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Unwinnable by Insanity

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Unwinnable by Insanity	comment	This trope is under discussion in the Trope Repair Shop. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })There's Unwinnable by Design, where a game is intentionally unwinnable if you do a certain thing. And there's Unwinnable by Mistake, where a glitch or oversight prevents you from winning. And then there's this. This situation is for when you can render your game Unwinnable by doing something utterly dumb, or something no sane player would attempt in any conceivable gameplay. This trope overlaps both with Unwinnable by Mistake and Unwinnable by Design. Usually it is the testers' job to think of the craziest possible decisions a player might make, and make sure the game still works properly. On the other hand, designers may decide they simply cannot prevent unwinnable situations from occurring altogether, and leave them in the game, reasoning that the player deserves such an outcome if they do something so obviously suicidal. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Other times, it's a reasonable oversight. When the fruits of a few dozen programmers gets into the hands of thousands or even millions of players, odds are a number of them are going to be far more creatively insane than anyone could realistically account for. See Developers' Foresight for examples of where they actually do, though. In many genres, it's nearly impossible to avoid it. For example, in a First-Person Shooter, the player can fire away all the ammunition, enter a fight with a health bar at nearly zero, and save. In a strategy game, one can stay still, not gathering or building anything, and when the enemy attacks with overwhelming force, save. Basically, in almost any game that allows you to save at any time, you can save just before (and sometimes just after) a death, when it's too late to do anything about it. The latter case can occasionally overlap with Unwinnable by Mistake in a game with quicksaves, if you hit quicksave when you meant to hit quickload and have no other saves; autosaves can lead to a similar situation, although you usually need to be playing the game in a slightly-insane manner for it to happen. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Subtrope of Who Would Be Stupid Enough? - the answer is any player who attempts this. Compare Earn Your Bad Ending.
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_10d303a2	comment	In Shin Megami Tensei IV, you can get stuck at Ouji and Minami Senju before you get the Global Airship if you spend the 500 Macca to go there when you have less than 700 Macca total (as it only costs 200 for the return trip) and don't have the Scout Bonus or Fundraise apps or enough App Points to purchase one. Note that you can still buy your way out...if you spend the real-world cash needed to get the DLC mission that can give you more App Points (unless you are in a region, or your 3DS's region is set as such, where the DLCs weren't greenlit for sale, like in South America. Which bounces back into this trope, as well as being the so-obscure-we-don't-have-a-page-for-it problem of Unwinnable by International Trade Politics).
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_13c53b46	comment	In A Little Lily Princess you have a choice of activities every week. Since you need enough points to unlock activities, you can also choose to skip the week, doing no activity, in order to build up more points for the next week. If you keep refusing to do any activities at all, eventually the story mode runs out of story, leaving you with just the event-activity-choice screen, over and over again. If you still refuse to play an activity and keep clicking "Skip Week" until a hundred weeks have passed, all the activities expire and you are locked into a loop where you can't do anything but click Skip Week. Forever.
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_178c5235	comment	In Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale, you could theoretically squander all your money (for example, by repeatedly buying a bunch of crap from the market then selling it back at a loss immediately) the day before a payment is due and then save your game without keeping a backup save in another slot. This doesn't actually render your save file useless though, since a Game Over simply gives you the bad ending, then sends you into a New Game+ minus all your money and any rewards you would've gotten for beating the game.
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_17a21982	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_17a21982	comment	In Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, it's very possible to lock yourself outside Treacherous Mansion by going to the Nautical Exhibit, putting an object on the switch when there are still ghosts in the area, then entering the door just as a ghost punches the object away. This leaves you stuck on a balcony with the only way out being to restart. Of course, you have to be really, really trying to pull this off, as shown here.
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_17ec5027	comment	In Silent Hill: Downpour, you get the Forensic Flashlight in the Centennial Building. You can switch this out with a standard flashlight in the police station if you hadn't already grabbed it. Then, if you enter the orphanage, you are stuck with a large number of enemies that are invisible without the Forensic Flashlight's ultraviolet setting. Not technically unwinnable, but getting through is statistically impossible.
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_1ad4fe9a	comment	In Might and Magic IV, people running around with no space in their inventory can lose the one unique weapon required to harm the Final Boss. It is actually possible to get another copy of the weapon with a cheat code – then again, you might be playing a translated version where the code was changed into something undocumented.
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_1b7ca727	comment	The room showcased in that second video also shows up in The Stanley Parable when following a certain path in the game, namely the Video Games path. You can get the cube stuck outside like in that video. Like GLaDOS, The Narrator never helps you, but unlike GLaDOS, you do get some humorous dialogue instead.
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_1f170d5e	comment	Ancient Domains of Mystery has two bonus dungeons that only open at certain levels; the Pyramid and the Minotaur Maze. If you reach a certain level without completing them, they close up for good, rendering everything inside unobtainable. It's possible to enter them, drop one of the Chaos Orbs, then leave. If you gain that level while the orb is inside, the orb is irretrievable, and you can't open the locks on D:48. This is nigh-impossible to do unintentionally. In older versions of the game, if you became entangled in webs on D:49, you would be completely incapable of breaking free, and would be trapped, slowly starving to death, one floor away from victory. There is no reason ever to use webs on D:49, since no monsters ever spawn there.
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: A specific method occurs in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War - if Quan and Ethlyn survive Travant's ambush in Chapter 5 and if you let them conquer Phinora Castle, which is your next step at that point... Congratulations, now Phinora is an allied castle and you can't conquer it back, meaning that you're stuck in Yied Desert with no way to advance further in the game (since your progress is very linear, conquering a castle disables the Invisible Wall guarding the next one). You have to try really, really, REALLY hard to pull the whole thing off; every enemy present has a horseslayer, so one or two hits is all it takes for them to kill Ethlyn, due to their mechanics, they can get in a good dozen attacks per turn, and the two are stuck in a desert, meaning they will be moving at a snail's pace and enduring these attacks a lot. You can make Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade unwinnable by managing to get everyone except Lyn killed in Chapter 3. (This isn't too easy, as Chapter 3's enemies are very weak.) Then in Chapter 4 you'll be tasked with protecting a NPC with Lyn guarding the way, but the tutorial will force you to move her away to talk with an enemy leaving the NPC completely defenseless. You can also pull this off by killing off everyone but the main characters in the final chapter (and leaving them at base level), at which point you simply don't have the firepower to defeat the final boss, even with Athos. Defied in the tutorial of Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance; if you throw away Ike's sword just to see what happens, Mist will scold and re-arm you. In Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem, you can recruit the enemy general Sheena, who will then un-recruit herself and become an enemy if you kill one of the soldiers of her nation. If you hand her the Plot Coupon item Lightsphere and then kill a Gra soldier and turn her back into an enemy, then it won't drop when she's killed, and it also won't go back to the convoy at the end of the chapter like it would if she were an ally unit. You are no longer able to defeat Hardin, since he can only be damaged by units holding the Lightsphere, and since his defeat is required to clear his chapter, it results in you being stuck there forever with an invincible boss. Throughout the series, one can break everyone's weapons, then spend all your money on non-weapon items. Congratulations, you can no longer damage your enemies! In theory, you can resolve this on chapters where a new character joins the party, since they usually have weapons equipped, but in practice, this is going to be rather difficult. Fire Emblem Awakening rectifies this by giving Chrom the Falchion to start with, which is unbreakable and unsellable, and if he dies it's Game Over anyway. Still possible, however, if you give the weapon to someone who isn't Chrom (which is stupid in itself unless you give it to the original Marth due to anyone else either being unable to use it or already having one), making it impossible to retrieve it anymore unless that person happens to be there. It's not possible in Fire Emblem Fates, due to ditching the durability mechanic for all non-staff weapons.
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_229ba2b8	comment	In the SNES Shadowrun if you sell all your weapons before being sent to the caryards, an NPC hands you a gun that is weaker than any other gun in the game, can't be acquired any other way, and only exists to keep the player from getting stuck in the arena with no weapon. After getting back out, you can still sell all your weapons and armor, hire bodyguards and then run around accomplishing nothing until there's no money left.
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_2319cc69	comment	In Ori and the Will of the Wisps: It is possible to reach Mora the Spider in Mouldwood Depths without the Flash spell that guards against the lethal darkness plaguing the dungeon, however, this results in the fight being unwinnable, as Mora will summon said darkness when she Turns Red. A skilled player may reach Luma Pools without Kuro's Feather by use of the Triple Jump and Spirit Smash, but triggering the cutscene with Kwolok at this point will break the quest line. A similar situation occurs if you sequence break your way into Weeping Ridge and reach the entrance to Willow's End.
