History VideoGame / EndlingExtinctionIsForever

* BadFuture: Humans [[GaiasLament have destroyed so much of the ecosystem]] that even red foxes are now critically endangered.

* InformedAttribute: As bad as things are, it's hard to imagine that this is the ''last'' fox on earth. They're an extremely adaptable species that have probably weathered urbanization better than anything.

''Endling-Extinction is Forever'' is an indie simulation survival game developed by Herobeat Studios and published by [=HandyGame=] and released on July 19, 2022 for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and consoles.

* GameplayAllyImmortality: [[spoiler:Subverted, the Cubs can die from hunger or by being attacked by owls, but the Human Poachers only go for the Mother Fox and never the cubs.]]

* SilenceIsGolden: There is not a single line of dialogue in this game.

* WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou: If the Mother Fox dies or is killed at any point of the game [[spoiler:except the plot-mandated ending]], it results in a game over.

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: The memories you uncover by scent reveal that [[spoiler:the scavenger wants medicine for his daughter Molly's terminal illness and can't afford it, until the furrier makes a deal that if he can kill the mother fox (using one of her cubs as bait), he can sell her fur coat and the cub for enough money to buy medicine for Molly. Although the scavenger tries and fails to kill the fox, Molly, in contrast, offers kindness to her and her cubs by offering them food. We are then shown through more pics that eventually the scavenger calls off the deal thanks to his daughter's kindness and tries to find another way to save her. But after Molly eventually succumbs to her illness, and the mother fox comforts him, the scavenger becomes more determined to protect the remnants of a dying wildlife. Unfortunately, he is later found dead with a hatchet embedded in his chest and his gun missing, implied to be the work of the furrier [[ResignationsNotAccepted who didn't take kindly to the scavenger's resignation]].]]

* DisappearedDad: Red foxes are monogamous (more or less) but the cubs' father is gone by the time of the opening scene.

* GreenAesop: [[spoiler: The game shows how humanity's actions in destroying the environment will eventually lead to a desolate wasteland, to the point that at the very least, the red fox is on the brink of extinction. At least the final scene of the game suggests that humanity is learning from its mistakes]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Remember, extinction is forever!]]

* ApocalypseHow: This game is set in a BadFuture, where the entire city is in a regional scale societal disruption bordering on planetary scale multiple species extinction due to human-engineered climate change. By the game's end, [[spoiler:it has devolved into a bit of a planetary scale societal collapse in a barren wasteland. At least most of humanity has learned from their mistakes and decided to protect nature from further destruction and help some species to reproduce and survive.]]

* HumansAreBastards: Foxes have been driven to near extinction thanks to the work of humans making the world dirty. [[spoiler:By the end of the game, most of humanity has learned from their mistakes... except for one Furrier who is so hell-bent on eradicating the entire species to extinction so as to use their fur coats to [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI build a monument to non-existence]].]]

** [[spoiler:The wasteland that the mother fox and her cub(s) are moving away from along with the badger (who has lost her son if you helped them earlier) and some humanity remaining, most of whom have learned from their mistakes, kinda brings to mind the death parade of the dinosaurs in the "[[Theater/TheRiteOfSpring Rite of Spring]]" segment of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''.]]