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/se_endelica_dema]

PoE. Dreadfire. In prologue, you can "fuck off, I'm tired of saving the world." Well, happy game over.

Warhammer. RT - You can accept a Kiss from the space bug and become a genestealer puppet. Happy game over. Until the Day of Liberation.

[u/Sassy_Drow → u/se_endelica_dema]

You can also repeatedly refuse to become a Rogue trader after the prologue which will give you a game over. 

[u/Floppy0941 → u/se_endelica_dema]

Another PoE one is chatting shit to Rymrgand and getting vaporised

[u/Troodon79 → u/se_endelica_dema]

Another rogue trader moment is trying to pilot through the incredibly deadly warp rift, with multiple chances to go back and warnings that yes, this will kill everyone here.

[u/ArmouredStump → u/Troodon79]

That was truly depressing and grimdark for me...

[u/Sinthe741 → u/se_endelica_dema]

In a DLC for the first PoE game (or possibly Deadfire? It's been awhile) you can piss Rymrgand off enough that he kills you.

[u/Thomas_JCG → u/se_endelica_dema]

In PoE2, you can also challenge god to a fight and be instantly snuffed out of existence, try to reach the impossible to reach island on a dinky ship, or tell god to just go ahead and end the world.

[u/Puzzle-Necked → u/se_endelica_dema]

If you buy POE: Deadfire on PS4, the load times are so ridiculously long that it makes finishing the game impossible. Nice little easter egg from the devs

[u/DropShoddy1128 → u/Puzzle-Necked]

Nothing like waiting 10 minutes at a loading screen only for the game to crash anyway!

I love this game but it's MISERABLE on PS4 much better on PS5. I really wish there was a way to get the console UI and controls on my steam deck.