Summary
- Some video games allow players to witness and even cause the apocalypse, providing a unique perspective on the end of the world.
- Games like Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13 and Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy offer complex storylines where players make choices that determine the fate of the world.
- In games like Season: A Letter To The Future and Frostpunk, the focus is not on preventing the apocalypse, but rather on recording and surviving in a dying world.
We all love an apocalypse, right? Well, if it means that you attach pieces of scrap and leather to make some cool armour to survive a wasteland full of quirky characters, then probably. But what about games centered around the world actually ending? Not the games that are set in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the zombie apocalypses or after the nuclear war, but one where you get to actually witness the apocalypse happen and🤡 sometimes eve♍n cause it?
Well, it turns out there is a rare assortment of video games centered around this idea, not a post-apocalyptic world that you have to survive in, but a game where you're front and centre to the actual apocalypse.
8 🌼 Lightnin༒g Returns: Final Fantasy 13 Sees A World Reborn
In the spin-off 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13, Lightning takes the place as a sort of messenger of God, to put it simply. She is tasked with saving the souls in the dying world of Nova Chrysalia to ensure that they will be able to pass onto the new world. This also inclu🐎des herself and⛎ her friends.
Although the story gets a lot more complicated than that in true 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy fashion, Lightning does manage to succeed, and you will witness the end of the world and the birth of a new one. It's a much more hopeful end of the world than most others.
7 You Can Eꦆnd The World In Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy
Quantic Dream's first choose-your-own-adventure game, Fahrenheit (or Indigo Prophecy in North America) follows Lucas Kane, a man who has just murdered another in the bathroom of a diner. Things only grow wilder from there. By the end of the game, it's revealed Lucas is superhuman and must stop numerous forces known as The Orange Clan and Purple Clan. They wish to obtain a young girl who is an Indigo Child, able to grant someone unlimited power.
The climax of the game sees Lucas having to make a decision over which𓆉 faction can win. If Lucas chooses The Purple Clan, then the temperature around the world continues ๊to plummet, resulting in the deaths of three-quarters of the human population.
6 Season: A Letter To The Future Is All About The Apo𝔉calypse
In 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Season: A Letter To The Future, you play as Estelle, a young woman who tasks herself with travelling the world on her bike to record the world before it ends. The apocalypse is inevitable, and you never find out too much about what is causing the world to end, and the narrative isn't about stopping it either.
Instead, you're just tasked with recording parts of the world in whatever ways you can so that they can be treasured.
5 You Must Save The World In The Legend Of Zelda: Majora's Mask
The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is one of the few games in the series that is a direct sequel to a previous title and is also notorious being one of, if not the darkest entry in the series to date. The game sees Link from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time facing 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:one of his most threatening villains, Skull Kid, and having to travel thr♋ough time to prevent a moon from crashing into Termina.
If Link fails, you actually get a sequence where the moon crashes, destroying the land and to our knowledge, the world. It's a dark fate for the people of Termina.
4 Frostpunk Is About A World That Is Dying 🎃
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Frostpunk is unlike any other strategy game, mostly due to its excellent world-building. Set in the Victorian era, Frostpunk sees you as The Captain, a lea🐓der of refugees from London that are trying to escape an icy storm that has seemingly frozen the world over.
The world is ending, and it's doubtful whether humans will make it, but, regardless, there is no definitive answer to what the storm is or how to stop it. There is no way to save the world, but just to build a good enough settlement so that some people may survive it.
3 ꧙ Project Zomboid Has You Survive During The𝐆 Apocalypse
This is cheating a little but in Project Zomboid, the world technically is still ending. You are a survivor in the middle ✤of Kentucky during the outbreak of what is known as The Knox Virus, your standard zombie virus that is spreading around.
However, when you spawn, it is a week later since quarantine has been called to contain the virus. You can still watch TV and listen to radios that tell you news about what's going on in the world and how the virus is spreading, meaning you aren't in the post-apocalypse just yet, but dealing with the full end of the world.
2 ❀Suzerain Can End In Nuclea꧂r Disaster
Another adventure game, Suzerain is set in a v🐎ery detailed fictional universe where you are the leader of the nation of Sordland and, throughout your presidency, you must make important choices that can steer the course of your nation and the world.
One of these endings can see you declare 🎀war on a neighbouring nation and, if you make the wrong choices, it can lead to the nation using their nuclear weapons against you, setting off a chain of events that plunges the world into nuclear war and sees you and countless millions die.
1 🐼 And Far Cry 5 Does End In Nuclear Disaster ﷽
When you go through 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Far Cry 5, you have to deal with the typical charismatic villain, this time cult leader Joseph Seed and his family. One of Joseph's teachings is that the world is going to end in a great fire, which is why he begins his cult in the first place. Of course, you're led to not believe him as he claims he saw the world end in a vision from God.
So you beat the bad guys, you're about to arrest Joseph and then... the world actually does end. Yep, in Far Cry 5's ending (at least it's canon one), nuclear warheads go off all along the United States and the world ends with your unnamed protagonist in a bunker with Joseph Seed, trapped in there for the foreseeable future.