7 Games You Can Beat by Doing Nothing at All

[@limegreenelevator]

If you start this video and do nothing for 13:53, you'll complete the video.

[@happypasta6]

Oops I did “something” and completed it in half the time 😂

[@stone5against1]

Woah spoilers!

[@JameyMcQueen]

@@stone5against1 Whoa whoa whoa, you read the comments before watching the video? For SHAME!

[@jonathanc8845]

I lost.

[@jstewart_1]

Hitting like and commenting while the vod plays takes just as long to finish but is canonically the "good ending".

[@Skaitania]

As someone who never played FarCry 4 but seen the "secret" ending about a dozen times now, I am convinced Pangan Min is a proper gentleman and host and staying at the table must therefor be the only decent way to complete the game. For starters, the crab rangoon is clearly to die for.

[@liamnehren1054]

Oh yeah it really does look like he didn't mean for even one person to get hurt that day but things just went sideways and being eccentric he just rolled with it.

[@axlejones6281]

the funny thing is, this is literally the best ending possible since the others end with either a drug lord or an incredibly religious (in all the bad ways) dictator being in charge

[@FadeRadio1]

The grand irony is that this is EXPLICITLY the case. Like no, Pagan Min isn't a perfect guy who has done no wrong, but you learn throughout the story that he is genuinely doing better than anybody else can for the country, and he also genuinely sees you as essentially his son (or at least the last remnant of your mother whom he loved) so he tries time and time again to just show you that he GENUINELY doesn't want to hurt you or oppose you, and that you are simply running with the wrong crowd out of misguided ill-informed hubris. Even when he does have the opportunities to stop you, he deliberately does NOT harm you, and at worst puts you in what is essentially 'time out' in a cell for a minute while he runs off to deal with some other terrorists for a minute (not assuming you'd manage to escape). The thing that makes this game so genuinely genius is that it sets Pagan Min up to seem like some utter horrific villain, but the rest of the game basically slowly unravels more and more to simply show that your entire journey from the get-go was a mistake from the moment you left Pagan Min's lovely dinner.

[@TheSkittlesmcgee]

I can say honestly that the last time I played the game I genuinely just waited for the secret ending and then immediately stopped playing because the two "real" endings are so incredibly depressing I didn't want to actually work toward them.

[@WolfMaestro5482]

@@FadeRadio1 It really doesn't. Throughout the game you see how depraved his regime is from the ex cia guy performing widespread torture to the humanitarian worker who was forced to run a death sport arena to keep her kids alive only to find out that they're already dead. He made a colossal golden statue out of artifacts he looted while the people are impoverished. He even has a line when he's speaking on the radio during the final mission where he chuckles about faking letters from the lady's kids just to show how sadistic he is. Nothing in the game suggests the golden path would be even half as bad even with the heel turn. Also you can shoot the other leader in the face after the cutscene and just end the problem there.

[@k9turrent]

The Stanley Parable, you can get the cowards ending if stay in you chair doing nothing

[@jacobmarchlinski852]

Technically, you have to close the door first. Who's got time for that, though?

[@VeryPeeved]

The best way to win that game is to close the game and stop playing.

[@MalzraAirwynn]

@@jacobmarchlinski852 True, but there are other games in the list you have to do 'something' to get too. In Thank Goodness You're Here you have to knock over the water jug and use it to jump out the window for example.

[@shavranotheferanox7809]

THANK YOU this one came in my head, and left the moment i wanted to comment it

[@SirAsdf]

The fact the Far Cry 4 "Do Nothing" ending is probably the only one that can be considered a "good" ending is honestly pretty sad.

[@TheRandomEevee]

Same can be said for far cry 5 and 6

[@keithvandorn]

@@TheRandomEeveeNot FC6 - the dictator takes more power and all your friends die in the walk away ending.

[@michaelchallis4129]

I’ll take a certificate of mediocrity as good.

[@Olimar92]

Not fully aware of the plot, but is the MC of the game even obligated to do anything? From what I've seen in the opening they are an expected guest, and Pagan is very friendly with them. Takes them to place their mother's ashes, and then to a shooting range.

