What game has the 'darkest' story

[blankedboy]

Out of the ones I've played... I dunno. Zeno Clash was darkish?

 

[beniki]

Bomberman.

Really creepy concept. 4 guys go into a labyrinth and try to trap each other in explosions.

I try to imagine what it's like. You're running down a cramped corridor that's barely big enough for you. Suddenly you see someone flash past at a T-junction ahead, and a bomb is planted, it's fuse glowing in the darkness.

You spin around and flee the inevitable explosion, counting down under your breath. There is a boom behind you, and you feel the hot air rush past you. But salvation is close by! Another junction is ahead!

You dart around the corner to safety. And see another bomb, fuse about to go waiting for you. There is a great wall of flame hurtling towards you from both directions. And you're trapped.

 

[Icarion (aka Stockholm)]

Warhammer Seires (Because the Warhammer universe itself it very dark.

The truly scary thing about Warhammer 40k is that it isn't the worst case senario. Think about it. We (beign Humans) could have wiped each other out with nukes, or something more powerful. The fact is, we survived, and moreove united. We all work towards a common goal. Thats a damn good sounding future, but look at it.

Most of the other good ones have been taken. The Darkness actually had a damn dark story line. And Limbo, thats enough to send a person into depression.

 

[12capital]

Bioshock
you can find audio recordings of a terrorist group attacking a new years party, a surgeon preforming plastic surgery on a patient who is still fully conscious, and a child having his free will taken away and being forced to break the neck of a puppy.

or wait... flash game called Company of Myself that turns out to bea man in a metal hospital recounting how he accidentally killed his true love, lost touch with reality and can no longer form any new memories

Company of Myself seems to be a retelling of Shutter Island, they both have very identical sounding plots.

OT: I'd say of the games I've played that haven't already been mentioned Baten Kaitos is the darkest game I've played. It was a Gamecube game and just the general plot was depressing yet wonderfully imaginative. It's still one of my favorite games I've ever played.

 

[Drakmeire]

Bioshock
you can find audio recordings of a terrorist group attacking a new years party, a surgeon preforming plastic surgery on a patient who is still fully conscious, and a child having his free will taken away and being forced to break the neck of a puppy.

or wait... flash game called Company of Myself that turns out to bea man in a metal hospital recounting how he accidentally killed his true love, lost touch with reality and can no longer form any new memories

Company of Myself seems to be a retelling of Shutter Island, they both have very identical sounding plots.

OT: I'd say of the games I've played that haven't already been mentioned Baten Kaitos is the darkest game I've played. It was a Gamecube game and just the general plot was depressing yet wonderfully imaginative. It's still one of my favorite games I've ever played.

company of myself came out years before shutter island it plays like a platformer and is very interesting

 

[Drakmeire]

Rapelay

Do I have to expand?

is it bad that the thing in that game I am most upset over is that the main character looks a lot like me?
no I didn't play it I saw a review.

 

[spacewalker]

Deamons souls

Drakenguard (even the best ending was kind of sad and all the extra endings are worse) even the looping music seems to be designed to make you feel ill.

 

[Worgen]

magical starsign for the ds, it looks all kiddy and such but when you have a char who has been suffering depression commit suicide to give you the magical mcguffin right in front of you... thats pretty messed up, especially since she was likable

 

[s0m3th1ng]

Max Payne, not just the story but the world as well. Fighting through run-down projects, stumbling onto cheap porn sets and drug dens, all in glorious bullet time.
Can't get much more dark than Noir style.

 

[thethingthatlurks]

NieR and Drakengard 1/2 are games with really downer stories.

In the good way of course.

Nier is indeed a rather dark game. A shame you don't get the whole story from just one playthrough though.
Anyway, cue all purpose answer #43: Silent Hill 2
You are

Spoiler

A batshit insane murderer, whose psychosis is so severe that it makes a blank sheet of paper appear like a letter of your beloved wife, who you believe died 3 years ago, but whose body is actually stashed in the trunk of your car. However, instead of snapping out of it, our dear protagonist goes through hell, kills another person, and depending on how the game was played either learns to live with his guilt and adopts the 8 year old girl (yes, the underage girl, for this is a japanese game), or kills himself, or completely gives into his psychosis by either trying to reanimate his beloved, or by clinging to the fantasy of her his delusional mind created.
Oh yeah, some of the more bleak videos:

 

[shwnbob]

Silent Hill 2. You all know why!

