victory conditions
How you triumph
Victory conditions are the requirements that must be met to win a game, competition, or conflict.
In board games and video games, victory conditions define what constitutes winning—capturing the enemy king in chess, accumulating the most points, or eliminating all opponents.
Military and strategic contexts use the term for objectives that would end a conflict favorably: What are the victory conditions for this war?
The phrase implies that success isn't always obvious and must be defined in advance.
- winAchieve victory
- triumphResounding, celebrated victory
- winning moveAction that guarantees triumph
- conquestDefeating and seizing control
- total dominationComplete control over everything
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- game designmechanics, level design, game balance, balancing, playtesting
- strategy gameschess, strategy, checkers, go, Go
- strategy guideswalkthrough, tips, tricks, skill tree, upgrade path
- war gameswargaming, wargame, war games, combat simulations, Age of Empires
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