7 Stupidest Game Overs We Should Have Seen Coming 

In Death and Taxes, you’re a reaper who decided who lives and who dies. One of the profiles you might come across is your own. Curiosity got ahold of me, so of course I marked my profile for death. You’ll never guess what happened.

I can't believe they had disco elysium on the list and didn't even mention how one of the first things you can interract with can kill you. If you built your character with only one Psyche point, and turn on the light as soon as you wake up, it gives you a heart attack and an immediate game over. Guess who just so happened to do that on their first play through...

Disco Elysium has greatly stupid game overs; like turning on a lightbulb when you're hungover, deciding to shoot an annoying child dead, or failing to show your authority and instead shooting yourself in the head. Also sitting in an uncomfortable chair. 10/10 game

Talking shit at Vlaakith in BG3 should definitely be here. I literally facepalmed.

Morinth killing you in Mass Effect 2 is certainly a good one.

My favorite own stupidity deaths are in outer wilds. You have the classic "forgot to put on your spacesuit before getting out of your ship death", and you can set your ship to autopilot, but if you are trying to get to a planet on the otherside of the solar system, your ship will just steer you into the sun.

The Outer Worlds has a memorable one; if your character's got low enough intelligence, they can insist on personally plotting an extremely difficult and dangerous FTL jump for a spaceship, despite literally everybody telling them it's a bad idea. The results are... shall we say, somewhat predictable.

My favorite is in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. The ghost toad in Chapter 6 wants you to grab his diary for him. He wanna you multiple times not to read it or there would be dire consequences. If you go ahead and do it anyway, you instantly get a game over courtesy of said toad.

I still laugh thinking about Super Paper Mario's game overs like repeatedly refusing to wear a helmet to enter the space section, despite the fact you had literally just spent a good deal of time acquiring them, to get an instant game over screen for your lack of common sense.

Interesting that you lose karma for your head exploding in the vacuum of space.

Just want to say thank you for including Nancy Drew on your list. I grew up with the series and think its a relatively unknown gem of a series, minus the most recent games in the series.

Star Wars Knights of the old republic pleading guilty on planet manaan and getting sentenced to death should have seen that coming

Pillars of Eternity 2 has one right at the very start of the game where you are pretty explicitly told "If you say no to this request, you don't get to play the game." and lo and behold if you click it you get sent back into the cycle of reincarnation and become a cat. (A good ending if you really like cats, I suppose.)

In Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion you can hit a nuke repeatedly. Imagine my surprise when it exploded and killed me. I was just trying to pet you bomb!

I worked for a certain British company that have red bins with white writing on them. One day we had a presentation to make sure we checked the bins before emptying them in to the trucks. It turned out, the day before, a homeless man had fallen asleep in the bin the night before it was due to be emptied. Poor guy got thrown in a compactor. This is a word of warning to anyone else who wishes to embrace hobocop in the modern age

Former gas station manager here. The amount of people I caught smoking at the pumps was shocking, clearly nobody really pays attention to that any more.

There are so many options, this needs a Part 2.

In God of war (PS4), I clicked on a vantage point on the Yggdrasil branches, despite Brokk telling in great detail to never jump off the side unless I want death. Kratos *immediately* jumped off and got disintegrated. The game only told me I was warned. I thought he might just look out over the view, haha

Going back and re-playing Horizon: Zero Dawn just after finishing Forbidden West. Forgot that Zero Dawn doesn't have the glider... at some point i just jumped off a cliff and died like an idiot 🫡

That was the last we saw of Andy... Or was that, Jane? I need to sleep.

Two spring to mind. The helicoptor rotor blades in Prey. Taking pills and alcohol together despite being told not to in Farenheit.

I was sure that dying after accepting to sleep with Morinth in Mass Effect 2 would be here. Turns out I was wrong

Just replaying Star wars Kotor right now. In it, you can walk up to 2 different house-sized creatures everyone says are too strong to fight, or plead guilty at 2 separate trials after the judge explained the sentence was death. What makes it funny is after a very short cutscene of your demise, the game comedy-smash-cuts you to the menu screen where a disapproving Malak glares at you.

My all time favorite stupid death has to be from Outer Wilds. You learn very specific law about traveling through black holes, and then are given a lab where you can basically experiment with miniature versions of them. So what would any of us do other than immediately try to break this rule? And the result? Well, it seems obvious after it happens…

My favourite stupid death was dying to one of the scrolls of the falling npc in morrowind in seyda neen just to see if it would kill me as well if using them.

