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* ''VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries'': ''Infiltrating the Airship'' has Henry [[RecruitingTheCriminal get recruited]] by the government to take down a criminal organization called the Toppat Clan in exchange for being pardoned of all his crimes. Two endings have Henry fulfilling his deal with the government (one by directly capturing the Toppat Clan's leader, the other by sneaking into the airship and obtaining crucial information on them), one ending has him betray the government to become the Toppat Clan's new leader, and a fourth ending has him ditch both factions in favor of stealing a large ruby for himself. In the UpdatedReRelease, whether you ally yourself with the government, the Toppats or neither determines what kind of endings you can seek for ''Fleeing the Complex''.

* ''VideoGame/EscapeVelocity Nova'': The six main and mutually exclusive storylines -- Federation, Rebellion, Auroran, Vell-os, Polaris, Pirate are defined by their association with a specific faction, though the Pirate storyline is both misleadingly named[[note]]it's about working for the Association of Free Traders, who use pirate-associated ships and have underworld ties, but is actually an ''anti''-pirate organisation[[/note]] and has a much, ''much'' less conclusive ending than the five others.

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* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'': You can either side with your SocialDarwinist girlfriend Chiaki, your best friend / not so-PluckyComicRelief Isamu, [[TheChessmaster Hikawa]], the man who tried killing you, or [[CoolTeacher Yuko]], who's the only one who wants to save the world. There's also two different flavors of "KillEmAll, and let Lucifer sort 'em out" as well.

* ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaMk2'' features endings for each country, Planeptune, Lastation, Lowee, and Leanbox. These are in addition to the Normal Ending, [[GoldenEnding True Ending]], and [[KillEmAll Conquest Ending.]]

A subtrope of MultipleEndings where each ending shows one of the factions in the game triumph over others, either because the PlayerCharacter chooses to ally with them (popular in {{Role Playing Game}}s) or because the player controls them from the start (popular in strategy games). In the former case, there can also be a Lone Wolf Ending, where the player refuses to take sides and [[OmnicidalNeutral just beats up everyone]].

* ''VideoGame/CrashBash'': Characters are split into two teams. One team represents good, and the other represents evil. The ending you get in adventure mode is dependant on which team your character is on. If playing two-player adventure with the characters being on opposites sides, both players fight eachother at the end to determine the ending that is given.

* ''VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries'': ''Infiltrating the Airship'' has Henry [[RecruitingTheCriminal get recruited]] by the government to take down a criminal organization called the Toppat Clan in exchange for being pardoned of all his crimes. Two endings have Henry fulfilling his deal with the government (one by directly capturing the Toppat Clan's leader, the other by sneaking into the airship and obtaining crucial information on them), one ending has him betray the government to become the Toppat Clan's new leader, and a fourth ending has him ditch both factions in favor of stealing a large ruby for himself.

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* ''VideoGame/EscapeVelocity Nova'': The six main and mutually exclusive storylines -- Federation, Rebellion, Auroran, Vell-os, Polaris, Pirate are defined by their association with a specific faction, though the Pirate storyline is both misleadingly named[[note]]it's about working for the Association of Free Traders, who use pirate-associated ships and have underworld ties, but is actually an ''anti''-pirate organisation[[/note]] and has a much, ''much'' less conclusive ending than the five others.
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** In the original ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' you have to choose between [[GovernmentConspiracy joining the Illuminati]], [[GodhoodSeeker merging with the Helios AI]], or following Tracer Tong's advice and [[LibertyOverProsperity destroying global communications]].

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' features three different routes. Each route is represented by a house at a military academy, each one being tied to a faction on the continent of Fódlan, and which route you take is the BigFirstChoice. While the first act is quite similar for the different routes, things diverge quite drastically at the halfway mark, leading to a completely different story and ending, where the faction represented by the player’s chosen house wins. [[spoiler: The Black Eagles route itself features a route split shortly before the halfway mark, one that has the player side with the Church of Seiros, and one where they side with the Adrestian Empire, who declares war on the Church, meaning that there are actually four endings in total.]]