[@goofyfurball7311]

​@@Olimar92It's been a while, but I think you're just there to get your mother's ashes to the shrine. Pretty sure deciding to help the rebels is purely a moral decision because video game

[@nikkianzalone2914]

The Longing, in it you are a creature who has been tasked with watching over the sleeping king for 400 days. The game takes place in real time and you can find ways to speed up this waiting by exploring…or you can just turn off the game and do something else for 400 days and then come back and get your ending!

[@stone5against1]

I assume you can also change the clock to time travel? Or did they make sure you can't do that somehow?

[@lachouette_et_le_phoque]

@@stone5against1 if you cheat by setting the system time forward, you are thrown into jail in game, so yep they thought of it

[@stone5against1]

@lachouette_et_le_phoque haha really? Damn

[@not_actually_a_jellybean]

I love that game!

[@phreddq]

There are ways of making time go faster in your "home" area, but they involve actually exploring the caves. ​@@stone5against1

[@piralos1329]

Gotta shout out "Don't Press The Button", a neat little puzzle game with a bunch of endings, including one where you. Just don't do anything! Just do what you're told, don't press the button, and everything is good!

[@rageldith9600]

You mean Please Don’t Press Anything? Or are we thinking differently things

[@deohenge1865]

Reminds me of the dark ages of Flash games, with "Don't shoot the puppy." Your objective was simple: start the stage, and then don't shoot the puppy. The game tried very hard to get you to shoot the puppy, but the most inactive of us prevailed. You did have to start each stage, though, so... not quite the optimal level of nothing.

[@cyborghuey]

@@rageldith9600 Isn't it "Please, Don't Touch Anything"?

[@rageldith9600]

@@cyborghuey yeah that sounds more right

[@OptimusSledge]

Not only can you complete Far Cry 4 by doing nothing, you get the best ending. Ajay and Uncle Pagan going off to have some fun together is just so wholesome.

[@someaccount5200]

The other endings are bad, it's either you get a terrorist group to rule or a dictatorship

[@kamo7293]

​​@@someaccount5200and bhadra dies edit: I thought she died in both endings... but the other one isn't great either

[@Amaritudine]

Nothing "wholesome" about a homicidal mob boss staying in power while his buddies terrorise the populace. Sure, there's no wholly "good" side in Kyrat, but Pagan Min is absolutely a monster in his own way.

[@ShaggyRogers1]

@@someaccount5200 Not really terrorist group or dictatorship, but you replace a dictator with either strict religious fundamentalism where women are going to be stripped of their rights or a drug lord.

[@OptimusSledge]

@@Amaritudine No family is perfect, don't be so judgemental.

[@Gorthaur42]

Ha! Jokes on you, Andy, I've got autoplay turned off. Now to sit here and stare at the recommended videos screen for the next six hours.

[@Soph1na]

Thereby unlocking the secret extra ending to this video where you do nothing further for 6 hours and 14 minutes after clicking on it.

[@WFierce]

What is this, a Twilight Princess speedrun?

[@jessicaw8067]

"Of varying levels of attention to detail" spotted the script written by Andy

[@mattball8622]

Luke stands up and salutes the TV, shedding a silent tear

[@BudBonkerson]

BRINKBRANKBRONK

[@Mr_TheHan]

who wrote this script, Clumsy the Clown?

[@mycomnithegreat434]

9:17 also, a good contender for "games that have no good ending/s", hinthint, nudgenudge? Well, I guess there IS _technically_ a good ending: if you get Ellen killed in Viola's body, so even though Viola dies, Ellen is still punished for what she did. Which, at best, is a Pyrrhic victory. Cause, you know, Viola still has a quite horrific death after experiencing a very brutal betrayal. All that happened, when all she did was go out of her way to befriend what seemed to be a lonely, misunderstood girl.

