7 Games With Twist Endings That Changed Everything 

Personally, I like twists that, when you go back into a work, you'll realize that the foreshadowing was *always* there, you missed it the first time because you weren't actively looking for it.

I love how Ellen always gets crap for Kingdoms of Amalur even though it doesn't get brought up that much, but Andy is allowed to run rampant with Monkey Island.

I love that in Nier:Automata, 2B asks at the start if they could have a chance at killing the gods that forced them into an endless cycle of life and death, and at the end it actually becomes true when you start shooting the names at the end credits, the names of the people who made the game, technically, their gods, and once you finish it, you get the final ending where you see the cycle being actually broken.

List video idea, "video game love interests your parents wouldn't approve of" eg Jack from mass effect, morrigan from dragon age, catwoman from batman telltale.

You could make an entire list out of just Nier Automata's insane twists.

I would include Bioshock Infinite. That ending sequence changed the context of the entire story and the phrase “Bring us the girl, and wipe away the debt.”

Spec Ops is 8 year old, and it still had one of the most powerful endings I have ever played through. The storytelling might of that game is insane.

This could apply to any of the Danganronpa games, but my favourite is V3, where it turns out that the memories you kept trying to "regain" throughout the game were actually hypnotically implanted fake memories manipulated by the mastermind to make the various characters kill each other in brutal, mysterious and ultimately entertaining ways. At this point it bears (hehe) mentioning that all of said characters had a bad case of amnesia during the intro before "remembering" who they were, meaning you've been playing as a fictional character throughout the entire game. More so than usually, I mean.

I fell in love with Nier automata after experiencing that ending. It ended up inspiring my dissertation topic and i even got to talk about it at a conference. That game literally saved my uni degree and it'll always give me chills when i hear weight of the world. My favourite game of all time.

I mean Every Metal Gear Solid game has a twist ending that changes everything. It's kind of Metal Gear's thing.

Braid makes you wonder why Princess Peach gets ''kidnapped'' so often. Just tell Mario about you and Bowser, Peach. He deserves to know...he also deserves a restraining order.

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ should have been on this list for the many, many twists that happen in the games ending. At the start, we are told by the narrator that Isaac's Mom is trying to kill him "cos God said so" and so he escapes into the basement. But get further into the game and unlock more endings that add additional layers to Isaac's "victories" and you eventually reach The Void, where you only fight bosses that you have already faced on that save file and upon beating Delirium, the Final Final Boss, No Actually (yeah, suck it Mega Satan), we learn that Isaac, probably through a combination of abuse and feelings of abandonment after his dad left, became convinced that he was the anti-Christ and (depending on your route), suffocated in the chest trying to fight that notion (since you face Isaac and ??? aka Blue Baby in that route), or tried to fight the evil directly by descending into the Dark Place. But both of those options were really a series of hallucinations during Isaac's last moments in the Void, we see his Mom still searching around for her lost child until nothing is left in the chest but a pile of bones (The Forgotten and Soul). It's super dark and it just gets darker the more layers you unlock. Can we go back to shooting lasers at poop please?

I feel that Prey 2017’s ending should be mentioned. After seeing it, I couldn’t stop smiling for weeks.

The ending to MGS5 actually creates an even bigger mind screw, as it recontextualizes games earlier on the series. Specifically, the "Big Boss" that Solid Snake kills in the original game is actually Venom Snake, which also explains Big Boss's "resurrection" in Metal Gear 2.

The end of InFamous?! Finding out that I had been fighting myself the whole time for.... training. One of the best moments in my gaming career.

The true ending of The Witch's House is pretty much the definition of a twist ending that changes everything, and also punches you right in the soul.

Nier Automata is such a fantastic game. Highly recommend it to those that haven't played it.

To be fair, the "endings" of EVERY game made by the Drakengard series is insane

The Turing Test ending was one I was not expecting. I had to rethink the whole game.

the real twist ending is the friends we were yet to make along the way

Dragon's Dogma didn't make it? It gives you an additional chapter after having an ending sequence and credits, once you've defeated the dragon. That extra chapter/ending made me rethink the whole game and I had to do a New Game+, in offline mode, to set my Arisen free!

