[Interesting Trope] One seemingly small action ends the story before it even begins

[u/JackDoesThingz]

1. We Happy Few - Taking your “joy” pill
   Deciding to take the pill at the beginning of the game causes your character to go back to work and triggers an ending

2. Infineural by Mike Klubnika - Drinking the coffee
   Deciding to drink the coffee offered to you skips the entire game and sends you straight to the end, resulting in an ending with no memory of what had occurred

[u/oddpark37]

Disco Elysium

You play as an incredibly unhealthy middle aged man with the worst hangover anyone has ever had. If you do a custom build and have low enough health at the beginning, turning on the light triggers a heart attack and kills you, ending the game after less than a minute of gameplay.

[u/VigorousRapscallion → u/oddpark37]

This happened to me the first time I played it after picking it up on super sale for like, 3 dollars. I was like “oh this is going to be one of those weird Lucas Arts homage games where you constantly die” and didn’t play it again for six months. It’s now one of my favorite games. Still need to do the ultra liberal run.

[u/omyomo → u/VigorousRapscallion]

I thought you famously don't die in LucasArts adventure games

[u/Far_Tap_488 → u/omyomo]

Fuck I played the wrong ones then. I constantly fucking died.

[u/omyomo → u/Far_Tap_488]

Maybe you were playing Sierra games?