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Pacifist Run

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Pacifist Run	label	Pacifist Run
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Pacifist Run	comment	In games that give you a choice between using lethal or non-lethal force in order to overcome enemies, the former method is usually the most convenient. Some gamers like to play through such games while avoiding any killings that are not absolutely required, even if there is no real reward for doing so. In essence, the player is applying a No-Harm Requirement towards their entire playthrough. Pacifist Runs can sometimes be a requirement for the Golden Ending, or the best ending for that scenario, as it ends up with all of the cast surviving. The inverse of this is the Genocide Run, in which the player's task is to kill everything that moves. This is only possible if enemies are limited in number and don't respawn, hardly meaningful if fighting every enemy is a practical or absolute requirement, and rarely acknowledged in games that meet both of these requirements. Also see Thou Shalt Not Kill, a super-trope of sorts. Stealth Based Games and Stealth Based Missions often feature this trope alongside Stealth Run. When the game scolds you for not taking a more peaceful option, see What the Hell, Player? Can be related to Video Game Caring Potential. The Badass Pacifist and Technical Pacifist attempt this in real life.
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Pacifist Run / int_12fc7d8c	comment	Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts: The Altai Mountains mission has an in-game Challenge to complete the level and only kill the main target. This gives you some extra money and skill points.
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Pacifist Run / int_16c83de8	comment	Star Fox 64 offered an interesting variant since bosses are worth more "kills" if they are defeated quickly, so players attempting this had to wait a while in those fights while dodging the attacks and (depending on the exact definition and route) protecting their teammates in those cases where they can actually get attacked by these bosses.
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Pacifist Run / int_17ec5027	comment	Silent Hill: Downpour, going through the game without killing so much as a single enemy is mandatory to get the best ending in the game. You're allowed to incapacitate enemies (where they're downed but still twitching) and to knock over Tormented Souls to slow down The Void, but given how aggressive and persistent some enemies are and how tricky it can be to not accidentally kill them while defending yourself, this amounted to one massive Scrappy Mechanic.
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Pacifist Run / int_1a5358c8	comment	In Dungeons & Dragons Online, an experience bonus is awarded to the players if they can complete a quest with zero or otherwise minimal kills.
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Pacifist Run / int_1ac6ad40	comment	In the fourth game, Blood Money, killing anyone other than the target(s) can make later missions more difficult as your notoriety will grow, especially if you leave witnesses and/or get caught on camera. However, you can obtain the surveillance tape if you get caught on camera before leaving the mission, and pay money to cover up the crime after the mission. Killing witnesses, however, can make things worse.
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Pacifist Run / int_1ad4fe9a	comment	One player managed to do this in Might and Magic 7 as shown here.
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Pacifist Run / int_1c29ba14	comment	Dice and the Tower of the Reanimator: Glorious Princess: On a fist run, Bambooblade will knock out enemies rather than kill them. This causes the good ending to happen, since the Reanimator can't revive her minions as undead if they never died in the first place.
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Pacifist Run / int_1e43c8e7	comment	Styx: Master of Shadows and its sequel, Styx: Shards of Darkness give bonus skill points for each level for completing certain optional objectives. One objective that appears in every level, Mercy, requires the player to complete the level without killing any humanoids. Roabies, anyone who is killed by something that wasn't Styx's fault, and people whose death is a quest objective don't count against this though.
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Pacifist Run / int_20336460	comment	In Jagged Alliance 2 you can finish the game without killing anyone except the queen and without liberating any towns just by cutting across country to the capital, sneaking past the soldiers there, and killing the queen before any of her guards arrive.
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Pacifist Run / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem doesn't normally lend itself to Pacifist Runs, since you need kills to level up. However, Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 allows you to non-lethally KO enemies and capture them - in fact, you can steal their equipment and use it for yourself when you do! The only limitation is that, in order to capture a foe, the enemy's Build stat must be lower than that of the unit doing the capturing (Then again, Finn, who has 20 Build, is available from the start of the game), and when you use the Capture command, the capturing unit will have his stats reduced for the turn.
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Pacifist Run / int_223c2a48	comment	Since The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild allows you to face Calamity Ganon right after the Great Plateau and there's no mandatory fight in the early sanctuaries, it's possible to complete the game by just defeating Ganon and his Blights without killing anything else.
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Pacifist Run / int_23553960	comment	The end-of-mission rankings in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain award more points for incapacitating enemy troops than for killing them. You can take over enemy outposts simply with stealth takedowns, just as you would if you went in guns blazing. A full game playthrough without any kills is impossible because there are a few mandatory objectives that necessitate killing, such as destroying occupied armored vehicles or killing soldiers with infectious parasites before they spread and cause a global plague.
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Pacifist Run / int_24d953d0	comment	It is possible to beat Metroid and have the only enemy you defeat be Mother Brain. The main obstacle comes in the form of missile ammo: unlike later games, which have recharge stations for energy and ammunition, the NES original only gives you these through item drops from defeated enemies. Since missiles are absolutely required to get through the final part of the game and defeat Mother Brain, you will not only need to get pretty much every missile expansion in the game (as you no longer have access to the massive 75 missile upgrades that defeating Kraid and Ridley nets you), but you also can't afford to waste a single one before reaching Tourian. In addition, because some missile expansions are behind doors that require missiles themselves, you will have to use the (very simple to do) "door glitch" to enter those rooms.
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Pacifist Run / int_2594ce60	comment	Deus Ex: Invisible War picks this up, as even plot-critical deaths are optional. The benefits manifest differently depending on which faction wants them dead and how their death affects gameplay (keeping one person alive grants access to a weapon you won't seriously need till the end), but ultimately there are no required kills. A hidden bonus is that the wrap party has a lot more patrons the fewer people you kill. Only one of the game's four endings allow for a complete pacifist playthrough, as the other three require you to kill various faction leaders in the climax.
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Pacifist Run / int_26674ed5	comment	In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, since you only kill (in-story) two of the bosses, no real difference is made whether you stamina-kill them or not (only that a stamina-kill doesn't show up on your score as a real kill). Interestingly, not-killing Fatman, one of the story-killed bosses, results in him passing out at the end of his dying speech instead of dying. When Ocelot remarks on Fatman's death later on, the line is the same, but the implication is that Ocelot killed him rather than you, which provides a neat clue as to Ocelot's real alignment.
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Pacifist Run / int_2797f1b0	comment	Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved has an Achievement called Pacifist. To get it, you must not fire for the first 60 seconds of the game. Since the fast, homing square enemies spawn before that, it's a Nintendo Hard one to get. The sequel has a separate game mode called Pacifism, where the objective is to avoid the said square enemies as long as possible. While you may not fire, going through a gate causes a shockwave that kills nearby enemies. In addition, the King mode has an achievement called Treaty and the Wave mode has an achievement called Surf.
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Pacifist Run / int_28438266	type	Pacifist Run
Pacifist Run / int_28438266	comment	Wario Land: Shake It! has bonus missions for each level, and almost every level has "don't kill any enemies". Since very few of the enemies in this game are actually a threat, and stunning enemies to use as stepping stones is still considered okay, there isn't much of a need to destroy enemies on your way to the end of the level. The challenge comes when you reach the end and have to return to the starting point before time runs out - almost every level has a launcher that will send Wario running at full speed, destroying any enemy he touches. Therefore, the best way to avoid accidentally destroying any enemies is to avoid using the launcher at all - meaning time is now even tighter.
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Pacifist Run / int_2acb12c5	comment	It's possible to play through all the X-Universe games without killing anyone directly, or without killing anyone at all (provided you don't do the plots). The goal is to keep your combat rank at "Harmless", which means you have zero kills. If you kill any enemy, the rank goes up and takes several real-time hours to go back down.
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Pacifist Run / int_2dc12aeb	comment	In NetHack, 'pacifism' is one of the many voluntary conduct challenges that is tracked by the game (along with atheism, vegetarianism, breatharianism, illiteracy, etc). However, in NetHack 'pacifism' means that your pets do all the killing instead of you; you can attack the monsters all you want as long as it's not you that lands the killing blow. (You can also wear a ring of conflict to make the monsters kill each other, though then you have to make sure your (usually very powerful) pets don't kill you.) There actually isn't a single creature in the game who must die (as you can steal any important items instead - this applies to Quest Nemesis, Vlad, Rodney, and the High priest), but winning without you or your pets killing anything is impossible. There's also the 'never hit with a wielded weapon' conduct, which holds a bit closer to the spirit of the thing (though barehanded martial arts and magic are still permitted). It can also be combined with the above for extra masochism.
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Pacifist Run / int_2e1df124	comment	Wreck-It Ralph: In-universe example — Ralph climbs the tower in Hero's Duty and grabs the medal while no-one's playing it so he wouldn't have to fight a single bug.
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Pacifist Run / int_2e86bae9	comment	Ikaruga, by virtue of inheriting twenty years of evolution in the shooter genre, allows the player to complete the game without ever firing a single shot. Your reward is the rank of Dot Eater.
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Pacifist Run / int_30065ab	comment	In Cuphead, all the side-scrolling levels can be beaten without killing a single enemy. Accomplishing this task earns you a P-rank for that stage and unlocks the color filter option for the game.
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Pacifist Run / int_3094005d	comment	Completely possible in Grand Theft Auto 2, where one can score points by performing stunts, taking cars to a crusher, or simply giving people rides in Taxis. Each level can also be finished by collecting hidden tokens scattered around the map, with each district having a bonus stage that can only be played after doing this.
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Pacifist Run / int_31d49432	comment	In Liberal Crime Squad, a pacifist run is actually considered easier than a run where you kill people, which isn't that surprising when your goal is to influence public opinion.
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Pacifist Run / int_31ff5c5a	comment	Anti-Idle: The Game: The third challenge invokes this. You have to get level 3000 while having features that involve pain or fighting revoked (even the Battle Arena).
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Pacifist Run / int_3c1f955d	comment	Yandere Simulator is normally about blackmailing, manipulating, or straight-up murdering Yandere-chan's rivals for Senpai's affection, but it's possible to hook up your rivals with other boys instead, or to help them out with major problems, resulting in them agreeing to not pursue Senpai in thanks.
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Pacifist Run / int_3d776ce3	comment	In Alpha Protocol, it is possible to get through the entire game without ever using lethal force on any opponent, outside of a couple of armored vehicles and one cutscene-mandated kill (dropping al-Shaheed's bodyguard off the bridge). In fact, this method is quite viable, if Mike has specializations in pistols, stealth, martial arts, and toughness. Make use of tranquilizer darts, stealth with nonlethal takedowns, unarmed attacks, and nonlethal gadgets like shock traps and flashbangs, and Mike can potentially get through the whole game with no kills. The game even keeps track of kills (with the "Orphans Created" stat) and non-lethal takedowns ("medical expenses"), rewarding the player with perks that boost the effectiveness of his stealth and other nonlethal skills.
