this wasn't really going to be bedtime.

Silent Hill: Origins. After you beat the game once, you're given the moon gauntlets, which can take out any enemy with a one-two punch. Seems fun to mess with...until you find out to get the bad ending, all you need to do is kill a certain number of enemies, easily reached with your fun new item. So your breeze through your second playthrough ends up sealing your doom for the bad ending.

14:26 I believe the phrasing Andy was looking for is Prower-ed!

I'm sure someone else has already said it but I can't see far enough to my TV which honestly worries me. But! DK 64 had the same problem as Banjo Kazooie, as in I hit "QUIT" as a child ONCE and the game was like "HEY GOOD FOR YOU, YOU QUIT! NOW YOUR WHOLE HOME AND EVERYONE YOU'VE EVER LOVED IS GETTING BLOWN UP, ENJOY!!!" and then I cried a lot because I was in middle school.

"Put all this to bed" sounds pretty clear for a character who knows they're dying

17:40 Ah, the hidden origin story of Andy the Farrantula! Thank you Banjo Kazooie, without whom we would never have gotten OX, Corazon de Ballena, Edvard Lumiere, and of course Kirk The Fun-Loving!

Ace Attorney: Rise from the Ashes. Almost any time Phoenix talks about presenting evidence it's the correct thing to do except the one time in the final case when it ruins Ema's life.

"A second plane has hit the south tower" Andy - "Double Beans!!"

Kit Fisto comes back as a robot? Huge character news for the Fallout TV show

We don't talk about Harvester for good reason, but ending the world with a nuclear explosion by simply talking to the legless guard is a funny one.

In Persona 4 if you don't have access to the Internet or haven't paid attention to the clues layed out to you, you can screw up multiple times and miss the true ending.

Dream Daddy has two endings per ending: the result for your chosen romance-able dad, and the result for how you parented your daughter, Amanda. I got Amanda’s bad ending on my first playthrough and I maintain that it was entirely too easy to get! And it definitely didn’t give me a complex about being a bad parent someday, who told you that

Of course, the added benefit of the "good" choice in RE: Rev 2 is that you get to hear one of the worst spoken lines in gaming history: "Go jump on a dildo boss!" As far as "accidental" bad endings go, the first ending I got in Silent Hill 2 was the "In Water" ending: James kills himself because I tend to be a completionist player but not a very skilled one.

"Luke... when gone I am... last of the Jedi... will you be. Luke... this is... the worst... ending."

A game that is easy to get the bad ending for is the Blair Witch Project. Getting the bad ending for this game involves picking up the stone statues, crushing the stick figures and killing the enemy monsters. Doing all of these things causes the main character to become the Blair Witch's servant and the events of the game repeat themselves in a time loop.

I accidentally got the bad ending in Sekiro. The game forced me to obey the iron code early in the game. So when I got the option again later I was like "OoOo HaVe To ObEy ThE iRoN cOdE" and then got the bad ending and missed a big chunk of the game.

The Witcher 3 has a bad ending that's apparently very easy to get by accident. I believe it's 4 choices you get over the course of the game, 3 of which can be easily misinterpreted and on a first playthrough you probably don't even realize that they will affect the ending. I've seen so many posts on reddit from people who accidentally got the bad ending and were emotionally crushed.

Letting Gale blow himself up at the end of Act 2 in BG3

The Cyberpunk suicide ending is actually a pretty fitting one for the game. I liked it. And i had to actually read an article to get it. I also liked becoming the immortal king of a kindom of brain rats just by sitting down on the throne after killing the old king in Planescape Torment. But the whole game was an unexpected (and as usual unsuccessful) masterpiece and it also had proper endings for different player character alignments.

I love Gungi! He's a Wookie jedi, and his light saber is the only known one of its kind; made from a super dense wood that is capable of storing the energy of a kyber crystal. Gungi only survived order 66 because of the sacrifices of Petro and Byph; who stayed behind to hold off clone troopers as the rest of their youngling group escaped. R.I.P. to those legends. Gungi will carry on the fight in their honor! Due to their efforts; Gungi made it home to his origin planet of Kashyyyk. That is the last canonical mention of Gungi, so until more canon content covers his story it can be assumed he spent the rest of his days defending his homeworld. Gungi made it.

I gotta nominate the Real Boy ending from Lies of P. You get this ending by giving your heart to Gepetto after defeating Simon Manus. The thing about this choice is that it's always available no matter what you do in the rest of the game. You could do everything required for the best ending, and it's all decided before you choose whether or not you give up your heart to Gepetto. And if you're not paying attention, you can choose to give up your heart when Gepetto asks for it. Since this is a Souls-like game, there's no going back from it. What makes this such a bad ending is the fact that all of the Hotel's surviving residents are replaced with puppets, and their personalities become as wooden as their bodies. You may have skipped one of the most difficult bosses in the game, but now everyone else is dead by your own hand as well. All in a cutscene too.