Super Paper Mario has a few good ones, most of them from repeatedly saying "No" to a "But Thou Must!"-type scenario, where the only way to advance the plot is say "yes". The first one is right at the start of the game, where you can refuse to go on the quest to save the world and get a game over. The second is where, after going to space, you refuse to put on your helmet and suffocate and die, while your companion fairy judges you for your life choices. Or, life ending choices, I suppose.

In the licensed Legend adventure game Companions of Xanth, you acquire a bucket partway through the game. Xanth, as you have been told, is a very literal place with a heavy emphasis on puns. You can kick the bucket. Guess what happens if you do.

Witcher 3:Blood and Wine has an instant game over if you ask the Elder vampire too many questions.

I legit got number 6 by accident. I had gone the wrong way around the space station. The camera wouldn't follow after I went too far and I got stuck on a box (or something). I tried to use Self Destruct to load a checkpoint. It did, but not in the way I expected.

It's a good day when OXBox references a Nancy Drew game

The cult-classic point and click adventure game "Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist", like most of Sierra's games of the time, was loaded with hilarious ways to die. Few, however, were so richly deserved like the one you get if you decide to eat horse poop. Yes, at one point in the game, you have to pick up some "horse apples" from the road as an inventory item to solve a puzzle. But, one of the things you can do in this game is attempt to eat items that are in your inventory. So, naturally, it's possible to pop the "plop" in your mouth... but if you do, that dung won't be the only thing that's "dropping", if you catch my drift. As you might expect, "ingesting horsey products that was never meant to be ingested" is not good for one's health, and in fact ends up being quite fatal (especially since, you know, it's the Wild West and modern medicine isn't a thing yet). The death message that you get for doing this dirty deed says it all: "Caution: the Surgeon General has determined that you've gotten EXACTLY what you deserved."

GlaDOS asking you to look at the deer.

In the neutral route of Undertale Yellow, there is a room where you have to mix together an acid in order to melt a locked door. Said locked door is right next to the mixing machine, but for a moment the acid is an item in your inventory that you can 'Use'. It's one of only two deaths where Flowey doesn't make fun of you, presumably because he feels like it would be pointless.

I love how in Super Paper Mario after about 15 minutes into the prologue, you can choose not to save the world over and over, resulting in a Game Over and forcing you to restart the game from the beginning.

Ah, the Nancy Drew games. So smart, so wholesome, and I've gotten our iconic girl detective killed in so many horrible ways-

I’m surprised you being able to jump into helicopter blades at the start of Prey isn’t in the list. You even get an achievement

"And worst of all... Pittsburgh!" HEY! I've lived in Pittsburgh all my adult life and I'm only slightly irradiated. I was also chased by what may have been a mutant turkey when I was in my early 30's. Although it could have been just a normal turkey. Those things are still pretty intimidating.

What about fallout 4 where you can just wait in sanctuary for the bombs to drop?

The hardest part of 'My Summer Car': Getting to the Finnish! Also: "Suomi mainittu, torilla tavataan!"

Yup, when Mike was doing the ( remembering own name joke ) I was wondering if he was going to use Luke.

If you take off the spacesuit you lose karma, I never noticed that. lol

5:59 - speaking of Fallout, how about the start of FO4 and if you decide not to run to the Vault and instead stick around to watch the nukes drop?

Ah yes, the game overs in which we really cant blame anyone but ourselves.

Adding this suggestion as it happened to me when I wasn't paying enough attention to item names in my inventory: Eating the Jarrin Root you are given in the Dark Brotherhood Questline for Skyrim. Killed instantly. (tbh, was trying multiple alchemy ingredients at the time and forgot which one I had been given for that quest.)

Please do note that if you punch a barrel in real life yes, the barrel will not explode, but your hand very well might

2:16 Myhtbusters proved its basically impossible to cause a gasoline explosion with a cigarette. The embers on a cig just dont burn hot enough to ignite the vapors. They literally dropped a freshly lit cigarette onto an open puddle of gasoline, and they coulsnt get it to ignite, even when they were TRYING to make it go boom.