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_2405b546	comment	In Ultima VIII, quest items and plot-critical NPCs are lost when contacting water or lava. Items can be dropped in directly from inventory. NPCs can wander into a body of water. And both items and NPCs can be made to fall in or be knocked in through creative use of the physics engine, such as placing a series of steps and barriers near water, using throwing items like darts, or having too much fun with explosives.
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_289f3039	comment	With the return of Homerun Contest in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, you can send the Sandbag to the left side without triggering the auto-game-end by sending Sandbag forward out of the starting area and then hitting it back towards the left, as the game doesn't check if you go left after leaving that area. This will cause Sandbag to fall infinitely, with no escape except leaving the game entirely. Given the hoops you have to go through to do this, it's almost certainly not happening by accident.
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_291e9857	comment	Dark Souls: The Curse status ailment not only instantly kills you, but it also permanently cuts your max HP in half until you cure it. Originally, getting Cursed repeatedly would keep cutting what's left of your HP in half, up to a minimum of 1/8 of your maximum HP. If you were to get Cursed to 1/8 of your max HP and not have any Purging Stones on hand with which to cure it, you could easily get trapped since pretty much anything will be able to kill you in one hit at that point. This could potentially qualify for Unwinnable by Mistake, but what Dark Souls player with any common sense would allow him/herself to be repeatedly Cursed? Fortunately, the game was patched to remove the stacking effect, and you can no longer go below 1/2 of your max HP. You can get stuck during your first run through the Painted World of Ariamis by aggroing the area bossnote She normally lets you leave without attacking, but will never forgive you if you hurt her. Try to leave while she's mad and you just die from the fall. and letting her kill you, then discard all of your weapons and armor. Normally, they'll sit where you left them waiting to be picked up again, but dying or quitting the game makes them disappear permanently. After that, you're left mostly defenseless with only a weak punch to fight with. Exactly one enemy in the area drops either a shield or a spear, both weak and available in the starting area of the game. Going in under-leveled and you won't have enough natural resistance, either. Since you can't warp out the first time you get there, you'll be easily killed in one hit by pretty much everything here, boss included. You can try Cherry Tapping the boss, but it will require both incredible luck AND skill. Your only other option is to power level your way out by killing the Mooks in the area, but even then you'll have some difficulty and you'll need to get to the Absurdly High Level Cap.
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_295048d5	comment	It is possible in older versions of Bloodborne to trigger Rom, defeat her, then trigger Amelia and defeat her then touch the skull, effectively reverting the Moon Phase back to Night right after a player had it at the Blood Moon phase, which walls off parts of the game and ruins a play-through. In order to do this, a player had to deliberately sequence break the game using glitches only a speed-runner would actively be trying to use. It is possible to fight two cut bosses from the game by inserting specific glyphs which will never come up by accident as they aren't tied to any chalice. The bosses are hard due to glitches, but if the player isn't aware that the only way to return to the dream is by throwing themselves to their death off of a cliff, the player may exhaust every other option until they realize they can't escape this area which has no lantern. As such, without this knowledge, the player dooms themselves to a glitches area they can never leave, and the game autosaves the players progress upon entry.
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_2a4482ad	comment	In The Secret of Monkey Island, spend all your coins, one by one, in the soda machine, until you don't have enough to pay for the sword, the shovel and the map. You can also use them up by giving them to Otis in prison. In the Special Edition this is impossible, since Guybrush will refuse to put more than one coin in the machine.
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_2a6eefe5	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_2a6eefe5	comment	Metroid Fusion has the TRO Trap, which is a very tricky Sequence Break that lets Samus fight Nettori (the root boss) before defeating Yakuza (the suplexing spider). It's unwinnable because the game breaks when bosses are defeated out of the scripted order, and insane because executing it requires you to do a very tricky Shinespark to a path you shouldn't even know exists at that point, then navigate through several areas without the Space Jump.
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_2acb12c5	comment	In X3: Terran Conflict, firing the Unfocused Jumpdrive takes you to a randomly generated Unknown Sector. Firing it again takes you back to wherever you jumped from. Each firing costs a predetermined amount of Energy Cells; just in case you've used your very last to fire the unfocused jumpdrive, every Unknown Sector you spawn into has a crate of energy cells free for the taking. If you destroy that crate, however - which is almost impossible to do unintentionally - you're stuck there forever. Fortunately, the game being a mod-friendly PC exclusive means there's no situation that can't be gotten out of by cheating.
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_2dc12aeb	comment	NetHack has uncountable ways to kill you, but very few ways to become unwinnable, most of which are variations of "tick off your quest leader before you get the Bell of Opening". It's not a bug — if you look in the game's source, you can see the developers included code to handle just that vanishingly unlikely situation. You can also become stuck if you destroy the Book of the Dead before using it to start the final phase of the game; this can only be "accomplished" by jumping into lava without fire resistance while wearing an Amulet of Life Saving—you die, and are brought back to life, but the Book is destroyed. This is highly unlikely to happen by accident, since fire resistance is very easy to obtain, the Book is usually acquired right before you need to use it, and lava is rare outside the Plane of Fire (which is way past the only part of the game that requires the Book.) Since shoplifting is serious business, shops are a good place to trap yourself. If you use or break some of the store's wares, the shopkeeper will block the exit until you pay them back. If you have insufficient gold and sellable items, can't sneak out (requires digging or teleportation), and aren't strong enough to kill the shopkeeper, you're stuck. A "liquor emporium" works well for this, since everything for sale is fragile glass bottles, and the shopkeeper only accepts gold and potions as (re)payment. Trying on a cursed cloak of invisibility with no means of uncursing itnote which requires, among other things, being unable to safely pray to your god is a more plausible way to get trapped in a shop (you can't unequip cursed items, and shopkeepers will block the door when you're invisible, even if you're already inside).
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_334c4b70	comment	An Untitled Story. If you miss the save point teleportation power the first time by avoiding the pit outside Skytown, then miss it a second time in Stonecastle by jumping over it on purpose, and finally going down the upper branch of Farfall, you can end up stuck in a pit with a save point, unable to escape because you don't have the power
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_33dd1d8f	comment	In Half-Life 1, in the "Questionable Ethics" chapter, you can deliberately trap yourself in the rotating door near the end, by triggering the turning process and moving back, then entering the side part of the rotating door.
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_33dd1d90	comment	Half-Life 2: It is possible to avoid picking up the crowbar at the beginning of the game and abuse the physics system to proceed until the Route Kanal chapter where a wall of boards is unbreakable without the crowbar and the player is gated out of being able to go back and retrieve the tool.
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_3565350a	comment	Missions in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance cost money, so you can buy and sell items on the shop until you don't have enough money or sellable items to pay for your first mission.
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_3d0f5f70	comment	In Final Fantasy Legend II, utilizing the "trashcan bug" can result in this if overused. Using the trashcan as an item at specific MAGI counts will give it the effect of other items. Most of the effects are those of pretty ordinary items that can easily be bought, but if used at exactly 67 or 68 MAGI, it will have the effect of free, normally very rare permanent-stat raising potions (Power at 67, Speed at 68). However, overusing this glitch will screw up the MAGI counter after a certain number of uses (the exact number of uses depends on equipped MAGI) and leave the player unable to progress with the game.
