History EverybodyDiesEnding / VideoGames

* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', the cinematic for the "World of Light" adventure mode shows the cast standing against Galeem, who absorbs an enormous amount of energy, unleashing devastating destruction upon the entire universe, killing the entirety of the cast...[[SoleSurvivor except Kirby who managed to reach safety]]. This is downplayed, as the adventure centers around rescuing all the fighters and taking down Galeem and his evil counterpart, Dharkon, too. [[spoiler:Played straight in the 'Galeem wins' and 'Dharkon wins' endings, in both of which Kirby is killed too.]]

* ''VideoGame/ADayInTheLifeOfASliceOfBread'': In one ending, the bread cries so much, that [[CryingARiver he flooded earth with his tears]], and everyone drowned.

* ''Videogame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' can end up this way depending on your actions, with only Frank Pritchard, Megan Reed, the Tongs, and Bob Page as the certain survivors (with all but Pritchard being DoomedByCanon).
** Of the key characters who die, Zeke Sanders, Isaius Sandoval, and Faridah Malik can all die if Jensen doesn't intervene. Bill Taggart, Hugh Darrow, David Sarif, and protagonist Adam Jensen also die should the player choose the "Cover Up" ending and destroy Panchaea along with most of the protagonists/antagonists.
*** Since Jensen returns as the main character in ''Videogame/DeusExMankindDivided'', the "Cover Up" ending is the canon one. As it’s revealed that Adam was rescued and recovered...[[NoOneShouldSurviveThat somehow]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''. By the end of the first episode every single living character, no matter how minor, is confirmed dead. That's every single one of the scientists your crew was sent to check up on, every single one of your teammates no matter what station and the protagonist himself is killed in the episode finale to boot.
** Luckily, by the second game, Doomguy has literally ''killed his way out of Hell'', and through the events of the game goes back and kills the Icon of Sin, whose death throes lead to destroying Hell itself.
** Then in Doom 64, it turns out part of Hell survives, and a new ruler came up to recreate all the demons destroyed through the events of Doom 2. Doomguy's response? Kill them all again, and then stay in Hell to make sure that no demon ever thinks of coming to life again. Which is to say, Doomguy killed Hell. Pretty good for one man hopped up on stimpacks.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': At the end. Aionios along with the current incarnation of every character ceases to exist once the worlds split apart.
* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'': One of the possible endings in the game, the Genocide Ending can be achieved if the player kills all the characters except for Senpai and the few other unkillables in the first day. Yandere-chan does this so nobody can come in between her and Senpai, whom she later kidnaps.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'' [[spoiler:At the end. Aionios along with the current incarnation of every character ceases to exist once the worlds split apart.]]

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'', after fighting his way to the capital to clear his family name and defeat the real villains, Sigurd, and his army is betrayed and killed by Arvis. Just before killing Sigurd, Arvis even shows off his new wife Deirdre who used to be Sigurd's wife before being kidnapped and brainwashed.

* Given the tone through ''VideoGame/Boktai 2'' and ''3'', this is what happens if you fail to finish off Jormungandr and Vanargand: They fail to stop the Eternal, it screeches, the screen smashes to black, and it is released to erase all life on Earth, Immortal or Mortal, no one is safe.

* According to Creator/TetsuyaNomura, at one point in development in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Creator/HironobuSakaguchi and Creator/KazushigeNojima both wanted to kill off every character in the party apart from Cloud and the two other party members the player brings with them. According to them, they were getting pretty excited until Nomura managed to talk them out of it, saying it would rob Aeris' death of its impact.

* The final battle of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' is the aptly-named "SuicideMission". AnyoneCanDie, up to and including [[PlayerCharacter Commander Shepard]] him/herself if you're insufficiently prepared. Anyone except [[NonActionGuy Joker]], anyway.

* Every single NonStandardGameOver (and ''regular'' game over for that matter) in ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' results in one of these, but one of the more notable examples comes toward the end of the game, where [[spoiler:you can choose to accept [[MagicalClown Dimentio’s]] offer for the power needed to effortlessly crush BigBad Count Bleck. [[NeverTrustTheSillyOnes Doing so turns Mario and Luigi into mindless puppets]], and [[NothingIsScarier while the result isn’t seen onscreen,]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt it can be assumed what happened]]…]]

* Every single NonStandardGameOver (and ''regular'' game over for that matter) in ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' results in one of these, but one of the more notable examples comes toward the end of the game, where [[spoiler:you can choose to accept [[MagicalClown Dimentio’s]] offer for the power needed to effortlessly crush BigBad Count Bleck. [[NeverTrustRheSillyOnes Doing so turns Mario and Luigi into mindless puppets]], and [[NothingIsScarier while the result isn’t seen onscreen,]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt it can be assumed what happened]]…]]

* Every single NonStandardGameOver (and ''regular'' game over for that matter) in ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' results in one of these, but one of the more notable examples comes toward the end of the game, where you can choose to accept [[MagicalClown Dimentio’s]] offer for the power needed to effortlessly crush BigBad Count Bleck. Doing so turns Mario and Luigi into [[Brainwashed mindless puppets]], and [[NothingIsScarier while the result isn’t seen onscreen,]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt it can be assumed what happened…]]

* The second half of ''VideoGame/{{Everhood}}'' involves Red the puppet killing every character in the game.

* ''VideoGame/GhostRecon: Future Soldier'' kills off [[DecoyProtagonist the first player character]] and his squadmates ''[[WeHardlyKnewYe in the prologue]]''.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', the cinematic for the "World of Light" adventure mode shows the cast standing against Galeem, who absorbs an enormous amount of energy, unleashing devastating destruction upon the entire universe, killing the entirety of the cast...[[SoleSurvivor except Kirby who managed to reach safety]]. This is downplayed, as the adventure centers around rescuing all the fighters and taking down Galeem and his evil counterpart, Dharkon, too.

