History Main / VariablePlayerGoals

Often used with AsymmetricMultiplayer games.

* ''Illuminati'' - Runs the gamut from destruction (Servants of Cthulu), accumulating raw power (Bavarians), getting a crapton of money (Gnomes of Zurich), collecting one of every alignment (Bermuda Triangle), or a choose-your-own secret goal ([=UFOs=]). Also includes Main/ChurchOfTheSubgenius as the side who have an easier time with the ordinary condition.

* ''Spy Party'' tasks two players as the Spy and the Sniper, with wildly different objectives. The Spy's goals are to complete their missions without being detected (and shot) and without running out of time, or to trick the Sniper into shooting an innocent target. The Sniper's goals are to identify and shoot the Spy before they can complete their missions without hitting the wrong person, or pressure them so heavily that time runs out without allowing the Spy the chance to finish their missions.

* In one of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' novels, Luke has developed one of these games for his Jedi students. He explains that it's actually a training exercise in diplomacy for the ''referee'', who has to figure out both teams' victory conditions and, assuming they're not mutually exclusive, try to help everyone win.

* ''Secret Mission TabletopGame/{{Risk}}''.

* The VideoGame/{{Civilization}} games have military victory (destroy all other civilizations), culture victory (get your Culture high enough to create a utopia or become a media powerhouse), Technological victory (build a spacecraft to send your civilization to the stars), and a diplomatic victory (convince all your opponents to make you president of the world). No civilization is barred from achieving any win condition, but all have traits that make pursuing certain goals easier than others.\\
''Civilization VI'' mixed up the formula a bit. Military (be the last nation holding their original capital) and Technological (launch a satellite, land on the moon, and colonize Mars) victories are relatively unchanged, but the diplomatic option was split in two ways to rule the global masses by hegemony: Cultural (have more foreign tourists visiting your nation than every other has domestic tourists) and Religious (have to majority of cities in every nation following your religion).

%%* ''Twilight Imperium''.

* The VideoGame/{{Civilization}} games have military victory (destroy all other civilizations), culture victory (get your Culture high enough to create a utopia or become a media powerhouse), Technological victory (build a spacecraft to send your civilization to the stars), and a diplomatic victory (convince all your opponents to make you president of the world). No civilization is barred from achieving any win condition, but all have traits that make pursuing certain goals easier than others.

* ''FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles'' uses this to add a competitive element to a primarily co-operative game- everyone has to work together to complete the level, but each player has a unique (and secret) secondary objective, which may involve hindering the team, or at least [[SelfImposedChallenge not helping to the best of your ability]]. Whoever scores the highest on their secondary objective gets first pick of the stat-boosting treasures at the end of the level. Even so, it's a team game through and through -- the team's combined score partly determines what treasures are available to begin with.

In the more extreme form, each player is going for something different entirely. One player is trying to accumulate as much money as possible, while another is trying to [[{{Risk}} eliminate the player to his left]]. These are often accompanied with the player having varying special abilities that help to accomplish these specific goals.

* ''Secret Mission {{Risk}}''.

* ''{{Chrononauts}}'' - Each player can win by accomplishing their ID, which requires getting certain events on the timeline, their mission, which requires getting specific artifacts, or by getting 10 cards in hand.

* In LegendOfTheFiveRings, there are four possible ways to win the CCG: military victory, destroying all enemy provinces; Honor victory, starting a turn with Family Honor above 40; Dishonor victory, having an opponent end their turn with Family Honor at -20; and Enlightenment victory, by starting a turn with all five Elemental Rings on the field[[note]]The Rings must have been put into play by the conditions printed on their cards, ''not'' through the effects of some other card[[/note]].

* ''Main/{{Starcraft}}: The Board Game'' - The Aldaris faction combines both common twists. However, instead of his own score required for ordinary victory being lower, if the Aldaris faction is playing, everyone else's score required for ordinary victory is higher.

* In one of the ''StarWars'' novels, Luke has developed one of these games for his Jedi students. He explains that it's actually a training exercise in diplomacy for the ''referee'', who has to figure out both teams' victory conditions and, assuming they're not mutually exclusive, try to help everyone win.

* In the ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Classic}}'' board game, the humans win by travelling a certain distance without running out of resources, suffering too much damage, or being boarded by Centurions. The hidden Cylons win by preventing this. On top of this, one expansion adds personal goals for humans, encouraging them to take actions (often ones which hinder the team) in order to avoid penalties.

In the milder form, each player is going for the same sort of thing, but what precisely they require varies. For instance, each player may be trying to get two treasures, but which two treasures is different for each player.

* In the online game Rebuild 2, the player can win in five ways, 1st is to find a heliport and repair the helicopter, 2nd find a government building reclaim it and start your own government, 3rd kill the Last Judgement Gang, 4th create the cure for the zombie plague, 5th reclaim the entire play area.

* ''{{Dune}}'' - Not every side gets a special victory condition, but includes two sides (Spacing Guild and Fremen) which win in case of final scoring; the Fremen require additional conditions to be met, however, and the Spacing Guild wins only if they are not (or if the Fremen are not playing). Also includes the Bene Gesserit, who can steal the win if they correctly guess before the game starts who will win the game and on what turn.

* ''Twilight Imperium''.

* The VideoGame/{{Civilization}} games have military victory (destroy all other civilizations), culture victory (get your Culture high enough to create a utopia), Technological victory (build a spacecraft to send your civilization to the stars), and a diplomatic victory (convince all your opponents to make you president of the world). No civilization is barred from achieving any win condition, but all have traits that make pursuing certain goals easier than others.

* ''Illuminati'' - Runs the gamut from destruction (Servants of Cthulu), accumulating raw power (Bavarians), getting a crapton of money (Gnomes of Zurich), collecting one of every alignment (Discordia), or a choose-your-own secret goal ([=UFOs=]). Also includes Main/ChurchOfTheSubgenius as the side who have an easier time with the ordinary condition.

* In the online game Rebuild 2, the player can win in four ways, 1st is to find a heliport and repair the helicopter, 2nd find a government building reclaim it and start your own government, 3rd kill the Last Judgement Gang, 4th create the cure for the zombie plague.

* In LegendOfTheFiveRings, there are four possible ways to win the CCG. You can either go military victory, and destroy all enemy provinces, Honor victory, by getting your Honor above 40, Dishonor victory, by getting your opponent's honor at -19, and Enlightenment victory, by playing all Five Rings onto the field.