death loop

English

Noun

death loop (plural death loops)

1. (video games) A situation in which a player respawns and inevitably dies, only to respawn in the exact same situation.
   • 2012, Olli Tapio Leino, “Death loop as a feature”, in Game Studies‎^[1], volume 12, number 2, Game Studies, →ISSN:

     However, upon being resurrected I found myself in the morning of a groundhog day fighting the scorpion I had just killed, exiting the room, feeling woozy, eating chocolate, falling to the ground. I was stuck in a death loop.