[@glassphoenix9095]

if you get all the way up to the final chase and let "ellen" catch and kill you, theres a grim thin hope viola might be able to use ellen's magic to swap bodies again, so that might be the best technically-a-good-ending

[@Frostyflytrap]

If you read at the secret notes around the house, you'll find out that the spell Ellen used to swap with Viola requires both parties to consent, and there's no way Ellen is going to say yes to returning to her old body. In addition to that, it's told in prequel novel written by the game developer that Ellen cannot physically die due to the contract she has with the black cat demon. In the game, every death you experience is canonical, and the black cat just brings you back to life, which is a fascinating diegetic explanation for why the cat is a save point. You can also see this in-game with how if you step into one of the spike traps, reload a save, then look at the spot where you died, there will now be a blood stain where there wasn't one before. So yeah, pretty much no good ending no matter what, so that's pleasant.

[@VeryPeeved]

Viola was a damnable fool. Even a cornered rat will claw and bite to survive, much less a witch. Viola knew how the spell worked, she would have had to or it wouldn't have worked (knowingly and willingly was the requirement, was it not?), so what the hell did she think was going to happen when she put herself in a position where her life depends on the witch willingly going to her death just to save her? Would she have been willing to do the same? Clearly not. So why would she think that Ellen would be?

[@dean_l33]

@@Frostyflytrap Wow so it's one of the few games where the protag is absolutely vile with zero to none redeeming quality

[@adamnielson42]

What made Viola agree to that then?​@@Frostyflytrap

[@frodobaggins7710]

Getting some unusual Ellen lore in this video

[@FreqyBiker]

That's Jane's influence

[@captaincokecan]

​@@FreqyBiker It's always Jane's influence

[@zeroburn315]

I still am bummed that they never put out a DLC for Far Cry 4 where you can trigger the secret ending (or make it easier to trigger than wait 15 minutes) and then continue on to play an alternate storyline where you are on Pagan Min's side.

[@dean_l33]

Ubisoft is a very liberal company. No way in hell would they let you side with the obvious dictator, you only get to side with the dictators in disguise

[@TheZotmeister]

I recall a game called "Seven Minutes" (I thought it's a Flash game; a quick search shows it might be GameMaker) where the protagonist is told at the beginning that they'll die in seven minutes' time and the ending depends on how they spend it. My genre savvy told me to do nothing those seven minutes and it turned out that led to the best ending. (I think it was otherwise a platformer, and I think I remember hearing there was a goal to reach, the closer to it one makes it the better the ending they get, and a massive hint for the actual solution being provided if you make it there in time.)

[@dean_l33]

The dev is a cheeky bastard aren't they

[@homerman76]

Ah Witch's House, one of the few games where you actually want to let the character you play as die

[@dean_l33]

They should do a video about that. Minus the obvious like Spec Ops: the line and TLOU2

[@falsnamae3511]

@@dean_l33 TLOU2 I think would need an honorable mention or an obligatory mention. A hateful mass-murdering psychopath who is out for revenge because someone killed their mass-murdering psychopath kin in self-defense (who, notably, was trying to end the human race, too, or at least keep them weak and dying). It's like playing a game as Jack The Ripper Jr., out to get revenge on the people who hurt poor innocent Jack just because he was skinning the victim alive for thrills at the time. And notably, the MC is whiny and emo while doing it, not even a crazed Joker-like laugher for that crazy-charisma, not once bit of joy, it's a grimdark task to keep up the great works of dear old Ripper Sr, randomly killing for objectively bad reasons. It's just TOO hateable an MC to leave out entirely.

[@inakiballesterospolloni3436]

You could argue that undertale yellow has an ending like that. When you fall down (again) after the tutorial section toriel asks you to stay there so that she can fetch rope to help you climb back up. Do that for like 5-10 minutes and exactly that happens, prompting you to climb said rope and allegedly making flowey angry enough to reset the story before you're halfway up the hole

[@limegreenelevator]

Don't know if they cover fan works but would love for UTY to appear on the channel somehow

[@blatherskite3009]

It involves slightly more than literal "nothing" but not much. In Shadow Complex, the metroidvania, you and your girlfriend stumble across some secret underground military base. She gets captured and taken into the base, and you're supposed to go in and rescue her. But if you just go back a few screens to your car, our "hero" drives off, saying "Plenty more fish in the sea" and the credits roll. Evil :)

