History MultipleEndings / RolePlayingGames

* ''[[{{LISA}} LISA: The Joyful]]'' has one, depending on whether Buddy chooses to take the Joy vaccine after killing Yado. If she does, a TimeSkip shows her years later, alive and with a young child, guarded by a seemingly domesticated Joy Mutant Brad. If she doesn't, she becomes a Joy Mutant herself.

* ''VideoGame/CuteKnight'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/CuteKnightKingdom'' have twenty or thirty endings apiece, mostly depending on your job, sin level, and the amount of adventuring you did, although there are a couple of "special endings" like marrying a prince or becoming a mermaid.

* ''VisualNovel/LongLiveTheQueen'', also made by Creator/HanakoGames, has over a dozen bad endings depicting the princess' demise, ranging from swords and arrows to poisoned chocolate. It only has one good end, where Elodie gets crowned queen. However, depending on the many choices and possible ways to reach coronation, pictures styled like stained glass describe what happened afterwards. Some are heart-warming and some are delightfully evil.

* Creator/HanakoGames specializes in multiple endings. ''VideoGame/CuteKnight'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/CuteKnightKingdom'' have twenty or thirty endings apiece, mostly depending on your job, sin level, and the amount of adventuring you did, although there are a couple of "special endings" like marrying a prince or becoming a mermaid. ''Charm School'' has about twenty different endings for each of the three main characters, depending on which classes they took and whether they had a good or bad attitude at the end of the game. ''VisualNovel/MagicalDiary - Horse Hall'' has five or six major endings to your year at wizard school, and they've also got several visual novels.

** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' has four endings depending on which of the titular three houses you pick at the beginning of the game. The Black Eagles have two endings depending on whether you [[spoiler:side with Edelgard or the Church]] at the end of the WhamEpisode.

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* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** ''[[VideoGame/MassEffect1 Mass Effect]]'' has three endings, with a minor variation depending on which ending you chose and whether your Paragon or Renegade meter is higher. [[spoiler:If you save the Council, humanity is given a seat on the council with either Anderson or Udina as the representative of Earth. If you deliberately let the Council die, humanity becomes the ''sole'' species of the Council, with either Anderson or Udina as Chairman. if you choose to concentrate on Sovereign, which ''[[FailureToSaveMurder incidentally]]'' leads to the Council's death, your ending will be decided by your KarmaMeter: If more Paragon, humanity will establish a new Council, with a human Chairman (either Anderson or Udina) leading a multi-species Council. If a Renegade, Udina will use your ruthlessness to lead humanity into ruling the galaxy with an entirely human Council.]]
** Being a game with a heavy emphasis on player choice, even the ''dungeons'' in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' can have slightly different endings depending on what order you tackle them in and the choices you make in each dungeon. A good example is in Noveria, where the boss fight with [[spoiler:Matriarch Benezia]] will play out slightly differently depending on whether or not you have [[spoiler:Liara T'soni]] in your party, whether your brought her along with you, and whether or not you choose to save or wipe out the Rachni. You also get an extra cutscene if you bring Wrex and decide to save the Rachni, where he chews you out for saving an obviously evil bug race that the Krogan dedicated themselves to wiping out years ago. And all that is just in ''the final act of one dungeon''. Let's not get started on [[WhamEpisode Virmire]]...
** The ending of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' can literally range anywhere from EverybodysDeadDave to the GoldenEnding due to the absolutely deadly nature of the suicide mission. In addition, there's [[spoiler:keeping the Collector Base or not, sticking with Cerberus or not, the implications of not doing certain loyalty missions, particularly Samara's (which has your ending leave an immoral serial killer on the loose), etc.]] Let's face it, the Mass Effect series and its game importing power take multiple endings to the point of SerialEscalation.
** Interestingly, NoCanonForTheWicked could be considered to be inverted -- if you start a new character in ''Mass Effect 2'', he/she will have made all the bad choices ([[spoiler:Wrex died, the council died, Shepard chose Udina rather than Anderson, the Rachni were wiped out -- the only highly significant one that may turn out 'as expected' is that Shepard will save Kaiden if female and Ashley if male]]). This led to many people starting from Mass Effect 2 to either import someone else's character with the desired decisions, or use a save editor to create the character they want. As discussed on CuttingOffTheBranches, some fans speculate this is a sneaky way of encouraging players to play the first game instead of jumping into the sequel blind. On the other hand, the [=PS3=] version, due to the first game never being released for that system, includes an interactive comic book that allows the players to make decisions about major events.
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' has three choices for the ending (four in the extended cut) [[spoiler:which boils down to which decision you make at the very end of the game. There are variations of the original three endings, depending on the state of galactic readiness, with low levels of readiness causing damage to Earth, if not the outright destruction of all life in the galaxy.]]
*** [[spoiler:Control: Shepard merges their consciousness with the Reapers' hive mind to force them to stop their attack on Earth and retreat into dark space.]]
*** [[spoiler:Destroy: Shepard triggers the destruction of all Reapers, but in so doing, also condemns all other synthetic life (including the Geth) to extinction. With a high-enough level of galactic readiness, Shepard can survive this outcome.]]
*** [[spoiler:Synthesis: Shepard triggers a merger between all organic and synthetic life in the galaxy.]]
*** [[spoiler:Refusal: Shepard chooses none of the above and allows the Reapers to continue their cleansing of all life in the galaxy. The next generation of organic life manages to destroy the Reapers, however, thanks to Liara's time capsules giving them the information they need.]]
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%%* The ''VideoGame/OgreBattle'' games.
* ''VideoGame/RadiataStories'' has two endings which depend entirely on one choice about midway through the game. One is a DownerEnding and the other is {{bittersweet|Ending}}, at best.
** They're both arguably bittersweet.
* The ''VideoGame/StarOcean'' {{RPG}}s feature this prominently.
** In the first ''VideoGame/StarOcean1'', the way the main character reacts with the other characters affects his RelationshipValues with them, which in turn affect the way the story unfolds and which of the the MultipleEndings the player gets.
** ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory'' has 87 ending sequences that are primarily used as resolution and are determined by how the various characters relate to each other. Because you have up to 8 characters, you will see 4-8 of these sequences during the endings (depending on how many characters are paired up with others). In addition, the beginning of the game gives the player the option of choosing to play as either Claude or Rena (the two protagonists), giving a different point-of-view for each choice.
** This is a common trope in the ''VideoGame/StarOcean'' series in general, only averted with the ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheLastHope''.

