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* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', the Halls of Origination house the Forge of Origination, a Titan device intended to reset Azeroth to the state the Titans intended for it to have. [[spoiler:At the end of the Ny'alotha raid in ''Battle for Azeroth'', the Forge is used to finally annihilate N'Zoth, the last of the [[EldritchAbomination Old Gods]]. The whole point of the raid up until that point is to place special anchor points throughout Ny'alotha to make it possible to annihilate N'Zoth without affecting the rest of Azeroth. Meanwhile, N'Zoth tries to corrupt the Forge to use it to overwrite Azeroth with Ny'alotha, which would bring back the Black Empire from Azeroth's distant past.]]
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{{Reset Button}}s in VideoGames.
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* Most game consoles have soft reset buttons in the same vicinity as the power button, to reset the system's RAM and return to the game's title screen without powering down. Very useful for SaveScumming.
* The whole mechanic of NewGamePlus: everything in the story goes back to however it was in the beginning, except for whatever features (usually experience levels and items) you're allowed to keep.
* Most gaming consoles have either a reset button or a combination of buttons (ex: A + B + Select + Start) which would reload the game from the menu screen. This was essentially inputted so as to not hurt the console, as turning it on/off quickly could fry some important stuff. There's even one on the computer which you are using right now!
* ''VideoGame/The3rdBirthday'' has a partial example. On one hand, [[spoiler:Aya's actions in the ending make it so that the Twisted and High Ones never existed in the first place, undoing the death and destruction they caused]]. On the other hand, [[spoiler:this Reset Button came at the cost of a HeroicSacrifice on Aya's part, which only Eve remembers]].
* The second ''[[VideoGame/ArTonelicoIIMelodyOfMetafalica Ar tonelico]]'' has a Song Magic called the Reset Button. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It resets the battle.]] [[UselessUsefulSpell Supposedly, you use it to reset bad things that might happen in battle, but there's really no point...]] And then later on, weird things happen to the Reset Button in its so-called "upgrades".
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bastion}}'', [[spoiler:this is [[InvokedTrope invoked]] but deconstructed in the Restoration ending. The Bastion ''completely'' resets the world, so the characters are replaced with their past selves, and there is nothing to stop events from [[GroundhogDayLoop repeating themselves]]]].
* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'':
** In the first two games, [[spoiler:the whole setting is a GroundhogDayLoop, with various possibilities playing out in a time loop, and then resetting itself. Several characters often die in MultipleEndings and other instances, but never canonically. In the {{Canon}} ending of ''VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift'', however, the Reset Button and the GroundhogDayLoop are removed by [[BigBad Terumi]], so if anyone dies now, [[KilledOffForReal they die for good]]]]. In actuality [[spoiler:[[BigBad Terumi]]]] is merely the catalyst for this whereas the real removal is done by [[spoiler:[[TheManBehindTheMan Imperator Librarius]], who also happens to be Ragna and Jin's possessed LongLostSibling Saya]].
** ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralFiction'' reveals that across the whole series, [[spoiler: [[DeusEstMachina Master Unit Amaterasu]] and its inhabitant The Origin have been constantly resetting the universe to try and usher it towards a version of events where her 'big brother', who she has identified as being Ragna the Bloodedge, can save her from her tortuous situation. Events that lead too greatly from that are undone one way or the other; give the interference of the Imperator and Termui, this has happened many times]].
* The retries in the ''VideoGame/BlinxTheTimeSweeper'' series act as this, reversing time to before you made the fatal mistake so you can try again.
* In the SurvivalHorror [[ExploitationFilm Exploitation Game]] ''Demonophobia'', [[spoiler:[[MeaningfulName Ritz]] is a sentient reset button who keeps resurrecting Sakuri should she die. Here's a twist, Sakuri is completely conscious even after [[AndIMustScream being grinded into mincemeat]] over and over again, and ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou you are the one who forced Ritz to resurrect Sakuri by simply pressing the R button]]'']].
* ''VideoGame/DespicableBear'': The trash can in the lower right corner serves as one, just click it twice.
* ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'', the reset option is one of the endings for Daichi's path. The party chooses to defeat [[BigBad Polaris]] and have her turn back the world to how it was before the Septentriones arrived.
* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, Alduin, the [[DragonsAreDemonic draconic]] BeastOfTheApocalypse, acts as one of these for the universe. It is his divinely mandated duty to "[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt eat the world]]" at the end of every "kalpa" (cycle of time) so that it can be remade anew. Unfortunately, in the current kalpa, he decides to shirk his duty and try to TakeOverTheWorld instead, leading to the events of ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' where he serves as the BigBad.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' had a Time spell called Return or Reset (depending on which version) that you could use during combat to rewind to the beginning of the fight. This spell was very favorable to the player-- it would also reset the battle condition. So, for example, if the battle began as an Ambush attack, the player could use this spell and the battle condition would most likely to be changed to a normal battle or even a preemptive attack. Also, it cost only 1 MP. It also lets you attempt to steal items again, especially useful if you need a Rare Item from one of the rarer encounters.
* Throughout much of ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'', you're hitting little Reset Buttons here and there to avert people's fates through your powers of time manipulation. All this seems to lead to the conclusion that the game will end with everyone being saved but the universe as a whole being left intact. [[spoiler:Wrong! The final chapter suddenly changes things drastically when you're presented with the chance to go back and undo the PlotTriggeringDeath itself, completely rewriting reality and ending a ten-year ordeal once and for all.]]
* Parodied in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'''s [[Radio/GTARadio in-game radio]] chat show channel Chatterbox, in which, while discussing video games, ironically, the show's host Lazlow and a caller get to the concept of reset buttons. The caller says "Life does not have a Reset Button" to which Lazlow responds that the show does and proceeds to prove his point by pressing said button. Since the game disc can only hold so much, the radio show must keep repeating the same things. [[HandWave The Reset Button on the show just explains that away easy]].
* In the Monster Hunt mode of ''VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'', this is Toki's hero power. Once per turn, you can use the power to start the turn over from the beginning. Useful for undoing misplays and ''especially'' for avoiding unwanted effects from randomness-based cards.
* Every time you {{ascend|ToAHigherPlaneOfExistence}} in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'', things rapidly go back to the way things were at the beginning of the game, [[NewGamePlus requiring you to go back and do it all over]].
%%* [[spoiler:The good endings]] of ''VideoGame/KnightsInTheNightmare''.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro'', it turns out [[spoiler:Spyro is the Reset Button for the planet. If the Destroyer is successful in triggering TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, Spyro (and likely any Purple Dragon for that matter) can use their power to stop it and restore the world to normal]].
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', this is one of the central gameplay elements. Link only has three days to save Termina; as soon as the third night ends, [[ColonyDrop the moon will crash into the planet and cause the end of the world]]. But every time Link plays the Song of Time, he returns to the dawn of the first day, taking his key items with him, allowing him to do more each time. Now, if you're wanting to blitz the game in the very first cycle after you reclaim the Ocarina, it ''is'' possible to do it all[[note]]except several of the minigames[[/note]], but you have to '''really''' know what you're doing: [[http://www.gamefaqs.com/n64/197770-the-legend-of-zelda-majoras-mask/faqs/31495 speed run guide]].
* ''VideoGame/LufiaIIRiseOfTheSinistrals'' gives Maxim the Reset spell, which lets him reset a puzzle room to prevent [[{{Unwinnable}} you from getting stuck if you screw up a difficult puzzle.]]
* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'' resets ''the entire Franchise/MortalKombat series'', starting at the very beginning of the first ever Mortal Kombat tournament. But since Raiden now has knowledge of the future (and the events of the future games), some things are going to change.
* In ''VideoGame/Persona2 Innocent Sin'', party member Maya Amano is killed near the end of the story fulfilling an ingame prophecy and causing the world to be destroyed. In order to save the world and Maya, the remaining party members choose to wipe away the summer night they all first met from existence in order to ensure that Maya survives and that the prophecy doesn't come true. This leads to their universe being reset, causing the events of the game to have never happened and creates the universe in which all following Persona games take place.
* ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'' has the both the Sands themselves and the Dagger of Time, a (very) short-time reset button that allowed a player to undo huge mistakes like falling into a death trap, or taking a major beating in a fight. As well, the events of the entire game end up being reset by the end, and in the end movie the Prince uses the Dagger one last time to undo kissing the woman he fell in love with during the erased timeline, who rejects him for doing so while having "just" met her. In a unique variation, the Reset Button mechanism itself sets off the events of the second game, as the PowersThatBe are out to punish the Prince for using it.
