Basic Trope: A game mode where "game over" is permanent, and you have to start over.
- Straight:
- In Robert Rampage, there's game mode called "Robert Must Die", where if you die, you have to start over.
- Exaggerated:
- The game will delete itself if you die.
- Alternatively, the game kills you in real life if you die.
- Downplayed:
- There's warning before you select this mode.
- You can die a few times before the permanent death.
- In "Robert Must Die" mode, Robert is a One-Hit-Point Wonder and has to start from the beginning of the level if he dies. But the game saves after each level, so dying in Level 2 only means he has to beat Level 2 again, not the entire game.
- Justified: The "Robert Must Die" is based on realism. After all, you cannot respawn if you die in real life.
- Inverted: The game encourages the player to die, and allows them infinite lives.
- Subverted:
- If player dies, Robert's grave will appear, along with him crawling back out from it.
- Double Subverted:
- ...after he crawls back out, he immediately dies again due to exhaustion.
- Alternatively, if Robert dies yet again after he crawls out if his grave, it's over for real.
- ...after he crawls back out, he immediately dies again due to exhaustion.
- Averted: The player has multiple lives and/or only has to restart from the beginning of the level or checkpoint.
- Lampshaded: "Warning: If you die, you must restart this game. (We're not kidding. This game is really hard.)"
