History Main / FractionalWinningCondition

* ''VideoGame/SuperKiwi64'': There are 50 amethyst gems in the game, but only 40 are needed to refuel the main character's airplane and fly back home to finish the adventure.

* ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII'' has five main quests that Lightning must complete in the thirteen days before TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. It also has a vast number of sidequests that Lightning can ''also'' complete. Completing quests will reward Lightning with stat boosts and postpone the aforesaid apocalypse for up to twelve days, with TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon unlocked on the thirteenth day once all main quests are complete. Completing enough sidequests[[labelnote:*]]There is enough leeway to fail '''all''' of the sidequests for which failure is possible (and the one that you can't complete until a New Game+) and still achieve this[[/labelnote]] before Day 13 will unlock a ''fourteenth'' day, pushing back the FinalBoss for long enough to explore a BonusDungeon and fight a BonusBoss. [[spoiler:Doing this on a NewGamePlus and beating said Bonus Boss will unlock the TrueFinalBoss, thus [[DefiedTrope defying]] BraggingRightsReward for the prizes at the end of the Bonus Dungeon.]]

* ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'': In order to advance to the second half of the story, Talion only has to kill four out of five orc warchiefs in the first half (including the one dispatched in a mandatory story mission). The fifth warchief thus becomes a BonusBoss.

* The final mission of ''VideoGame/IntoTheBreach'' becomes available once you secure two islands in a given playthrough, with its difficulty rising with the number of islands you secure beforehand.

* Platformers made by Creator/{{Rare}} (then Rareware) on the Nintendo 64 usually require collecting a specific number of the PlotCoupons with no regard to which ones you get specifically. ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' is the closest game to avert this, as there are 100 Jiggies of which a whopping 94 are necessary to complete all mandatory pictures (those which unlock the worlds plus the one which unlocks the final battle against Gruntilda). Other games give more leeway (though not necessarily becoming ''easier'' as a result: ''Banjo-Tooie'', for example, can be completed with 70 Jiggies out of 90, but the majority of them require a lot more effort to collect than those of the first game).

* Several of the 3D entries of the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' saga are focused on collecting PlotCoupons (Power Stars, Green Stars, Star Coins, Power Moons); however, not all of them are necessary to collect in order to reach the FinalBoss. For example, ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' and ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' have each 120 power stars, but in both cases only 70 of them are necessary to reach the final level and the ending. ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'' is an exception; it requires collecting the first seven Shines of each of the seven major areas, and you'll need the first Shine at the airport to open the rest of the game. The rest of the Shines are optional.

* On normal difficulty settings, most ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'' games allow you to finish the level after pocketing just a portion of the total available loot (the hardest difficulties, on the other hand, require you to find and bag ''every'' valuable item on the level).

This trope is a mild form of StoryBranching closely related to DoWellButNotPerfect. Contrast GottaCatchThemAll and ArbitrarilySerializedSimultaneousAdventures, where you get to pick the order in which levels are played but you still need to complete every objective before you're allowed to proceed. Contrast also HundredPercentCompletion.

** The original ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' has five rather tedious {{Collection Sidequest}}s (asari writings, salarian medallions, turian insignias, Prothean discs, and useful minerals), which are completed by scanning or manually exploring optional planets. Thankfully, there are actually more collectables of each sort in the game than is required to mark the respective assignment as completed and to receive your one-off completion XP. You do still get the individual XP and cash rewards if you find the remaining collectables afterwards, however.

* In order to unlock the final missions of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'', at least 35% of the gang territories in Los Santos must be under Grove Street Families control.

* Platformers made by ''Creator/{{Rare}}'' (then Rareware) on the Nintendo 64 usually require collecting a specific number of the PlotCoupons with no regard to which ones you get specifically. ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' is the closest game to avert this, as there are 100 Jiggies of which a whopping 94 are necessary to complete all mandatory pictures (those which unlock the worlds plus the one which unlocks the final battle against Gruntilda). Other games give more leeway (though not necessarily becoming ''easier'' as a result: ''Banjo-Tooie'', for example, can be completed with 70 Jiggies out of 90, but the majority of them require a lot more effort to collect than those of the first game).

* ''TabletopGame/ShadowsOverCamelot'' is a [[CoopMultiplayer cooperative]] game with a variety of one-time and repeatable quests, which grant white swords when completed or black swords when failed, plus other benefits or penalties. The players win when they collect 12 swords, a majority of them white, but random events advance various quests towards failure, so gameplay involves choosing which quests to focus on completing and which to write off as strategic losses. Players can even ''purposely'' lose quests to hasten the endgame once they have enough white swords to win.

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* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'':
** Throughout the series, the optional Snatch activity tasks you with driving a certain number of prostitutes from deep in a rival gang territory to a safe location. However, because rival gangsters are more than happy to [[DisposableSexWorker shoot the ladies]] rather than let [[IfICantHaveYou you have them]], there are usually a few more of them in any instance of this activity than is needed to complete it (sadly, you don't get any bonuses for "over-delivering").
** In the final story mission of ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', [[spoiler:STAG]] stirs up trouble at three locations throughout Steelport. You only need to pacify two of them before proceeding to the next stage of the mission.
* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'' had a more formulaic setup by having a bureau head assign you to five different assignments to investigate a certain target before assassinating him. You only needed to accomplish three to proceed to the assassination mission and move on, but if you proceeded to finish off every mission, you not only got an achievement for accomplishing every mission but also get bonus experience so you could get extra upgrades like more health.

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* In the ''VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater'' games, you only needed to do some of the available objectives to unlock the next level. ''Underground 2'' assigned different point values to each objective, and you could clear your choice of objectives to satisfy the point goal.
* ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter'' has a level where you have to complete five operations in a row in under ten minutes. The game will give you a pass if you are on the third one when time runs out.
* ''VideoGame/GunstarHeroes'' has the boss Seven Force, which has seven forms. You only fight a random sample of them on normal difficulty, while hard difficulty requires fighting them all.