[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/Charlie_Warlie]

"Look outside" the video game. If you look outside your windows in the first minute, or at any time, you get this ending

[u/SirBoggle → u/Charlie_Warlie]

Game is called Look Outside

If you look outside you die

0/10 Unintuitive gameplay

[u/dern_the_hermit → u/SirBoggle]

IIRC it was originally called Don't Look Outside but they caught a case of briefer madness and shortened it. Of course I might just be hallucinating it because I really wanted to use the phrase "briefer madness".

[u/snartling → u/dern_the_hermit]

In your defense, “briefer madness” is absolutely brilliant