If you do another run of this, any of the Castlevania games are an auto-include. Take Portrait of Ruin for instance. You're supposed to progress the game until you get a magical spell that turns you into a frog, backtrack to the second area of the game which looks like a pyramid, find the exact tiny gap that you can now squeeze through by turning into a frog to find the Sanctuary spell which has no gameplay purpose and doesn't give any indication on what it actually does, then use the Sanctuary spell in an important boss fight which is easier said than done since the spell takes forever to pull off, and only then you get to play the final act of the game. Another option is Order of Ecclesia. Oh, you didn't save every single villager by searching every single nook and cranny, hitting every wall to check if they can be broken? Too bad, you now get the bad ending and don't even reach Dracula's Castle, that's only for real heroes.

A wise man once said "It's not how you start, it's how you finish." I wonder if that wiseguy ever met Pagan Min.

I was going to say that Robotnik was going to turn Tails into a robot before I finished watching, but that final screen was pretty un-ambiguous. Damn. Also since we're on topic, it took me decades before I realized that Tailes'es name, Miles Prower, is a pun on Miles per hour.

I found the Cyberpunk ending option very clear, I expected either the thing that happens or some sort of exile where V lives out their last days

Bioshock. I think it was only two little sisters you had to lose either to harvesting or that fking escort sequence to get the "you're an evil bastard who will end the world" ending. And my first time through, I used one of those on a harvest just to learn what the difference was.

when I saw cyberpunk on the spoilers list I assumed it'd be about the *other* bad ending you can get by accident. if you're like me at first and don't notice the extra quest Johnny gives you after your meeting in pacifica and then head to do the main quest, you do what seems like a normal ending, until you get to the end and remove Johnny, then you end up in a space hospital doing the same monotonous tasks to really let it set in how stupid your choice is, and then you get cancer. broke down crying when I finished it for the first time lol

In general there's always one mini game in all Yakuza/Like a Dragon that you are playing for the achievements, but you fear that someone is going to see you and change all their opinions about you. Thank goodness one of my autistic super powers is, apparently, been extremely random, so when my sis caught me playing the Telekura mini game in Yakuza 0 she was kinda of fine. She saw me trying to finish the Pocket Car storyline before, so she went, "oh, ok" after I explained, and went to finish her business

16:50 "... while Gruntilda becomes Victoria Beckham" REALLY got me. 🤣

Resident Evil 1 had a hidden branching path system that could lead to all sorts of different scenes, like Jill being saved by Barry or being crushed in the shotgun trap, or even her escaping it on her own if she uses the broken shotgun on the trigger mechanism. But make the "wrong" choices and fail to use the 3 MO disks will lead to Barry dying, Chris remaining locked up, and Jill escaping on her own on the helicopter.

I thought my bg3 Tav had enough plot armor to destroy the very obviously bad Emperor the first time you realized he’s a mindflayer only to immediately become a mindflayer myself. Whoopsies. Alternatively, any ending that involves Gale blowing himself up is most certainly the worst ending possible, LET MY PRECIOUS WIZARD BOY LIVE 😭😭😭

Dorkly Bits reference for Sonic had me rolling😂

I'd like to submit, Vampyr's third ending, the one I'd call the Tragic Ending. Vampyr actually has 4 endings, two of them are Good Endings, one has you go full on Evil by killing basically everyone. But the Tragic Ending is that weird grayzone where you kill a bunch of people, but not enough to trigger the Evil Ending, leading Lady Ashbury to kill herself but instead of Jonathan revelling in his bloodshed he feels very bad about it, becoming a Tragic Monster. The reason why it's something you could accidentally get it is because it's not entirely clear where the line is between Ending 2 and 3 is, just one kill makes the difference between Jonathan and Elizabeth in Quarantine but relatively happy and Elizabeth killing herself and Jonathan left alone to grieve, self-loathe, and trying to justify the choices he made.

The bad ending I got last time I played cyberpunk was the one where you're cruising around on a motorbike and you suddenly fall through the road and die, so you uninstall the game and go play something that works.

It's technically not a *bad* ending, just a very bittersweet one, but King's Quest 6 has two endings (technically there's a handful of minor variations within those two endings based on other choices, but for all intents and purposes it's still two endings), one of which is clearly meant to be the good one. Which one you get comes down to whether you remember something from a book earlier in the game. See, for most of the game, the end goal is simple; you need to break into a castle to interrupt a wedding between an evil vizier and a princess after the king and queen of that land died suddenly (no points for guessing as to how that happened). Late into the game, you're given an item that would let you do that: a set of clothes that you could easily wear to disguise yourself as a servant and be allowed into the castle that way. If you do this, you're on the point of no return, and after one final dungeon, it's the "bad" ending for you. Sure, you get the girl, but she's still lost her family, most of the kingdom's factions are feuding with each other because of the vizier's trickery, and there's going to be a long uphill battle fixing everything the vizier caused. What you're *actually* supposed to do is use those clothes -- or rather, a strand of hair from the original owner of the clothes that you find on them -- as a component for a spell from a book you found earlier in the game. That spell (after a diversion that you'd only know about if you used another spell from this book to survive an otherwise fatal optional cutscene and grabbed ashes from a bonfire while they were still hot --- it makes sense in context) ends up taking you somewhere that, among other important things, lets you: - Bring the late King and Queen back to life - Use *another* spell from that book to create an alternate path into the castle, so the final dungeon allows you to find evidence unobtainable in the part of the castle you enter on the "bad" path that lets you bring peace to several feuding factions and bring peace to the kingdom - Spare the life of a genie who you otherwise have no choice but to kill in self-defense, and become his master, letting him fix most of the damage with his magic - Save the life of the crew that you were travelling with at the start of the game before you got shipwrecked - Make it possible for the protagonist's family to make it to your wedding when you get the girl at the end