Zero Escape: Zero Time Dillemma there's a whole scene where your team comes across a big button with "Warning! Do not press this button" in red flashing letters next to it. The team argues over whether or not they should press it for what feels like 20 minutes, pressing the button causes a huge explosion and kills everyone.

everyone makes fun of Pittsburgh until you come here. Then, after you live here for a couple years, you start making fun of it again, but lovingly

How about in Baldurs gate 3 where you can decide to piss of Vlakith the God like queen of the Githyanki because pissing off a being with the power to kill you with a word is a great plan

The 90's claymation adventure game The Neverhood. Getting the game's *only* Game Over by jumping into the drain the with giant signs that say "DANGER!", "DON'T JUMP IN THE DRAIN!", and "YOU WILL DIE!"

"Keel... you" had me rolling 😂😂😂

I actually just bought Disco Elysium on the steam summer sale. I should really actually play it sometime.

Certainly we could name a few classic Sierra games for this? Like in Space Quest 2 when you get zapped by a shrink ray and captured. To return to normal size you need to initiate the shrinkray again but in reverse. Or you can just initiate it as-is and get reduced so small that you don't even exist anymore. (Space Quest 1 also shares the "not putting on a spacesuit before entering an open (to the vacuum of space) docking bay.")

I haven't done it myself (I literally just bought the game), but, in the RPG Maker game Ib, giving your rose (which is your life force in the game) to the flower eating painting, unsurprisingly, results in an instant game over.

Nice to see Kingdom Come deliverance get some love.

makes me very happy to see the nancy drew games on here, they're full of so much weird and wacky charm.

Growing up, I was playing through Gears of War with a friend of mine. You can't damage your teammates with most weapons in the game, but there's at least one exception: the Hammer of Dawn, a beacon that calls down a laser from above. If you call it down near you, it'll kill you instantly. Guess how we found out?

Epic Tales From the Crypt shirt Andy. Man I miss that show

I got a good laugh from the game overs in Super Paper Mario. My personal favorite is when you refuse to put on your helmet in space...so you asphyxiate in space.

That Colossus death hits hard, I beat him on the hardest difficulty and in my stupidity I got crushed, sad times 😅

My favorite game over is when my guy dies in Skyrim because I wanted to see it he took fall damage

The two I can think of: 1. Drinking Thiollier's Concoction in Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree (a potion given to you by a man obsessed with "eternal rest" after you tell him you are "tired of life") 2. Eating one of the poisoned apples you're given in a Dark Brotherhood quest in TES IV Oblivion.

Like the time I used an electric aoe spell while standing on a watery ground and while raining to kill an enemy two feet from my character....yyyyyeeeeaah let's just say the enemy wasn't the only thing killed in that encounter

Infernax, a Castlevania 2 inspired side scroller, has the same wall chicken and random teleporting tornado. But the wall chicken has been there for who knows how long and you die of violent food poisoning. And the tornado is just a normal tornado and kills you by violent tornado-ing.

Okay, the delivery of the Pittsburg line was excellent. I legit laughed out loud.

In Wasteland 2 there's a nuke in the museum bit of the Ranger Citadel. The game tells you it's a live nuke. The game also tells you that it has a pressable button.

Jumping down the hole in the spider cave without feather fall on in BG3 is a good one.

There are so many hilarious dumb deaths, this series could use a part 2, 3, maybe even 4!

Fear Effect answered the question of what happens if you're in a room with somebody who has a bomb strapped to them and a gunfight breaks out where you fire indiscriminately in a simple and effective way - that simple and effective way being the bomb is set off by your errant bullet hitting it, and you get a special Game Over screen all because of it

You could make a whole list of Nancy Drew’s. It was interesting to see some of the funnier/dumb game overs.

Flashbacks to getting Nancy kicked out of Blackmoor Manor for feeding LouLou the parrot some good ol' chocolate. 😅

That Soulcalibur 3 entry has single-handedly made me avoid standing under big bosses and enemies in games for nearly two decades, even though 99% of them will at worse push you back a little bit when such an enemy falls on you.

The Nancy Drew games are notorious for some gruesome deaths considering it's a series for children. Nancy can be blown up, electrocuted, drowned, asphyxiated, buried alive and literally killed (strangled, shot, stabbed) by the villain she's usually running from in the final act. However, it's most often her own self-doing because she (the player) insists on doing something stupid like using a lighter in a dimly lit room filled with leaking gas vapor, for example.