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Pacifist Run / int_464a2270	comment	Epic Mickey allows you to choose how you want to deal with the main enemies, the Blotlings. Paint will turn them into allies, and thinner will destroy them. If you always use paint to convert enemies to your side, you can play the game as a pacifist for the most part, though the robotic Beetleworx will either have to be dealt with lethally or simply ignored. Most of the bosses can be befriended as well.
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Pacifist Run / int_474c18c1	comment	Although most of BioShock Infinite requires guns blazing and kill-counts in the hundreds to complete the game, Episode 2 of the Burial at Sea DLC becomes a Stealth-Based Mission, especially at the beginning, as Elizabeth begins the level completely unequipped. With the right use of the Peeping Tom and Ironsides plasmids, it is possible to finish the DLC with no kills. Some dialogue in this section hints that Elizabeth's fate depends on whether she avoids killing, which may have been based on an idea for multiple endings to the DLC, but in practice, it's just for bragging rights. 1998 Mode removes guns and the Radar Range from the game, meaning Elizabeth can only eliminate enemies using non-lethal methods such as knocking them out with the Air Grabber or using the tranquilizer crossbow.
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Pacifist Run / int_4824b3b3	comment	Due to the nature of the game, a pacifist run is wholly impossible in Fallout Tactics.
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Pacifist Run / int_49ad83ee	comment	There is one player in World of Warcraft who has reached level 70 without killing anything. This also inspires a debate as to whether a player limiting themselves to "only" healing allies really counts; if the allies kill enemies you still get the rewards. With the release of Cataclysm, pacifist levelling became much easier due to Herbalism and Mining now granting experience for picking plants and mining ores. This can lead to the rather amusing result of some random schmoe who picked a lot of herbs becoming more powerful than an Old God. A player successfully leveled a druid to level 90 in Mists of Pandaria without killing anything, without getting any gear to replace his starting set, and having completed only one mandatory quest. There is in fact a guild of people who aim for zero kills called Peace Corps. While Cataclysm introduced a variety of ways to gain experience without killing things, it also introduced viewable statistics, so it's now possible to see exactly how many kills a character has. Since grouping with someone or even just healing someone who is fighting will credit you with their kill, it is by necessity a fairly solitary path. But gives you bragging rights that the most uber geared hardcore raider can never beat.
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Pacifist Run / int_4c213722	comment	In Splinter Cell, it is possible to complete the game with only one overt kill, which is a required mission objective. This is usually accomplished with liberal use of the "sticky camera" pseudoweapon to knock enemies out. Three mandatory assassination mission objectives aside, in Chaos Theory it is possible to complete the game without killing any enemies. Mission requirements aside (e.g. knocking out a guard so a helicopter will come) it is possible to complete the game without knocking out more than three enemies (Bathhouse boiler room), and perhaps fewer. In fact, it is entirely possible to get all zeros at the final score which equals to zero kills/KOs through the whole game. The bathhouse boiler room is indeed tricky as there are at least 4 guards that need to be distracted with sticky cameras. Sometimes enforced in Splinter Cell: Double Agent: You're free to kill or spare the enemy, but killing them will lower the NSA's trust in you which, if it's low to begin with, might be something you can't afford. The Wii, GameCube, PS2 and Xbox versions forcibly avert this in the final mission where you're forced to kill certain JBA members where no matter what you do to them counts as a kill. Even grabbing and using the knockout button triggers his stab move instead. While infiltrating JBA Headquarters, killing is strictly forbidden: you are given a light and entirely non-lethal loadout, you can't perform a lethal takedown, and even accidentally getting a character killed via crossfire causes a Non Standard Game Over: Lambert explains that while the JBA will tolerate a few odd goings-on like finding a couple of members passed out or a few stories about someone slipping around in the shadows, a dead member would put them into high-gear paranoia mode lockdown which would put Sam under too much scrutiny to continue the mission.
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Pacifist Run / int_4f7e144d	comment	Everhood: The second half of the game tasks the player to kill everyone, but they can refuse to do this and earn a different ending. More specifically, one of the game's bad endings.
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Pacifist Run / int_5425ce75	comment	Killing is kind of unavoidable in the Grand Theft Auto series, but very few people have actually tried to not kill anyone as they go about the optional objectives - trying not to run over people on the sidewalk, etc. Doing their best to kill the absolute minimum number of people to finish the game. Completely possible in Grand Theft Auto 2, where one can score points by performing stunts, taking cars to a crusher, or simply giving people rides in Taxis. Each level can also be finished by collecting hidden tokens scattered around the map, with each district having a bonus stage that can only be played after doing this. Youtuber DarkViperAU has made a truly herculean effort to do a pacifist run of Grand Theft Auto V, though he's proven that it's impossible to proceed without a few mandatory kills here and there.
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Pacifist Run / int_54b404d7	comment	It is entirely possible to win a round of Player Unknowns Battlegrounds without killing anyone, or even attacking at all, by letting the other players kill each other off, with the last two opponents giving each other a Mutual Kill or the last opponent getting themselves killed (such as being in the out-of-bounds area).
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Pacifist Run / int_558aa396	comment	Second Sight tracks your "morality" score for each level of the game, which starts at 100% and decreases with each enemy you kill. Players can avoid killing enemies by tranquilizing them, sneaking past, luring them into hazardous terrain features, allowing NPC allies to kill them, or tricking them into killing each other. It appears that only four enemies (not counting your involuntary initial manifestations of Psy-Attack, and improved telekinesis) actually have to be killed. They're clones of the main character. Oddly, even without killing anyone else the big bad will still call you out for all the bodies you stepped over to reach him. The game also keeps track of how many km of "muddy feet" you walked per level i.e.: how far you walked with your shoes covered in blood from enemies you killed.
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Pacifist Run / int_559a396b	comment	New Super Mario Bros. U has some challenges such as "Be Gentle To Giants" revolving around doing a level from the Story Mode without attacking any enemies.
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Pacifist Run / int_56fa0ea4	comment	The Culture, Diplomatic and (to a certain extent) Space Race victories in Civilization can be achieved without a single battle (although the higher levels will manipulate you into conflicts with other Civs). In Civ 5 it is theoretically possible to win using a city-state to do your 'dirty work'. If another civ has wiped out the others apart from you and attacks a city-state you can supply the city with army units as gifts. If they manage to take the opposing civ's capital you would win. As mentioned above, it would have to be a low difficulty level. Also, since a city-state usually will only attack a nearby enemy city you'd have to be lucky that it was their capital as they'd sue for peace if they lost an ordinary city. A more literal version is "Always Peace", which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. You shoot for one of the peaceful victories, but cannot go to war. In the first three installments this was a Self-Imposed Challenge, but since Civilization IV it’s also an official game option. In a story now lost to the archives, someone once won a game of Civ 3 without building a single military unit. (This is a significantly more impressive achievement than just "never fight any battles" - the AI is able to recognise weakly defended targets and attack them opportunistically.) It was a diplomatic victory, if you're wondering.
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Pacifist Run / int_58a0656b	comment	PAYDAY 2 features seven achievements for completing a particular heist without killing anyone: "I Will Walk Through Walls" for Shadow Raidnote Six bags of loot must be secured as well, "Sound of Silence" for The Alesso Heist, "The Pacifist" and "Looting in the Dark" for Murky Stationnote "The Pacifist" requires the entire crew to avoid killing anyone, and "Looting in the Dark" requires all loot to be secured as well, "Pacifish" for The Yacht Heist, "Low Murder Rate" for Breakfast in Tijuana, and "Victimless Crime" for Lost in Transit. Unlike Counterfeit in PD:TH, all these heists can be completed in stealthnote Shadow Raid, Murky Station and The Yacht Heist are all stealth-only, making them much less of a pain to earn.
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Pacifist Run / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear: Aside from the bosses, it is possible to get through most games without ever killing anyone, though you are forced at one point to fight off a horde of enemies without access to nonlethal weaponry. In Metal Gear Solid, this just earned the player a suitably passive animal codename after the end credits. In the later games, you are given rewards for keeping enemy fatalities to a minimum. This became considerably easier with tranquilizer weapons in later games, resulting in an even more difficult variation: No Tranquilizer Run. In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, since you only kill (in-story) two of the bosses, no real difference is made whether you stamina-kill them or not (only that a stamina-kill doesn't show up on your score as a real kill). Interestingly, not-killing Fatman, one of the story-killed bosses, results in him passing out at the end of his dying speech instead of dying. When Ocelot remarks on Fatman's death later on, the line is the same, but the implication is that Ocelot killed him rather than you, which provides a neat clue as to Ocelot's real alignment. In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, you can avoid killing the bosses. They have non-lethal hit bars, and you get a special bonus for defeating a boss with non-lethal force, but if they were supposed to die, they commit suicide in the following cutscene. However, there is one exception: Even if you defeat The Boss nonlethally, the game still forces you to kill her. Alternately, even using lethal force against bosses who survive the encounter either way (Ocelot and Volgin) doesn't count as a kill, allowing you to "kill" them and still perform a pacifist run (you just don't get their camouflage this way). Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is the first game in the series to let you do a true no-kills run, not even story kills. The game even allows you to take out all of the bosses using non-lethal means. Unlike the other games, it actually affects the cutscene afterward. The difference is really subtle, leading to many players thinking Kojima was lying when he said you could save them. Even MGS4's online mode gets in on this, giving players the "Pigeon" ranking if they have a suitable ratio of kills to knockouts. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker lets you do a pacifist run one step at a time. Each of its stages is mission-based, letting you do a perfect no-kills stealth run once you're properly prepared, even against a missile tank supported by thirty troops. The end-of-mission rankings in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain award more points for incapacitating enemy troops than for killing them. You can take over enemy outposts simply with stealth takedowns, just as you would if you went in guns blazing. A full game playthrough without any kills is impossible because there are a few mandatory objectives that necessitate killing, such as destroying occupied armored vehicles or killing soldiers with infectious parasites before they spread and cause a global plague.
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Pacifist Run / int_59735062	comment	Deus Ex: Mankind Divided: Every enemy can be taken down non-lethally, particularly since the game features additional non-lethal offensive options as well as opportunities to talk down would-be enemies. The final and only boss of the game Viktor Marchenko can even be defeated non-lethally provided you can prevent him from activating Titan Armor.
