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* The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin appropriately-named]] Kitsune in the {{UsefulNotes/SNES}} version of ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''.

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* The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin appropriately-named]] Kitsune in the {{UsefulNotes/SNES}} Platform/{{SNES}} version of ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''.
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* ''VideoGame/HeroesEvolved'': The PC version used to have the malicious nine-tailed fox Daji as a playable hero. However, the PC version was later shut down, taking Daji along with it. It takes a long time for the mobile version to include a 'nine-tailed fox' hero archetype, but this time, instead of being Daji, she is given a new identity: Rena.
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* ''VideoGame/LoveOfMagic'': Three of them are introduced over the course of the game.
** Book I introduces Hakane no Kitsune, a three-tailed fox spirit who acts as Akane's bodyguard.
** Book II adds Aino no Kitsune, a five-tailed fox spirit who is the bodyguard for Akane's uncle.
** Book III adds their grandmother, Fujiyama no Kitsune, a nine-tailed fox spirit who acts as a bodyguard and companion to Hoori himself.
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* ''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu'':
** Nakigitsune and Hakusan Yoshimitsu both have foxes as companions, with Nakigitsune's fox gaining two more tails after undergoing Kiwame training. Nakigitsune himself wears a mask resembling a fox's muzzle and later a fox-eared headband.
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* The Season 9 starter pack DLC of VideoGame/SuperAnimalRoyale featured a kitsune as a new exclusive super animal breed.
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* A series of optional bosses at the end of ''VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission'' are themed around the Kitsune. A group of thieves who were locked away because of their powers. You start off fighting 1-Tail, then 2, 3, and so on.

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* A series of optional bosses at the end of The [[AllThereInTheManual unofficially-named]] Tail clan in ''VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission'' are is a group of ''nine'' [[{{Superboss}} superbosses]] themed around the Kitsune. A group of thieves who were locked away because of Kitsune's growing tails, all looking identical except for their powers. number of tails. You start off fighting 1-Tail, Onetail, then 2, 3, Twotails, etc. all the way to Ninetails. Many of them fight with multiple copies of themselves and so on.the later ones can create even more as replacements.
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* ''VideoGame/UgetsuKitan'' is set in a haunted, {{yokai}}-infested hospital building, one of them being a nine-tailed kitsune who motions you to follow her.
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* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'': Miles 'Tails' Prower has [[GadgeteerGenius mechanical abilities]] rather than magical ones, but his two tails are a clear reference.

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* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'': ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': Miles 'Tails' Prower has [[GadgeteerGenius mechanical abilities]] rather than magical ones, but his two tails are a clear reference.
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* ''Videogame/EasternExorcist'', a game with a fantasy={{wuxia}} setting, have ''hulijing'' in both campaigns. Players who chose the main storyline saves a friendly ''hulijing'' named Xiaoyu early on, who looks like a teenage girl save for having [[LittleBitBeastly fox-ears and a tail]], while the second storyline have the player ''controlling'' a [[HalfHumanHybrid half-]]''hulijing'' named Xiahou-xue.

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* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/PsychoFox'', who can use shinto sticks to shapeshift into three different animals and has to save the world from the evil Madfox Daimyojin.

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* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/PsychoFox'', who can use shinto Shinto sticks to shapeshift into three different animals and has to save the world from the evil Madfox Daimyojin.Daimyojin.
* George Sand from ''VideoGame/RhythmStar'' is one. Interestingly, [[CultureChopSuey she is based on a real-life French woman]].
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* Xuannu, the protagonist of ''VideoGame/ExorcistFairy'' is a humanoid ''hulijing''. Who looks more like a human than a fox spirit, though she still have [[LittleBitBeastly fox-ears]].

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* Xuannu, the protagonist of ''VideoGame/ExorcistFairy'' is a humanoid ''hulijing''. Who looks more like a human than a fox spirit, though she still have [[LittleBitBeastly fox-ears]]. Same goes for her EvilCounterpart, the Inner Demon.
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* Xuannu, the protagonist of ''VideoGame/ExorcistFairy'' is a humanoid ''hulijing''. Who looks more like a human than a fox spirit, though she still have [[LittleBitBeastly fox-ears]].

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* ''VideoGame/AzurLane'' has multiple ships representing the Imperial Japanese Navy with a kitsune motif, generally some of the most powerful in their faction. The aircraft carrier Akagi is the most obvious counterpart of Tamamo-no-Mae, being a {{Yandere}} for the Commander, but her sister ship Kaga has a skin called the Everlasting Killing Stone referring to the sessho-seki. ''VideoGame/CookieRun'' has Kumiho Cookie, a marshmallow fox who learned a spell to turn into a cookie after eating only flour and butter for 999 days. She can shift between a fox and a cookie, and her powers revolve around charming either bear jellies for more points in Ovenbreak or enemies in order to stun them in [[Videogame/CookieRunKingdom Kingdom]]

