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* ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'' has an absurd amount of things restricted to daily, weekly and monthly caps. You get a free item or currency of some kind whenever you open the game once a day; certain quests that are great for farming (like every [[HarderThanHard Maniac]] difficulty event quest) can only be completed two or three times a day; there are 3 Co-Op missions to be completed each day to win a Blue Sky Crystal (a somewhat rare item used in upgrading); if your account is bound to Website/{{Twitter}}, [[SocializationBonus you can only post there once a day to recharge AP and EP]]; you can draw low-value items for [[FictionalCurrency Rupies]] only 100 times a day; you can only buy Half-Elixirs up to a certain daily cap depending on the currency used or items traded for them; you can win a maximum of 1000 Renown pendants daily and 2000 weekly, alongside a maximum of 500 Prestige pendants weekly. [[LongList In short]], the game really gives you a lot of homework if you try to be efficient at it, which has earned it the FanNickname of ''Grindblue Fantasy'' among long time fans.

** Daily quests may only be completed once a day, rewarding gold, reputation, and other rewards based on the zone. For some factions this is the only way to gain reputation or progress an in-game event.
** Random dungeons and heroic dungeons offer bonus loot for players, with an extra bonus on top for the first one run each day.
** World bosses and raids can be run once per week for a reward.
** The 2014 expansion, ''Warlords of Draenor'', introduced Garrisons, which allows you to have your Followers perform tasks for you. In many cases, you can queue up several days worth of "work orders", but for the Garrison Supplies you need most, you'll be sending your minions on their own daily missions (usually 8 hours real-time), visiting your Trading Post (which accepts a different resource every day) or collecting "free" supplies (which can hold a maximum of 500 supplies, so if you don't keep it cleared every day, you'll end up wasting potential supplies.)

* This is ''Videogame/{{Tamagotchi}}'s'' main shtick, as not attending to the creature's needs on a daily basis will eventually result in its death.

* ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'', at a certain point early in the game, gives you the ability to level up your pins by not playing the game. The PP earned this way starts diminishing after 24 hours, though, so if you really need that SDPP, you'll want to load up your file every day. Also, the food system. 24 bytes per day (sort of). [[SubvertedTrope Until you get the Hollow Leg]], then you can eat as much as you want.

* ''Videogame/{{Warframe}}'' gives players a random reward (credits, real money currency discounts, etc; formerly a couple thousand XP) every day they log in. Before Update 18 the rewards scaled up 'til the the player has continuously logged in for a week. Nowadays the rewards run on two tables, [[RandomDrops common and rare]], with special rewards at 50 day intervals -- and no penalty for missing a day besides having your 50 day special reward postponed by one day.

* ''Videogame/WorldOfTanks'' gives players double experience for the first winning match in each tank every day.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Arknights}}'', there are daily log-in bonuses and daily missions that reward useful items. For the first week of play, there is an additional week-long log-in bonus that awards the Operator Cliffheart on the last day. Many mini-events tend to encourage this in general, offering significant incentives for the player to check in each day, such as free sanity potions, headhunting tickets, rare resources, and usually an exclusive operator outfit and article of furniture at the higher tiers.

* ''VidoeGame/{{Clockwords}}'' encourages you to use the word of the day on dictionary.com to deal double damage once per level. Of course, the word can turn out to be useless if it has hyphens or other special characters, and even then, it doesn't seem like the feature works these days even if you can type in that word.

* ''VideoGame/{{Neopets}}'' has a lot of freebies that are given only once per day, ranging from the savings interest[[note]]yes, the site doesn't credit your interest directly to your virtual bank account; you must login and collect the interest manually.[[/note]], freebies found in certain locations in-game, allowing you to earn Neopoints[[note]]in-game money[[/note]] from games three times a day per game etc. The trope is taken UpToEleven with Trudy's Surprise, which gives you a certain amount of Neopoints each day, gradually increasing the amount over a 25-day period with a 100,000-neopoint prize on the 25th day. If at any point you skip a day, you have to start over at day 1 with the smallest amount.

* ''VideoGame/{{Neopets}}'' has a lot of freebies that are given only once per day, ranging from the savings interest[[note]]yes, the site doesn't credit your interest directly to your virtual bank account; you must login and collect the interest manually.[[/note]], freebies found in certain locations in-game, allowing you to earn Neopoints[[note]]in-game money[[/note]] from games three times a day per game etc.

* Downplayed with the amiibo functionality in ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'': they can be used to receive a random reward each day (rare materials, weapons, or a random amount of Rupees), but there is no real punishment for not bothering.

* ''Videogame/WorldOfWarcraft'' offers daily quests, which provide you with gold. There are also daily random heroic dungeons, and a weekly raid boss kill which provides you with gold and Frost emblems, a hard to get currency used to buy high level gear. If you don't do the daily heroic every day, you'll miss out on some very nice gear.[[note]]Technically, you can still get Frost Emblem gear without doing a daily random heroic or the weekly. However this requires that you get involved in raiding, which many people opt not to do.[[/note]]
** The 2014 expansion, "Warlords of Draenor", introduced Garrisons, which allows you to have your minions perform tasks for you. In many cases, you can queue up several days worth of "work orders", but for the Garrison Supplies you need most, you'll be sending your minions on their own daily missions (usually 8 hours real-time), visiting your Trading Post (which accepts a different resource every day) or collecting "free" supplies (which can hold a maximum of 500 supplies, so if you don't keep it cleared every day, you'll end up wasting potential supplies.)

* Many, many {{Mobile Phone Game}}s and FreeToPlay games. Usually to balance the nature of the AllegedlyFreeGame, BribingYourWayToVictory, and LootBoxes that are ubiquitous to them.
* Temporary version: Some {{MMORPG}}s have events, usually lasting a month or two, where you receive one or more items each day, with better rewards for logging in each day (some of them reset the list if you miss a day, starting you off with the first day's reward again if you miss any days, while others base the item you receive on the total number of days you've logged in during the event, in which case you can only receive the best reward if you log in at least once every single day).

* Many, many ''MobilePhoneGame''s and FreeToPlay games. Usually to balance the nature of the AllegedlyFreeGame, BribingYourWayToVictory, and LootBoxes that are ubiquitous to them.

* ''VideoGame/Bloons'':

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'' has a new Pinata Party challenge game every day, with extra rewards for playing them every day.

%% * ''VideoGame/{{Webkinz}}'' does this in some fashion.

* ''VideoGame/{{Webkinz}}'' gives a daily gift, daily log-in bonuses, and reward games that can be played daily (Wishing Well 2, Wheel of WOW). In fact, the game encourages checking back every ''hour'' by having a "Today's Activities" list of potential rewards players can receive if logged in at certain times.