* In addition to a ModularEpilogue, ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'' has a more traditional approach to multiple endings: when you get to the BigBad, you're given the option of either destroying him (your original goal) or siding with him. [[spoiler:The latter leads to a bad ending where your character rules over a world now completely devoid of life.]]
** [[spoiler:Which is somewhat dissonant with the buildup to that choice. If the player sides with Kerghan, then it is with full awareness that he plans to kill every living thing, the player and himself included. Yet the game portrays it as some shocking FaceHeelTurn when it says that Kerghan eventually "turned" on the player.]]
* The ''[[VideoGame/ExaPico Ar tonelico]]'' series has this, partially owing to its DatingSim hybrid nature. For instance, the first game has seven endings based on which girl you choose and certain choices that will end the game early.

* ''VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar'' had four endings for four parties. One could argue [[spoiler:nuclear winter, or starting a genocidal, technophobic, fascist regime]] are the bad endings, the other two [[spoiler:force their idea of a perfect society on the world.]]
** And then there's the hidden [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Dance Club]] ending, which you can reach by flushing a toilet in the final level while carrying a flag.

* ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' has four endings: "[[HeroicSacrifice The Ultimate Sacrifice]]" ([[spoiler:the Warden dies after slaying the Archdemon]]), "[[SequelHook A Dark Promise]]" ([[spoiler:EverybodyLives, but Morrigan gives birth to a Gray Warden's son who may or may not be TheAntiChrist]]), "[[SadisticChoice Warden-Commander]]" ([[spoiler:Alistair slays the Archdemon and dies]]), and "[[RedemptionEqualsDeath Redeemer]]" ([[spoiler:the Warden spares Teyrn Loghain's life, who kills the Archdemon and dies]]). There are also a myriad of variations in the text-only epilogue, depending on a handful of choices you've made throughout the game.
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening'' has two endings, but with major variations: "Amaranthine's Last Hope" ([[spoiler:the Warden-Commander saves the city of Amaranthine from Darkspawn, but the Vigil's Keep is destroyed]]) and "Keeper of the Vigil" ([[spoiler:the Warden-Commander saves the Keep, but Amaranthine is burned to the ground]]). One variation was that combining the first ending with the "Enduring Vigil" Achievement meant that [[spoiler:neither the city, nor the fortress ever fell]], making it the GoldenEnding. The second variation was whether the Architect is killed or spared.
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' has two endings: Mage ([[spoiler:Hawke sides with the mages, starts a revolution, and skips town]]), and Templar ([[spoiler:Hawke sides with the Templars, crushes the Kirkwall mage rebellion, and is crowned Viscount]]). [[YouCantFightFate Regardless of your choices]], however, the overall outcome of the game is always [[spoiler:an all-out war between Mages and Templars across Thedas no later than three years after the ending, and Hawke ultimately disappearing (with love interest, if there was one)]].
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' also has different endings based on important decisions throughout the game, the focus on who is made Divine, what they do, and what companions stay on. The ''Trespasser'' DLC is a straighter example where choices made in the main game have a large impact here, and the Inquisition can become a political force, your former ally's personal army, or disband with the idea being they will be more secure but weaker, and whether the issue is resolved with diplomacy or aggression. Several of your companions also have different resolutions depending on how you handle them.