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Pacifist Run / int_59da62aa	comment	According to Fallout: New Vegas's project director, Josh Sawyer, being able to play through the game's main plot both by killing everyone and killing absolutely no one was intended as "initial design tenets". The AI is liable to get funky if you attempt it, but at no point during the main quest is the player character forced to kill an enemy in combat, regardless of which faction ending they go for. This can lean into Technical Pacifist territory, however, and both House and the Legion's endings involve wiping out one faction in one manner or another; the Legion even tasks you with an assassination, though you can botch it. NCR and Wild Card runs, though, can use diplomacy to avoid wiping out any of the game's minor factions. Notably, a full non-combat run through the game doesn't necessarily let the player finish with truly clean hands. Reaching any ending still forces some level of moral compromise on the player's part: the Omertas questline can be skipped but otherwise its Speech solution involves convincing Cachino to open fire for you; when siding against Mr. House you're given an alternative to directly killing the man, by disabling him from the computer interface that lets him interact with the world, but doing so is Cruel Mercy and is said to reduce him to a "year of life at most" note A note in the game files indicates that, in the NCR route, it would be possible to convince Mr. House to give up the sovereignty of the New Vegas Strip in exchange for NCR citizenship and amnesty, but is was scrapped for unknown reasons.; destroying the Brotherhood of Steel is mandatory for House and the Legion, and while this can be accomplished with stealth and setting their base to self-destruct, it still results in the death of anyone in there. In addition to using Speech and Sneak to talk, avoid, and pickpocket your way around people as in most Fallout games, New Vegas has a few added tools to take advantage of. Disguises allow the player to avoid being shot on sight by factions they've irritated, though have limits. Weapons with fatigue damage exist, allowing players to temporarily ragdoll and stun enemies, though these do an amount of regular damage as well. Of course, as far as the Pip-boy stats go, kills by companions won't count as yours...
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Pacifist Run / int_5a84b4ee	comment	Endless Legend offers an achievement for winning the game as the Drakken (a faction which favors diplomacy) without ever being at war with another player.
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Pacifist Run / int_5af9ce93	comment	In Reservoir Dogs there's a choice to go either "Psycho" or "Professional", the latter being if you concentrate on using hostages over shooting people. The issue is that hostages lose HP over time.
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Pacifist Run / int_5afbc0cb	comment	Undertale: The original game heavily advertises the ability to SPARE enemies instead of fighting them, with the tagline "The Friendly RPG Where Nobody has to Die". A totally pacifist run without killing any enemies gets you the Golden Ending, which is by far the happiest ending. If you play a pacifist run, some of the characters will ridicule you for playing the game in this manner, while others will encourage you. Either way, you'll see the effects of your mercy as you progress through the game. Interestingly enough, in the Neutral Pacifist run, required for the True Pacifist Golden Ending, one monster has to die: Asgore Dreemurr. And he does die, whether you're the one to strike the final blow, or you attempt to SPARE him and he's instead killed by Flowey. If he's the only monster that you kill, then all the other principals agree that you did what you had to do, and no one—not even Undyne, the Captain of the Royal Guard and one of Asgore's closest associates, if you befriended her—blames you for it. Going back for the True Pacifist ending undoes his death anyway, as it resumes from a point before that battle. Its successor, Deltarune, has a similar mechanic where you can fight enemies either passively or forcibly (but nonlethally, outside of a special route beginning in Chapter 2). Much less actually changes about the flow of the game aside from a few slightly different lines of dialogue and a slightly different ending for each chapter to hammer home the point that your choices don't matter this time. For a while in the first chapter, you're even saddled with a party member who refuses to fight passively against a boss who can't be defeated violently, forcing you to actively warn enemies of her oncoming attacks to complete the pacifist run.
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Pacifist Run / int_5b11cab1	comment	Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood gives a huge incentive to take enemies down non-lethally, as Robin's reputation as a merciful person will net him better rewards and lead more companions to join his cause. You do have to kill two enemies in the game, though: Sir Longchamps and the Sheriff of Nottingham. Also, in several missions you have AI-controlled ally units which will attack enemies on sight, so you have to either scout ahead, take down and hide all the enemies before letting them through, or make do with a Technical Pacifist attitude (and kills made by allies still impact Robin's reward at the end of the level).
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Pacifist Run / int_5dfb8aa2	comment	Sonic Generations on the 3DS includes missions that require this. It's guaranteed to require multiple tries simply because of the homing attack.
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Pacifist Run / int_5e91c7d	comment	Players do this in Resident Evil 4, but it's more a Minimal Kills run. While there are more enemies that can be circumvented than one might expect, there are still many, many enemies that must be killed to advance, starting with the first enemy in the game. There's also the Mine Cart section: Every passenger, besides Leon, dies at the end and the "kills" are credited to the player.
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Pacifist Run / int_5ef71a38	comment	2027 also allows this, however, you will not be able to complete the final Judician mission.
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Pacifist Run / int_631805af	comment	Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is the first game in the series to let you do a true no-kills run, not even story kills. The game even allows you to take out all of the bosses using non-lethal means. Unlike the other games, it actually affects the cutscene afterward. The difference is really subtle, leading to many players thinking Kojima was lying when he said you could save them.
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Pacifist Run / int_662d5d1f	comment	Watch_Dogs 2 gives all the tools for a pacifist run. Hacked power conduits, shock gadgets, the stun gun, and melee attacks all non-lethally subdue enemies, and drones can often complete an objective without Marcus even being in the danger zone. However, this isn't directly incentivised by the game, perhaps because it plays like a Self-Imposed Challenge - not only do lethal explosives have a much wider radius, stunned enemies will wake up by themselves after a couple of minutes or when roused by a buddy, and not using steam pipe explosions in car chases removes the most effective way of disabling an enemy vehicle.
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Pacifist Run / int_68a8d1da	comment	Metro: Last Light also has multiple achievements and morality points for a pacifist run or Stealth Run, or both at the same time. It's possible to go the entire game, barring the last level, without killing any human enemies or being detected, thanks to the ruthlessly efficient silent takedown that involves punching your schmuck of choice in the face or the back of the skull. You essentially have to do this to get the good ending.
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Pacifist Run / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition: "Nonlethal damage" functions by knocking the target unconscious if the sum of the lethal and nonlethal damage they've taken in a combat exceeds their maximum Hit Points. This makes Technical Pacifist characters possible, and some supplements such as the Book of Exalted Deeds introduce character-building options to capitalize on it such as the "Vow of Nonviolence" feat. Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition: Player characters who reduce an NPC enemy to zero or fewer hit points always have the option to decide then and there to only knock that enemy out instead of killing them. Stop to think about that for a moment: with this rule in force, any given scenario played through could fairly trivially become a pacifist run, the possibility is just something that doesn't seem to as much as occur to most players. Probably because the idea of ripping the target's life-force out or disintegrating them in a non-lethal manner is so counter-intuitive. The Wild Beyond the Witchlight gives every encounter an option to avoid combat, usually in form of a small Fetch Quest the party may already even completed without realizing. It is really easy for the party to already have used the desired item beforehand, thus screwing themselves over into the violent option. You can also try to talk your way out of a conflict, make deals with The Fair olk, or solve problems with somewhat out-there tactics. It's the first ever D&D officially-licensed module in which you can go through the entire adventure as-written without ever getting into combat.
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Pacifist Run / int_6c1d09b3	comment	While difficult due to the more combat-oriented nature of the game, it is possible to complete the main quest and some sidequests in Fallout 3 without killing anything, with the exception of a single radroach during the tutorial. Though again this is very much an Exact Words Technical Pacifist cheat: several mission objectives, including at least one in the main story, require the deaths of all raiders/slavers/mutants/soldiers in a given area... you can just have a companion character do it instead of you. And it's flat-out impossible even with Exact Words in Broken Steel which requires you to kill dozens of Enclave troopers and nuke a base containing hundreds more; you can't tell your companion to do that.
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Pacifist Run / int_6c1d09b4	comment	While it's possible to have a pacifist run in Fallout 4 (in the sense that you "technically" didn't kill anyone since more than a few quests rely on murder), the game's tone wholly expects you to at least have a few kills by the end of the game, thus it becomes close to impossible for some missions to resolve peacefully and requires a Manipulative Bastard with a really good silver tongue and lots of patience to complete it, and even then, the game has the potential to break. Most missions don't even have the option to end peacefully.
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Pacifist Run / int_6ced7110	comment	Mark of the Ninja equips you with enough items and abilities to complete the game without killing any enemies.
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Pacifist Run / int_6d33ec18	comment	Do It For Me: The "Innocent Love" and "Awake" endings require you to go through the game without killing a single Wooffle.
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Pacifist Run / int_6e34b51b	comment	Soldier of Fortune, despite its reputation for gorn, allows the player to pull this trope off by blowing weapons out of the enemies' hands, rendering them non-threatening. The ironic part? This is possible thanks to the GHOUL engine, the very same component responsible for the Ludicrous Gibs.
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Pacifist Run / int_6ee28fa8	comment	Someone did this for Commander Keen 4 on hard mode without saving in level. Since the game was designed assuming the player saved constantly, it quickly becomes very difficult. It can be found here. A normal playthrough is a downplayed example, as the blaster merely stuns enemies.
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Pacifist Run / int_70bd55bf	comment	Unlike most music games, missing an enemy in Muse Dash doesn't necessarily cause you to take damage; if you miss by simply dodging the enemy, you won't get hurt. Thus, on some charts, it's entirely possible to clear the chart with all of the notes missed, and it's even possible to combine this with a No-Damage Run if the chart is sparse enough.
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Pacifist Run / int_70f7eb5b	comment	Night Striker has a bonus called the Pacifist Bonus, where if you do not shoot at anything and not take damage either, you earn 2,000,000 points. This bonus stacks up per stage for six stages. (ST.1 - 2 mil, ST.2 - 4 mil, ST.3 - 6 mil, etc.) An example of this in action can be seen here Then there's a playerdoing a complete pacifist only run.
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Pacifist Run / int_73cdb697	comment	The remake of Resident Evil for the Nintendo GameCube has what is called "One Dangerous Zombie" mode, wherein a zombie completely strapped with explosives constantly follows you around through the game. Attack him even passively, and you get a game over. For the series proper, you obviously need to kill bosses in the main plotlines, but for standard Mooks and some of the minigames, you're free to try this challenge out. The bitch is it's not a selectable mode; it's automatically foisted on you during a New Game Plus whether you like it or not. The good news, as it were, is that said zombie disappears once you leave the mansion and go to the guardhouse.
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Pacifist Run / int_7414f486	comment	The original game has a bonus ("Pacifist") for clearing a stage without even attempting an attack. Given how many stages have level hazards, this isn't as difficult as it sounds to obtain.
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Pacifist Run / int_747d9a6f	comment	In [PROTOTYPE], it is impossible to go through the game without killing civilians. The closest the player can get to a self-imposed pacifist challenge is to try to keep their civilian kill count as low as possible (difficult, since you can kill them by running into them). There is an achievement for eating only 10 or fewer civilians. Considering they're literally Too Dumb to Live, walking and driving around (and diving under the treads of that tank you just stole) in an active plague zone like nothing's wrong until an Infected runs up and decides to have a snack, you could simply stress it as a "no deliberate kills of civilians" run and ignore collateral damage. It's also nearly impossible to get through the game without wasting a few hundred soldiers in the course of the missions, but you could feasibly keep your Marine casualties to a minimum besides the required consume targets, only feasting on the Blackwatch goons and Infected.