*** China: Halfway through, the villainous kung fu school invades yours, and kills the two students who aren’t the successor. The Master and surviving student [[StormingTheCastle break into the villain’s lair]] to avenge their deaths, and slaughter each of the {{Big Bad}}’s minions in the room. Just after the Master passes on his final technique, he dies while taking the last of the {{Mooks}} with him, and the successor kills Odi Wang Lee.
*** Present: Each of Masaru’s opponents is killed by Odie Oldbright, who is then killed by Masaru in self-defense. This is seven out of eight characters.
*** Future: The only survivors of the starship are Cube himself, Kato (who is badly injured), and Darth. Technically, OD-10 is still alive in some sense, but as all its memories were deleted and it was forcibly shut down with its murderous personality destroyed, its original self is pretty much dead too.

*** Medieval: After the DiscOneFinalBoss, Hash succumbs to the plague which he had the whole time [[CriticalExistenceFailure but did not affect him before now]], and Straybow is then crushed by a collapsing ceiling trap. What’s left of the party returns to the castle, and, in the middle of the night, Oersted sees the Demon King seated on the throne, [[ButThouMust and kills it]]. Only for it to turn out that the Demon was an illusion, and he just killed the real king. He’s arrested, and Uranus uses the last of his power to break him out, and then dies. He is then forced to slaughter all the guards who try to apprehend him and escapes to the Forbidden Zone, where he tries to set things right by killing the Demon King once and for all. He makes it to the top, only to learn that Straybow faked his death, and arranged the whole thing. They fight, and Straybow dies for real this time. And when Oersted finally finds Alicia, she commits suicide because of all that happened. This triggers Oersted’s [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy Maddening into Misanthropy]], he completely snaps, and ''becomes'' Odio. The final chapter, which is a sequel to this one, shows everyone in Lucretia as ghosts, so Oersted/Odio killed them too.

** The climax of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'''s story mode kills off a pretty sizeable chunk of the cast. By ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', some of the characters are brought back, albeit as [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies revenants]] (although [[DeathIsCheap some get better]]).

* ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}''[='s=] endings both qualify. At ''most'', the merchant, the tutorial's teacher, and a BonusBoss survive. Otherwise, you and the Batter literally pull the plug (or rather, the switch) on the entire world and everyone in it.

* The bad ending of ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia2'' does this by having Ludger turn on and kill off every single member of the party for the sake of his protecting his older brother, who doesn't want to live and must die for the sake of the world. You actually have to fight all of them in a proper battle, which understandably [[EarnYourBadEnding isn't easy]], with it being one versus eight (Though mercifully, you only have to fight four of them at a time, with replacements coming in as each one falls).

* The 1989 Amiga game ''Nuclear War'' had the potential to end like this. Whenever a nation is defeated, their remaining arsenal is launched in a [[TakingYouDownWithMe retaliatory strike]] against all other remaining nations. Even if one nation remains to wipe out their last opponent, the retaliation can easily be enough to destroy them too. Cue image of Earth exploding.

** Being an adaptation of ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', it's no small surprise that when the games from ''7'' onward introduced a campaign for Sima Yi's conquest at the end of the Three Kingdoms era, the vast majority of the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters are already dead by the start of it, and only a few of the survivors make it to the end.

*** Medieval: After the DiscOneFinalBoss, Hash succumbs to the plague which he had the whole time [[CriticalExistenceFailure but did not affect him before now]], and Straybow is then crushed by a collapsing ceiling trap. What’s left of the party returns to the castle, and, in the middle of the night, Oersted sees the Demon King seated on the throne, [[ButThouMust and kills it]]. Only for it to turn out that the Demon was an illusion, and he just killed the real king. He’s arrested, and Uranus uses the last of his power to break him out, and then dies. He is then forced to slaughter all the guards who try to apprehend him and escapes to the Forbidden Zone, where he tries to set things right by killing the Demon King once and for all. He makes it to the top, only to learn that Straybow faked his death, and arranged the whole thing. They fight, and Straybow dies for real this time. And when Oersted finally finds Alicia, she commits suicide because of all that happened. This triggers Oersted’s [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy Maddening into Misanthropy]], he completely snaps, and ''becomes'' Odio all along]]. The final chapter, which is a sequel to this one, shows everyone in Lucretia as ghosts, so Oersted/Odio killed them too.

* The [[MultipleEndings appropriately named]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Armageddon Ending]] in ''VideoGame/LiveALive''. The worst part is that since you're playing as the bosses (which means you've ''already'' passed the MoralEventHorizon by picking [[BigBad Oersted/Odio]] as your [[VillainProtagonist final chapter protagonist]]), it's ''you'' who gives the command to nuke all of existence. And to gain access to the ending, you must let the heroes [[DesperationAttack beat you within an inch of your life]], so you pretty much ''[[EarnYourBadEnding have to go out of your way to get this ending.]]'' [[YouBastard You just HAD to get 100% completion, didn't you?]] The Sad Ending also counts, despite having a far lower body count, because you still kill all the heroes]], and at the end Oersted wanders around his now-empty kingdom, suggesting that he slaughtered the inhabitants before the chapter begins.

KillEmAll in video games.

* ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami2WrongNumber'' sees a number of its characters die at the end of their stories, not to mention [[DoomedByCanon those killed in the original game]] (''Wrong Number'' is both a sequel and prequel). Even those who survive their own storylines die in [[NukeEm a nuclear war between America and the Soviet Union]].