Normally games make sure everything is wrapped up by the time you reach the end, leaving the player with a sense of satisfaction and closure on completion. However, sometimes we get cliffhangers and that leaves fans desperate to know what will happen next. Unfortunately, if the game never gets a sequel, it can leave fans impatient for answers.
It doesn't even necessarily have to be a sequel that gives us closure, it can simply be some additional DLC, such as these questions about the recent Final Fantasy 7 Remake that we'd love to have answered. Here we take a look at ten games that needed sequels to give us some much-needed closure. Fair warning, there are spoilers ahead.
10 Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West released in 2010 by Ninja Theory and was loosely based on the novel Journey to the West. The game is set in a futuristic world after a global war has ravaged the planet, leaving mechs roaming around killing any human survivors and a mysterious pyramid imprisoning slaves.
By the end of the game, Trip and Monkey have infiltrated the pyramid and discover the slaves are under the control of a single person, Pyramid, who believes that he is saving the slaves by showing them visions of the world before the war. While Monkey is admiring the images of the pre-war world, Trip disconnects Pyramid and kills him. The ending is ambiguous, with Trip asking her companion if she did the right thing as all the slaves are freed.
9 Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided released in 2016 and was Square Enix's follow up to the critically acclaimed release of Deus Ex: Human Revolution from 2011. The story continues to follow Adam Jensen in the aftermath of the Aug Incident, where augmented people lost control of their minds and bodies and many deaths occurred. Mechanically augmented individuals are now outcasts and society has become segregated.
Adam Jensen works to uncover a conspiracy that aims to control the whole of mankind and the game ends with a post-credit scene showing an Illuminati council deciding to keep a close watch on Jensen. The ending was clearly set up for another sequel, but given the poor reception of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, there's no certainty that we'll ever get closure on this one.
8 XIII
XIII is a first-person shooter that released in 2003 for Xbox, PlayStation 2, and Gamecube and it was loosely based on the Belgian graphic novel of the same name. Players take on the role of XIII, a character with amnesia who is suspected of killing the President of the United States of America. The FBI, CIA, and a gang of killers are all trying to hunt you down as you struggle to clear your name of the murder.
The game ended on a cliffhanger with XIII remembering that the character Walter was behind the conspiracy; the end scene is Walter finding XIII in his office with armed guards. XIII received mixed reviews on release and is likely the reason why the planned sequel was never realized.
7 Alan Wake
Alan Wake was a Microsoft exclusive that released in 2010 for Xbox 360. This action-adventure game takes place in Bright Falls, a small town where a dark presence has taken root, leaving Alan Wake to uncover the mystery, save his lover and try to stay sane in the process.
Despite having two additional DLC episodes, the storyline was not fully tied up and a sequel was planned. Unfortunately, this sequel was canceled and the basis for this scrapped game became the starting point of Remedy's next game, Quantum Break. Though we weren't lucky enough to get a sequel, rumor has it that Alan Wake may be getting a remaster.
6 Conduit 2
Conduit 2 is a first-person shooter that released exclusively for the Wii in 2011, where players find themselves in a world under attack from aliens. The plot behind Conduit 2 is mainly told via the player scanning objects throughout the game, drawing heavily on the reptilian conspiracy and Sumerian mythology.
The game ends with an impending alien invasion on its way and George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in space suits appearing from a portal, presumably setting the game up for a third title. Regrettably, this next sequel never came, leaving fans to wonder just what would have happened next.
5 Dante's Inferno
Visceral Games released Dante's Inferno in 2010. This hack and slash action-adventure game was loosely based on Inferno, from Dante's Divine Comedy. The game follows a Templar knight by the name of Dante as he traverses hell to retrieve the soul of his wife, Beatrice, who has been taken by Lucifer. Dante also aims to redeem himself for all of the atrocities he committed as part of the Third Crusade.
At the end of the game, Dante retrieves Beatrice's soul and defeats Lucifer, causing Dante to rip the tapestry from his body that symbolized his past sins. However, the final moments of the game reveal the discarded tapestry to be a snake that slithers away to the sound of Lucifer laughing. A "To Be Continued" message is shown to players, but unfortunately, this was a hollow promise that was never fulfilled.
4 Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Valve released Half-Life: Episode Two in 2007 as follow up to 2006's Episode One. These episodes were planned to be a trilogy, with Episode Three scheduled to release Christmas of 2007. Regrettably, it never happened and so players were left with the cliff hanger from Episode Two.
The game ends with Eli getting killed by an Advisor as he attempts to free Alyx and Gordon. Dog arrives and scares the other Advisors away, leaving Alyx crying over her father's body and Gordon unconscious. Not exactly the closure players would like. Valve recently released Half-Life: Alyx, but as this game is set prior to the events of Half-Life 2 and didn't tie up any loose ends.
3 The Order: 1886
The Order: 1886 is a third-person action-adventure that released exclusively for PlayStation 4 in February 2015. The game is based in an alternate London in 1886. The game follows an order of knights as they struggle to keep the world safe from half-breed monsters, with the main character Galahad having to face betrayal and conspiracy.
The game ends ambiguously, with a post-credits scene showing Galahad overlooking London and Tesla warning him that the police could arrive at any moment and that they should leave, while Galahad states that he is "Galahad no more". The game seemed to be setting players up for a sequel, but nothing has been seen since, most likely due to the mixed reviews the game received.
2 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II released in 2010. This action-adventure game takes place six months after its predecessor and is set a year before the film Star Wars: A New Hope. Players resumed the role of Starkiller, a clone of the original Starkiller who was an apprentice of Darth Vader. The clone seeks to find Starkiller's lover Juno and ends up joining the Rebel Alliance as the story unfolds.
There are two possible endings, the light side, and the dark side. The light side is considered to be the canonical ending, but resulted in a cliffhanger, with Starkiller allowing Darth Vader to live and sending him to be imprisoned with Boba Fett seen in pursuit.
1 The Darkness II
The Darkness II is a first-person shooter released in 2012 and follows on from 2007's The Darkness. The games are based on the graphic novel series of the same name and follow the character of Jackie Estacado, a mafia hitman who wields a power called "the Darkness".
Jackie seeks to free his murdered girlfriend from hell. At the end of the game, the player is faced with two choices; stay with Jenny in an illusion of an asylum made to trap Jackie, or leave the asylum and jump into hell. If the player jumps, they manage to release Jenny. In a post-credits scene, Jenny becomes the new vessel for the Angelus, the enemy of the Darkness, who chooses to leave Jackie trapped in hell. A sequel could have seen Jackie escaping hell and taking on his old nemesis, the Angelus, but it wasn't to be.