History ANaziByAnyOtherName / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/KaiserreichLegacyOfTheWeltkrieg''
** In a broader sense, the National Populist ideology from ''VideoGame/KaiserreichLegacyOfTheWeltkrieg'' is this -- game-mechanically, in the pre-[[VideoGame/HeartsOfIronIV HOI4]] versions, it is the Nazi ideology of vanilla ''Hearts of Iron'' renamed to National Populist[[note]][[VideoGame/HeartsOfIronIV HOI4]] radically cut down on the number of ideologies, among other things consolidating Nazi and Fascist into Fascist, but also allowed modders to add ones of their own[[/note]]. In terms of ideology, it is described in terms suggesting that, insofar as any ideology can be described within the broad categories used in the game, it is essentially Nazism/Fascism shorn of the ideological focus on a totalitarian state (''that'' is instead picked up by the ideology mentioned below). Examples include Boris Savinkov, leader of the [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny People's Republican Party]] in Russia, William Dudley Pelley of the America First Party, and Corneliu Codreanu, leader of the Romanian Iron Guard ([[TruthInTelevision which was also Fascist in real life]]).
** The [[CommieNazis Totalist]] ideology also qualifies -- for a start, two of its founding members are UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini and Oswald Mosley.

* In ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'', the National Socialist ideology, while used for actual Nazis, is also used for people who are not connected with the Nazis. Some examples of this are the [[CommieNazis Ordosocialists]] in Komi under Ivan Serov and [[PresidentEvil Francis Yockey]]'s NPP-Y in the United States.

* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' tends to invoke this with any enemy who is NOT an actual Nazi. [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps Dragovich]] has it, though the most egregious example is in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyGhosts'', with the Federation of the Americas, who are basically Venezuelan Nazis. Their original leader, General Almagro, even tried to imprison or execute all US-born citizens on Federation soil.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

** Ironically, a great deal of their more outright disturbing aspects come from where they ''break'' with Nazi doctrine. You see, the Nazis had blind spots that the well-connected and cunning could take advantage of. They did not immediately kill every undesirable, and indeed many of their grotesquely corrupt members actually saved the lives of these unfortunates by blackmailing them for virtually anything they had. If they just didn't kill them anyway. This is where the Black Lance is even more terrifying, because the Black Lance does ''not'' discriminate, it does not wait, it does not accept bribes, and is very, VERY effective because [[KnightTemplar they believe that the fate of the human race depends upon]] [[InferredHolocaust purging it of such "impurities" and subjecting what is left to massive continual warfare as a case of very drastic "survival of the Fittest" evolution]]. Which in many ways makes them even WORSE because they do not kid around.

* The cat empire from ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheWoolBall''. As the game takes a lot of inspiration from ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'', there are occasional blatant references to Nazism—in particular the red banners with a black symbol in a white circle, and the officer cats who wear all black and speak in faux-German.

* ''VideoGame/{{Timespinner}}'' has [[BigBad Vol Terrilis]], the villain in the Past section of the game. He runs his country as {{TheMagocracy}}, with anyone who lacks magical abilities treated as second-class citizens, banished to another world to die, and subject to eugenics restrictions intended to eradicate them entirely. The game goes so far as to have him quote a slightly modified version of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words Fourteen Words]] (a real-world neo-Nazi / white-supremacist slogan) in one of his edicts.

* ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' gives us the Vaadwaur Supremacy. Favouring beige trenchcoats and menacing metal masks in a spin on PuttingOnTheReich, the vaguely serpentine Vaadwaur are hell-bent on wiping out every other species in the Delta Quadrant, treating even the most minor of slights as a reason to condemn an ''entire species'' to death. Whilst their hatred towards the Kobali is not entirely unreasonable initially (as the Kobali 'reproduce' by reanimating the dead, and have been using Vaadwaur bodies without consent), the Vaadwaur are ''completely'' unwilling to negotiate - and in the one instance they seem to be, the whole thing is in bad faith anyway. Most of their leadership is revealed to be [[PuppeteerParasite puppets]] for the Iconians (explaining their sudden advances in technology) but their actual leader has not been taken over and ''genuinely'' buys into all of the nonsense, with the Vaadwaur rallying against the puppeted Vaadwaur using notions of purity as their battlecry whilst the whole lot descends into an EnemyCivilWar. Even after he's offed, the remaining Vaadwaur remain insular and xenophobic at best.