[@dean_l33]

I think they did a video that has that game in it before. Something about ending the game before it began

[@tanandalynch9441]

Apparently in Witch's House if you don't geab a specific item when "Viola" is chasing you, you never actually find out that the two girls switched bodies

[@WolfyFancyLads]

Yeah, you have to grab it _while_ being chased. You can also unlock more lore by never saving the game, as it's revealed at the end that the save point (the cat) is a demon. (I think I'm safe to spoil this because I highly doubt many people will get this ending) By saving all the time, you cause the demon to die from using too much power, but by not saving it reveals that it knows who you are and that "of course you'd not succumb to the traps of this house. This is your home, after all." Viola is sadistic too, actively mocking her friend for being so stupid and enjoying getting away with it all.

[@tanandalynch9441]

@WolfyFancyLads Ngl I kinda figured there would be a twist ending. But like why would viola give Ellen her body back? She intentionally maimed herself before the switch because she never intended to return lol

[@PantslessShorts]

I just did this in another game! Infernax has several silly endings you can get, including one for sleeping at an inn too many times in a row, but the fastest way to beat the game is to move forward until the zombie stands up and starts moving. Then you can simply turn around and get in the boat you arrived in and ask the boatman to leave. Credits. It unlocks a new book in the Library, The Path of the Coward, which includes more hints and codes for more unlocks, so it actually GIVES you something for beating the game this way.

[@dean_l33]

I forgot about that game. Pretty great though never finish it and I believe it has a coop dlc or expansion now

[@Ghozzar]

there is a game called The Longing where the entire point of the game is to wait 400 real time days for the king to wake up. i assume you could do nothing and win the game in a little over a year

[@NameRealperson]

The Longing is so good

[@Gnardak]

I also thought of the The Longing. There's lots of stuff to do but ultimately the goal is just to wait 400 days.

[@JimHxn]

5:10 I enjoy how Mom Can't Cookisms are leaking into the Luke and Andy Cinematic Universe.

[@adamscholfield3371]

I came to say this very thing lol. Something like "oh I see Andy had a part of this segment of the script"

[@Amaritudine]

Sure, we enjoy it NOW - but what happens when their sphere of online influence grows, and the entire internet is ultimately subsumed into the powerful gestalt entity of LANDY WESTARRANT? Oxboxtra fans were so preoccupied with whether or not they _could,_ etc...

[@adamscholfield3371]

@@Amaritudine with the condition of the internet now I think it could only be a marked improvement

[@R4ggedyM4n]

I think the Narrator is a bit annoyed that his mastergame of The Stanley Parable isnt on here.

[@Revali09]

In zoochosis if you sit afk for long enough you’ll get one of the bad endings where you get fed to the mother

[@FreqyBiker]

I sat and did nothing - KZbin tried to sell me a clubbing holiday and watch some thriller from ITV. I think that's the dull ending.

[@A_Non_Moose]

Give us a list of games where you're framed as the hero, but your participation clearly made everyone's lives worse. The kind of game where if you think about it, societies best ending is the one where you didn't show up in the first place. Tomb Raider comes to mind since Laura minding her own business and staying home would likely result in less trouble for everyone.

[@freman007]

Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark

[@NayvieNoir]

Far Cry 5

[@dean_l33]

@@NayvieNoir It's one of those game where you never expect a company like Ubisoft to put such message in

[@MidlifeCrisisJoe]

Lara Croft is preserving history for future generations from people who wouldn't cherish it or care about it.

[@Aristaios]

@@MidlifeCrisisJoesure what’s several million lives eh?

[@Twitchy_McExorcism]

Knowing that the Do Nothing ending is the best out of a bunch of bad endings is the reason I don't even want to play Far Cry 4. Maybe if it led to you "shooting some goddamn guns" in the form of storming the bases of all the other, ultimately-more-evil-than-Pagan-Min factions with the help of your new best friend, Pagan Min, killing all their leaders, and bringing peace to the region, then being free to roam the map and do the rest of the game's content and mopping up remnants at leisure, I'd be down. As it stands, however, I didn't even enjoy Far Cry 3 that much, and it had stakes worth fighting for and one ending worth achieving.

