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The second is achieved by playing all 8 chapters to their conclusion; this results in [[spoiler:the GreaterScopeVillain being unleashed, only for the party to destroy it once and for all]].

* The ''VideoGame/CuteKinght series, has them, 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:

** The second game, ''VideoGame/CuteKnightKingdom'' has around 40 endings.

** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' has four endings depending on which of the titular three houses you pick at the beginning of the game. If that numbering seems off, the Black Eagles have two endings depending on whether you [[spoiler:decide to kill or join Edelgard in the WhamEpisode where a major plot point is revealed. If you decide to kill her, she instead escapes but if you decide to join her, the player character escapes with her. ]]

* When ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER|1}}'' was translated, there were some changes to the game, even to the sprites themselves. The ending is included in the changes. When [[BigBad Giegue]] flees in the original Japanese version, [[spoiler:Ninten, Ana, and Loid turn around and stand there as the credits roll steadily behind them. Once "To Be Continued..." shows up, pressing a button makes the trio disappear.]] In the UpdatedRerelease ''MOTHER 1+2'', when Giegue flees, [[spoiler:an epilogue plays, showing: Ana reunited with her mother, who was abducted by Giegue; Teddy revealed to be okay and belting it out at the Live House; the kids in Youngtown reunited with their parents, who were also abducted; Ana returning to her house and telling Ninten and Loid that she'll never forget them; Loid being congratulated by the kids in Twinkle Elementary; Ninten coming home to be greeted by his family; Ana reading a letter given to her by Ninten; and Ninten taking a nap as all of the characters you've encountered in the game run by, ending with Ninten, Loid, Ana, and Teddy walking up and facing the screen. And then the credits roll, [[TheStinger ending with Ninten's dad calling on the phone.]]]]

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' has a very downplayed example: the ending cutscene is, overall, the same, but [[spoiler: the final scene is slightly different depending on whether you chose to refer to Pneuma as Pyra or Mythra. The camera will pan over to whichever girl you chose, at which point she silently mouths something to Rex before the scene ends.]]

* Creator/NipponIchi games such as the ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' series and ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom'', which also include a number of NonstandardGameOver endings as well. One of their earlier games, ''VideoGame/LaPucelleTactics'', gave most chapters ''within'' the story multiple endings, but only one final end. Well, unless you complete all the optional dungeons, which grants Prier a unique change of character... (And may be canon, considering her cameo in ''Disgaea''.)
** It should be noted that, aside from the first game, you actually have to put effort in to get a normal or bad end, such as killing over 100 team members in combat, while the true end is given by default. In the first game, killing ANY team member, even by accident, locks you out of the true ending. The game does not tell you this. As the series evolved, the other endings have come to rely less on team kills, to the point that the fourth game doesn't bother to track them. (The alternate endings are instead defined by play-set relationships to the protagonist, defeating bonus bosses, or being at a set level.)

** ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'' has two endings. The first can be triggered at pretty much any point from Chapter 5 to Chapter 8 by [[spoiler:defying Airy and blowing one of the Crystals up]]; this results in [[spoiler:Airy killing the party, only for them to be resurrected by a mysterious angel. The party kills her, although the GreaterScopeVillain escapes.]] The second is achieved by playing all 8 chapters to their conclusion; this results in [[spoiler:the GreaterScopeVillain being unleashed, only for the party to destroy it once and for all]].
** ''VideoGame/BravelyDefaultII'' has four endings - three legitimate endings unlocked in succession, plus a NonStandardGameOver unlocked by driving the plot OffTheRails.

*** [[spoiler:Terra]] will be forced into the ending regardless of whether you recruited her in the World of Ruin or not. [[DevelopersForesight There is an additional scene before the final battle to allow this scenario to make sense, even]].

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'' is a bit weird. There are eight "Paradox Endings," most of which are bittersweet (and one of them is just weird). There is also a Secret Ending obtained after getting all 160 fragments, [[spoiler:in which Caius taunts the player by telling them that all possible timelines lead to him winning.]]