In the same vein as Nier: Automata (literally), Nier and Drakengard 2 both have huuuuge twists.

For those who can't handle jump scares, the following are the timestamps for the FNAF jump scares (so you know when it's coming): 1:31 2:16 (thanks Originope!) 3:00 3:33

The ending of zero escape virtue’s last reward was the hardest hitting twist I’ve ever experienced. Hit like a bag of wet cement.

Jade Empire “Even the flaws” is still one of my favorite twists in gaming, you think your journey is finally over and BOOM, that happens, there is no buildup, no nothing, but pure shock. And even without the slightest bit of foreshadowing in any way it makes perfect sense

The better Metal Gear Solid ie.3,She was a true patriot.*salutes and cries*

"Stick that in your deontological ethics and smoke it." Jane's best line in any video ever.

I just finished playing the Zero escape trilogy and honestly you could fill this list with the endings of those 3 games and still have to leave some out

Also! Ghost Trick had one of my absolute favorite twists - I immediately played through it again just to see everything I missed.

Dragon Age Inquisition? I know I was aware of Solas' betrayal from before it would even be confirmed, but after it got confirmed in the DLC, Every replay makes me just want to throw him at Corypheus like "you are part of the problem here."

Monkey Island 2 makes unambiguously clear that Guybrush is under a spell just as part three states. Not only the reveal when Chucky turns to the player (23:24), but also the cut back to Elaine after the credits. She is even wondering what is taking Guybrush so long and whether LeChuck has put Guybrush under a spell...

Is anyone complaining..... except for the entire Final Fantasy community on reddit. Spit out my morning cuppa Andy, that was hysterical.

When will the twist ending of Jane adoring her fans as much as we love her come about? ............. I'm waiting patiently here.

I thoroughly appreciate the editing effort in ensuring your green screens are imitating the studio during the working from home :P

Would you kindly mention Bioshock's Ending in the next video?

Batman Arkham City The twist with the Joker at the end was incredible! Totally didn’t see it coming, but on a second play through the foreshadowing is all there

I can't even watch this through dinner in peace with all the jumpscares in the first clip.

Never played either Final Fantasy 7, but that concept for a remake is amazing. Kind of reminds me of parts of ORAS. Hopefully FF executed that twist pretty well.

The last run of NieR made me sad, watching 9S slowly go insane after he saw 2B die 😢 Regarding twist endings, I think the reveal in Bayonetta 2 where Balder traps Aesir in himself and is told by Loki that he'll be corrupted would be a good fit. It really makes you see that boss fight against him from the first game in a new light when you realize he's not really himself and that Bayonetta promised she'd stop him when it finally happened, except for her this whole thing is basically happening in reverse because of the time travel stuff and her lost memories.

The ending of Bastion springs to mind for me, during the final level we learn that the titular Bastion is essentially an experimental time machine that's never been tested, the narrator speculates that turning back time to before the calamity that destroyed the world would have no effect as the user might not retain their memories. Sure enough, in one of the game's two endings where you decide to test the Bastion, it triggers your New Game +, suggesting that the narrator's inability to move on from his mistake has trapped him in its aftermath forever. This was back in 2011 before 'time loop' was the twist ending of every third indie game though.

Hotline Miami 2: You finally get to the final scene of the game, “Apocalypse,” where you play as Russian mafia leader, The Son, in a drugged out state, murdering 4/5 main protagonists from the first 2 Chapters. You ‘finish’ the game realizing that “Apocalypse” and “Deathwish” are the same level and think “Oh, that’s it?”. And then a cutscene plays showing Richter chilling out in Hawaii talking to Richard (who’s basically a manifestation of death/fate) before the USA gets nuked by Russia and you see every single protagonist from the series, other than Biker, gets obliterated by nuclear fire. Then you’re returned to the title screen and realize that the main menu isn’t showing a storm over Miami.

