Het einde van Mass Effect 3 deed veel gamers door het lint heen gaan, maar dat is niet de enige game met een depressief einde. Daarom heeft de website Topless Robot deze top tien gemaakt, en daar staan titels op die een veel erger einde hadden. Let wel op dat er SPOILERS bij zitten.

7) Grand Theft Auto IV

At near the end of the game, the player is given a choice when re-encountering Dimitri Rascalov, the person who sold Niko out to his enemies from Eastern Europe, to either strike a deal regarding a load of valuable heroin or take revenge on him for everything he has done. Choose the Deal path, and Dimitri sends an assassin to kill Niko's buddy Roman at his wedding the next day. The Revenge path is no better -- although Niko takes out Dimitri preemptively, one of Dimitri's goons pulls a drive-by revenge shooting, which kills Niko's love interest Kate McReary just as she finally agrees to go steady with Niko.

While the player is allowed the chance to retaliate against either Dimitri or his henchman, the fact that both Roman and Kate are quite likable characters makes their impending doom that much harder to swallow. It's a Sophie's Choice, where the player realizes that even after blowing away Dimitri's (or his goon's) digitally-rendered head, there is no way for them to bring both Roman and Kate back save for hitting that reset button on their console and starting a new game.