[@CyrusMajin]

I haven't played any of the Far Cry games, however, Pagan Min's line about "shooting some goddamn guns" could possibly be the developers having him lean on the 4th wall and effectively tell you "Okay, you did what we explicitly told you to do, now go and actually play our goddamn game."

[@3rd-dusk-rat]

This is sort of true for Spec Ops: The Line from a conceptual level, with how repeatedly they hammer home the point that 'you shouldn't have played this game to begin with'

[@dean_l33]

That's a cop out. Ofc it expect you to play it until the end, how else would it deliver it's "YOU'RE EVIL :( " message

[@KheldarLars]

I like to believe the standing still Witch's House ending means that you don't do all the horrible things that seal Ellen to the New Body, and the one who leaves is Viola snapped back into her correct form. Because you do horrible, horrible things to "win" this game.

[@Leader7353]

nah, the spell can only be reverted if both parties want it to. Which Ellen clearly doesnt

[@arzer114]

Here’s another good one! Space Quest 2: you can beat the WHOLE GAME by typing one word into the parser; “Cheat”. You get 255/250 points and get a long message from the Sierra team patting you on the back for your ingenuity and out of the box thinking.

[@someaccount5200]

Rip Sierra, they are out of business

[@sebastianavalon-caughey2230]

Doing nothing for 9 hours, and not mentioning a LOTR marathon is just criminal.

[@FirebladesSong]

Well, Luke isn't here to mention it so...

[@WarpChaos]

The Witch's House "Do Nothing" ending is probably the least dark of all the endings.

[@silversalamence10]

"fill it up with animatronics of varying levels of attention to detail." it feels wrong for Mike to say this over Andy tbph.

[@ReverendTed]

The video was great, as usual, but I was NOT expecting the hearty snort from that jab in the last few seconds.

[@macdjord]

Can't beleive they didn't mention Far Cry 5! Where, if you simply refuse to try to arrest cult leader Joseph Seed for 5 minutes, your boss decides (correctly) that the cult outnumbers them too much and this is a stupid plan and you all go home. It is, in fact, the best ending to the game.

[@macdjord]

... dammit, they predicted this, too. Well played, OX, well played.

[@WavingWorld]

5:13 This script was either written by or for Andy. "Varying levels of attention to detail" is a reference to Andy and Luke's side project podcast "Mom Can't Cook." 😂😂

[@KuueenKumi]

Specifically the Halloweentown episode

[@GhengisJohn]

Didn't remember the ending to The Witch's House, just remembered it was a downer and Viola's only crime was being kind to Ellen. Good to be reminded why I never want to play it. Don't know why her father would just shoot a little girl in distress like that though. Just trying to make the ending as dark and cruel as possible I suppose.

[@kamo7293]

from the father's perspective it's a monster trying to attack his daughter... why wouldn't he shoot?

[@GhengisJohn]

@kamo7293 Because most adults are not going to assume monsters are real for starters.

[@tornadoawe]

@@GhengisJohn I'm pretty sure that her father warns her to not go talk to her "friend", because a Witch lives in the woods. So either I. She has made more than a few kids disappear into the trees (the library had several newsclippings of people being "xxxx'd") II. Witches/Demons/Magic is an accepted reality for the setting He went into the woods armed with a loaded shotgun to look for her, and a blood-covered, shambling monster was reaching out to his "daughter". Remember, that body had been mutilated and disfigured by acid and disease and only able to crawl due to it's destroyed legs. You're only calling it a "little girl" because you know Viola is in there.

[@SapphireDragon357]

@@GhengisJohn You're applying real world logic to a game with witches and magic... Seems a bit silly to do that, eh?

[@dallydaydream]

I was a bit confused by that too; clearly that's just a little girl who's been horribly mutilated and is in need of help, not a threat in any way. Unless it was supposed to be a mercy killing, or I'm missing some other context from the game.