* The time manipulations of ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin'' (erasing the existence of the Sands of Time) enable ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheTwoThrones'' to happen, as they result in the Vizier never being killed by the Prince during the first one. At the end of ''The Two Thrones'' [[spoiler:when the Prince finds his dead father and his dark side taunts him to find some way to rewind time again, he vows to take responsibility for his actions and refuses to hit the button again.]]
* In the Neko Entertainment game ''Puddle'', [[spoiler:spilling radioactive liquid sodium into a nuclear singularity will cause a NegativeSpaceWedgie that completely undoes the events of the game, returning the puddle to being coffee. Just in time for the guy who poured it in the first place [[BrickJoke to return and drink it]]]].
* ''VideoGame/RandalsMonday'': [[spoiler:Randal has to rewrite the entire timeline to stop the loop and save Matt]].
* In recent issues of ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'', it's revealed that there's a universal reset button just waiting to be used - and in fact, it's already been used four times. [[spoiler:Turns out the [[CosmicKeystone Gaia Engines]] aren't just used for keeping the [[EldritchAbomination Dreamers]] [[SealedEvilInACan asleep]] and purging the [[TheVirus Filth]]: in the event that one of their prisoners happens to wake up and destroy the world, the Gaia Engines are able to harness the Dreamers' [[RealityWarper reality-warping powers]] and recreate the world prior to the apocalypse. Unfortunately, this function isn't precise enough to recreate the exact time period, technology or people, so it always ends with the entire universe being reset to factory settings, with only a few exceptionally powerful individuals and artifacts from the previous era being able to live on in the new world; even the laws of physics are warped as a result, hence why nobody's been able to exactly replicate the LostTechnology of the 3rd Age. Worse still, after being used so many times, the Gaia Engines are starting to break down, and they might not be capable of resetting the world. In other words, if a Dreamer breaks out again, it's game over for the entire universe.]]
* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'': [[spoiler:The Freedom ending has the Demi-fiend reject all of the [[EndOfTheWorldSpecial Reasons]], then beat the crap out of God's avatar so hard that he's forced to restore the world to how it was before]].
* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsGame'' game had the ultimate reset button when [[spoiler:they asked God to restore Springfield following an alien invasion]].
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** A reset happens in the bad ending for ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD''. Eggman presumably uses the Time Stones to CTRL-Z everything you did in the game.
** Used at the very end of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', though it's suggested that [[spoiler:Sonic and Elise still remember each other vaguely]].
** Crisis City exists in ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' where it's ''not supposed to'', though that could just be the Time Eater messing with the timelines.
* Mengsk's Dominion empire in ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' was hit with a Reset Button at the start of ''VideoGame/StarCraftIIWingsOfLiberty''. You could skip from the original ''Starcraft'' to ''Wings of Liberty'' and not realize that there was an expansion game (''Brood War'') in-between where the Dominion got the living crap beaten out of them.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBrothers'':
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' rewinds time for battles via an item called Earlier Times. This resets the battle back to the start, including its conditions such as the party's status and items held at that time.
** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'' has Retry Clocks, which restart the battle if you get KO'd.
** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'' has the Miracle/Silver Badge combo, which reverts your status to the prior turn. Returns used items, cancels effects, resets countdowns, etc.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' ends with [[spoiler:Rosalina resetting ''reality itself'' after the destruction of Bowser's galaxy ends up ripping apart the universe, effectively making the sequel a semi-ContinuityReboot]].
* The implications behind the Reset Button's usage and its deconstruction is the main theme of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', which are then explored in detail.
%%* Several ''VideoGame/WildARMs'' games.
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', the Halls of Origination house the Forge of Origination, a Titan device intended to reset Azeroth to the state the Titans intended for it to have. [[spoiler:At the end of the Ny'alotha raid in ''Battle for Azeroth'', the Forge is used to finally annihilate N'Zoth, the last of the [[EldritchAbomination Old Gods]]. The whole point of the raid up until that point is to place special anchor points throughout Ny'alotha to make it possible to annihilate N'Zoth without affecting the rest of Azeroth.]]
