Vicious cycle

Culture concept

A cyclic thing that reinforces its own existence, commonly something bad happens that is ended which ensures the bad thing happens again. In stories the depicted events often involve breaking out of that endless cycle.

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Alternate names: Vicious circle
Name variations: virtuous circle, virtuous cycle

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: The Shivering Isles

WIN 2007

PS3 2011-01

WIN 2014-04-24

PS2 2004-09-22

DOS 1996-08-31

SNES 1996-04-05

WIN 2010-01-26

Myth II: Soulblighter

WIN 1998

Tales of Symphonia

GC 2003-08-29

Mass Effect

WIN 2008-05-27

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

STD 2019-06-18

Mass Effect 2

X360 2010-01-26

Note that the definition includes essentially good (virtuous) and bad (vicious) cycles, for fiction the good ones are usually abused or broken which causes upheaval which people try to restore while in case of vicious cycles people try to break free of it, though often most don't think it's possible (thus ensuring the cycle continues).

Games by year

The first Vicious cycle video game was released on December 17, 1993.

Konami, Electronic Arts and Capcom published most of these games.

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Windows		14
Linux		4
PS2		3
X360		3
PS3		3
Mac OS X		3
GameCube		2
Mac OS Classic		2
Saturn		1
MS-DOS		1
Switch		1
Stadia		1
SNES		1
Mega Drive		1
PS		1

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