Top 10 Video Games With the Saddest Endings

John sacrifices himself for his family! A 1000 salutes for this true hero!

John fought so hard for his family and sacrificed his life for them.

Saddest ending ever

It's incredibly heart-breaking and can make you almost hate Joel...

Saddest games ever

The main series also had sad endings, as well. X and Y: AZ has a reunion with Floette after all that they've been through. Sun and Moon: Lillie departs to Kanto and we don't see her in Let's Go! But the all time saddest is definitely Black and White's ending. Goodbye N.

Same goes for the other 2, Darkness and Time.

We're not talking about overall sad story, alright, because this wouldn't really make into the list. This is one of those dungeon crawler games where you do tasks and get stuff. But this one's in the Pokemon universe (there's that), and YOU are the Pokemon (there's that too).

You work up your way with your partner. The first few hours of mission completing made IGN rate this game 4.9, because yes, AT FIRST (AND ONLY AT FIRST) it's feels repetitive. But after progressing through the story, it gets much more story-rich, and deep. As a Pokemon game, it's heavy with life lessons, and morales. The ending though...it scars my heart. In a good way, not a bad way. It's really sad, and really heartbreaking. Being a game which is targeted mainly on younger gamers, this would be one of those "first games" you play to actually make you cry. While Mother 3 also had a similar graphical system, it's not really advertised as ...more

The song wich is titled Don't Ever Forget is relaxing when taken out of context

But the ending always makes me cry! You're disappearing from the timeline to save the world!

Grand Theft Auto and Heavy Rain being above this game is just crazy.

Get it higher

"Frisk killed his mom"
"Chara loved Asriel Dreemurr"
Sans:: Thank you, Frisk. You became... ...a mass murder for our sake...
Frisk:: No, I don't want that! He/She finding another man...?! I want him/her to think about me and no one else for the rest of my life! Even after I die... I want to be at the front of him/her mind for a while! 10 years, at least!
"Only Flowey knows"
Undyne:: A nameless person who bullied Alphys as a kid, because she was pregnant.
Papyrus:: *sniff* *sniff* I never get tired of Spaghetti's beautiful handwriting it even smells nice.
"Frisk becomes green algae (crying)"

Okay, the pacifist ending is not sad, and the world is completely destroyed in the genocide ending. But in my opinion, the saddest endings are in neutral.
At the end of a neutral run, Sans calls you and tells you how things are going in the underground. In one ending, Papyrus becomes king (yay!), but he thinks all his friends (who you murdered) are on vacation. He just wishes they'd send a postcard. Sans doesn't have the heart to tell him what you did.
Or if you kill Toriel, in some endings, Sans will says, "I wonder how the lady from the ruins is doing. I haven't seen her. I wonder how she's feeling. *silence* Or maybe she's not feeling anything at all."
Super dark and sad.

Papyrus. Papyrus's death was just SO SAD "I- I know theres some good in you."
And sans. He- I can't say.

You end up fighting your own brother while your dead mother tries to get him to snap out of it (he was killed in the first chapter and made into a cyborg). Once he does, he kills himself to be with his mother. Afterwards, you pull the needle and a cataclysmic chain of events take place, restoring nature in the Nowhere Islands. Good thing everyone survived.

Saddest game ever, the ending blown me away.

Sad really sad

It's a bit gut wrenching at parts, at bits like some deaths of the main characters, and the overview of the city New Alexandria, but the ending is the saddest. You are alone. No-one friendly. No escape. The only way you turn out is dead. Damn that zealot who stabbed you! Damn him!

When the title card read "there will be another time", I nearly cried

It was so sad. The luma sacrificing himself for the world and the story behind all of this. This truly deserves to be the most emotional game of all time.

This has a sad ending but Super Paper Mario has a sadder ending, a couple that was separated by a cruel fate sacrificed themselves to save the world and then they die (But Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Bowser don't die), the couple died as heroes, how is that not sad

Well, a million lumas sacrifice themselves, in an e rated game, just how are mario games lying about there rating

Heartbreaking and Human filled ending.