[@necrocomicon8]

you can get a game over before the game starts by just denying everything in super paper mario. which i would count as an ending because there was next to nothing before and you have to start from the very beginning after the game over.

[@VictorNedochetko]

Never heard of thank goodness you're here but I can recognize Matt Berry's voice anywhere

[@dallydaydream]

I'd love Oxboxtra to do a let's play of TGYH, partly because it's looks like fun, ludicrous shenanigans, but *mostly* because of Matt Berry's voicework :D

[@octochan]

​@@dallydaydreamI absolutely have to see actual Yorkshire native Mike react to TGYH

[@dallydaydream]

@@octochan Agreed!

[@cossakrose]

"Cargo Space?" No, car no go space. Car go road. "Tacoma go space?" Yes, Tacoma go space.

[@SantoAtheos]

The turn-based strategy game Masters of Orion 3 was so broken that you could win the game just by clicking "End Turn" a bunch of times.

[@acomingextinction]

the first two games were classics, and then there was Masters of Orion 3.

[@AndyD773]

Impressive that Nothing has an original soundtrack by John Cage.

[@NameRealperson]

I'm not a fan of the extended mix they used, feels like it overstays its welcome

[@natsukifin3617]

Reventure offers lots of different endings and doing nothing for 10 minutes also unlocks ending where instead of adventure you decided sleeping was more important.

[@someaccount5200]

That's me

[@Liquidfear15]

Can't believe you didn't mention Far Cry 5 😁

[@FelisImpurrator]

Hah! You thought they didn't, but they got you in the background gags!

[@Kasey-s7b]

They already did

[@williamjones5334]

5:10 Well, I think I can guess who wrote the script for this segment! MCC jumpscare!

[@FonzietheCapybara]

Alas I cannot win the comments section by posting nothing, so here is something instead

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

I feel I have failed by replying

[@smiIeyface]

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[@Puncherjoe1]

Honestly there's something so charming about the "Do nothing at all" games.

[@Michael_Lindell]

Did you know? You can turn off Autoplay.

[@HandsTurn]

Is that how you win KZbin?

[@kamo7293]

11:45 there has to be a game he didn't mention that we can mess with him with 😂but

[@wohanlon]

Can't believe he didn't mention Farcry 5 😂😂

[@Nuriawall555]

The Longing- it's literally about waiting for a king to wake up

[@zacharysmith4856]

It was Ellen all along?! 😱

[@DannyHeywood]

Also Far Cry 5, if you don't handcuff the leader at the start, after 5 minutes you all just go home and the credits roll haha

[@FelisImpurrator]

Mario Party... Well, you can't, but Luigi can.

[@duncancox2146]

"Varying levels of attention to detail" - either Andy wrote this, or one of the others is making a very supportive reference 😅

[@Kaito57]

FarCry4 is almost a meme on this subject lol But, then again, Patience is a virtue for a reason !!

[@paulanderson1102]

Peans from thank goodness your here reminds me of the cheesey peas sketches in the fast show.

[@LadyKattrina84]

YES! I thought that, too.

[@okram2k]

In the old classic Star Control 2 there is a set timetable to beat the game or else you get a game over as the Korh-Ah annihilate all sentient races in the local sector of the galaxy. Eventually they reach earth and kill all humans. It would take several hours of just staring at the calendar as it passes by but you could in theory just sit at the starting spot until the game ends.

[@azuredragoon2054]

Given that Tacoma is a cumulative 9 hours of waiting... That doesn't sound so bad.

[@DireBore]

Andy looked pale in the old lighting, this light is much more flattering

[@1217BC]

Yeah, they've definitely gotten their lighting dialed in a heck of a lot better in the new studio. Love to see the improvements

[@LungsOutJem]

10:42 this one feels like it desperately needed a guest commentary from Ellen.

[@dummy_vicc2976]

What about pillars of eternity 2? After the events of the last game, the gods ask your character to go do this big quest, and if you just keep saying no, youll get shoved back into the circle of reincarnation and the credits roll.

[@KrazyCatQueen]

Thank goodness you’re here looks so silly, I look forward to playing it.