*** ''VideoGame/WorldOfFinalFantasy'' is an odd example of this trope, [[spoiler: in which the bad ending (Lann seals himself and Brandelis away, with Reynn contracting a HeroicBSOD, returning to Nine Wood Hills depressed) needs to be completed in order to reach the good ending (which follows up from that by having Tama [[RetGone sacrifice herself]] to go back before the fake final battle, Reynn and Lann going to recruit the [[OlympusMons Pleiad]], then retrieving Tama during another quest, then [[BittersweetEnding defeating Brandelis, while going through the Ultma Gate to fix the problems they caused (long story), while promising they'll be back someday.]]]] And the true ending is essentially the good ending, but, after completing all the Intervention quests, it ends on [[TheStinger a post-credits scene where]] [[spoiler: Hauyn and Tama receive prismariums containing the twin's clones, sent to protect Grymoire, courtesy of Enna Kros.]]

** In Julian's story he can either refuse to serve as a [[BodyguardCrush bodyguard for Monika]] and have some minor dialogue with [[ChildhoodFriend Ellen]] if she's on the party or agree. If you do the latter and allow to elope with Monika and keep her for the rest of the game, [[spoiler: he will recieve a noble title from Mikhail and marry her.]]
** In Katarina's story if you retreive the Masquerade or not, [[spoiler: she will either return to Loanne and marry Mikhail but only if he's in the final party or she will wander the earth.]]
** In Ellen's story, she will either have dialogue with Julian or Sarah regarding of who is on the party with the former playing similarly to Julian's non bodyguard ending.
** In Monika's storyline, her ending will be the same as Julian's Noble ending [[spoiler: if he remains in her party for the rest of the game]] or she will convince her brother to delay her ArrangedMarriage.

*** [[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. If your killing spree was particularly large, Sans signs off with "see you in hell".]]

* In the obscure Namco game ''The Blue Crystal Rod'', the sequel to ''The Return of Ishtar'' (which is in turn the sequel to ''VideoGame/TheTowerOfDruaga''), there are ''forty-eight'' different endings, which depend on the players' actions. Most of the endings are positive, but there are a few [[DownerEnding negative]] endings as well.

** The negative endings mostly involve Gil becoming corrupted. Among them include Gil becoming an evil god and the Blue Crystal Rod breaking, being separated from Ki due to arrogance, or fighting against Anu and [[TakenForGranite turned into a statue]].

** The Normal Ending: Defeat all of the standard [[FinalBoss Final Bosses]]. [[spoiler: The Pale Wraith banishes STORM, while Til and Anon use the data from Arianna’s backup files to reconstruct the virtual world. The party returns to town, where Catie is allowed to walk around and meet with familiar faces from her adventure. Catie and Anonymous bid farewell to the others and take a carriage back home. In TheStinger, the Pale Wraith is revealed to be [[HijackedByGanon Boxxyfan]], who has hijacked STORM and uses it to restore his true avatar.]]
** The [[GoldenEnding True Ending]]: Witness the Normal Ending, and complete all thirteen Inbox sidequests. [[spoiler: Catie is summoned by the Sky Queen, who lives within the Sky Abyss. She reveals that Catie is a remnant of Virtua, and tries to reawaken the ancient goddess. Boxxyfan intervenes, slays the Sky Queen, and uses STORM’s power to duel Catie. In the chaos, [[GreaterScopeVillain Legion’s]] spirit awakens, and the beast re-assimilates itself and then fuses with STORM, creating the [[TrueFinalBoss Legion Singularity]]. Catie, Boxxyfan, and a newly-revived Arianna must put aside their differences and fight back as a team. Afterwards, the cast decide to go on holiday, [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue with scenes showing how everyone spends their vacation]].]]
** The [[GainaxEnding False/PC Ending]]: Reach Stratum 5 of the [[spoiler:Sky Abyss]], then return to Bell Cave and enter the new area. [[spoiler: The party is transported to a greyscale mirror of earth, where a mysterious being called Esoteraphim appears to judge them. After a brutal fight, Esoteraphim’s corpse is seen laying amidst the city skyline, with the party seemingly left stranded in this place. We then control a butterfly as it’s tasked to turn off a PC, and the screen fades to a symbolic image of buttercups in a field.]]

