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  • Summary: Welcome to BAD END THEATER! Select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!

    The decisions you make in one story will affect the others. You can toggle these behaviors to open up new paths! Unfortunately, every path leads to a bad ending... Can you find a way to save this
    Welcome to BAD END THEATER! Select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!

    The decisions you make in one story will affect the others. You can toggle these behaviors to open up new paths! Unfortunately, every path leads to a bad ending...

    Can you find a way to save this unlucky cast?

    Playtime: 2-3 hours to see all endings (it's a puzzle game, so this varies widely).
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  1. Jul 11, 2025
    80
    Bad End Theater blends tragedy with a twisted puzzle, as you piece together doomed outcomes across four interconnected stories. Short but sharp, there’s just enough moral murkiness in this Rashomon-style dark fairy tale.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
  2. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. Dec 17, 2022
    10
    This is an amazing game with a great story and great characters. As you continue, you start to bond with the characters. This is a reallyThis is an amazing game with a great story and great characters. As you continue, you start to bond with the characters. This is a really great choose your own adventure! The pixel art style of the game is really great too! Expand
  2. Nov 22, 2022
    10
    Un juego donde empiezas riendote de los malos finales de los personajes y disfrutando de sus sufrimientos y cuanto mas juegas mas te duelenUn juego donde empiezas riendote de los malos finales de los personajes y disfrutando de sus sufrimientos y cuanto mas juegas mas te duelen esos malos finales y esperas que acabe con un buen final. Sus giros en las tramas son inesperables. Expand
  3. Nov 24, 2022
    10
    This is a really cool game! I write good reviews about this game wherever possible! The ending of the game is just super, to tears! And howThis is a really cool game! I write good reviews about this game wherever possible! The ending of the game is just super, to tears! And how many plot twists it has... I advise everyone to play this wonderful game!!! Expand
  4. Sep 9, 2023
    8
    It's okay, If you want a 2 or 3 hour fun not a bad choice. Don't forget to look other games of the creator.
  5. Mar 15, 2023
    8
    Good:
    - it was clever design to put the variables out for the player to control right in the starting screen. Which also plays well with the
    Good:
    - it was clever design to put the variables out for the player to control right in the starting screen. Which also plays well with the concept that it's all a theater that the player is running
    - branches work well together and create a holistic story after you've read many of the branches. It's an interesting take on writing branching stories. Also the idea to explore the same space of events from points of view of 4 different characters, and how branches flesh out all their quirks and sides
    - it discusses tribalism - like, people in the village hate and fear the demonic overlord in the castle although the overlord never did anything bad to them. So, fear causes people to be hostile
    - graphics, though done in pixel art and 16-bit (or even 8-bit?) palette, are quite nice and add to the game's appeal
    - retro 8-bit music fit very well

    So-so:
    - some variables seem to have no effect
    - in most playthroughs there are just 2 choices. And the endings often seem to not be dependent on the last choice at all

    Bad:
    - For its short total play time and simple technical nature it should cost $2-3, not $8.
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  6. Jan 16, 2023
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Great story, amazing writing and really emotional. I love how the true end has all the colors to resemble the end they all face.

    But i do give it a seven because you can just accidently get all the true ends by picking the right choices. And the achievements are really easy.
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  7. Mar 12, 2022
    0
    This game is largely overrated and should not be considered one of the best pc games, it is boring and mediocre at best.

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