* The ''VideoGame/GuardianHeroes'' series managed to dodge the need to, as well. This time, not by choosing all of the endings, but '''none''' of them. The "ending" that's the kick-off for ''Advance Guardian Heroes'' is loosely based on one of the endings from the first game, but redoes it as a bad ending; a variation that doesn't exist in the original game, which simply doesn't have any bad endings, just several, very different good ones.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'':

** ''VideoGame/FableII'' is odd in that although it leaves almost every ''other'' choice throughout the game ambiguous, it makes the Evil ending for the original game, and the Good ending for the Lost Chapters segment canon.
** ''VideoGame/FableII'''s ending sequence actually ''lacks'' a "good" or "evil" choice. [[spoiler:Regardless of your goodness or evilness, you kill the guy you've been after for the entire game, either out of revenge (evil) or to save the world (good), and that's only implied. But, afterwards, you get the option of making a wish, and can choose to either revive everyone that died in the BigBad's evil scheme (the "good" choice), you can choose to revive your family and dog (the "neutral" choice), or you can wish for more money than you know what to do with (the "evil" choice). All choices have little effect on the world at large. Instead, the major world changes result entirely from your choices in the game: Old Town can be either pristine or a slum, the Temple of Light can flourish or be abandoned, and so on.]]
** ''Fable'' also has the flaw of your goodness and evilness being highly influenced by armour and clothing. One can easily switch back and forth by literally changing clothes (in fact, it is the only real way, as a good character in good clothing will have a very hard time becoming evil, even by slaughtering entire villages).

* The ''VideoGame/{{Langrisser}}'' series features multiple endings in every game except for the first (ironically, [[NoExportForYou the only game in the series to see an official release outside Japan]]). Not only are there multiple paths through the main plot, but the individual character epilogues can change depending on how actively they participated in battle, and how many times they were reduced to 0 HP.

* In ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance'', once you've defeated Doctor Doom, the Watcher explains how the decisions you made throughout the game (mostly whether or not you completed the {{Sidequest}}s) will affect the MarvelUniverse for the better or worse.
** Notable in that one quest results in a bad ending, no matter how you completed it. Mephisto offers you a SadisticChoice between saving Jean Grey or Nightcrawler. Saving Jean results in Mystique murdering Charles Xavier for allowing her son to die, whereas choosing Nightcrawler causes Dark Phoenix to escape hell and come to seek revenge on the X-Men for abandoning Jean. [[spoiler:There ''is'' a way to save both, if you've got Magneto in your party.]]

* ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'' has several different endings. [[spoiler:[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Armageddon]] [[YouCantFightFate happens in all of them]]]], but some cross the line from [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] into downright sadistic.
** Technically there's a good ending and a bad ending, with several different bonus cutscenes added to the bad ending depending on choices the player makes at the end of the game. Getting both endings and all the bad ending cutscenes is required to unlock the True Ending.

* ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve'':
** The first game has two different endings, and it's difficult to tell which one is officially canon. The standard ending for beating the game shows Aya and her friends watching the play from the game's start, when everyone in the audience gets glowing pink eyes, due to the mitochondria acting up. Aya rises up from her seat and the camera cuts to the stage to show the whole audience with glowing eyes. The alternate ending is obtained when you beat the BonusBoss, which shows Aya reverting back to normal (losing her powers) and just walking away.