*** The End of Fire: You summon the Fire Keeper to the kiln. [[spoiler:She holds the fire until it goes out naturally, letting the age of dark come and the cycle continue, for better or ill. In the end, there is no final battle or dark lord. Just two people taking comfort in each others company.]]
*** Betrayal: The most unambiguously bad ending. You summon the Fire Keeper, [[spoiler:but instead of letting her take the fire, you kill her, and step on her head before sitting down by the fire alone.]]

* ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' had four endings [[spoiler:chosen by a push of a button that would explain to the world why the augmented population was going insane, or one that would kill yourself and everyone aboard the station you were on.]] Interestingly, TheStinger shows that, no matter what you did, the original ''Deus Ex'' will happen.

* GirlsLove RPG ''VideoGame/EmbricOfWulfhammersCastle'' is ''built'' on its multiple endings, most of them implying different truths about the world setting and the actual events of the narrative; unique in that getting most endings doesn't actually end the game -- the credits roll, but the player can choose to return to the point just before the last ending they got. Characters lampshade this, and at one point someone says she doesn't accept anything as being true unless she encounters it three times.

* ''VideoGame/EternalSonata'' has two endings. If you beat [[spoiler:Chopin, he dies in his dream and real life, Polka seemingly kills herself and is reborn, but then comes back to life with Frederic.]] And the bad ending? Just lose against [[spoiler:Chopin, and he wakes up from his dream, then he closes his eyes again.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' does the same as ''New Vegas.'' Your choices this time are the [[BadassArmy Brotherhood of Steel]], the [[ForScience Institute]], the [[UndergroundRailroad Railroad]] and the [[WeHelpTheHelpless Minutemen]]. [[spoiler: Three of the four endings involve the end of the Institute, and the Sole Survivor commenting on how their quest for stability had only just begun.]]

** The 'evil' ending: An immoral or... ''pragmatic'' character merges with the Calculator. Together, they create a feared, but fair and efficient, police state, ruled solely by the Calculator's ruthless mind.

* 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/JadeEmpire'' did most of the above for well over 20 variations on its ending. It had different endings based on your KarmaMeter, the romantic relationships between yourself and your followers, and their Karma meters as well. It also had hidden pasts for two characters resulting in about three or four different endings per follower on top of the three main endings for your own alignment (Good/Evil/Dead/In Love With Hero/Secret Past/Secret past and In love with Hero/Evil with a secret past whilst in love with the hero... and you get the idea). These epilogues were only played after the main ending cutscene, however, which was chosen from 3 possibilities depending on whether the main character was good/evil/an idiot.

** Alita can do as she's told and [[spoiler:give the sword to TheChosenOne, who can unlock its power and become the vessel of a reborn God. This is essentially a WeCanRuleTogether ending.]]
** Alita can decide that she's done working for other people and [[spoiler:use the sword to establish herself as a dictator.]]
* ''VideoGame/LandsOfLore II'' had a Good ending and an Evil ending, depending on choices the player makes in the game. This game is one of the few cases where the Evil path is actually preferable -- it allows you to skip one of the most difficult and annoying parts of the game.

** Even within each of the four possible story paths, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of possible permutations of epilogues for the characters involved. The individual character epilogues depend on whether the characters reached their highest class change, how many enemy units they killed, how many times they were reduced to 0 HP, and so on -- if they were particularly active in the battles, they go on to greatness throughout their lives, whereas if they were frequently reduced to 0 HP or sat at the back and did nothing, they fade into obscurity after the events of the game.

