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* In the trailer for ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Flemeth mentions that those who face destiny head on and seize control of it are the ones who change the world forever. By the end of the game, Hawke's personal rise to power and the choices he/she makes do change the status quo. For better or for worse, the uneasy stalemate between [[spoiler:Mages and those who would suppress them]] has been shattered by Hawke's actions, and the world stands on the edge of ruin or a new age.
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* In the trailer for ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Flemeth mentions that those who face destiny head on and seize control of it are the ones who change the world forever. By the end of the game, Hawke's personal rise to power and the choices he/she makes do change the status quo. For better or for worse, the uneasy stalemate between [[spoiler:Mages [[spoiler:the Mages and those who would suppress them]] the Templars]] has been shattered by Hawke's actions, and the world stands on the edge of ruin or a new age.ruin.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': Gensokyo is a last-ditch attempt to preserve the existence of the supernaturals. The supernaturals begin to fade from this world as technology arose and humankind no longer believe in the fantastic. This theme is played heavily in ''Touhou 10: Mountain of Faith''.
** In the manga ''Wild And Horned Hermit'', the subject is brought up again. Even within Gensokyo, the old ways are starting to fade. Youkai are starting to no longer be feared, unknown entities, but are acting more like occasionally dangerous eccentrics.
** In the manga ''Wild And Horned Hermit'', the subject is brought up again. Even within Gensokyo, the old ways are starting to fade. Youkai are starting to no longer be feared, unknown entities, but are acting more like occasionally dangerous eccentrics.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': ''Franchise/TouhouProject'':
** Gensokyo is a last-ditch attempt to preserve the existence of thesupernaturals. The supernaturals begin supernatural. Supernatural beings began to fade from this world as technology arose and humankind no longer believe in the fantastic. This theme is played heavily in ''Touhou 10: Mountain of Faith''.
Faith'', as the Moriya Shrine entered Gensokyo due to lack of faith in the Outside World.
** In the manga''Wild And Horned Hermit'', ''Manga/TouhouIbarakasenWildAndHornedHermit'', the subject is brought up again. Even within Gensokyo, the old ways are starting to fade. Youkai are starting to no longer be feared, unknown entities, but are acting more like occasionally dangerous eccentrics.
** Gensokyo is a last-ditch attempt to preserve the existence of the
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* The final two games of the ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' series are this for both the ''Zero'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series. [[spoiler: ''Zero 3'' ends with the {{Final Death}}s of the Four Guardians and X's spirit finally fading out of existence, bringing an end to X's legacy, while Zero destroys his original body to stop Omega. ''Zero 4'' ends with Zero pulling his final HeroicSacrifice to defeat Dr. Weil and save Area Zero, finally bringing an end to the centuries-long conflict between humans and reploids. Though ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' brought back all of these characters in the form of Biometal, they're clearly not the same as they used to be, and their power is mainly used by others instead of being used for themselves.]]
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* The final two games of the ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' series are this for both the ''Zero'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series. [[spoiler: ''Zero 3'' ends with the {{Final Death}}s deaths of the Four Guardians and X's spirit finally fading out of existence, bringing an end to X's legacy, while Zero destroys his original body to stop Omega. ''Zero 4'' ends with Zero pulling his final HeroicSacrifice to defeat Dr. Weil and save Area Zero, finally bringing an end to the centuries-long conflict between humans and reploids. Though ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' brought back all of these characters in the form of Biometal, they're clearly not the same as they used to be, and their power is mainly used by others instead of being used for themselves.]]
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* Jin's story mode in ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' ''7'' and ''8'' is this for the [[UsefulNotes/ThreeKingdomsShuWeiWu Three Kingdoms period of China]]. It's set the farthest in the series timeline, when the old guard of all three kingdoms are dead, and the Sima clan, sick and tired of the continuing warring between the imbeciles left behind, decide to seize control of Wei and put an end to the fighting themselves. While the series has only gotten as far as the surrender of Shu (with Wu still holding out,) historically the Sima clan and the Jin dynasty they create does ultimately [[DarkhorseVictory win out in the end.]]...[[HistoryRepeats until, after decades of peace, they too split into fragments.]]
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* Jin's story mode in ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' ''7'' and ''8'' is this for the [[UsefulNotes/ThreeKingdomsShuWeiWu Three Kingdoms period of China]]. It's set the farthest in the series timeline, when the old guard of all three kingdoms are dead, and the Sima clan, sick and tired of the continuing warring between the imbeciles left behind, decide to seize control of Wei and put an end to the fighting themselves. While the series has only gotten as far as the surrender of Shu (with Wu still holding out,) historically the Sima clan and the Jin dynasty they create does ultimately [[DarkhorseVictory win out in the end.]]...end]]... [[HistoryRepeats until, after decades of peace, they too split into fragments.]]
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** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' marks the end of the way of life for the [[OurElvesAreBetter Dunmer (Dark Elf)]] people as it had been for the previous 4000 years. By the end of the main quest and the ''Tribunal'' expansion, the Tribunal (a trio of [[DeityOfHumanOrigin ascended]] Dunmeri {{Physical God}}s) have lost their power [[spoiler:and two are dead]]. As later works reveal, events (both natural and supernatural) over the following centuries devastate the Dunmer people, making them the heaviest-suffering race during the 4th Era.
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** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' marks the end of the way of life for the [[OurElvesAreBetter [[OurElvesAreDifferent Dunmer (Dark Elf)]] people as it had been for the previous 4000 years. By the end of the main quest and the ''Tribunal'' expansion, the Tribunal (a trio of [[DeityOfHumanOrigin ascended]] Dunmeri {{Physical God}}s) have lost their power [[spoiler:and two are dead]]. As later works reveal, events (both natural and supernatural) over the following centuries devastate the Dunmer people, making them the heaviest-suffering race during the 4th Era.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza 6}}'' in game and for the series as a whole; the old Yakuza clans are slowly crumbling from the combination of souring public opinion and encroachment of new, more dynamic forms of organized crime that aren't as steeped in the GoodOldWays. Numerous powerhouses in the previous games such as Daigo Dojima and Goro Majima are arrested and imprisoned, and by the end of the game the once vaunted Tojo Clan is practically on life support [[spoiler: and eventually dissolves between ''6'' and ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'', with it's chief rival the Omi Alliance following not too soon after]]. On a meta level ''6'' acts as the final chapter for Kazuma Kiryu's story as [[spoiler: he fakes his death and goes into hiding to protect his adoptive daughter Haruka and her family, leaving room for a new protagonist to take over in ''Like A Dragon''.]]
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* The backstory of ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'' has both magic and technology being far more powerful 2000 years ago, in the time called the Age of Legends. In the present, Arcanum is undergoing an industrial revolution which is clashing with its history that was largely ruled by magic over the millenia. The two being [[MagicVersusScience fundamentally incompatible]] isn't helping matters.
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* The backstory of ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'' has both magic and technology being far more powerful 2000 years ago, in the time called the Age of Legends. In the present, Arcanum is undergoing an industrial revolution which is clashing with its history that was largely ruled by magic over the
* By the end of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', Fódlan will be [[spoiler: united at the cost of two major countries and even possibly the main religious organization ceasing to exist.]] Members on your side will express remorse at wiping away centuries of history [[spoiler: after annexing an enemy country]], especially those in the Leicester Alliance. Leicester in particular had no real stake in the war and simply only wanted to survive from being swallowed or destroyed by either Faerghus or Adrestia.
* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters 2000'' has a more meta example. Being the last game from the original SNK team before the company's bankruptcy, they ended it by destroying South Town, one of the most long-standing and important locations in the entire SNK [[TheVerse Verse]], to symbolize the end of the old guard. Once said old guard tried to regain control of their old [=IPs=], they made a show of South Town being rebuilt in ''King of Fighters 2003'', to symbolize the company slowly coming back from the ashes.
* The final two games of the ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' series are this for both the ''Zero'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series. [[spoiler: ''Zero 3'' ends with the {{Final Death}}s of the Four Guardians and X's spirit finally fading out of existence, bringing an end to X's legacy, while Zero destroys his original body to stop Omega. ''Zero 4'' ends with Zero pulling his final HeroicSacrifice to defeat Dr. Weil and save Area Zero, finally bringing an end to the centuries-long conflict between humans and reploids. Though ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' brought back all of these characters in the form of Biometal, they're clearly not the same as they used to be, and their power is mainly used by others instead of being used for themselves.]]
* Occasionally discussed throughout the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series, with characters predicting the end of the "age of heroes" as warfare becomes increasingly mechanized and a bred-for-war SuperSoldier like Snake starts to become a thing of the past in favor of elevating regular soldiers to his level; the battlefields in ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 4|GunsOfThePatriots}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Rising|Revengeance}}'' barely even resemble one another despite being set only four years apart, with tanks and nanomachine-boosted foot soldiers being taken over for entirely by AI-controlled mecha and cyborgs.
* The world of Enroth, the setting of quite a few of the ''Videogame/MightAndMagic'' and ''Videogame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' games, is destroyed in the intro to the fourth ''Heroes'' game when two incredibly powerful swords collide, an event that is built up throughout the third game and its expansions. The theme of the fourth game is [[DawnOfAnEra rebuilding and rising from the ashes]] with each campaign revolving around attempts to build new lives on a different and unfamiliar world. This had a bit of real-life subtext, since Heroes IV and its expansions would be the last games 3DO produced before it went under and the franchise was bought by Ubisoft.
* Occasionally discussed throughout the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series, with characters predicting the end of the "age of heroes" as warfare becomes increasingly mechanized and a bred-for-war SuperSoldier like Snake starts to become a thing of the past in favor of elevating regular soldiers to his level; the battlefields in ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 4|GunsOfThePatriots}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Rising|Revengeance}}'' barely even resemble one another despite being set only four years apart, with tanks and nanomachine-boosted foot soldiers being taken over for entirely by AI-controlled mecha and cyborgs.
* The world of Enroth, the setting of quite a few of the ''Videogame/MightAndMagic'' and ''Videogame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' games, is destroyed in the intro to the fourth ''Heroes'' game when two incredibly powerful swords collide, an event that is built up throughout the third game and its expansions. The theme of the fourth game is [[DawnOfAnEra rebuilding and rising from the ashes]] with each campaign revolving around attempts to build new lives on a different and unfamiliar world. This had a bit of real-life subtext, since Heroes IV and its expansions would be the last games 3DO produced before it went under and the franchise was bought by Ubisoft.
* The ending of ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternityIIDeadfire'' involves this: [[spoiler:Eothas destroys Berath’s Wheel and kills himself in the process, irrevocably demolishing the system Eora has operated on for thousands of years. The gods will no longer be powered by mortalkind and the reincarnation cycle will grind to a halt. The results are currently [[AmbiguousEnding ambiguous]]; either [[JustBeforeTheEnd the decline and end of civilization has begun]], or Eothas was correct in his belief that mortals will create a new system and a golden age is on the horizon. Either way, an era has ended and NothingIsTheSameAnymore. The game ends there, with the Watcher returning home as an uncertain future begins to unfold.]]
* ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheBlackKnight'' has this being the reason for Merlina's FaceHeelTurn as she refuses to let Camelot fall and seeks to entrap it and the world around it in stasis. Sonic is adamantly opposed to the idea and has to battle her as [[SuperMode Excalibur Sonic]] to get it through to her.
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* The world of Enroth, the setting of quite a few of the ''Videogame/MightAndMagic'' and ''Videogame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' games, is destroyed in the intro to the fourth ''Heroes'' game when two incredibly powerful swords collide, an event that is built up throughout the third game and its expansions. The theme of the fourth game is [[DawnOfAnEra rebuilding and rising from the ashes]] with each campaign revolving around attempts to build new lives on a different and unfamiliar world. This had a bit of real-life subtext, since Heroes IV and its expansions would be the last games 3DO produced before it went under and the franchise was bought by Ubisoft.
* ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheBlackKnight'' has this being the reason for Merlina's FaceHeelTurn as she refuses to let Camelot fall and seeks to entrap it and the world around it in stasis. Sonic is adamantly opposed to the idea and has to battle her as [[SuperMode Excalibur Sonic]] to get it through to her.
* Occasionally discussed throughout the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series, with characters predicting the end of the "age of heroes" as warfare becomes increasingly mechanized and a bred-for-war SuperSoldier like Snake starts to become a thing of the past in favor of elevating regular soldiers to his level; the battlefields in ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 4|GunsOfThePatriots}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Rising|Revengeance}}'' barely even resemble one another despite being set only four years apart, with tanks and nanomachine-boosted foot soldiers being taken over for entirely by AI-controlled mecha and cyborgs.
* The ending of ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternityIIDeadfire'' involves this: [[spoiler:Eothas destroys Berath’s Wheel and kills himself in the process, irrevocably demolishing the system Eora has operated on for thousands of years. The gods will no longer be powered by mortalkind and the reincarnation cycle will grind to a halt. The results are currently [[AmbiguousEnding ambiguous]]; either [[JustBeforeTheEnd the decline and end of civilization has begun]], or Eothas was correct in his belief that mortals will create a new system and a golden age is on the horizon. Either way, an era has ended and NothingIsTheSameAnymore. The game ends there, with the Watcher returning home as an uncertain future begins to unfold.]]
* The final two games of the ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' series are this for both the ''Zero'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series. [[spoiler: ''Zero 3'' ends with the {{Final Death}}s of the Four Guardians and X's spirit finally fading out of existence, bringing an end to X's legacy, while Zero destroys his original body to stop Omega. ''Zero 4'' ends with Zero pulling his final HeroicSacrifice to defeat Dr. Weil and save Area Zero, finally bringing an end to the centuries-long conflict between humans and reploids. Though ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' brought back all of these characters in the form of Biometal, they're clearly not the same as they used to be, and their power is mainly used by others instead of being used for themselves.]]
* By the end of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', Fódlan will be [[spoiler: united at the cost of two major countries and even possibly the main religious organization ceasing to exist.]] Members on your side will express remorse at wiping away centuries of history [[spoiler: after annexing an enemy country]], especially those in the Leicester Alliance. Leicester in particular had no real stake in the war and simply only wanted to survive from being swallowed or destroyed by either Faerghus or Adrestia.
* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters 2000'' has a more meta example. Being the last game from the original SNK team before the company's bankruptcy, they ended it by destroying South Town, one of the most long-standing and important locations in the entire SNK [[TheVerse Verse]], to symbolize the end of the old guard. Once said old guard tried to regain control of their old [=IPs=], they made a show of South Town being rebuilt in ''King of Fighters 2003'', to symbolize the company slowly coming back from the ashes.
* ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheBlackKnight'' has this being the reason for Merlina's FaceHeelTurn as she refuses to let Camelot fall and seeks to entrap it and the world around it in stasis. Sonic is adamantly opposed to the idea and has to battle her as [[SuperMode Excalibur Sonic]] to get it through to her.
* Occasionally discussed throughout the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series, with characters predicting the end of the "age of heroes" as warfare becomes increasingly mechanized and a bred-for-war SuperSoldier like Snake starts to become a thing of the past in favor of elevating regular soldiers to his level; the battlefields in ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 4|GunsOfThePatriots}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Rising|Revengeance}}'' barely even resemble one another despite being set only four years apart, with tanks and nanomachine-boosted foot soldiers being taken over for entirely by AI-controlled mecha and cyborgs.
* The ending of ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternityIIDeadfire'' involves this: [[spoiler:Eothas destroys Berath’s Wheel and kills himself in the process, irrevocably demolishing the system Eora has operated on for thousands of years. The gods will no longer be powered by mortalkind and the reincarnation cycle will grind to a halt. The results are currently [[AmbiguousEnding ambiguous]]; either [[JustBeforeTheEnd the decline and end of civilization has begun]], or Eothas was correct in his belief that mortals will create a new system and a golden age is on the horizon. Either way, an era has ended and NothingIsTheSameAnymore. The game ends there, with the Watcher returning home as an uncertain future begins to unfold.]]
* The final two games of the ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' series are this for both the ''Zero'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series. [[spoiler: ''Zero 3'' ends with the {{Final Death}}s of the Four Guardians and X's spirit finally fading out of existence, bringing an end to X's legacy, while Zero destroys his original body to stop Omega. ''Zero 4'' ends with Zero pulling his final HeroicSacrifice to defeat Dr. Weil and save Area Zero, finally bringing an end to the centuries-long conflict between humans and reploids. Though ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' brought back all of these characters in the form of Biometal, they're clearly not the same as they used to be, and their power is mainly used by others instead of being used for themselves.]]
* By the end of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', Fódlan will be [[spoiler: united at the cost of two major countries and even possibly the main religious organization ceasing to exist.]] Members on your side will express remorse at wiping away centuries of history [[spoiler: after annexing an enemy country]], especially those in the Leicester Alliance. Leicester in particular had no real stake in the war and simply only wanted to survive from being swallowed or destroyed by either Faerghus or Adrestia.
* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters 2000'' has a more meta example. Being the last game from the original SNK team before the company's bankruptcy, they ended it by destroying South Town, one of the most long-standing and important locations in the entire SNK [[TheVerse Verse]], to symbolize the end of the old guard. Once said old guard tried to regain control of their old [=IPs=], they made a show of South Town being rebuilt in ''King of Fighters 2003'', to symbolize the company slowly coming back from the ashes.
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* ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheBlackKnight'' has this being the reason for Merlina's FaceHeelTurn as she refuses to let Camelot fall and seeks to entrap it and the world around it in stasis. Sonic is adamantly opposed to the idea and has to battle her as [[SuperMode Excalibur Sonic]] to get it through to her.
* Occasionally discussed throughout the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series, with characters predicting the end of the "age of heroes" as warfare becomes increasingly mechanized and a bred-for-war SuperSoldier like Snake starts to become a thing of the past in favor of elevating regular soldiers to his level; the battlefields in ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 4|GunsOfThePatriots}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Rising|Revengeance}}'' barely even resemble one another despite being set only four years apart, with tanks and nanomachine-boosted foot soldiers being taken over for entirely by AI-controlled mecha and cyborgs.
* The ending of ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternityIIDeadfire'' involves this: [[spoiler:Eothas destroys Berath’s Wheel and kills himself in the process, irrevocably demolishing the system Eora has operated on for thousands of years. The gods will no longer be powered by mortalkind and the reincarnation cycle will grind to a halt. The results are currently [[AmbiguousEnding ambiguous]]; either [[JustBeforeTheEnd the decline and end of civilization has begun]], or Eothas was correct in his belief that mortals will create a new system and a golden age is on the horizon. Either way, an era has ended and NothingIsTheSameAnymore. The game ends there, with the Watcher returning home as an uncertain future begins to unfold.]]
* The final two games of the ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' series are this for both the ''Zero'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series. [[spoiler: ''Zero 3'' ends with the {{Final Death}}s of the Four Guardians and X's spirit finally fading out of existence, bringing an end to X's legacy, while Zero destroys his original body to stop Omega. ''Zero 4'' ends with Zero pulling his final HeroicSacrifice to defeat Dr. Weil and save Area Zero, finally bringing an end to the centuries-long conflict between humans and reploids. Though ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' brought back all of these characters in the form of Biometal, they're clearly not the same as they used to be, and their power is mainly used by others instead of being used for themselves.]]
* By the end of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', Fódlan will be [[spoiler: united at the cost of two major countries and even possibly the main religious organization ceasing to exist.]] Members on your side will express remorse at wiping away centuries of history [[spoiler: after annexing an enemy country]], especially those in the Leicester Alliance. Leicester in particular had no real stake in the war and simply only wanted to survive from being swallowed or destroyed by either Faerghus or Adrestia.
* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters 2000'' has a more meta example. Being the last game from the original SNK team before the company's bankruptcy, they ended it by destroying South Town, one of the most long-standing and important locations in the entire SNK [[TheVerse Verse]], to symbolize the end of the old guard. Once said old guard tried to regain control of their old [=IPs=], they made a show of South Town being rebuilt in ''King of Fighters 2003'', to symbolize the company slowly coming back from the ashes.
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* Subverted in ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKainSoulReaver'', in that Kain's empire is a [[DawnOfAnEra Golden Age]] ''from a vampire's perspective''. Kain later invokes this word for word when his empire has collapsed.
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* ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' [[spoiler:Has the final ending VIA DLC be the end of an Era for the Shinkoku Race.]]
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** This is universally presented as a good thing, or at least preferable to the alternative. With the exception of ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', aka Secret of Mana.
*** In addition, ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'' eventually reveals the artificer's purpose: [[spoiler:the revival of the Mana Tree.]] Complicated somewhat by the fact that [[spoiler:the previous Mana Tree burned to ash as an indirect result of the Mana Goddess being unable to contain her SuperPoweredEvilSide.]]
*** In addition, ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'' eventually reveals the artificer's purpose: [[spoiler:the revival of the Mana Tree.]] Complicated somewhat by the fact that [[spoiler:the previous Mana Tree burned to ash as an indirect result of the Mana Goddess being unable to contain her SuperPoweredEvilSide.]]
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** This is universally presented as a good thing, or at least preferable to the alternative. With alternative, with the exception of ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', aka Secret of Mana.
***''VideoGame/SecretOfMana''
** In addition, ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'' eventually reveals the artificer's purpose: [[spoiler:the revival of the Mana Tree.]] Complicated somewhat by the fact that [[spoiler:the previous Mana Tree burned to ash as an indirect result of the Mana Goddess being unable to contain her SuperPoweredEvilSide.]]
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** In addition, ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'' eventually reveals the artificer's purpose: [[spoiler:the revival of the Mana Tree.]] Complicated somewhat by the fact that [[spoiler:the previous Mana Tree burned to ash as an indirect result of the Mana Goddess being unable to contain her SuperPoweredEvilSide.]]
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* The world of Enroth, the setting of quite a few of the ''Videogame/MightAndMagic'' and ''Videogame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' games, is destroyed in the intro to the fourth Heroes game when two incredibly powerful swords collide, an event that is built up throughout the third game and its expansions. The theme of the fourth game is [[DawnOfAnEra rebuilding and rising from the ashes]] with each campaign revolving around attempts to build new lives on a different and unfamiliar world. This had a bit of real-life subtext, since Heroes IV and its expansions would be the last games 3DO produced before it went under and the franchise was bought by Ubisoft.
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* The world of Enroth, the setting of quite a few of the ''Videogame/MightAndMagic'' and ''Videogame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' games, is destroyed in the intro to the fourth Heroes ''Heroes'' game when two incredibly powerful swords collide, an event that is built up throughout the third game and its expansions. The theme of the fourth game is [[DawnOfAnEra rebuilding and rising from the ashes]] with each campaign revolving around attempts to build new lives on a different and unfamiliar world. This had a bit of real-life subtext, since Heroes IV and its expansions would be the last games 3DO produced before it went under and the franchise was bought by Ubisoft.
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** ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' sees a large section of Gotham, including Crime Alley, the Iceberg Lounge, and Harvey Dent's old campaign office, get walled off and become a prison to replace Arkham and Blackgate. [[spoiler:Additionally, the game ends with the death of the Joker.]]
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** ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' sees a large section of Gotham, including Crime Alley, the Iceberg Lounge, and Harvey Dent's old campaign office, get walled off and become a prison to replace Arkham and Blackgate. [[spoiler:Additionally, the game ends with the [[KilledOffForReal death of the Joker.]]]]]]
