A rare non horror version of this is Asura's Wrath in the form of Mithra.
A definite possibility for Jennifer in Clock Tower. Indeed, the sequel confirms her to be the sole survivor. Played with in the sequel as there are two possible Final Girls: Jennifer and her guardian Helen. Jennifer can survive again, but none of the endings depict her as the sole survivor this time. Can be played straight if the player chooses to play as Helen instead, as Jennifer can die in one of the endings, making Helen the Final Girl. Both can also survive together or be killed, depending on choices made.
Miku ventured into the haunted Himuro Mansion to find her missing brother Mafuyu. By the end, he chose to stay with Kirie so that she wouldn't suffer keeping the Hell Gate closed by herself. The trauma of Miku's experience at Himuro Mansion would become a plot point in the third and fifth games.
In the second game, Mio's goal of the game is to escape Minakami village with her twin sister Mayu. However, she is the only twin to survive the events of the game, as she was forced to sacrifice her sister as part of the village's ritual. Like Miku above, her trauma in Minakami village ties into the third game.
Can easily happen in Friday the 13th: The Game if a female character is the only survivor, but invoked as a game mechanic: at least one female counselor has to still be alive to kill Jason, as the process of doing so requires one to imitate Ginny's (the Final Girl of Part 2) Dead Person Impersonation to leave him vulnerable for Tommy Jarvis to land the killing blow and he's completely impossible to kill otherwise. Counselor Jenny Myers is also based off this trope and is an Expy of final girl Chris Higgins from Friday the 13th Part III. Jenny is still able to be killed by Jason though. There's also an achievement called "The (Unlikely) Final Girl" for being the sole survivor of a match while playing hot chick party girl Tiffany.
Can happen in Jurassic Park: The Game. If the player has Nima go for the embryo can instead of rescuing Jess, and Gerry is eaten by the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the result is a cut scene with Jess alone and traumatized in the boat.
In Maze 5: Sinister Play Sophie is the only survivor after Reality Warper twins place her and her best friends JP and Dario in situations based on the horror stories they made up to tell each other during the camping trip which never took place.
She is heavily styled as this in the first game, with more modest clothes and a less abrasive personality compared to the other female character Ashley. She's described as an ace student, and not only do her special abilities, offering puzzle tips and using first aid kits more effectively (including when healing other characters), reflect this, the fact that those abilities don't offer any combat utility means that she's best kept at the main gathering site versus more combat-oriented characters like Ashley and Kenny — so in a playthrough where things go wrong, she'll probably be one of the last people to die.
The second game gives her a Darker and Edgiergoth makeover and a mean streak to her personality, but it also establishes that she's the only surviving character who managed to develop a symbiotic relationship with her mortifilia infection instead of needing medicine to keep it under control, which means that her unique ability this time is the supernatural ability to manipulate and cleanse the toxic mortifilia spores littering the environment. Unlike the first game, this one has Plotline Deaths that end with her being one of only two survivors at the end of the game, together with her boyfriend Stan, on a note that can be seen as either And the Adventure Continues or a Bolivian Army Ending depending on how you interpret the two of them getting ready to face down the biggest monster in the series thus far.
From Resident Evil, we have Rebecca Chambers, the sole official survivor of her team from Resident Evil 0. While both Claire Redfield in the second game and Jill Valentine in the third also qualify, especially when facing off against monsters like Mr. X, G-Birkin, and Nemesis who heavily evoke the Stock Slasher, Rebecca in 0 goes above and beyond by being a Girly Girl in a series filled with Action Girls who outlasts all the male police officers around her. The game also has a playable male character in the ex-Navy SEAL and convicted murderer Billy Coen, though his fate is left ambiguous.
Subversions, aversions, and parodies
The games in The Dark Pictures Anthology can have this played straight, subverted, or averted in each game. However, very few female characters actually fit the archetype, and a clear protagonist is never truly specified in two of the three games in the series. Little Hope comes the closest, with the protagonist actually being a Final Boy in Andrew. He has only one possible death compared to the numerous deaths the other characters have and cannot die until the final cutscene. The third installment House of Ashes actually has an achievement if only one character makes it out alive. However, it can be any of the five, allowing for subversions if the player wishes.
Invoked in Dead by Daylight. Some characters and perks work better if you're the last survivor of your team, giving you an easier chance to escape from the killer. An escape hatch will also open up, giving the player an easier time of getting out if they could find it.
Averted in Dino Crisis, no matter what ending you get, Regina and Rick will always survive, but Gail and Doctor Kirk may or may not. But played with but probably played straight in the sequel. Dylan and Paula make it to the gate room, but Regina is the only character that definitely survives the entire ordeal. Dylan and Paula might have if Regina did perfect a time gate and save them at the last moment.
The Happyhills Homicide: Seems to be set up with Madison Carpenter. She is the first and only victim to survive the Clown's attempt on her life, even getting police protection afterwards. Sadly, it's a subverted example in the end. The Clown simply finds out where Madison lives, kills the cop stationed in front of her house and breaks in. Though Madison does put up a good fight, she ultimately dies when the Clown throws a baseball bat at her, causing her to fall down the stairs and break her neck.
Completely averted in Peret em Heru: For the Prisoners; fuck up one too many times, and both of the final survivors will be men.
Like its predecessors, The Quarry allows for this trope to be played straight, subverted, or averted depending on player choice. However, like in Until Dawn two characters in particular are set up to be this trope with achievements to be earned if they are the sole survivor of the game.