The ending of the Octo Expansion should be here; telephone’s secret identity and plan were some of the biggest escalations I’ve seen in a plot

I have made the grave error of daring to watch this list at 3am and now I think that the Nier Automata section gave me existential dread and a brand new fear of strangulation. Well, a stronger fear of strangulation.

Doubt this counts but “the witches house” love that twist it’s always stuck with me Also corpse party blood covered has several excellent twists that changes how you see the story and some certain characters

Adding the creation of the term "mercy-strangle" to the list of horrible things that happened in 2020. :P

Nier Automata has one of the best endings of any video game I can think of. Would absolutely recommend playing it first before watching the video.

The first Black Mirror game. The clues were there all along... It's an amazing game, and it makes me sad that (despite being quite successful) it never gets talked about.

You forgot the other part of Braid where if you collect all the stars through out the game (one of which is both finicky and permanently missable, another involves waiting several real life days), then touch all the books in the right order after the ending it turns out the Princess is an allegory for the Manhattan project and Tim is Robert Oppenheimer. Yeah, I don't get it either.

When it comes to Videogame twist endings I always think of two, Darth Revan twist from KOTOR and the first Bioshock ending. Both have been covered on this channel before, but that's what comes to mind.

The ending of Jak 3 springs to mind for me. Not only do you find out that Damas was actually Jak's dad, but the Precursors have been Ottsels for the entirety of the series, meaning that Daxter himself was also a Precursor

Jane: I can feel the mountain dew dlc downloading in the background already. Me cracking open a mountain dew at that exact moment: oh sorry I think that was me.

Spec Ops: The Line is such an underrated game imo... It really offers one of the best stories for a shooter ^^

I don't know if secret ending count but there one Nier Automata ending where you re live the memeories of a robot named Plato and then after your done it turns into a music video where the footage is dolls getting destroyed IRL, the context though is that Plato went berserk after his doll got destroyed

God of War 4 had a good twist. I can't remember everything, but in the end (spoilers) Kratos finds out his wife Faye was a giant all along, with the ability to see into the future and (I think) that all the rocks, ledges, and whatnot with blue markings where Faye's doing, since she foresaw Kratos and Atreus' adventure there. Not only that, but when Baldur came knocking on Kratos' door, he mentioned Kratos' height being shorter than he expected because he was looking for and expecting to find a giant, which Atreus is, being the offspring of a giant.

I won't spoil it now but what about the Dragon Age Inquisition post-credit scene? That one sure came out of nowhere the first time but as you go back and replay the game, you can actually find some clues hidden in dialogue.

Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines: At the end they reveal that the cab driver was actually Caine!

The Mario close-up and (for some reason) 20:48 made me laugh so damn hard

I was really expecting to see the Turing Test on this list. That got real twisty around the end there. You spent the whole game thinking this creepy ass computer's clone had killed everyone, only to discover that *SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS!*

I think a good twist is in Second Sight. You wake up in a hospital, slowly developing paranormal powers, and have flashbacks of your previous life as a consultant for a military unit. In the final mission you discover that the "flashbacks" are actually the present, and what you thought was the present was actually a possible future. Blew my mind when I was younger.

What about the ending of Heavy Rain; more specifically the moment you learn of the Origami Killer’s identity? That’s a twist that’s always, always stuck with me

My favourite twisty ending of all time is still from Second Sight. A complete perspective shift that put everything about the story in a new light. I think my jaw actually dropped open!

I really wanna know who puts the piano part together in the spoilers portion of these videos lol. It's kinda became my favorite thing

Andy: "Turns out, there's no legal way to stop me!" Now the question is, who hired and paid the legal teams needed to verify this? The rest of OX, who want him to stop, or Andy, who is willing to go to any lengths to talk about Monkey Island... Hmm... Also lingerie enthusiast combat android is one of the best descriptions of 2B I've heard 👍

*Reads spoiler list to see if I’m currently playing any of the games so I can avoid spoilers. Now knows a game I’m currently playing has a twist ending* 🤦‍♀️

Bendy and the Ink Machine-The ending suggests you’re stuck in a never-ending loop

Andy, never stop being Andy no matter what others might say.