* ''Die Spinne'' in ''VideoGame/CrimsonSkies.'' 1. They're German; 2. They're Fascists; 3. The game series is set in the thirties. It looks like somebody wasn't really trying to hide the obvious here.

* The Templars of Kirkwall in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' have elements of this, with the most blatant example being Ser Alrik and his "[[FinalSolution Tranquil Solution]]" to give magical lobotomies to all mages. After it turns out the higher-ups rejected the idea (which didn't stop Alrik from forging ahead on his own) one companion cheerfully tells the resident mage rights activist that it turned out not to be the ''holocaust'' he thought it was.

*** Religiously, the Thalmor play up the old [[{{Precursors}} Aldmeri]] religious belief that the creation of the mortal world was a cruel trick by a {{Jerkass God|s}} that robbed their divine ancestors of their pre-creation divinity. Said god, known to them as the Lorkhan, then specifically created the races of Men out of the "weakest souls" to spread Sithis (chaos) in to "every corner" of creation, ensuring that there could never again be the pure stasis of pre-creation. Thus, in order to [[OmnicidalManiac undo creation]], the must not only KillAllHumans, but kill ''[[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence the very idea of humanity]]''. In order to accomplish this, they must [[GodNeedsPrayerBadly wipe out the worship]] of Talos, a DeityOfHumanOrigin who was once the mortal man [[GodEmperor Tiber Septim]], possibly [[MergerOfSouls among others]], and who is possibly (in-part) the re-ascended form of Lorkhan. It's implied that they don't just hunt down, but also execute Talos worshippers outright.

** Quite ironically (compared to other examples) Gestahl DOES seem to stand for and be a good example of the order he seeks to implement. That is, until [[TheStarscream said mad clown]] kicks him off a flying continent. Germany could only spawn {{Knight Templar}}s, {{Blood Knight}}s, and {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s due to its avaricious nature, and the fact its leader was too blinded by his own ego and importance to see the decay directly beneath. There is no one in the upper land-based echelons who resembles Leo. (There was always a large gap between the beliefs and actions of the kriegsmarines and intelligence agencies with the general army, however.)
* The Garlean Empire from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' are like the Gestahlian Empire, but even ''more'' nazi-like, with some Roman Empire aesthetics thrown in: they believe in 'racial purity' and that pure-blood Garleans have a right to conquer other lands and civilize the 'savages' of other nations. For bonus points, a significant, though not all, amount of pure-blood Garleans are blue-eyed blondes. If you're part of the 'Spoken' races of the setting (that is to say, any playable race) then they will ''just'' colonize and brutally oppress your land and enslave your people, with the only way of becoming a citizen being serving in the military for dozens of years, similiar to the Roman Empire. However, if you're part of a Primal-worshipping Beast Tribe? The Garleans have only one [[FinalSolution solution]] for you.
* ''Videogame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'':

* ''VideoGame/FugaMelodiesOfSteel'''s main antagonistic force is The Berman Empire, a not-so-subtle reference to Nazi Germany as the game itself was stated to be heavily inspired by WWII-era Europe. The main villain leading the faction is obviously based on Adolf himself (with M. Bison influence), the strictly Caninu soldiers themselves have FantasticRacism against the magic-abled Felinekos, and one of the bosses of the game is a scientist hiding his heritage [[BoomerangBigot who not only blames his own kind for all of the misfortune in his life]], but also performs inhuman experiments on them with sadistic glee and attacks with lethal gas weapons.

** In a broader sense the National Populist ideology from ''VideoGame/KaiserreichLegacyOfTheWeltkrieg'' is this -- game-mechanically, in the pre-[[VideoGame/HeartsOfIronIV HOI4]] versions it is the Nazi ideology of vanilla ''Hearts of Iron'' renamed to National Populist[[note]][[VideoGame/HeartsOfIronIV HOI4]] radically cut down on the number of ideologies, among other things consolidating Nazi and Fascist into Fascist, but also allowed modders to add ones of their own[[/note]]. In terms of ideology, it is described in terms suggesting that, insofar as any ideology can be described within the broad categories used in the game, it is essentially Nazism/Fascism shorn of the ideological focus on a totalitarian state (''that'' is instead picked up by the ideology mentioned below). Examples include Boris Savinkov, leader of the [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny People's Republican Party]] in Russia, William Dudley Pelley of the America First Party and Corneliu Codreanu, leader of the Romanian Iron Guard ([[TruthInTelevision which was also Fascist in real life]]).
** The [[CommieNazis Totalist]] ideology also qualifies - for a start, two of it's founding members are UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini and Oswald Mosley.

