Do you ever complete a narrative heavy game, one with arduous journeys, immense challenge, or emotional punishment, and instead of experiencing a sense of euphoria you feel as though you’ve lost something?

The fifteen games on this rundown aim to highlight this feeling. You complete what the game asks of you, but you’re left pondering – from a moral or emotional sense – if it was worth it.

Maybe you’re not the good guy you thought you were. Maybe humanity is saved, but you’ve lost something near and dear to you. Maybe you thought you were acting in service of something else, only to find you were being manipulated the whole time. Games, more than any other medium, have that potential to put you right in the shoes of someone contemplating quandary in their actions.