Final Fantasy 7 Remake starts off as a faithful recreation of the original 1997 PlayStation JRPG's opening hours. However, as time goes on certain things start feeling amiss until it culminates in one of the weirdest and wildest endings of the past several years.
However, it is certainly far from the first Triple A game to have such a bizarre conclusion. The ten games below all get equally weird, either blurring the line between reality and game or introducing other mind-bending concepts. It should go without saying, but there will definitely be some major spoilers below.
10 Metal Gear Solid 2
Metal Gear Solid 2's wild final act starts when Colonel Campbell starts freaking out on Raiden while aboard Arsenal Gear. Otacon soon finds out that Campbell is an AI. This causes Raiden to question everything around him, including Rose, the love of his life. It all wraps up nicely at the end when Solid Snake assures Raiden that everything around us is only as real as our brains conceive it to be. Maybe the world is too big for one person to change it, but we still choose what we contribute to it and pass on to future generations. One could write a whole essay about the game's ending and its implications.
9 Matrix: The Path Of Neo
This action game covers the Matrix trilogy fairly faithfully up until the end when virtual representations of the Wachowskis show up and explain how the movie's ending would make for a lame conclusion to a video game. They then explain how they suggested for the developers to make the last boss a giant Agent Smith, who is the game's last boss. To top it off, the ending cutscene is accompanied by Queen's "We are the Champions".
8 The Witness
Jonathan Blow's games, which includes Braid, have puzzles that'll have players scratching their heads until they go bald. In The Witness the mysteries are not over once all the puzzles are solved. An alternate solution to a particular puzzle unlocks a secret ending where the player wakes up in the real world. The first-person video has the figure walk around the house while noticing patterns from the game in real life.
7 Chrono Trigger
Chrono Trigger has numerous endings, many of which are par for the course. However, one secret ending celebrates the player's accomplishment by having numerous messages from the developers and several fun gags. Called The Dream Project, it is accessed by defeating Lavos by entering the right telepod at the carnival upon a new game plus. It is perhaps the hardest fight in the JRPG, but the reward is well worth the effort.
6 Control
Control was one of the biggest surprises of 2019. The action game not only has incredible gameplay, but the world building and lore is outstanding to discover. Given the Twin Peaks influence, it is no wonder the ending blurs the line of reality.
The credits start rolling, only for the names to start slowly smudging together until they are illegible. Then Jessie Faden finds herself as a secretary at the Bureau, trapped in a loop of mundane tasks until she finds a way to break out and get the true ending.
5 F.E.A.R. 2
The first F.E.A.R. had a literal explosive endings, with the main character surviving a nuclear bomb explosion. The second game does something outright gross and disturbing. Alma, the antagonist, violates the player character and becomes pregnant. The game ends with her showing her impregnated body to the player. It is extremely uncomfortable, but the first-person shooter franchise always reveled in its horror.
4 Silent Hill 2
The entirety of Silent Hill 2 is one weird and terrifying trip through a reality-bending narrative. Any of the normal endings are sufficiently strange and dour, but two secret endings are downright absurd. Dubbed the Dog and the UFO endings, the first has James discovering a dog to be behind all of the happenings in Silent Hill, while the latter sees aliens and the protagonist from the first game abduct the player character.
3 Enslaved: Odyssey To The West
Taking place more than a century after a war destroyed most of the planet, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West ends with the protagonists discovering a man named Pyramid, who lived before the war, enslaving people in exchange for giving them memories of the time before civilization collapsed. It includes live action footage of Andy Serkis. In the end, the heroes kill Pyramid, pondering if they did the right thing.
2 Alan Wake
The second Remedy game on the list, Alan Wake ends in an arguably weirder fashion than Control. At least it is far more ambiguous. Wake submerges himself in Cauldron Lake to save his wife's life, only to disappear in the process.
Where he is was a mystery until the AWE DLC for Control shed some light on his whereabouts. Wake's story will most likely continue in whatever game Remedy is planning next.
1 BioShock: Infinite
At first the third BioShock game only seems thematically connected to the other games in the series by taking place in a city outside of conventional society. However, as the dimension hopping and time travel start to become more prominent pieces of the puzzle, the threads connecting the games becoming stronger. The story does not end there, however. The Burial at Sea expansion further solidifies the three games as a trilogy, and even brings everything full circle in an emotionally charged finale.