When the game lets you make an extremely dumb decision that kills you/gets you a game over/makes it impossible to win

[u/Zeekay89]

Basically what it says. The extremely dumb decision that can only end in your death, game over, or make winning impossible is a valid option you can choose.

Mass Effect 2. Morinth is an Ardat-Yakshi, an Asari with a genetic condition that causes the Asari mind meld to burn out her partner’s nervous system and give her a euphoric feeling. If you choose her over her mother, Samara, she says that Shepard is special and can survive where everyone else has died. She’s lying and you die like everyone else if you sleep with her.

Nier: Automata. There are a lot of unique game overs in the game that usually involve dying during certain events. A few involve making truly idiotic decisions. Engaging your self destruct inside the pressurized space station blows it up. You can remove a component that is essentially your brain and instantly die. You can eat a fish that is said to be extremely delicious but destroys the insides of androids.

Lords of Aswick. One possible scenario in this choose your own adventure game is that you take in one of the king’s bastards as your squire. The king just had a legitimate heir and started killing his bastards to secure his heir’s claim. Later on, you have the option to declare in open court that your squire is the king’s bastard. The next scene is your execution with bastard having just been executed before you.

[u/NarwhalTerrible4680]

I loved this sooo much in Nier Automata. All the joke endings like eating the fish, taking out your operating system and stuff like that just made the game feel so alive.

It just lets you do stuff, even if it's an instant game over.

[u/Stormthedragon2026 → u/NarwhalTerrible4680]

I got the OS ending twice because once I accidentally sold my OS Chip in the resistance camp 😔

For some reason thought I got a second one after collecting my corpse from the warehouse…. Oops.

[u/Kelimnac → u/Stormthedragon2026]

I choose to believe there’s a few seconds where 9S watches 2B remove the chip, hand it over, pocket the cash, and then crumple to the ground, Looney Tunes style

[u/Stormthedragon2026 → u/Kelimnac]

lol

[u/Powerful-Composer733 → u/NarwhalTerrible4680]

First time playing as 9S, I didn’t get where I was supposed to go and 9S just left to explore machines, never to be heard of again.
This was completely unexpected and I laughed so hard!

[u/YoghurtFlan → u/NarwhalTerrible4680]

My fave was when you start as the little robot carrying a bucket of water, and if you walk over a little plank on the floor you trip up and fall flat on your face. Death.