History YouCantGoHomeAgain / VideoGames

** With a little glitching, he can go home again, but he can't get out.

* In ''LuminousArc3'' [[spoiler:Sara and Sion was supposed to have liver hundred year ago but because of wrong experiment that caused them to be in the present era. While Sion adapted her live Sara still want to return to the past. In the end both of them give up and continue their life with Sara become principal of Urgard and Sion become famous actress]] and [[spoiler:depend on who you choose, the main reason is they want to be with Levi.]]

* Might be the fate of the crew of The ''Spirit Of Fire'' From ''HaloWars''

* In ''SuikodenV'', [[spoiler:you are forced to leave home when the palace is attacked and the hero's parents are killed, and are unable to return to Sol Falena until winning every battle in the game.]]
** This is a recurring trait in the Suikoden series. The very first game has you [[spoiler: being branded as traitors to the Empire, and being forced to flee from Gregminster. After taking up arms against them and fighting their forces back for the entire game, you finally return to and invade Gregminster at the very end of the game]].
** In II, [[spoiler: you become branded as traitor's to your home country, and upon first returning to Kyaro, are arrested. After being rescued from your imminent execution, you're unable to return there until quite late in the game, around the time when you lay siege to the country's capital]].
** In III, [[spoiler: Hugo]] experiences this early on when [[spoiler: the Zexen Knights invade and burn down Karaya Village]]. Also implied for [[spoiler: Watari, whose ninja clan is set to kill him for abandoning them]].
** Averted in IV. Though you are scapegoated and exiled for a crime you didn't commit early in the game, you do eventually come back. Given the circumstances of your return, it's not a very happy occasion. [[spoiler:And it's not really your homeland anyway. Ironically your original home is one of the first places you visit after you are exiled.]]

* In ''{{Terranigma}}'', Ark is literally unable to return to his home in the underworld, as the portal in the ground closed after he went to the surface. The game plays with this idea, allowing him to purchase a home in the surface world, but it only serves to heighten a sense of homesickness which the character comments on in one of the climaxes. In the end, he is finally allowed to return home... [[spoiler:Only for him to seal it away by necessity, since his home was the domain of Dark Gaia.]]

** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', Shepherd has to leave Earth due to the Reaper invasion. [[spoiler: He eventually comes back, but only stays permanently in one ending. Maybe.]]

* In ''JadeEmpire'', the village where the Spirit Monk and Dawn Star grew up is [[DoomedHometown burned to the ground at the end of the prologue]]. Subverted in that [[spoiler: the Spirit Monk actually gets to go to Dirge, his/her real home, later in the game]].
* In ''Franchise/MassEffect'', all three of Shepard's backgrounds ensure s/he can never go home again: if you choose Earthborn, Shepard is an orphan who grew up on the streets; if you choose Colonist, Shepard's parents were killed and the colony razed in a batarian raid; if you choose Spaceborn, Shepard has a family, but grew up on multiple space stations and colonies as they moved around with the military.

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', the trope is both played straight and averted for the six origins. Five of the six are not only able to return home, but ''have'' to return there in the course of playing the game. The Mage returns to the Circle of Magi during the "Broken Circle" quest; the City Elf helps drive slavers out of the Alienage where s/he grew up; the Dalish Elf returns to the Brecilian Forest to recruit members of another elven clan to help fight the darkspawn; and the Dwarf Noble and Dwarf Commoner both go back to Orzammar to settle the question of who becomes king. The trope is played painfully straight, however, for the Human Noble, whose ancestral home - Castle Cousland - is never seen again after the origin is completed, which is probably for the best since it's littered with the corpses of everyone else who lived there.

** The shipwrecked qunari platoon spend roughly fear years "waiting for a second ship", when in reality they're stuck in Kirkwall until their Arishok recovers [[spoiler: their sacred text and the one who stole it.]] As Kirkwall is almost the perfect opposite of ordered qunari society, this really gets to the Arishok.

* In the ''AceAttorney'' series, Misty Fey was forced into hiding after she was publicly disgraced after the DL-6 Incident. [[spoiler:Even after her name was cleared, in the first game, she isn't able to return to her old life.]]

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Hawke's DoomedHometown of Lothering is destroyed by the Darkspawn horde at the beginning of the game. It's eventually rebuilt at some point over the next seven years, but by that time Hawke is pretty enmeshed in Kirkwall's problems and have begun to set in roots. However, Hawke's mother comments that Hawke and his/her siblings "are Fereldan to your toes," and dialogue in one minor quest can have Hawke state that despite their role as Champion of Kirkwall, s/he will always consider Ferelden to be their home.