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* ''VideoGame/AzurLane'' has multiple ships representing the Imperial Japanese Navy with a kitsune motif, generally some of the most powerful in their faction. The aircraft carrier Akagi is the most obvious counterpart of Tamamo-no-Mae, being a {{Yandere}} for the Commander, but her sister ship Kaga has a skin called the Everlasting Killing Stone referring to the sessho-seki.
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''VideoGame/CookieRun'' has Kumiho Cookie, a marshmallow fox who learned a spell to turn into a cookie after eating only flour and butter for 999 days. She can shift between a fox and a cookie, and her powers revolve around charming either bear jellies for more points in Ovenbreak or enemies in order to stun them in [[Videogame/CookieRunKingdom Kingdom]]
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* ''VideoGame/CookieRun'' has Kumiho Cookie, a marshmallow fox who learned a spell to turn into a cookie after eating only flour and butter for 999 days. She can shift between a fox and a cookie, and her powers revolve around charming either bear jellies for more points in Ovenbreak or enemies in order to stun them in [[Videogame/CookieRunKingdom Kingdom]]

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* ''VideoGame/AzurLane'' has multiple ships representing the Imperial Japanese Navy with a kitsune motif, generally some of the most powerful in their faction. The aircraft carrier Akagi is the most obvious counterpart of Tamamo-no-Mae, being a {{Yandere}} for the Commander, but her sister ship Kaga has a skin called the Everlasting Killing Stone referring to the sessho-seki. ''VideoGame/CookieRun'' has Kumiho Cookie, a marshmallow fox who learned a spell to turn into a cookie after eating only flour and butter for 999 days. She can shift between a fox and a cookie, and her powers revolve around charming either bear jellies for more points in Ovenbreak or enemies in order to stun them in [[Videogame/CookieRunKingdom Kingdom]]
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* The Fox Noise from ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou''. Most notably, the [[BonusBoss Progfox]].

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** In [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics the Archie comics]], he ''did'' have a mystical destiny to him and was (briefly) trained in magic by his sorcerer uncle. His EvilCounterpart was more adept at magic and at one point called him out on his abandoning his training.

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** ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog3'': When Eggman is telling Knuckles about how Sonic and Tails are villains that they need to stop from getting the Master Emerald, Knuckles' ImagineSpot shows Tails as a sinister-looking nine-tailed fox.
** In [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics the Archie comics]], he Tails ''did'' have a mystical destiny to him and was (briefly) trained in magic by his sorcerer uncle. His EvilCounterpart was more adept at magic and at one point called him out on his abandoning his training.

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** Koyanskaya from ''Fate/Grand Order'' shares Tamamo-no-Mae's fox motif and initially claims to be an AlternateSelf of Tamamo, [[spoiler:but is revealed to be a nature spirit born from the Tunguska event -- having assumed Tamamo's appearance due to empathizing with her having been persecuted by humans and admiring her original self. Koyanskaya eventually succeeds in becoming a [[AnimalisticAbomination Beast]] resembling a colossal five-tailed fox with an enormous fang-lined maw, three eyes on its head, eyes in its ears, and eyes on its tails.]]

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** Daji, who [[AmbiguousSituation may or may not]] be the same character as Tamamo-no-Mae and/or Amaterasu, is revealed in ''Fate/Grand Order'' to have been a sadistic nine-tailed fox-spirit so powerful and malicious that she became the [[EldritchAbomination Beast]] of Collapse, laid waste to China twice over, and also attacked India.
** Koyanskaya from ''Fate/Grand Order'' shares Tamamo-no-Mae's fox motif and initially claims to be an AlternateSelf of Tamamo, [[spoiler:but is revealed to be a nature spirit born from the Tunguska event -- having assumed Tamamo's appearance due to empathizing with her having been persecuted by humans and admiring her original self. Koyanskaya eventually succeeds in becoming a [[AnimalisticAbomination Beast]] Beast resembling a colossal five-tailed fox fox]] with an enormous fang-lined maw, three eyes on its head, eyes in its ears, and eyes on its tails.]]
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* ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'': As revealed in the ''New Legends of Project Soul'' artbook, after he was turned into a demon the ninja-master Toki transformed into a grotesque humanoid fox with multiple tails.
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* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': The Mizutsune, debuting in ''Generations'', is a fox-like leviathan heavily inspired by the Kitsune. To further this, it returns in the very Japanese-themed ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterRise'' alongside a cast of other {{Yokai}}-inspired monsters.

