9 video games with hidden content in the end credits

Video Games often use the end credits to display everyone involved in the project. Once the game is complete, the end credits become a formality for the players, who often pay no attention to what is being displayed because of the assumption it carries.

However, some video games force users into paying attention through mini-games, added content, epilogues, and more, all while the end credits keep rolling.

These 9 video games used end credits to deliver something extra to the players.

NieR: Automata

While the entire game itself is a wonderful experience, the end credits sequence elevates it into a category of its own. NieR: Automata converted the end credits into a mini-game.

The staff names become enemies, and a battle ensues between the names initiating a bullet barrage and you trying to navigate and survive.

Once you defeat the credits, the game asks if you would be willing to help another player.

If you answer yes, your entire save file is deleted and it becomes part of the anonymous network that helped you defeat the end credits.

Bayonetta

Bayonetta’s end credits give you a chance to relive the fast-action gameplay one last time.

The end credits sequence is a ball of nostalgia, with you having to fight them with whatever you have learned throughout the game, from combos to dodging mechanics.

Bayonetta is one of the few examples of an interactive end credits sequence that doesn’t contain hidden lore or storyline polishing scenes.

Undertale

Undertale’s credits become a challenge of their own. When you reach the ‘Special Thanks’ section, the names become projectiles aimed at you, and you must avoid taking a hit.

If you succeed in rolling through the ‘Special Thanks’ section without taking a single hit, the game rewards you with a message from creator Toby Fox.

Portal

Portal’s ending is iconic. When the game reaches the end credits, Portal tells a beautiful tale, with GLaDOS singing ‘Still Alive’, a song from GLaDOS’ perspective.

The song acts as a revelation that GLaDOS has survived and that she is ‘Still Alive’. She uses the song not only to downplay her defeat but also to mock Chell’s success.

Portal 2

Similar to Portal, Portal 2 uses another song, ‘Want You Gone’, where GLaDOS has a final conversation with Chell.

In contrast, Want You Gone serves as an acceptance of Chell’s success from GLaDOS’ perspective. The song serves as proof of GLaDOS’ character development, as she grows respect for Chell.

Resident Evil 4

Resident Evil 4 shows the peaceful and happy village life before the entry of Osmund Saddler and the Los Illuminados cult into the village, bringing along the Las Plagas parasite.

The end credits give the Ganados their origins and humanize them, whereas the entire game you treat them as monsters trying to harm you.

The story adds emotional weight behind your actions during the game, and almost forces you to consider the sadness behind the entire narration, as the soundtrack ‘Sorrow’ keeps playing alongside.

Persona 5 Royal

Persona 5 Royal’s end credits add a layer of future information about the Phantom Thieves by showing where each character is headed, providing a grand closure to the fans.

It emphasizes the phrase ‘Every end is a new beginning’ by showing that, even though the game’s storyline is ending, the characters are all set to go on a new adventure of their own.

Okami

Okami’s developers used the end credits to give the game the epilogue it deserved. The illustrations reveal what happens in the timeline after Orochi’s defeat and Yami’s fall.

The hand-painted artwork adds a nice personal touch to the epilogue, and the details add much-needed closure to the characters, befitting of Okami’s entire gameplay.

The Stanley Parable

The developers didn’t even leave the end credits alone and used that space to deliver more satire and humor to the players. The Narrator keeps talking as the end credits roll.

And depending on the ending you receive, the jokes come in, pointing at the situation, the choices made, and delivering punchlines along the way.

The end credits become part of the package developers meant to gift the players.

Which video game did you think had the most unique end credit sequence?

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