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Unwinnable by Insanity / int_3d0f5f70	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy Legend II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_3d0f5f70
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_400fe582	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_400fe582	comment	In Lands of Lore 2, it is entirely possible to drop an absolutely vital item into a river and you'll never see it again. The third game makes this impossible.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_400fe582	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_400fe582	featureConfidence	1.0
Lands of Lore (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_400fe582
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_49a87cb3	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_49a87cb3	comment	The airship Highwind is required to continue parts of the story in late Disc 2 and Disc 3 of Final Fantasy VII. Thanks to the ability to bring Chocobos on board, it's possible to permanently lose access to the airship by bringing a special Chocobo on board, parking it in an isolated area, riding your on-board Chocobo over mountains, rivers, and oceans back to the ranch, and releasing it (along with any other Chocobos you may have). In doing so, you have just lost on-foot access to the Highwind - which, as stated, is necessary to advance through the game. You no longer have any special Chocobos which might be able to bring you to the Highwind. Furthermore, it's impossible to breed any new special Chocobos because doing so requires "good" and "great" Chocobos, which are not found on the first continent. Your only way to access the second continent at this point is the Highwind...note The Cargo Ship which allowed you transport between Junon and Costa Del Sol stops running after you get the Highwind which you just lost all access to. For extra kicks, park it somewhere just nearby, like at one of the islands near Fort Condor, so you'll be able to see it and know that it's forever out of your reach. If you already have Cloud back in your party after getting the Highwind, you'll need to access the sub and park it in Costa Del Sol first.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_49a87cb3	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_49a87cb3	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_49a87cb3
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_49ad83ee	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft: Newly created characters begin the game with the Backpack, a 16 slot bag. You can acquire up to four additional bags and change those bags as you progress, but everyone is stuck with the Backpack, which cannot be removed or upgraded — which gets annoying when endgame players have access to 30 slot bags and would really like that extra space. The dev team is aware of this, but have said in the past that one of the reasons keeping them from addressing it is that they're sure some damn fool would find a way to unequip all their bags at once and render themselves permanently incapable of ever picking anything up. In Legion a druid player revealed they were incapable of doing the quest required to gain the artifact weapon central to the new expansion. Why? They had managed to make themselves hated with the Cenarion Circle, the faction all druids belong to, and so could not speak with any of the NPCs. They'd PvPed extensively in that zone and killed guards, destroying their reputation. Not entirely unwinnable as they could regrind the rep in a raid, but still impressive.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_49ad83ee	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_49ad83ee	featureConfidence	1.0
World of Warcraft (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_49ad83ee
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_4be1bdd0	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_4be1bdd0	comment	Golden Sun: In Vault, a woman gives you a bone every time you talk to her. You only need one (to give to a dog who shows you a secret dungeon), but it's possible to fill your inventory with undroppable, unsellable, entirely useless bones. The devs added amusing cutscenes if you do something like navigate Morgall Forest without the Force Gem (getting you stuck in Altin) or give Piers the Lash Pebble before he leaves the party (getting you stuck outside Lunpa's house). The cutscenes fix the respective problems, leaving you free to continue.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_4be1bdd0	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_4be1bdd0	featureConfidence	1.0
Golden Sun (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_4be1bdd0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_4d3ef09e	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_4d3ef09e	comment	Odyssey: The Legend of Nemesis: If you close the door to Pollux's house in Billsville, it will automatically lock. Since no NPCs ever open the door and there's no key to it, closing it while inside the house will leave you trapped forever. In the second Vex Chamber, it's possible to push one of the blocks over or into the escape path. Since you can't pull them, you can't get it out of the path to solve the puzzle, nor can you use the escape path, for obvious reasons.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_4d3ef09e	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_4d3ef09e	featureConfidence	1.0
Odyssey: The Legend of Nemesis (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_4d3ef09e
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5144055f	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5144055f	comment	In Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, you need to buy a map piece from the antiques dealer at Booty Island. The intended path involves recovering the figurehead from a shipwreck, which requires devising a way to strengthen your spit to win a spitting contest to raise money to charter a ship (which costs 6,000 pieces of eight). However, you can get 1 piece of eight at a time for polishing one of the Men of Low Moral Fiber's peg leg; this cuts off before you get to 6,000, but if you've bought something else from the antiques dealer, you can sell it back to him to get enough. Later, when Guybrush is captured by LeChuck, he needs to strengthen his spit to escape; if you skipped that path and didn't know about the drinks, you're stuck. The CD-ROM and remakes of the game cap the amount of times you can polish his leg at 19 pieces of eight, however.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5144055f	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5144055f	featureConfidence	1.0
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5144055f
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_52627f2b	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_52627f2b	comment	Insaniquarium has the Tank 6 Glitch, where one can access a sixth tank beyond the normal five. The trouble is, this tank is a Dead-End Room; the only way to escape is to delete your game data and start completely anew. Let's hope you backed up your data before entering Tank 6, so you can restore it...
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_52627f2b	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_52627f2b	featureConfidence	1.0
Insaniquarium (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_52627f2b
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5425ce75	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5425ce75	comment	Grand Theft Auto: Oh so many spots that you can access with a tall car and misplaced curiosity...and can't get out again (except maybe per Suicide by Cop). Especially apt Cosmic Playthings manage to fall into the bridge fundaments under the billboard at the hairpin in Wichita Gardens. (As usual, trying to repeat this experience voluntarily doesn't work.)
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5425ce75	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5425ce75	featureConfidence	1.0
Grand Theft Auto (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5425ce75
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_549fcfe8	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_549fcfe8	comment	Subnautica lets you modify your PRAWN-suit to include a grappling hook, allowing you to hook onto things for better mobility. The problem comes from the fact that you can hook onto anything big enough for a hook to latch onto. This includes, among other things Reaper Leviathans. Reapers usually follow quite strict patrol routes, however, they are not bound to a location. Grappling onto them results in them flailing wildly to shake you off/use your PRAWN-suit as a chewtoy, which completely negates their pre-programmed path. They often travel quite large distances while doing this, and once you un-hook and run away, they assume their patrol route wherever they ended up. If one (or multiple, depending on your dedication to grappling apex-predators) ends up near your base, you better hope you have a backup base ready to go, otherwise you're royally screwed.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_549fcfe8	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_549fcfe8	featureConfidence	1.0
Subnautica (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_549fcfe8
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_56569e0a	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_56569e0a	comment	It's possible to make Monster Rancher 2 unwinnable. You get a Game Over if, at the start of the month, you have less than 10 G and are unable to feed your monster. In normal gameplay the only way to get this situation is if you saved after the last tournament of the month your monster could possibly enter, you have no items to sell, your monster is too young to sell, all of your monsters in storage are too young to sell, and your monster never brings you any item you could possibly sell for money out of the blue. Another, easier way is to combine monsters at the very start of the game until you run out of money, gaming over before you make it to the ranch at all.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_56569e0a	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_56569e0a	featureConfidence	1.0
Monster Rancher (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_56569e0a
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_56fa0ea4	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_56fa0ea4	comment	Civilization VI has a strange example, in that it happens in the game setup. Under the advanced settings when creating a new game, you can disable any of the game's multiple win conditions - you can even disable all of them, leaving only Score Victory (whoever has the most points when the turn limit runs out). You can also disable the turn limit. This means the game literally has no win conditions anymore and becomes a giant sandbox.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_56fa0ea4	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_56fa0ea4	featureConfidence	1.0
Civilization (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_56fa0ea4
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_59151283	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear: In the original Metal Gear, during the passage of the game where you rescue Gray Fox, if you run straight through his cell without untying him and run past Shoot Gunner/Shotmaker to retrieve your M92F, you can then go back to Fox's cell and murder him. You don't get a game over, but you take a massive hit to your Rank from which it is impossible to make up the difference, meaning it is not possible to get in touch with Jennifer at the point in the game when you require it. There's a glitch in Metal Gear Solid where, if you inexplicably decide to backtrack all the way to the bottom of the comms towers after a certain point in the late game, the lift back to the top of the comm tower will never appear.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_59151283	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_59151283	featureConfidence	1.0
Metal Gear (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_59151283
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5921531c	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5921531c	comment	Persona 5: Sending a calling card forces the treasure of a Palace to materialize, and stealing that treasure is the final step in clearing a dungeon. However, It Only Works Once; after sending the card, you start the next day at the Palace with no way out except defeating the boss, and there's nothing stopping the player from exhausting their resources against other enemies in the Palace first. Mercifully, the game does give you an escape clause: in the event that Joker runs out of HP, you can restart to the prior morning before sending the calling card, or if it's too close to the time limit, you can return to one week before the deadline.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5921531c	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5921531c	featureConfidence	1.0
Persona 5 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5921531c
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5bd9e7b7	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5bd9e7b7	comment	Dark Souls II: The Duke's Dear Freja is a giant, two-headed spider who is completely invincible everywhere except her heads. You can cut off her heads by dealing enough damage to them, but this amount is so high that you will most likely kill her before even cutting off one head unless you focus on one head exclusively. However, if you use the Warmth pyromancy to deliberately heal the boss, you can cut off both heads and still keep Freja alive. Without any heads, you can no longer deal any damage to her, and your only option at that point is to kill yourself and start the fight over.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5bd9e7b7	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5bd9e7b7	featureConfidence	1.0
Dark Souls II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5bd9e7b7
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5e91c7d	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5e91c7d	comment	It's entirely possible to do this in Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5 if you sell all of your weapons and do something with the cash like purchase nothing but First-Aid Spray, ammo or grenades. It's also possible to kill merchants. Kill the merchant right before the Salazar fight ... goodbye Leon!
