Editing Grimdark (section)

===Vidya===
* '''''Armored Warfare'''''. Terrorist/ultra-nationalist/anarchists with tanks, corporations that rule and enslave large portions of the world and the rest of the world might as well be a wasteland, as far as we know.
* '''''Barotrauma''''' : Inspired by Space Station 13, centered on a submarine crew in the underground oceans of Europa. Crew members are expendable, you're ''always'' outgunned, the submarine is almost [[Death World|constantly under attack by massive sea creatures]], and most missions are much more likely to end in disaster than success. Also, you explode as soon as you step outside the sub. The setting isn't much better, since contact with Earth has been lost, some dudes started [[Genestealer Cult|worshipping a parasite]] (or [[Harlequins|clowns]]), and a recent spike in Jovian radiation threatens to kill everyone if they don't go into the untamed depths.
* '''''[[Battletech]]''''' about half the time. On a good day, mercenaries fight proxy wars and follow the Geneva convention to keep damage and body counts low, ComStar keeps everyone in line, and "bombed back to the stone age" actually means "your spaceships blew up and you enjoy a comfortable 1990s era lifestyle." On bad days, the Crusader Clans storm in and break everything, the Word of Blake jihad starts nuking everyone they don't like, and all FTL communication breaks plunging the galaxy into a new dark age, erasing centuries of political and technological progress. On the day-to-day, most of humanity is under the control of various flavors of feudalists which routinely fight for each other for power and influence.
* '''''BioShock'''''. A supposed utopian city based on capitalist freedom devolves and collapses due to their founders deep dedication to his personal ethics making him unable to stop his rivals schemes and a civil war caused by a highly profitable and addictive substance called ADAM, which comes from a species of sea slugs. Said substance is most reliably cultivated by putting those sea slugs in little girls' bellies and said little girls have to be guarded by what are called [[Space Marines|Big Daddies]], whose [[Gene-seed|creation]] makes turning humans into Space Marines look like a mundane medical procedure.
* '''''Bet On Soldier/Iron Storm''''': WW1 got extended by 80 years, leading to a world where war is everything (including a televised past time), peace is considered a horrifically dissident ideal and there is a shadowy cabal behind the scenes plotting to make the war last forever. We're pretty sure the creators are Warhammer fans since one of the DLC bosses is an Inquisijanny stamping out heresies (read: you infected with the vampire curse).
* '''''Bloodborne''''' or the love child of Dark Souls (gameplay) and Lovecraftian mythology (its main inspiration for setting and theme). Another masterpiece from FROM software and Hidetaka Miyazaki. TLDR, the game is a mix of elritch horrors, omnipotent creatures which are fundementally gods and Dark Souls, though this time there is no fire to link, only FEAR.
* '''''[[Cyberpunk 2077]]''''': Unchecked pollution and warfare have devastated much of the planet while megacorporations have acquired so much unchecked power that they've reduced their governments to toothless puppets.  You're either a tiny cog in a corporate machine that can casually destroy you if you step out of line or they need a patsy, a disposable prole who has to be armed to the teeth just to take your kid to school, or a criminal living on the edge.
* '''''Dark Seed''''', Grimdark to the core! the first game is about the main character being fucked in the head. HR Giger's artwork helps too.
* '''''Dark Souls'''''. The entire ''world'' is ''dying''. Specifically, most of the population is undead, you die constantly, and you have to fight enemies larger and filthier than you are, [[Heresy|including a naked *** with a spider vagina]]. Also, [[Extra Heresy|FAKE TITS]]. Stuck in an infinite loop where a hero constantly saves the world, and everything goes back to normal before hitting another grimdark cycle every thousand years. Compare with nobledark and check your mileage.
* '''''[[Darkest Dungeon]]'''''. Your ancestor awakened some kind of God that is pretty much Cthulhu's brother and sent you a letter before killing himself, asking you to mop up the huge mess he created. Enjoy sending parties of 4 adventurers ranging from badass lepers to sickle-wielding jesters to their deaths in cultist-infested ruins, sewers filled with mutated cannibalistic pigmen, sea caverns serving as anthropomorphic sea creatures and forests corrupted by evil. And I'm not going to talk about the Darkest Dungeon itself. Also, have fun dealing with those bandits that are raiding the Hamlet for which you spent a fuckton of resources in upgrades.
