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** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker,'' you have to help two painfully shy [=NPCs=] (who are too shy to even say hello to each other, even though they see each other every day) get together. This involves [[FirstPersonSnapshooter taking and showing them pictures]] of each other.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks Spirit Tracks]]'' has one that has become quite infamous due to what happens after said quest. [[spoiler:Namely, a pretty depressed village that has been left without a chief since he eloped. The girl also ''already had a boyfriend'', who was kidnapped by pirates at the time. You can rescue him in a later sidequest... and he's not happy when he gets home.]]
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'' has the ''very'' long Kafei and Anju quest, where it appears that Kafei has gone missing just before his marriage with Anju. It's not as simple as it looks, and you can't even do this quest until very deep into the main game. And you need to do it twice in order to get OneHundredPercentCompletion.
** It's played with in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]''. Firstly, you have two possible options: you can either give Cawlin's love letter to the object of his affection, or you can end up giving it to [[MythologyGag the hand in the toilet]]. Secondly, [[spoiler:it turns out the NPC he likes actually has feelings for ''another'' NPC, and he returns them. Giving her the letter results in ''them'' getting together and Cawlin being left in tears]]. Both paths give you the same reward, so you don't need to worry about PermanentlyMissableContent.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'' has three of these:

* This is pretty much your main goal in ''VideoGame/HamtaroHamHamHeartbreak''.

** SpiritualSuccessor ''VideoGame/HeroinesQuest'' you can match up the innkeeper and the healer from two different towns. It takes a lot of effort to obtain, because you need ''magic flowers'' from another realm because he wants to give her flowers (but it's the middle of winter). Alternatively you can tell them BlatantLies that the other doesn't want to see him / her anymore.

An {{NPC}} ([[LoveTriangle or three]]) are down on their luck in the love department, and can't seem to get that [[LoveInterest special someone]] to [[ObliviousToLove notice them.]] They're so desperate and mopey and (a)pathetically resigned to their doomed loveless future that they will spill their guts about these troubles to the first heavily-armed stranger to cross their paths [-(That means you.)-] Rather than find a solution themselves, they will ask you to do something for them, usually involving a FetchQuest for some engagement gift, ImpossibleTask, or plain old bling to impress their potential partner. Other times, it suffices for you to use your prodigious dialogue screen channeled charisma to convince their intended to love them back. Occasionally, the match is already made and the quest centers on solving some other difficulty, like getting the parents to let them marry, gathering wedding materials, a dowry[[labelnote:*]]which will hopefully ''not'' consist of TwentyBearAsses[[/labelnote]], or helping them set up a life for themselves.

** Another set of quests involves TriangRelations between a Flutter who has a crush on a Mr. I, and a Petal Guy who has a crush on Flutter. [[spoiler:[[AllLoveIsUnrequited Mr. I doesn't accept Flutter's feelings because he has a crush on Peach, and Flutter doesn't return Petal Guy's]], leaving them all a bit lonelier but ready to move on with their lives.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'':

* A somewhat roundabout one in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'' winds up a ''subversion''. In order to be properly recognized as a man and marry Princess Medea, {{Prince Charmles|s}} needs to obtain an Argon Heart. He's finally talked into getting it when his father describes Medea's... charms, but needs your help. He spends the entire mission bumbling around, talking down to your party, making unreasonable demands, trying to ride the pretty horse that is actually Medea under a BalefulPolymorph {{Curse}}, and winds up [[spoiler:buying a (presumably fake) Argon Heart from a merchant anyway. And because Medea saw all of this firsthand, she ''refuses'' to marry him later.]]

* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'' has this as a non-lethal method of eliminating rivals for Senpai's affections: find someone with a crush on the rival and help him romance her.

** The player has the option to complete the quest "Cammen's Lament" where they must help a young Dalish elf named Cammen woo his love, Gheyna, who refuses to marry him because he is yet to become a full-fledged hunter. The player also has the option of [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential being an absolute shit]] and breaking them up forever, potentially by seducing one of them. Doing so has no benefit beyond sadistic pleasure.

* This happens a few times in ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}''. One of the more memorable ones is also one of the earliest: there's a love triangle, and the protagonist has to decide which pairing to support by finding a love potion (or equivalent) and giving it to the right person. Problem is, the main character has the ability to see the future, and both options [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption end badly.]] There's no way to TakeAThirdOption, either - unless you simply ignore the quest. Oh well, it's good XP...

* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'': While there ''are'' two {{NPC}}s who are secretly in love but too shy to talk to each other, you are never actually tasked to hook them up. [[spoiler:They still get together AfterTheEnd.]]