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5e91c7d	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5e91c7d	featureConfidence	1.0
Resident Evil 4 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_5e91c7d
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_629cd094	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_629cd094	comment	Play through Dragon Age: Origins without ever taking a level or making a hard save. Get into a fight with an autosave at the start that you can't win at your low level. It's also possible to make the two candidates of the Orzamar throne distrust you, forcing a hard restart.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_629cd094	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_629cd094	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Age: Origins (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_629cd094
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6365ff2d	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6365ff2d	comment	Dragon Quest I: With some unorthodox inventory management, it's possible for Gwaelin to take the Staff of Rain when she gives you Gwaelin's Love. Congratulations, you can't beat the game because you need to get the Staff of Rain to get the Rainbow Drop.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6365ff2d	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6365ff2d	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Quest (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6365ff2d
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_66a1dcea	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_66a1dcea	comment	Tomb Raider: In Tomb Raider III, it is possible to jump into the small water tunnel in the empty third water tank in Thames Wharf before you fill the tank. The jump is rather challenging and requires careful timing. Doing this will lead you to the edifice, but the edifice's exit will be too high for Lara to reach, thus preventing her from finishing the level. The empty tank has no ladder and is too deep to get out of. This can be corrected by reloading, but if you save after making the jump, Lara will be stuck in the edifice forever unless you restart the level. In most of the classic Tomb Raider games, health packs are in limited supply. Some levels will force you take unavoidable damage. If you use up all your health kits, it's entirely possible to be stuck in a dead game where you can't survive the damage thrown your way without healing. To counter this, most of the modern games in the franchise refills Lara's health to full if you reload your last checkpoint upon dying.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_66a1dcea	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_66a1dcea	featureConfidence	1.0
Tomb Raider (Franchise)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_66a1dcea
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6c1d09b3	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6c1d09b3	comment	In Fallout 3, the door to Vault 87 took a near-direct hit from a nuke and is thus irradiated to all hell. To even get close enough to mark it on your map requires that the player be wearing some of the best anti-radiation gear in the game and munch anti-Radiation pills like popcorn the entire time (even then, you'll still die in at most one minute). The problem is, the game on default settings autosaves when you discover a new location... The Insanity in this case is attempting any of this without hard-saving beforehand.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6c1d09b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6c1d09b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Fallout 3 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6c1d09b3
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6ee9416d	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6ee9416d	comment	In The Legend of Kyrandia, Brynn asks to see your grandfather's letter when you meet her in the Temple of Kyrandia. If you burn the letter in the temple brazier instead of giving it to her, you'll be unable to progress.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6ee9416d	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6ee9416d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Legend of Kyrandia (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6ee9416d
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6f1bcb62	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6f1bcb62	comment	Defied in the tutorial of Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance; if you throw away Ike's sword just to see what happens, Mist will scold and re-arm you.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6f1bcb62	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6f1bcb62	featureConfidence	1.0
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6f1bcb62
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6f7cb594	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6f7cb594	comment	King's Bounty has an area which can only be reached by flight, and which contains only a single treasure spot. If said treasure spot contains non-flying creatures, and you were to recruit them and then ditch your flying creatures, and you didn't have any Town Gate or Castle Gate spells, you would be stuck there forever.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6f7cb594	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6f7cb594	featureConfidence	1.0
King's Bounty (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_6f7cb594
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_7353a7bd	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_7353a7bd	comment	In "Toys N The Hood", the first real stage of Dynamite Headdy, you have 2 platforms out of reach. Your goal is to pull one of them close to you with your detachable head so you can hop onto it. If you purposely stand as far away as possible, pull the platform to you, and run away immediately after, when the platform comes to you, it'll be too far away for you to reach the ledge or the other platform. You can't kill yourself either. Here's a video demonstrating this.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_7353a7bd	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_7353a7bd	featureConfidence	1.0
Dynamite Headdy (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_7353a7bd
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_78e27fa7	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_78e27fa7	comment	You can make Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade unwinnable by managing to get everyone except Lyn killed in Chapter 3. (This isn't too easy, as Chapter 3's enemies are very weak.) Then in Chapter 4 you'll be tasked with protecting a NPC with Lyn guarding the way, but the tutorial will force you to move her away to talk with an enemy leaving the NPC completely defenseless. You can also pull this off by killing off everyone but the main characters in the final chapter (and leaving them at base level), at which point you simply don't have the firepower to defeat the final boss, even with Athos.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_78e27fa7	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_78e27fa7	featureConfidence	1.0
Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_78e27fa7
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_7ea4fd20	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_7ea4fd20	comment	Wasteland 2: The very last act of the game requires you to get through two locked doors, within a rather short time limit. Three or four points in Lock Picking should get you through without too many re-tries. IF your final party includes no one with high enough Lock Picking (or Brute Force), OR they died in the final battle, AND you have no one with spare skill points, AND you only have one save, AND you made a hard save immediately after the battle, THEN you are screwed.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_7ea4fd20	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_7ea4fd20	featureConfidence	1.0
Wasteland 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_7ea4fd20
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_84426592	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_84426592	comment	In Stick Ranger, it is possible to sell all your weapons and then blow all your money, making it impossible to fight bosses to progress in the game or gain any new weapons.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_84426592	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_84426592	featureConfidence	1.0
Stick Ranger (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_84426592
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_84986bf9	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_84986bf9	comment	Very early in RuneScape before a method of banning rule breaking players had been programmed, there was an inescapable area called the black hole that rule breakers were trapped in. When players started breaking the rules to get sent to the black hole deliberately just to see what it was like, a method of entering and leaving the black hole was added. Some players then trapped themselves in the black hole by dropping the item that allowed them to leave (possibly due to being tricked into doing this by other players).
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_84986bf9	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_84986bf9	featureConfidence	1.0
RuneScape (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_84986bf9
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_86814e56	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_86814e56	comment	Final Fantasy VI has several that overlap with Unwinnable by Mistake, involving incredibly specific glitches that require extensive work to invoke: The game has an Optional Party Member named Shadow, a wandering ninja you can hire temporarily. At one point in the game, if you try to take him back to your main base in Narshe, he leaves at the front gate, before you're properly inside. It's also possible to bring a one-person party with him when you hire him; this one person can be Gau, who — if you use him to fight in a special location called the Veldt — can leave temporarily. Therefore, if you use Gau to recruit Shadow, then lose Gau in the Veldt, then take Shadow to Narshe, you can end up with a zero-person party and be unable to do anything. The insanity comes from the fact that you have to traverse most of the game world on foot, then run away from most battles (so Shadow doesn't decide he's earned his fee and leave), with only two characters in your normally-four-headed party for the first leg of the adventure and only one for the later part, to pull this off. There is an obscure glitch that allows the player to end up with an airship at a stage of the game where this isn't supposed to be possible. Landing in the wrong spot can completely ruin the game's scripting. The glitch starts when you play almost half of the game without saving, then deliberately die, which certainly explains why playtesters never caught it. In the original Japanese release of the game, during the Opera event, if you skip one of the rats on the rafters and finish the event they'll still be in the Opera House in the World of Ruin, however the checkpoint if you die to them is specifically in the World of Balance map. At this point dying to them will take at least half an hour of being attacked and you can kill them in one hit, but if it happens you're back in the World of Balance with all the plot triggers already tripped, and can't get back to the World of Ruin. This was fixed in every other version of the game.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_86814e56	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_86814e56	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_86814e56
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_86814e7d	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_86814e7d	comment	Final Fantasy X-2: Once you pass a certain point in the story, all of the enemies in the world will have been elevated to at least mid levels. If you avoid as much experience as possible throughout the game while also skipping all side events, it is possible to reach a state in which even basic enemies are undefeatable.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_86814e7d	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_86814e7d	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy X-2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_86814e7d
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_920824b7	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_920824b7	comment	In Xenoblade, one quest on the Fallen Arm spawns the Bright Wisp, which drops a key item. Unlike every other enemy that drops a key item, the Bright Wisp respawns. If you defeat it 100 times and loot 100 of these key items, the game will prompt you to discard an excess item (99 is the limit), but as it's a key item, it can't be discarded, and the game is stuck.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_920824b7	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_920824b7	featureConfidence	1.0
Xenoblade (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_920824b7
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_924b6d63	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_924b6d63	comment	Fairly early into Xenogears, there is a level where Fei goes by himself into a cave piloting his gear. There is a service robot he encounters, which the game gives you the option to fight and kill. This robot also sells you gear parts, which you'll probably need to survive the wave of boss battles ahead. If you save your game after killing the robot, then the upcoming battles are nearly impossible without a gameshark. And no, you can't just grind to obscene levels, that's not how Xenogears works.note Characters can be improved by leveling up, but gears can only be improved by acquiring new parts, which the service robot is the only source of when you are stuck in the cave, and the upcoming bosses are gear-based battles.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_924b6d63	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_924b6d63	featureConfidence	1.0
Xenogears (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_924b6d63
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_93ef7a8c	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_93ef7a8c	comment	In Super Smash Bros. Melee and Brawl, if you do an endless-time match with pause turned "off" (i.e. activate the setting that disallows pausing during a match), you can't escape the match unless you turn the game off. This isn't as serious as other Unwinnable cases, and in fact could occasionally be by Unwinnable by Mistake (e.g. your friend keeps pausing the game to take Snapshots, so you end your match and turn pause "off." Then, forgetting that Pause is off, you later start an endless match to rack up your Playing Time. Unable to pause and reset your match, you made it unwinnable). But most of the time, you have to be trying.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_93ef7a8c	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_93ef7a8c	featureConfidence	1.0
Super Smash Bros. Melee (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_93ef7a8c
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_972b9921	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_972b9921	comment	In Lux-Pain, the game can become Unwinnable during Chapter 7. If you take too long finding Yayoi Kamishiro when she is obviously suicidal, then you will be told that Liu Yee is going after her and get an automatic game over. Your time is basically measured by Nami's phone conversations with you. If you save your game after she's talked with you three times, then the game is Unwinnable. Luckily, the game warns you and tells you to make a new save before all this occurs; you should be fine as long as you follow the game's advice.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_972b9921	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_972b9921	featureConfidence	1.0
Lux-Pain (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_972b9921
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_98c55b59	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_98c55b59	comment	Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura really tries to avert unwinnability, and if nothing else, you can consult a guide and wander the map until you find the next location on your quest. However, at one point, you need to get to the Isle of Despair, which requires the aid of Captain Edward Teach. Kill the Captain, and you're permanently locked out of the Isle and the game cannot progress.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_98c55b59	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_98c55b59	featureConfidence	1.0
Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_98c55b59
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a03e427c	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a03e427c	comment	Myth: The Fallen Lords: in mission 22 "River of Blood" your army starts before a massive wall and your objectives are to enter the perimeter and secure a bridge inside the area. The only gate is blocked by a wooden palisade, but you can blow it up with your dwarves. Unless for some reason you decide to kill them, forcing you to restart since there aren't other units capable of throwing explosives thus becoming stuck outside the wall.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a03e427c	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a03e427c	featureConfidence	1.0
MythTheFallenLords	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a03e427c
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a1f0b30c	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a1f0b30c	comment	In TaskMaker, you have to find an object requested by the title character to advance in the game. Should you choose to Bestow the task item to an NPC and then kill them, it will very likely not be on their person when they die. However, there are often far better objects that you can Bestow, and you don't really have to Bestow in the first place (it's mostly used to calm down angry monsters, but only up to a certain level).
