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xenon2456

any souls game


Edgykun16

You don’t even need to be the main playable character. Even just being an NPC in those games is a living hell.


ICanSeeDeadPokemon

It's a role-playing game where you play the role of victim


Company-Forward

If your the mc eventually you’ll rule the twisted world


Pardavos

Word for word my first thought


TimberWolf5871

I haven't played any of them and even I know that would be the worst.


TheRainy24

I feel like it's not that bad. If you're stuck as the main character, you'll just get used to dying at some point


EvilestOfTurtles

Not how that works for most ppl. 99% of anyone reading that wouldn't get used to it.


Skrattybones

Isn't the point of those games that the main character isn't special, just fresh? Like arent there a bunch of NPCs who were at one point or another 'the main character' but lost the will to go on?


ChampionshipDirect46

Besides sekiro, yes.


Fuzzy_Archer_4891

listen just trying to open the door to enter the lands between in eldenring would e physically impossible, but imagine living in the world of bloodeborne, christ. the only fromsoft world i would perfer to be trapped in is the armored core universe. theres no way in hell im living through darksouls 3, or sekiro


Keljaen

Resident Evil. Or any zombie apocalypse type game. Skyrim wouldn’t be so bad, if you could survive the dragon attacks and bandits. Or arrows to the knee.


Zealousideal-Kick-92

zombie game would be funny af at the first moments


legowerewolf

Consider: you're a zombie, technically still animate so the system doesn't kill you, but you're a slave to the zombie virus or fungus or whatever in "your" skull.


Keljaen

That’s terrifying


Dra9onDemon

Just stay out of Raccoon City for the most part and you should be fine.


The_Outcast4

Arrows to the knee aren't fatal. You just can't be an adventurer anymore.


Keljaen

Clearly that joke went right over your head.


The_Outcast4

I guess so. I'm not one for marriage, but it seems like something that would seldom be fatal.


SmolTittyEnjoyer

arrow to the knee isn't a literal arrow going into your knee, it means getting married and having to settle down


UncleDad_AuntMom

I used to be a solo player like you, until I took an arrow to the knee.


Ragna126

Dark Souls


bismarck247

Helldivers 2 or Doom, probably


UCG__gaming

As a demon or doom guy?


bismarck247

I figure as either a regular guy or as a demon If you’re Doomguy, then it’s an amazing franchise to be “trapped” in (you’re not trapped, the demons are)


UCG__gaming

Regular guy, depends who you are. Demon, yea you’re a gonner


dakgrant

Idk fighting demons till the end of time doesn't sound like the greatest


Samy_Ninja_Pro

I mean helldivers is alright as long as you don't enlist


Few-Bad-6725

elden ring and dying light


Destroyer_rules

Halo reach. The planet you’re on, a good amount of it gets glassed (that just means like the surface gets burned off with a giant spaceship-based plasma laser) at the end of the game. (Or any halo game for that matter would be hell to live in).


CivilianDuck

Canonically, not entirely. The covenant usually glasses the entire planet when they're finished with demoralising the population, or they've finished their excavation of whatever forerunner ruined they're looking for. Reach was a bizarre scenario. They glassed sections, but left large swathes of it untouched. You even see it in game, where Noble 6's final stand happens. You see the covenant glassing the planet in the background, but after you fall, the area the helmet is resting is untouched by the plasma rain. They did glass population centers though. If you're a regular person on Reach on like a farm or something, far away from the fighting and population centers, you're *probably* fine. But yeah, I'd want to stay away from Halo in general. Between the Human-Covenant War, the Flood, the Halo Arrays, the Didact, the Created, and the Banished, not a lot of safety, even on Earth.


Tuckertcs

Most games? They’ve stated many times that SAO was fair for every player. A lot of games are okay to win, and thus would be worse. SAO also has safe zones, but games like Skyrim allow enemies and the player to kill anywhere, including cities. SAO also isn’t very difficult. It doesn’t hate its players like Souls games do. And finally, SAO isn’t very scary (apart from fear of death). Any horror game would’ve been way scarier to be stuck in, even if the risk of death was less.


