In any Video Game, your primary goal is to survive to the end. How much else you need to do between here and there, on the other hand, is entirely up to the game developer. Objectives in a Video Game or Tabletop RPG may be described in a variable amount of detail; the variety of such specificity goes along a sliding scale thusly: Win - The most basic type of Objective, this is when the only objective is to survive the level to the end. Since "Win" is the basic goal of every game ever, that makes it essentially a Metagame. * of course, RPGs * Tron 2.0 * Deus Ex