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* ''VideoGame/EuropaUniversalis'' takes place at the end of the Middle Ages and European Feudalism, with many in game events hammering this point in. Knights and castles slowly lose relevance as Europe enters the Renaissance and the Americas are discovered. [[LampshadeHanging This is directly referenced in the]] FlavorText for "The Last Jousting Tournament'."
-->''"We can feel it in the wind. Soon our equestrian elite will be nothing more than a dream remembered, as the chivalrous tradition dies out before the onslaught of modernity. The world is changing, but for now, for one last time: Let the Knights of X ride!"''
** This is especially poignant if you import a save from ''VideoGame/CrusaderKings'' - slowly, you'll see the cavalry that dominated combat in that game gradually fall behind infantry, with both eventually being done in by cannons. It also makes the FlavorText above even more meaningful, as hosting a Grand Tourney was a fairly rewarding decision for players in that game.
-->''"We can feel it in the wind. Soon our equestrian elite will be nothing more than a dream remembered, as the chivalrous tradition dies out before the onslaught of modernity. The world is changing, but for now, for one last time: Let the Knights of X ride!"''
** This is especially poignant if you import a save from ''VideoGame/CrusaderKings'' - slowly, you'll see the cavalry that dominated combat in that game gradually fall behind infantry, with both eventually being done in by cannons. It also makes the FlavorText above even more meaningful, as hosting a Grand Tourney was a fairly rewarding decision for players in that game.
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* ''VideoGame/SakuraWars4FallInLoveMaidens'' marks the end of [[spoiler:Ikki Yoneda's career as commander of the Imperial Combat Revue, a title which he has held since the first ''Sakura Wars'' game. Yoneda passes that title on to Ichiro Ogami, thus bringing an end to the latter's career as captain of the Revue]].
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** ''VideoGame/TotalWarAttila'' shows the flaming final days of the Roman Empire, as [[EvilIsDeathlyCold an Ice Age descends upon the world, bringing starvation to their tribes]], [[HordesFromTheEast the Huns]] pillage and burn everything in sight, and [[BarbarianTribe Barbarian Tribes]] pour over the weakening borders to claim their remaining fertile lands. Even if Rome survives, its cultural identity will be irrevocably transformed; they abandon much of their construction technology, their roads and their bathing culture, the West reorganizes its society around the Church and sows the seeds for the feudal system, and [[DawnOfAnAge a new bureaucratic and imperial system develops in the East]].
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** ''VideoGame/TotalWarAttila'' shows the flaming final days of the Roman Empire, as [[EvilIsDeathlyCold an Ice Age descends upon the world, bringing starvation to their tribes]], [[HordesFromTheEast the Huns]] pillage and burn everything in sight, and [[BarbarianTribe Barbarian Tribes]] pour over the weakening borders to claim their remaining fertile lands. Even if Rome survives, its cultural identity will be irrevocably transformed; they abandon much of their construction technology, their roads and their bathing culture, the West reorganizes its society around the Church and sows the seeds for the feudal system, and [[DawnOfAnAge [[DawnOfAnEra a new bureaucratic and imperial system develops in the East]].
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* By the end of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', Fódlan will be [[spoiler: united at the cost of two major countries and even possibly the main religious organization ceasing to exist.]] Members on your side will express remorse at wiping away centuries of history [[spoiler: after annexing an enemy country]], especially those in the Leicester Alliance. Leicester in particular had no real stake in the war and simply only wanted to survive from being swallowed or destroyed by either Faerghus or Adrestia.
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* By the end of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', Fódlan will be [[spoiler: united at the cost of two major countries and even possibly the main religious organization ceasing to exist.]] Members on your side will express remorse at wiping away centuries of history [[spoiler: after annexing an enemy country]], especially those in the Leicester Alliance. Leicester in particular had no real stake in the war and simply only wanted to survive from being swallowed or destroyed by either Faerghus or Adrestia.Adrestia.
* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters 2000'' has a more meta example. Being the last game from the original SNK team before the company's bankruptcy, they ended it by destroying South Town, one of the most long-standing and important locations in the entire SNK [[TheVerse Verse]], to symbolize the end of the old guard. Once said old guard tried to regain control of their old [=IPs=], they made a show of South Town being rebuilt in ''King of Fighters 2003'', to symbolize the company slowly coming back from the ashes.
* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters 2000'' has a more meta example. Being the last game from the original SNK team before the company's bankruptcy, they ended it by destroying South Town, one of the most long-standing and important locations in the entire SNK [[TheVerse Verse]], to symbolize the end of the old guard. Once said old guard tried to regain control of their old [=IPs=], they made a show of South Town being rebuilt in ''King of Fighters 2003'', to symbolize the company slowly coming back from the ashes.
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* ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'': In the Age of Gods, True Magic, Miracles, and Mystery were as plentiful as the air we breath. Over the course of many millennia however, The rising influence of the Human Order and the various defeats handed to them by [[VideoGame/FateExtellaTheUmbralStar Sefar]] and Gilgamesh led to the complete decline of the Age of Gods, and gave rise to the Age of Man. This also has the side effect of Mystery and True Magic [[GenerationalMagicDecline declining over the generations]], due to the many scientific and technological advancements of humanity weakening the Mystery inherent in many forms of True Magic to near nothing.
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* ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'': In the Age of Gods, True Magic, Miracles, and Mystery were as plentiful as the air we breath. Over the course of many millennia however, The rising influence of the Human Order and the various defeats handed to them by [[VideoGame/FateExtellaTheUmbralStar Sefar]] Sefar]], Gilgamesh's rebellion against gods, and Gilgamesh the death of King Solomon led to the complete decline of the Age of Gods, and gave rise to the Age of Man. This also has the side effect of Mystery and True Magic [[GenerationalMagicDecline declining over the generations]], due to the many scientific and technological advancements of humanity weakening the Mystery inherent in many forms of True Magic to near nothing.
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* ''VideoGame/StarcraftIILegacyOfTheVoid'' ends with this for the Protoss, as the Khala, [[spoiler:a tool of enslavement devised by the Xel'Naga who uplifted them, is abandoned]] and [[spoiler:the Purifiers (robots) gain status as equals in Protoss society]].
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* ''VideoGame/StarcraftIILegacyOfTheVoid'' ends with this for the Protoss, as the Khala, [[spoiler:a [[HiveMind Khala]], [[spoiler:revealed to be a tool of enslavement devised by the Xel'Naga who uplifted them, is abandoned]] and [[spoiler:the abandoned in favor of diplomatic relations with age-old enemies, the Purifiers (robots) gain status as equals in Protoss society]].society, the Daelaam return to Aiur as heroes, and the Tal'darim (mostly) forget their bitter war grudges in favor of finding a new home]].
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* By the end of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', Fódlan will be united at the cost of two major countries and even possibly the main religious organization ceasing to exist. Members on your side will express remorse at wiping away centuries of history after annexing an enemy country, especially those in the Leicester Alliance. Leicester in particular had no real stake in the war and simply only wanted to survive from being swallowed or destroyed by either Faerghus or Adrestia.
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* The final two games of the ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' series are this for both the ''Zero'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series. [[spoiler: ''Zero 3'' ends with the {{Final Death}}s of the Four Guardians and X's spirit finally fading out of existence, bringing an end to X's legacy, while Zero destroys his original body to stop Omega. ''Zero 4'' ends with Zero pulling his final HeroicSacrifice to defeat Dr. Weil and save Area Zero, finally bringing an end to the centuries-long conflict between humans and reploids. Though ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' brought back all of these characters in the form of Biometal, they're clearly not the same as they used to be, and their power is mainly used by others instead of being used for themselves.]]
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* The final two games of the ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' series are this for both the ''Zero'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series. [[spoiler: ''Zero 3'' ends with the {{Final Death}}s of the Four Guardians and X's spirit finally fading out of existence, bringing an end to X's legacy, while Zero destroys his original body to stop Omega. ''Zero 4'' ends with Zero pulling his final HeroicSacrifice to defeat Dr. Weil and save Area Zero, finally bringing an end to the centuries-long conflict between humans and reploids. Though ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' brought back all of these characters in the form of Biometal, they're clearly not the same as they used to be, and their power is mainly used by others instead of being used for themselves.]]]]
* By the end of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', Fódlan will be united at the cost of two major countries and even possibly the main religious organization ceasing to exist. Members on your side will express remorse at wiping away centuries of history after annexing an enemy country, especially those in the Leicester Alliance. Leicester in particular had no real stake in the war and simply only wanted to survive from being swallowed or destroyed by either Faerghus or Adrestia.
* By the end of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', Fódlan will be united at the cost of two major countries and even possibly the main religious organization ceasing to exist. Members on your side will express remorse at wiping away centuries of history after annexing an enemy country, especially those in the Leicester Alliance. Leicester in particular had no real stake in the war and simply only wanted to survive from being swallowed or destroyed by either Faerghus or Adrestia.
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** ''VideoGame/TotalWarAttila'' shows the flaming final days of the Roman Empire, as [[EvilIsDeathlyCold an Ice Age descends upon the world, bringing starvation to their tribes]], [[HordesFromTheEast the Huns]] pillage and burn everything in sight, and [[BarbarianTribe Barbarian Tribes]] pour over the weakening borders to claim their remaining fertile lands. Even if Rome survives, its cultural identity will be irrevocably transformed; they abandon much of their construction technology, their roads and their bathing culture, the West reorganizes itself for greater defensibility and sows the seeds for the feudal system, and [[DawnOfAnAge a new bureaucratic and imperial system develops in the East]].
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** ''VideoGame/TotalWarAttila'' shows the flaming final days of the Roman Empire, as [[EvilIsDeathlyCold an Ice Age descends upon the world, bringing starvation to their tribes]], [[HordesFromTheEast the Huns]] pillage and burn everything in sight, and [[BarbarianTribe Barbarian Tribes]] pour over the weakening borders to claim their remaining fertile lands. Even if Rome survives, its cultural identity will be irrevocably transformed; they abandon much of their construction technology, their roads and their bathing culture, the West reorganizes itself for greater defensibility its society around the Church and sows the seeds for the feudal system, and [[DawnOfAnAge a new bureaucratic and imperial system develops in the East]].
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* Jin's story mode in ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' ''7'' and ''8'' is this for the [[UsefulNotes/ThreeKingdomsShuWeiWu Three Kingdoms period of China]]. It's set the farthest in the series timeline, when the old guard of all three kingdoms are dead, and the Sima clan, sick and tired of the continuing warring between the imbeciles left behind, decide to seize control of Wei and put an end to the fighting themselves. While the series has only gotten as far as the surrender of Shu (with Wu still holding out,) historically the Sima clan and the Jin dynasty they create does ultimately [[DarkhorseVictory win out in the end.]]
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* Jin's story mode in ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' ''7'' and ''8'' is this for the [[UsefulNotes/ThreeKingdomsShuWeiWu Three Kingdoms period of China]]. It's set the farthest in the series timeline, when the old guard of all three kingdoms are dead, and the Sima clan, sick and tired of the continuing warring between the imbeciles left behind, decide to seize control of Wei and put an end to the fighting themselves. While the series has only gotten as far as the surrender of Shu (with Wu still holding out,) historically the Sima clan and the Jin dynasty they create does ultimately [[DarkhorseVictory win out in the end.]]...[[HistoryRepeats until, after decades of peace, they too split into fragments.]]
