History InstantWinCondition / VideoGames

* In ''VideoGame/LethalEnforcers 3'', once you or your opponent reach the goal, the area ends, even if there are enemies still standing.

* In the NES classic ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'', stages are considered completed when the reactor is destroyed. Doesn't matter if you're swarmed by enemy soldiers, a huge guard drone is bearing down on you, or a cyborg soldier is slapping you around with his own grappling hook; shoot out the power core and the level is won, with all defenders disappearing upon its destruction.

** In "Supremacy" PvP games, a player will always win if they have a wonder up for 10 minutes. Even if they lost all of armies and economy, as long as they can keep its hp from reaching 0 for 10 minutes they will win instantly. This is usually considered a ScrappyMechanic since players who are winning militarily will typically ignore building their own wonders, and then will have to start spamming out units if an enemy gets their wonder up in a defensible position.

* In MultiplayerOnlineBattleArena games, at the end of the day the only building that matters is the throne/ancient/nexus/whatever name the game calls the central building. Once a team manages to take down the defenses to this building, one sneak attack on the base by someone that can easily move about the map and/or quickly destroy buildings (commonly referred to as ''backdooring'') is all that is needed to win, regardless of any money/experience/kill advantages the opposing team has accumulated. A (in)famous and recent example is the last game of [[VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients The International 3]], where, in the final game of the entire tournament, [[spoiler:Alliance won the game by never fighting [=NaVi=] head-on, and instead using the teleportation abilities of Nature's Prophet and Wisp to destroy [=NaVi=]'s base while the remaining heroes (most importantly, s4's Puck) stalled and then cancelled teleports, preventing an effective defense]].

* Several missions in ''VideoGame/XCOM2'' require you to rescue (or capture) a VIP: as soon as the VIP is on the Skyranger, you win, even if your squad gets wiped out afterwards (though most players will consider that a lose condition). The same is true of the Blacksite missions, which involve getting a specific piece of physical intel back to the Avenger: as soon as the soldier carrying it is on the Skyranger, victory is assured.

* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'': As long as the player can make it to 6 AM, they will win. It doesn't matter if the power has gone out, all four animatronics are on the loose, and Freddy is in the middle of playing his jingle right outside the door before he kills you; 6 AM means a guaranteed victory. The later games take it even further by enabling you to win even if an animatronic is in the middle of jumping at your face to kill you. Generally, this is justified by Free-Roaming Mode only being enabled from midnight to 6 AM (i.e. your shift), so when the clock ticks over, they can no longer move.
* ''VideoGame/UltimateCustomNight'' provides the series' one subversion of this trope: Funtime Foxy. Funtime Foxy's M.O. is to jumpscare you if you aren't looking at his camera at the start of a specific hour (his 'showtime'), and if that hour is 6 AM, Funtime Foxy can still jumpscare you if you aren't watching him.
* A fanmod named ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtVault5'' will instantly turn off all robots and alarms and clear off all of your radiation if you successfully reach 6 AM, regardless of whether your radiation was about to reach lethal levels and a robot was in the middle of charging at you.

*** The popular ''VideoGame/MentalOmega'' GameMod also features in the form of the [[WellIntentiontedExtremist Epsilon]] [[RenegadeSplinterFaction Army's]] [[spoiler:titular Mental Omega Device. It's a step-up from even the Psychic Dominators from vanilla ''Yuri's Revenge'' , being a '''global-scale''' MindControlDevice. If Epsilon manages to finish and activate it, the world is finished and free will is almost completely eradicated, with them winning on the spot. By the end of the Act 2 campaigns, Epsilon's rapidly mounting losses against the [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge vengeful Soviets]] and [[LastStand desperate]] [[TheRemnant Allied expedition]] ensure that it also becomes their ''only'' feasible win condition.]]

*** The popular ''VideoGame/MentalOmega'' GameMod also features in the form of the [[WellInteniontedExtremist Epsilon]] [[RenegadeSplinterFaction Army's]] [[spoiler:titular Mental Omega Device. It's a step-up from even the Psychic Dominators from vanilla ''Yuri's Revenge'' , being a '''global-scale''' MindControlDevice. If Epsilon manages to finish and activate it, the world is finished and free will is almost completely eradicated. By the end of the Act 2 campaigns, Epsilon's rapidly mounting losses against the [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge vengeful Soviets]] and [[LastStand desperate]] [[TheRemnant Allied expedition]] ensure that it becomes their ''only'' win condition.]]

*** This one is actually justified in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden'''s fight against Rudolf. He explicitly orders his troops to surrender if he is killed by Alm and the Deliverance.

** ''VideoGame/UltimateCustomNight'' provides the series' one subversion of this trope: Funtime Foxy. Funtime Foxy's M.O. is to jumpscare you if you aren't looking at his camera at the start of a specific hour (his 'showtime'), and if that hour is 6 AM, Funtime Foxy can still jumpscare you if you aren't watching him.

* Happens in classical first person shooters such as ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''. Sometimes it's explained as the LevelGoal being an elevator, an exit door, a self-destruct switch (''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D''), but then there are situations where the LevelGoal is a lonely switch in the middle of a room, and it's not explained how pressing it lets you instantly escape from a giant horde of monsters surrounding you on all sides.
** In Classic ''Franchise/{{Doom}}'' maps, if the "exit" tile is a teleporter you must ''reach'' instead of a switch that you must ''press,'' you don't even have to be ALIVE to win. As long as your dead carcass slides across that tile, the game will treat it as a win. Some user-made maps ''require'' this, in order to force a BagOfSpilling for the next level.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':