Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter/Deaths

This page contains all known effectively distinct deaths in Space Quest. It does not have to be a literal death; any event which causes a game over is noted. Unwinnable situations which are not game over do not count.

Arcada

How to die	What happens
Let the Sariens discover you.	You are shot dead.
Insert cartridge in the reader after you get it.	A Sarien comes and shoots you.
Enter the bay without an EVA suit when the bay doors are open.	Explosive decompression kills you.
Fall down the shaft in the bay room.	...
Walk out the bay doors.	You fly off into space, never to be seen again.
Don't escape in time.	KABOOM.
In the pod, don't press AutoNav in time	You run out of fuel and are now lost in space.
In the pod, press Don't touch	You warp to King's Quest realm and crash land in the moat.

Kerona

How to die	What happens
Walk too far in an empty desert scene	A monster pops up from the ground and eats you.
Walk to an empty desert scene and wait too long.	A meteor crushes you.
Look hole on the side of the cliff.	You enter the hole and bones come out. Plus a visual BURP.
Get caught by Orat	Orat turns you into a ball.
Touch the spider droid.	The droid explodes, taking you out.
Fall from higher ground.	Die.
Walk over the bridge five times or stand on the part of the bridge that cracks.	You fall and die.
Go too long without water.	You die of thirst. (You have two warnings and that's it).
Walk over the grate except at the top.	A tentacle monster grabs you and pulls you through the grate.
Drink pool of acid.	Roger's head disappears, then eventually the whole body.
Walk through the laser beams.	You are sliced into pieces.
Get hit by an acid drop.	You collapse and die.
In the skimmer minigame, get hit by a rock five times.	The skimmer stops and you fly out of it.
Get three skulls on the slot machine.	The slot machine laser-beams you.
Look at Tiny's ships, then enter the bar, win money, and exit the bar. Follow the mugger, then press any direction other than ←,  Home  (up-left), or  End  (down-left).	The mugger shoots you.
Buy the wrong ship from Tiny	The ship you ride in crashes in the desert.

Deltaur

How to die	What happens
Leave the ship without wearing the jetpack	You float away into space.
Fly to any screen beside the airlock door.	You are shot into dust.
Walk out of the room with the chest, or the laundry room, without a disguise.	A Sarien shoots you.
Wait in the laundry room too long.	A Sarien enters and shoots you.
In the weapons room, try to take grenade twice when the droid is watching.	The droid vaporizes you.
After taking a grenade, try to leave without taking the pulseray.	The droid vaporizes you.
Fire the pulseray twice in the weapons room.	The droid vaporizes you.
Show the ID card to the droid three times.	The droid vaporizes you.
Drop grenade anywhere other than in the Star Generator room or near a Sarien.	You gas yourself and collapse.
Without your disguise, take too long to shoot a Sarien.	The Sarien shoots you.
Without your disguise, touch the floating robot.	The robot disintegrates you.
Without your disguise, enter the lower floor of the Star Generator room when the guard is still standing.	The guard shoots you immediately.
Without your disguise, go back to the weapons room.	The droid vaporizes you without saying anything.
Fall off the walkway leading to the escape pod.	...
After setting the Star Generator to self-destruct, don't escape in time.	KABOOM.

Alternate Ending

If you don't take the reader out of the cartridge back on Kerona and you complete the game, you get the ending, but with a slightly different message.