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a1f0b30c	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a1f0b30c	featureConfidence	1.0
TaskMaker (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a1f0b30c
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a52def46	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a52def46	comment	In Kerbal Space Program, it is technically possible, when playing a career-mode game, to completely bankrupt your space program and make it impossible to continue. To get in such a state, you have to completely destroy both the Mission Control and Administration buildings in the Kerbal Space Center by crashing rockets or aircraft or what-have-you into them (if Mission Control is intact, you can get contracts from there to slowly replenish your space program's funds; if Administration is intact, you can select the Bail-Out Grant strategy to get a large lump sum of funds, although this comes with a substantial reputation penalty), and blow through enough of your existing funds to bring your total funds below the level needed to repair either building, and not have craft or parts landed anywhere on Kerbin (or orbiting and able to be deorbited and landed/crashed back on Kerbin) which can be recovered for the needed funds, and not have any contracts that can be completed (or, for multi-part contracts, that have any individual parts that can be completed) using any craft that you can afford to build with you remaining funds. Given how eager the Kerbals are to pay you lots of funds to fly missions for them (very), any career-mode player who isn't trying to deliberately run their space program into the ground will accumulate enough funds to repair a destroyed Administration or Mission Control building very early on in the game, and Administration and Mission Control (especially the former) are two small, low-profile buildings situated well out of the way of launching rockets or planes, making them fairly hard to hit squarely and destroy with a rocket or plane even if you are aiming at them, so you have to be trying pretty hard to get yourself in a situation where you have no way of getting more funds.note And even if you do, it's trivially easy to edit your savefile to give yourself more funds - KSP's savefiles are plain text files with pretty much everything clearly marked and listed.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a52def46	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a52def46	featureConfidence	1.0
Kerbal Space Program (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a52def46
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a68c19b8	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a68c19b8	comment	A specific method occurs in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War - if Quan and Ethlyn survive Travant's ambush in Chapter 5 and if you let them conquer Phinora Castle, which is your next step at that point... Congratulations, now Phinora is an allied castle and you can't conquer it back, meaning that you're stuck in Yied Desert with no way to advance further in the game (since your progress is very linear, conquering a castle disables the Invisible Wall guarding the next one). You have to try really, really, REALLY hard to pull the whole thing off; every enemy present has a horseslayer, so one or two hits is all it takes for them to kill Ethlyn, due to their mechanics, they can get in a good dozen attacks per turn, and the two are stuck in a desert, meaning they will be moving at a snail's pace and enduring these attacks a lot.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a68c19b8	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a68c19b8	featureConfidence	1.0
Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a68c19b8
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a796bde8	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a796bde8	comment	There's a glitch in Metal Gear Solid where, if you inexplicably decide to backtrack all the way to the bottom of the comms towers after a certain point in the late game, the lift back to the top of the comm tower will never appear.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a796bde8	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a796bde8	featureConfidence	1.0
Metal Gear Solid (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_a796bde8
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_aad9b544	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_aad9b544	comment	In Tales of Maj'Eyal, killing Aeryn before she tells you about the slime tunnels makes it impossible to reach the final dungeon. Attacking friendly NPCs in this game is never necessary (and while it might be in character for a Ziguranth PC, the campaign doesn't assume a raving fanatic).
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_aad9b544	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_aad9b544	featureConfidence	1.0
Tales of Maj'Eyal (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_aad9b544
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_b70c0e83	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_b70c0e83	comment	In the American and Japanese versions of Metroid: Zero Mission, if you are gunning for a Hard Mode minimalist runnote In Easy and Normal mode, you get five missiles per powerup as opposed to two, so it is still passable in those difficulties, make sure you have either (a) a second Missile tank (or a Super Missile Tank) or (b) the Screw Attack before fighting Mother Brain because in Chozodia, there is a segment where you need three missiles (or two as another wall can be broken with the Screw Attack) to get out of. Since you cannot pick up powerups in that segment, and the breakable blocks return if you leavenote This was fixed in the European version as the blocks in that segment stay destroyed if you leave, if you have only one missile tank and not have the Screw Attack in your possession, you are stuck with no way out.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_b70c0e83	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_b70c0e83	featureConfidence	1.0
Metroid: Zero Mission (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_b70c0e83
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_b7c72249	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_b7c72249	comment	In Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, you can make Richter slide out of the castle before the gate closes... with no way back inside.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_b7c72249	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_b7c72249	featureConfidence	1.0
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_b7c72249
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_b8a6a1e1	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_b8a6a1e1	comment	The MMORPG Trickster Online allows you to sell or accidentally drop (destroy) quest items necessary for the story quests. They cannot be replaced, petitioning a GM will only get the response 'well you shouldn't have done that'. Although the game is still playable about 1/2 of the single player content is forever lost and all the EXP those quests can give is gone.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_b8a6a1e1	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_b8a6a1e1	featureConfidence	1.0
Trickster Online (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_b8a6a1e1
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_b8e5dfd9	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_b8e5dfd9	comment	Disco Elysium, normally a triumphant case of Developers' Foresight, has one sequence break that wasn't considered - if you wait all the way until the island fortress before examining the Ledger (an extremely early game item necessary to examine before you can see your character's stats on the in-game menus), and read the letter in the hidden compartment, your Player Character will fall unconscious. He will wake up in Kim's car in front of the Whirling-in-Rags Hotel on the mainland. The boat used to take him to the island will still be docked on the island and all the plot flags have been tripped, so there is nothing to do.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_b8e5dfd9	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_b8e5dfd9	featureConfidence	1.0
Disco Elysium (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_b8e5dfd9
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_be492827	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_be492827	comment	In Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, it's possible with some heavy-duty glitch exploitation to skip the scene where Samus loses her gear to the Ing. The game can continue somewhat normally from there... but under no circumstances should you return to the area where that scene takes place. If you do, then the scene will play again, and all of your items will be lost. If you already collected them, then you can't collect them again.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_be492827	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_be492827	featureConfidence	1.0
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_be492827
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_c02a73bd	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_c02a73bd	comment	Early in Exit Fate, you can sell all your equipment and use all money you have now to buy consumables, then waste them, and you'll be permanently stuck in a town where you're required to rest at an inn, but don't have the money to do so. Many Role Playing Games try to avoid the "You need to rest at an inn to advance the plot but you don't have the money for it" problem by either making the stay at the inn free just for that time or having someone else pay for it.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_c02a73bd	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_c02a73bd	featureConfidence	1.0
Exit Fate (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_c02a73bd
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_c19c6efa	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_c19c6efa	comment	Minecraft: It's possible to find a 2-block deep hole in the (indestructible) Bedrock, and jump in with nothing in your inventory. Be sure that the area around you is also lit up or sealed off so that it will be impossible for any mobs to enter into the hole and kill you/aid in your escape. Rage Quit. After Beta 1.8 added a hunger meter, it became possible to starve to death in hard mode, though in peaceful mode you can't lose hunger, and in easy and normal mode you can't die of starvation. You can also make a pool of lava in your respawn point. This is a common griefing strategy, since it also ruins the game for anyone else who dies or tries to enter the server without having already created a bed-spawnpoint somewhere else. You can get a command block (this has to be obtained with a console command itself, even on creative) and set it up to the command /kill @a. This will kill everyone on the multiplayer server and yourself (even on singleplayer) if you activate the command block with a redstone impulse. The unwinnable part comes in when you set that command block to repeat mode AND always active (goes off 20 times a second), constantly killing everyone with no way to recover except editing the map in an external program and removing the command block.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_c19c6efa	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_c19c6efa	featureConfidence	1.0
Minecraft (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_c19c6efa
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_c74f2d3c	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_c74f2d3c	comment	Diablo has strong roguelike influences and can screw you over in numerous other ways. When you die, the save function is disabled, but not immediately. Yes, saving at this point makes the current game unwinnable. It requires timing by the milliseconds, though. A frame too late and the game disables the save function. The easiest way is probably to get a +HP item and then get yourself down to health lower than said item provides you. When you remove the item, you die. If you click and press ESC almost exactly at the same moment, you get to save without having that item on you. No, there is no time to put it back on. It's possible to make the game unwinnable by abusing the Chamber of Bone entrance in a hilariously stupid way. You need to teleport there before you use the book to open it (either with a scroll of teleport or using a scroll of town portal then going there from town) and leave yourself stuck in a sealed room. Yes, you need to be completely stupid to do this unless you're doing it intentionally for the lulz.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_c74f2d3c	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_c74f2d3c	featureConfidence	1.0
