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* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'': [[EmpathicWeapon Blades]] can be released from your roster at any time. While this isn't exactly a nice fate, as it returns them to a Core Crystal and wipes their memories, common blades will give you items. These items depend on how many affinity chart nodes of theirs are filled out, with a completed chart for a 4-crown quality blade handing out the ultra-rare Ovedrive Protocol. [[spoiler:Makes sense, since gathering residual memories and returning to a core is part of their natural life cycle]]. Rare Blades, with unique appearances and more developed personalities, while still giving items will ''never'' take it well when they're released.

* ''VideoGame/DressUpTimePrincess'':Sending away a pet rewards you with Feed, although you do lose Kitty Fame points if the cat in question is not new. The reward depends on the age and rarity of the kitten in question.

* ''VideoGame/ConceptionIIChildrenOfTheSevenStars'': Star Children you don't need any more can be sent to become workers in the city. This is framed as something they genuinely enjoy doing, and is actually necessary, as they'll upgrade the town's facilities. You can see sprites of them working in town from time to time, showing them hard at work.

* ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife'': Any children of your Mii couples whom you don't wish to live on the island will instead be sent off to travel the islands. This is necessary to activate the game's [=StreetPass=] features, as traveling Miis will send home letters periodically containing items they found while traveling.

* ''VideoGame/Runescape'': You can sell animals that you've raised on your Manor Farm or Dinosaur Farm to NPC buyers who will pay you in Beans, a special currency used to purchase upgrades for the farm and other rewards.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'': [[EmpathicWeapon Blades]] can be released from your roster at any time. While this isn't exactly a nice fate, as it returns them to a Core Crystal and wipes their memories, common blades will give you items and will even be understanding at high affinity levels. [[spoiler: makes sense, since gathering residual memories and returning to a core is part of their natural life cycle]]. Rare Blades, with unique appearances and more developed personalities, while still giving items will ''never'' take it well when they're released.

[[caption-width-right:350:Safe travels, little guy.]]

* Merging two units below full health in ''[[Videogame/NintendoWars Advance Wars]]'' refunds the player based on how much excess health above the maximum the two units have together.

* In ''VideoGame/CassetteBeasts'', whenever you destroy a tape, you'll get a few [[PracticalCurrency resources]] and stickers.
* Mobile game ''Clusterduck'' has The Hole, where you "sacrifice" unwanted ducks. When you throw 10 ducks in The Hole, it unlocks the Duck-Off, a [=PvP=] battle using your sacrificed ducks that lets you get new duck parts from your opponent. Periodically, throwing ducks in The Hole will also unleash monsters that drop Cursed Eggs, the only way to get the high-rarity Cursed duck parts.
* In ''VideoGame/ConceptionIIChildrenOfTheSevenStars,'' Star Children you don't need any more can be sent to become workers in the city. This is framed as something they genuinely enjoy doing, and is actually necessary, as they'll upgrade the town's facilities. You can see sprites of them working in town from time to time, showing them hard at work.

* ''Pixel Cats' End'', a web game that grew out of a popular fan-made gacha adoptable set on ''VideoGame/FlightRising'', has the mechanic of sending cats to the city. When sent to the city, the cats drop packages containing currency and the postcard collection items, the latter of which can only be obtained from sending cats to the city or traveling.
* Mobile game ''Pocket Frogs'' periodically has requests from [=NPCs=] for frogs with specific genes, which reward large amounts of currency. Many of those requests involve the [=NPCs=] wanting the frogs for questionably ethical experiments which are almost certainly fatal.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''
** ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndEevee'' both share the "transferring" mechanic, where you can send extra Pokemon to the professor in exchange for candy which lets you power up Pokemon of the same evolutionary line.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'': Some of the Pokemon on your pastures drop grit gravel (an item that increases the stat levels of your mons by one) after you release them out to the wild.
* ''[[VideoGame/{{Rebuild}} Rebuild 2]]'':

* In ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife,'' any children of your Mii couples whom you don't wish to live on the island will instead be sent off to travel the islands. This is necessary to activate the game's [=StreetPass=] features, as traveling Miis will send home letters periodically containing items they found while traveling.

* The Helminth in ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' can be upgraded to subsume any standard (that is, non-[[BlingOfWar Prime]]) warframe, both freeing up an inventory slot and giving the option to override any other warframe's ability with one of the subsumed warframe's skills.

** ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'': Some of the pokemon on your pastures drop grit gravel (an item that increases the stat levels of your mons by one) after you release them out to the wild.

* The Helminth in ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' can be upgraded to subsume any standard (that is, non-[[BlingOfWar Prime]]) warframe, both freeing up an inventory slot and giving an option to override any other warframe's ability with one of the subsumed warframe's skills.

To remedy this problem, many BreedingSim and other games have a feature that gives the player some sort of reward for permanently removing unwanted creatures from the game, keeping them from eating, breeding, or otherwise taking up space. To avoid morbid implications, it's usually described as them being ReleasedToElsewhere, sold to an NPC, or if they're more sapient, sent on a mission or higher calling rather than being killed. However, these explanations' reminiscence to saying your pets were [[DogGotSentToAFarm sent to a nice farm upstate]] doesn't go unnoticed, and many players of DarkerAndEdgier persuasions interpret it in fan works as them being sacrificed. Some more BlackComedy-tinged games or titles where the creatures are clearly non-sapient may explicitly describe it as sacrificing them or sending them off to unethical experiments.

But not every unit is going to be one that someone else will want. If the game you're playing has BreedingSim mechanics, players generate hundreds or thousands of rejects while they're breeding for specific traits. If you're playing a game with GachaMechanics, you're likely to end up with duplicates while drawing for your goal. Not only do these unwanted creatures clutter up their owners' accounts, they can also raise concerns for the game's server space for web-based games.

* ''VideoGame/GundamBreakerMobile'' rewards you for destroying parts--the same parts you need to build and upgrade your Gunpla units. The rarer the part, the bigger the bounty of Scrap (a gear construction resource), Platinum Coins (an equipment currency), and especially Code Coins (a particularly rare bonus currency) you receive for your sacrifice. One risky strategy is to amass a number of parts of mid-range value, then destroy them en masse hoping to amass enough resources for your desired upgrade without sacrificing a much rarer Level 4+ unit.

But not every unit is going to be one that someone else will want. If the game you're playing has BreedingSim mechanics, players generate hundreds or thousands of rejects while they're breeding for specific traits. Not only do these unwanted creatures clutter up their owners' accounts, they can also raise concerns for the game's server space for web-based games.

* The Helminth in ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' can be upgraded to subsume any standard (that is, non-[[BlingOfWar Prime]]) warframe, both freeing up an inventory slot and giving an option to override any other warframe's ability with one of the subsumed warframe's skills.