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** ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'', similar to ''VideoGame/BreathOfTheWild'', regularly respawns defeated enemies and guardians at regular intervals in "Starfall" events.

* An area of Silver's Kingdom Valley level in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' has two enemies that you can down, only for two more to come down onto the opposite side. Defeat those and two more will come down on the opposite side of them and so on and so forth.

* ''VideoGame/ShantaeRiskysRevenge'': Enemies usually respawn when they get off screen.

* ''Videogame/AloneInTheDarkTheNewNightmare'' has plenty of monsters that will spontaneously regenerate when the player leaves the room and return. Not too big a deal, until you find out that health and ammunition items ''don't'' self replenish. Ever. This serves as an outstanding example of why the trope is so rarely used in SurvivalHorror. The UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor version does the same thing, but also sports RPG-style RandomEncounters that thrust the player into a [[FightWoosh dedicated combat zone]]. Unfortunately, there are also no melee attacks and no way to flee these monster battles, so running out of ammunition during a fight renders the game UnwinnableByDesign.

* In the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] version of ''VideoGame/CoolSpot'', the enemies that Spot destroys respawn after he loses a life. They don't respawn in the [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Genesis]] version.

* In ''Plan B'' for the UsefulNotes/BBCMicro, the often numerous MechaMooks in each room spawn and respawn quickly in random locations.

* ''VideoGame/{{Qwak}}'': In the original UsefulNotes/BBCMicro version, enemies would respawn [[TurnsRed faster and tougher]] a few seconds after they were killed. This was removed entirely in later versions.

** Used in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' as enemies in a few areas will constantly spawn, however there are places in the game that have a ridiculous amount of enemies spawn one after another that it can be mistaken that the whole game has it.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}'': Most enemies do not respawn, however there are exceptions, usually those enemies that suddenly pop up from the foreground/background for an ambush. Those will respawn as soon as you scroll off the screen far enough from their ambush point. There's also one section in Quaria with never-ending streams of starfish that bounce down a slope.

* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' possess a unique respawn system where enemies would be arranged in a mostly random fashion as you traverse an area and would respawn in areas a short distance off screen. While it means that there is no limit to the amount of enemies in a level, it is actually a system that's heavily beneficial to the player. The obvious application being that it is very easy to grind when you want, but since the enemies were randomized each time you moved away from and returned to an area, you could /choose/ whether or not you encountered certain enemies or groups of enemies by waiting till you found a bunch you were willing to fight (or not fight).

** In most, if not all, other ''Castlevania'' games, enemies respawn when you leave, then re-enter a room.

* ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}} 8'' - not only your enemies respawn when you leave the area or go to sleep, they always "evolve" to match your level.

* In ''{{TabletopGame/Zombicide}}'', the undead spawn from specific points every turn. Even better, characters have an experience track that progresses with each kill and grants them new abilities whenever they pass a threshold. But when that happens, the spawn points are designed to LevelUp as well and release more and/or tougher ennemies.

* Towards the end of ''[[VideoGame/TouhouProject Fantasy Explorer Nitroid]]'''s Extra Stage, there are red-color Kedamas that explode upon hitting something and are the only normal enemies that can die. They endlessly spawn from a red-color smiley face and you need to guide them into walls that they can break.

** In ''VideoGame/{{Halo 2}}'', the [[ThatOneBoss Prophet of Regret]] and Tartarus both have respawning reinforcements On Easy, it's the ''player'' who has respawning reinforcements in the fight against Tartarus..

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Monsters stay dead for a long time. However, every time a [[BadMoonRising Blood Moon]] comes around, it revives ''everything''.

* Every ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' game uses respawning enemies, who can drop items. Generally they don't respawn until you go a few screens away and come back.
** In the original ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'', it was possible to save yourself a lot of fighting if you knew that enemies only respawn ''if you kill all of them on a screen''. If you killed all the enemies but one, it would stay like that for the rest of the session, making it a lot safer to walk through the rooms you've cleaned out.

** The game does this understandably as the in-game Manhattan [[SpaceCompression very much downsized]], therefore you'd run out of things to kill very quickly with your obscenely powerful abilities. Most of the entity regeneration occurs off-camera.

** This was kept up throughout the Lego series, and the one level in each game in which you ''can't'' stem the flow of infinitely respawning baddies is usually the most hated in the game: Defense of Kashyyyk ''(Lego Star Wars)'', Pursuing the Ark ''(Lego Indiana Jones)'', and A Poisonous Appointment ''(Lego Batman)''.

* The Nightmare difficulty in the ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' games has this as part of what makes it so hard, where ''any'' enemy that leaves a corpse would get back up after a random interval that could be anywhere from eight seconds to five minutes (usually closer to the former).

* Averted in the early ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor'' games, where there are a fixed amount of enemies in each level. Installments from ''Allied Assault'' onwards, however, occasionally employ this trope.

* Endless respawning enemies often occur in the ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor'' games, particularly "Escape from Trondheim" and "The Communications Blackout" in ''Allied Assault'', and the bridge level in ''Frontline''. They usually spawn BehindTheBlack, but can sometimes teleport in in plain sight.