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Pacifist Run / int_75999d93	comment	EXTRAPOWER: Star Resistance: The game throws tons of enemies on you with the expectation that you're going to make them all explode in waves of fireballs and/or green viscera. But for especially determined and patient players, you can pull off a no- or low-kills run to achieve the Holy Warrior rank. Easiest to perform as Valhalla, who gets a giant shield and the ability to prevent all damage for a limited time. A Challenge Run as increasing health is tied to number of kills, in the thousands, so you'd be completing difficult end game gauntlets and final bosses with 3 hits at most. 4 if you grab the secret at the end of Stage 5.
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Pacifist Run / int_76376304	comment	Metro 2033: Two of the original game's achievements are awarded for relying on stealth instead of violence: Invisible Man (earned by completing "Frontline" without killing any Fourth Reich or Red Line soldiers) and "Merciful" (infiltrate "Black Station" without killing any of the Reich soldiers stationed in therenote in Redux, knockouts aren't allowed either or raising an alarm). Notably, there's another achievement ("Hedge-Hopper") for doing the exact opposite in "Frontline", so you'll have to master both styles of play if you're going for 100% Completion. Avoiding killing human opponents also gives you hidden moral points, which counts towards the hidden/good ending. Metro: Last Light also has multiple achievements and morality points for a pacifist run or Stealth Run, or both at the same time. It's possible to go the entire game, barring the last level, without killing any human enemies or being detected, thanks to the ruthlessly efficient silent takedown that involves punching your schmuck of choice in the face or the back of the skull. You essentially have to do this to get the good ending.
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Pacifist Run / int_76686539	comment	Feros in Mass Effect has a mission where you can choose to simply knock out the colonists being controlled by the local Eldritch Abomination instead of killing them. While this makes the mission much more difficult, it is definitely worth it for a Paragon Shepard.
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Pacifist Run / int_7685dc5b	comment	The Wild Beyond the Witchlight gives every encounter an option to avoid combat, usually in form of a small Fetch Quest the party may already even completed without realizing. It is really easy for the party to already have used the desired item beforehand, thus screwing themselves over into the violent option. You can also try to talk your way out of a conflict, make deals with The Fair olk, or solve problems with somewhat out-there tactics. It's the first ever D&D officially-licensed module in which you can go through the entire adventure as-written without ever getting into combat.
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Pacifist Run / int_79a57c7e	comment	This is half of what it's like to try and be a benevolent god in Black & White. The other half is being nice to your villagers.
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Pacifist Run / int_7c19a801	comment	In FTL: Faster Than Light, one of the in-game achievements, titled "Coming in for my Pacifism run!", requires making it to Sector 5 without firing a shot, using an offensive drone, or teleporting.
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Pacifist Run / int_7ea4fd21	comment	Wasteland 3: The "Battle of Steeltown" DLC has a "Perfect Pacifist" achievement for not killing any of the striking workers or members of the revolutionary "ghost gang" (instead subjecting them to Non-Lethal K.O.), though you are expected to kill the cruel foreman who is the cause of the strike in the first place.
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Pacifist Run / int_7f49dfdb	comment	Devil Survivor Overclocked gives you this as an in-game option on Naoya's 8th Day. Now that you are the King Of Bel and are about to declare war on God and his army, the humans in the Yamanote Lockdown areas are pretty angry at you and want to kill you for causing demons to run free now. You are given the option to fight all battles against the army of angels and kill all humans who oppose you or you can choose to only fight the angels and leave all humans alive. Both options net you a title each and minor differences in dialogue and battles.
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Pacifist Run / int_7f5bc680	comment	The first two Fallout games are notable for the possibility of not needing to directly kill anyone, although this is more Technical Pacifist as the endgames for both require you to nuke the base of the main antagonists, knowingly killing hundreds of people. The Final Boss of Fallout 2 Frank Horrigan must be killed but you can have companions or several defecting Enclave officers do it. It is even possible, though very difficult, to do an Evil Pacifist Run in both games. While difficult due to the more combat-oriented nature of the game, it is possible to complete the main quest and some sidequests in Fallout 3 without killing anything, with the exception of a single radroach during the tutorial. Though again this is very much an Exact Words Technical Pacifist cheat: several mission objectives, including at least one in the main story, require the deaths of all raiders/slavers/mutants/soldiers in a given area... you can just have a companion character do it instead of you. And it's flat-out impossible even with Exact Words in Broken Steel which requires you to kill dozens of Enclave troopers and nuke a base containing hundreds more; you can't tell your companion to do that. According to Fallout: New Vegas's project director, Josh Sawyer, being able to play through the game's main plot both by killing everyone and killing absolutely no one was intended as "initial design tenets". The AI is liable to get funky if you attempt it, but at no point during the main quest is the player character forced to kill an enemy in combat, regardless of which faction ending they go for. This can lean into Technical Pacifist territory, however, and both House and the Legion's endings involve wiping out one faction in one manner or another; the Legion even tasks you with an assassination, though you can botch it. NCR and Wild Card runs, though, can use diplomacy to avoid wiping out any of the game's minor factions. Notably, a full non-combat run through the game doesn't necessarily let the player finish with truly clean hands. Reaching any ending still forces some level of moral compromise on the player's part: the Omertas questline can be skipped but otherwise its Speech solution involves convincing Cachino to open fire for you; when siding against Mr. House you're given an alternative to directly killing the man, by disabling him from the computer interface that lets him interact with the world, but doing so is Cruel Mercy and is said to reduce him to a "year of life at most" note A note in the game files indicates that, in the NCR route, it would be possible to convince Mr. House to give up the sovereignty of the New Vegas Strip in exchange for NCR citizenship and amnesty, but is was scrapped for unknown reasons.; destroying the Brotherhood of Steel is mandatory for House and the Legion, and while this can be accomplished with stealth and setting their base to self-destruct, it still results in the death of anyone in there. In addition to using Speech and Sneak to talk, avoid, and pickpocket your way around people as in most Fallout games, New Vegas has a few added tools to take advantage of. Disguises allow the player to avoid being shot on sight by factions they've irritated, though have limits. Weapons with fatigue damage exist, allowing players to temporarily ragdoll and stun enemies, though these do an amount of regular damage as well. Of course, as far as the Pip-boy stats go, kills by companions won't count as yours... Due to the nature of the game, a pacifist run is wholly impossible in Fallout Tactics. While it's possible to have a pacifist run in Fallout 4 (in the sense that you "technically" didn't kill anyone since more than a few quests rely on murder), the game's tone wholly expects you to at least have a few kills by the end of the game, thus it becomes close to impossible for some missions to resolve peacefully and requires a Manipulative Bastard with a really good silver tongue and lots of patience to complete it, and even then, the game has the potential to break. Most missions don't even have the option to end peacefully.
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Pacifist Run / int_7fcddc41	comment	The Ghandi bonus in the first two games of the The Journeyman Project series is awarded if you defeat your enemies with non-lethal force, which gives you extra points. It's possible to complete a game this way too.
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Pacifist Run / int_8397a915	type	Pacifist Run
Pacifist Run / int_8397a915	comment	There Is No Epic Loot Here, Only Puns: Delta works hard to make her Dungeon into a place where people can just come and be. Test themselves, sure, but killing is strongly frowned upon, and will usually result in escalation. Such as her spider room, which someone could safely walk through blindfolded, or entirely avoid the webs for an extra prize, but if an adventurer starts killing off the spiders, a powerful "spidergeist" boss monster will emerge.
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Pacifist Run / int_84c9b0f4	comment	AirMech has an achievement called "My Hands are Clean" that involves the player taking no part in the combat and only using units to defeat their opponent. While not pacifism per se, you're not joining the fight yourself.
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Pacifist Run / int_84dfb5d5	comment	Galactic Civilizations: you don't get an achievement for it, but you can win by forming Alliances with all the other races, forming an Alliance with one race and having them crush your enemies, or by using heavily upgraded influence starbases to either culture-hug enemy worlds into defecting to your side or to mark most of the map as your territory (which brings with it the incidental bonus that you can ram through any result you want at the United Planets and nobody will have the voting power to stop you).
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Pacifist Run / int_891ea0e3	comment	It is possible to complete a playthrough of Castle Wolfenstein without killing a single guard. However, it is very tricky and mostly relies on the Randomly Generated Levels arranging themselves in your favor. It is also important to keep grenades handy for blowing up obstructing walls and to steal uniforms so that regular guards will leave you alone.
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Pacifist Run / int_8b5820ed	comment	Red Dead Redemption. You can minimize all killing in the game with your trusty lasso - aside from times you must kill, such as the gatling gun missions - but it's Nintendo Hard to do the entire game that way.
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Pacifist Run / int_8e898734	comment	Painkiller sort of has this as one of the card conditions in Battle Out of Hell. The card condition for the Loony Park level is to finish with no more than 88 kills, meaning that the last section of the level has to be finished with minimal casualties. Fortunately, it's a rail shooter section to boot, so if the player has enough health, there's nothing stopping them from going and fetching another cup of coffee while the rail section plays out.
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Pacifist Run / int_8fb3fde6	comment	In the World of Assassination Trilogy, killing non-targets incurs a slight score penalty, encouraging the player to minimize collateral damage if they're aiming for a high score. Several optional challenges also require you to only kill the main targets, on top of more specific critera.
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Pacifist Run / int_9269ce2f	comment	Mars: War Logs allows you to spare the life of every NPC you fight.
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Pacifist Run / int_93ef7a8c	comment	In the sequel, Super Smash Bros. Melee, this bonus still exists, and is joined by another bonus called "Switzerland" which requires not being attacked as well (complete neutrality). Yet another bonus is called "Peaceful Warrior," which lets you attack an enemy but not KO them. And all of these are necessary for 100% Completion. There are some AI quirks in certain stages that help with getting these.
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Pacifist Run / int_95bd5a8e	comment	Despite being focused on assassination, Dishonored has an achievement for going through the entire game without killing anyone (not even the zombie-like plague victims) named "Clean Hands" (which the two DLC pieces focusing on the master assassin Daud up to "Cleaner Hands" and "Cleanest Hands", respectively). In fact, the game actively encourages players to attempt this, as not only does pacifism net you a better ending, it also makes the game somewhat easier, as there are fewer guards and weepers to circumnavigate (it also turns the final quest into something of an anti-climax, however). Even the high-profile targets you are ostensibly sent to assassinate can be neutralized in some other way, although this usually involves consigning them to a Fate Worse than Death.