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* The ending of ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternityIIDeadfire'' involves this: [[spoiler:Eothas destroys Berath’s Wheel and kills himself in the process, irrevocably demolishing the system Eora has operated on for thousands of years. The gods will no longer be powered by mortalkind and the reincarnation cycle will grind to a halt. The results are currently [[AmbiguousEnding ambiguous]]; either [[JustBeforeTheEnd the decline and end of civilization has begun]], or Eothas was correct in his belief that mortals will create a new system and a golden age is on the horizon. Either way, an era has ended and NothingIsTheSameAnymore. The game ends there, with the Watcher returning home as an uncertain future begins to unfold.]]
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* The ending of ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternityIIDeadfire'' involves this: [[spoiler:Eothas destroys Berath’s Wheel and kills himself in the process, irrevocably demolishing the system Eora has operated on for thousands of years. The gods will no longer be powered by mortalkind and the reincarnation cycle will grind to a halt. The results are currently [[AmbiguousEnding ambiguous]]; either [[JustBeforeTheEnd the decline and end of civilization has begun]], or Eothas was correct in his belief that mortals will create a new system and a golden age is on the horizon. Either way, an era has ended and NothingIsTheSameAnymore. The game ends there, with the Watcher returning home as an uncertain future begins to unfold.]]
* The final two games of the ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' series are this for both the ''Zero'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series. [[spoiler: ''Zero 3'' ends with the {{Final Death}}s of the Four Guardians and X's spirit finally fading out of existence, bringing an end to X's legacy, while Zero destroys his original body to stop Omega. ''Zero 4'' ends with Zero pulling his final HeroicSacrifice to defeat Dr. Weil and save Area Zero, finally bringing an end to the centuries-long conflict between humans and reploids. Though ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' brought back all of these characters in the form of Biometal, they're clearly not the same as they used to be, and their power is mainly used by others instead of being used for themselves.]]
* The final two games of the ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' series are this for both the ''Zero'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series. [[spoiler: ''Zero 3'' ends with the {{Final Death}}s of the Four Guardians and X's spirit finally fading out of existence, bringing an end to X's legacy, while Zero destroys his original body to stop Omega. ''Zero 4'' ends with Zero pulling his final HeroicSacrifice to defeat Dr. Weil and save Area Zero, finally bringing an end to the centuries-long conflict between humans and reploids. Though ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' brought back all of these characters in the form of Biometal, they're clearly not the same as they used to be, and their power is mainly used by others instead of being used for themselves.]]
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* Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}: In the Age of Gods, True Magic, Miracles, and Mystery were as plentiful as the air we breath. Over the course of many millennia however, The rising influence of the Human Order and the various defeats handed to them by [[VideoGame/FateExtellaTheUmbralStar Sefar]] and Gilgamesh led to the complete decline of the Age of Gods, and gave rise to the Age of Man. This also has the side effect of Mystery and True Magic [[GenerationalMagicDecline declining over the generations]], due to the many scientific and technological advancements of humanity weakening the Mystery inherent in many forms of True Magic to near nothing.
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* Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}: ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'': In the Age of Gods, True Magic, Miracles, and Mystery were as plentiful as the air we breath. Over the course of many millennia however, The rising influence of the Human Order and the various defeats handed to them by [[VideoGame/FateExtellaTheUmbralStar Sefar]] and Gilgamesh led to the complete decline of the Age of Gods, and gave rise to the Age of Man. This also has the side effect of Mystery and True Magic [[GenerationalMagicDecline declining over the generations]], due to the many scientific and technological advancements of humanity weakening the Mystery inherent in many forms of True Magic to near nothing.
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** 'VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' shows this, as the power behind her basic spells used by the servant Caster (who lived in the Age of Gods from the Ancient Greek legends) would take a modern-day magi around a month of to accomplish, and her multi-word spells are seen as bordering True Magic. She casts in one word spells that would take an excellent magus around a full minute of casting. Even the two known True Magicians in the setting, [[VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}} Kishua Zelretch Schweinorg]] and [[VisualNovel/MahouTsukaiNoYoru Aoko Aozaki]], would not be capable of defeating Caster in a WizardDuel.
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** 'VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' shows this, as the power behind her basic spells used by the servant Caster (who lived in the Age of Gods from the Ancient Greek legends) would take a modern-day magi around a month of to accomplish, and her multi-word spells are seen as bordering True Magic. She casts in one word spells that would take an excellent magus around a full minute of casting. Even the two known True Magicians in the setting, [[VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}} Kishua Zelretch Schweinorg]] and [[VisualNovel/MahouTsukaiNoYoru Aoko Aozaki]], would not be capable of defeating Caster in a WizardDuel.
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* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' shows this, as the power behind her basic spells used by the servant Caster (who lived in the Age of Gods from the Ancient Greek legends) would take a modern-day magi around a month of to accomplish, and her multi-word spells are seen as bordering 'True Sorcery' or a miracle. She casts in one word spells that would take an excellent magus around a full minute of casting.
** On the other hand, what counted as a True Magic in her day is now common practice as the science of magecraft has advanced. There are few magicians now simply because people have been discovering the principles behind the old Magics and reproducing them. As such, it's actually a bit of a trade off because the likes of Caster could not hope to really match someone like Zelretch and his... well, Zelretch Kaleidoscope/Sword. In fact, Caster appears amazed at the sheer potential Sakura possesses in ''[[VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia Fate/hollow ataraxia]].'' The verdict? Caster is a ''cheater'' for being able to use her divine casting language.
** It should be noted in the Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}, while '''magic''' has steadily decreased in power, '''magical creatures''' have NOT. Vampires, in fact, tend to get much more powerful (but much less sane) with age. The most powerful of the Dead Apostle Ancestors are by no coincidence also the oldest.
** On the other hand, what counted as a True Magic in her day is now common practice as the science of magecraft has advanced. There are few magicians now simply because people have been discovering the principles behind the old Magics and reproducing them. As such, it's actually a bit of a trade off because the likes of Caster could not hope to really match someone like Zelretch and his... well, Zelretch Kaleidoscope/Sword. In fact, Caster appears amazed at the sheer potential Sakura possesses in ''[[VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia Fate/hollow ataraxia]].'' The verdict? Caster is a ''cheater'' for being able to use her divine casting language.
** It should be noted in the Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}, while '''magic''' has steadily decreased in power, '''magical creatures''' have NOT. Vampires, in fact, tend to get much more powerful (but much less sane) with age. The most powerful of the Dead Apostle Ancestors are by no coincidence also the oldest.
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* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}: In the Age of Gods, True Magic, Miracles, and Mystery were as plentiful as the air we breath. Over the course of many millennia however, The rising influence of the Human Order and the various defeats handed to them by [[VideoGame/FateExtellaTheUmbralStar Sefar]] and Gilgamesh led to the complete decline of the Age of Gods, and gave rise to the Age of Man. This also has the side effect of Mystery and True Magic [[GenerationalMagicDecline declining over the generations]], due to the many scientific and technological advancements of humanity weakening the Mystery inherent in many forms of True Magic to near nothing.
** 'VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' shows this, as the power behind her basic spells used by the servant Caster (who lived in the Age of Gods from the Ancient Greek legends) would take a modern-day magi around a month of to accomplish, and her multi-word spells are seen as bordering'True Sorcery' or a miracle. True Magic. She casts in one word spells that would take an excellent magus around a full minute of casting.
** Oncasting. Even the other hand, what counted as a two known True Magic Magicians in her day is now common practice as the science of magecraft has advanced. There are few magicians now simply because people have been discovering the principles behind the old Magics and reproducing them. As such, it's actually a bit of a trade off because the likes of Caster could not hope to really match someone like setting, [[VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}} Kishua Zelretch Schweinorg]] and his... well, Zelretch Kaleidoscope/Sword. In fact, [[VisualNovel/MahouTsukaiNoYoru Aoko Aozaki]], would not be capable of defeating Caster appears amazed at the sheer potential Sakura possesses in ''[[VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia Fate/hollow ataraxia]].'' The verdict? Caster is a ''cheater'' for being able to use her divine casting language.
** It should be noted in the Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}, while '''magic''' has steadily decreased in power, '''magical creatures''' have NOT. Vampires, in fact, tend to get much more powerful (but much less sane) with age. The most powerful of the Dead Apostle Ancestors are by no coincidence also the oldest.WizardDuel.
** 'VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' shows this, as the power behind her basic spells used by the servant Caster (who lived in the Age of Gods from the Ancient Greek legends) would take a modern-day magi around a month of to accomplish, and her multi-word spells are seen as bordering
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** It should be noted in the Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}, while '''magic''' has steadily decreased in power, '''magical creatures''' have NOT. Vampires, in fact, tend to get much more powerful (but much less sane) with age. The most powerful of the Dead Apostle Ancestors are by no coincidence also the oldest.
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* The backstory of ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'' has both magic and technology being far more powerful 2000 years ago, in the time called the Age of Legends. In the present, Arcanum is undergoing an industrial revolution which is clashing with its history that was largely ruled by magic over the millenia. The two being [[MagicVersusScience fundamentally incompatible]] isn't helping matters.
* ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' [[spoiler:Has the final ending VIA DLC be the end of an Era for the Shinkoku Race.]]
* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'' features the end of UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy as a major part of the story, and Edward's CharacterArc. As the events of the game progress, Edward witnesses as each of his fellow pirate captains die off one by one, and their "pirate republic" in Nassau is overtaken by the British Navy, until Edward is the only one left, [[spoiler:driving him to abandon the pirate lifestyle for the Assassin Order]]. This bittersweet line of dialogue in the game's last scene sums it up quite well:
-->'''[[spoiler:Jenny]]:''' ''[excited]'' Do you think we'll see any pirates?\\
'''Edward:''' ''[sadly]'' No... There's not much chance of that anymore.
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'':
** ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' sees the titular mental institute destroyed during the events of the game and part of the backstory involved a fire at Blackgate forcing its inmates to be housed in Arkham.
** ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' sees a large section of Gotham, including Crime Alley, the Iceberg Lounge, and Harvey Dent's old campaign office, get walled off and become a prison to replace Arkham and Blackgate. [[spoiler:Additionally, the game ends with the death of the Joker.]]
** The storyline of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' deals with this, as it opens with the line "This is how it happened. This... is how [[spoiler:the Batman died.]]" Batman himself recognizes this, as a major part of the end of the Riddler and Penguin side-quests is Batman making it clear that this will be the last time he'll see ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} and ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}, respectively, even if you complete those sidequests before the finale of the main plot, which [[spoiler:ends with his identity as Bruce Wayne outed to the world, and Wayne Manor blowing up, seemingly with Bruce and Alfred in it]].
* The storyline of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' features this. A long time ago, there was the Kingdom of Zeal, inhabited by people with incredible knowledge and powers, and all of this is absent in all subsequent epochs.
* In ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'', the Age of Flame was brought about by the Lord Soul's triumph over the dragons, and is currently fading into nothingness. The player's mission, eventually, is to Link the First Flame and allow the age to continue. [[spoiler:If the serpent Kaathe is to be believed, this is to the detriment of mankind as a whole, as Lord Gwyn's torturous and futile persistence as the fuel of the flame is delaying the Age of Dark, which might be mankind's golden age, to the benefit of the gods. Upon defeating Gwyn, the player may choose to take his place and prolong the Flame for a while longer or begin the Age of Dark.]]
** Even more prevalent in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'', which takes place millenia later, near the very end of the Age of Fire. The Age has clearly been stretched past its breaking point, with even many of the scant traces of life evident in the first game being gone. Its world is one very softly and very quickly fading away. In the end, you have the choice to either [[spoiler:futilely link the First Flame again, which burns ever softer regardless]], or to [[spoiler:intentionally snuff it out, bringing an end to the [[EternalRecurrence unnatural cycle]] of linking the Flame and allowing Dark to finally settle]].
