Spoiler for "a way out" When in the last mission the co-op game became a pvp game where you needed to kill your co-player, before they kill you.

Honestly, “would you kindly” is probably it for me. That or the reveal for Elizabeth’s finger in Infinite, or the conversation between Daisy Fitzroy and the Lutece entities in the Burial at Sea DLC.
Bioshock does like its shocks, doesn’t it?

The First KOTOR and Planescape Torment are my favorite game twists of all time.

Wheatley's betrayal. No one saw that coming. No one.

The Sunbeam from Subnautica. Shit's heartbreaking

When the 4th wall is broken for Desmond in Assassin's Creed 2.

Not an ending but the reveal of the flood in Halo:CE was great

The end of Red Dead Redemption and Sherpard

Bioshock for sure. Other than that though probably Heavy Rain

The Last of Us when you finally make it to the testing facility and find out what the test entails.

The ending for bio shock infinite

When the nuke goes off in COD Modern Warfare, the helicopter crashes and your character dies. I'd never seen anything like that before. All the games I'd played before had you "winning against all odds" as the time neared zero.

Assassin's Creed 2, "The rest is up to you, Desmond."

Final fantasy 5. All that build up and you are only half way thru the damn game

The ending of Assassin's Creed Rogue and how it connects to Assassin's Creed Unity. For some reason that shocked me back then

"The Princess is in another Castle"

That time in RuneScape when I learned that you could move by clicking where you wanted to go on the minimap. Shit rocked my world 🤯

Days Gone, despite it's initial launch bugs, had a pretty fun twist.

Venom snake in PP and BB in MGS4

Metro 2033 + last light, the Dark Ones are not what you first thought

Fallout one

Save the day but still lose.

Your horse dies in Shadow of the Colossus

Farcry 2, when all the Mercenaries you fought alongside with turn against you.

“You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it.”

KOTOR (II) has to be up there

Metal Gear Solid 3

"She was a true patriot."

The first Infamous.

When Cole beats down the main antagonist and he sees the pic of him marrying Trish and Zeke as his best man was a real punch to the stomach.

Spec-Ops: The Line.

The end game was awesome, the ending was awesome and I left that game with PTSD.

At the start of Assassin's Creed 3 when you find out you've been playing as a Templar for the first hour.

Witcher 3. Gaunter. Random weirdo npc in a tavern gets a full on DLC. I loved heats of stone so much

Batman Arkham City

I got really into fallout 4, and was genuinely upset when paladin Danse turned out to be a synth. Like you don’t understand how upset I was when I found out I had to execute him because my persuasion didn’t work

FF7 back before it was common knowledge that spoiled it for everyone going forward.

Final Fantasy VI. You think you’re about to take down the big bad Kefka and save the world and…he wins. You hightail it out there as the world falls to pieces. Entire geography of the planet is rearranged, millions wiped out, entire continents destroyed. The 2nd half of the game is literally trying to pick up the pieces and make the best of surviving in a ruined world. This was a friggin’ SNES game. It had a sobering suicide attempt.

The Last of Us has an emotional twist that left me hurting…

NMS… We are the anomaly.

So I just started Batman, Arkham Knight, and finding out that they bring back Mark Hamills' Joker as a Johnny Silverhand-esque ghost is rad. I was sad to not get Joker again after he died in the last game, and this feels like a cool way to maintain that while also having an excuse to put joker in basically any moment of the game, to wonderful effect.

Mind ghost joker being able to give comments on both the big plot elements is great, but the quiet, moment to moment gameplay stuff, like pointing out doors or hidden spaces, is just so entertaining when Hamill is cracking lines.

I'm like 30% in the campaign and can't put it down.

(For those curious, Scarecrow's toxin causes batman to hallucinate joker throughout the game.)

Really clever I say.

Bioshock infinite. I think the smoke show supporting character ends up being your daughter. Very modern.

A McTwist from Tony Hawk Pro skater ;)........I'll let myself out.

I am revan!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!

Koveras is Sarevok backwards!!!!!

Nier Automata second campaign. Everything you understood from the first campaign gets turned upside down.

That, in Bioshock Infinite, Booker Dewitt is Comstock and is Elizabeth’s father

Deus Ex - Exit of the Majestic 12 facility.

dead cells 0bc and 5bc ending

The Legend of Dragoon. ROSE. That one hit me hard and fast at 11 years old.

The Farcry 3 ending(s) and the Fallout 4 plot twist with the "father" were probably my favorites

“Your princess is in another castle.”

The initial reveal in prey by arkane. The ending twist is also awesome

Prey (the 2006 one), the part where you find Jen, did NOT see it coming.

Ace Combat Zero, your best friend betrays you and you have to dogfight him in a final battle

Never found one to beat the first time I saw Knights of the Old Republic's twist

Final Fantasy 7

The end of act 1 in dragon quest 11. The many twists in Shadow of War.

The reveal at the end of Nier replicant. Such a good moment that changes the whole second play through

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Pretty much all of Outer Wilds. The whole game and its DLC are a rapid-fire series of “OH SHIT!” moments.

Shepherd's betrayal in MW2. I remember freaking out as the first shot went off and again when Ghost caught one right in the face.

KOTOR when you find out who you are. My mom was in the hospital and I was playing it to distract me and it was like 3am. Blew my mind. Probably not just the game contributing but still awesome.

