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Alternate failures

Video game concept

Player can fail in their overall objective in non-standard way, such as personally activating a doomsday device you're supposed to disable, joining the antagonist or helping them achieve their victory, etc.

8
games
4
platforms

Alternate name: Non-standard gameovers

Dragon Quest (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Dragon Quest
NES 1986-05-27
System Shock (MS-DOS)
System Shock
DOS 1994-03-26
Clash at Demonhead (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Clash at Demonhead
NES 1989-01-27
Heroes of the Lance (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Heroes of the Lance
NES 1991-01
System Shock Remake
LIN 2017-12
Dragon Warrior 64
LIN 2020
System Shock: Enhanced Edition
LIN 2017-12
System Shock: Enhanced Edition
WIN 2015-09
This is generally for failures that happen via other means than dying (losing all health), failing a primary objective (e.g. save person X before he gets eaten alive), personally killing a known plot relevant character on your own "side", and so forth.

Popular tags

systemshock

Games by year

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The first Alternate failures video game was released on May 27, 1986.

Night Dive Studios published all these games.

Related site

Related trope at TV Tropes (Non-Standard Game Over) - types B and C

Platforms

NES 3
Linux 3
MS-DOS 1
Windows 1

Most common companies

Night Dive Studios3