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Pacifist Run / int_960a9d09	comment	This is enforced for one character in Crypt Of The Necrodancer. The character Dove can only attack with a flower, and this doesn't even hurt enemies. It only stuns them (though they drop gold all the same). Attempting to bypass this by picking up a weapon or using a shrine of blood will instantly kill her thanks to "Cowardice". Thankfully, the exits for the levels (which are sealed by a Mini-Boss or Mook Maker) are automatically unlocked and all bosses are absent.
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Pacifist Run / int_97419b7f	comment	Fatal Racing. Surprisingly easy to do unconsciously before you learn how to play the crash/fatality system, surprisingly hard to do consciously after you do.
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Pacifist Run / int_9b602c3f	comment	Its successor, Deltarune, has a similar mechanic where you can fight enemies either passively or forcibly (but nonlethally, outside of a special route beginning in Chapter 2). Much less actually changes about the flow of the game aside from a few slightly different lines of dialogue and a slightly different ending for each chapter to hammer home the point that your choices don't matter this time. For a while in the first chapter, you're even saddled with a party member who refuses to fight passively against a boss who can't be defeated violently, forcing you to actively warn enemies of her oncoming attacks to complete the pacifist run.
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Pacifist Run / int_9d34190a	comment	In the majority of The Elder Scrolls you can pass the game without killing or killing only the bosses.
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Pacifist Run / int_9f89a5f0	comment	Pokémon: Since you can't actually beat the game without winning at least a few fights, you have to go the Technical Pacifist approach by inflicting indirect damage through actively administering status effects or entry hazards. For extra challenge, you can limit yourself completely to moves that only buff and lower stats, and use Pokémon with passive status- or damage-inflicting abilities (like Poison Point or Rough Skin), forcing the opponent to do all the work of knocking itself out.note Due to opponents not having PP and abilities not yet existing, this approach is impossible in the Gen I games.
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Pacifist Run / int_a2c37f38	comment	In Planescape: Torment, you can get through the whole game having to fight only four (And the zombie at the beginning who has the key out of the starting room!) characters, and you don't necessarily have to kill any of them. You're forced to "kill" the first character you have to fight this way, but it's just a Non-Lethal K.O.. Then again, this should come as little surprise in a game where a major objective is to find out why you can't die. However, it's not possible to avoid dying and reviving a number of times. And every time you "die," someone else dies instead, making you somewhat responsible for their death.
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Pacifist Run / int_a45134ab	comment	DRL enforces this behavior on players in the Angel of Pacifism challenge by simply disallowing any use of weapons. The player wins by running through all the levels and finally nuking the Spider Mastermind (the player gets the nuke at the start), and to ease things up (somewhat), the player gets a level-up after descending every third stair. This encourages players to enter certain special levels that have the entrance and exit close to each other, and any and all monsters killing themselves or others (through infighting, running through lava, or shooting barrels while standing next to them are credited to the player, with an according experience gain. On the other hand, there are extra challenges that take this concept to the extreme - the Archangel of Pacifism takes away the "level-up at every third floor" mechanic, and even worse, the Angelic Pacifist badge requires the player to win the game with exactly one kill (that one being the Mastermind) - if any monster is killed by other monster's attack, or even more unluckily, if a monster is generated on acid or lava, you can just kiss your run goodbye.
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Pacifist Run / int_a4514a75	comment	The title character of adventure/platform shooter Iji wakes up to find that aliens have invaded and scientists have implanted her with nanotechnology to combat them. Iji is uneasy with the idea of killing, even though the aliens have killed most of her family. The game is designed to give you a choice - you can go in guns blazing and kill hundreds as in so many other games, or you can deliberately avoid bloodshed. The ending is the same whether you kill one or fifty enemies, but there are some Easter Eggs as a reward for completely holding your fire. Doing a pacifist run sometimes adds new challenges to a stage. The third stage, for example, has a requirement of not coming into contact with any Tasen soldiers. Otherwise, you won't be able to skip Krotera, and will be forced to kill them. From version 1.3 onwards, it is possible to have a perfect zero number of kills in all but the hardest difficulty (due one boss not being Skippable in that difficultyexplanation Skipping Asha's boss fight requires researching a powerful weapon early and blowing up the objective you normally have to hack. Hardest difficulty disallows unlocking weapons.). Given that the boss is Asha, who either killed her brother or came close to, and called her being upset about it trivial, at least he's the most deserving example. Still, skipping him causes him to commit suicide out of shame at not beating you. Version 1.6 also allows a "technically" pacifist game that can still have a high death toll, as reflecting enemy projectiles back at them no longer counts as a kill (this was reversed in 1.7 as the introduction of nonlethal weapons made this redundant). Also, the player can deliberately get hit by rockets so that nearby enemies get killed by friendly fire. The final version introduced another step of pacifism, allowing you to non-lethally get past a certain lategame boss without having to rely on Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work. Sparing Iosa can only end in tragedy, though, as she gains nothing from this and will assassinate Iji when she's vulnerable after the Final Boss.
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Pacifist Run / int_a4ae80d6	comment	Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, being a Bounty Hunter themed game, allows you to choose between killing an enemy, or simply stunning them long enough for you to trap them in your bounty bag. Live enemies are worth more than dead enemies. Challenges could include bringing in all bounties alive, bringing in all outlaws alive, or bringing in all enemies in the game alive. Minor challenges could also include never attacking a non-hostile NPC for Moolah, or neglecting to collect two optional Moolah rewards that require robbing innocents. Due to a Genre Shift late in the game, this becomes more difficult. You are required to kill several enemies (including the Big Bad) during the final levels. In addition, the previously pacifistic Bounty Bag is replaced with a Bait Bag that is used to breed your living ammo. Guess what they eat?
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Pacifist Run / int_a6543322	comment	As in other vertical shooters, this is a common type of run in the Touhou Project series despite the fact that the games actively punish trying to do this. Most Final Bosses and Superbosses have their final spellcard become incredibly difficult if you take too long, but have long enough timers that the average player will never see this. And there'll generally be a few patterns that will just get worse with time, and the occasional wave of enemies that will exit through the bottom of the screen, where the player is, if not killed. Defied very hard in the fourth PC-98 game, Lotus Land Story, where Gengetsu's final attack suddenly becomes virtually impossible to dodge because hundreds of projectiles are coming at you at the speed of "HOLY SHIT!" This attack is known among fans as "Gengetsu's Rape Time". This video is not sped up - that's the normal speed of the attack. The player, however, had to significantly slow down the game's flow to beat it, because otherwise it would be easier to go outside in a thunderstorm and try to dodge rain.
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Pacifist Run / int_a796bde8	comment	Aside from the bosses, it is possible to get through most games without ever killing anyone, though you are forced at one point to fight off a horde of enemies without access to nonlethal weaponry. In Metal Gear Solid, this just earned the player a suitably passive animal codename after the end credits. In the later games, you are given rewards for keeping enemy fatalities to a minimum. This became considerably easier with tranquilizer weapons in later games, resulting in an even more difficult variation: No Tranquilizer Run.
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Pacifist Run / int_a8a40154	comment	Playing Postal 2 without ever killing anyone gives you the end-of-game rank "Thank you for playing, JESUS!" The game developers actually considered this a point of pride: the franchise was a big target of Moral Guardians, so in their view, the fact that the game could be finished nonlethally but players chose to murder half the populace anyway was probably a sign that people are just jerks. The same holds true of the expansion pack, Apocalypse Weekend, but it's all theoretical since it's impossible to actually beat the game without killing anyone. It's more linear and combat-oriented than the original Postal 2, and there are several characters you have to kill to proceed. Even the zombies count as kills, and there are at least 2 different missions where you have to destroy a certain number of them to proceed forward.
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Pacifist Run / int_a8a64abf	comment	It's not exactly a pacifist run, but Geneforge 4 occasionally mentions that a "great Shaper" can get through the game without ever lifting a hand in defense. This variously means sneaking past baddies, abusing the Leadership skill, and luring enemies to weapon-toting allies.
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Pacifist Run / int_ac18cb12	comment	If you want to complete your Baroque collection in Baroque, you'll have to do at least one run through the Neuro Tower without killing purifying any Meta-Beings. This is made a bit tricky by the fact that certain Meta-Beings like to block your path, forcing you to hit them until they get out of your way.
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Pacifist Run / int_af33a2f2	comment	Discworld MUD has many ways of advancing character without killing, including exploration, quests, and using skills. This way is generally slower, but also requires less effort. There is even a special term for it, quoting official wiki, "Idlechasing, the art of getting as much experience as possible by using commands, usually without going on a killing rampage or moving much".
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Pacifist Run / int_b1f436be	comment	Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition: "Nonlethal damage" functions by knocking the target unconscious if the sum of the lethal and nonlethal damage they've taken in a combat exceeds their maximum Hit Points. This makes Technical Pacifist characters possible, and some supplements such as the Book of Exalted Deeds introduce character-building options to capitalize on it such as the "Vow of Nonviolence" feat.
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Pacifist Run / int_b212951e	comment	While Obsidian planned for nonlethal weapons to appear in The Outer Worlds, they were eventually cut from the game. As a result, the finished product doesn't allow players to knock out their enemies, and while almost all players will inevitably kill a few aliens and destroy a few robots, it's possible to complete the game and its expansions without directly killing a single person. A high Sneak skill, coupled with incredibly high Persuade, Lie, and Intimidate skills will ensure that the player character can skulk through the game undetected, using their rhetorical gifts to stop potential fights from happening. However, don't expect everyone to acknowledge your pacifism. During certain conversations, some characters will infer and imply that you've killed people!
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Pacifist Run / int_b5c385bc	comment	Dino Crisis can be run without even picking up a weapon. Not all endings can be reached this way, but one where Everybody Lives can.
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Pacifist Run / int_b6ae9932	comment	Sometimes enforced in Splinter Cell: Double Agent: You're free to kill or spare the enemy, but killing them will lower the NSA's trust in you which, if it's low to begin with, might be something you can't afford. The Wii, GameCube, PS2 and Xbox versions forcibly avert this in the final mission where you're forced to kill certain JBA members where no matter what you do to them counts as a kill. Even grabbing and using the knockout button triggers his stab move instead. While infiltrating JBA Headquarters, killing is strictly forbidden: you are given a light and entirely non-lethal loadout, you can't perform a lethal takedown, and even accidentally getting a character killed via crossfire causes a Non Standard Game Over: Lambert explains that while the JBA will tolerate a few odd goings-on like finding a couple of members passed out or a few stories about someone slipping around in the shadows, a dead member would put them into high-gear paranoia mode lockdown which would put Sam under too much scrutiny to continue the mission.
