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* The DS ''VideoGame/GloryOfHeracles'' game has defeated enemies hang around on-screen until they take a certain amount of extra damage. At that point, they're Overkilled and dissolve into Ether (which you need to cast spells). Undead enemies ''have'' to be Overkilled; otherwise they'll resurrect at the end of the turn (unless the fight ends before then). Thankfully, party members can't be Overkilled, and in fact enemies will sometimes waste turns hitting a defeated ally.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' and ''[[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3 3]]'': Chain Attacks can continue until until the Chain attack gauge is emptied, or you destroy enough orbs to go into Elemental Burst (in ''2''), or complete an Ouroboros Order (in ''3'') . If you deplete the targeted enemy's health during a Chain Attack, you will cause an "Overkill", converting any extra attacks into an ExperiencePoint multiplier. In ''2'', you will also gain additional drops from the enemy just by killing them with a chain attack.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': Chain Attacks can continue until you exhaust all the party members' attacks or until you do an Ouroboros attack. If you deplete the targeted enemy's health during a Chain Attack, any extra attacks you do will increase the ExperiencePoints multiplier.

* In ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce 3'', overkilling an enemy with a non-elemental card attack will increase the Noise level by the amount of extra damage. When the level exceeds 200%, you can transform into your [[SuperMode Finalized form]]; additionally, ending a battle with upwards of 100% Noise will enable you to obtain [[RandomDrop Illegal Data]].

* ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' Killing an enemy with [[ElementalRockPaperScissors a Djinni of the appropriate element]] causes the enemy to glow briefly before it dies, and gives more coins and increases the probability of it dropping an item or weapon.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'' has overkill mechanic. If character in one hit deals 5 time more damage than target enemy's current HP, then party will gain 10% experience bonus at the end of the battle. These bonuses can be stacked.

** The [[ClassAndLevelSystem Gunzerker class]] has one skill-tree end with the skill "No Kill Like Overkill". After getting a kill the extra damage done is then added to all gun attacks made[[note]]Though this can't make an individual shot more than five time as powerful otherwise.[[/note]] for a couple second or until you kill another enemy. So if one kills a weakened enemy with something like a rocket launcher then pulls out a machine gun, it can get pretty crazy powerful.

* In one version of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' if characters would always use every attack they had in a duel, even if they had already killed their opponent. Every wound they inflicted beyond death would increase the morale penalty suffered by nearby troops. Seeing your leader slain by the enemy champion is disheartening; seeing your leader sliced into bloody chunks by the enemy champion, who is now looking in your direction, is terrifying.
* Similarly, in ''TabletopGame/{{Ironclaw}}'' inflicting 6 or more damage on a target will "overkill" them and automatically render their allies Afraid (unable to attack, at least until they can rally again).
* Overkilling an enemy machine in ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' may not mean much (other than making the unit and any CriticalHit unable to be salvaged), but overkill someone in on-foot scenarios in ''[=MechWarrior=]''[[note]]The RPG, not the [[VideoGame/MechWarrior computer games]] or ''[=MechWarrior=]: Dark Age''[[/note]], and they are ''well'' beyond the means of medical help. 'Deadly' wounds, IE, injuries that meet or exceed hit points, can still be survived by any character, player or NPC, with a large dose of luck. There is no surviving a 'Fatal' wound at ''all'', which describes characters thus afflicted as "very definitely dead, and [[NotEnoughToBury there's not much left to put in a coffin, either]]."

* In ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance'' you get a special bonus and extra mission points whenever you do just this to finish off an enemy. The resulting damage labels range from Overkill to Epic Overkill depending on how much extra damage you do.

* The first ''VideoGame/PokemonRanger'' game had bonus experience given to the player should they loop the Pokemon more times than necessary before they capture it. This was removed from later games simply due to an overhaul in the damage system.

* Enemies in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'' drop more [[PracticalCurrency souls]] when one attack does enough damage to OneHitKill them (regardless of how much health they had before the last hit).

* ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'' enforces this in the 2013 title by allowing players to continue their combos even if they kill their foe, and allowing that continued combo to even gain meter. This extra meter allows such things like [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill using one Ultra Combo, then activating Instinct Mode to reset the combo, and then gaining enough meter to make another Ultra Combo]].

* In ''Ongeki'', after you've destroyed the entire enemy team, continuing to hit notes will build up an "Over Damage" bonus.

** Typically averted when attacking with creatures. No matter how much power your creature has, it can be blocked by any creature your opponent controls. The defending creature will be destroyed if it has lower toughness than your attacking creature, but the surplus damage is lost. Blocking particularly powerful creatures with low toughness creatures is known as "chump blocking" on the competitive scene.