Props for remembering Starkiller! I'm my personal headcanon he ignited the rebellion:

The Banjo-Kazooie Bad ending was pretty funny. NGL. ''BANJO! Your sister wants a word with you... NOW!!!'' being said by his sister in an ugly form is so hilarious!

Golden Sun "Do you want to save the world?” "Nah." *game ends*

the worst cyberpunk ending is the devil ending won't be convinced otherwise

I'm surprised that PS1 Soul Edge didn't make the list, as most characters have an obscure QTE in their endings that change the outcome. Worst still, Siegfried's bad ending, where he grabs Soul Edge and becomes corrupted by the blade, is actually canon!

One of the devs (for soulstorm) saw this and loved that it made the thumbnail.

The first silent hill game i played at the end had a bad ending and i got that one by accidentally without knowing you needed to do a side quest to get the the good ending plus one if you save Cyril as well

Its really debatable that the age of darkness is the "bad" ending in Dark Souls. Speaking broadly it could also be called the "age of humanity". When the fire dies the world suffers greatly and it could be argued that linking the fire is just perpetuating that cycle of suffering.

Loop8 Summer of the Gods has two. One of them is for romancing a particular character that will lead to your death whenever you talk to them while they're in a good mood. The other and easier to accidentally get is you have a deadline to defeat the world ending Kegai. To challenge them you have to enter an Underworld. Should you try to leave the Underworld to do something like heal or change your party members on the deadline day too bad, game over. No warning for either ending.

Hey, I understood that reference. I recognized the "huh, neat" in the Sonic entry from the Dorkly series

When I played "Lies of P" I trusted the internet and choose a dialogue answer in the finale that gave me the bad ending. :( I couldn't stomach seeing sweet Eugénie as a wooden puppet after that, so I started NG+ immediately and choose better when I reached the finale again some days later. Crisis averted.

The Dark Souls "bad" ending is clearly included just to trick more people into commenting on this video about how it's not actually bad. I see what you're doing there Luke, I'm too smart to fall for tha -- wait...

Given my video game talent any ending I reach is a good ending.

In the OG Resident Evil, it's very easy to get one of the multiple bad endings. Even in the remake it's easy to do. With you deciding to give Barry the magnum or not.

That version of Sonic 2 also came out on the Master System.

If "Put all this to rest" doesn't mean "Imma kill myself," I don't know what does.

Non of the endings were great for mass effect 3. But I definitely got one of the worst by accident. I was playing and my wife asked me something and I missed the explanation of what to do. So I tried going through the options to restart the conversation, but if you don't make a decision you get the ending where shepherd just lets themselves die and everyone in our universe dies, The reapers WIN and you did nothing to stop it.😢

Because how dare a game reasonably expect you to rush over and stop the old man from being electrocuted alive.

You can get the bad ending cut scene in Donkey Kong 64 doing the exact same thing you did to get the bad ending cut scene in Banjo-Kazooie: saving and quitting.

The Dark Lord Ending to Dark Souls is NOT the bad ending. It's the good ending where you choose to ignore the "god's" propaganda and lead humanity to a new age where THEY rule for once.

the thing about that star wars comment is that though it seems like a lot of jedi survived you have to remember it was an order of thousands and those that are left are a fraction of that

New to this Chanel but been binge tons of videos. Love it

There's Epic Mickey where the ending changes for the worse if you do certain things. Some can be obvious like not doing quests or finding things, but others are a bit more cryptic like using thinner too much or doing certain things the wrong way.

Doesn't every Dead Rising game have a bad ending that involves the time limit running out?

I like that Luke sort of inadvertently pointing out the bs that is “being the bigger person” and how it actually only serves those in power and doing oppression irl, but in stories it always has to end with “you’ll become as bad as them” nonsense.

I love how Luke's soul is so innocent that the option pretty clearly signposting unaliving oneself in cyberpunk he took to mean a hail Mary hopeful ending.

The way he says mudokon is unsettling

If you explore more throughout Dark Souls and meet and speak with Kaathe, you'll understand that the Age of Darkness isn't a bad ending.