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Pacifist Run / int_b90cbebd	comment	Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition: Player characters who reduce an NPC enemy to zero or fewer hit points always have the option to decide then and there to only knock that enemy out instead of killing them. Stop to think about that for a moment: with this rule in force, any given scenario played through could fairly trivially become a pacifist run, the possibility is just something that doesn't seem to as much as occur to most players. Probably because the idea of ripping the target's life-force out or disintegrating them in a non-lethal manner is so counter-intuitive.
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Pacifist Run / int_b9419bd1	comment	Deus Ex: Human Revolution, like its predecessors, can be played in a pacifist manner, by circumventing enemies or knocking them out with gas grenades, tasers, tranquilizers, and fists, except four forced boss battles. Unlike the first two games though, the bosses can't be circumvented so you have to fight and kill them (even in the Updated Re Release you can't actually prevent their deaths due to conventions). There is an achievement for doing a pacifist run (excepting the boss battles). Technically, three of the four bosses can be taken out with non-lethal weapons, but they still die in the following cutscene anyway. There were plans to allow the player to spare at least two of the bosses, but this was cut due to time constraints. The Director's Cut went one step further, making the pacifist fighting methods a little easier to use in the boss fights. The base game itself encourages the pacifist run by giving bonus EXP for non-lethal takedowns.
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Pacifist Run / int_b952005	comment	Endless Space encourages this with an achievement that is rewarded for winning a game without ever placing a weapons module on a ship (bar the Starting Units). However, due to either an oversight or intentional exception, planetary invasion modules don't count as weapons, allowing Amoeba ships covered in defenses but with no "weapons" to invade and annex other empires' planets. Endless Legend offers an achievement for winning the game as the Drakken (a faction which favors diplomacy) without ever being at war with another player.
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Pacifist Run / int_ba07853c	comment	Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker lets you do a pacifist run one step at a time. Each of its stages is mission-based, letting you do a perfect no-kills stealth run once you're properly prepared, even against a missile tank supported by thirty troops.
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Pacifist Run / int_ba26bf2	comment	A Dearth of Choice: At first, the best the dungeon can offer is the prospect of fighting only lesser monsters who will not seek to land mortal blows, in exchange for a binding promise not to harm the core. As he expands, however, he constructs extensive non-combat areas, which adventurers are free to visit, and they can even obtain rewards by helping the skeletal cooks and tailors and blacksmiths.
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Pacifist Run / int_ba666650	comment	In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, you can avoid killing the bosses. They have non-lethal hit bars, and you get a special bonus for defeating a boss with non-lethal force, but if they were supposed to die, they commit suicide in the following cutscene. However, there is one exception: Even if you defeat The Boss nonlethally, the game still forces you to kill her. Alternately, even using lethal force against bosses who survive the encounter either way (Ocelot and Volgin) doesn't count as a kill, allowing you to "kill" them and still perform a pacifist run (you just don't get their camouflage this way).
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Pacifist Run / int_bbe0b9d0	type	Pacifist Run
Pacifist Run / int_bbe0b9d0	comment	In Prince of Persia, it was possible to get past any guard blocking your route without killing or even striking them with your sword. Careful use of parrying while moving forward inside their reach would see you suddenly swap places. At this point, it was possible to step back, sheathe your sword then quickly turn and run (to avoid a One-Hit Kill while unarmed) to reach the next platform or screen. This meant they were still there if you had to go back the way you came. The Final Boss was the only enemy you had to kill.
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Pacifist Run / int_bcb32dc6	comment	Enforced in Shadowrun. Any 'runner who regularly leaves behind a big pile of corpses on a given mission will soon be tagged, tracked, and brought down with extreme prejudice, often by their own party, not least because dead bodies leave their employers open to revenge plots. Bonuses are, in many scenarios, even given for not leaving a trace of one's activity.
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Pacifist Run / int_bd310eaa	comment	The El Goonish Shive NP strips have two storylines about Grace trying a pacifist run: The storyline "Rad Squirrel" has her attempt one in Fallout: New Vegas. She starts off thinking she can't fight at all, and therefore regularly gets her Karma Meter dinged by failing to rescue people or stop escaped convicts. It lasts until she encounters the Legion and goes all Beware the Nice Ones about three seconds after hearing their philosophy. The second part of "Video Gaaaaaames" has her try it in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. She immediately finds that the first fight happens before she gets non-lethal combat options, so she decides to Leeroy Jenkins it, and be pacifist after that. She also can't help noticing that the people she's KO'd kind of look dead. And, again, she goes all Beware the Nice Ones after one of her allies is killed. According to The Rant, Dan did the same thing.
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Pacifist Run / int_c0d295c4	type	Pacifist Run
Pacifist Run / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2: The Medic class achievement "First Do No Harm" entails reaching the top of the scoreboard in a game of six or more players on a team without killing anyone, instead relying mainly on assist kills while healing others, supplemented by the healing itself (1 point awarded per 600 Health healed) and Übercharging. Depending on the game mode, there are other means of earning points: capturing the Intelligence, capturing a Control Point, pushing the Payload Cart for 10 seconds, and reviving others (Mann Versus Machine). Given the fact that the entire enemy team would attempt tearing you a medically redundant new behind as Medics are high-priority targets, it's just as tough as it sounds. However, you can cheat by playing most of the round as another class, getting a high enough scoreboard position, switching to Medic, and then getting a single point without hurting anyone directly. The Scout has a similar achievement called "No Hitter", where you capture the intel and bring it back without firing a shot (the icon is even a dove holding an olive branch above an intel case). Not nearly as hard to do, as a lot of people with the intel forgo attacking to just flat-out run anyway.
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Pacifist Run / int_c1022f1	comment	It's possible to get to the final boss of King's Field II while only killing one monster: a red mushroom that you can't get past on a narrow path just past Lake Noel. You're still level 1.
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Pacifist Run / int_c184d46c	comment	This Is Why You're Fat (in 60 Seconds): You can end the game without shooting any turkeys. This results in the man staying thin.
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Pacifist Run / int_c1b3bc6b	type	Pacifist Run
Pacifist Run / int_c1b3bc6b	comment	You can go through True Crime: Streets of LA and True Crime: New York City without killing a single enemy, either by limiting yourself to non-lethal weapons or using precision aim to go for kneeshots.
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Pacifist Run / int_c1f68d22	comment	Required in Open Sorcery for the Golden Ending.
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Pacifist Run / int_c258504b	comment	inFAMOUS: Second Son: It is entirely possible to make it through almost the whole game without killing a single person yourself, relying entirely on subduing people. The exception being when Reggie dies. It's impossible to subdue anyone during that scene. Delsin is so enraged that he obliterates every trooper in his way. It can start to bleed into Technical Pacifist, though.
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Pacifist Run / int_c2ef4b61	comment	Brawl in the Family's Ode to Minions inspired at least one person with a Youtube account to play Super Mario World without killing anything. And really, it would inspire anyone to. Just listen to it. Someone achieved this with the original Super Mario Bros. — not only a pacifist run but also a No-Damage Run deliberately arranged to complete the game with only 500 points, the least possible.
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Pacifist Run / int_c2ff3947	comment	Truly skilled (and crazy) runners will do this with Ninja Gaiden (NES) the game that is the epitomy of Nintendo Hard. Only the bosses are allowed to be killed and since most regular enemies die in one blow, a single errant button press will invalidate the run. If you want to see jaw dropping runs, check them out.
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Pacifist Run / int_c3e7ab30	comment	In Perfect Dark, the player has the ability to disarm opponents. Most enemies who get disarmed will give up, but some may pull out another gun, pick up the dropped weapon, or attempt to punch the player, in which case you can simply knock them unconscious with a punch or pistol whip. However, it's impossible to go the whole game doing this. Some enemies, including the Skedar and the guards threatening Dr. Carrol on the Escort Mission cannot be disarmed. In the case of the Skedar, even if you could do this, their claws and lunge attacks still render them a deadly opponent, and they are very hard (if not outright impossible) to knock unconscious. You can't really outrun them either as they have lethal firepower. Also, some objectives explicitly depend on a lethal outcome, such as counter-sniping snipers or defeating the final boss.
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Pacifist Run / int_c5f50eb4	comment	Some of the challenges in Contra 4 are pacifism challenges, which strip you of all weapons.
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Pacifist Run / int_c72021c5	comment	Only two characters have to be fought in order to complete the original Deus Ex (Anna Navarre and Howard Strong); neither have to be killed and both can be circumvented. The first can be injured to the point that they'll retreat and open the door they guardnote The game acts as if you killed the first character even if you circumvent them, due to the game's intent of railroading you into killing. However, given the nature of the game, one could always claim that they were killed by someone else for their failure and/or knowing too much after you escaped and were being framed for the killing., and the second can be knocked unconscious and is also quite willing to blow themselves up for you due to poor AI. The rest can be stunned or circumvented in various fashions. The game encourages pacifism in the first level by having characters react positively to you if you don't slaughter everything in sight, but after that, there's no longer any explicit encouragement, and it's strictly a matter of pride (although you will get bitched out for slaughtering civilians). Two of the endings, however, require the death of the Big Bad. One ending is explicit, as the player presses a button that causes him to blow up quite violently where as the other he dies as a result of the player blowing up the final level with everyone in it. In the third ending, he seemingly lives.
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Pacifist Run / int_c720f71e	type	Pacifist Run
Pacifist Run / int_c720f71e	comment	One enterprising YouTuber attempted a pacifist-slash-Minimalist Run in Super Mario Odyssey wherein he collected as many moons as possible and completed the story while making only the Cap-tures required to complete the game (of which there are 15note The spark pylon to get from the Cap Kingdom to the Cascade Kingdom, the Chain Chomp for the first moon, Madame Broode's Chain Chompykins 3 times, the Sherm to beat the Mechawiggler, the spark pylon to get to the Ruined Dragon boss, the six spark pylons to get to various areas of Bowser's Kingdom, a Pokio to scale the large wall in Bowser's Kingdom, and Bowser himself to escape the moon, and the number of moons he got without requiring Cap-tures is 450).
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Pacifist Run / int_c96cfe29	comment	The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past makes this easier than other games in the series because of two factors: The Magic Cape item, and the fact that the game doesn't require you to Kill Enemies to Open the way out as much as other games in the series.
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Pacifist Run / int_ce2b5aba	comment	Most missions in the various Hitman games can be completed without killing anyone other than the mission's intended target(s). In Hitman 2 and onward, doing so earns the player the rating "Silent Assassin" and usually comes with a reward of some sort.note Which, ironically, always seem to be some sort of firearms. In the fourth game, Blood Money, killing anyone other than the target(s) can make later missions more difficult as your notoriety will grow, especially if you leave witnesses and/or get caught on camera. However, you can obtain the surveillance tape if you get caught on camera before leaving the mission, and pay money to cover up the crime after the mission. Killing witnesses, however, can make things worse. Technically, a zero kill run of much of Blood Money is possible, owing to the fact that "accidents" are counted separately from outright kills and (unless you kill a VIP) have no impact on your rating (even if you kill civilians). In the World of Assassination Trilogy, killing non-targets incurs a slight score penalty, encouraging the player to minimize collateral damage if they're aiming for a high score. Several optional challenges also require you to only kill the main targets, on top of more specific critera.
