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* The ''{{VideoGame/Bayonetta}}'' series has the Umbran Tears Of Blood, half of which are collected through an AchievementSystem and the other half through [[GottaCatchThemAll collecting small crows scattered through the various levels]]. The first game features a whopping 101 Umbran tears (50 Achievements/51 Crows), and the [[{{VideoGame/Bayonetta 2}} sequel]] has just 50 (30 Achievements/20 Crows). In both games, they unlock the same accessories, Eternal Testimony (automatically replenishes 2 Magic Orbs when empty) for collecting half the Tears, and the [[GameBreaker Climax Bracer]] (endless [[SuperMode Serious Mode]] in the first game, endless magic in the second) for getting all of them. There's also the many Journals that can be collected throughout the levels, but beyond getting all of them being a requirement for getting one of the Umbran Tears, all they do is [[StoryBreadcrumbs give backstory for characters, history, and locations in the game]].

** ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet''
*** Evolving Gimmieghoul into Goldengo is one as you need to collect coins from finding Gimmieghoul all over Paldea. Roaming form only give you a single digit amount of coins, but runaway after finding them, while Chest form can give you double digits in coins, but you have to defeat or catch them.

* ''VideoGame/HenryStickmin'': The Collection offers Character Bios. You obtain a character's bio by right-clicking on them. Each game has their own mini-collection quest; ''Prison'' (doughnuts), ''Diamond'' (paintings), ''Complex'' (appearances by a [[VideoGame/HalfLife G-Man]] CaptainErsatz), and ''Mission'' (''VideoGame/AmongUs'' character plushies) have separate collection sidequests of their own.

At least one is likely to be {{Permanently Missable|Content}}. RecollectionSidequest is a subtrope where the collectables are flashbacks of an AmnesiacHero's backstory.

* Little Sisters in ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}''. There's even an achievement for this mandatory collection sidequest, because you need to ''deal with every Little Sister'' to gather ADAM, used for upgrades in-game. This is made even harder in ''VideoGame/{{BioShock 2}}'', where Subjects Delta and Sigma not only have to kill the Big Daddy defending the Little Sister, but proceed to do the same job three times against waves of angry Splicers before they can harvest enough ADAM.

* Tons of them in ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}''. Collect all 75 rubber bands and all 40 [[CallARabbitASmeerp Grottos and Gremlins]] cards; destroy all 27 pumpkins, all 25 garden gnomes, and all 19 tombstones. AndYourRewardIsClothes, plus some mementos for your room.
* In ''VideoGame/ChicoryAColorfulTale'', many collectibles are scattered all around Picnic, including lost kids, litter, clothes, brush styles, and a mail delivery quest.

* The ''VideoGame/DisasterReport'' series lets you collect compasses across playthroughs, which can be equipped and displayed on the HUD.

* The second installment of ''VideoGame/DungeonSiege'' gives the player no fewer than three sidequests that involve collecting magical reagents. At the same time, the game subverts this by letting you just buy the damned things from a merchant.

* This is actually the main quest of ''VideoGame/YoshisStory'', in which you have to eat 30 pieces of fruit in each level to progress through the game. Unlike most examples, the food is plentiful, but many gamers have put a SelfImposedChallenge on only eating the limited number of melons.

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!!Examples

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest''

* ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}}'' has Monstermon cards, 25 in the first game and 50 in [[VideoGame/Kindergarten2 the sequel]]. Some are hidden around the school, others are obtained by doing certain things at certain times, and in the sequel you get a few of them by completing different characters' missions and, once you've collected enough to make a deck, beating them in Monstermon battles. Once you've finished the story, you're given hints for how to get all the ones you're missing, and when you've collected all of them, you unlock a secret ending. The sequel also has [[AndYourRewardIsClothes outfits]] for you to collect, most of them copies of different characters' outfits. You earn these too by completing story missions or doing certain things at certain times, many of which involve killing the character whose outfit you get.