When the game lets you make an extremely dumb decision that kills you/gets you a game over/makes it impossible to win

[u/Zeekay89]

Basically what it says. The extremely dumb decision that can only end in your death, game over, or make winning impossible is a valid option you can choose.

Mass Effect 2. Morinth is an Ardat-Yakshi, an Asari with a genetic condition that causes the Asari mind meld to burn out her partner’s nervous system and give her a euphoric feeling. If you choose her over her mother, Samara, she says that Shepard is special and can survive where everyone else has died. She’s lying and you die like everyone else if you sleep with her.

Nier: Automata. There are a lot of unique game overs in the game that usually involve dying during certain events. A few involve making truly idiotic decisions. Engaging your self destruct inside the pressurized space station blows it up. You can remove a component that is essentially your brain and instantly die. You can eat a fish that is said to be extremely delicious but destroys the insides of androids.

Lords of Aswick. One possible scenario in this choose your own adventure game is that you take in one of the king’s bastards as your squire. The king just had a legitimate heir and started killing his bastards to secure his heir’s claim. Later on, you have the option to declare in open court that your squire is the king’s bastard. The next scene is your execution with bastard having just been executed before you.

[u/romuro779]

You can die in the first minutes of disco Elysium trying to watch a lightbulb, there's an entire Speedrun genre

https://giphy.com/gifs/jBEQJE5c3eNo3LcJw3

[u/Super_Sat4n → u/romuro779]

Or when the games let's you straight up shot yourself to make a point or something.

[u/stankynuts45 → u/Super_Sat4n]

Yeah, that was the one I was thinking. It’s so funny. You’re trying your best to establish authority as a cop with some rowdy locals, and your last resort power play is to:

1) Pathetically beg your partner to borrow his gun, because you lost yours while drunk, and insist that he just needs to trust you

2) Immediately put the barrel in your mouth to everyone’s horror

From there, you have the option to back down, but everyone loses a lot of respect for you for whatever that display just was. The other clickable option is “pull the trigger.”

[u/Super_Sat4n → u/stankynuts45]

Didn't think he would actually do it

[u/mightylordredbeard → u/stankynuts45]

Man, I tried so hard to get into this game, but it just never clicked for me. I found it incredibly boring in the beginning and I just couldn’t get past the early parts to get to the parts where everyone said it finally picks up. Maybe I’ll try again one day.

[u/stankynuts45 → u/mightylordredbeard]

I will say it’s not a great one for picking up and putting down on and off. Definitely worth your time if you’ve got a spare weekend to kill

[u/ProduceUpper9447 → u/romuro779]

You can also have a heart attack from sitting on an uncomfortable chair. I fucking love this game

[u/baguettesy → u/romuro779]

you can also die trying to get the tie off the ceiling fan and game over because a literal child bullied you

[u/EchoKipKipKip → u/baguettesy]

This was my introduction to Disco Elysium, dying from trying to get the tie off the fan.

I immediately tried to convince other people to buy it.

[u/scrotbofula → u/romuro779]

Also trying to sleep in the bin, shoot cuno etc. there are a few funny game overs you can get into by choosing something that is an obvious bad idea.

[u/reverendmalerik → u/romuro779]

Fiest time I played the first thing I tried to do was get my tie off the fan. Instant death. 

[u/icehopper → u/romuro779]

My first one was from admitting my mistakes to my coworkers, and they bullied me so hard over the phone that I died.