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* ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'' is one of its own series. Rather than show a glamorized portrayal of criminal life like the previous games did, it portrays it realistically, with most of the characters being poor, sociopathic, psychotic, greedy, or otherwise unlikable. Even [[Player Character|Niko]] himself is a hypocrite.
* [[New Game+|The Demon Path]] in [[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]] could be seen as a deconstruction of [[Stupid Evil]] choices in video games (where the game's [[Karma Meter]] consists of "Help this woman find her lost puppy, or kill her and eat her family,") taken to its ultimate conclusion. Once the protagonist gets the power of an [[Omnicidal Maniac]] god of death, he/she decides to {{spoiler|go on a world-wide killing spree for no reason other than it sounds like fun. What follows is a massacre of the entire cast of the game, anyone who isn't lucky enough to be killed immediately being either horribly broken or driven insane and ''then'' killed. By the end of the game, the protagonist and the god of death are the only living things left on the planet, at which point the protagonist turns on the god of death and ''eats him'', gaining his powers fully, before turning his/her newfound powers on the gods themselves and finally erasing all of existence, along with him/herself.}}
* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'', the "save the world from the world-eating [[Big Bad]] dragon Alduin" quest is deconstructed in a conversation with Paarthunax, leader of the Greybeards and {{spoiler|a good dragon, possibly the only one in existence.}} He asks if it isn't foolish to stop the apocalypse {{spoiler|if it's being done by someone whose job it is to do exactly that and thereby bring about the next world.}} Arngeir also poses these questions, but less in-depth. The story is, however, reconstructed later.
* ''[[Red Alert 3 Paradox]]'' is a [[Game Mod]] building a world around the scarce information of its source material, ''[[Command and Conquer]] [[Command and Conquer Red Alert 3]]'' and plays out realistically what would happen if three major super powers go to all-out war, a US President is killed or what consequences it has when physics-defying technology is used large-scale and regularly. It's not nearly as idealistic as the original.
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