* '''''Dead by Daylight''''': The Entity, an eternal and unkillable eldritch abomination from another dimension, traps people in its pocket realm to be hunted and killed over and over and over and over (and over) by its collection of serial killers, sociopaths, and monsters so that it can feed on their terror, agony, and hope. There is no escape and every death chips away a little more of a survivor's soul until they deteriorate into a wraith with no memory of its former life, doomed to wander the Entity's pocket dimension forever.
* '''''Dead Space'''''. A group of humans discovered a device of unknown origin called a '''Marker''' and it turned them into undead alien monsters. In the sequel, it was revealed Markers were created by a long extinct alien species, and the Markers continue to infect other intelligent species, to the point the corpses of their entire civilizations have been turned into a [[Atropus|bunch of giant undead moons capable of telepathically mindfucking people from across the galaxy]]. 
*'''''Destiny''''': While the game itself is Noble Bright/Neutral, the lore is definitively Grim Dark. Entire civilisations were destroyed by the Darkness, Brainiac style. Humanity is reduced to one big city on Earth, literally under a the protection of a paracausal entity, the Traveller, that actively help you AND your enemies. Through experimentation that would make [[Fabius Bile]] proud, millions of humans were transform into robot to fight a secret and seemingly endless war against temporal machines. At one point, you and your kind, the Guardians, were hunted down to serve as batteries, and the carcasses of your companions, the Ghosts, which give you your "immortality", were used as currency. And I did not talk about the Hive and their gods.
* '''''Dishonored''''' - Grimdark, and steampunk. Only in the "kill fucking everyone" ending though.
* '''''[[Doom]]'''''. Demons from Hell have overrun Mars and Earth. You are the lone space marine capable of anything. Somewhat of a subversive case of grimdark: it's not you who is afraid of demons, [[awesome|it's the demons who are afraid of you]]. Commence with the [[Rip and Tear]].
* '''''Drakengard''''' and its related franchise: '''''Nier'''''. Basically, the "god" in this setting is a massive dick so he infects humans with zombie aids out of boredom and watch them kill each other for the [[lulz]]. You play Caim, a mute [[rip and tear|zombie slaughter enthusiast]] who teams up with a blind pedophile priest, a baby eating elf witch, and a ageless shota. The true ending for the game involves Cain and his dragon transporting the queen of the Lovecraftian Watchers to a greyscale version of Tokyo (Yes, the Tokyo of our world) and engages it in a rhythm-based battle of song. After defeating it, the queen disintegrates into particles that start turning the entire population into salt statues, while Caim and his dragon [[fail|get shot down by fighter jets.]]
** '''''Nier''''' takes place 1462 years into the future. After countless grimdark conflicts involving child soldiers, human experiments and more resource shortages, a scientist decided to separate the rest of the survivors' souls (gestalt) from their bodies, hoping they could outlast a mind rape pandemic. But of course all these attempts are futile failures because Nier, our "hero" ended up killing the only thing that could save humankind, dooming them all to extinction.
*** Finally we have '''''Nier: Automata''''', 8480 years later, where androids were created by the last human survivors. But the humans that escaped to the moon turn out to be long dead. When the rest of androids find out, they proceed to kill themselves in a batshit frenzy. To make this even more painful and tragic, the androids have the human concepts of pain and emotions programmed to them, making their death even more painful.
* '''''Elden Ring''''', aka [[meme|Dark Souls 2: Electric Boogalooo]]. The titular metaphysical object responsible for the previous prosperity of the world has been shattered, the demigods are in an eternal stalemate, the world is overrun with monsters and disease, and you are called upon to decide the fate of the Lands Between. A magnum opus of a collaboration between FROMsoft, Miyazaki, and George R.R. Martin of Game of Thrones fame. Like the other Soulsborne (would it be Soulsborne''ring'' now?) games, be prepared to die. A lot.
* '''''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'''''
* '''''Factorio'''''. You're a lone human, aliens want to kill you, everything you do makes smog, and your goal is to cover the world in industry, concrete, machines, and gun turrets. The world isn't dead when you arrive, but you're damn well going to kill it yourself or die trying.
* '''''Grim Dawn'''''. A farming game about a never-ending struggle between humans and multiple otherworldly powers. 