* ''Videogame/{{Xenosaga}}'' made this a central plot point in the third game Thus Spoke Zarathustra and ultimate goal of the BigBad. [[spoiler:Wilhelm intended to use an artifact to reset time so the Universe wouldn't be destroyed by spatial expansion.]]
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{{Reset Button}}s in VideoGames.
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* Most game consoles have soft reset buttons in the same vicinity as the power button, to reset the system's RAM and return to the game's title screen without powering down. Very useful for SaveScumming.
* The whole mechanic of NewGamePlus: everything in the story goes back to however it was in the beginning, except for whatever features (usually experience levels and items) you're allowed to keep.
* Most gaming consoles have either a reset button or a combination of buttons (ex: A + B + Select + Start) which would reload the game from the menu screen. This was essentially inputted so as to not hurt the console, as turning it on/off quickly could fry some important stuff. There's even one on the computer which you are using right now!
* ''VideoGame/The3rdBirthday'' has a partial example. On one hand, [[spoiler:Aya's actions in the ending make it so that the Twisted and High Ones never existed in the first place, undoing the death and destruction they caused]]. On the other hand, [[spoiler:this Reset Button came at the cost of a HeroicSacrifice on Aya's part, which only Eve remembers]].
* The second ''[[VideoGame/ArTonelicoIIMelodyOfMetafalica Ar tonelico]]'' has a Song Magic called the Reset Button. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It resets the battle.]] [[UselessUsefulSpell Supposedly, you use it to reset bad things that might happen in battle, but there's really no point...]] And then later on, weird things happen to the Reset Button in its so-called "upgrades".
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bastion}}'', [[spoiler:this is [[InvokedTrope invoked]] but deconstructed in the Restoration ending. The Bastion ''completely'' resets the world, so the characters are replaced with their past selves, and there is nothing to stop events from [[GroundhogDayLoop repeating themselves]]]].
* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'':
** In the first two games, [[spoiler:the whole setting is a GroundhogDayLoop, with various possibilities playing out in a time loop, and then resetting itself. Several characters often die in MultipleEndings and other instances, but never canonically. In the {{Canon}} ending of ''VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift'', however, the Reset Button and the GroundhogDayLoop are removed by [[BigBad Terumi]], so if anyone dies now, [[KilledOffForReal they die for good]]]]. In actuality [[spoiler:[[BigBad Terumi]]]] is merely the catalyst for this whereas the real removal is done by [[spoiler:[[TheManBehindTheMan Imperator Librarius]], who also happens to be Ragna and Jin's possessed LongLostSibling Saya]].
** ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralFiction'' reveals that across the whole series, [[spoiler: [[DeusEstMachina Master Unit Amaterasu]] and its inhabitant The Origin have been constantly resetting the universe to try and usher it towards a version of events where her 'big brother', who she has identified as being Ragna the Bloodedge, can save her from her tortuous situation. Events that lead too greatly from that are undone one way or the other; give the interference of the Imperator and Termui, this has happened many times]].
* The retries in the ''VideoGame/BlinxTheTimeSweeper'' series act as this, reversing time to before you made the fatal mistake so you can try again.
* In the SurvivalHorror [[ExploitationFilm Exploitation Game]] ''Demonophobia'', [[spoiler:[[MeaningfulName Ritz]] is a sentient reset button who keeps resurrecting Sakuri should she die. Here's a twist, Sakuri is completely conscious even after [[AndIMustScream being grinded into mincemeat]] over and over again, and ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou you are the one who forced Ritz to resurrect Sakuri by simply pressing the R button]]'']].
* ''VideoGame/DespicableBear'': The trash can in the lower right corner serves as one, just click it twice.
* ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'', the reset option is one of the endings for Daichi's path. The party chooses to defeat [[BigBad Polaris]] and have her turn back the world to how it was before the Septentriones arrived.
* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, Alduin, the [[DragonsAreDemonic draconic]] BeastOfTheApocalypse, acts as one of these for the universe. It is his divinely mandated duty to "[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt eat the world]]" at the end of every "kalpa" (cycle of time) so that it can be remade anew. Unfortunately, in the current kalpa, he decides to shirk his duty and try to TakeOverTheWorld instead, leading to the events of ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' where he serves as the BigBad.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' had a Time spell called Return or Reset (depending on which version) that you could use during combat to rewind to the beginning of the fight. This spell was very favorable to the player-- it would also reset the battle condition. So, for example, if the battle began as an Ambush attack, the player could use this spell and the battle condition would most likely to be changed to a normal battle or even a preemptive attack. Also, it cost only 1 MP. It also lets you attempt to steal items again, especially useful if you need a Rare Item from one of the rarer encounters.
* Throughout much of ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'', you're hitting little Reset Buttons here and there to avert people's fates through your powers of time manipulation. All this seems to lead to the conclusion that the game will end with everyone being saved but the universe as a whole being left intact. [[spoiler:Wrong! The final chapter suddenly changes things drastically when you're presented with the chance to go back and undo the PlotTriggeringDeath itself, completely rewriting reality and ending a ten-year ordeal once and for all.]]
* Parodied in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'''s [[Radio/GTARadio in-game radio]] chat show channel Chatterbox, in which, while discussing video games, ironically, the show's host Lazlow and a caller get to the concept of reset buttons. The caller says "Life does not have a Reset Button" to which Lazlow responds that the show does and proceeds to prove his point by pressing said button. Since the game disc can only hold so much, the radio show must keep repeating the same things. [[HandWave The Reset Button on the show just explains that away easy]].
* In the Monster Hunt mode of ''VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'', this is Toki's hero power. Once per turn, you can use the power to start the turn over from the beginning. Useful for undoing misplays and ''especially'' for avoiding unwanted effects from randomness-based cards.
* Every time you {{ascend|ToAHigherPlaneOfExistence}} in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'', things rapidly go back to the way things were at the beginning of the game, [[NewGamePlus requiring you to go back and do it all over]].
%%* [[spoiler:The good endings]] of ''VideoGame/KnightsInTheNightmare''.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro'', it turns out [[spoiler:Spyro is the Reset Button for the planet. If the Destroyer is successful in triggering TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, Spyro (and likely any Purple Dragon for that matter) can use their power to stop it and restore the world to normal]].
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', this is one of the central gameplay elements. Link only has three days to save Termina; as soon as the third night ends, [[ColonyDrop the moon will crash into the planet and cause the end of the world]]. But every time Link plays the Song of Time, he returns to the dawn of the first day, taking his key items with him, allowing him to do more each time. Now, if you're wanting to blitz the game in the very first cycle after you reclaim the Ocarina, it ''is'' possible to do it all[[note]]except several of the minigames[[/note]], but you have to '''really''' know what you're doing: [[http://www.gamefaqs.com/n64/197770-the-legend-of-zelda-majoras-mask/faqs/31495 speed run guide]].
* ''VideoGame/LufiaIIRiseOfTheSinistrals'' gives Maxim the Reset spell, which lets him reset a puzzle room to prevent [[{{Unwinnable}} you from getting stuck if you screw up a difficult puzzle.]]
* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'' resets ''the entire Franchise/MortalKombat series'', starting at the very beginning of the first ever Mortal Kombat tournament. But since Raiden now has knowledge of the future (and the events of the future games), some things are going to change.
* In ''VideoGame/Persona2 Innocent Sin'', party member Maya Amano is killed near the end of the story fulfilling an ingame prophecy and causing the world to be destroyed. In order to save the world and Maya, the remaining party members choose to wipe away the summer night they all first met from existence in order to ensure that Maya survives and that the prophecy doesn't come true. This leads to their universe being reset, causing the events of the game to have never happened and creates the universe in which all following Persona games take place.
* ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'' has the both the Sands themselves and the Dagger of Time, a (very) short-time reset button that allowed a player to undo huge mistakes like falling into a death trap, or taking a major beating in a fight. As well, the events of the entire game end up being reset by the end, and in the end movie the Prince uses the Dagger one last time to undo kissing the woman he fell in love with during the erased timeline, who rejects him for doing so while having "just" met her. In a unique variation, the Reset Button mechanism itself sets off the events of the second game, as the PowersThatBe are out to punish the Prince for using it.
