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* Nearly every sidequest in ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'' has MultipleEndings, and different endings will positively or negatively affect your Reputation stat for that region, which changes how {{NPC}}s address you and may open further quests. A good example is the early quest "Lord of a Barren Land", in which you are requested to StormTheCastle of Lord Raedric and assassinate him so that [[spoiler:his brother]] Kolsc can take over. Doing it as requested will give you [[spoiler:positive]] Reputation in Gilded Vale, while changing sides will give you [[spoiler:negative]] Reputation.

* ''VideoGame/SplinterCellDoubleAgent''. Your actions affect how much you're trusted by the John Brown's Army (JBA) terrorist group you're trying to infiltrate and the National Security Agency (NSA), your real employer. The amount of trust for each organization is shown on a trust meter. Oddly, since it's zero-sum, a faction will lose trust in you if you help their enemies in a way they don't even know about.

* ''VideoGame/EverQuest'' features a complex "faction standing" system; your standing with a faction is modified by your past actions, but also your race, your class, your religion, ... There are many (200+) factions some of them are allied against others, and it is impossible to be on good terms with all factions. When you kill a monster or NPC, or when you complete a quest, it raises your standing with some factions but lowers your standing with some other factions. There are 9 different rankings, the two lowest ones meaning NPCs of that faction will try to kill you, and higher rankings are requires to do quests or simply trade with NPC. Note that all NPCs (including animals and monsters) belong to a faction and that some spells (such as illusion spells) give you a temporary bonus or malus to your standing, meaning you can travel safely deep into a high-end dungeon if you manage to be on good terms with its inhabitants.

* ''VideoGame/Everquest'' features a complex "faction standing" system; your standing with a faction is modified by your past actions, but also your race, your class, your religion, ... There are many (200+) factions some of them are allied against others, and it is impossible to be on good terms with all factions. When you kill a monster or NPC, or when you complete a quest, it raises your standing with some factions but lowers your standing with some other factions. There are 9 different rankings, the two lowest ones meaning NPCs of that faction will try to kill you, and higher rankings are requires to do quests or simply trade with NPC. Note that all NPCs (including animals and monsters) belong to a faction and that some spells (such as illusion spells) give you a temporary bonus or malus to your standing, meaning you can travel safely deep into a high-end dungeon if you manage to be on good terms with its inhabitants.

* Throughout the ''Roleplay/DestroyTheGodmodder'' series, various entities have appeared that are strictly neutral, eventually joining a side depending on the actions of the players and the Godmodder. Notable examples from the first game include [[TheGrimReaper Death]], ''[[VideoGame/{{Portal}} [=GLaDOS=]]]'', and [=Minor107's=] ''[[VideoGame/{{Infamous}} Infamy Bar]]''.

* Throughout the ''Roleplay/DestroyTheGodmodder'' series, various entities have appeared that are strictly neutral, eventually joining a side depending on the actions of the players and the Godmodder. Notable examples from the first game include [[TheGrimReaper Death]], ''[[VideoGame/{{Portal}} [=GLaDOS=]]]'', and Minor107's ''[[VideoGame/{{Infamous}} Infamy Bar]]''.

* ''VideoGame/LiarJeannieInCrucifixKingdom'': There is a hidden variable starts at 0, decreases by 1 if you free a human slave, decreases by 3 if you kill an undead merchant near the end of a dungeon, and increases by 1 if you kill a human slave. Lower numbers indicate Jeannie's respect for human life while higher numbers have her prefer the undead as the true form of happiness. [[spoiler:Going too far in either direction results in Jeannie taking her views to the extreme.]]

* ''VideoGame/XComApocalypse'' has a lot of organizations most of whom you want to be as friendly as possible, for various reasons. Which isn't easy, because alien infiltration and collateral damage to their property make them upset.

* The ''Hands of War'' series has "good" and "evil" major factions which differ from game to game. In addition, we have the Mercenaries and the Merchant's Guild, which hate each other for obvious reasons, and the Trackers, Blademasters and Magicians, which are class-based factions that all rival each other.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto2'' is the only game in Franchise/GrandTheftAuto series that has "respect meter" where there are three gangs that are against each other. Killing the gang that is the target of a particular gang reduces the respect of the target gang while raising the respect of the requesting gang. The respect meter is required to advance to the next available mission, which is harder and paying more. There is two ways to escape the town. One is to accumulate enough money until you are shown the exit and thus unlocking the next district (or beat the game after the third) and the other is to complete all available mission, in which the three gangs will after you for your ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, and you KillEmAll.

* ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} V'' has city states that each have a meter with each of the full-sized civs. Raise the meter to "friendly" and they send bonuses. Keep raising to "ally" and they will join wars and vote for their ally for diplomatic victory. An angry city state isn't a direct danger; it just makes it harder to earn their favour later. There's also a (hidden) relationship meter with AI civilizations. Depending on the "honesty" stat of the leaders, they may or not may not be truthful when you view your relationship with them; Napoleon is an infamous liar, typically declaring war while his relationship is listed as "friendly"

** If you manage to sink your alliance meter low enough with opposing factions, it will lead to members of those groups to put aside their hatred to [[EnemyMine team up against you]]. Corsairs and Outcasts against you? Can see that happening. But it gets downright absurd in some of the more well known mods, when you get [[spoiler: [[EldritchAbomination Nomads]]]] joining up with [[spoiler:[[LaResistance The Order]]]] to kill you.

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfHonor'' features a relations meter for every nation on the map. These can change depending on your interactions with that nation (gifts, diplomacy, requests for tributes, giving Independence if it's a vassal state, pillaging) but also thanks to interactions with other nations. Decalring war or attacking a nation will always have a reaction on your relationship with other nations, depending if they had a positive or negative relationship with the nation you attacked. Other factors like religion, marriage politics and diplomacy play a role as well.

** If you manage to sink your alliance meter low enough with opposing factions, it will lead to members of those groups to put aside their hatred to [[EnemyMine team up against you]]. Corsairs and Outcasts against you? Can see that happening. But it gets downright absurd when you get [[spoiler: [[EldritchAbomination Nomads]]]] joining up with [[spoiler:[[LaResistance The Order]]]] to kill you.

** ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall'' has a primitive system where your initial character build allowed you to adjust how friendly various segments of society from peasants to nobles would react to your player. In actuality, the effect was minimal. What had slightly more effect was the hidden in-play alliance meter that the character build modified, as the relation to a faction was one of the factors that decided when promotion in that faction could occur.
** ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' has a similar system, with three main differences: the effect on an indidual NPC is greater, the number of factions are heavily reduced (no peasant faction, for instance), and very few of the quests impacting faction-relation could be done without joining a faction.

* The Alliance Meter that shows up in ''VideoGame/NoMansSky'' isn't actually viewable, but is affected by attacking a faction's enemies or allies and can result in a faction either sending wingmen your way should you need them or enacting a destroy-on-sight order on your vessel should you venture into their territory.

* In ''{{Freelancer}}'', every mission you take affects your rep with everybody connected to either faction involved. Oddly, people pay a lot more attention to who you took the mission from than who it was against. So to continue the page example, Faction E, which is allied with both A and B, will be pleased and F, which hates both, will be angered. A Hostile faction will attack on sight and deny you landing permission on their bases; a Neutral faction will ignore you in space but might assist allies who hate you, and will let you land but might not sell you [[InfinityMinusOneSword their best stuff]]; and a [[HundredPercentHeroismRating Friendly]] faction will assist you in combat against anyone they're not allied with, stay out of the fight when they are, and will sell you their best stuff and offer you the best missions.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto2'' has three meters, one for each gang in the city. Zaibatsu always has one, while other two change according to city. Higher the respect, more dangerous (and better paying) missions player can take.

* The ''{{Mercenaries}}'' games feature dynamic relations meters between your chosen mercenary and the various factions active in the warzones you fight in. Generally, doing things the faction likes (i.e. shooting their enemies in line-of-sight of the faction's soldiers, completing their missions, bringing them enemy vehicles, etc.) will please them, while openly killing their troops, sabotaging their operations, etc. will piss them off. In the second game, this only happens if the enemy manages to get in a radio call to their headquarters that you're causing havoc. If you kill the radio operator before he can finish the call, the enemy will be none the wiser. However, you'll ''always'' be hostile with either the North Korean Army or the Venezuelan Army. It's also possible to permanently make a faction your enemy in the second game when you receive missions to destroy their headquarters late game.
* Present in ''SidMeiersPirates'': The game tracks your relationship with each of the four major colonial powers. Attacking one power's ships will earn you favor from its enemies and scorn from its allies. However, the political situation is constantly in flux, with wars breaking out, truces being signed, and alliances being made or broken seemingly at the drop of a hat, so if you're trying to butter up with one faction in particular, you have to pay attention to current events.

* ''{{Spore}}'' has them in the last 4 stages: Red faces mean they hate your guts. Orange faces mean they don't trust you. Yellow faces are neutral. Blue faces mean they like you. And green faces mean they worship you.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Tyranny}}'', factions have a significant role; two which have been mentioned so far are the Scarlet Chorus (allies of the EvilOverlord in the war which brought the Overlord's empire to power) and the Beastmen. Faction reputation is defined in terms of Favor and Wrath (with the former being positive and the latter negative, naturally), and players gain abilities for either one (so even if it's possible to keep friendly with every faction, you might not want to).