[@FrankRooney-b4f]

It's really funny, very much adult humour though. Also not very long, it doesn't overstay it's welcome.

[@dustinmillar120]

I've always liked the Far Cry 4 wait ending, I kind of wish it would let you play the game from his side just for fun haha

[@C___________]

Can't believe you didn't mention Far Cry 10.

[@midnightpelican]

2:31 Matt Berry!!!!!!

[@StarryKnightPinkle]

In Mario Party Jamboree, there is a Minigame called Gate Key-pers, where you have to match a key with one of the three doors. You can literally just press A to pick the first key the cursor land on pick the first door your cursor lands on, then ad infinitum. Like the game is in auto pilot, accept you just press A and move the cursor that is literally all you do.

[@jop8907]

Rng minigames dont count

[@devinspencer1678]

4:44 The Stupendium reference!

[@towaii]

I first learned of The Witch's House as one of those games that has a lot of unique deaths. Somehow there seemingly isn't a name for this? But to me, this game, infamous projects like Demonophobia, the output of FoxEye and games like Ratuz make up a genre.

[@paulpage4271]

Just imagine your in your bedroom loading up Far Cry for the first time, the intro starts, and your mom yells at you to come out from your room to talk about something, so you dart out to talk, and then run back to your room only to begin the dialogue sequence that ends the game, leaving you confused and dismayed... 😂

[@mal2ksc]

IdleRPG. You launch it, and it makes a character for you, goes on adventures for you, collects gear for you, grinds for you. On top of that, there's no way to interact with your character. All you can do is watch the stats go up.

[@Lucklessfalcon]

farcry 4 was king for theirs

[@moonkingdomify]

If you've read the novels based off the game Witch's House, simply waiting out Viola's death makes far more sense in character.

[@liamnehren1054]

I love that Farcry 4's do nothing ending is basically how the King of Spain took over from Franco, Franco just Lelouch-ed himself.

[@vadimk3484]

One of my favorite games of all time, Space Rangers 2 (yeah, the title is corny, but it's intentional), can effectively "play itself" without any input from the player, because it's an open world with NPC behavior advanced enough to actually beat the final bosses eventually (or the other way around, depending on the selected difficulty level). The player basically acts as a booster to the good guys, tipping the balance in their favor and spearheading the war effort.

[@Flatthew3333]

I remember playing a game about 10 years ago called "Relive Your Life." A ton of endings, but if you do literally nothing, you get the ending of becoming Doctor Who.

[@respectableaf9061]

Obligatory: I can't believe you didn't mention Far Cry 5

[@Satsujinki1973]

NGL, I was totally gonna comment about how I couldn't believe they didn't include Far Cry 5, until Mike prophesied it, and now I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna be the prophesied chosen one, we all know what happened to him at the end of Far Cry 3.

[@tezlaactual6582]

i know its cliche but the far cry series has probably my favorite version of these endings between pagan min, going back to get the national guard against the church, and just leaving for america its honestly a nice addon for the logical answer

[@matthewdykeman8149]

Dont think I missed that Stupendium reference in the Fazbears Pizzeria Simulator section.

[@RCP641]

I think there should be a alternate evil campaign for Far Cry 4 where you work your way up Pagan Min's organization ending up as either his second in command or usurping him and taking over the country.

[@agentthree9230]

Hey Outside Xtra! I wanted to clarify something regarding Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator. While it might seem entertaining to consider the idea of completing the game without doing anything, it's actually not possible. The game requires players to engage with various mechanics, like managing resources and surviving the nights. Simply doing nothing won't trigger the necessary events to progress or reach the end. Just wanted to share that insight! Keep up the great work!

[@tomsyalad9556]

Not for the mediocrity ending; if you never raise your risk above 1, never salvage any animatronics and don't buy Lefty you'll never have any danger in the night sections. Ordering supplies and printing advertisements isn't quite nothing, but it's pretty close!

[@LoquaciousGee]

I can't belieeeeeve they did Far Cry 4, so "on the nose"...