Wasteland should definitely be on here, setting off the decorative nuke in the museum was a game over you could see anywhere in a 10 mile radius.

In Nancy Drew, you can aslo overhydrate in a Desert

My favorite game over was from one of the Zork games. (I think 2) There was a giant bucket that you need figure out how to make it go up the well and, eventually, we tried kicking it.

Would jumping into the drain in "the Neverhood" count? At the bottom of a drained lake you find a hole with three signs nest to it: "Danger!", "Don't jump in the drain!" and "You will die!". That's the only way to die in the whole game:) Not gonna lie, Warhorse Studios came up with a clever gimmick- bleak, but clever!

To get all the achievements in KCD you need to choose all of the negative perks in hardcore. That's a fun playthrough.

What about Planescape Torment where you can die right at the beginning by constantly choosing to plummet to the ground

2:10 Finnish Zoolander reboot is everything I hoped it would be 🤍💙

Drinking the elixir of life in Zork: Nemesis is pretty damn hilarious. “Is the idiot dead yet?” “Not yet.” Cue POV shot of your character getting brained.

mike said "alien weaponry" and i immediately said "i love that band!"

Hitma and the flipping proximity explosive... you know the one you forgot you put down and then go back to later... doh!!! Oh and since watching this, I've woken up with the 'Stupid Deaths' song from Horrible Histories running through my head.

My favorite stupid game over was The Outer Wilds. If you are in the Hourglass Twins experiment lab, and you get rid of the original black hole before the probe goes in, it literally destroys the universe. Not only that, the titular theme song is played for you...on kazoo.

In one of the quests for RuneScape 3, Sliske's Endgame, you will eventually come face to face with an elder god. One of the dialogue options you can take with it is to insult it, and while the game warns you that it's probably not a good idea, you can go through with it. Which, unsurprisingly, ends with it killing you.

I love how the Fallout one said you lost karma even when it didn't matter. It is like the game said "Wow. That was so dumb that it's almost evil."

wasteland 2 fiddle with the nuke at the start of the game

Harvest moon ds allows you let your dog kill the mayor. Your dog attacks the mayor in the opening cinematic and you get multiple chances to call him off, if you don't the screen turns bright red and it implies you let your pup go to town on the mayor. it's hilarious and completely non-cozy.

I'm so happy someone finally mentioned the Nancy Drew games! I played them all growing up and absolutely loved them.

Christ. That death rattle in the first clip!

Ringing the wrong doorbell in Turnip Hill in INFRA. Best jumpscare 10/10

7 Days to Die has the option to Eat Broken Glass you can take a guess on what would happen. Lol

I still remember being surprised when I was playing Fahrenheit like a point and click, trying every interactive option in the main guy's apartment, only to get a game over and him announcing he'd died after mixing alcohol and medicine.

Possibly the most "I should have seen that coming" game over is in the Neverhood, where after draining a lake the hole you pulled the plug from has several big signs near it warning "Danger!" and telling you explicitly not to jump in the drain. However, if you insist on doing it anyway, the game doesn't actually SHOW you dying, and there's some precedent in the game for people doing similar things and surviving, but at the very least you have removed yourself from the game area, and you get a "The End" screen.

Good thing Andy got saved there at the end with a timely warning from Andy... or was it Jane?

0:02: Calling me out there. Anyways, what about secret bookcase hideaways? Curious, the My Summer Car septic tank is empty.

Here's an obscure one: Little Big Adventure 2. You are supposed to sneak into the warehouse by riding a crate down the conveyor belt. But it's also possible to jump into the crate just before the machine vacuum-seals it. If that happens, you'll still get to the warehouse...but you can't escape the crate. Even if you have clovers (extra lives), the game doesn't use them, and just ends your game immediately.

Great video as always, probably my mistake watching this using a bigger monitor in a dark room since how blinding the white background is 😂

Think for me, an discovered quite accidentally first time... Mass Effect 3 ending... When accidentally shot the Catalyst with my pistol... An IMMEDIATELY terminated negotiations on a hostile terms ..

I love all the stupid endings of Nier: Automata. These include: -Eating a mackerel -The one shown here, self-destructing on the station -Taking out your OS chip -Running away from several key points in the game -Killing Pascal -Dying in the very first mission to a basic enemy There's a lot of them, these are just the ones I remember off the top of my head