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Compare [[Pleasure Island]], and [[Be Careful What You Wish For]] for a similar aesop. Please note that this isn't related to [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|Yakov Smirnoff's Soviet Russia jokes]]. [[Super-Trope]] of [[The Most Dangerous Video Game]].
Not to be confused with [[Playing the Player]].
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* ''Bus Gamer'', a manga by Kazuya Minekura, involves three guys playing a simple game of 'Grab the Floppy Disc from the Other Team', with a little bit of interesting snippets of backstory thrown in for good measure. Then one day they notice that one of the guys that lost against them has been found in a river, dead. Then a member of a losing team dies right before their eyes in a pretty painful way and they realise they're in too deep. [[It Got Worse|It gets worse]].
* In ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]],'' the blurring of the border between the real world and the Wired causes an online FPS game to leak into the real world, cross over with a bunch of kids who were just playing tag, and cause some players to kill themselves or the kids.
* ''[[Doubt]]'' starts when a group of teenagers in Japan meet to play a game of "Rabbit Doubt", a game where people play as "rabbits" and must find a wolf hiding among them before they are eaten, like the Western game Mafia. It doesn't take long for a game to start with real people involved who have to find the "wolf" to survive.
== Film ==
* In ''[[The Game (film)|The Game]]'', disillusioned businessman Nicholas van Orten gets a gift certificate for a potentially dangerous game from his brother, and signs up.
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* In ''[[Brainscan]]'' a teenager obtains the eponymous virtual reality game where he must commit a murder. Not only do the murders turn out to be real, as the game zombified the player and made him a homicidal sleepwalker, but it also lets out an evil punk Trickster into the real world who forces the boy to continue "playing".
* ''Stay Alive'' has a video game of the same name being beta-tested by a bunch of players. And then they start to die for real: "You die in the game, you die in real life!"
* The film ''Open Graves'' had a similar concept to the above, but with a board game. Anyone who picked up an "Open Graves" card would die in real life exactly as the card described. The person left alive at the end would get a wish. (Which he used to turn back time and undo all the deaths. {{spoiler|Too bad his wish wasn't specific enough. He never said anything about wanting to remember the events that had occured, so the whole thing ended up being a [[Groundhog Day Loop]].}})
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