endgame scenario
Ultimate conclusion situation
An endgame scenario is a projected final stage of a process, especially one involving catastrophic or irreversible outcomes.
The term borrows from chess, where the endgame determines victory or defeat.
It appears frequently in discussions of nuclear war, climate change, or civilizational collapse: Climate scientists have modeled various endgame scenarios.
In business or politics, it may simply mean the anticipated conclusion of a strategy.
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
- finalLast and decisive
- countdownBackward enumeration to zero
- doomsdayProphesied world's end
- collapseSudden structural failure
survival · exit strategy · nuclear · nuclear winter · extinction · bunker · fallout · climax · ultimatum · checkmate · showdown · catastrophe · end times · last stand · tipping point · point of no return · meltdown · crisis
endgame scenarioopening moves
First actions in competition
opening gambit · starting point · early game · starting position · inception
endgame scenarioorigin story
Account of how something began
point of departure · launching pad · fresh start · tabula rasa · dawn
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