The entire Zero Escape series pretty much embodies this. Kind of surprised 999, at least, didn't make the list.

When I first played through Divinity 2: Ego Draconis, I was thoroughly mad for a moment, but not in a bad way. I then proceeded to rant about it with a friend. Original Sin 2 also had some twists in it, though not all of them were too unexpected, and most of them that were, are not too relevant, I think. I like the twists, though!

I loved NieR: Automata's 26 different ending! But seriously, I love that game and I wish I could experience it for the first time again

For Monkey Island 2, I think everything after where the game catches up to the cold open (Guybrush and Elaine hanging in the mouth of giant hole, which Guybrush promptly falls into) is in a pocket dimension that LeChuck is using to mess with Guybrush. The game sort of confirms this when it cuts back to Elaine after the credits.

oh spec ops the line...the white phosphorus scene... it still haunts me

999's ending definitely qualifies, finding out that the top screen is junpeis perspective while the bottom screen/novel mode is akanes perspective blew my MIND. especially in the final puzzle where you flip the ds upside-down in order to finally control junpei

Ending of fnaf 2 .... wait why is matpat running towards me

What about Superhot? For most of the game, your either killing red guys or the game is discouraging you from playing. THEN it turns out that Superhot was brainwashing you into playing the game, uploading your mind to “the core” (superhot’s servers) and then killing yourself to become a digital entity that spreads superhot to your friends and expand the games influence.

Oh my GOD the song at 4:37 is called Maenam and I remember every couple of years how gorgeous it is

0:50 one of my favourite lore games, also, amazing pun.

Bravely Default can be played to have a twist ending. If you keep pressing x when Airy tells you to stop praying, it reveals the twist and leads to one of the games endings. Kind of spoils the twist for when it's supposed to be revealed, but it IS one of the endings, so...

I loved that twist to FF7 Remake. I really want to see where they go with it.

When 2b's partner switched bodies was a reference to Shakespeare holding the skull " to be or no to be " i feel like it is and its amazing

The World Ends with You. I still find little details on every subsequent playthrough that make me kick myself for missing first time. Also: Crayon Warriors Unite!

Just finished Nier: Automata for the 2nd time. I love this game.

Styx: Master of Shadows has a pretty good twist ending. You might be able to see it coming but chances are you won't. And even though it does seem to be explained there is still an underlying question as to whether what you've been told/shown is actually 100% as it seems.

Probably not the craziest twists, but both the main game and post game of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky had some good twists. In the main game, you find out just before the final dungeon and boss that should you change the dark future (the final goal youre working towards), you will also disappear along with your previous partner due to overwriting the dark future, leaving your current partner alone. You decide to keep this a secret until after defeating the final boss, where you disappear in front of your partner in a rather sad ending (you and the dark future later get revived by a "higher power", allowing them to coexist). In the post game, you find out that the Cresselia who was trying to talk you and your partner into suicide in order to "save the world from distortion and ruin", subsequently getting you kidnapped from your home and almost murdered by the god of space, turned out to be the very Pokemon that started the events leading to the dark future and was trying to kill you and your partner off. After chasing Darkrai down and winning the final boss battle, he gets his time travel portal exploded in the exact same way you did, causing him to likely end up the exact way you did in the beginning of the story - amnesiac and teleported to a random point in time.

The first Bioshock had a wild twist. I tense up every time somebody in real life says “would you kindly?” Bioshock Infinite had a great twist too but I feel like it didn’t have the same UMPH as the original

Nier with its absolutely amazing music. Tears, just pure tears

Nier Automata, will and always be one of my favorite games. Great video, thanks for keeping this up during these times. Take care! Jinrui ni eikou are!

