History Main / PacifistRun

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* The Culture, Diplomatic and (to a certain extent) Space Race victories in ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' can be achieved without a single battle (although the higher levels will manipulate you into conflicts with other Civs).
** In Civ 5 it is ''theoretically'' possible to win using a city-state to do your 'dirty work'. If another civ has wiped out the others apart from you and attacks a city-state you can supply the city with army units as gifts. If they manage to take the opposing civ's capital you would win. As mentioned above, it would have to be a low difficulty level. Also, since a city-state usually will only attack a nearby enemy city you'd have to be lucky that it was their capital as they'd sue for peace if they lost an ordinary city.
** A more literal version is "Always Peace", which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. You shoot for one of the peaceful victories, but cannot go to war. In the first three installments this was a SelfImposedChallenge, but since ''Civilization IV'' it’s also an official game option.
* ''VideoGame/EndlessSpace'' encourages this with an achievement that is rewarded for winning a game without ever placing a weapons module on a ship (bar the StartingUnits). However, due to either an oversight or [[TechnicalPacifist intentional exception]], planetary invasion modules don't count as weapons, allowing Amoeba ships [[StoneWall covered in defenses but with no "weapons"]] to invade and annex other empires' planets.
** ''VideoGame/EndlessLegend'' offers an achievement for winning the game as the Drakken (a faction which favors diplomacy) without ever being at war with another player.
* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' has the Pacifist and Fanatical Pacifist ethos. The first level locks you into liberation wars and defensive wars (You can only wage war to make your war-goal planets into a new nation that follows your ethos, stop atrocities like purges, humiliate the target empire, or to defend yourself). Fanatical Pacifists can only wage defensive wars, which means someone must declare war on them; they can't be the aggressor for ''any'' reason. [[LoopholeAbuse That said]], pacifist empires can insult other empires the same as everyone else, so even though they can't declare war themselves, nothing's stopping them from riling up their target empire until it declares war on them.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'', it's possible to clear Run and Gun stages without killing anything, which earns you a secret "P Rank" score for that stage.

* While Obsidian planned for nonlethal weapons to appear in ''VideoGame/TheOuterWorlds'', they were eventually cut from the game. As a result, the finished product doesn't allow players to knock out their enemies, and while almost all players will inevitably kill a few aliens and destroy a few robots, it's possible to complete the game and its expansions without directly killing a single person. A high Sneak skill, coupled with incredibly high Persuade, Lie, and Intimidate skills will ensure that the player character can skulk through the game undetected, using their rhetorical gifts to stop potential fights from happening.

* ''VideoGame/ThisIsWhyYoureFatInSixtySeconds'': You can end the game without shooting any turkeys. This results in the man staying thin.

* Prior to its release, the developers of ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' promised that the game could be played without killing anyone, and it does indeed offer multiple ways to neutralize enemies without killing them. The problem with all of them is that this is essentially an InformedAbility. Blunt weapons for instance are categorized nonlethal, but bludgeoning people with baseball bats, steel pipes or cybernetic arm implants capable of punching holes in car engine blocks would almost certainly kill the victim in RealLife. Even less convincing are the eye and/or weapon mods that make all weapons nonlethal without actually changing how they work. This explicitly includes ordnance like 4-gauge shotguns, massive anti-materiel rifles, ''frag grenades'', and all sorts of full-auto bullet hoses. And then there's a sidequest that involves absolutely, definitely blowing up a few dozen people with a HoverTank's main gun. Granted, this one is optional, but only for as long as you don't care about getting what most players consider the game's [[MultipleEndings best ending]].

* ''VideoGame/Emergency'' rates your efficiency in dealing with emergencies (fires, crime, natural disasters...), and the number of wounded or dead people is a big factor of it; this includes the lives of criminals (as seen in the main quote on [[VideoGame/Emergency the game's page]]. Even if criminals are armed and dangerous (and possibly holding hostages) the game rewards the player with a higher efficiency score if they're stopped without lethal force (usually by having a police officer jump on them; incapacitating the criminal with tear gas greatly helps).

->''"No matter the struggles or hardships you faced... you strived to do the right thing. you refused to hurt anyone. "''

-->-- '''[[spoiler:Sans]]'s Judgement during the True Pacifist run of ''' ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''

->''"no matter the struggles or hardships you faced... you strived to do the right thing. you refused to hurt anyone. "''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:sans]]'s Judgement during the True Pacifist run of ''' ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''
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Pacifist Runs can sometimes be a requirement for the GoldenEnding, or the best ending for that scenario, as it ends up with [[EverybodyLives all of the cast surviving]].

-->-- '''San's Judgement during the True Pacifist run of ''' ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''

-->-- '''San's Judgement during the True Pacifist run of ''', ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''

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** Its successor, ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'', has a similar mechanic where you can fight enemies either passively or forcibly (but [[NonLethalKO nonlethally]], outside of a special route beginning in Chapter 2). Much less actually changes about the flow of the game aside from a few slightly different lines of dialogue and a slightly different ending for each chapter to hammer home the point that your choices ''don't'' matter this time, as the . For a while in the first chapter, you're even saddled with a party member who refuses to fight passively again a boss who ''can't'' be defeated violently, forcing you to ''actively warn enemies'' of her oncoming attacks to complete the pacifist run.

** Its successor, ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'', has a similar mechanic where you can fight enemies either passively or lethally, albeit very little actually changes about the flow of the game aside from a few slightly different lines of dialogue and a slightly different ending for each chapter to hammer home the point that your choices ''don't'' matter this time. For a while in the first chapter, you're even saddled with a party member who refuses to fight passively, forcing you to ''actively warn enemies'' of her oncoming attacks to complete the pacifist run.

* The Culture, Diplomatic and (to a certain extent) Space Race victories in ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' can be achieved without a single battle (although the higher levels will manipulate you into conflicts with other Civs).
** In Civ 5 it is ''theoretically'' possible to win using a city-state to do your 'dirty work'. If another civ has wiped out the others apart from you and attacks a city-state you can supply the city with army units as gifts. If they manage to take the opposing civ's capital you would win. As mentioned above, it would have to be a low difficulty level. Also, since a city-state usually will only attack a nearby enemy city you'd have to be lucky that it was their capital as they'd sue for peace if they lost an ordinary city.