** Exacerbated even further in Dark Souls III's last DLC, ''The Ringed City'', which takes place far in the future, at the end of all things. Even the mighty ruined kingdoms from the previous games are seen reduced to rubble and thrown together, as the world meets its end.
* In the trailer for ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Flemeth mentions that those who face destiny head on and seize control of it are the ones who change the world forever. By the end of the game, Hawke's personal rise to power and the choices he/she makes do change the status quo. For better or for worse, the uneasy stalemate between [[spoiler:Mages and those who would suppress them]] has been shattered by Hawke's actions, and the world stands on the edge of ruin or a new age.
* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' starts with a golden age of legends, which gradually gets worse as great civilizations are destroyed by such disasters as carp, kamikaze elves, overpopulation of cats, nobles,...
** Development marches on -- as early as .14, it takes the efforts of Fortresses and Adventurers to go from Age of Myth to Age of Legends, and then to Age of Heroes, an effort which involves slaying the humongous rampaging beasts. v.21 introduced a class of Night Beasts to be slain before all fantastical creatures could be considered extinct.
* Jin's story mode in ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' ''7'' and ''8'' is this for the [[UsefulNotes/ThreeKingdomsShuWeiWu Three Kingdoms period of China]]. It's set the farthest in the series timeline, when the old guard of all three kingdoms are dead, and the Sima clan, sick and tired of the continuing warring between the imbeciles left behind, decide to seize control of Wei and put an end to the fighting themselves. While the series has only gotten as far as the surrender of Shu (with Wu still holding out,) historically the Sima clan and the Jin dynasty they create does ultimately [[DarkhorseVictory win out in the end.]]
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' marks the end of the way of life for the [[OurElvesAreBetter Dunmer (Dark Elf)]] people as it had been for the previous 4000 years. By the end of the main quest and the ''Tribunal'' expansion, the Tribunal (a trio of [[DeityOfHumanOrigin ascended]] Dunmeri {{Physical God}}s) have lost their power [[spoiler:and two are dead]]. As later works reveal, events (both natural and supernatural) over the following centuries devastate the Dunmer people, making them the heaviest-suffering race during the 4th Era.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'', though it ends on [[BittersweetEnding a somewhat hopeful note]], marks the end of the 500 year-old Septim Dynasty and with it, the 3rd Era of Tamriellic history. As later works reveal, the 4th Era is one of extreme strife and turmoil compared to the relative peace of the 3rd Era.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'''s ''Dragonborn'' DLC offers a smaller-scale example. On Solstheim, there is only one silt strider remaining. Its caretaker explains that when Red Mountain exploded, [[KillEmAll almost all of them were wiped out]]. [[DyingRace Now, they are extremely rare]] and the one the player encounters is one that happened to be discovered by chance, protected in a cave and is now dying of old age. For players used to ''Morrowind'' and the almost ubiquitous use of silt striders as a form of transportation, [[PlayerPunch this can come as a huge shock]].
* The collapse of ''VideoGame/EveOnline'''s titular Eve Gate, a reinforcing mechanism to a naturally occurring wormhole between two galaxies, caused one in the game's backstory. It has been at least 10000 years since then, and the various empires formed from the colonists stranded in New Eden are only now starting to get back up to tech levels remotely approaching what they had before. [[note]]To put this in perspective: manufacturing military starships in a few hours, casual FTL, universally-compatible modular starship equipment, and weapons systems capable of causing planetary mass extinction events ''at a whim'' are considered Tech Level I. Variants of the above constructed with exotic minerals and hyper-specialized components are considered Tech Level II. Fully modular, rapidly-reconfigurable starships based on the technology of several long-dead but highly advanced human civilizations are Tech Level III. Pre-collapse Terran technology is reckoned to be ''Tech Level X.''[[/note]]
* ''VideoGame/EvolutionTheWorldOfSacredDevice'' as set in a world where humanity was only just reaching modern-day standards however there were ruins left behind with powerful artifacts remaining. A couple of the characters wield said devices as weapons.
** The sequel elaborates. And by elaborates, we mean [[spoiler:reveals that Linear is one half of the instruments that wiped the previous civilization out, and the other half has just convinced her to come along to do it all over again. ThePowerOfLove prevents this.]]
* ''Videogame/FableTheJourney'' marks the end of the Heroic bloodlines and with them the Age of Heroes. [[spoiler:However, Gabriel's victory over the Corrupter heralds the [[DawnOfAnEra dawn of a new age where heroes are not born, but made.]]]]
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' shows that the world of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' (at least in the west coast) is no longer a radioactive ScavengerWorld, but starting to rebuild itself into a new civilization.
** Arcade Gannon's companion quest takes this in a different direction. It shows the [[TheRemnant Enclave Remnants]], a [[OldSoldier retirement-age squad of]] former Enclave soldiers. The Enclave were the BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', and were, quoth Arcade, "a Fascist paramilitary organization." They were also the descendants of the pre-war United States government and elites, and considered themselves the last vestige of real America. [[KnightInSourArmor Orion Moreno]] tells the story of the evacuation of Navarro, the last Enclave base, a few years after the destruction of the main off-shore base that ends ''Fallout 2,'' saying, "Kiss America goodbye, boys and girls." And it's true; the Enclave are the last organization that existed before the nuclear war, even if they did so in secret.
** This also applies to the Mojave chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel, and possibly the entire west coast Brotherhood by proxy. The same group that helped you destroy the Master in the first game, stop the Enclave in the second, and preserved a lot of nifty weapons technology gets nuked if half the factions get their way, and the other two aren't particularly keen on preserving the shrunken remnant hiding in a pre-war bunker, either. It's mostly their own fault, but that doesn't make it any less difficult for most players.
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' shows this, as the power behind her basic spells used by the servant Caster (who lived in the Age of Gods from the Ancient Greek legends) would take a modern-day magi around a month of to accomplish, and her multi-word spells are seen as bordering 'True Sorcery' or a miracle. She casts in one word spells that would take an excellent magus around a full minute of casting.
** On the other hand, what counted as a True Magic in her day is now common practice as the science of magecraft has advanced. There are few magicians now simply because people have been discovering the principles behind the old Magics and reproducing them. As such, it's actually a bit of a trade off because the likes of Caster could not hope to really match someone like Zelretch and his... well, Zelretch Kaleidoscope/Sword. In fact, Caster appears amazed at the sheer potential Sakura possesses in ''[[VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia Fate/hollow ataraxia]].'' The verdict? Caster is a ''cheater'' for being able to use her divine casting language.
** It should be noted in the Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}, while '''magic''' has steadily decreased in power, '''magical creatures''' have NOT. Vampires, in fact, tend to get much more powerful (but much less sane) with age. The most powerful of the Dead Apostle Ancestors are by no coincidence also the oldest.
* Several of the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games:
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' ends with the death of the last Espers and the fading of magic... not to mention the entire world being a scarred ruin of what it used to be, although ''that'' happened at the game's halfway point.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' ends with [[spoiler:the end of the thousand-year oppression of Sin. While on the whole this was a very good thing, as people didn't have to worry about their towns being wiped out if they exhibited too much technological advancement (or sometimes just at random), the Fayth had to sacrifice themselves to allow this to happen, meaning the powerful magic of summoning was lost forever]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' saw the end of the [[spoiler:rule of its so-called "gods" Occuria]]. This left mankind able to determine their destiny from now on. [[spoiler:Strangely enough, it was the goal of the BigBad all along, and he succeeded]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' sees [[spoiler:the end of the fal'Cie, who had ruled over Cocoon for a very long time.]] Like the above examples, this too left humanity free from supernatural forces. While it should have meant the end of magic since only l'Cie could cast magic, the sequel, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'' may prove this to not be the case.
*** XIII-2 results in the [[spoiler:destruction of Pulse]]. XIII-3 results in the destruction of [[spoiler:BELHEUZE]]. Which is even more epic than the first two games combined.
** The original version of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' ended very much with a bang, as Bahamut levied its powers against the Eorzean civilizations, resulting in the end of the Sixth Astral Era and the beginning of the Seventh Umbral Era. The relaunch, ''A Realm Reborn'', had a more hopeful take on this: with the 2.0 story ending with the defeat of the Garlean Empire's [=XIVth=] Legion, the leaders of the Eorzean city-states declare that the Seventh Umbral Era is over and the world is henceforth [[DawnOfAnEra entering the Seventh Astral Era]].
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'', the end of game has the death of [[spoiler: Noctis, ending the Lucis line]]. And also, the deaths of [[spoiler: Luna and Ravus, ending the line of the Oracles and the House of Fleuret]], meaning the ability to speak to the gods is gone forever.
* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'', Kratos finally and [[KillTheGod personally]] ends the reign of the Greek pantheon and [[VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4 Greece as a setting]].
* The ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' series has this, done on purpose by mankind. The two major options are a world brimming full of magical alchemy but with the potential of evil people going on a dictator spree, or cutting off the source of alchemy which results in the world slowly dying over the course of millennia.
* This seems to be a running theme in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' and one of its sidestories. [[spoiler:Most of Niko Bellic's employers are either dead or in prison by the end of the game, and he is told repeatedly that with the feds closing in, organized crime as they know it is on its last legs. "The Lost and Damned" sees the dissolution of the Lost MC, and hardcore, all-American biker gangs in general.]]
* At the end of ''VideoGame/TheJediMasters'', the death of or victory by the GreaterScopeVillain of the KOTOR series ends the KOTOR era. If the BigBad wins, [[spoiler:the galaxy is consumed or conquered by the D'arth Syyth]]. Otherwise, the death of the BigBad and [[spoiler:Freedon Nadd's ghost]] broke the Sith so thoroughly that they will not be able to rise again for a long time.
* In ''VideoGame/LegendOfLegaia'', you've defeated the BigBad, freed the world from the clutches of the Mist, and brought peace to Legaia. However, [[spoiler:the Seru-kai is dead, your Ra-Seru have given their lives to save Rim Elm, and according to Dr. Usha, most Seru will die off in the next year, possibly bringing Legaia back to the stone age.]] But human spirit is strong and there is hope with people to follow the heroes and carry out Tieg's will.
* Behind the cheery cartoony graphics, this was the theme of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' -- the end of the era of [[spoiler:the war between Hyrule and Ganondorf]], with both of them in the end lying crumbling and forgotten, slowly eroding to nothing by the unending force of the waves, all their magic departed and memory forgotten.
* In ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'', it is declared at the game's finale that the age of magic has ended and shall be replaced with an era of technological advancement. Make way for ''SteamPunk''! [[VideoGame/LunarEternalBlue The sequel]] reveals that a thousand years later magic is still around, but fewer people can use it and it has to coexist with advanced technology instead of being the dominant power in the world.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' has this trope connected with DawnOfAnEra. The game consists of Shepard cleaning house and tying up all kinds of galactic-scale loose ends in preparation for the final battle against the civilization destroying Reapers. It's possible to cure the thousand-year DepopulationBomb inflicted on the krogan, and the centuries-long animosity between the quarians and the geth will come to a head one way or another. The endings of the game either result in Shepard taking control over the Reapers, him/her destroying the Reapers or causing organic and synthetic live to merge together. Two of the three endings result in the Reapers turning into some sort of benevolent guardians, but the overall result is that the galaxy is now free of the Reaper threat, allowing civilizations to flourish without being destroyed after reaching a certain point in their development.
* ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic 7'' reveals that the Silence mentioned throughout this and the previous game was exactly this, if you complete the "good" path.
** ''Might & Magic 6'' and ''8'' make it clear that a) this was closer to a full-blown AfterTheEnd, although with some added disasters thrown in to help it to that state, and b) this happened to many, many more worlds than just this one.
* ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'': This trope takes full effect big time as the main timeline is doomed to occur in the Ragnarok of Norse myth. And that's the ''good'' ending.
* ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarII: At The End Of The Lost Age''. The subtitle is not just for show. [[spoiler:At the end of the game, Mother Brain has been destroyed, destroying the technological civilization of the Algo system and sending Mota into a technological dark age. As for Palm, the throneworld of the system? [[EarthShatteringKaboom It went away]] in the middle of the game.]]
* ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy'' takes place during the time period where Japan was furiously modernizing into the 20th century, yet hadn't left behind the old world yet completely. This gives the game a very unique flavor and appearance. There's one important mission involving a vengeful rickshaw puller who's out of work because of automobiles, for a start.
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' takes place in 1911, in the final years of the Wild West. The encroachment of Federal control is a major theme in the third act. All of which is foreshadowed during the opening cinematic, when John Marston gets off a ferry at the same time as a brand-new automobile is being unloaded[[note]]Recalling a similar scene in Film/TheWildBunch[[/note]], before he boards a train, all in order to reach a place where horses are still the primary means of transport.
** Dutch van der Linde saw himself not as a criminal, but a man fighting back against a corrupt system to liberate the Old West. He [[TragicDream has a dream in his mind]] - to be an outlaw to the very end, and to force civilization back from the "purity" of the West. By 1911, he is a man clinging to false hope and belief as the West has been settled. When John finally confronts him, [[spoiler: he simply accepts that the Wild West era is over and he commits suicide.]]
** Poignantly, [[spoiler:with the deaths of John Marston and Landon Ricketts, Jack Marston may well be the very last gunslinger by the time of the epilogue.]]
* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' had six ancient civilizations which were all nearly wiped out in a massive meteor storm. One of those civilizations were AbusivePrecursors. [[spoiler:The BigBad's goal is to harness that power and bring an end to the current era.]]
* ''VideoGame/StarcraftIILegacyOfTheVoid'' ends with this for the Protoss, as the Khala, [[spoiler:a tool of enslavement devised by the Xel'Naga who uplifted them, is abandoned]] and [[spoiler:the Purifiers (robots) gain status as equals in Protoss society]].
* The ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden}}'' series had the Sindar, a highly advanced civilization that has ruins left all over the world. Not much is known about them, or why they fell.
** The legends say that their leader was the bearer of a True Rune, the Rune of Change, which ''compelled'' them constantly abandon their civilization and reestablish it elsewhere, hence the ubiquity of Sindar ruins. Which might mean that the Sindar still exist somewhere, but unless Konami revives the series we'll never find out.
* The end of ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' had the protagonists forced to destroy all blastia, a material people are dependent on for magic and everyday life, in order to prevent the world's destruction. However, the tradeoff is that they create Mana and Summon Spirits.
* After the hero defeats Typhon in ''VideoGame/TitanQuest'', all the greek gods (and presumably the egyptian and chinese too) leave the world behind, ending the age of gods... and beginning the age of man.
* Some of the entries in the ''VideoGame/TotalWar'' series involve the end of certain eras in history, whether it's the twilight of Rome in ''[[VideoGame/RomeTotalWar Barbarian Invasion]]'' or the Meiji Restoration in ''[[VideoGame/TotalWarShogun2 Fall of the Samurai]].''
* The entirety of ''VideoGame/TotalWarShogun2 : Fall of the Samurai'' is the end of the samurai reign in Japan, as Westernization marches in and the old ways are no longer viable in facing the foreign threats. Bye bye swords, welcome [[MoreDakka Gatling guns]]. You can be one of the Shogunate clans and try to preserve the regime, but no matter how you achieve that, the old days are over. See also the Japan entry in the RealLife, below.
** You can take this UpToEleven-- you can declare that Japan doesn't need either Shogun nor Emperor, and turn the land ruled by your clan into an independent Republic. [[EnemyMine Be prepared for the onslaught, though]]. Historically, only Satsuma Domain and Republic of Ezo attempted it. They ended ''very'' badly.
** In the ''Medieval II: Americas'' expansion, this is a subtle overlying theme if you play as one of the Mesoamerican factions, like the Aztecs or the Mayans. You ''could'' completely change history and prevent European colonisation, but things definitely wouldn't be the same for these factions ever again...
*** And the ''Teutonic'' expansion campaign details the last remaining pagan people of Europe, the Lithuanians, and their grim war for survival in the face of relentless Christian expansionism. Converting provides a number of powerful bonuses such as access to knights, cannons and arquebus, but clinging to the GoodOldWays is possible.
** ''VideoGame/EmpireTotalWar'' marks the beginning of UsefulNotes/TheEnlightenment at the year 1700, as the petty kingdoms of feudal Europe have become a distant memory and many of them seek to become vast, intercontinental empires. The opposite is true for the Mughals, who have controlled nearly all of India for centuries but now have outdated armies and an incompetent ruler, and they usually get steamrolled by the Maratha Confederacy or by UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire. The last remaining free native American nations find themselves surrounded by European colonists and lack the numbers and technology to fight back and prevent the take-over. Portugal is reduced to a struggling VestigialEmpire as the once-backwards nations of Britain and France politically unite and technologically catch up, and Poland-Lithuania, an ancient Eastern-European kingdom famed for the Winged Hussars, will likely fall to the imperialist ambitions of their Prussian neighbours to the west.
* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': Gensokyo is a last-ditch attempt to preserve the existence of the supernaturals. The supernaturals begin to fade from this world as technology arose and humankind no longer believe in the fantastic. This theme is played heavily in ''Touhou 10: Mountain of Faith''.
** In the manga ''Wild And Horned Hermit'', the subject is brought up again. Even within Gensokyo, the old ways are starting to fade. Youkai are starting to no longer be feared, unknown entities, but are acting more like occasionally dangerous eccentrics.
* ''VideoGame/TransformersWarForCybertron'' sees the collapse of Cybertronian society as Megatron assassinates Sentinel Prime and corrupts the planet, forcing most of the population to flee to outer space.
* Shown in detail in ''VideoGame/TransformersFallOfCybertron'', which basically consists of rats biting each other as they flee a sinking ship. The transformers have gone from immortal masters of technology to another pack of violent refugees.
* ''VideoGame/VandalHearts'' mentions an ancient, technologically advanced civilization in passing, that's where the train comes from. Vandal Hearts II's world [[spoiler:is actually a post apocalyptic wasteland]].
* Pretty much the standard ending of the ''VideoGame/WorldOfMana'' series is the destruction of the Mana Tree and the loss of the world's magic, until the new Tree (grown from the ruins of the old) is ready (in about a millennium or so).
** This is universally presented as a good thing, or at least preferable to the alternative. With the exception of ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', aka Secret of Mana.
*** In addition, ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'' eventually reveals the artificer's purpose: [[spoiler:the revival of the Mana Tree.]] Complicated somewhat by the fact that [[spoiler:the previous Mana Tree burned to ash as an indirect result of the Mana Goddess being unable to contain her SuperPoweredEvilSide.]]
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', at the end of the ''Cataclysm'' expansion, [[spoiler:the Dragon Aspects tell you that they have forfeited their powers in their efforts to destroy Deathwing, and now walk among you as (sterile) mortals.]]
* The apocalyptic Terran/Argon war in ''[[Videogame/{{X}} X3: Albion Prelude]]'' caused the [[{{Precursors}} Ancients]] to shut down the X-Universe's [[PortalNetwork gate system]] to prevent the races from wiping each other with [[RobotWar artificially intelligent warships]] (also because the war was diverting forces that had previously kept the wild AI race, the Xenon, in check; the Ancients specifically called it a firebreak). They did not do so lightly, knowing full well that the shutdown would and did effectively destroy galactic civilization, [[LostColony isolating every colony]] and all the races from each other, including allies. ''Videogame/XRebirth'' takes place several decades later, and things still haven't gotten better for most systems, with the [[ScavengerWorld hulks of the warships from the war being used as power sources]] by isolated colonies.
* ''VideoGame/{{Ys}}'', the seemingly trendful paradise, pulled from the height of its prosperity into the abyss of infinite isolation. How could such a land simply vanish from the face of the earth?"
** The real Gotterdammerung in that series happened when [[WingedHumanoid the Eldeen civilization]] got submerged in water due to [[spoiler:humans' trying to control WeatherControlMachine for their own ends]]. Comparatively, the titular Ys was a minor case as [[spoiler:it was a small empire built by the two survivors of the Eldeen civilization with the power of [[ArtifactOfDoom the Black Pearl]].]]
* The world of Enroth, the setting of quite a few of the ''Videogame/MightAndMagic'' and ''Videogame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' games, is destroyed in the intro to the fourth Heroes game when two incredibly powerful swords collide, an event that is built up throughout the third game and its expansions. The theme of the fourth game is [[DawnOfAnEra rebuilding and rising from the ashes]] with each campaign revolving around attempts to build new lives on a different and unfamiliar world. This had a bit of real-life subtext, since Heroes IV and its expansions would be the last games 3DO produced before it went under and the franchise was bought by Ubisoft.
* ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheBlackKnight'' has this being the reason for Merlina's FaceHeelTurn as she refuses to let Camelot fall and seeks to entrap it and the world around it in stasis. Sonic is adamantly opposed to the idea and has to battle her as [[SuperMode Excalibur Sonic]] to get it through to her.
* Occasionally discussed throughout the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series, with characters predicting the end of the "age of heroes" as warfare becomes increasingly mechanized and a bred-for-war SuperSoldier like Snake starts to become a thing of the past in favor of elevating regular soldiers to his level; the battlefields in ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 4|GunsOfThePatriots}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Rising|Revengeance}}'' barely even resemble one another despite being set only four years apart, with tanks and nanomachine-boosted foot soldiers being taken over for entirely by AI-controlled mecha and cyborgs.
* The ending of ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternityIIDeadfire'' involves this: [[spoiler:Eothas destroys Berath’s Wheel and kills himself in the process, irrevocably demolishing the system Eora has operated on for thousands of years. The gods will no longer be powered by mortalkind and the reincarnation cycle will grind to a halt. The results are currently [[AmbiguousEnding ambiguous]]; either [[JustBeforeTheEnd the decline and end of civilization has begun]], or Eothas was correct in his belief that mortals will create a new system and a golden age is on the horizon. Either way, an era has ended and NothingIsTheSameAnymore. The game ends there, with the Watcher returning home as an uncertain future begins to unfold.]]
* ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' [[spoiler:Has the final ending VIA DLC be the end of an Era for the Shinkoku Race.]]
* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'' features the end of UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy as a major part of the story, and Edward's CharacterArc. As the events of the game progress, Edward witnesses as each of his fellow pirate captains die off one by one, and their "pirate republic" in Nassau is overtaken by the British Navy, until Edward is the only one left, [[spoiler:driving him to abandon the pirate lifestyle for the Assassin Order]]. This bittersweet line of dialogue in the game's last scene sums it up quite well:
-->'''[[spoiler:Jenny]]:''' ''[excited]'' Do you think we'll see any pirates?\\
'''Edward:''' ''[sadly]'' No... There's not much chance of that anymore.
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'':
** ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' sees the titular mental institute destroyed during the events of the game and part of the backstory involved a fire at Blackgate forcing its inmates to be housed in Arkham.
** ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' sees a large section of Gotham, including Crime Alley, the Iceberg Lounge, and Harvey Dent's old campaign office, get walled off and become a prison to replace Arkham and Blackgate. [[spoiler:Additionally, the game ends with the death of the Joker.]]
** The storyline of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' deals with this, as it opens with the line "This is how it happened. This... is how [[spoiler:the Batman died.]]" Batman himself recognizes this, as a major part of the end of the Riddler and Penguin side-quests is Batman making it clear that this will be the last time he'll see ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} and ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}, respectively, even if you complete those sidequests before the finale of the main plot, which [[spoiler:ends with his identity as Bruce Wayne outed to the world, and Wayne Manor blowing up, seemingly with Bruce and Alfred in it]].