Monkey island's ending (at least the 2nd game although it was supposed to be a trilogy) was planned all along and you can find hints in the background of both games that something is not what it seems. I remember reading a blog 20+ years ago dedicated to uncover "the secret of monkey island" and the blogger was the first guy to post pictures of various hints from both games to support his theory of the modern day theme park (dont forget that monkey island is actually based on the disneyworld's ride pirates of the carribean, there were no movies at the time of course). The blog came to gilbert's attention and he, more or less, admitted that indeed the trilogy was all in guybrush's head! It was one hell of a twist, too bad we never saw the full story. When larry ahern took over the franchise he pretty much decided to go wit the voodoo curse, i believe because that would open the road for more sequels. Curse was a great, HILARIOUS game (still playing it from time to time and i still lol) but it lacked the "magic", still great tho. We dont talk about the rest of the games!

Nier Gestalt/Replicant is also just as twisty, and was the one prior to Automota. I mean, the signs are there from the start, but reaching Ending A to learn that, rather than defending one of the few surviving villages of Humanity and being the hero out to save your sister, that instead you have been spending the whole game butchering the true Humanity? That's pretty hefty stuff, but still Nier perseveres to save his sister, and the ending seems to be happy. Go a bit further with the B route second playthrough which does the alternate angle too, and you learn pretty fast that your first companion, Kaine, has been playing dumb this entire time and knew that Shades were sentient, seeing as how she can understand their language. This combined with many of the enemy bosses you killed previously without mercy now having their strange noises subtitled, revealing they are begging you to stop? And Kaine conveniently never said a thing? Take it further with the catastrophe of the Eyrie and you learn the shades there were trying to achieve peaceful co-existence with replicants, trying to become true humans again, only for Nier to walk in and start the fight that ended the entire town, again, something Kaine could have stopped. Top it off with the discovery for certain that the Shadowlord is actually the protagonist Nier's Gestalt, and was only acting to save HIS sister much the same as the Replicant Nier was? Then ofc you have ending C/D, where it's revealed in ending A that Kaine actually fell victim to her Shade destabilizing the moment she left the room. Now we know the final truth; Replicant Nier has just destroyed the last chance Humanity had to survive. By killing the Shadowlord whose unique magic had been the key to keeping a lot of the shades sentience, all Shades are now relapsing; the extinction of Humanity is now certain, and as a result Tyrann (the shade inside Kaine) has relapsed, and Kaine is devolving into a mindless monster which you have to put down, or sacrifice your existence to save......

So, with the Monkey Island 2 ending, the real question to ask is, Is this real life, or is it fantasy?

Star Ocean: til the end of time's ending freaked me out.

When I read the title, the first game that came into my mind was Bioshock 1. The ending blew my mind because I was played like a fiddle the whole game, just as the protagonist...

this feels like the first time i've ever seen outsidexbox mention fnaf in a video

Ah Nier Automata, probably one of my favorite games and a game I never expected to be so good.

The ending of Prototype is a pretty great twist. Also, after watching too much MatPat I'm sure NO ONE knows what's going on in FNAF.

I'm not sure how indie you guys will go but the RPG Maker horror game 'The Witch's House' has a pretty significant twist at the end. That's if you get the true end, mind you, by getting the item in the locked cabinet you find at the beginning of the game. It's fine to finish without the item, as well, but getting the true end is important in knowing what's going on. The twist basically changes how you think about the whole game if you go back and play it again. In fact, there are multiple endings possible that build on the twist of the true ending. The Witch's House has you play as a girl named Viola who wakes up in a garden with the only way out blocked by magic roses. Her only choice is to go into a house rumored to belong to a witch to find a way to help you escape. The game plays out in a trial and error fashion as you solve puzzles to unlock the doors while the house itself does anything it can to kill you so save as often as you can and keep trying. I won't spoil it any more than it's, it's definitely worth playing or watching someone else play.

Dominic Armato really did a great impersonation of Mark Hamill’s ridiculous cry from Empire.

Nier automata was the hardest game to sell at my old job because I couldn't spoil anything and the backstory just made people confused. Despite that, I recommended it to pretty much everyone, and the ones who tried it, loved it.

14:34 "Is it just me, or is it getting a bit Kingdom Hearts up in here?" 😂😂😂

Kotor with Revan and nwn2 when you can side with the shadow king are pretty sweet

Man I was expecting a scare from the Freddy snippet yet I still jumped a little