Diablo (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_c74f2d3c
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_c98d3e0e	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_c98d3e0e	comment	In the original Metal Gear, during the passage of the game where you rescue Gray Fox, if you run straight through his cell without untying him and run past Shoot Gunner/Shotmaker to retrieve your M92F, you can then go back to Fox's cell and murder him. You don't get a game over, but you take a massive hit to your Rank from which it is impossible to make up the difference, meaning it is not possible to get in touch with Jennifer at the point in the game when you require it.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_c98d3e0e	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_c98d3e0e	featureConfidence	1.0
Metal Gear (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_c98d3e0e
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cb09ad9	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cb09ad9	comment	The King's Quest series (at least for the first two games) has a set of "minor treasures" (e.g. the golden egg, golden walnut, diamond pouch, and scepter in the first game; the sapphire bracelet, brooch, necklace, earrings, and tiara in the second) that can sometimes be used to bypass some of the puzzles (such as bribing the troll in the first game, or buying the lamp for two treasures in the second) at a hefty cost to your score. It is very hard but possible to mess this up by not only losing out the proper solution but also losing all your treasures and access to them for some reason (e.g. getting them stolen by the dwarf), and you will end up stuck later in the game. However, this being Sierra, there are far easier ways to make these game unwinnable.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cb09ad9	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cb09ad9	featureConfidence	1.0
King's Quest (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cb09ad9
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cc1bf35b	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cc1bf35b	comment	It is possible to make the first two Monkey Island games unwinnable if you try very hard. In The Secret of Monkey Island, spend all your coins, one by one, in the soda machine, until you don't have enough to pay for the sword, the shovel and the map. You can also use them up by giving them to Otis in prison. In the Special Edition this is impossible, since Guybrush will refuse to put more than one coin in the machine. In Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, you need to buy a map piece from the antiques dealer at Booty Island. The intended path involves recovering the figurehead from a shipwreck, which requires devising a way to strengthen your spit to win a spitting contest to raise money to charter a ship (which costs 6,000 pieces of eight). However, you can get 1 piece of eight at a time for polishing one of the Men of Low Moral Fiber's peg leg; this cuts off before you get to 6,000, but if you've bought something else from the antiques dealer, you can sell it back to him to get enough. Later, when Guybrush is captured by LeChuck, he needs to strengthen his spit to escape; if you skipped that path and didn't know about the drinks, you're stuck. The CD-ROM and remakes of the game cap the amount of times you can polish his leg at 19 pieces of eight, however.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cc1bf35b	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cc1bf35b	featureConfidence	1.0
Monkey Island (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cc1bf35b
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cd81dd7	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cd81dd7	comment	Quest for Glory II: Late in the game, after you reach Raseir, you need to become friends with Signor Ferrari in order to have a place to stay (if not, you will be arrested for vagrancy causing a Game Over). One segment requires you to pay five dinars to Ugarte for information (which you can haggle down to three if you "bargain" with him). If you do not have the three dinars before you first meet him, Ferrari will kick you out and you lose the game. What makes this insanity is that you received 100 dinars from Omar on the evening before your departure to Raseir, and you had less than three in-game hours to spend it all before nightfall.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cd81dd7	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cd81dd7	featureConfidence	1.0
Quest for Glory II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cd81dd7
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cd81de4	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cd81de4	comment	In Quest for Glory IV, it's possible to attack Tanya or Toby; you don't immediately lose the game if you do so, since Toby just kicks you out of Tanya's room; but at that point you still have unfinished business in Tanya's room, which you can't finish because Tanya will kill you if you go back in.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cd81de4	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cd81de4	featureConfidence	1.0
Quest for Glory IV (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cd81de4
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cdd994cc	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cdd994cc	comment	In Phantasy Star III, using an Escapipe to exit a prison cell you are thrown into early in the game results in Script Breaking that renders the game completely unwinnable by trapping you in the starting town forever (one NPC even engages in Breaking the Fourth Wall to suggest you reset your Genesis and start over). The only way to afford the Escapipe at this point in the game is to sell all of your equipment.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cdd994cc	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cdd994cc	featureConfidence	1.0
Phantasy Star III (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cdd994cc
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cfd96001	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cfd96001	comment	In Banished, you can make it impossible to expand your town by wasting all your stone and iron (for instance by making tools and paved roads) and/or abandoning them on the other side of a river and dismantling the bridge that leads there, leaving you without enough stone to rebuild it. Since your only source of those two resources besides gathering are the Mine and Quarry (and they require stone and iron respectively) is the Marketplace (which also requires Iron to build) you're essentially left stranded.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cfd96001	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cfd96001	featureConfidence	1.0
Banished	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_cfd96001
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d0599129	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d0599129	comment	In Ragnarok Online, certain maps have mesas or other landforms or rooms that can only be accessed by teleporting to a random cell on the map. A player who doesn't have the teleport skill can use a flywing item to teleport until they arrive at one of these places, and if they run out of teleporting items on that exact teleport and don't know the skill, they are stuck because these places usually don't spawn monsters and if you are at a high level it's unlikely a monster would be able to kill you anyways even if you took off all your armor and buffs and stood there letting it try to hit you for an hour. There are ways to fix this involving the help of another person (like contacting a GM to help you, or another player to teleport until they get there too and hand over some flywings or Butterfly Wings, get close enough to trade, kill you themselves, or warp you), but on your own, there is no way to get out of the situation, to the point that Jerkass players with the Warp Portal skill would make save points at these places and place warps under random people's feet, teleporting them there without warning and, if they happen to not have teleporting items handy, without any convenient way to leave.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d0599129	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d0599129	featureConfidence	1.0
Ragnarok Online (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d0599129
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d1706117	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d1706117	comment	Zoo Tycoon: If you spend too much of your money and don't have enough animals and/or things to sell to get some back, you can be put in a situation were you cannot buy more animals and things, and if you don't have enough animals because they all died or something, you cannot even slowly make more money because you won't get enough guests. The only solution other than restarting or loading a save file is to use a cheat code to make more money.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d1706117	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d1706117	featureConfidence	1.0
Zoo Tycoon (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d1706117
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d30d27d	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d30d27d	comment	In Rune Factory, save while poisoned and sealed with no food or recovery/healing items deep in a cave. We dare you. Later games rectify this by allowing the player to use teleport when sealed and having them, depending on the game, wake up in the clinic or in their bed at 10am if they run out of HP (although you can kiss your life savings goodbye if the clinic revives you). Even in the Forest of Beginnings in Rune Factory 4, where you can't use teleport at all and running out of HP causes an instant game over, you can't save and get yourself stuck there.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d30d27d	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d30d27d	featureConfidence	1.0
Rune Factory (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d30d27d
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d5ae7da6	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d5ae7da6	comment	In Ultima VI, Glen the Mortician can turn any corpse in inventory into an urn, including the bodies of plot-critical NPCs, leaving no possibility for resurrection.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d5ae7da6	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d5ae7da6	featureConfidence	1.0
Ultima VI (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d5ae7da6
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d620c56f	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d620c56f	comment	In Tomb Raider III, it is possible to jump into the small water tunnel in the empty third water tank in Thames Wharf before you fill the tank. The jump is rather challenging and requires careful timing. Doing this will lead you to the edifice, but the edifice's exit will be too high for Lara to reach, thus preventing her from finishing the level. The empty tank has no ladder and is too deep to get out of. This can be corrected by reloading, but if you save after making the jump, Lara will be stuck in the edifice forever unless you restart the level.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d620c56f	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d620c56f	featureConfidence	1.0
Tomb Raider III (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d620c56f