 

[Corven]

Since most everyone already took the most obvious answers I'll say Red Dead Redemption.

Even though the ending was good IMO it was still a downer.

 

[EBonhawk09]

I thought Alan Wake was fairly dark. That and Condemned: Criminal Origins. Oh yeah, and Bioshock.

 

[Vivace-Vivian]

Any Silent Hill

 

[12capital]

company of myself came out years before shutter island it plays like a platformer and is very interesting

I wasn't trying to imply any infringement was going on, just that the two sounded similar. Shutter Island the book came out in 2004 though,a full 6 years before it was made into a movie.

 

[RaphaelsRedemption]

Lemmings, of course! That dark, hopeless mission to subvert them from suicide...

 

[Blue Musician]

I can't rememeber the name, but there was this game on Newgrounds. You only get one chance, you can't re-start the game.

And you get 5 days to stop a 'cure' for cancer that's killing the world. You start off with your normal life, then it starts to breakdown, people comitting suicide, blood writing on the walls, and more.

That's reminding me a little bit of Pathologic, one Russian game where you need to cure an epidemic.

OT: Probably the Silent Hill series. Oh, and the Legacy of Kain ones.

 

[Daedalus1942]

I found Dreamfall: The Longest Journey to be dark in a tragic sense (anything with the little girl and the house, the end story, the fact that the narrator/main character is in a coma).

Lost Odyssey deals a lot with death and life without death. The dream segments are some of the most beautifully written segments (once again about death) I've ever read and have moved me to tears several times.

Indigo Prophecy (Fahrenheit) is incredibly dark (until you hit the prophecy nonsense and falls apart so fast you'd forget how great the beginning of the game was). Lots to do with murder and possession and sanity.

Deadly Premonition has a dark story (once again until the crazy meter jumps to stupid, although it falls down again for some truly beautiful and touching moments and jumps up again for the final boss). Lots of (poorly done, but usually enjoyable) comic relief along the way, though. Beautifully haunting death scenes.

Wow... thank you so frigging much...
No spoiler warning, no fucking anything.
Well I have no reason to continue playing Dreamfall now do I?
God... people like you piss me off so much , arggh!
How hard is it to put spoiler warnings? Is it just a subconscious thing "no-one will care" or do you just genuinely not give a shit?
Goddamnit!
-Tabs>-

 

[lovest harding]

I found Dreamfall: The Longest Journey to be dark in a tragic sense (anything with the little girl and the house, the end story, the fact that the narrator/main character is in a coma).

Lost Odyssey deals a lot with death and life without death. The dream segments are some of the most beautifully written segments (once again about death) I've ever read and have moved me to tears several times.

Indigo Prophecy (Fahrenheit) is incredibly dark (until you hit the prophecy nonsense and falls apart so fast you'd forget how great the beginning of the game was). Lots to do with murder and possession and sanity.

Deadly Premonition has a dark story (once again until the crazy meter jumps to stupid, although it falls down again for some truly beautiful and touching moments and jumps up again for the final boss). Lots of (poorly done, but usually enjoyable) comic relief along the way, though. Beautifully haunting death scenes.

Wow... thank you so frigging much...
No spoiler warning, no fucking anything.
Well I have no reason to continue playing Dreamfall now do I?
God... people like you piss me off so much , arggh!
How hard is it to put spoiler warnings? Is it just a subconscious thing "no-one will care" or do you just genuinely not give a shit?
Goddamnit!
-Tabs>-

Start the game again.
When you meet Zoe, she introduces herself as she lays in a coma on the bed.
She's in that coma, there's no way around that. I didn't spoil anything (as she narrates from that coma). I didn't say anything other than what you'd know after playing an hour ten minutes of the story (that there's a girl and a house, there's an end, and that Zoe is in a coma).

Here's the first ten minutes, if you don't believe me or remember.

At about 6:50, Zoe introduces herself.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

A "bad ending" Heavy Rain can be very, very dark.