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* VideoGame/DeathRoadToCanada: A downplayed example as the only way to lose the game is through a TotalPartyKill, but having fraught relationships and low morale usually spells the death of a run. Characters can kick each other out, hurt and kill one another, and pull a ScrewThisImOuttaHere (usually taking supplies). The latter sometimes ends the run entirely if they're the only one left.

** In ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'', choosing to Betray a sympathetic character generally leads to disgusted reactions from the rest of the group, especially if this person is currently incapacitated and unable to vote. [[spoiler:Which makes the one instance in which ''betraying'' the unconscious Alice is the correct decision a massive wham episode for the player. In all other situations, choosing to Ally with an unconscious character is the logical decision. But if you choose to Ally with her, ''she kills you.'' The game expects you to ally with her first, and if you do and pick Betray next, due to the nature of the plot, Sigma will actually remember the events from when you chose ally. Though he won't know what to make of it at the time.]]

** Panam's questline is pretty straightforward and you have to [[EarnYourBadEnding actively try]] to make her hate you; namely by [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere simply abandoning one of her quests]]. This locks you out of the GoldenEnding.
** For Judy, you have to side with [[ApparentlyPowerlessPuppetmaster Maiko]] near the end of her questline ''and'' accept the reward she gives you. You don't lose much besides an achievement (and obviously Judy's respect) if it's your first run.
** For Claire you have to side against her during the FriendOrIdolDecision, which makes you lose her as a vendor as she'll refuse to serve you at Afterlife.

*** [[EarnYourBadEnding If you try hard enough]], you can use this to [[spoiler: lose the entire game by getting everyone, including Shepard, killed in the Suicide Mission. You accomplish this by avoiding the loyalty of your party members or actively choosing options that will make them disloyal, combined with making the right (wrong) decisions to get everyone except yourself killed in the mission itself. In the final leap, the only person left alive to pull you into the Normandy is Joker, who isn't strong enough to do it alone. Notably, this is the only ending that cannot be carried forward into Mass Effect 3. [[CaptainObvious Because you're dead]].]]

** ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' takes things further. The only way to make it through the Suicide Mission against the Collectors with everyone in your crew alive is for everyone to be loyal to you by doing their loyalty missions after recruiting them. And even then, this only gives you a fighting chance — making the wrong choices during the final mission and/or not upgrading your ship could very easily lead to you losing squadmates no matter how loyal they are. Even if you have her loyalty, Samara still tells Renegade Shepard that she's going to kill him/her after the mission is over. You can avoid this by killing her first. (Also, she doesn't actually kill you in the game.) In addition, there are character-based conflicts where Shepard will have to take one side or the other (Miranda vs Jack and Tali vs [[spoiler:Legion]]) if your KarmaMeter is not high enough in either direction to overrule their argument on personality alone, meaning the other's loyalty will be lost.

* How one gets the infamous endings in ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays.''

* ''VideoGame/DeadInVinland'' has an AllianceMeter (or, rather, enmity meter, or possibly WantedMeter) with the game's BigBad bandit lord [[LukeNounverber Bjorn]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Headcleaver]]. Raising it past certain thresholds means he sends goons to attack your camp. Fail to pay him tribute (and insult his minions) enough, and you'll get a NonStandardGameOver where he slaughters your party.
* ''{{VideoGame/Pharaoh}}'': Having a Kingdom rating of 0 isn't an instant game over, but it's nigh-impossible to recover from as it usually entails other cities or even Pharaoh sending huge armies to remove you from power, and is also usually reached because of other dysfunctions in the city (no economy, no workforce, requests going unanswered, other armies marching around to destroy your city...).

Punishing you for neglecting your relationships means that You Lose at Zero Trust. If you don't maintain a relationship in-game, the consequences range from losing special abilities to a HeroicBSOD or worse.

* ''VisualNovel/TheHeistMonaco'': The recruited HeistTeam members have Trust scores, and failing to get enough Trust with them will result in them [[BadFuture either failing in their jobs or having to run from the police]].

* ''VisualNovel/TheHeistMonaco'': The recruited HeistCrew members have Trust scores, and failing to get enough Trust with them will result in them [[BadFuture either failing in their jobs or having to run from the police]].

** Fail to have a high enough Nerve score by the end of ''It Lives In The Woods'' and [[spoiler:Noah forces you to become the next Redfield]].
** In ''It Lives Beneath'', having a Nerve score that is too low will result in you automatically dying, [[spoiler:as you get trapped at the bottom of the lake in a coffin and you can't escape]].

** In ''It Lives Beneath'', having a Nerve score that is too low will result in your death no matter what, [[spoiler:as you get trapped at the bottom of the lake in a coffin and you can't escape]].

* Fail to have a high enough Nerve score by the end of ''[[VisualNovel/ItLives It Lives In The Woods]]'' and [[spoiler:Noah forces you to become the next Redfield]].

* ''TabletopGame/MaidRPG'' has this as one of the main features (that and [[WidgetSeries the weirdness]], of course). Although the GM can choose to simply assign you to a different mansion, you are getting removed from the campaign either way.

* This is basically the entirety of ''VideoGame/{{Facade}}''. If Trip gets very upset with you, he'll kick you out, leading to a Game Over.

* In ''Videogame/Fallout4'', if you get a character's Relationship Value too low by repeatedly doing actions they disapprove of, they'll let you know it. The first time, they'll give you a warning. The second time, they'll leave for good unless you pass a hard difficulty check. The third time after, they won't care what you have to say; they're gone. Also, companions directly affiliated with a certain faction will break things off and even oppose you once you make an enemy of said faction. And if a Settlement's Happiness level drops too low, they will break alliance with you and possibly even become hostile. Shooting a settler dead instantly drops many companions’ relationship value to the lowest possible and they leave you for good. Some, such as Hancock will even attack you.

** Some companions will leave you if your reputation with a faction drops too low or goes too high if you do things they feel are wrong, or in Cass' case, if your karma drops too low. This generally happens if you associate with [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Caesar's Legion]] since all the human companions hate them though the non-human companions are ambivalent at best.

* A slight example exists in ''VideoGame/StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime'' if you don't have high enough [[RelationshipValues affection]] with another character to get their paired ending, the BonusBoss in the BonusDungeon, Urssa Cave Temple, will be Fayt and [[AGodAmI Luther]] [[BigBad Lansfeld]], who are significantly stronger than the same for a paired ending (where you fight Fayt and whoever he was paired with at the end of the main story).

* In ''VideoGame/{{Hakuouki}}'' and its prequel game ''Hakuouki Reimeiroku'', failing to develop sufficient levels of affection with at least one of the various members of UsefulNotes/TheShinsengumi inevitably has dire consequences ranging from SurvivorGuilt to [[TheManyDeathsOfYou your death]] to an outright KillEmAll ending.

* Inverted in ''VideoGame/FullMetalDaemonMuramasa''. Up to the middle of the game, you have to take a path where no one among the heroines has higher points than the others, or else you will [[spoiler:have to ''kill her'']].