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d9b2f1eb	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d9b2f1eb	comment	Maniac Mansion: You could certainly make an unwinnable state, though some were harder than others. The fastest route was to recruit Jeff (no special skills) and one kid with special skills, then getting the kid with the skill killed. The ways to kill off your kid, though, were often in this category. You wouldn't want to take a dip in a radioactive pool or microwave the radioactive pool water, or give Ed the remains of his hamster after killing it in the microwave.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d9b2f1eb	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d9b2f1eb	featureConfidence	1.0
Maniac Mansion (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_d9b2f1eb
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_da93207f	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_da93207f	comment	One can make an unwinnable save-state in The Last Remnant, but only by deliberately doing so. Going to an area with incredibly high level monsters (compared to the current party), making them aggressive towards Rush, having them chase Rush into a corner and then saving will make the game essentially unwinnable, since upon loading there will be no way to avoid the encounter, and subsequent defeat. Right before you fight the Disc-One Final Boss, you are trapped in a Plot Tunnel with no way to go train your characters. If you overwrite your only save file then and are too weak to beat the boss... This qualifies as Insanity because the game has way more save slots than any player would need, and the game adds an extra warning just for that section before overwriting your save files telling you that you can't go back if you are too weak, so the only reason to have a single save file and overwrite it then is because you want to trap yourself.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_da93207f	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_da93207f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Last Remnant (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_da93207f
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_dab32bf	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_dab32bf	comment	It's possible to kill Doctor Wily in Mega Man 4 if, after he ejects from his Wily Machine, you use Rain Flush. This causes the next cutscene to fail to trigger, leaving Mega Man stuck in the boss room forever. The "insanity" part comes from the fact that not only is Wily's period of vulnerability very brief, and not only does Rain Flush have a delay to it that would make it tricky to use as a split-second reaction, but it doesn't even scratch either of his previous forms (or the vast majority of bosses, for that matter), so it's hard to imagine anyone thinking to use it then.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_dab32bf	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_dab32bf	featureConfidence	1.0
Mega Man 4 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_dab32bf
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_dc25de3f	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_dc25de3f	comment	Portal and its sequel have certain rooms where you can trap yourself, making it impossible to continue. (In the Xbox Live port of the first Portal, there is even an achievement for trapping yourself so that GLaDOS had to help you escape.) That said, Valve found most of the possible ways to trap yourself, and added dialogue on your state as well as providing a way out (by lowering a wall or dispensing an extra cube, for example.) That said, they didn't find every possible trap, so some weird cube or portal manipulations may leave you permanently trapped. Another example would be piling cameras under the weighted companion cube to support it while it's partway on the button, going through the door where the button to open the incinerator is, and then shoot a portal to make the camera fall through and the cube come off the button, so the door closes and you're trapped. The room showcased in that second video also shows up in The Stanley Parable when following a certain path in the game, namely the Video Games path. You can get the cube stuck outside like in that video. Like GLaDOS, The Narrator never helps you, but unlike GLaDOS, you do get some humorous dialogue instead.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_dc25de3f	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_dc25de3f	featureConfidence	1.0
Portal / Videogame	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_dc25de3f
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_dc72c82f	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_dc72c82f	comment	Fallen London has an unusual example where an Unwinnable by Insanity ending is deliberately put into the game: the Seeking Mr Eaten's Name storyline is designed to repeatedly punish the player character in every possible way, culminating in a final choice which will render their character permanently unplayable, without any positive consequences at all, and allowing the player to spend real world money for the dubious privilege. What makes this Insanity is that the game repeatedly tells the player that following this storyline will only make things worse at every stage, and spells out exactly what will happen if you pick the final choice (even warning the player that there won't even be any interesting flavor text), and after a later update, even just entering the storyline automatically grants you an item which will immediately take you out of it at any time. As it happens, the entire thing was written as an experiment to see how far players will be willing to destroy their game just to see what comes next. As Seeking Mr Eaten's Name has become a very popular - and certainly the most well known - storyline, the answer is clear.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_dc72c82f	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_dc72c82f	featureConfidence	1.0
Fallen London (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_dc72c82f
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_e18ab4ea	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_e18ab4ea	comment	Strife, being an early First-Person Shooter game with RPG Elements and actual NPCs, had a few instances of this. The plot, while allowing for Multiple Endings, was rather easy to break. One notable example, in a lot of But Thou Must! conversations, you can Take a Third Option by outright refusing to advance the plot, which has the added bonus of provoking the local acolytes/rebels/etc into swarming you. There's also a certain sidequest that's less Unwinnable by Design and more this trope if you pick up on the hints that the person giving you that quest can't be trusted.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_e18ab4ea	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_e18ab4ea	featureConfidence	1.0
Strife (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_e18ab4ea
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_e48493b3	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_e48493b3	comment	Ultima allows plot-crucial elements to be unobtainable, overlapping with Unwinnable by Design: Being unable to have a conversation with an NPC when the NPC's dialogue is necessary to continue or complete the game, by: killing the NPC while having no way to revive them, erasing them or their remains from existence, or putting them in a state of permanent aggro when death and revival is not an option. In Ultima VI, Glen the Mortician can turn any corpse in inventory into an urn, including the bodies of plot-critical NPCs, leaving no possibility for resurrection. In Ultima VII Part II, the crematorium in Monitor can destroy anything, including quest items and bodies loaded with quest items. In Ultima VIII, quest items and plot-critical NPCs are lost when contacting water or lava. Items can be dropped in directly from inventory. NPCs can wander into a body of water. And both items and NPCs can be made to fall in or be knocked in through creative use of the physics engine, such as placing a series of steps and barriers near water, using throwing items like darts, or having too much fun with explosives.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_e48493b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_e48493b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Ultima (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_e48493b3
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_e5d5d23c	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_e5d5d23c	comment	In Doom E3M9 (Warrens), it is possible to lock yourself out of the first room by pressing the button to lower the first door in the level and then quickly running through the door before it closes. This will prevent you from beating the level.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_e5d5d23c	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_e5d5d23c	featureConfidence	1.0
Doom (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_e5d5d23c
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_e9e265b6	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_e9e265b6	comment	Throughout the series, one can break everyone's weapons, then spend all your money on non-weapon items. Congratulations, you can no longer damage your enemies! In theory, you can resolve this on chapters where a new character joins the party, since they usually have weapons equipped, but in practice, this is going to be rather difficult. Fire Emblem Awakening rectifies this by giving Chrom the Falchion to start with, which is unbreakable and unsellable, and if he dies it's Game Over anyway. Still possible, however, if you give the weapon to someone who isn't Chrom (which is stupid in itself unless you give it to the original Marth due to anyone else either being unable to use it or already having one), making it impossible to retrieve it anymore unless that person happens to be there. It's not possible in Fire Emblem Fates, due to ditching the durability mechanic for all non-staff weapons.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_e9e265b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_e9e265b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Fire Emblem Awakening (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_e9e265b6
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_eac6616d	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_eac6616d	comment	In Dyson Sphere Program, the game can be made unwinnable if the player paves over every single spot of water on the starting planet without researching the technologies that are required to fly to other planets. However, there is no way to do this accidentially, as it requires ludicrous amounts of a "Foundation" item to be made and used.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_eac6616d	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_eac6616d	featureConfidence	1.0
Dyson Sphere Program (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_eac6616d
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_eb0d248e	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_eb0d248e	comment	In Laura Bow 2, it is possible (although unlikely if you're one of those Sierra players who live under the mantra "take everything that isn't nailed to the ground, and even if it is, solve the puzzle to trigger the anti-nailing event to nab it") to make it impossible to get the good or semi-good endings if you've failed to get most or all of the evidence in the game. If you don't pick up at least the evidence littered by the dead bodies, it doesn't matter if you can successfully identify the murderer to the correct victim and motive, or that you've successfully identified who had what dirty little secret—without proof they can't do anything with the murderer, the Dagger will go missing again, and the killer will still kill Laura. Although a bit difficult (and unlikely, considering the game's emphasis in examining everything), you can find both halves of the Rosetta Stones in the museum, but not actually examine them, preventing you from writing down hieroglyph letters written on the stones to add into your journal. The problem comes when you eventually meet The Ra cultists in your chase, and you have to spell out the answers to their riddles using hieroglyphs (which Laura can't do if you didn't write them down, even if you know the answers).