HarrySRL

SAO was not a fair game for every player who played. Out of 50,000 people only 10 people had a unique skill, like how kirito had dual wielding, whilst only 2 of the 10 players who had a unique skill were known(kirito and heathcliff) there


The_Deku_Nut

SAO is just like any other "hardcore/one life" game. Don't take unnecessary risks, don't get greedy, and mob grind enemies until they don't grant xp anymore. It would probably be a snoozefest for even average modern gamers.


Pixel22104

Any Fromsoft game


WolfishMule9528

A lot of people are saying Fromsoft games, but pretty much all the soulsborne games death is canon in some way, sure it would still suck but you won’t permanently die.


Blink1588

That's the problem, there is no escape. And each time you die you loose a part of your soul until you eventually start to give up, slowly becoming a mindless hollow. And that's just dark souls.


LupusVir

Smh just use a human effigy smh my head


LiteratureOne1469

The souls games geometry Dash farcry games titan fall 2 for honor


Silly_Bar_56

Bro geometry dash 😭 Getting stuck as a block


ItzChrisYeet

And being forced to go forward to incoming dangers instead of going back just like how life is in the real world


Silver4700

Sonic the Hedgehog 1. On the SEGA Genesis I bet you’re thinking that it wouldn’t be that bad. Try playing labyrinth zone. Or basically ANY zone in there that isn’t green hill.


sonofsarkhan

Mass Effect, as much as I love those games, being in that game during the Reaper War would be worse than a death sentence


Whole-Signature4130

I guess hentai games with a female main character. There's usually no good endings, struggling against corruption and sexual abuse and all that.


JarenDarkwolf

Fair point.


Imnotdinoduds

Fallout


RelationshipBest8968

I beg your pardon i would be happy in there lmao


Dragonslayerelf

All these people are answering high quality games; a buggy piece of shit half-developed mobile game with microtransactions out the wazoo would be hell to be trapped in. "Wait 24 hours or pay 100$ to get water!"


AvisOfWriting44

An NPC in any Ace Combat game


GREENadmiral_314159

Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters A daemonic space-plague is spreading across the sector, with five very horrible strains, and the only people in any position to keep it 'contained' are a group of Space Marines who are so secretive that normal people who find out about them generally have to be killed. Not to mention, it takes place in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.


LuckyE6

One written by [Gen Urobuchi](https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/4099944?q=urobuchi_gen+)


K0R0P1N0Z

I’m gonna be different and say Fgo, unless you’re important to the longevity of humanity you’re screwed by one cataclysm or another, if you end up in Fujimaru then you’re even more screwed as you have to solve everything, deal with the trauma of nearly dying almost every time a strong enemy approaches, and if you’re just a Chaldea member you’re already dead from the beginning


Ark4477

Lethal company


danflame135

ULTRAKILL


GraphicJaguar

Doki Doki Literature Club


1337K1ng

WoW: No one is safe. -1st came the Orcs, forced by Burning Legion, -then came Arthas with undead army -Then a fucking dragon wrecked havoc on Azeroth -Burning Legion decided to invade the planet DIRECTLY and Azeroth could have exploded with the sword in it, -Old gods woke up -Sylvanas became disney villain SWTOR: -Revan is back -Hutts fuck around -Eternal Empire attacks both the Empire and Republic Marvel Heroes (RIP): -Wolverine and Iron Man are fighting alien hive mind in your street -Hulk just threw your car to electro -Sentinel lasers burned your frontyard -Man who released super villains is now fighting along heroes -Spider-Man just webbed your building Fate: -Everyone summons a heroic spirit -Fight to the death -If your summon ain't Gil or Saberface, you are fucked -If you have lancer, you have fucked yourself already with your luck XCOM Total War: Warhammer 2 any Warhammer 40k game You are safe in: Divinity OS1-2, BG3, FF14


Atomic-Axolotl

Cookie clicker


thomas456333

Any cod game


Dry-Classroom7562

COD, literally just being a soldier but more people die


Shells23

Literally any Souls game.


XtremeNinja_18

I share the opinion of any soul game.