[@jmgriffee]

So if I drive down the road to Tacoma and sit around doing nothing for a while, I win? Awesome. (Also, you took me _out_ with that algorithm comment at the end. Well played.)

[@WildfireMagni]

Let's not forget Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, the charming life sim where you can just decide to not revive your grandfather's farm and go off to...I guess have a wonderful life somewhere else? Anyway, roll credits!

[@pmonday]

Love Mike pulling out the Mom Can't Cook reference 👌

[@NameRealperson]

Wouldn't have thought Mike was a DCOM enjoyer. Takes all sorts, I suppose

[@sacrificiallamb4568]

Their podcast about them is great; have you heard it?

[@NameRealperson]

​@sacrificiallamb4568"varying levels of attention to detail" 😁 (I have even followed them into the dark hinterlands of So Weird)

[@TsiolkovskySportingLocks]

@@NameRealpersonnow that is dedication. Btw I truly think that Ned is a zombie - which is why he is always so tired

[@sacrificiallamb4568]

@ I've not even gotten around to the free one of So Weird yet.

[@TsiolkovskySportingLocks]

@sacrificiallamb4568oh you should. It is properly properly bonkers, what with using a coffee machine to break into the CIA and all.

[@13thravenpurple94]

This video is amazing! Thank you for sharing! 😊

[@Atikal07]

Surprised to see Witch's House to get a spot. I never see the game talked about

[@AGoodBrentDogs]

In the game, “Please Don’t Touch Anything”, if you listen to your coworker and, well, don’t touch anything, you can get the easiest of the many endings.

[@torgranael]

For anyone curious, neither Far Cry 5, nor Far Cry 6 qualify for this list. 5's alternate ending still requires you to actually walk up to the church, while 6's requires nicking a boat and cruising into the horizon.

[@dallydaydream]

"Animatronics of varying levels of attention to detail"; once again I say, tell me something was written by Andy without telling me it was written by Andy

[@lozey8317]

Its not quite doing completely nothing, but you can complete Return of the Obra Dinn by just....getting back in the rowboat at the start. Your character just goes home safely 😂 completely ignores their given job

[@Gledster]

That's got to be in a future list.

[@ricks5756]

Far Cry 4 has a very good 'do nothing' ending that actually makes absolute sense in context to the story.

[@matheusbigognocosta4315]

In Twelve Minutes, if you do nothing, the couple will talk about life and then leave the apartment before the police show up

[@L4NC3_L0T]

Seems the "farcry" guys loved that idea so much they made it an option for the following game as well ^^ (and ALMOST made it in the 6th game as well... here it's not waiting but LEAVING: "You want me to do WHAT? Singlehandedly topple a dictator by fighting his whole army? NOPE! I'm out...")

[@cry.skull745]

Gonna be honest, FarCry 4's secret ending is arguably the game's best ending. Pagan has no ill will towards you, and both resistance leaders resort to some pretty dicey shit once they're in charge.

[@Danich86]

The moment I saw the video title I thought "Ah, Farcry 4 once again" and OF COURSE HERE IT IS

[@ymeynot0405]

Commenters edition: The Mountain... A Screen saver that poses as a game but sucks up a lot of power.

[@LotarioDillahunt]

how about in the outer wilds where all you have to do is avoid being paired with a funky alien goat statue the best way to avoid this is just stay there in your sleeping bag and star gaze instead of paring with said funky alien goat statue and exploring said stars you are gazing upon

[@terencedigan3932]

Fun fact: it is theoretically possible to win a game of Mario Party 2 by doing nothing more than pressing the A button when necessary to advance the game.

[@AndrewsYoutube]

"Now they're all complaining that we didn't include 'Far Cry 5' !" Andy beat me to it. 🤣

[@wargriz8213]

But what about Zoochosis? If you refuse to sign the NDA at the beginning Doc gets mad and eventually turns you into parasite food.

[@phreddq]

The Longing: one ending involves starting the game and coming back in 400 days.

[@clericofchaos1]

as far as i'm aware, far cry 4 was the first game to do the "nothing to win". If anything came earlier, like say, in the nes days, let me know.