Kaitlyn is the straightest example with her being the most supportive and levelheaded of the group with undoubtedly the best aim with a gun out of all 9 playable characters. In the game's climax, the player gets to guide her through the lodge culminating with her either trapping the werewolf pursuing her or shooting them with a silver bullet. Like Until Dawn's Sam, she is among the only characters that can't die before chapter 9 and provided Dylan is alive, she cannot die until the final chapter. The game will even change the title of the final chapter to "The Final Girl" if she is left alone in the final confrontation with one of the werewolves with the achievement for her being the Sole Survivor taking on the same title.
The game also awards the player with an achievement for Ryan coming out of the story as the Sole Survivor. He's a lot more subversive than Kaitlyn, being a lot more distant and brooding comparatively.
Abigail, like Until Dawn's Ashley, before her acts as a Subverted Trope, though to a lesser extent. Abigail fits the bill of the traditional final girl being reserved, shy, and virginal, but she ultimately only serves as a supporting role in the story being locked up in a different room in the lodge while Kaitlyn does the actual fighting. She can potentially pass Kaitlyn a silver bullet to kill Caleb with, however.
Laura also fits the bill as an Action Girl who participates in the final confrontation with the werewolf from whom the curse originates, which, provided the player makes the right decisions to get to that scene, will be the last thing the player does in the game.
Subverted in Shivers (1995). When Beth and Merrick released the Ixupi 15 years in the past, Beth was the last survivor. She figured out how to solve all the museum's puzzles, but she died before she could finish the job.
The Final Girl is the unlockable class in the slasher themed DLC "Bring the Crunch" of South Park: The Fractured but Whole. It turns the New Kid into an Action Survivor who fights with improvised weapons (throwing garden shears, laying down sawblades as traps, blowing up enemies with a bomb attached to a sledgehammer), with the Limit Break showing the New Kid being chased into a toolshed by monsters and MacGyvering a brutal chainsaw/axe combo to turn the tide on low-health enemies by instantly killing them, even bosses. Despite the name, the player can be of any gender when using the class. Gets lampshaded by Spontaneous Bootay (an obese stripper who was an Advancing Boss of Doom the last time she was seen beforehand), whereafter the New Kid changes to the Final Girl class, Bootay refuses to fight them and walks away since the class is her kryptonite.
In the Survival Horror mech game Space Griffon VF9 the final girl is the useless Damsel in Distress scientist the hero picks up who is trapped in a locked room on the station. It appears the awesomely classy punk rocker chick will survive, but then she sacrifices herself to kill her brother who Came Back Wrong when he shows up out of nowhere in the final sequence. The crazy/idiot thing about it? Both you and her have battlemechs. He's in a hybrid recon/maintenance mecha. Even if he had gotten the drop on you in an ambush (and he didn't) either one of you could mop the floor with him without much trouble, so her completely random sacrifice was a waste, especially as the real Big Bad is still alive and waiting for you at the hangar. He's a mad scientist who turned himself into an Eldritch Abomination kaiju, so if anyone needed a mech blowing up in their face it definitely would have been then. It's a pretty difficult fight, so you'll find yourself wishing she'd have saved herself for this instead.
In the 2012 version of Twisted Metal, SweetTooth's wish is to track down his Final Girl, his daughter Sophia, so he can finally kill her. Only it turns out she had already killed herself as a result of the trauma she went through. The result? Calypso buries Sweet Tooth alive in Sophia's casket. The Stinger reveals that Calypso later revived Sophia as a Monster Clown just like her father, in order to serve as a contestant in next year's tournament.
Can be played straight, subverted, or averted in Until Dawn, a game in which all the characters can survive, none of them do, or everybody except the obvious final girl survives. However, there are two characters who are set up as this archetype.
Sam is the final person who is able to be killed in the game, only killable in the final cutscene, a distinction she shares with Mike. She is also put in heavy focus; she is voiced by Hayden Panettiere, who was arguably the biggest name in the cast (at least at the time; Rami Malek is now an A-lister), she tries to discourage her friends from going through with the Deadly Prank that gets Beth and Hannah killed in the prologue, and she is presented as athletic and fairly morally upright in contrast to the Alpha Bitch Emily and the sexy blonde Jessica.
Ashley is also presented as an obvious final girl, being a fairly meek Brainy Brunette with mostly academic interests. However, she takes part in the aforementioned Deadly Prank, and depending on how you play, her Bitch in Sheep's Clothing tendencies may come out over the course of the game. If Emily gets bitten by a wendigo, she'll think Emily's a Zombie Infectee based purely on (what turn out to be false) assumptions about how wendigos work, and if Mike decides not to shoot her, Emily will give her a well-deserved slap for it. Meanwhile, if Chris puts her on the receiving end of the Sadistic Choice he's forced into, she will refuse to forgive him and will leave him to die later on, even though Chris' other option was (as far as he knew) suicide. Also, she can receive the most blatantly obvious Schmuck Bait death in the game, opening up a cellar door that someone, or something, is banging on and getting decapitated by the wendigo lurking behind it imitating Jessica's voice.
Speaking of Jessica, it is possible for her to be the Sole Survivor of the game's events as well. Mike has to follow as quickly as possible to catch up to the Wendigo while it absconds with Jess. This enables her survival long enough to fall into the underground caverns. Later, near the end of the game, Jessica has to remain perfectly still to avoid being killed by the Wendigo. Of course, Jessica is largely unaware of what's going on because she was knocked out for much of the second act. And by end of the game, Jessica suffers a major case of Break the Cutie, regardless if she's the only survivor or not.
the white chamber seems to play with this... and it seems quite ironic. Sarah may be the last survivor, but she was the killer.
game Final Girl this can be played straight, subverted or averted, depending on your choices.