*** The Allies in the real WWII never obliterated ''all'' of Germany either. In Killzone, the ISA [[spoiler: obliterates Helghan and '''everyone on it'''. Seems [[AMillionIsAStatistic A Million is Not a Statistic after all]]. ]]
** Although by the time ''Shadow Fall'' kicks in, the Helghast are analogous to UsefulNotes/EastGermany, being separated from the ISA by a wall and having some villains that style themselves as anti imperialists. That being said, they still retain their fascistic autocrat and belief in racial purity. (Note that East Germany was frequently subjected to the CommieNazis trope due to their military's uncanny resemblance to the Third Reich's.)
*** One of the last missions in ''Shadow Fall'' has the player controlling a Helghast [[spoiler: trying to prevent a war, with a rouge ISA general planning to use the war to wipe out the Helghast completely]]. ''Mercenary'' had the player taking missions from both sides with some Helghast being sympathetic and some ISA being racist. Honestly the main reason the Helghast are considered Nazi-like is their [[PuttingOnTheReich look]], [[TheDogBitesBack aggressiveness]] and their leaders going on about purity. Differences asside, they're still pretty similar.
* The Empire of Magnagora in ''{{VideoGame/Lusternia}}''. While ''nominally'' democratic, their {{aristocra|tsAreEvil}}cy consists of a DecadentCourt, with backroom politics, assassinations and smear campaigns regarded as valid methods of advancement. They are [[FantasticRacism highly racist]] towards [[OurElvesAreDifferent elfen]] and [[FishPeople merian]], and regard [[TheCorruption The Taint]] - a mutagenic PsychoSerum cross between AtomicSuperpower and LovecraftianSuperpower -- as highly desirable in creating a mutated master race of super-hardy, poison-breathing [[TheUndead undead]]. Their ultimate goal is to conquer and Taint the known world and murder all merian and elfen. Fantasy Nazism, through and through.

* Who would have thought it? Even ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' of all games went for it in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Pokémon Platinum]]'', by inserting a cutscene in which [[spoiler: Team Galactic leader Cyrus address ranks upon ranks of assembled Team Galactic Grunts: he tells them about creating a world for Team Galactic, free of the "imperfections" of past world along with such lines as "Let there be glory for Team Galactic!" The grunts answers with chants of "Master Cyrus is the greatest!" And to top it off, the character spying on the rally with you goes out of his way to remark how mesmerizing but unthinkable the whole speech was]].
** Team Flare in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' are an even straighter example. Their goal is happiness for themselves and themselves only, and [[spoiler: their leader seeks to create a more "beautiful" world by ''killing everyone who isn't a member of Team Flare'']]. Also, to remove any semblance of subtext, [[spoiler: their leader invented a hologram-projection machine called the Holo-Caster]]!
* The Movement from ''VideoGame/PsiOpsTheMindgateConspiracy'' fits this trope. The meat puppets (basic irreversibly mind-wiped and rewritten soldiers) even have a red armband with the movement symbol on it and jackboots. What really cements it is their belief that psions should rule over the normal humans and the fact that the leader of it all is a general who staged a failed coup who really isn't a psion [[spoiler: until he gets the artefacts he needs.]] For irony points the main character is blonde and blue eyed and none of the bosses are.
* Umbrella and Tricell in ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''. The Social Darwinism that Wesker is spouting in 5. Code: Veronica's insanity, up to and including the experimentation on prisoners. In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles'', the Nazi vibes of Umbrella are stronger than in Code: Veronica. If you look at the rendering of Steve, he has a barcode tattoo on his left forearm. ''In the same place that concentration camp prisoners had theirs.'' Oh, and their leader, Spencer, also intended to create the perfect human by giving children who had superior intelligence genes and molding them into becoming his proxies, and of whom two survived being injected with a virus, one of the survivors, Albert Wesker, also possessing blond hair and blue eyes as well, which also significantly enhanced their strength, speed, and endurance to superhuman levels, very similar to the Aryan ideal of the Nazi Regime.
* In ''Franchise/StarCraft'', the United Powers League, forerunner to the United Earth Directorate, definitely invoked images of the Nazis, only more successful. Religion and unsanctioned languages were erased from existence to make way for the "divinity of mankind" while the "impure" members of humanity - 400 million cyborgs, mutants, and criminals - were either executed or used in experiments.

