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Not to be confused with [[Meta Game (Literature)|the novel of the same name]]. See also [[Talking Through Technique]], when the Metagame is used to communicate without words. Compare [[Metaplot]]. Usually results in [[Gameplay Derailment]]. [[AI Breaker]] is a subtrope.
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== Board Games ==
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* ''[[The Mole (TV)|The Mole]]'' has a pretty strong metagame, to go along with the challenges the team competes in (and the Mole tries to sabotage). Naturally, part of the metagame is to sabotage a little yourself, to make everyone else suspicious of you. But also important is tracking everyone else's suspects so that if someone gets booted, you can figure that whoever he/she was suspecting is probably innocent. Finally, gathering as much information as you can on the other players - even the ones you don't originally think is the Mole - will help you in case you do need to move to a new suspect.
* ''[[Survivor]]'' is all about this, as being able to continue playing and eventually win depends on how others vote, so a contestant's gameplay has to be tailored for the people he's playing with. Richard Hatch all but defined the metagame in the first season when he convinced his tribemates to coordinate their votes to target the opposing tribe; and alliances have been the top strategy ever since.
** Another common strategy is to keep a weaker player around as your sidekick; he's easy to win against in the finals. Recent seasons seem to take this to a larger scale, in that there seems to be an unspoken agreement not to vote out the [[Jerkass]] that nobody likes. True to metagaming principles, some players have made themselves look weak in order to get other players to simply not target them, and then try to pull a [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]. (Brett, Fabio, Ashley) Others even ''knew'' they weren't going to be good at challenges or would just get overshadowed by awesome, so they tried to up their weakness so they would assume they're nothing.
* History's [[Top Shot]] is starting to develop one, notably in Season 2 it came out that four contestants [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|decided at the beginning of the season who would win]] AND WERE RIGHT. While remaining totally within the rules.
** Oh, and Jake in Season three tries to DQ a teammate he considers a long-term threat by {{spoiler|1=trying to provoke him into a fight, thus instantly DQing him.}}
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* Further (and more actually fitting with the trope), many games (especially the newest edition of Dungeons and Dragons) have an extensive number of builds and strategies for constructing player characters that are easily recognized by the community and often referred to by name when describing the character (example from 4e D&D: "I'm playing a frostcheese rogue")
* The ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' meta-game generally revolves around what the most powerful codex is against the Space Marines. Since Space Marine armies comprise of the majority of tournament armies regardless of its current power (especially since they are pretty strong anyway), it revolves around either making the strongest possible Space Marine army, making the strongest possible anti-Space Marine army, or [[Take a Third Option|Taking The Third Option]] and building the strongest army against whatever is the major anti-Space Marine army, and hoping you get more of the anti-Space Marine armies, giving you the advantage because you are built to fight them, and they are built to fight Space Marines.
** One thing to note, however, is that the metagame is more static in WH40K because of the [[Crack
*** Depends on your localisation, really. The tourmament scene in Poland has some tentency of people having "ALWAYS WANTED TO PLAY" the Army thats currently on top (you know, because they like the background).
** In reality there is a more stabilised metagame in 5th edition, prior to Matt Ward's controversial rewrite of Grey Knights; Dark Eldar beats Space Wolves, Space Wolves beats Imperial Guard, Imperial Guard beats Dark Eldar. These 3 armies were the top tier in terms of effectiveness, sure Space Marines are good, but are easily countered by any of the three and would make up the bulk of the mid-section of the competitive scene. Post-Grey Knights this rock-paper-scissors scenario has remained but with the GK looming over the triad as it has access to almost all of the Space Wolves tricks and some of the IG's elements along with their own.
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*** Indeed, Pokemon's primary competitive play site has [http://www.smogon.com/dp/pokemon/tyranitar extensive writeups] on every fully-evolved 'mon and then some, including the ones that are [[Crutch Character|not useful]] [[Joke Character|at all]].
*** The metagame of Pokemon is also the source of many cases of [[Kick the Dog]], where certain Pokemon are put down for stats, abilities, or other properties that make them "useless", and can be upsetting to those who don't care about stats and believe that any Pokemon, given the right level, moves, and training can be useful.
**** This troper, has been a victim of that. On the other hand, it doesn't mean those who are termed "Karenfags" (a reference to a quote by Karen of the Elite Four that powerful and weak are bad concepts in Pokemon battling) like myself can't metagame right back at them. Remember, just because pokemon has a [[Broken Base]] doesn't mean you should belittle someone with a different viewpoint, [[What the Hell, Hero?|they can and WILL bite back.]]
* The free browser-based strategy game ''Cybernations''' gameplay consists of pressing a few buttons everyday. Most of the actual "gameplay" comes from people making alliances and engaging in diplomacy.
* The Gamerscore on XBox 360 could count as a metagame, especially considering all the satellite websites and communities that have sprung up around it.
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