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-->-- '''Brickroad,''' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDbxYUN7ncg How to Play]] ''VideoGame/NetHack''."

* ''VideoGame/NetHack'' is the TropeNamer. Good luck finding a habitual ''[=NetHack=]'' player who ''doesn't'' have a [[http://everything2.com/title/YASD YASD story.]] Examples include:

** When you're fighting the Wall of Flesh, your character is given a unique debuff that will kill them if you leave the Dungeon with it active, which can only be removed by killing the Wall of Flesh. The game does not prevent you from triggering any WarpWhistle you may have, which will inevitably end in you being reduced to LudicrousGibs as soon as the teleportation animation finishes.

* In ''VideoGame/LaMulana''; you will be having quite a few of these moments, much so that there are UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Achievements for dying to specific traps. The most obvious ones being hitting any wall in any room that has the Eye of Divine Retribution in it.

* Mainline ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games are also conducive to YASD, since it is necessary for the player to learn to exploit the battle system in order to get through battles while taking as little damage as possible. Fighting the right enemies with the wrong {{mons}} is a great way to earn a GameOver screen. Low level, could-beat-with-eyes-closed-and-hands-tied enemy that happens to reflect physical attacks + Accessory that triggers an uber-powerful, physical counterattack = [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Fun]].

* In many [[HGame adult video games]], particulary those who cater around certain fetishes, getting "the good stuff" often requires you to deliberately and knowingly put yourself in harm's way, so much so that you're basically required to play and die and then die over and over again in order to see all of the possible endings.

* Mainline ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games are also conducive to YASD, since it is necessary for the player to learn to exploit the battle system in order to get through battles while taking as little damage as possible. Fighting the right enemies with the wrong {{mons}} is a great way to earn a GameOver screen. Low level, could-beat-with-eyes-closed-and-hands-tied enemy that happens to reflect physical attacks + Accessory that triggers an uber-powerful, physical counterattack = Fun.

** An irritatingly common and preventable way to die is to go into squis/octopus form on top of a grate pathway, forgetting that gratings not only can't be inked, but that you pass straight through them if you're a squid or octopus. Cue falling into [[KillItWithWater water]] or a BottomlessPit.

** An irritatingly common and preventable way to die is to go into swim form on top of a grate pathway, forgetting that gratings not only can't be inked, but that you pass straight through them if you're a squid or octopus. Cue falling into [[SuperDrowningSkills water]] or a BottomlessPit.

* ''VideoGame/DarkElfHistoria'' has a non-fatal example, but it's no less stupid. Throughout the game, various civilians in Rand City warn you not to hang out around the docks at night, and there is a warehouse down in the docks that's guarded during the day, and if you approach the guard, Fraylia will note that whatever's going in there is probably bad news and it's probably best not to get involved. Nonetheless, eventually, Fraylia gains the ability to travel the city at night, and eventually the warehouse becomes accessible. Enter the warehouse in one of the later chapters of the game, and there will be bandits in there. Approach them and Fraylia gets drugged and gang-raped.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'':

** In ''VideoGame/ZorkII'', there is a room with what is described as a very large bucket. You can tell the parser that you want to kick the bucket. And then you do.

* ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' has 26 endings. 5 of them are proper ENDINGS, the rest are [[NonStandardGameOver Non-Standard Game Overs]] for doing silly or stupid things in the right scenario. Not ALL of them involve the PlayerCharacter at the time dying, but a few of them are laughably stupid deaths

** There's a quest to eat a mackeral that another Android caught to find out what happens when androids eat mackeral. Well, [[RuleOfFunny they die]]. But the player is told that it ''did'' taste good.

* ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' has 26 endings. 5 of them are proper ENDINGS, the rest are [[NonStandardGameOver Non-Standard Game Overs]]for doing silly or stupid things in the right scenario. Not ALL of them involve the PlayerCharacter at the time dying, but a few of them are laughably stupid deaths

* ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' has 26 endings. 5 of them are proper ENDINGS, the rest are [[NonStandardGameOver Non-Standard Game Overs)for doing silly or stupid things in the right scenario. Not ALL of them involve the PlayerCharacter at the time dying, but a few of them are laughably stupid deaths

** The Ebony Warrior introduced in the ''Dragonborn'' expansion was sort of a BonusBoss but, given the requirements to even ''see'' him when he was introduced (be level 80 at a time when the effective level cap was 81), he wasn't much of a challenge. That said, there were many reports, especially among those who abused the [[GameBreaker Resto-loop]] of losing to him instantly and repeatedly. Why? The Ebony Warrior had the Reflect Damage heavy armor perk, which would return their 36,000 point sword strike right in their face. What makes it YASD-worthy is that many of the players simply never thought to ''trade down to a less-overpowered weapon'' to fight him and some player complained at the time that he was impossible to beat.

** Accidentally summoning [[BonusBoss the Reaper]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Noita}} has completely destructible terrain and material physics, and on top of that, hundreds of spells that can be installed into magic wands, with absolutely no guarantee that the wand will be safe for whomever uses it. As a result, there are a ton of ways to die in the game.

** Walking over a cockatrice corpse while gloveless and blind. Blind players will identify items by trying to feel what's on the floor. Touching a cockatrice corpse barehanded results in [[TakenForGranite petrification.]]

* ''VideoGame/ShotgunKingTheFinalCheckmate'': Folly Shields may protect you from moving into a square in check, but it doesn't protect you from shooting a piece that was blocking another piece that would've put you in check. The smaller the spread and range of your shot, the more likely it's your own dumb mistake. Other RNG-related deaths include the knockback from Rightful Curtsy creating a check or having a grenade bounce and land right next to you.

* There's an elevator shaft in ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'' with an elevator that you need to drop on an enemy in order to proceed. [[PressXToDie Hang from a ledge in the shaft and fire a missile at the cables and debris keeping it suspended. Makes one serving of dead Samus.]]

* ''Shadow Caster'':

* The early ''VideoGame/TombRaider'' series offers more than enough opportunities to die horribly and/or embarrassingly, such as hanging out on subway tracks, touching electrified fences despite signs and other warnings, and stepping on a giant disembodied hand in a level named after King Midas. Or you could skip the middleman and just dive head first onto solid ground and break your neck. If you haven't already accidentally stumbled off of a ledge and died on impact.