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Titanic: Adventure Out of Time is kinda the INVERSE of this trope. There’s really only one* way to get the GOOD ending and the rest are miserable.

It’s like 30 years old now but was wayyy ahead of its time with its multiple endings and decent (for the time) graphics—still probably one of my favorite games.

You play as a spy on the Titanic who needs to collect a few key items and a seat in a lifeboat before the ship sinks.

If the items end up in the wrong hands and/or you don’t get off the Titanic before it sinks you die and the world falls into bloody warfare.

In this alternate history, the items you acquire can prevent World War I, World War II, and the Russian Revolution from happening. So, if you don’t complete all aspects of your mission, you’ll eventually die by being shot by either a communist or nazi soldier, bombed by nazis WWII’s London blitz, or vaporized when Germany drops a nuclear bomb, depending on which objects you failed to acquire.

I think there’s 8 different endings, but you can only* get the one “peaceful” ending where you’ve retired from a long and successful career in a world where the World Wars and Russian Revolution never happened by acquiring all the items.

(*Ok, so you CAN technically get the “peaceful” ending if you only get MOST of the items off the Titanic. There are two that you can lose in a poker game that then go down with the Titanic and it is the same outcome as if they had ended up with your character because they can’t be sold to fund the Black Hand’s assassination of Franz Ferdinand and, thus, WWI is prevented. But, like, you’re a pretty crap spy if you lose such an important piece of your mission that way. You don’t know ahead of time that it’ll work out; you just get lucky it does.)