Top 10 Video Games With the Most Brutal Game Over Screens

The Top Ten
1 Mortal Kombat 4

Your character falls down an endless well while they wave they're arms and legs in a panic when the timer reaches 0 they fall until they get impaled on a series of spikes at the bottom.

In Mortal Kombat, there is no happy ending...

It's Mortal Kombat, what do you expect?

2 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

The best Zelda game has the most nightmarish gameover screen in all of Zelda

The game over scene gave me nightmares

3 Final Fight 2

Your character gets placed in room tied up with the water rising as the timer countdown as they panic hoping for the player to pop in a another quarter before the room completely fills up.

4 Ninja Gaiden (Arcade)

What a way to stick it to the players pay up or be prepare to watch your character die on screen.

5 Final Fight 3

Your character is strapped to a table as a wall of spikes comes down on them killing them.

6 Conker's Bad Fur Day
7 Psybadek
8 Dead Space
9 Metroid Prime

The 2D Metroid games: Oh well, you died. Time to go back to where you were.
Metroid Prime: Wait, do I hear a heartbeat and a flatline? That's way too dark.
Prime 2: Did Samus have a heart attack in the X-ray? Now you're just scaring me.
Prime 3: Oh, great. A pool of blood. Just what I wanted. Wait... what's THAT coming out? I really need to stop taking acid.
The Metroid Prime trilogy has some of the scariest game over screens in video games, bar none.

10 Donkey Kong Country

How is this on the list well because of THE HORRIFYING GAME OVER SCREEN... mwahahaa no really the reason why they find the game over screen nightmare is reasons 1: diddy's eye 2: the font 3: the somber tear jerking music but otheralls a great game but horrifying game over screen.

The Contenders
11 Super Smash Bros.
12 Fatal Fury
13 Resident Evil
14 The Punisher Arcade
15 Crash Bash

You fail, doesn't get more blunt than that

16 Resident Evil 2
17 Five Nights at Freddy's
18 Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

I decided to play Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night and at a point, I lost and got the Game Over screen. It's a Game Over screen with brutality and horror combined!
Because of that, I'm not even sure whether I want to play this game anymore or not. I'm also bad at many video games, which means that if I play it, I'm probably going to witness this Game Over a lot of

19 Fatal Fury 3
20 Street Fighter II
21 Undertale
22 Metal Gear Solid
23 Sonic CD (USA)
24 The Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth
25 Super Smash Bros Brawl
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