* '''''Hellgate London'''''
* '''''I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream'''''. Just the title itself should give you a clue as to how horrific the game is. (The video game is terrifying, especially with its endings, and the short story it is based on is even more horrifying).  Humanity has been wiped out except for five people, who trapped inside a complex controlled by a misanthropic, reality-warping supercomputer keeping them alive to torture them and has altered their minds and/or bodies in cruelly ironic ways.
* '''''LISA the RPG.'''''
* '''''Lobotomy Corp/Library of Ruina AKA Project Moon's setting'''''. To summarize its setting, think of it as Shadowrun with less gun, more melee combat, and subtle rants on corporate dystopias. Also has a bit of philosophies and studies on human behavior, personalities and emotions. Read more on their lore wiki.
* '''''Madness Combat'''''. No regret, no remorse, no reason, only [[Khorne|madness]].
* '''''Mass Effect'''''. While its universe is hardly grimdark overall, the Reapers and what happens to "harvested" individuals are some of the sickest forms of grimdark possible. During the Reaper War, trillions of people across the galaxy were vaporized, crushed, dissolved slowly and/or violently converted into cyber zombies or brainwashed slaves. And that's just the latest Reaper War. The Reapers have committed so much galactic genocide that they've turned it into a regularly scheduled event and made the entire galaxy their farm/laboratory.  
** There is also the genophage, a bioweapon deployed against the Krogan race to halt the Krogan Rebellions. This bioweapon was basically a massive, permanent genetic Fetus Deletus that dramatically lowered Krogan birthrates and caused a lot of stillbirths (literal "piles of children that never lived" - actual in-game quote).  If that wasn't bad enough, they live on a death-world and have a warlike culture, so this puts them at risk of extinction.  And if THAT wasn't bad enough, they've still been suffering under the Genophage '''over a thousand years after the Krogan Rebellions ended''', and every prior attempt to overcome the Genophage was unsuccessful or sabotaged.
* '''''Path of Exile'''''. The game's setting is basically a documentary on the corruption of [[Roman Empire]].
* '''''Portal''''' once you get past the memes
* '''''Postal'''''. Not the sequels, which play the violence for laughs and topical humor, or the crap Uwe Boll movie, just the first game and it's remake (''Postal Redux''). Once you get past all the shock and outrage of being a forefather of the [[Satanic Panic|"Ban Violent Video Games"]] movement, you'll realize that this game is genuinely fucked up with its imagery and the protagonist is a mentally unwell individual.
* The '''''Prototype''''' games. New York City is infected with a virus created by a generically-unethical corporation called GenTek that mutates people into mutant zombies and/or fucking huge deformed beasts. A secret division called Blackwatch is sent to brutally contain the virus, except it turns out they originally created the virus as a way to purge minorities. This may sound like Resident Evil but the resemblance ends here because you play as Alex Mercer (Prototype 1) and James Heller (Prototype 2), both of them infected by a strain of the virus and became superhumans who can shapeshift and gain someone's memories by consuming them (read violently absorbing them into their bodies) and can grow weapons like claws or a blade arm.
* '''''[[Space Station 13]]''''' : Space paranoia simulator set in a dystopian future where capitalism and unforgiving bureaucracy rules the universe, your life is expandable, and the media is controlled; your only choice is working until you die, or getting killed by either rival corporate operatives, space wizards, cultists, deathsquads or spies posing as your co-workers.
* '''''Total War: Attila'''''. Unlike the previous Total War titles, which were about your faction's rise to power from small backwater city/tribe/country into a mighty empire able to boss around its neighbors into doing your bidding, this one is about the decline of your faction as you desperately try to survive the onslaught of the Huns, who's sole purpose in the game is to worship Tengri by burning, pillaging, and raping their way through the known world. Particularly if you are the Romans. Winning is defined by being the last guy standing who gets to clean up the rubble and dead bodies, trying to rebuild their world after Attila destroyed it. Seriously, even the music sounds depressing and foreboding as fuck.
* '''''[[XCOM]]''''' (The remake and the original, as a parody of the G.I. Joe Badass stereotype, you're on the back foot from the word go, struggling with funding, and even your gods in human form, some of whom make certain chapters of Astartes weep, can get fucked over by Sectoids!)