** In the fourth ending[[spoiler: Nya goes on a rant about the lack of choice and originality in [=JRPGs=] and lampshade that there's no third ending. Instead of going to the credits or title screen, Nya softlocks the game.]]

** ''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 among part of the fandom made the developers alter their previous plans for [[VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic Armageddon's Blade]].

* ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'' has 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. [[spoiler:[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Armageddon]] [[YouCantFightFate happens in all of them]]]], but some cross the line from [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] into downright sadistic. Getting both endings and all the bad ending cutscenes is required to unlock the TrueEnding / DistantFinale.

* 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 neutral 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.]]
* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' has five endings, ranging from bittersweet to downright depressing. The main effect -- the immortal player character finds out how to die -- is retained for all of them; the rest of it mostly deals with what happens with him afterwards, and if your NPC friends survive.
** Not to mention the NonStandardGameOver endings -- one of which involves you [[spoiler:accepting the position of Silent King once the advisor [[IKnowYouKnowIKnow knows that you know]] he's dead]] -- since this is a lifetime appointment, and you're immortal...

** If the final boss is beaten in 10 or less turns, [[spoiler:the main character gets to return to Holm and talk to all of their friends before moving on with their life.]] The turn limit is increased on subsequent NewGamePlus runs.
** If the final boss isn't beaten in time, [[spoiler:the party is frozen in time for at least 170 years before waking up in a later era, where Holm no longer exists. However, the people of the modern day tell tales of the protagonist being the hero who saved the world.]] Despite this ending being easier to obtain, it is considered the true ending.
** If the player racked up too much bad karma and is cursed by one of the elemental gems, [[spoiler:Titus I [[TheBadGuyWins successfully]] possesses the protagonist when he's confronted in the Cemetery.]]

** If Sailor Moon's team falls, it's up to Chibi-Moon's team, [[BittersweetEnding but... ]] [[spoiler:with her last bit of strength, Apsu tries to attack Chibi-Moon, but Anshar saves her and tries to convince his sister Sin that she's not evil. Once Sin snaps out of it, Luna tells Chibi-Moon to use the Silver Crystal, but the fates of Chibi-Moon and Anshar will change, and she isn't happy about this because they loved each other. And then, the next day, Chibi-Usa bumps into Anshar again like when they first met. Due to his fate being altered, Anshar doesn't remember Chibi-Usa, and neither does Sin. Chibi-Usa asks Setsuna if it's right to leave Anshar alone, and Setsuna says it is because it is fate. Chibi-Usa accepts this, and says that she'll never forget him and she loves him.]]
* All three games in the ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' series do this. ''Shadow Hearts'' has it based on whether you manage to beat a series of side bosses, which is nearly impossible unless you do it in the right order, although this order is provided on an item you get in the game. Oddly, ''Shadow Hearts: Covenant'' was actually based on the "bad" ending of the original, not because the good ending is terribly hard to get, but because it fits the tone of the series better. Of course, many of the fans disagreed. ''Shadow Hearts: From The New World'' was based on whether or not [[spoiler:Tirawa's statues were fully leveled up.]]
** 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.) It's 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 prequel, VideoGame/{{Koudelka}}, has three endings. The really bad ending happens if you didn't pick up a certain item over the course of the game; the final boss kills everyone as soon as they enter the last area. You get the meh ending if you beat the final boss. And you get the "good" ending if you ''lose'' to the final boss -- which is way harder and more time-consuming than winning.
* 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, two extra endings became available.; 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.]]
* ''VideoGame/StarStealingPrince'' has one bad and one good ending, depending on whether the player completed the BonusDungeon before taking on the final boss. The difference between the endings is ''very'' obvious. [[spoiler: In the good ending, everyone escapes on the ship and sets out for lands unknown. In the bad ending...Snowe's demon gets the better of him, and he kills everyone.]] ''Both'' endings are canon. The web novel sequel, ''Literature/EphemeralPrince'', is comprised of two parts: Fleeting, which follows the bad ending, and Permanence, which follows the good ending. [[spoiler: They're connected.]]

