History MultipleEndings / VideoGames

** Ending 5: The Navy suffers a crushing defeat at Boreas. Kron abandons the Navy to pursue his vendetta against the League, and the Earth Empire is doomed to descend into civil war.

** '''The Caucus for Peace''': After defeating the Faction, the League is claim a decisive victory over the Empire. At the same time, the Empire's fleet becomes to thinly spread to deal with the League without risking control over their worlds. In the end, both sides come to an agreement: in exchange for providing aid to Sol, the League would be granted its independence from the Empire.

* ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Blade]]'' has two different endings for each character, depending on whether they push a button at a certain point in their ending cinematic.
** Mitsurugi's ending takes the form of a bonus first-person fight against a soldier wielding a Tangegashima rifle. He will either take a bullet and decide to find a weapon that can overcome the Tanegashima, or evade the bullet, strike down the rifleman, and decide to start training again.
** Hwang will either forego taking Soul Edge and embark on a journey across the world, or take Soul Edge back to his hometown and go on a killing spree under the cursed sword's influence.
** Siegfried will either destroy Soul Edge and grieve over his father's death, or take it and become Nightmare.
** Taki's Rekkimaru dagger shatters. Afterwards, she'll either reforge it, or purify Soul Edge and turn it into a new demon-slaying weapon.
** Sophitia purges Soul Edge from the world and frees the world from its influence. The player is then treated to either seeing Sophitia commune with birds like a Disney princess, or taking a bath in a lake.
** Rock will either take Soul Edge in the hopes of finding his parents, abandoning Bangoo in the process; or toss Soul Edge away and stick with Bangoo.
** Voldo returns Soul Edge to his master's vault. He will either lay the blade at his master's throne and sit upon the throne as its protector, or have the sword break in his hands, driving him mad.
** Seung Mina returns home to her father, who tests her reflexes with a surprise attack. She will either shirk from the attack, prompting her father to redouble her training; or she will evade it, finally being recognized as an adult and proceeding with her betrothal to Hwang (at least until she runs away from home).
** Li Long either dies, or lives long enough to be lured by Soul Edge with a vision of his lover Chie to take up the sword.
** Cervantes either sets out on a voyage of terror across the seas, or has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment and makes amends by banishing Soul Edge from the world, [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing himself in doing so]].

** Similar to ''Injustice 2'' above, the existence of multiple Ladder mode endings is {{Justified}} by the events of the story mode: [[spoiler:the endings take place in timelines that don't conform to Kronika's designs for the New Era and were subsequently undone]].

* ''Film/{{Terminator 2|Judgment Day}}: The Arcade Game'': Which ending the player receives depends on whether all the equipment in the [=CyberDyne=] building is completely destroyed. If the player fails to destroy the equipment, research at [=CyberDyne=] still continues, and Judgment Day could still happen. If all the equipment is destroyed, then Judgment Day is averted.

* The UsefulNotes/PCEngine version of ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonII'' has three endings, one for each difficulty level.

** The UsefulNotes/NintendoDS game features slight variations in its endings depending on which [[NewGamePlus storyline]] you're playing and whom you've recruited or antagonized. Notably, one can avert [[spoiler:Euphemia's massacre]] simply by choosing not to go, earning a Happy Ending, I guess, as C.C. puts it. As an aside, you also get special endings if you perform TooDumbToLive actions (such as Geassing people into killing you), which causes C.C. to berate you.

** ''Star Wars''-based games often allow you to choose the Light Side or the Dark Side of TheForce, and give a different ending for each, though WordOfGod is that only the light-side endings are canon:

** Ending 8 - Trading the Future for the Past: [[spoiler:You turn yourself in to AVAC after the Blackmailer exposes you to them as one of the four missing people during the CARI fire. You have your memories restored for the interrogation, [[OnceMoreWithClarity giving more context to your weekly nightmares of your past]], but you suddenly die from the medication's side effects.]]

** If Rex fails to plant the bomb in time, the asteroid hits Earth and wipes out dinokind, with several dinosaur skeletons in the ground millions of years later being shown.
** If Rex does plant the bomb, but fails to escape in time, the asteroid blows up with him still in it. The dinosaurs are shown tearfully regarding a golden memorial statue of Rex.
** If Rex successfully plants the bomb and escapes, dinokind goes on to rule the galaxy, with Rex being crowned king for his achievement.

:: Finding all ten of these endings unlocks the now-traditional SecretFinalCampaign[=:=] an extra level and the TrueFinalBoss that lead to an OmegaEnding in which, after defeating Devil Doom, Super Shadow uses Chaos Control to teleport the Black Comet into the path of the Eclipse Cannon, which fires and destroys the Black Arms for good. Aboard the ARK, Shadow, having finally let go of his tormented past, says goodbye to his old self, discards his photo of Maria and Prof. Robotnik, and walks off. While the Last Way takes place in the area of the hero endings, after you've collected all the Chaos Emeralds, none of them ''quite'' match up with the situation at the beginning of the Last Story.

** Most games usually have Samus remove her armor based on time of completion or item percentage. ''VideoGame/Metroid1'', ''VideoGame/Metroid2ReturnOfSamus'', ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'', ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'', ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'', and ''VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns'' all follow this trend. ''Videogame/MetroidFusion'''s Japanese version also featured artwork depicting Samus' childhood and upbringing with the Chozo based on how thorough completion was.

* Creator/ChoiceOfGames is often fairly stingy with these; their games have many and varied choices, but they're more about the journey than the destination, and their writing team considers {{railroading}} to be a best practice for a {{Gamebook|s}}-style game, due to the ridiculous amount of writing required otherwise.
** ''Choice of the Dragon'' is perhaps most notable for averting this trope; at the end of the game, [[spoiler:you go into hibernation]]. Of course, it's possible to get a NonstandardGameOver before then.

* {{Downplayed|trope}} in ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}}'' and [[VideoGame/Kindergarten2 its sequel]] in that it's not the game as a whole that has multiple endings, but rather one mission in each game. Both missions have a main route, in which you follow the mission-giver's instructions, and a secret route, in which you go behind their back in some way. Due to the games' GroundhogDayLoop mechanic, it's possible to get both endings in one playthrough, and, in the case of the second game, even necessary if you want HundredPercentCompletion.

* ''VideoGame/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' has multiple endings depending on whom you are playing as.