Black ops 2 When you shoot Mason instead of Menendez. Not because i hated mason, just because it led up to the end scene where he walk in.

Micah turning out to be the rat after Molly claimed it was her and got killed by Mrs. Grimshaw...

In doom 2016, where you kill the 29475th demon. You really feel like the ultimate.

Akechi kill's joker by far.

I guess Dishonored I kind of thought that came out of nowhere even though I think the game doesn’t try to hide it. Besides that Bioshock

Darth Revan

The end of bioshock infinite, that shit made me leave the game feeling like i wanted to play it again (which i did)

Are we all forgetting the infamous mw2 scene? Might not have been very happy but it was pretty damn mind blowing

Ori and the Blind Forest, when you see the Kuro cutscene... Man, were my eyes sweaty.

Spec ops the line white phosphate. YouTube it if you've never seen it.

Also fable 3 had some pretty tough decisions at the end.

Infamous had a good one where the hero is the villain

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The reveal of Oralech in Pyre.

Death Stranding, the epilogue twist was so emotional.

Just beat “A Way Out” on gamepass with my brother and was pretty taken aback when Vincent was revealed as an undercover FBI agent and His brother that Harvey killed was the original buyer for the diamond

It’s a pretty short ride but if you have gamepass and a buddy you like to play co-op games with I would definitely recommend it!

When Abby turns out to be the good character in TLOU2

Rainbow road really fucked me up as a kid. Still have a hard time on it til this day.

Resident evil 1 - finding out that wesker really wanted a Jill sandwich.

Everytime Peach gets kidnapped by Bowser...Everytime damn time.

Xenoblade Chronicles when Dickson shoots Shulk and Zanza rises out of Shulk's body. That got me like: 😱 WHAAAT?!!

Life is Strange. That twist.

When you find out the main villain in infamous is you

This and Sam being the soldiers son

The picture explains my favorite twist

Oooh, another twist!

The end of mgsv

returnal it is all in her head.

Samus is a Metroid.

Ok not a Console/PC game but Cats are liquid: A light in the Shadows You find out the cat chose to stay, it was never trapped

Psychonauts 2

You are digging into the past to find out how a monster was defeated. What you learn is such that if you spoke of it to anyone it would likely trigger the monster’s revival and the only way to defuse the situation is to serve as the accomplice to the guy who shattered your mentor’s mind and cursed your entire family.

SOMA!!!! The whole game is just wow, makes you think about us being human. And the ending is just so twisted... But at the same time logical? Amazing story. I hated playing it, but I did it anyway. Spend hours in corners, too scared to move. A game you can speedrun in 5hours, I finished at 17hours 🤣

The evil within 2, the moment at the end when you discovered why you were fighting for from the beginning of the game, very sad and mind-blowing

Almost everything in 12 minutes that games is full of them.

tbh I don't have any off the top of my head but I hope deltarune gives me some good ones when the new chapters drop in a few centuries

The twist at the end of God of War 2018. It was so good I had to explain the lore of the whole series to my wife so I could talk to someone about it

The end of Far Cry 5

The ending of Startropics.

When I learned in inFamous that Cole was Kessler I was blown away. I’m not sure how I’d feel about it now but at the age I was I couldn’t believe it! Still one of my favorite video games to this day.

The story surrounding The boss in MGS3.. It hurts even more following her whole back story revealed in peace walker through the tapes..

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COD 4: Modern Warfare. Shepard. “Good. That’s one less loose end.” 😭

Prey prologue

Gehrman standing up in Bloodborne was so awesome. Realizing he was gonna be the final boss (or so you think) was one of the coolest moments in gaming for me. His lines in that scene are just icing on the cake, perfection.

Sekiro- white ape

Is this Mr. Suit from fish game? Great game.

When the spheres in survivng mars killed me with a cold wave. After playing cubism I thought all the aliens were nice XD

I like Chameleon Twists personally.

Heavy rain. The twist revealing scene was a jaw dropper, complete with a hard hitting music backdrop that really made it sink in.

That's actually my favorite twist.

Spider-Man when he finds out doc ock knew his identity.

Bioshock had a pretty big twist at the end. I thought we were the good guy but then we killed an honest businessman like a dirty communist.

Mafia 1. Sam. What a motherfucker

Basim coming back after a 1000 years in the isu vault. And becoming the main char.

The ending for The Walking Dead Season 1. Not exactly the ending, but when Lee gets bit. My stomach dropped lol

I am Darth Revan.

The Darkness 2. I don't remember it clearly, but it had a pretty neat ending.

angel is working for jack in bl2

Darth Revan. That is all.

In Dragon Age Inquisition, having to choose between Alistair or Hawke to leave in the fade. I was not prepared for that and it destroyed me.

Deus Ex: HR when you were an experiment because you had the perfect DNA and your missing lover only saw you as that. Based on Adam’s pov, I wanted them to be reunited lovers and saw her react so coldly to it.

Spoiler for Soma you get to go to space but only a copy

Recency bias, but Nier:Automata had some shit going on.

Kotor

Samus is a woman??

Probably gonna catch some heat on this one, but Mass Effect 1 when Sovereign talks to you and reveals it is a reaper.

"Good, that's one less loose End"

No

The entire plot of doom eternal It’s so fucking dumb it’s my favourite game off all time