** Four survivors: The spirits of the dead return home. If only everyone could've made it out...

** VideoGame/TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld has 3 endings: The Best Ending, The Good Ending, and the Bad Ending. You get the Best Ending by [[spoiler:getting both Ignus' and Tonitrus' Cores and losing to Lloyd and Marta]], and it involves [[spoiler:Emil splitting from Ratatosk and returning to Earth to live a normal life]]. You get the Good Ending by [[spoiler:losing Ignus and/or Tonitrus to Lloyd]], and it involves [[spoiler:Emil/Ratatosk and Richter staying in the Ginnungagap]]. You get the Bad ending by [[spoiler:winning the fight against Lloyd and Marta]], and it involves [[spoiler:Emil killing himself because he injured Marta]]. The Bad Ending is pretty much a NonstandardGameOver.

** Ending X: If Nimrod uses his EX against the final boss, [[spoiler:he accidentally becomes an Apostle due to carrying the souls of Neval and Crismaida, resulting in Halcon possessing him and using him to ressurect. He tries to warn Elvett, but the message doesn't get through and no one stops Halcon's revival.]]

** GoldenEnding: Only available, if Anima has the Totem in her inventory. [[spoiler:Enraged while yelling at her uncle, Anima stabs him. Horrified what happened, her father's spirit assures her it was the right thing to do. Realizing that Anima has the Totem, her father says that she can use it to bring back Metus' soul and resurrect him, while her father's and Jack's souls are used to overload and destroy the portal. The portal is destroyed, Metus' soul returns to his body and he is alive again, both going to reunite with their mother.]]

** When fighting the fox near the thicket there are three distinct endings. If you send your protagonist back to camp, you get the bad ending [[spoiler:and Kestrelpaw dies, Badgerpaw goes into shock, and Nettlepaw hates your guts]]. If you fight the fox and manage to escape, you get the good ending [[spoiler:and no one dies]]. If you fight the fox and win somehow, then you get the great ending [[spoiler:and Nettlepaw gets her warrior name early.]]
** Likewise, when returning from your first patrol across the territory, Nightkit asks you what your favorite spot in all the territory was. Depending on your answer, Nightkit has a chance [[spoiler:of dying,]] especially if you say the Cave is the best spot in the territory. [[spoiler: Eaglekit as well if you flee the rogues or don't find her in time.]]

** You can also unlock endings where either Badgerpaw become a medicine cat instead of a warrior, or ''you'' could be a medicine cat. (Badgerpaw won't be happy with you though.)
** Shadowclan's aggression also has different endings-ranging from peace to outright war.

** [[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt The third game]] can potentially end with Ciri either [[spoiler:becoming the Empress of Nilfgaard at the cost of never seeing Geralt again, formally undergoing the ritual and going on to become a Witcher of considerable renown, or dying and causing Geralt to become a DeathSeeker.]] How you resolve various political questlines can determine [[spoiler:who wins the war in the North, who rules in Skellige, whether Emperor Emhyr survives or not, and whether Geralt ends up with Triss, Yen or on his own.]]
** 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); Geralt may also refuse a wish in which case he of course gains nothing, besides the wisdom to not ask Gaunter O'Dimm for anything]], 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/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' has four endings depending on which of the titular three houses you pick at the beginning of the game. If that numbering seems off, the Black Eagles have two endings depending on whether you [[spoiler:side with Edelgard or the Church]] at the end of the WhamEpisode.

*** [[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. Sans notes that Toriel hasn't been heard from the other side of the door ever since. If Papyrus is alive, he appears to tell you that Undyne has appointed him to [[AuthorityInNameOnly "The Most Important Royal Position", which entails nothing but standing around and looking pretty]]. If Papyrus is dead however, Sans simply implies that he knows Toriel is dead, and you never to return.]]

