Bad End Theater

Bad End Theater is a unique puzzle game where you guide a cast of unlucky characters through a series of unfortunate events. You select a protagonist and make choices that lead to various terrible fates. The twist is that your decisions in one story affect the others, creating a web of interconnected outcomes. By toggling behaviors, you can open up new paths, but every path seems to lead to a bad ending. Can you find a way to save this ill-fated group?

The game features a rich narrative with 16,000 words and 600 illustrations, offering over 40 different endings to discover. It takes about 1-3 hours to see all endings, though as a puzzle game, this can vary widely depending on your approach. The story, art, and music are all created by NomnomNami, with animation by chunderfins. The game has been translated into numerous languages, including Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Swedish, Russian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Greek, and Romanian.

Each playthrough is a puzzle to solve, as you experiment with different choices and behaviors to unlock new endings. The interconnected nature of the stories means that you'll need to think carefully about how your actions in one storyline might impact another. With its charming art style and intriguing premise, Bad End Theater offers a fresh take on narrative-driven games, challenging you to find the one good ending hidden among the bad ones.