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* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'', with its more modern varieties of StatusEffects, has cold remedies that cure the common cold, and wet towels that cure sunstroke.

* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' has Refreshing Herbs, which cure most status ailments. Secret Herbs, Cups of Lifenoodles, and Horns of Life, although usually used to revive unconscious characters, can also cure pretty much every status ailment in the game.

* The ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER}}'' series has plenty. ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'' has PSI Stones, ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' has Bottles of Water, PSI caramel, Magic Truffles, and others, and ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' has magic pastries.

* Horns of Life in ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' and Cups of Lifenoodles and Secret Herbs in ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' and ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}''.

* Jeff can fire bottle rockets at enemies in ''VideoGame/EarthBound''.

* The first ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts1'' features different and sometimes esoteric curative for each one status ailment found on the game, such as Mermaid's Tears that cured poisoning and Angel's Feathers that cured paralysis.

* Talismans of Luck and Mercy from the ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' trilogy.

* The first ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' features different and sometimes esoteric curative for each one status ailment found on the game, such as Mermaid's Tears that cured poisoning and Angel's Feathers that cured paralysis.

* Unlike the first game, both ''VideoGame/ShadowHeartsCovenant'' and ''From the New World'' only has one item called Soul Benediction that cured all status ailments. We also had Phoenix Tails that cure all [[InterfaceScrew ring abnormalities]].

* In ''VideoGame/NetHack'' using a {{unicorn}} horn will cure all status effects except for [[BalefulPolymorph polymorphing]], [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent lycanthropy]], delayed [[TakenForGranite petrification]] and delayed turning-into-slime. However, any individual use of a horn isn't guaranteed to work, so having a unicorn horn isn't proof against status effects causing a [[NintendoHard game over]].

** Some of these items ''toggle'' a StatusEffect. Using such an item on a character without that status will ''give'' them the status. Occasionally this will be useful, or even mandatory. ''III'', notably, has some rather infamous dungeons that require your entire party to have Mini status.

* An item to cure each of the StandardStatusEffects. This includes [[MagicAntidote antidotes]] for poison, cures for paralysis, cures for sleep (although most games allow sleep to be cured if the victim takes damage), cures for being turned to stone and so on.

** Some of these items ''toggle'' a [[StandardStatusEffects Standard Status Effect]]. Using such an item on a character without that status will ''give'' them the status. Occasionally this will be useful, or even mandatory. ''III'', notably, has some rather infamous dungeons that require your entire party to have Mini status.

* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'', with its more modern varieties of StandardStatusEffects, has cold remedies that cure the common cold, and wet towels that cure sunstroke.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' has many of these items, but after about ten or twenty levels the effectiveness of most of them are too small for the cost and inventory space to justify using besides healing StandardStatusEffects, and the other ones that ''are'' worth using are either drops from endgame monsters or stupidly expensive to craft, making those last resorts only. Worse still, using many of these items invokes the universal cooldown timer for a few precious seconds, preventing you from taking any action aside from continuing to auto-attack. Oh, and Phoenix Downs? ''They don't exist.'' Alchemy SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove.

* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'' has only one category of usable items -- those which change the party's RelationshipValues. Healing and buffing can only occur during battle, or the automatic regeneration of health between battles. So, if you ran into a trap with little or no healing on your chosen threesome...

This is basically a list of the generic item types you'll find in a CRPG;

* The ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' series is famous for its use of FinalDeath: characters that run out of HP die, and stay dead. In some games, however, there are items that can revive allies who have been killed in action, although their rarity and limited functionality makes them TooAwesomeToUse:

* Rock Candy in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG''.
** Fire Flowers, Shooting Stars, and Thunder Rages in the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' series.

* An item which heals HitPoints. See HealThyself, HealingPotion and [[HyperactiveMetabolism Health Food]] for examples. There may be progressively more powerful versions of the item, to be useful at higher levels of the game. This may go for two or three tiers, up to an item that heals all hit points.
* An [[ManaPotion item which]] heals [[{{Mana}} Mana Points]], or the game's equivalent, and the more powerful versions. Compared to healing items, mana recovery items tend to be either much more expensive, or [[TooAwesomeToUse unavailable for purchase]].

** For health, there are: Potions, Super Potions, Hyper Potions, and Max Potions that heal increasing amounts of hit points.

'''''Note:''' Feel free to split parts of this article once they have accumulated a sufficient amount of examples. It might be a good idea to take them to the TropeLaunchPad first though.''

** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' has the Bifrost staff. Unlike the Aum or Valkyrie staves, there is no limit to how many times the Bifrost staff can be used before breaking. To counteract this advantage, however, it can only revive whoever died most recently.

* ''VideoGame/SeikenDensetsu3'' has items for most spells to account for all the possible party setups. No group need go without healing, stat-ups or elemental weapons.

* Dis-X (where X is the condition) in ''ShinMegamiTensei'' games.

* "Chakra" or "Soul" items in different ShinMegamiTensei games.

* Revival Beads Revival Gems, and Balm of Life in ShinMegamiTensei games.

* "X Rocks" "X Gems", and sometimes "X Magatama" each cast a specific spell in ''ShinMegamiTensei'' games.

** In the earlier ''VideoGame/{{SaGa|RPG}}'' games, those items are a bit more common. In ''VideoGame/{{Romancing SaGa 2}}'', the only known item that can restore LifePoints can be bought from a witch for 10,000 (the money {{Cap}}). In ''VideoGame/{{Romancing SaGa 3}}'' these items are mostly [[RandomlyDrops item drops]].

** In the earlier ''[[Franchise/SaGaRPG SaGa]]'' games, those items are a bit more common. In ''VideoGame/{{Romancing SaGa 2}}'', the only known item that can restore LifePoints can be bought from a witch for 10,000 (the money {{Cap}}). In ''VideoGame/{{Romancing SaGa 3}}'' these items are mostly [[RandomlyDrops item drops]].

** In the earlier ''VideoGame/{{SaGa}}'' games, those items are a bit more common. In ''VideoGame/{{Romancing SaGa 2}}'', the only known item that can restore LifePoints can be bought from a witch for 10,000 (the money {{Cap}}). In ''VideoGame/{{Romancing SaGa 3}}'' these items are mostly [[RandomlyDrops item drops]].

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' goes as far to allow the player to make their own in the form of enchanted weapons and potions.

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series tends to have diverse items; although potions are most often of the restoring kind, it's possible to create potions and enchanted items with (almost) ''any'' effect, provided you can find 2 (often rare and expensive) materials with the same effect (and such a pairing may have a negative effect appear twice, applying it to the potion), down to summoning an InfinityPlusOneSword from {{Hammerspace}}.
** Or increasing your intelligence (and thus ability to make potions) then drinking it and making another and so on, until your potions are {{Game Breaker}}s.
*** This is capped in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'', so you can't get something completely gamebreaking... just mostly. Unfortunately a couple of effects (Vampirism, and the Conjuration school spells) are gone from the alchemy lists in Oblivion.