* In the game ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', the player has the option to complete the quest "Cammen's Lament" where they must help a young Dalish elf named Cammen woo his love, Gheyna, who refuses to marry him because he is yet to become a full-fledged hunter.
** The player also has the option of [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential being an absolute shit]] and breaking them up forever, potentially by seducing one of them. Doing so has no benefit beyond sadistic pleasure.
** May not be entirely an example since you're helping out a party member instead of an NPC this time, but in his character quest, Oghren asks for the PC's help in getting an old flame of his interested in him again.
** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Aveline's sidequest involves her attempting to court a fellow member of the city guards. Depending on whether you like plots like this, it's either absolutely hilarious or excruciatingly painful to observe. Or anything in-between.

** In ''VideoGame/FableII'', the player can find a date for a farmer's son. The farmer would like you to set him up with a nice girl, but he would prefer a nice boy.
*** Fable II also has another event that either inverts or subverts this depending on what you do. There is a ghost who was left by their fiancé at the altar and in revenge they enlist you to woo their (still living) ex and then crush their heart so they'll share the same pain they did. You can either choose to follow up with this or to derail the would-be revenge plot by [[BecomingTheMask actually falling in love with said ex]]. Either way, [[spoiler: the ex had eventually realized either way what they did to their dead ex was wrong and apologized, but if you had dumped the living partner of the two, they'll commit suicide and realize too late not only did the ghost make a mistake, but the (new ghost) ex learns of the ruse and leaves both of you]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', Angela Staley wants to catch the eye of Diego. However, he's an acolyte and doesn't really have the option of wooing her AND staying in the church. There are three options here:

** Also, Ronald Laren would like The Nuka-Cola Challenge to be this, but it doesn't work out that way. As in, you have the option of giving him the dough after fetching it so that he can use it to take advantage of her naiveté but this nets you bad karma, even though he doesn't succeed because the target is too stupid to understand his advances. If you want to be evil and have a female character, ''you can tell him to fetch the dough himself by proposing a threesome''; he rushes off eagerly, only to get killed.

** ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' has a sidequest near the middle of the storyline where you can match up a pair of generals [[LoveAcrossBattlelines on the opposite sides of a war]] (naturally, the quest can't be completed until ''after'' you stop said war). [[spoiler:[[YankTheDogsChain Then one of them suffers a]] PlotlineDeath [[YankTheDogsChain soon afterwards]]]]

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' has an asari and a krogan in a relationship, but she's having doubts now that he's starting to take it seriously. You can convince her to continue the relationship or break it off. If you convince her to continue the relationship, you encounter the couple again on Tuchanka, the krogan homeworld. You overhear the krogan trying to explain to his asari girlfriend why living on a barren, barely habitable krogan wasteland is ''so much better'' than living on an ultra-modern asari-ruled planet... And then, in the third game, [[spoiler: [[ShootTheShaggyDog he dies on a mission for the krogans.]] But they have a kid together, apparently...]]
** Also in the third game, there's an option to encourage Joker and [[spoiler:EDI]] to get together. Or, alternately, discourage it.

See also the closely related, more generalised trope SidequestSidestory.

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* This is pretty much your main goal in ''VideoGame/HamtaroHamHamHeartbreak''.

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*** Fable II also has another event that either inverts or subverts this depending on what you do. There is a ghost who was left by their fiance at the altar and in revenge they enlist you to woo their (still living) ex and then crush their heart so they'll share the same pain they did. You can either choose to follow up with this or to derail the would-be revenge plot by [[BecomingTheMask actually falling in love with said ex]]. Either way, [[spoiler: the ex had eventually realized either way what they did to their dead ex was wrong and apologized, but if you had dumped the living partner of the two, they'll commit suicide and realize too late not only did the ghost make a mistake, but the (new ghost) ex learns of the ruse and leaves both of you]].

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* In the offshoot ''VideoGame/RuneFactory'' series (think VideoGame/HarvestMoon combined with ''Zelda''), your PC has his own.
** In ''VideoGame/RuneFactory2'', a successful marriage unlocks 2/3 of the game
** In ''VideoGame/RuneFactory3'', it is the only way to win the game.

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** And, in the offshoot ''VideoGame/RuneFactory'' series (think VideoGame/HarvestMoon combined with ''Zelda''), your PC has his own MatchMakerQuest.
*** In ''VideoGame/RuneFactory2'', a successful marriage unlocks 2/3 of the game
*** In ''VideoGame/RuneFactory3'', it is the only way to win the game.