* The time manipulations of ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin'' (erasing the existence of the Sands of Time) enable ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheTwoThrones'' to happen, as they result in the Vizier never being killed by the Prince during the first one. At the end of ''The Two Thrones'' [[spoiler:when the Prince finds his dead father and his dark side taunts him to find some way to rewind time again, he vows to take responsibility for his actions and refuses to hit the button again.]]
* In the Neko Entertainment game ''Puddle'', [[spoiler:spilling radioactive liquid sodium into a nuclear singularity will cause a NegativeSpaceWedgie that completely undoes the events of the game, returning the puddle to being coffee. Just in time for the guy who poured it in the first place [[BrickJoke to return and drink it]]]].
* ''VideoGame/RandalsMonday'': [[spoiler:Randal has to rewrite the entire timeline to stop the loop and save Matt]].
* In recent issues of ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'', it's revealed that there's a universal reset button just waiting to be used - and in fact, it's already been used four times. [[spoiler:Turns out the [[CosmicKeystone Gaia Engines]] aren't just used for keeping the [[EldritchAbomination Dreamers]] [[SealedEvilInACan asleep]] and purging the [[TheVirus Filth]]: in the event that one of their prisoners happens to wake up and destroy the world, the Gaia Engines are able to harness the Dreamers' [[RealityWarper reality-warping powers]] and recreate the world prior to the apocalypse. Unfortunately, this function isn't precise enough to recreate the exact time period, technology or people, so it always ends with the entire universe being reset to factory settings, with only a few exceptionally powerful individuals and artifacts from the previous era being able to live on in the new world; even the laws of physics are warped as a result, hence why nobody's been able to exactly replicate the LostTechnology of the 3rd Age. Worse still, after being used so many times, the Gaia Engines are starting to break down, and they might not be capable of resetting the world. In other words, if a Dreamer breaks out again, it's game over for the entire universe.]]
* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'': [[spoiler:The Freedom ending has the Demi-fiend reject all of the [[EndOfTheWorldSpecial Reasons]], then beat the crap out of God's avatar so hard that he's forced to restore the world to how it was before]].
* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsGame'' game had the ultimate reset button when [[spoiler:they asked God to restore Springfield following an alien invasion]].
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** A reset happens in the bad ending for ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD''. Eggman presumably uses the Time Stones to CTRL-Z everything you did in the game.
** Used at the very end of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', though it's suggested that [[spoiler:Sonic and Elise still remember each other vaguely]].
** Crisis City exists in ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' where it's ''not supposed to'', though that could just be the Time Eater messing with the timelines.
* Mengsk's Dominion empire in ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' was hit with a Reset Button at the start of ''VideoGame/StarCraftIIWingsOfLiberty''. You could skip from the original ''Starcraft'' to ''Wings of Liberty'' and not realize that there was an expansion game (''Brood War'') in-between where the Dominion got the living crap beaten out of them.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBrothers'':
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' rewinds time for battles via an item called Earlier Times. This resets the battle back to the start, including its conditions such as the party's status and items held at that time.
** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'' has Retry Clocks, which restart the battle if you get KO'd.
** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'' has the Miracle/Silver Badge combo, which reverts your status to the prior turn. Returns used items, cancels effects, resets countdowns, etc.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' ends with [[spoiler:Rosalina resetting ''reality itself'' after the destruction of Bowser's galaxy ends up ripping apart the universe, effectively making the sequel a semi-ContinuityReboot]].
* The implications behind the Reset Button's usage and its deconstruction is the main theme of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', which are then explored in detail.
%%* Several ''VideoGame/WildARMs'' games.
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', the Halls of Origination house the Forge of Origination, a Titan device intended to reset Azeroth to the state the Titans intended for it to have. [[spoiler:At the end of the Ny'alotha raid in ''Battle for Azeroth'', the Forge is used to finally annihilate N'Zoth, the last of the [[EldritchAbomination Old Gods]]. The whole point of the raid up until that point is to place special anchor points throughout Ny'alotha to make it possible to annihilate N'Zoth without affecting the rest of Azeroth.]]
* ''Videogame/{{Xenosaga}}'' made this a central plot point in the third game Thus Spoke Zarathustra and ultimate goal of the BigBad. [[spoiler:Wilhelm intended to use an artifact to reset time so the Universe wouldn't be destroyed by spatial expansion.]]
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