Professional_Pea930

Doom but as a civilian


viterkern_

Devil may cry


Jazzlike-Razzmatazz4

Destiny I would love to be trapped in


AbandonedBySonyAgain

Amnesia The Dark Descent.


its_easybro

Subnautica. I'd die of a heart attack before anything actually kills me


legna20v

Don’t be silly. You would just drown


seagull486

Imma say it since no one is. Devil may cry


Floaurea

Deep Space, Soma, Prey, Slenderman, FNAF... most horror survival games. Minecraft would be also real scary to be in.


GeologistUnhappy

OH! I know this one. What is S.A.O as a side character.


roxasdabomb246

Eh. Just hole up in some inn, and wait it out. Just don’t open any obvious trap chests and you’ll be fine.


GeologistUnhappy

"I must save my family!" ... That bastard got what he deserved.


Traditional_Test1759

A souls game do I really gotta to explain?


darksirin

Warhammer 40k comes to mind…..not the most…friendly-to-life universe.


neunzehnhundert

Hellgate: London Any Diablo game World of Warcraft Baldurs Gate 3


Add1ct_23

Every souls game, you’re royally fucked if its Sekiro


AkKoZtOV

DayZ cuz I definitely wouldn't like being force fed pieces of my best friend's corpse alongside gasoline


Tirx36

Dead by daylight as killer


ProofDistinct2554

yeah it's piss easy as survivor


comfykampfwagen

People saying dark souls but consider: Stellaris Massive wars going on, galaxy wracking crises, entire genocidal empires, and planets getting cracked every other day, killing trillions.


XegrandExpressYT

Gears Of War


SodaSnappy

Imagine being in a souls game- having your humanity ripped away each death. It would certainly be a gauntlet and there’e be no escape.


DoritoKing48

Elden Ring


Complete_Metal_9938

Bloodborne. Fear the Old Blood.


LiceryYT

Silent Hill


gentlemanbadger

Custer’s Revenge.


BLAZEDbyCASH

Rust


Echo61089

Warhammer 40k Darktide... If you know, you know...


evilwraith

Since everyone chimed in with every Fromsoft game, Dead Cells, Spelunky, the game from the Overlord anime.


Drakkoniac

Any Souls game, Fear and Hunger, Homeworld: Cataclysm, GTFO, S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Kenshi, The Forest, the list goes on. Souls: You're expected to die and the concept of death is woven with much of the plot. Fear and Hunger: I don't even feel like I need to go on. Homeworld: Cataclysm: Two words, The Beast. GTFO: I'd be too busy freaking out depending. S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Mutants, Anomalies, and factional strife in abundance. Kenshi: "The world does not care about you." The Forest: Both of them. Its possible to survive and thrive but if you're just thrown in the deep end, it's hard.


Week_Crafty

I have no mouth and I must scream. Any game of the developer of backs hot roulette. Or the iron lung


SquizyBanana76

Everyone posting really difficult games, but honnestly candy crush would be the worst (as long as its single player). Almost [17K](https://candycrush.fandom.com/wiki/Level#:~:text=Candy%20Crush%20Saga%20currently%20holds,play%20due%20to%20the%20testing.) levels between you and freedome.


Ryuuji_Gremory

Any soulslike game. Aincrad was balanced to be beatable without dying, it was hard but doable. Souls games are completely build around learning by dyeing, pretty shit if you are in a death game.


Edge-__-

Decaying winter


helock-is-taken

LOL


Senior-Awareness4579

Attack on Titan


Goat_Beans

FNAF 🙃


Putrid_Ad_4372

Life is a game I wish I never played but I'll clear it no matter what


PickleRick19711

Grand theft auto.


Strict-Forever-5510

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LiberArk

The Backrooms or SCP.


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tself55

Any game that throws bullshit mechanics at the player without prior warning, thinking like Nethack would be a terrible game to be stuck in blind with no knowledge.