* The storyline of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' features this. A long time ago, there was the Kingdom of Zeal, inhabited by people with incredible knowledge and powers, and all of this is absent in all subsequent epochs.
* In ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'', the Age of Flame was brought about by the Lord Soul's triumph over the dragons, and is currently fading into nothingness. The player's mission, eventually, is to Link the First Flame and allow the age to continue. [[spoiler:If the serpent Kaathe is to be believed, this is to the detriment of mankind as a whole, as Lord Gwyn's torturous and futile persistence as the fuel of the flame is delaying the Age of Dark, which might be mankind's golden age, to the benefit of the gods. Upon defeating Gwyn, the player may choose to take his place and prolong the Flame for a while longer or begin the Age of Dark.]]
** Even more prevalent in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'', which takes place millenia later, near the very end of the Age of Fire. The Age has clearly been stretched past its breaking point, with even many of the scant traces of life evident in the first game being gone. Its world is one very softly and very quickly fading away. In the end, you have the choice to either [[spoiler:futilely link the First Flame again, which burns ever softer regardless]], or to [[spoiler:intentionally snuff it out, bringing an end to the [[EternalRecurrence unnatural cycle]] of linking the Flame and allowing Dark to finally settle]].
** Exacerbated even further in Dark Souls III's last DLC, ''The Ringed City'', which takes place far in the future, at the end of all things. Even the mighty ruined kingdoms from the previous games are seen reduced to rubble and thrown together, as the world meets its end.
* In the trailer for ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Flemeth mentions that those who face destiny head on and seize control of it are the ones who change the world forever. By the end of the game, Hawke's personal rise to power and the choices he/she makes do change the status quo. For better or for worse, the uneasy stalemate between [[spoiler:Mages and those who would suppress them]] has been shattered by Hawke's actions, and the world stands on the edge of ruin or a new age.
* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' starts with a golden age of legends, which gradually gets worse as great civilizations are destroyed by such disasters as carp, kamikaze elves, overpopulation of cats, nobles,...
** Development marches on -- as early as .14, it takes the efforts of Fortresses and Adventurers to go from Age of Myth to Age of Legends, and then to Age of Heroes, an effort which involves slaying the humongous rampaging beasts. v.21 introduced a class of Night Beasts to be slain before all fantastical creatures could be considered extinct.
* Jin's story mode in ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' ''7'' and ''8'' is this for the [[UsefulNotes/ThreeKingdomsShuWeiWu Three Kingdoms period of China]]. It's set the farthest in the series timeline, when the old guard of all three kingdoms are dead, and the Sima clan, sick and tired of the continuing warring between the imbeciles left behind, decide to seize control of Wei and put an end to the fighting themselves. While the series has only gotten as far as the surrender of Shu (with Wu still holding out,) historically the Sima clan and the Jin dynasty they create does ultimately [[DarkhorseVictory win out in the end.]]
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' marks the end of the way of life for the [[OurElvesAreBetter Dunmer (Dark Elf)]] people as it had been for the previous 4000 years. By the end of the main quest and the ''Tribunal'' expansion, the Tribunal (a trio of [[DeityOfHumanOrigin ascended]] Dunmeri {{Physical God}}s) have lost their power [[spoiler:and two are dead]]. As later works reveal, events (both natural and supernatural) over the following centuries devastate the Dunmer people, making them the heaviest-suffering race during the 4th Era.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'', though it ends on [[BittersweetEnding a somewhat hopeful note]], marks the end of the 500 year-old Septim Dynasty and with it, the 3rd Era of Tamriellic history. As later works reveal, the 4th Era is one of extreme strife and turmoil compared to the relative peace of the 3rd Era.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'''s ''Dragonborn'' DLC offers a smaller-scale example. On Solstheim, there is only one silt strider remaining. Its caretaker explains that when Red Mountain exploded, [[KillEmAll almost all of them were wiped out]]. [[DyingRace Now, they are extremely rare]] and the one the player encounters is one that happened to be discovered by chance, protected in a cave and is now dying of old age. For players used to ''Morrowind'' and the almost ubiquitous use of silt striders as a form of transportation, [[PlayerPunch this can come as a huge shock]].
* The collapse of ''VideoGame/EveOnline'''s titular Eve Gate, a reinforcing mechanism to a naturally occurring wormhole between two galaxies, caused one in the game's backstory. It has been at least 10000 years since then, and the various empires formed from the colonists stranded in New Eden are only now starting to get back up to tech levels remotely approaching what they had before. [[note]]To put this in perspective: manufacturing military starships in a few hours, casual FTL, universally-compatible modular starship equipment, and weapons systems capable of causing planetary mass extinction events ''at a whim'' are considered Tech Level I. Variants of the above constructed with exotic minerals and hyper-specialized components are considered Tech Level II. Fully modular, rapidly-reconfigurable starships based on the technology of several long-dead but highly advanced human civilizations are Tech Level III. Pre-collapse Terran technology is reckoned to be ''Tech Level X.''[[/note]]
* ''VideoGame/EvolutionTheWorldOfSacredDevice'' as set in a world where humanity was only just reaching modern-day standards however there were ruins left behind with powerful artifacts remaining. A couple of the characters wield said devices as weapons.
** The sequel elaborates. And by elaborates, we mean [[spoiler:reveals that Linear is one half of the instruments that wiped the previous civilization out, and the other half has just convinced her to come along to do it all over again. ThePowerOfLove prevents this.]]
* ''Videogame/FableTheJourney'' marks the end of the Heroic bloodlines and with them the Age of Heroes. [[spoiler:However, Gabriel's victory over the Corrupter heralds the [[DawnOfAnEra dawn of a new age where heroes are not born, but made.]]]]
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' shows that the world of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' (at least in the west coast) is no longer a radioactive ScavengerWorld, but starting to rebuild itself into a new civilization.
** Arcade Gannon's companion quest takes this in a different direction. It shows the [[TheRemnant Enclave Remnants]], a [[OldSoldier retirement-age squad of]] former Enclave soldiers. The Enclave were the BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', and were, quoth Arcade, "a Fascist paramilitary organization." They were also the descendants of the pre-war United States government and elites, and considered themselves the last vestige of real America. [[KnightInSourArmor Orion Moreno]] tells the story of the evacuation of Navarro, the last Enclave base, a few years after the destruction of the main off-shore base that ends ''Fallout 2,'' saying, "Kiss America goodbye, boys and girls." And it's true; the Enclave are the last organization that existed before the nuclear war, even if they did so in secret.
** This also applies to the Mojave chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel, and possibly the entire west coast Brotherhood by proxy. The same group that helped you destroy the Master in the first game, stop the Enclave in the second, and preserved a lot of nifty weapons technology gets nuked if half the factions get their way, and the other two aren't particularly keen on preserving the shrunken remnant hiding in a pre-war bunker, either. It's mostly their own fault, but that doesn't make it any less difficult for most players.
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' shows this, as the power behind her basic spells used by the servant Caster (who lived in the Age of Gods from the Ancient Greek legends) would take a modern-day magi around a month of to accomplish, and her multi-word spells are seen as bordering 'True Sorcery' or a miracle. She casts in one word spells that would take an excellent magus around a full minute of casting.
** On the other hand, what counted as a True Magic in her day is now common practice as the science of magecraft has advanced. There are few magicians now simply because people have been discovering the principles behind the old Magics and reproducing them. As such, it's actually a bit of a trade off because the likes of Caster could not hope to really match someone like Zelretch and his... well, Zelretch Kaleidoscope/Sword. In fact, Caster appears amazed at the sheer potential Sakura possesses in ''[[VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia Fate/hollow ataraxia]].'' The verdict? Caster is a ''cheater'' for being able to use her divine casting language.
** It should be noted in the Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}, while '''magic''' has steadily decreased in power, '''magical creatures''' have NOT. Vampires, in fact, tend to get much more powerful (but much less sane) with age. The most powerful of the Dead Apostle Ancestors are by no coincidence also the oldest.
* Several of the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games:
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' ends with the death of the last Espers and the fading of magic... not to mention the entire world being a scarred ruin of what it used to be, although ''that'' happened at the game's halfway point.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' ends with [[spoiler:the end of the thousand-year oppression of Sin. While on the whole this was a very good thing, as people didn't have to worry about their towns being wiped out if they exhibited too much technological advancement (or sometimes just at random), the Fayth had to sacrifice themselves to allow this to happen, meaning the powerful magic of summoning was lost forever]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' saw the end of the [[spoiler:rule of its so-called "gods" Occuria]]. This left mankind able to determine their destiny from now on. [[spoiler:Strangely enough, it was the goal of the BigBad all along, and he succeeded]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' sees [[spoiler:the end of the fal'Cie, who had ruled over Cocoon for a very long time.]] Like the above examples, this too left humanity free from supernatural forces. While it should have meant the end of magic since only l'Cie could cast magic, the sequel, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'' may prove this to not be the case.
*** XIII-2 results in the [[spoiler:destruction of Pulse]]. XIII-3 results in the destruction of [[spoiler:BELHEUZE]]. Which is even more epic than the first two games combined.
** The original version of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' ended very much with a bang, as Bahamut levied its powers against the Eorzean civilizations, resulting in the end of the Sixth Astral Era and the beginning of the Seventh Umbral Era. The relaunch, ''A Realm Reborn'', had a more hopeful take on this: with the 2.0 story ending with the defeat of the Garlean Empire's [=XIVth=] Legion, the leaders of the Eorzean city-states declare that the Seventh Umbral Era is over and the world is henceforth [[DawnOfAnEra entering the Seventh Astral Era]].
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'', the end of game has the death of [[spoiler: Noctis, ending the Lucis line]]. And also, the deaths of [[spoiler: Luna and Ravus, ending the line of the Oracles and the House of Fleuret]], meaning the ability to speak to the gods is gone forever.
* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'', Kratos finally and [[KillTheGod personally]] ends the reign of the Greek pantheon and [[VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4 Greece as a setting]].
* The ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' series has this, done on purpose by mankind. The two major options are a world brimming full of magical alchemy but with the potential of evil people going on a dictator spree, or cutting off the source of alchemy which results in the world slowly dying over the course of millennia.
* This seems to be a running theme in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' and one of its sidestories. [[spoiler:Most of Niko Bellic's employers are either dead or in prison by the end of the game, and he is told repeatedly that with the feds closing in, organized crime as they know it is on its last legs. "The Lost and Damned" sees the dissolution of the Lost MC, and hardcore, all-American biker gangs in general.]]
* At the end of ''VideoGame/TheJediMasters'', the death of or victory by the GreaterScopeVillain of the KOTOR series ends the KOTOR era. If the BigBad wins, [[spoiler:the galaxy is consumed or conquered by the D'arth Syyth]]. Otherwise, the death of the BigBad and [[spoiler:Freedon Nadd's ghost]] broke the Sith so thoroughly that they will not be able to rise again for a long time.
* In ''VideoGame/LegendOfLegaia'', you've defeated the BigBad, freed the world from the clutches of the Mist, and brought peace to Legaia. However, [[spoiler:the Seru-kai is dead, your Ra-Seru have given their lives to save Rim Elm, and according to Dr. Usha, most Seru will die off in the next year, possibly bringing Legaia back to the stone age.]] But human spirit is strong and there is hope with people to follow the heroes and carry out Tieg's will.
* Behind the cheery cartoony graphics, this was the theme of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' -- the end of the era of [[spoiler:the war between Hyrule and Ganondorf]], with both of them in the end lying crumbling and forgotten, slowly eroding to nothing by the unending force of the waves, all their magic departed and memory forgotten.