** To make matters worse, they fervently worship ''angels'' - who are actually mindless cyborg abominations that [[LackOfEmpathy feel no empathy]] [[StateSec and have their own sovereign nation within the Desians which they use to manipulate world events]]. Their CrystalDragonJesus-figure is the BigBad and a deluded PsychopathicManchild with a ''massive'' Oedipus complex, who thinks he's the ultimate savior of the world by turning it into the most memorably messed up self-consuming dystopia ''in the entire series''. Gee, does that sound familiar?
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'''[=s=] Medic visual design evokes the aesthetic (in Beta, he even wore his symbol on a team-colored armband), an unreleased trading card claims that he was "raised in Stuttgart, Germany during an era when the Hippocratic oath had been downgraded to an optional Hippocratic suggestion", and his voice clips contain gems such as "Heil us!", "Raus! Raus!" and "I am ze ubermensch!" Fandom is deeply, deeply divided over whether he is an ex-Nazi, a practicing Nazi, or just a very, very fucked up MadDoctor with a funny accent.

** The player actually can be this. It is quite possible to set up a nationalistic dictatorship that has teaches militarism in preschool, openly kill any rioter, use your clinics to increase the birth rate, and use your science academy to clone yourself.

* Interestingly used in ''VideoGame/VandalHearts''. The game starts out with Stalinesque Scary Russian Analogues. Then Stalin himself (Hel Spites) is assassinated by his chief advisor, ''DOLF'' and the overall theme switches gears. Two evil empires for the price of one!

** Ironically, a great deal of their more outright disturbing aspects come from where they BREAK with Nazi doctrine. You see, the Nazis had blind spots that the well-connected and cunning could take advantage of. They did not immediately kill every undesirable, and indeed many of their grotesquely corrupt members actually saved the lives of these unfortunates by blackmailing them for virtually anything they had. If they just didn't kill them anyway. This is where the Black Lance is even more terrifying, because the Black Lance does NOT discriminate, it does not wait, it does not accept bribes, and is very, VERY effective because [[KnightTemplar they believe that the fate of the human race depends upon]] [[InferredHolocaust purging it of such "impurities" and subjecting what is left to massive continual warfare as a case of very drastic "survival of the Fittest" evolution]]. Which in many ways makes them even WORSE because they do not kid around.

** In the "ALighterShadeOfGrey" area, we have the New Loka syndicate. Loka looks inviting and peaceful with its lush, water-filled meeting room and stated objective of "cleansing us of this suffering." Their goals, however, are to create a "pure" humanity (which is not elaborated on) by purging any undesirable traits or individuals, and getting on their bad side causes the head honcho to refer to you as "tainted and ruined beyond salvation." They've butt heads with the Steel Meridian syndicate, whose stated goal is to save as many innocent lives as possible, quite a few times. In any other story they'd work as the villains, but that position is already filled by...

** Novigrad's local CorruptChurch is being encouraged by TheCaligula King Radovid to seek out and arrest and harass any magic users they find. Public burnings of books, fetishes, and other magic-associated items are a common sight in the city. [[spoiler:Eventually they do go full Nazi and try to round up all the magic users to slaughter them - Geralt and Triss are able to evacuate a good number of survivors on a boat to Kovir, but then the church begins targeting non-humans as well...]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Nilfgaard is disgusted by them.]]

** [[spoiler:Shrike]] is a budding example. [[EqualOpportunityEvil Notably, they ''want'' to hire on Psychics, Hybrids, and Aliens]] - [[WarForFunAndProfit so they intentionally under-fund three extremist gangs, and when the gangs' plans inevitably blow up in their face, they hire the survivors]]. Their ultimate goal is to force XCOM to turn extremist so they can turn Earth into their personal dictatorship.

*** In terms of appearance, their wandering Justiciars and agents have a [[PuttingOnTheReich visual and operative resemblance]] to the ''Einsatzgruppen'', which was a squad consisting of an SS officer and several soldiers. It was their job to patrol around occupied territory and execute "undesirables" with impunity, much as the Thalmor Justicars do in the lands of the Empire to the surviving [[AncientOrderOfProtectors Blades]] and Talos worshipers. And though the Thalmor lack a symbol like the Swastika, the [[AnimalMotifs the animal they use as their symbol is the Eagle]], which was also favored by the Third Reich.