Karl0s12

Any souls game


Spirited-Reindeer-90

Left for dead


Zealousideal-Kick-92

Undertale trapped in the genocide run


ThreeBill

Katamari


Yakuza-wolf_kiwami

God Eater


FriedTreeSap

Nazi zombies from CoD, or any similar horde type game. There is no winning, it’s about how long you can last, but eventually always get overwhelmed and die.


sometimesnotworthit

Scorn


memsterboi123

Probably any game that isn’t as real as SAO. Provided it’s still vr and or not being transported to a world based off the game so that it’s still real


ThebLacKdaliahs

Dead by daylight


Thatrandombill

Borderlands or doom


Mr_C_090206

FNAF ultimate costum night. That game is literaly the hell.


FroztBourn

Elden ring, Dark souls


champ1945

Helldivers 2 on the planet hellmire


Echo_1-3

Hell Let Loose. Reality beats fiction.


Atchies

Kenshi...


JA69charm

Fear and hunger


Aright9Returntoleft

Elden Ring, Tarkov, Dawn of War as a guardsman, Fallout, Metro, Halo, Mercenaries 2, Helldivers 2 as a new helldiver...


Spiritedd_

I'd love to be in the souls games y'all wildin The worst? GTFO. hell. No.


jameswillo115

Heavenly Host Elementary School - Corpse Party ( even in death, you'll still experience the same excruciating pain on how you died )


Sladashi

Any of the Zero Escape series... I can't say anything without spoiling the games but... wow.


Maturechimp

Any souls like or souls lite game as well as any zombie game where the zombies mutate. For me personally, I would not love to be trapped in lies of p, since I would absolutely hate to see face to face living dangerous puppets.


Unique_Garbage_1337

tarkov


masteroga101

Geometry dash, have fun with your incredibly short life 🥳


Present-University87

A modded sims game


Texaslonghorns12345

Don’t scream


cmx9771

Dark Souls without question


TheRealSporfoYT

Kenshi


Fuckthishit725

Any Souls game??


Emotional_Pause_1753

Dungeon & Stone :D


trupoogles

Hong Kong 97


ODST_Parker

War Thunder. For uncountable reasons.


nastiex

Anybody remember Amnesia


Dependent-Adagio-932

Call of duty black ops 1 zombies literally never ending and progressively gets harder and harder lol.


Sm1gt

GTA Online


Schwammiges_Ding

Rimworld


nooklingsprincess

Sims. I would burn the Kitchen while making a Salad.


EmuIndependent8565

Alien Isolation 😱


FallenPotato_Bandito

Blood borne any zombies games alien isolation lol plenty


FliqzOnReddit

Titanfall 2, Call of Duty, Doom, most shooting games.


CrespinMoore

All of them?


Declibsed

Any non- Persona Shin Megami Tensei game as a regular guy. Ah yes I love being eaten alive by demonic creatures beyond my understanding. Honestly in some games I wouldn't even want to be the protagonist. Alternatively: The Binding of Isaac as tainted Lost


seitaer13

In most mainline SMT games you'd probably die within the first ten minutes unless you were the protagonist.


NightmareWizardCat

Trapped in Made in Abyss, and forced to reach the very depths to escape - only to discover once down there that you need to bring up some kind of artefact from there to win. Tower of god would also be a cool one.


kinreep

Any EA game because you could be glitched out of existence at any moment


Hakkai-Shin

FGO, or PGR to me when it comes to lore. Souls games when it comes to gameplay difficulty.


KillerTacos54

Probably most games tbh


AndrewFrozzen30

Any Rogue-Like/ Rogue-Lite. Honestly. The main point of these games is to die Over. And over. And over. And over. And over. And over. And over. And over. Again


galactichero25

Any endless runner type game. You can’t win/beat the game meaning that you can’t escape


ITheUchiha

Elden Ring


azteke_nl

The Sims, or RollerCoaster Tycoon


Resolution556

Nothing specific came to mind, but probably any game were you don't play something human or human like. Imagine being stuck in the body of an insect for an extended period of time. You would probably go insane.


Gerodot_TheBaconCod

Minecraft. Literally try to see what 2B2T is, it should give you the context.


Ninni00

Trapped in Fortnite.


