15 Saddest Gaming Moments

13. The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

And it has all been for nothing. Throughout the process of the game, Link helps the people of the island getting their lives in order, fixing the island up, but eventually when the game is over, the Wind Fish awoken, the whole island starts to disappear, since the entire game was nothing but a figment of Link’s comatose imagination after getting shipwrecked. 

It’s funny that such a small game can have such a long lasting emotional impact. After the final boss is defeated, the game shows you, the player, all the cute little characters you have interacted with during the adventure. And then they start dissolving into nothingness as Link is waking up. Joke’s on us I guess, it was there in the title all along.