** Oddly, the ending you get in Shadow Hearts: Covenant is not determined at all by your playing ability or uncovering secrets, but the way you answer a single question toward the end of the game. It can be argued that what this actually tests is how well the player understands Yuri's character, as picking the less in-character response will net you the bad ending (although which answer is really more in-character is quite debatable.)
*** Also unique in that [[spoiler:the good ending is the one where you die, and the bad ending is the one where you live. But it makes perfect sense in the story's context.]]

* The UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 game ''VideoGame/ShadowOfDestiny'' had five different endings (actually six -- two of them have the same ultimate result, but achieve it in different ways), determined by the choices you made at certain junctures and whether or not you'd witnessed certain missable events. Each ending filled in different details of the over-arcing plot, so it was necessary to play to all five of them to get the full picture of what was going on. Upon having seen all five of the endings, a new sixth (seventh) ending became available.
** There are actually two extra endings; one is the happiest possible ending and one is happy but leaves some unresolved issues. The first involves [[spoiler:the hero helping create the Elixer of Life instead of releasing Homunculus, thereby healing Dr. Wagner's wife.]] The other ending involves [[spoiler:removing the Homunculus from existence via a temporal paradox, but Dr. Wagner doesn't get to heal his wife.]] Both endings still achieve a similar result: [[spoiler:without Homunculus setting his plans into motion, underlying reasons of the story never come to pass, and Eike no longer exists because Wagner never wished for eternal youth.]]

** You can also unlock an endings where you or Badgerpaw become a medicine cat instead of a warrior. Or ''you'' could be a medicine cat. (Badgerpaw won't be happy with you though.)

* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'':
** The first game mostly comes down to which faction you side with in the end: [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized the Scoia'tael]], [[KnightTemplar the Order]], or [[OmnicidalNeutral yourself]].

* Steam's sales pitch for ''VideoGame/ArtifactAdventure'' includes the line "Everything you do determines which of over 70 endings you will get."

* Most of the ''VideoGame/{{Atelier}}'' games (published in the West by Nippon Ichi) have multiple endings; some of the earlier, free-form Atelier games have upwards of ''thirteen'' of them, ranging from good to bad. The ''Iris'' sub-series mostly did away with this, but for the ''Mana Khemia'' games and the ''Atelier'' outings on the DS, the concept returned with a vengeance. It'll be back '''[[MemeticMutation IN THE THUNDERDOME!]]''' with the upcoming ''Atelier Rorona'' for the [=PS3=]; that game is being touted as having '''''[[SerialEscalation thirty]]''''' such endings of various types, among the highest count in the history of the medium.
** It actually doesn't. There's 4 "quality" endings, dependent on how well you do with the store and how well you get along with the town populace, one for each secondary party member totalling 6, one for essentially getting everyone's character ending in one playthrough, one for being rich, one for making pies, and one for being an adventurer. That's a total of fourteen. However, only one of them can be gotten in each playthrough. It's quite a lot of work for Trophy hounds. The rest are essentially Game Overs.

** GameMod ''VideoGame/TheNamelessMod'' had six endings. Only two are availble on any story line, the rest depending on what faction you supported.

* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** ''[[VideoGame/MassEffect1 Mass Effect]]'' has three endings, with a minor variation depending on which ending you chose and whether your Paragon or Renegade meter is higher. [[spoiler:If you save the Council, humanity is given a seat on the council with either Anderson or Udina as the representative of Earth. If you deliberately let the Council die, humanity becomes the ''sole'' species of the Council, with either Anderson or Udina as Chairman. if you choose to concentrate on Sovereign, which ''[[FailureToSaveMurder incidentally]]'' leads to the Council's death, your ending will be decided by your KarmaMeter: If more Paragon, humanity will establish a new Council, with a human Chairman (either Anderson or Udina) leading a multi-species Council. If a Renegade, Udina will use your ruthlessness to lead humanity into ruling the galaxy with an entirely human Council.]]
** Being a game with a heavy emphasis on player choice, even the ''dungeons'' in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' can have slightly different endings depending on what order you tackle them in and the choices you make in each dungeon. A good example is in Noveria, where the boss fight with [[spoiler:Matriarch Benezia]] will play out slightly differently depending on whether or not you have [[spoiler:Liara T'soni]] in your party, whether your brought her along with you, and whether or not you choose to save or wipe out the rachni. You also get an extra cutscene if you bring Wrex and decide to save the rachni, where he chews you out for saving an obviously evil bug race that the krogan dedicated themselves to wiping out years ago. And all that is just in ''the final act of one dungeon''. Let's not get started on [[WhamEpisode Virmire]]...
** The ending of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' can literally range anywhere from EverybodysDeadDave to the GoldenEnding due to the absolutely deadly nature of the suicide mission. In addition, there's [[spoiler:keeping the Collector Base or not, sticking with Cerberus or not, the implications of not doing certain loyalty missions, particularly Samara's (which has your ending leave an immoral serial killer on the loose), etc.]] Let's face it, the Mass Effect series and its game importing power take multiple endings to the point of SerialEscalation.
** Interestingly, NoCanonForTheWicked could be considered to be inverted -- if you start a new character in ''Mass Effect 2'', he/she will have made all the bad choices ([[spoiler:Wrex died, the council died, Shepard chose Udina rather than Anderson, the Rachni were wiped out -- the only highly significant one that may turn out 'as expected' is that Shepard will save Kaiden if female and Ashley if male]]). This led to many people starting from Mass Effect 2 to either import someone else's character with the desired decisions, or use a save editor to create the character they want. As discussed on CuttingOffTheBranches, some fans speculate this is a sneaky way of encouraging players to play the first game instead of jumping into the sequel blind. On the other hand, the [=PS3=] version, due to the first game never being released for that system, includes an interactive comic book that allows the players to make decisions about major events.
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' has three choices for the ending (four in the extended cut) [[spoiler:which boils down to which decision you make at the very end of the game. There are variations of the original three endings, depending on the state of galactic readiness, with low levels of readiness causing damage to Earth, if not the outright destruction of all life in the galaxy.]]
*** [[spoiler:Control: Shepard merges their consciousness with the Reapers' hive mind to force them to stop their attack on Earth and retreat into dark space.]]
*** [[spoiler:Destroy: Shepard triggers the destruction of all Reapers, but in so doing, also condemns all other synthetic life (including the geth) to extinction. With a high-enough level of galactic readiness, Shepard can survive this outcome.]]
*** [[spoiler:Synthesis: Shepard triggers a merger between all organic and synthetic life in the galaxy.]]
*** [[spoiler:Refusal: Shepard chooses none of the above and allows the Reapers to continue their cleansing of all life in the galaxy. The next generation of organic life manages to destroy the Reapers, however, thanks to Liara's time capsules giving them the information they need.]]

** ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic VII'' had two, based on a mid-game choice. The good ending, in which [[spoiler:the colony's connection to an interstellar PortalNetwork is repaired]], was probably canon, but the evil ending, in which [[spoiler:the Heavenly Forge is repaired, allowing the evil guys -- which include your group -- to outfit their armies with blasters and other technological wonders]] ''was'' intended to be canon, before backlash amongst part of the fandom made the developers alter their previous plans for [[VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic Armageddon's Blade]].

* In ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarPortable'', there are three endings you can get depending on what you say when you're with or even to Vivienne. The bad ending [[spoiler:involves [[HeroicSacrifice Vivienne sealing the Hive from the inside,]] leaving Helga to escape to later arrive at GUARDIANS HQ with Howzer.]] The neutural ending [[spoiler:involves the above, but Vivienne ends up taking Helga with her, leaving the Player Character to be suspended (which is treated more as a vacation).]] And finally, the good ending [[spoiler:has Vivienne sealing Helga inside of the Hive.]] However, this [[spoiler:[[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished leads to both Vivienne and the Player Character being discharged from the GUARDIANS,]] turning this into a BittersweetEnding.]]

* The UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 game ''VideoGame/ShadowOfDestiny'' had five different endings (actually six -- two of them have the same ultimate result, but achieve it in different ways), determined by the choices you made at certain junctures and whether or not you'd witnessed certain missable events. Each ending filled in different details of the overarcing plot, so it was necessary to play to all five of them to get the full picture of what was going on. Upon having seen all five of the endings, a new sixth (seventh) ending became available.

** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' has three entirely different campaigns, each with their own ending. In the first two, the PlayerCharacter is hailed as a hero and helps his/her chosen family, working hard to restore peace. In the third one [[spoiler: the Avatar becomes the King/Queen of the new Kingdom of Valla once the old one is sealed away, leading it to prosperity as the other two kingdoms alos reach a golden age.]]

* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' had four endings: "[[HeroicSacrifice The Ultimate Sacrifice]]" ([[spoiler:the Warden dies after slaying the Archdemon]]), "[[SequelHook A Dark Promise]]" ([[spoiler:EverybodyLives, but Morrigan gives birth to a Gray Warden's son who may or may not be TheAntiChrist]]), "[[SadisticChoice Warden-Commander]]" ([[spoiler:Alistair slays the Archdemon and dies]]), and "[[RedemptionEqualsDeath Redeemer]]" ([[spoiler:the Warden spares Teyrn Loghain's life, who kills the Archdemon and dies]]). There are also a myriad of variations in the text-only epilogue, depending on a handful of choices you've made throughout the game.
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening'' had two endings, but with major variations: "Amaranthine's Last Hope" ([[spoiler:the Warden-Commander saves the city of Amaranthine from Darkspawn, but the Vigil's Keep is destroyed]]) and "Keeper of the Vigil" ([[spoiler:the Warden-Commander saves the Keep, but Amaranthine is burned to the ground]]). One variation was that combining the first ending with the "Enduring Vigil" Achievement meant that [[spoiler:neither the city, nor the fortress ever fell]], making it the GoldenEnding. The second variation was whether the Architect is killed or spared.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'', you can play as good or evil. However, in both the original and the "Lost Chapters" expansion, the choice of the "good" ending or the "evil" ending is a conscious decision made by the player between when the final boss is killed and when the ending movie starts.

* ''[[VideoGame/MassEffect1 Mass Effect]]'' has three endings, with a minor variation depending on which ending you chose and whether your Paragon or Renegade meter is higher. [[spoiler:If you save the Council, humanity is given a seat on the council with either Anderson or Udina as the representative of Earth. If you deliberately let the Council die, humanity becomes the ''sole'' species of the Council, with either Anderson or Udina as Chairman. if you choose to concentrate on Sovereign, which ''[[FailureToSaveMurder incidentally]]'' leads to the Council's death, your ending will be decided by your KarmaMeter: If more Paragon, humanity will establish a new Council, with a human Chairman (either Anderson or Udina) leading a multi-species Council. If a Renegade, Udina will use your ruthlessness to lead humanity into ruling the galaxy with an entirely human Council.]]
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' has a few dialogue changes based on how you played the first one, and minor characters reappear.

*** The ending of [=ME2=] can literally range anywhere from EverybodysDeadDave to the GoldenEnding due to the absolutely deadly nature of the suicide mission. In addition, there's [[spoiler:keeping the Collector Base or not, sticking with Cerberus or not, the implications of not doing certain loyalty missions, particularly Samara's (which has your ending leave an immoral serial killer on the loose), etc.]] Let's face it, the Mass Effect series and its game importing power take multiple endings to the point of SerialEscalation.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' has three choices for the ending (four in the extended cut) [[spoiler:which boils down to which decision you make at the very end of the game. There are variations of the original three endings, depending on the state of galactic readiness, with low levels of readiness causing damage to Earth, if not the outright destruction of all life in the galaxy.]]
** [[spoiler:Control: Shepard merges their consciousness with the Reapers' hive mind to force them to stop their attack on Earth and retreat into dark space.]]
** [[spoiler:Destroy: Shepard triggers the destruction of all Reapers, but in so doing, also condemns all other synthetic life (including the geth) to extinction. With a high-enough level of galactic readiness, Shepard can survive this outcome.]]
** [[spoiler:Synthesis: Shepard triggers a merger between all organic and synthetic life in the galaxy.]]
** [[spoiler:Refusal: Shepard chooses none of the above and allows the Reapers to continue their cleansing of all life in the galaxy. The next generation of organic life manages to destroy the Reapers, however, thanks to Liara's time capsules giving them the information they need.]]

* The French indie RPG ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'' has two endings. [[spoiler:After you learn the true natures of [[OmnicidalManiac the Batter]] and his "[[KillEmAll sacred]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt mission]]", you are given a LastSecondEndingChoice: you can either stick with the Batter and see his mission through to the end, or you can betray him, side with the Judge, and kill him to protect what's left.]]