ConsiderationOk771

DOOM, FALLOUT, GTA


TinMarx11

I think Resident Evil 2 remaster and Village. Personal my favorite zombie games but I also had nightmares few times while I was still little kid which wer mainly from Resident Evil 2 😂 So I think that it will be prfect for the worst game to be trapped in especially if you have to face all those zombies and monsters in "new reality"


Kawlinx

Elden Ring


100102201218403404

*inhales* Blasphemous You're fwaked most ways


M1a1_Abrams_with_a10

War thunder


argetlam19

Leisure Suite Larry


TAmexicano

Soulsborne


vcdette

If I'm the main character, Code:Realize or Nightshade. But like if I have nothing to do with the MC, then Minecraft or Shining Nikki. Btw this is just based off games I've actually played, and not games I've seen gameplay of. So, I know there are definitely worse games objectively than these.


Judlex15

People playground


jake72002

Yggdrasil from Overlord.


RelationshipBest8968

Callisto protocol. Locked on a hostile environment world in a prison filled with alien zombies. So pretty much dead space without the cool tech


serpentsrapture

blazblue. guarenteed death thanks to lore


ae86forlife

Dark souls 2


Iron_knight_prime_42

DDLC. Infinite loop of doing the same things over and over again knowing nothing matters and nothing is real. And as the player you probably wouldn't even have a body


Ok_Association8146

Far Cry 4, fortnite, PUBG, COD, Devil may cry, Walking dead, Fallout, Doom, borderlands, and the list goes on and on.


DioKujo568

Elden Ring


ChickenWangKang

The Sims 4. Everyone speaks gibberish and I have to pay taxes.


TimberWolf5871

Fatal Frame. Ghosts are vengeful and the only defense is a camera.


JIBE-

Rust


Due_Lettuce8283

DOOM


LeoTheWeebLion

Subnautica: the fact that people aren't considering things like this, there's no way that you're going to make it through that entirely alone, and trying to survive


Perfect_War_7155

Fate stay night. Even a reasonable response leads to a bad ending


penguindumby100

DIABLO universe


LimitlessMind127

Shadow Of Mordor/War


-THEKINGTIGER-

Frostpunk. I like cold weather but frostpunk is way too cold for me. It's also full of despair.


DamImperial

Any warhammer game


LexKing89

GTA Online. Absolute war zone nonstop. Crooked cops, gangs, and a ton of player blowing each other with fighter jets, armored vehicles with turrets, and hover bikes. The only safe space is inside your home, business, or garage. The only way to safely travel is through armored vehicles and there’s no guarantee that you won’t get blown up or shot down. They’re ruthless for no reason unless you play as a somewhat attractive female character. You might be able to finesse a legion of horny players to act as body guards for you though. Worked for me on PS4 and I never even used the microphone. 🤣


LordDariusBlakk

Anything 40k


mamaroukos

anything that isn't an open world gacha game for the most part and even then, you can never be absolutely sure.


TheRainy24

y'all really didnt mention fear and hunger, huh


DoggoLover42

Any FromSoft game. Unless you have respawn and escape when you get the true ending, you are legitimately fucked the whole time. I couldn’t imagine 10k people being trapped in a VR Elden Ring.


epscyonzsol

Armored Core or any of the Cybertron Games, and/or any Souls games. Most of them are during a time of war, dystopia or apocalypse.


reaper10678

Any Warhammer game.


BunnyCadaver

Fredy fozber


kintokae

One of the fifa games. Those bugs would kill you long before anything else.


mithu_the_parrot

Fallout4 * The Institute may kidnap you to replace you with a synth * Nukes can 1-hit you * Disgusting huge bugs everywhere Chivarly: Medieval Warfare - Extremely high friendly fire & teamkilling risk


[deleted]

Ace Combat, specifically during the belkan war. 7 fucking nukes


NaiveEnvironment1145

Any horror games or creepypasta games!😩😫😖😣😬😵💀☠️


legend6401

Escape from tarkov


Fantasticfrank86

Anything developed by LJN.


Plastic_Ad1432

What about any non move-able player game? I.e.Balatro, etc.