* In ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'', it is declared at the game's finale that the age of magic has ended and shall be replaced with an era of technological advancement. Make way for ''SteamPunk''! [[VideoGame/LunarEternalBlue The sequel]] reveals that a thousand years later magic is still around, but fewer people can use it and it has to coexist with advanced technology instead of being the dominant power in the world.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' has this trope connected with DawnOfAnEra. The game consists of Shepard cleaning house and tying up all kinds of galactic-scale loose ends in preparation for the final battle against the civilization destroying Reapers. It's possible to cure the thousand-year DepopulationBomb inflicted on the krogan, and the centuries-long animosity between the quarians and the geth will come to a head one way or another. The endings of the game either result in Shepard taking control over the Reapers, him/her destroying the Reapers or causing organic and synthetic live to merge together. Two of the three endings result in the Reapers turning into some sort of benevolent guardians, but the overall result is that the galaxy is now free of the Reaper threat, allowing civilizations to flourish without being destroyed after reaching a certain point in their development.
* ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic 7'' reveals that the Silence mentioned throughout this and the previous game was exactly this, if you complete the "good" path.
** ''Might & Magic 6'' and ''8'' make it clear that a) this was closer to a full-blown AfterTheEnd, although with some added disasters thrown in to help it to that state, and b) this happened to many, many more worlds than just this one.
* ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'': This trope takes full effect big time as the main timeline is doomed to occur in the Ragnarok of Norse myth. And that's the ''good'' ending.
* ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarII: At The End Of The Lost Age''. The subtitle is not just for show. [[spoiler:At the end of the game, Mother Brain has been destroyed, destroying the technological civilization of the Algo system and sending Mota into a technological dark age. As for Palm, the throneworld of the system? [[EarthShatteringKaboom It went away]] in the middle of the game.]]
* ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy'' takes place during the time period where Japan was furiously modernizing into the 20th century, yet hadn't left behind the old world yet completely. This gives the game a very unique flavor and appearance. There's one important mission involving a vengeful rickshaw puller who's out of work because of automobiles, for a start.
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' takes place in 1911, in the final years of the Wild West. The encroachment of Federal control is a major theme in the third act. All of which is foreshadowed during the opening cinematic, when John Marston gets off a ferry at the same time as a brand-new automobile is being unloaded[[note]]Recalling a similar scene in Film/TheWildBunch[[/note]], before he boards a train, all in order to reach a place where horses are still the primary means of transport.
** Dutch van der Linde saw himself not as a criminal, but a man fighting back against a corrupt system to liberate the Old West. He [[TragicDream has a dream in his mind]] - to be an outlaw to the very end, and to force civilization back from the "purity" of the West. By 1911, he is a man clinging to false hope and belief as the West has been settled. When John finally confronts him, [[spoiler: he simply accepts that the Wild West era is over and he commits suicide.]]
** Poignantly, [[spoiler:with the deaths of John Marston and Landon Ricketts, Jack Marston may well be the very last gunslinger by the time of the epilogue.]]
* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' had six ancient civilizations which were all nearly wiped out in a massive meteor storm. One of those civilizations were AbusivePrecursors. [[spoiler:The BigBad's goal is to harness that power and bring an end to the current era.]]
* ''VideoGame/StarcraftIILegacyOfTheVoid'' ends with this for the Protoss, as the Khala, [[spoiler:a tool of enslavement devised by the Xel'Naga who uplifted them, is abandoned]] and [[spoiler:the Purifiers (robots) gain status as equals in Protoss society]].
* The ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden}}'' series had the Sindar, a highly advanced civilization that has ruins left all over the world. Not much is known about them, or why they fell.
** The legends say that their leader was the bearer of a True Rune, the Rune of Change, which ''compelled'' them constantly abandon their civilization and reestablish it elsewhere, hence the ubiquity of Sindar ruins. Which might mean that the Sindar still exist somewhere, but unless Konami revives the series we'll never find out.
* The end of ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' had the protagonists forced to destroy all blastia, a material people are dependent on for magic and everyday life, in order to prevent the world's destruction. However, the tradeoff is that they create Mana and Summon Spirits.
* After the hero defeats Typhon in ''VideoGame/TitanQuest'', all the greek gods (and presumably the egyptian and chinese too) leave the world behind, ending the age of gods... and beginning the age of man.
* Some of the entries in the ''VideoGame/TotalWar'' series involve the end of certain eras in history, whether it's the twilight of Rome in ''[[VideoGame/RomeTotalWar Barbarian Invasion]]'' or the Meiji Restoration in ''[[VideoGame/TotalWarShogun2 Fall of the Samurai]].''
* The entirety of ''VideoGame/TotalWarShogun2 : Fall of the Samurai'' is the end of the samurai reign in Japan, as Westernization marches in and the old ways are no longer viable in facing the foreign threats. Bye bye swords, welcome [[MoreDakka Gatling guns]]. You can be one of the Shogunate clans and try to preserve the regime, but no matter how you achieve that, the old days are over. See also the Japan entry in the RealLife, below.
** You can take this UpToEleven-- you can declare that Japan doesn't need either Shogun nor Emperor, and turn the land ruled by your clan into an independent Republic. [[EnemyMine Be prepared for the onslaught, though]]. Historically, only Satsuma Domain and Republic of Ezo attempted it. They ended ''very'' badly.
** In the ''Medieval II: Americas'' expansion, this is a subtle overlying theme if you play as one of the Mesoamerican factions, like the Aztecs or the Mayans. You ''could'' completely change history and prevent European colonisation, but things definitely wouldn't be the same for these factions ever again...
*** And the ''Teutonic'' expansion campaign details the last remaining pagan people of Europe, the Lithuanians, and their grim war for survival in the face of relentless Christian expansionism. Converting provides a number of powerful bonuses such as access to knights, cannons and arquebus, but clinging to the GoodOldWays is possible.
** ''VideoGame/EmpireTotalWar'' marks the beginning of UsefulNotes/TheEnlightenment at the year 1700, as the petty kingdoms of feudal Europe have become a distant memory and many of them seek to become vast, intercontinental empires. The opposite is true for the Mughals, who have controlled nearly all of India for centuries but now have outdated armies and an incompetent ruler, and they usually get steamrolled by the Maratha Confederacy or by UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire. The last remaining free native American nations find themselves surrounded by European colonists and lack the numbers and technology to fight back and prevent the take-over. Portugal is reduced to a struggling VestigialEmpire as the once-backwards nations of Britain and France politically unite and technologically catch up, and Poland-Lithuania, an ancient Eastern-European kingdom famed for the Winged Hussars, will likely fall to the imperialist ambitions of their Prussian neighbours to the west.
* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': Gensokyo is a last-ditch attempt to preserve the existence of the supernaturals. The supernaturals begin to fade from this world as technology arose and humankind no longer believe in the fantastic. This theme is played heavily in ''Touhou 10: Mountain of Faith''.
** In the manga ''Wild And Horned Hermit'', the subject is brought up again. Even within Gensokyo, the old ways are starting to fade. Youkai are starting to no longer be feared, unknown entities, but are acting more like occasionally dangerous eccentrics.
* ''VideoGame/TransformersWarForCybertron'' sees the collapse of Cybertronian society as Megatron assassinates Sentinel Prime and corrupts the planet, forcing most of the population to flee to outer space.
* Shown in detail in ''VideoGame/TransformersFallOfCybertron'', which basically consists of rats biting each other as they flee a sinking ship. The transformers have gone from immortal masters of technology to another pack of violent refugees.
* ''VideoGame/VandalHearts'' mentions an ancient, technologically advanced civilization in passing, that's where the train comes from. Vandal Hearts II's world [[spoiler:is actually a post apocalyptic wasteland]].
* Pretty much the standard ending of the ''VideoGame/WorldOfMana'' series is the destruction of the Mana Tree and the loss of the world's magic, until the new Tree (grown from the ruins of the old) is ready (in about a millennium or so).
** This is universally presented as a good thing, or at least preferable to the alternative. With the exception of ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', aka Secret of Mana.
*** In addition, ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'' eventually reveals the artificer's purpose: [[spoiler:the revival of the Mana Tree.]] Complicated somewhat by the fact that [[spoiler:the previous Mana Tree burned to ash as an indirect result of the Mana Goddess being unable to contain her SuperPoweredEvilSide.]]
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', at the end of the ''Cataclysm'' expansion, [[spoiler:the Dragon Aspects tell you that they have forfeited their powers in their efforts to destroy Deathwing, and now walk among you as (sterile) mortals.]]
* The apocalyptic Terran/Argon war in ''[[Videogame/{{X}} X3: Albion Prelude]]'' caused the [[{{Precursors}} Ancients]] to shut down the X-Universe's [[PortalNetwork gate system]] to prevent the races from wiping each other with [[RobotWar artificially intelligent warships]] (also because the war was diverting forces that had previously kept the wild AI race, the Xenon, in check; the Ancients specifically called it a firebreak). They did not do so lightly, knowing full well that the shutdown would and did effectively destroy galactic civilization, [[LostColony isolating every colony]] and all the races from each other, including allies. ''Videogame/XRebirth'' takes place several decades later, and things still haven't gotten better for most systems, with the [[ScavengerWorld hulks of the warships from the war being used as power sources]] by isolated colonies.
* ''VideoGame/{{Ys}}'', the seemingly trendful paradise, pulled from the height of its prosperity into the abyss of infinite isolation. How could such a land simply vanish from the face of the earth?"
** The real Gotterdammerung in that series happened when [[WingedHumanoid the Eldeen civilization]] got submerged in water due to [[spoiler:humans' trying to control WeatherControlMachine for their own ends]]. Comparatively, the titular Ys was a minor case as [[spoiler:it was a small empire built by the two survivors of the Eldeen civilization with the power of [[ArtifactOfDoom the Black Pearl]].]]
* The world of Enroth, the setting of quite a few of the ''Videogame/MightAndMagic'' and ''Videogame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' games, is destroyed in the intro to the fourth Heroes game when two incredibly powerful swords collide, an event that is built up throughout the third game and its expansions. The theme of the fourth game is [[DawnOfAnEra rebuilding and rising from the ashes]] with each campaign revolving around attempts to build new lives on a different and unfamiliar world. This had a bit of real-life subtext, since Heroes IV and its expansions would be the last games 3DO produced before it went under and the franchise was bought by Ubisoft.
* ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheBlackKnight'' has this being the reason for Merlina's FaceHeelTurn as she refuses to let Camelot fall and seeks to entrap it and the world around it in stasis. Sonic is adamantly opposed to the idea and has to battle her as [[SuperMode Excalibur Sonic]] to get it through to her.
* Occasionally discussed throughout the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series, with characters predicting the end of the "age of heroes" as warfare becomes increasingly mechanized and a bred-for-war SuperSoldier like Snake starts to become a thing of the past in favor of elevating regular soldiers to his level; the battlefields in ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 4|GunsOfThePatriots}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Rising|Revengeance}}'' barely even resemble one another despite being set only four years apart, with tanks and nanomachine-boosted foot soldiers being taken over for entirely by AI-controlled mecha and cyborgs.
* The ending of ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternityIIDeadfire'' involves this: [[spoiler:Eothas destroys Berath’s Wheel and kills himself in the process, irrevocably demolishing the system Eora has operated on for thousands of years. The gods will no longer be powered by mortalkind and the reincarnation cycle will grind to a halt. The results are currently [[AmbiguousEnding ambiguous]]; either [[JustBeforeTheEnd the decline and end of civilization has begun]], or Eothas was correct in his belief that mortals will create a new system and a golden age is on the horizon. Either way, an era has ended and NothingIsTheSameAnymore. The game ends there, with the Watcher returning home as an uncertain future begins to unfold.]]
