15 Video Game Endings That Made Players Regret the Journey

Good games are shaped by both their beginnings and their endings, but a good premise doesn’t always end at the same height. Be it due to rushed development, cut corners, or just a vision that does not align to that of the general audiences, some game endings make it feel like the entire journey was pointless.

Of course, that isn’t the case for everyone, but these titles in particular left a sour taste in the minds of plenty of players. While the most frequent offenders are the games that claim ‘player choice matters,’ a badly done bossfight or final section can be just as regretful.

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One day in 1979, childhood friends Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi went to a cabin in rustic Northern Michigan to shoot a horror short. That 32-minute movie, Within the Woods, became the duo’s calling card, earning them enough funding from local business people to shoot a full length film called The Evil Dead, launching a franchise that continues to this day. Most recently, 2023’s Evil Dead Rise moved the Book of the Dead to a big city high rise, far from the franchise’s rustic home.

However, the first trailer for Evil Dead Burn makes it abundantly clear that this time, the chaos will happen in a small, secluded space. Outside of a couple of establishing shots of a large, empty house, the rest of the trailer is an unbroken shot of a woman named Alice (Souheila Yacoub) crawling away from the chaos around her. In addition to people growling and bodies thrown all about, we even get some environmental scares, as when a clock comes crashing to the floor.

According to an official synopsis released with the trailer, Evil Dead Burn follows Alice as she visits the home of her in-laws, only to find that they’ve been transformed into Deadites. Neither the synopsis nor the trailer gives us any indication of who was dumb enough to read from the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis to unleash the unholy forces, but given the recent popularity of toxic relationship films like The Drama, we’re guessing its Alice’s husband.

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Evil Dead Burn comes from Sébastien Vaniček, the French filmmaker whose 2023 debut Infested managed to combine social commentary with skin-crawling visuals. The latter is a prerequisite for an Evil Dead movie, especially since the 2013 Fede Álvarez reboot Evil Dead stripped all the humor out of the franchise and replaced it with grueling gore. However, the former could be a welcome addition to a movie about Hellish monsters trying to swallow souls, depending on what Vaniček and co-writer Florent Bernard have in mind.

Whatever their intentions, the trailer for Evil Dead Burn feels like a return to first principles. The Evil Dead franchise was built on the promise of chaos within a confined space, usually a cabin where Ash has to battle the Deadites alone. Álvarez and Lee Cronin, who made Evil Dead Rise before taking on the Mummy, have put different spins on that premise, but they don’t always make use of the space in the same way that Raimi did. When Ash starts to lose his mind in Evil Dead II, it’s not just because he’s being attacked by demons; it’s also because the cabin itself is going mad.

So when we see parts of the house fall apart in the Evil Dead Burn trailer, we can’t help but hope that Vaniček is going to make the house itself part of the terror, just like the original movies did. But, even if that’s not the plan, the trailer makes it clear that Evil Dead Burn will continue the work that Raimi and Campbell started all those years ago by filming bad things happening in a spooky house.

Evil Dead Burn arrives in theaters on July 24, 2026.

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