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Pacifist Run / int_cf167862	comment	Gyossait starts the player off with just a shield, which can reflect enemy attacks. It later gives access to a gun, which allows you to outright kill most creatures and makes the game much easier to get through. While the shield technically allows you to kill enemies by reflecting shots back at them, using only the shield and ignoring the gun gets you an achievement for taking the more peaceful path and leads to the good ending of the game.
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Pacifist Run / int_d0a5a846	comment	Most Gradius bosses — including the final bosses — self-destruct after a certain time, as well. Most of them don't fight back anyway. Some exceptions to self-destruction exist—the wall boss in Stage 7 of Gradius V will smash you against the left side of the screen if you time it out.
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Pacifist Run / int_d126742a	comment	Super Mario Maker 2: In this game where players can craft their own levels, some have created these runs. In levels made with the Super Mario 3D World game style, they seal off the path to the goal post or axe with a locked warp box. This will only activate when the player reaches it with a key. The builder then puts a key inside every single killable enemy in the board, from Goombas to Piranha Plants, and so on. The death of any enemy, sometimes even by neutral hazards, will give the player the key the enemy had, resulting in the player being warped away from the goal post to probable death.
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Pacifist Run / int_d29994ae	comment	In the Twilight of Edo Japan chapter of Live A Live, Oboromaru keeps a running mental tally of how many people he's killed (only humans; ghosts, demons, and machines don't count towards this total) over the course of the chapter. Somewhat overlapping with the Stealth Run, finishing the chapter with zero kills (which requires a good number of counterintuitive steps) nets you his Infinity Plus 0.5 Sword for use in the final chapter. It's possible to get an equivalent weapon by beating a rather difficult Optional Boss. This influenced Undertale's morality theme below, and the remake returns the favor by making you feel like Oboromaru truly accomplished his mission if you went this road.
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Pacifist Run / int_d3b17858	comment	Final Fantasy Tactics has the Orator job class, which possesses a few abilities that allow you to recruit enemy units to join your army. With a maximum of five units to a given fight, this usually only comes in handy when (a) a unit has suffered permadeath and needs replacing or (b) there's a particular monster you want to turn on your enemies/poach for rewards. However, a semi-popular challenge run is to enlist an Orator as soon as is reasonably possible and get through the entire game with only the deaths absolutely necessary (which pretty much amounts to Eldritch Abominations and mastered Jerkasses).
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Pacifist Run / int_d448d760	comment	The Nameless Mod lets you avoid all enemies, including bosses. With some endings, you can finish the game as an Actual Pacifist.
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Pacifist Run / int_d4ec06f8	comment	Surprisingly possible in Eador, TBS similar to Heroes of Might and Magic, Master of Magic and Age of Wonders. You can capture most provinces by bribing guards, making alliances with local population/thugs/baron. Even if you've started battle you haven't to kill opposition: most units can be frightened (usually by magic) so they simply run away and the battle is won. If your empire becomes powerful enough other Lords may just give up and you've won the scenario.
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Pacifist Run / int_d59d9e99	comment	R-Type Delta and Final both feature bosses which are automatically destroyed after a certain time; late in the game, bosses will instead kill you if the time limit expires, so the Pacifist Run is to destroy only these bosses. Can be made even harder if combined with a no-Force run, which severely decreases the defensive abilities of the player's ship. Most Gradius bosses — including the final bosses — self-destruct after a certain time, as well. Most of them don't fight back anyway. Some exceptions to self-destruction exist—the wall boss in Stage 7 of Gradius V will smash you against the left side of the screen if you time it out.
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Pacifist Run / int_d5ac3d69	comment	Encouraged and possible, though insanely difficult to do thoroughly, in SWAT 3. Suspects can be challenged (in fact, not challenging them before firing will give you severe penalties) and can be prodded with rubber bullets, flashbangs, and CS gas to make them drop their weapons and surrender. Taking a large portion of suspects alive will get you a massive bonus at the end of each mission. Taking every suspect alive, however, is very difficult, as rubber bullets can sometimes be lethal (like in real life) and some suspects are very uncooperative and aggressive. This is in no way helped by your trigger-happy squad members, so going for a complete pacifist run is very much a Luck-Based Mission.
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Pacifist Run / int_d5ac3d6a	comment	In SWAT 4, this is even more encouraged, and in fact mandatory to some degree. Like in its predecessors you need to challenge suspects and prod them with less-lethal weapons in order to make them surrender. Taking every suspect alive is a must for a perfect score, and taking at least a fair portion alive is necessary to get a good enough score to even progress to the next mission. Going for a complete pacifist run is much, much easier this time around thanks to access of more less-lethal weaponry, no risk of suspects randomly dying from being hit by them, and less trigger-happy squad members.
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Pacifist Run / int_d5ae7c20	comment	Ultima IV encourages this somewhat, you still have to fight monsters to get Valor points, but letting them run away instead of killing them gives you Compassion points. Additionally, killing enemies that aren't evil (hungry or defensive animals and the like) will decrease your virtue points.
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Pacifist Run / int_d5ae7da6	comment	In Ultima VI, it's quite possible to complete the main quest without killing anybody. There are only a few monster-occupied areas that you must visit to advance the plot and it's possible to avoid combat in those by using invisibility rings and potions to slip by enemies unnoticed.
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Pacifist Run / int_d5b84b32	comment	In Spore, it's entirely possible to get to the space stage without killing anything. You can play through the cell stage and only eat plant matter or scavenged meat, do the same in the creature stage and only level up by befriending other creatures, do the same in tribal stage and only level up by allying with other tribes, and choose to conquer other cities in the civilization stage only through economic or religious means. There's even an achievement, "Pacifist," that you can get by completing the cell stage without killing another creature.
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Pacifist Run / int_d5c2a7a3	comment	The Thief games, on higher difficulties, often require you not to kill anyone in a mission. Ideally, you do so by just getting around without being noticed. If you must pop someone, though, you have a blackjack that can knock the unaware victim out in a single strike. You can play through the first two games without knocking out anyone or anything, let alone killing them. In rare missions, you may be restricted from even knocking out people, or from even being detected. Doesn't apply to the 2nd game, as one of the objectives is to kidnap a person. The only way to do that is to knock him out. Both games feature Big Bads in need of killing, though both times indirectly. However, beyond these exceptions, it's possible to complete the game without killing or knocking out anyone else. The 3rd and final game can also be completed without a single kill or knockout, which includes plot-kills since the Big Bad can't be killed anyway and isn't explicitly killed at the end either.
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Pacifist Run / int_d5c7346f	comment	Trine has a Steam achievement/PS3 Trophy where you have to complete a level without killing a single enemy.
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Pacifist Run / int_da73d677	comment	In Quest for Glory, the Thief can make it through the first three games only killing two Big Bads. The fourth game also requires you to kill two Eldritch Abominations, a wraith, and the Big Bad. The fifth game does not really allow for a pacifist run, shifting as it did to a more traditional hack-and-slash action game.
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Pacifist Run / int_dab32c4	comment	Beating Mega Man 9 by only attacking bosses and mid-bosses is actually a bonus needed for 100% Completion.
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Pacifist Run / int_de57ff2	comment	In Shadow Dancer for the Mega Drive, you get a "peaceful bonus" for beating a stage without killing any enemy.note That is, with shuriken or sword. The screen-clearing ninjutsu is still allowed. Easier said than done.
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Pacifist Run / int_df76da7e	comment	Mirror's Edge gives you an unlockable achievement, "Test of Faith", if you finish the game without killing anyone with a firearm. Funnily enough, the achievement is only for not shooting anyone; you can throw as many cops off 100-story buildings as you like and still be considered to be the Buddha. It's actually one of the selling points of the game that you can finish the entire thing without shooting anyone, which is unique among first-person-perspective games (discounting medieval and fantasy games and the Myst series and its clones). Doesn't stop you punching/kicking the snot out of the opposition, though it's not like you stop to break their necks, so they probably are really just unconscious. Apart from the poor guys that get kicked/thrown/punched off buildings. Besides, those blasted Pursuit Cops deserve it, they're like ninjas, but without the inverse law! For even more of a challenge, try to get the Test of Faith achievement/trophy on the hardest difficulty setting. It's very satisfying.
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Pacifist Run / int_e0213763	comment	In Ultima VII, you only have to kill Hook, Elizabeth, and Abraham at the end.
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Pacifist Run / int_e235270c	comment	Stellaris has the Pacifist and Fanatical Pacifist ethos. The first level locks you into liberation wars and defensive wars (You can only wage war to make your war-goal planets into a new nation that follows your ethos, stop atrocities like purges, humiliate the target empire, or to defend yourself). Fanatical Pacifists can only wage defensive wars, which means someone must declare war on them; they can't be the aggressor for any reason. In exchange for taking on this handicap, Pacifist empires can support a larger number of people without running into managerial issues and have a boost to the stability of their planets (because their people are more inclined to live peacefully with each other), and throw Peace Festivals to make their people happy.
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Pacifist Run / int_e26a4546	comment	In Tenchu: The Shadow Assassin the player gets the highest rank S, Phantom, for finishing a level without killing and without being seen. And in Wrath of Heaven, there is one level in which, at first, you can't kill any guard.
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Pacifist Run / int_e48493b3	comment	Ultima: Ultima IV encourages this somewhat, you still have to fight monsters to get Valor points, but letting them run away instead of killing them gives you Compassion points. Additionally, killing enemies that aren't evil (hungry or defensive animals and the like) will decrease your virtue points. In Ultima VI, it's quite possible to complete the main quest without killing anybody. There are only a few monster-occupied areas that you must visit to advance the plot and it's possible to avoid combat in those by using invisibility rings and potions to slip by enemies unnoticed. In Ultima VII, you only have to kill Hook, Elizabeth, and Abraham at the end.
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Pacifist Run / int_e5d5d23c	comment	Under the rules of the Doom speedrunning site Compet-n (adopted by other sites like the Doomed Speed Demos Archive,) one of the demo categories is UV "pacifist," where the player must complete a level on the "Ultra-Violence" (Hard) difficulty setting without harming any monsters. (Monster infighting and unintentional telefrags are allowed.)
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Pacifist Run / int_e5d9ad97	comment	NARC allowed you to "bust" (handcuff) enemies instead of killing them. Doing so was worth MANY more points than killing them, making it easier to gain bonus lives (necessary!). Only about half of the enemies could be "busted" though.