** The "Neutral" endings: Defeat the standard FinalBoss and the one following him. The ending you get afterwards depends on a multitude of factors:

** ** Version 2.40 added a secret ending obtainable by picking up all [=NPCs=] without selling or discarding them. Demon Lord Dolhabach will be concerned about the disappearance of life on the island and asks Weaco to sell or discard everyone to restore them to their rightful place. If she refuses, Dolhabach will fight her in order to save everyone. After the battle, Weaco looks upon the lifeless wasteland that she created and thinks to herself, "I messed up!"

*** [[spoiler:Toriel Reigns: Befriend Sans and Papyrus, and do not kill any monsters. Toriel becomes the new queen of the Underground, disbands the Royal Guard, and institutes a new policy where humans are to be treated as friends rather than enemies. Even though the king's plan to destroy the barrier has failed and the human souls are gone, she works hard to keep spirits high.]]
*** [[spoiler:Betrayed Undyne: Spare Toriel, kill fewer than ten monsters and/or Mettaton. Toriel becomes the new queen of the Underground. Undyne is depressed over the loss of her job and home, and now lives with Sans and Papyrus while working at Sans's illegal hot dog stand in Hotland.]]
*** [[spoiler:Toriel Exiled: Spare Toriel, kill at least ten monsters, Papyrus, and/or Undyne. Toriel becomes the new queen of the Underground and tries to institute a policy of accepting humans with open arms, but her policy is met with backlash and she is either usurped by Undyne (provided she's alive), or resigns and returns to the ruins.]]
*** [[spoiler:Undyne Reigns: Kill Toriel, spare Undyne. Undyne becomes the new queen of the underground and plans to restart the King's plan to collect human souls, destroy the barrier, and wage war with humanity.]]

*** [[spoiler:An Annoying Dog Reigns: Kill all of the bosses, but do not kill any other monsters. Somehow, a small white dog becomes the new king of the underground. He sleeps and does nothing, but it works out.]]
*** [[spoiler: No Ruler: Kill all of the bosses and at least one other monster. No one takes the throne, and the underground continues to deteriorate as monsters believe they are doomed to die in their subterranean prison.]]
*** [[spoiler:Alphys Reigns: Play a "Genocide" run until you reach Hotland, then do not kill every monster in that area. Alphys becomes the new queen of the Underground, inspired by Undyne the Undying's dying words. For her part in hiding the monsters away from the murderous human, she is elected ruler, although she is still anxious around people and regrets not killing you when she had the chance.]]

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' has three choices for the ending, with the choices available and aftermath of the final battle varying depending on the player's Effective Military Strength rating. Ultimately, the choice comes down to [[spoiler:[[KillEmAll annihilating the Reapers]] along with all other synthetic life in the galaxy, [[BrainUploading uploading your mind into the Reaper fleet]] and controlling them, or fusing organics and synthetics into a new hybrid-form.]] The aftermath of each choice is similar: [[spoiler:the mass relay network is damaged, and the Normandy crashes on a jungle planet]]. The fourth option, [[spoiler:Refusal, has Shepard ignore the superweapon, and causes the [[TheBadGuyWins Reapers to win]], exterminating all the sentient species in the galaxy. However, several [[FlingALightIntoTheFuture caches of information]] survive and allow the next cycle of sentient life to fight the Reapers and win.]] Your moral choices affect the outcome of each choice, such as a Renegade Shepard taking the [[spoiler:Control ending, resulting in them setting themself up effectively as a [[AGodAmI god-like dictator]]]], as does your Effective Military Strength; having too little EMS will result in the [[spoiler:Crucible misfiring, causing a fireball that kills all Reapers, but also [[PyrrhicVictory effectively destroys all life on Earth, and most of the starships in the galaxy]].]]

** Interesting that it had a ScrewThisImOuttaHere ending, because the lack of save games resulted in more than a few players choosing such an ending themselves, rather than finish the thing.

* ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}} IV'' has a good ending, an evil ending (which also has three distinct branches), and the first-ever GoldenEnding in a video game. The good ending involves changing Werdna's alignment and doing tasks for the Citadel, culminating in a pretty hefty reparation fee. The evil ending has Werdna [[spoiler:fight Kadorto and [[AGodAmI ascend to godhood]]]]; how this plays out depends on which of the three magic swords you bring to the FinalBoss. The GoldenEnding plays out similarly, except with an item that you only get from [[spoiler:going to the secret 11th floor of the dungeon and walking the [[UsefulNotes/{{Kabbalah}} Tree of Life]]]].