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_eb0d248e	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_eb0d248e	featureConfidence	1.0
Laura Bow (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_eb0d248e
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_ecd2d797	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_ecd2d797	comment	Baldur's Gate. During the Prologue, Gorion casts a number of Level 3 spells but autokills any enemy he targets with the spell once it is cast. Stay out of his line of sight and use spells like Cloudkill or Stinking Cloud to pacify him from a distance, then awaken him with offensive spells, arrows or melee. The best option possible is to bounce a lightning bolt off the stairs so it hits him multiple times. With Gorion dead, you can't leave Candlekeep. The spells mentioned can only be learned after you leave Candlekeep, so you have to go out of your way to import an old character for this to happen. It is possible for your main character to be killed the right moment where you cross a transition into another area. This might lead to an autosave. If for some reasons you didn't do any other previous save and this one overwrites your only autosave, you're basically condemned to reload a perpetual dead character until you restart. Some plot relevant items can be dropped in area with limited access, that will become unavailable after leaving them.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_ecd2d797	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_ecd2d797	featureConfidence	1.0
Baldur's Gate (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_ecd2d797
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f04b4111	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f04b4111	comment	Metroid: Metroid Fusion has the TRO Trap, which is a very tricky Sequence Break that lets Samus fight Nettori (the root boss) before defeating Yakuza (the suplexing spider). It's unwinnable because the game breaks when bosses are defeated out of the scripted order, and insane because executing it requires you to do a very tricky Shinespark to a path you shouldn't even know exists at that point, then navigate through several areas without the Space Jump. In Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, it's possible with some heavy-duty glitch exploitation to skip the scene where Samus loses her gear to the Ing. The game can continue somewhat normally from there... but under no circumstances should you return to the area where that scene takes place. If you do, then the scene will play again, and all of your items will be lost. If you already collected them, then you can't collect them again. In the American and Japanese versions of Metroid: Zero Mission, if you are gunning for a Hard Mode minimalist runnote In Easy and Normal mode, you get five missiles per powerup as opposed to two, so it is still passable in those difficulties, make sure you have either (a) a second Missile tank (or a Super Missile Tank) or (b) the Screw Attack before fighting Mother Brain because in Chozodia, there is a segment where you need three missiles (or two as another wall can be broken with the Screw Attack) to get out of. Since you cannot pick up powerups in that segment, and the breakable blocks return if you leavenote This was fixed in the European version as the blocks in that segment stay destroyed if you leave, if you have only one missile tank and not have the Screw Attack in your possession, you are stuck with no way out.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f04b4111	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f04b4111	featureConfidence	1.0
Metroid (Franchise)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f04b4111
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f10619d8	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f10619d8	comment	Tales of the Abyss has a glitch where, if you remove the game disc from your console while on the world map, the mountains and oceans won't load, letting you walk anywhere. If you're dumb, you can use this to break your save file: If you put the disc back into your console, the map will re-appear, and if you were standing on unwalkable terrain, you'll be stuck there. If you save in this state, you'll be stuck forever. If you start the Mushroom Road sidequest before entering The Very Definitely Final Dungeon, Luke leaves the party to give place to Asch. You can then go all the way to the other end of Mushroom Road to get out to the world map (in a cliff where the Greater Flightstone is) and then use the world map glitch to get out of there without getting Luke back. This lets you play as Asch for as long as you want,note You can go back to Mushroom Road to get Luke back whenever you want, though and Asch replaces Luke in every scene (except for one needed to get Tear's Infinity +1 Sword, which will not trigger). If you finish the game while using Asch, you will start the next cycle without Luke. Once you get to the tutorial battle, the game freezes because you don't have any character in your party. If you saved your clear data over your only file, you are now stuck inside Duke Fabre's Manor forever.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f10619d8	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f10619d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Tales of the Abyss (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f10619d8
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f3dc974e	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f3dc974e	comment	Starcraft has one in the very first non-tutorial mission, "Wasteland". The mission objectives are 1) find Raynor and don't let him die 2) build a barracks 3) train 10 Marines. And yet, there's no failure trigger for being unable to train more Marines because there are no more minerals on the map. What pushes this up to Insanity is how wasteful you have to be with your minerals to reach this point: aside from the cluster of minerals near your base, there's another hidden mineral cluster that brings the total available to somewhere north of 5000 minerals. the barracks and 10 marines cost 650 minerals total, and you start with 5 marines that also count towards your total. But nothing's stopping you from blowing it all on way more Supply Depots than necessary. And such a failure trigger doesn't seem possible, given the limitations of the Trigger system shown in the Starcraft editor.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f3dc974e	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f3dc974e	featureConfidence	1.0
StarCraft (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f3dc974e
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f3f99ac5	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f3f99ac5	comment	In Bubble Bobble Plus, the WiiWare remake of Bubble Bobble, while playing Classic mode, if you get an EXTEND on Round 99, something incredibly specific and up to luck, one can skip the final level (Round 100), and go to Rounds 101-104. Rounds 101-103 are the three secret bonus rooms, and Round 104 is the EXTEND cutscene's room. Dying once in Rounds 101-103 skips to the next round, but death in Round 104 has no effect. There's no way to attack the Super Drunk, thusly trapping the player forever. Furthermore, if you use a continue after all players die, the Super Drunk doesn't even respawn.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f3f99ac5	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f3f99ac5	featureConfidence	1.0
Bubble Bobble (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f3f99ac5
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f59e607f	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f59e607f	comment	In Duke Nukem 3D, you could actually save while dead. However, the game protected you from ill-timed quick saves, stating helpfully "You cannot "quick save" when dead!" This can be made much worse in Doom or source ports, where you can quicksave with a Cyberdemon Rocket right into your face and loading said save data proves that you cannot escape fate, except in rare times when disabling Screen Wipe gives you the fractions of a second required to sidestep the rocket.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f59e607f	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f59e607f	featureConfidence	1.0
Duke Nukem 3D (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_f59e607f
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_fd350996	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_fd350996	comment	In Ultima VII Part II, the crematorium in Monitor can destroy anything, including quest items and bodies loaded with quest items.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_fd350996	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_fd350996	featureConfidence	1.0
Ultima VII Part II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_fd350996
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_fd8ef85e	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_fd8ef85e	comment	In the Left 4 Dead series, survivor bots will attempt to go to you when you're incapacitated so you can be revived. Bots are also programmed to teleport near the player's location should the bot's path finding fail and get stuck. However, should the player go down in a place the bots cannot reach them, even if it's physically possible to get there, the bots will be confused and unable to reach the player, leaving them to bleed out. This can also happen if the player goes down in some place that you can physically reach out to help them up, but because the bot's path finding isn't programmed to go to that spot, you're boned.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_fd8ef85e	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_fd8ef85e	featureConfidence	1.0
Left 4 Dead (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_fd8ef85e
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_fe85bfc8	type	Unwinnable by Insanity
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_fe85bfc8	comment	Super Smash Bros.: In Super Smash Bros. Melee and Brawl, if you do an endless-time match with pause turned "off" (i.e. activate the setting that disallows pausing during a match), you can't escape the match unless you turn the game off. This isn't as serious as other Unwinnable cases, and in fact could occasionally be by Unwinnable by Mistake (e.g. your friend keeps pausing the game to take Snapshots, so you end your match and turn pause "off." Then, forgetting that Pause is off, you later start an endless match to rack up your Playing Time. Unable to pause and reset your match, you made it unwinnable). But most of the time, you have to be trying. With the return of Homerun Contest in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, you can send the Sandbag to the left side without triggering the auto-game-end by sending Sandbag forward out of the starting area and then hitting it back towards the left, as the game doesn't check if you go left after leaving that area. This will cause Sandbag to fall infinitely, with no escape except leaving the game entirely. Given the hoops you have to go through to do this, it's almost certainly not happening by accident.
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_fe85bfc8	featureApplicability	1.0
Unwinnable by Insanity / int_fe85bfc8	featureConfidence	1.0
Super Smash Bros. (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_fe85bfc8

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	TwentyTwentySeven	seeAlso	Unwinnable by Insanity
	Quake II (Video Game) / int_5cb7f0f4	type	Unwinnable by Insanity

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