** [[GoldenEnding True Pacifist]] ending: Finish a neutral run, kill nothing, befriend Papyrus, Undyne, and Alphys, complete the secret area opened after befriending Alphys, and complete the following sequences. [[spoiler:Toriel stops the fight between you and Asgore, and all of your friends gather to try and take down the barrier. Flowey appears and steals both the human souls and every monster's soul to attain his true form: ''Asriel Dreemurr'', the monster child who befriended the First Human. The human survives Asriel's attacks through sheer Determination and manages to rescue the souls of their friends and, eventually, Asriel, himself. After coming to his senses, Asriel uses the power of the human and monster souls to destroy the barrier, finally allowing monsters to return to the surface.]] After clearing it, reloading the game leads to [[spoiler:Flowey appearing and telling you that everybody is happy on the surface, and the only thing left that can take back the happy ending is you resetting the game.]] At this point you can do a "True Reset", which totally wipes everyone's RippleEffectProofMemory.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Miitopia}}'' has two different variations on the same ending based on what the protagonist decides to do with the Dark Curse:

** 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]]...

* ''VideoGame/RomancingSaGa3'' at least has two ending by characters depending on the actions the player made suring the adventure.

** In Katarina's story if you retreive the Masquerade or not, [[spoiler: she will either return to Loanne and marry Mikhail or leave Loanne in disgrace.]]

* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' has no less than four endings, three of which are bad, and two versions of the good one. (The second bad one is triggered by the best battle choice box in gaming history: Fight / Pass / Item / Armageddon.) In fact, half the individual chapters have multiple endings of their own, deciding the scenes in the best ending. Not to mention your character for the final chapter affects [[ShutUpHannibal other]] [[AWinnerIsYou details]]. It is basically a [[{{Gattai}} gestalt]] of multiple endings.

** [[GoldenEnding True Pacifist]] ending: Kill nothing, befriend Papyrus, Undyne, and Alphys, complete the secret area opened after befriending Alphys, and complete the following sequences. [[spoiler:Toriel stops the fight between you and Asgore, and all of your friends gather to try and take down the barrier. Flowey appears and steals both the human souls and every monster's soul to attain his true form: ''Asriel Dreemurr'', the monster child who befriended the First Human. The human survives Asriel's attacks through sheer Determination and manages to rescue the souls of their friends and, eventually, Asriel, himself. After coming to his senses, Asriel uses the power of the human and monster souls to destroy the barrier, finally allowing monsters to return to the surface.]] Clearing this lets you do a "True Reset", which totally wipes everyone's RippleEffectProofMemory.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden}}'' series of games use these. The Good Ending invariably requires that you find and recruit all [[OneHundredAndEight 108]] possible allies, possibly among other requirements; some even have [[GuideDangIt INCORRECT allies to recruit]] to add FakeDifficulty to this task.

* ''VideoGame/FrontMission 3'' had multiple completely different paths through the game, specifically two. The branching point was absurdly well-hidden, hinging entirely on whether or not you chose to go to a certain location during the prologue segment.

* The first ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' and ''[[VideoGame/BaldursGateII Shadows of Amn]]'' only have one ending, but the expansion to the second game that concludes the story has three main endings (Good God, Bad God, and Mortal) as well as side-endings for your various companions.

** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'' has three possible endings: the standard ending, the complete ending, and the best ending. The standard ending can be obtained by simply defeating Zephiel. If all the sacred weapons have been obtained and are still intact, two extra chapters are unlocked, leading to the complete ending, [[spoiler:in which you defeat the dark priestess Idoun]]. The best ending occurs if [[spoiler:Idoun is finished off by Roy using the Sword of Seals, and it shows Idoun's soul being saved]].

* Both console ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' games and ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 Final Fantasy X-2]]'' had "segmented endings".

* ''[[VideoGame/{{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.