* In [[Videogame/WarriorsTheRoadToImmortality: There are multiple ways to play the game, each which slightly changes the story.

* Most of the ''VideoGame{{Atelier}}'' games (published in the West by Nippon Ichi) have multiple endings; some of the earlier, free-form Atelier games have upwards of ''thirteen'' of them, ranging from good to bad. The ''Iris'' sub-series mostly did away with this, but for the ''Mana Khemia'' games and the ''Atelier'' outings on the DS, the concept returned with a vengeance. It'll be back '''[[MemeticMutation IN THE THUNDERDOME!]]''' with the upcoming ''Atelier Rorona'' for the [=PS3=]; that game is being touted as having '''''[[SerialEscalation thirty]]''''' such endings of various types, among the highest count in the history of the medium.

** Likewise the expansion ''Hearts of Stone'' has two potential endings: either [[spoiler:Gaunter O'Dimm claims his due from Olgierd and grants Geralt a boon (a magic saddle for Roach, a horn of plenty that provides endless food, a bottle of strong alcohol that never runs out, a considerable sum of money or some information about Ciri that gives the player a clue as to how to get the good ending for the main story)]], or [[spoiler:Geralt challenges O'Dimm for the right to Olgierd's soul, wins and Olgierd gives Geralt his prized sabre before departing to turn his life around.]]

* ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'' plays with this interestingly. In most of the "Nodes" in each of the two histories, it is possible, through certain actions (some less obvious than others), to screw things up so badly that you get "treated" to a (oftentimes [[NightmareFuel horrific]] and/or [[TearJerker tragic]]) BAD END before being booted to the previous Node to try again. [[spoiler:The final ending will also change depending on which sidequests were completed.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}} IV'' has a good ending, an evil ending (which also has three distinct branches), and the GoldenEnding. The good ending involves changing Werdna's alignment and doing tasks for the Citadel, culminating in a pretty hefty reparation fee. The evil ending has Werdna [[spoiler:fight Kadorto and [[AGodAmI ascend to godhood]]]]; how this plays out depends on which magic sword you bring to the FinalBoss. The GoldenEnding plays out similarly, except with an item that you only get from [[spoiler:going to the secret 11th floor of the dungeon and walking the [[UsefulNotes/{{Kabbalah}} Tree of Life]]]].

* ''VideoGame/SweetHome'' has five endings. The ending you get is determined by how many members of your group are still alive at the end. The 'best ending' is actually a TheEndOrIsIt ending, while the rest are more bittersweet than [[DownerEnding downers.]]

** Beating the FinalBoss with -15 or less karma will result in [[spoiler:Jeannie taking the throne in order to start an extermination campaign against all the undead, for the sake of humans. Worse yet, she starts by tearfully killing Marta, who was an undead all along]].
** Winning with 15 or more karma will result in [[spoiler:Jeannie taking the throne, but this time to kill all humans and turn them all into undead, under the reasoning that they'll be happier as immortals. Marta survives in this ending, but ends up becoming TheDragon to Jeannie.]]
** Failing to meet either karma requirement will result in [[spoiler:Marta advising Jeannie to go into the doors to heaven, but she refuses because she has blood on her hands and because she wants to remain with her brother. Jeannie becomes queen and is unsure about the future, but avoids being a WellIntentionedExtremist like in the above routes.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' does the same as ''New Vegas'': you get four distinct factions locked in a war, and you work alternately for each of them until the game culminates in a final epic mission which sees your chosen faction wipe out the others and dominate the Commonwealth. Your choices this time are the [[BadassArmy Brotherhood of Steel]], the [[ForScience Institute]], the [[UndergroundRailroad Railroad]] and the [[WeHelpTheHelpless Minutemen]]. All the choices are {{Bittersweet Ending}}s: [[spoiler:If the Brotherhood win, the Commonwealth enjoys stability and prosperity like never before... but you have probably just consigned the synths, ghouls and super mutants of the region to extinction. If the Institute win, for better or worse the Commonwealth will be a test-bed for their experiments and the people just have to hope they ''try'' to change things for the better under the new leadership. If the Railroad win, the synths are all finally free but few people in the Commonwealth will see any change for the better. If the Minutemen win, then humans and synths can have a hand in building a new nation together, but with existing animosities between the two sides, no-one knows for sure if this will last.]]