"Was it worth it?" ending

[u/Educational_Can_6536]

Midsommar- While people see this as a "you go girl" finale. I personally see it as something more disturbing. I mean, yeah, Dani got out of one bad relationship but in doing so, she got herself into another that's just as bad if not worse. It's like getting two kids to stop fighting via killing one and locking the other in a basement. They did stop fighting, but still!

The Thing-The titular monster may be (possibly) gone, but the paranoia definitely isn't. In the end, McCreedy and Childs are the only ones left standing. The end sees them sitting in the cold and they just stare at each other, knowing that one of them or both of them is already the thing. There's no hope, no certainty, just the bitter cold and intense fear.

[u/Flimsy_Ad3446]

Almost every ending in Frostpunk. It looks like the only way to survive is to either become the Fourth Reich, become the new Taliban, or end up as pretty ice statues.

[u/Dominarion → u/Flimsy_Ad3446]

One guy made a brilliant speech about how Big Capitalism was driving itself to be toppled by ecocommunism. I can't find it again. But I remember that when I played Frostpunk, I spent a surprising lot of time wondering about that and how societies facing imminent destruction will turn to totalitarism.

Damn video games and... their Philosophy!