--> '''Aveline''': You can't go home again. It's supposed to be about maturity, but it's not the same if you don't have the option.

* ''SuperMarioGalaxy'' had a subplot which demonstrated that remaining in space too long will result in you finding all of you friends on Earth now long dead.

* ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'': After leaving her village to [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge take revenge]] on Raidou for crippling Hayate when no one else would, this seems to be Kasumi's fate thus far, in addition to being marked for death by the Mugen Tenshin Clan. However, the endings of ''Dimensions'' and ''[=DOA5=]'', the two most recent games in the franchise, have [[AmbiguousDecision called this into question]].

* ''SecretOfMana'' for the SNES kicked off the plot with this, when TheHero is kicked out of his home village for removing a rusty sword from a stone, thus drawing monsters to it. In order to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, he has to find a way to unlock the sword's true potential.

** Also, in ''SeikenDensetsu3'', if you have Duran in your party and try to enter his house in Forcena, he will say that he can't return home until he has killed Koren, and the party will be unable to enter the house. Even after you kill Koren you still can't enter his house!

* In ''[[VideoGame/WildArms1 Wild ARMs]]'' as well, Rudy is exiled from his adopted hometown by the town's mayor for releasing monsters into the village, after said mayor orders him to go into a dank cave and poke random things with a stick until something interesting happens.

* The premise of the first ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}'' game, where [[spoiler:you can't return to Kharak because TheEmpire has [[DoomedHometown annihilated all life on the surface]]]]. In the end, everything works out fine, though.

** The backstory for the second (official) game reveals that the reason the Taiidani took Hiigara for themselves was because their original homeworld was devastated by the Hiigarans.

* ''HalfLife Opposing Force's'' Adrian Shephard can't go home again because he [[spoiler:was trapped by the G-man in an alternate dimension to ''preserve him''. All in the name of "discretion". Which ultimately is made more depressing by the fact that Earth is now a CrapSackWorld under the jackboots of the Combine.]]

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', all six of the possible origin stories end in the Warden not being able to go home. Human Nobles have everyone in their castle slaughtered, Mages would get sent to Mage prison, City Elves would be tortured and executed, Dalish Elves would die of a disease and their clan can't wait for them to be cured, Dwarf Commoners would be imprisoned indefinitely, and Dwarf Nobles were cast out to die.
** In the Mage and City Elf examples, you ''can'' return home after dealing with the civil war and Blight, depending on your choices. If you side with the Mages in the Circle of Magi, First Enchanter Irving will even welcome you back to the Circle personally.
** Sten also has this issue, as he cannot return home to give his report because his sword was lost. As he explains it, the sword was forged for his hands, and he "was to die wielding it." If he returned home without it, he would be slain on-sight by the qunari border guards as it would mean he was 'without his soul'.

** The Dwarf Commoner, the Dwarf Noble ''has'' to return to their homes during the course of the game. They just can't actually ''stay'' there (as opposed to the Mage and the City Elf, who also must visit their homes and as mentioned above can return to stay after the Blight). Well, maybe -- it is possible to [[spoiler: become a Paragon]], which might allow the dwarves to return (even if they aren't explicitly given the option as in the City Elf and Mage stories).
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Hawke's DoomedHometown of Lothering is destroyed by the Darkspawn horde at the beginning of the game. It's eventually rebuilt at some point over the next seven years, but by that time Hawke is pretty enmeshed in Kirkwall's problems and have begun to set in roots. However, one dialogue can have Hawke state that despite this, they will always consider Ferelden to be their home.

** The original ''VideoGame/Fallout'' ends with the Vault Dweller being banished from his Vault, due to having been radically changed by his experiences in the wastes and possible hero worship amongst the Vault's younger dwellers causing them to leave en masse.

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Hawke's DoomedHometown of Lothering is burned at the beginning of the game. Inverted in that over the seven years the game spans, Lothering is rebuilt, but by that time Hawke is pretty enmeshed in Kirkwall's problems. "Ferelden will always be my home," is a dialogue option, but that's it.

** In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas: Lonesome Road'', the Courier finds out that they [[DoomedHometown doomed their implied hometown]] by delivering a mysterious package from Navarro that detonated the Divide's nuclear missiles.