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Pacifist Run / int_e5dbd763	comment	Qwak has the "Peacefully done" bonus for killing no enemies on a level.
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Pacifist Run / int_e62b7190	comment	In Virtua Cop, shooting an enemy's weapon or hand disables them and awards you with a "Justice Shot" that is worth a lot more points than simply killing them. Bosses and vehicle-bound enemies still have to be killed though.
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Pacifist Run / int_e74c8285	comment	Free Guy: Blue Shirt Guy levels up by not attacking people, and he ends up going viral in the player community because he's the first person to attempt to play the game in a non violent, heroic way.
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Pacifist Run / int_ee04f49a	comment	Deus Ex Universe: Only two characters have to be fought in order to complete the original Deus Ex (Anna Navarre and Howard Strong); neither have to be killed and both can be circumvented. The first can be injured to the point that they'll retreat and open the door they guardnote The game acts as if you killed the first character even if you circumvent them, due to the game's intent of railroading you into killing. However, given the nature of the game, one could always claim that they were killed by someone else for their failure and/or knowing too much after you escaped and were being framed for the killing., and the second can be knocked unconscious and is also quite willing to blow themselves up for you due to poor AI. The rest can be stunned or circumvented in various fashions. The game encourages pacifism in the first level by having characters react positively to you if you don't slaughter everything in sight, but after that, there's no longer any explicit encouragement, and it's strictly a matter of pride (although you will get bitched out for slaughtering civilians). Two of the endings, however, require the death of the Big Bad. One ending is explicit, as the player presses a button that causes him to blow up quite violently where as the other he dies as a result of the player blowing up the final level with everyone in it. In the third ending, he seemingly lives. The Nameless Mod lets you avoid all enemies, including bosses. With some endings, you can finish the game as an Actual Pacifist. 2027 also allows this, however, you will not be able to complete the final Judician mission. Deus Ex: Invisible War picks this up, as even plot-critical deaths are optional. The benefits manifest differently depending on which faction wants them dead and how their death affects gameplay (keeping one person alive grants access to a weapon you won't seriously need till the end), but ultimately there are no required kills. A hidden bonus is that the wrap party has a lot more patrons the fewer people you kill. Only one of the game's four endings allow for a complete pacifist playthrough, as the other three require you to kill various faction leaders in the climax. Deus Ex: Human Revolution, like its predecessors, can be played in a pacifist manner, by circumventing enemies or knocking them out with gas grenades, tasers, tranquilizers, and fists, except four forced boss battles. Unlike the first two games though, the bosses can't be circumvented so you have to fight and kill them (even in the Updated Re Release you can't actually prevent their deaths due to conventions). There is an achievement for doing a pacifist run (excepting the boss battles). Technically, three of the four bosses can be taken out with non-lethal weapons, but they still die in the following cutscene anyway. There were plans to allow the player to spare at least two of the bosses, but this was cut due to time constraints. The Director's Cut went one step further, making the pacifist fighting methods a little easier to use in the boss fights. The base game itself encourages the pacifist run by giving bonus EXP for non-lethal takedowns. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided: Every enemy can be taken down non-lethally, particularly since the game features additional non-lethal offensive options as well as opportunities to talk down would-be enemies. The final and only boss of the game Viktor Marchenko can even be defeated non-lethally provided you can prevent him from activating Titan Armor.
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Pacifist Run / int_ee384546	comment	Cyberpunk 2077: It is possible to go through the game without killing, if not necessarily without fighting, as the game offers multiple ways to neutralize enemies without killing them. Blunt weapons are categorized non-lethal and there are mods you can acquire that remove the lethality from your normal ordinance, meaning that weapons ranging from 4-gauge shotguns to frag grenades will become capable of putting down enemies without killing them. Any missions that require absolutely, definitely blowing up a few dozen people are entirely optional and, at worst, lock you out of select endings. The talking "Skippy" gun pokes fun at the choosing to fight nonlethally, as you're still brutalizing enemies pretty badly either way.
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Pacifist Run / int_ef215943	comment	PAYDAY: The Heist has the achievement "Pacifist", which requires finishing Counterfeit on hard difficulty or above without killing any cops or civilians. The special SWAT just got a whole lot harder since you can't kill them without ruining the shot of getting it. The achievement is notably absent when Counterfeit returned as a Classic Heist in PAYDAY 2.
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Pacifist Run / int_f186f924	comment	It is possible in Horizon Zero Dawn to wear outfits optimized for stealth, and the varied landscape offers numerous opportunities to sneak around without alerting machines that lack the radar-sensing functionality (and even the ones with radar don't engage it all the time). As a result, once Aloy has the ability to override basic machines like Watchers and Striders, it is possible to combine stealth with the override ability to take advantage of the tendency of non-overridden machines to attack the overridden one. Consequently, aside from storyline-mandated fights against machines, it is possible to go through the entire game without killing more machines than necessary.
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Pacifist Run / int_f399b68e	comment	Not a Villain: The Game, the virtual reality game a few people play and almost everyone watches After the End, has different ways/alignments to play, one of them the pacifist Erbana. Erbanas use plants and are not allowed to hurt or much less kill others, lest they lose their powers. Best exemplified by Kleya in the Game Tutorial where she manages to resolve every encounter peacefully and gains a 100% Erbana-alignment rating.
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Pacifist Run / int_f7d93e4a	comment	Players have found ways to complete certain Assassin's Creed games with a minimum of blood on their hands. One standout example is Assassin's Creed: Odyssey where the player's kill scorenote which normally reaches into the high thousands, if not above ten thousand per playthrough can be kept at near zero by letting the misthios' Animal Companion Ikaros do most of the necessary killing for them. In situations where this doesn't work, like in conquest battles, paralyzing arrows can be used to neutralize enemies nonlethally. Players on a New Game Plus run can also equip the legendary Pilgrim armor set to make themselves invisible indefinitely and just sneak past the majority of enemies in the game.
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Pacifist Run / int_f9473ade	comment	Emergency! rates your efficiency in dealing with emergencies (fires, crime, natural disasters...), and the number of wounded or dead people is a big factor of it; this includes the lives of criminals (as seen in the main quote on the game's page. Even if criminals are armed and dangerous (and possibly holding hostages) the game rewards the player with a higher efficiency score if they're stopped without lethal force (usually by having a police officer jump on them; incapacitating the criminal with tear gas greatly helps).
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Pacifist Run / int_faf84cd	comment	A few missions in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines have optional objectives to leave no civilian casualties. As in the tabletop game, experience is awarded for overcoming challenges, not killing enemies.
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Pacifist Run / int_fb6ccd65	comment	In Pharaoh's Tomb, you only have to kill two monsters in the first part. You do get a reward though: you have a maximum of 5 spears, and getting a 6th gives you a lot of points.
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Pacifist Run / int_fe85bfc8	comment	Super Smash Bros.: The original game has a bonus ("Pacifist") for clearing a stage without even attempting an attack. Given how many stages have level hazards, this isn't as difficult as it sounds to obtain. In the sequel, Super Smash Bros. Melee, this bonus still exists, and is joined by another bonus called "Switzerland" which requires not being attacked as well (complete neutrality). Yet another bonus is called "Peaceful Warrior," which lets you attack an enemy but not KO them. And all of these are necessary for 100% Completion. There are some AI quirks in certain stages that help with getting these.
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Curious Expedition (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
D'LIRIUM (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Death Rally (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Death Rally (2011) (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Deltarune (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Desperados III (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Detroit: Become Human (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Deus Ex (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Video Game)	seeAlso	Pacifist Run
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Discworld MUD (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Dishonored (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Dishonored 2 (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Distant Worlds (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Do It For Me (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
DonPachi (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Dune: Spice Wars (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
DUSK (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
EinhÃ¤nder (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Elevator Action Deluxe (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Emergency! (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Everhood (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
FTL: Faster Than Light (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Fallout (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Fantasy Life (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Fear & Hunger: Termina (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Fortnite (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Ghost of Tsushima (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Golden Light (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Gotham City Impostors (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Grand Theft Auto 2 (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Graze Counter (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Green Hell (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Gunman Clive (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Gunpoint (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Heroine's Quest (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Hitman 3 (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Iji (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Ikaruga (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Indie Cross (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
inFAMOUS: Second Son (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Ingress (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Ittle Dew (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
King's Field (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
King's Quest I: Quest For The Crown (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Legends Of Kong (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Legends of Runeterra (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Levelhead (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Liberal Crime Squad (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Make a Good Mega Man Level Contest (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Mark of the Ninja (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Mega Man Maker (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Metal Gear (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Metal Gear Ac!d (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Metal Gear Ac!d 2 (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Metal Gear Online (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Metro 2033 (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Metro Exodus (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Metro: Last Light (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Mirror's Edge (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
My Pet Protector (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Naughty Bear (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
NetHack (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
No Man's Sky (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Noita (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Oddworld: Soulstorm (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Original War (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Oxide Room 104 (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
PAYDAY 2 (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
PAYDAY: The Heist (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Painkiller (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Pardus (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Perdition (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Petz: Catz - Dogz 2 (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Phantom Doctrine (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Plague Inc. (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Planescape: Torment (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Poacher (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Police Stories (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Postal (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Postal 2 (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Quest for Glory (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
R-Type (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Rebel Cops (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Repton (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Reservoir Dogs (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
SWAT 4 (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
77p egg: Eggwife (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Shadows Over Loathing (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Silent Hill: Downpour (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Skautfold (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Soldier of Fortune (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Sonic Forces: Speed Battle (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Sonic Generations (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Space Rangers (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Splatoon 3 (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Splinter Cell (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Spore (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
StarCraft II: Nova Covert Ops (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Star Fox 64 (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Stray (2022) (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Streets of Rogue (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Styx: Master of Shadows (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Super Mario Maker 2 (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Super Smash Bros. 64 (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Super Smash Bros. Melee (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
The Crackpet Show (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
The Drop (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
The Easiest Adventure Mapâ„¢ (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
The Nameless Mod (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
The World Ends with You (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Thief (2014) (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
This Is Why You're Fat (in 60 Seconds) (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Titan Quest (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
20 Minutes Till Dawn (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Ultima VI (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Ultima VII (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Watch_Dogs (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Way of the Samurai (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Werewolf: The Apocalypse â€” Heart of the Forest (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
West of Loathing (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
XCOM: Chimera Squad (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
X-COM (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
X-COM: Interceptor (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Castle Crashers (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Elite: Dangerous / Videogame / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Rogue Legacy (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Dorkly Originals (Web Animation) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Jacksepticeye (Web Video) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
James & Mike Mondays (Web Video) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Koibu (Web Video) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
VG Myths (Web Video) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Wreck-It Ralph / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run
Deus Ex: Invisible War (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b	type	Pacifist Run

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