** In the original ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' you have to choose between [[GovernmentConspiracy joining the Illuminati]], [[AGodIAm merging with the Helios AI]], or following Tracer Tong's advice and [[LibertyOverProsperity destroying global communications]].

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' features three different routes, like in Fates. Each route is represented by a house at a military academy, each one being tied to a faction on the continent of Fodlan, and which route you take is the BigFirstChoice. While the first act is quite similar for the different routes, things diverge quite drastically at the halfway mark, leading to a completely different story and ending, where the faction represented by the player’s chosen house wins. [[spoiler: The Black Eagles route itself features a route split shortly before the halfway mark, one that has the player side with the Church of Seiros, and one where they side with the Adrestian Empire, who declare war on the Church, meaning that there are actually four endings in total.]]

* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' has four faction endings (Camarilla, the Anarchs, [=LaCroix=], and Kuei-Jin) plus the Lone Wolf ending. Although you only have to choose your final alliance in the endgame, several choices across the entire game limit your options.
* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'' has the [[KnightTemplar Order of the Flaming Rose]] ending, the [[LaResistance Scoia'tael]] ending, and the neutral/lone wolf ending.

* ''VideoGame/{{Brigandine}}'' features an ending for each of the nations which can unite the continent of Forsena.
* ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaMk2'' features endings for each country, Planeptune, Lastation, Lowee, and Leanbox. These are in addition to the Normal Ending, [[GoldenEnding True Ending]], and [[KillEmAll Conquest Ending.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Growlanser}}'' Wayfarer of Time has two primary ending routes, one where you stay with the Marquelay/Ordinale Alliance, one if you abandon them and return to Dulkheim.

* ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' ends with Jensen having to make a choice between supporting David Sarif and thus the pro-transhumanism movement, Hugh Darrow and his anti-transhumanist compatriots, Taggard and TheIlluminati, or not to support anyone and give humanity a free reign over its fate.
** In the original ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' you have to choose between [[GovernmentConspiracy joining the Illuminati]], [[AGodIAm merging with the Helios AI]], or following Tracer Tong's advice and [[LibertyOverProsperity destroying global communications]].

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* ''VideoGame/DuneII'' has three possible end victory sequences once the Emperor's manipulation and backstabbing are made known to your chosen faction: House Atreides has him removed from power and arrested, House Ordos blackmails him and usurps his power, and House Harkonnen just blows him to smithereens and calls it a day.
* The ending cutscene of ''VideoGame/ShogunTotalWar'' changes slightly depending on what clan you played as.

* In ''VideoGame/WarCraftOrcsAndHumans'', the Orcish Horde and the kingdom of Azeroth both have an ending where they defeat the other one. Same thing in ''VideoGame/WarcraftII: Tides of Darkness'' and its expansion ''Beyond the Dark Portal'' for the Alliance of Lordaeron and the Horde. Going by [[CuttingOffTheBranches the second and then the third game]], ''Orcs and Humans'' canonically ended with the Orc victory and the destruction of the kingdom of Stormwind, while ''Tides of Darkness'' concluded with an Alliance victory, spelling the defeat of the Horde and closing of the Dark Portal.
* In ''Videogame/CivilizationBeyondEarth'', each of the Affinities has their own victory condition in addition to the neutral "kill everyone else" and FirstContact endings. Purity's "Promised Land" victory opens a portal back to the [[EarthThatUsedToBeBetter destitute Earth]] and begins a HomeworldEvacuation, shipping in as many colonists as possible - this is often followed by with a Declaration of War on all neighboring civilizations, because those colonists need space to set up. Supremacy's "Emancipation" victory opens a portal back to Earth to conquer it, sending military forces to stabilize it and potentially force refugees to undergo UnwillingRoboticization. Harmony's "Transcendence" causes them to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence by merging with the planetary conciousness after building a number of Mind Stems in their cities.

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