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* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterGenerations'': The Mizutsune, debuting in ''Generations'', Mizutsune is a fox-like leviathan heavily inspired by the Kitsune.Kitsune, and fittingly it's the member of the [[EliteFour Fated Four]] that lurks within the Misty Peaks (which are close to the Japanese-inspired Yukumo). To further this, it returns in the very Japanese-themed ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterRise'' alongside a cast of other {{Yokai}}-inspired monsters.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}}'': Set in the Heian period and has many elements of Japanese mythology, fox demons are bound to appear in this game, the most prominent examples being [[TeamPet Kohaku]], Yōko, [[MsFanservice Sanbi-no-kitsune]] and Kudagitsune. Of course, the king of all of them is the SSR Tamamo-no-Mae (given a GenderFlip from how she is normally portrayed from a woman to a [[WholesomeCrossdresser cross-dressing man]]), a ''nine''-tailed kitsune capable of unleashing destructive power akin to that of a PhysicalGod. Also, protagonist Abe-no-Seimei, being the child of the kitsune Kuzunoha.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}}'': ''VideoGame/Onmyoji2016'': Set in the Heian period and has many elements of Japanese mythology, fox demons are bound to appear in this game, the most prominent examples being [[TeamPet Kohaku]], Yōko, [[MsFanservice Sanbi-no-kitsune]] and Kudagitsune. Of course, the king of all of them is the SSR Tamamo-no-Mae (given a GenderFlip from how she is normally portrayed from a woman to a [[WholesomeCrossdresser cross-dressing man]]), a ''nine''-tailed kitsune capable of unleashing destructive power akin to that of a PhysicalGod. Also, protagonist Abe-no-Seimei, being the child of the kitsune Kuzunoha.
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* ''VideoGame/FoxSpiritATwoTailedAdventure'': The protagonist is a two-tailed ''kitsune'' who awakened their powers on their 100th birthday, and can choose to be benevolent, mischievous, or malicious towards humans.
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* Raiden from ''VideoGame/DustyRagingFist'' is an andromorphic kitsune and the Guardian of Thunder, as well as a boss with ShockAndAwe abilities.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'', Kiriko is {{miko}}/{{ninja}} associated with a fox motif and [[SummonMagic summons a guardian fox spirit]] using [[LimitBreak her ultimate ability]], greatly empowering herself and her allies within its path. Said spirit is greatly framed to be magical, tied to her family's ancestry of warriors, and implicitly of a similar kind to [[CainAndAbel Genji and Hanzo Shimada]] with their [[DragonsUpTheYinYang dragon spirits]].
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* ''VideoGame/FlashOfTheBlade'' have a kitsune serving as the first boss, one who looks mostly human, except he has [[LittleBitBeastly animal paws, a tail and fox ears]]. He's oddly identified in-game as a "Demon Lynx" (despite having a bushy fox-like tail which lynxes ''don't'' have) and spends most of the game running circles around you as you try to slash him apart.
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* There's a kitsune as boss fight in ''VideoGame/ShinreiJusatsushiTaroumaru''. They look like a pretty woman when the room is entered, then turn into a huge kitsune with laser-shooting tails, and after that body horror kicks in. This leads to the kitsune shedding their body except for their and four of their tails to form a giant furry shuriken. Upon defeat, the head serves as the mode of transportation to the next area.

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* There's a kitsune as boss fight in ''VideoGame/ShinreiJusatsushiTaroumaru''.''VideoGame/SpiritualAssassinTaromaru''. They look like a pretty woman when the room is entered, then turn into a huge kitsune with laser-shooting tails, and after that body horror kicks in. This leads to the kitsune shedding their body except for their and four of their tails to form a giant furry shuriken. Upon defeat, the head serves as the mode of transportation to the next area.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' features a large statue of a kitsune in Inkopolis Plaza, right across from one of a {{Tanuki}}. Both statues are decorated during Splatfest celebrations, with the kitsune being decorated in the color of Callie's team. This played into the second Japanese Splatfest, whose theme was Red Fox vs. Green Tanuki.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' The first ''VideoGame/Splatoon1'' features a large statue of a kitsune in Inkopolis Plaza, right across from one of a {{Tanuki}}. Both statues are decorated during Splatfest celebrations, with the kitsune being decorated in the color of Callie's team. This played into the second Japanese Splatfest, whose theme was Red Fox vs. Green Tanuki.
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* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'': The fox Crazy Redd is a traveling merchant and conman who occasionally sets up a tent in town and sells not only both rare and common furniture, always at disgustingly inflated prices, but also artwork that has a high chance of being forged. In the most recent main series installment, ''New Leaf'', he instead sells four pieces of artwork, at least one of which is legitimate (the rest being forgeries). This contrasts Tom Nook, the reliable {{tanuki}} shopkeeper who sells an ever-changing selection of common goods with the occasional rarity.

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* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'': The fox Crazy Redd is a traveling merchant and conman who occasionally sets up a tent in town and sells not only both rare and common furniture, always at disgustingly inflated prices, but also artwork that has a high chance of being forged. In the most recent main series installment, ''New Leaf'', Leaf'' in particular, he instead sells four pieces of artwork, at least one of which is legitimate (the rest being forgeries). This contrasts Tom Nook, the reliable {{tanuki}} shopkeeper who sells an ever-changing selection of common goods with the occasional rarity.
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* ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'': The fourth lord of Chaos, the Chaos Shogun appropriately named Kitsune, can shapeshift into a giant purple seven-tailed kitsune.
* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'': The fox Crazy Redd is a traveling merchant and conman who occasionally sets up a tent in town and sells not only both rare and common furniture, always at disgustingly inflated prices, but also artwork that has a high chance of being forged. In the most recent main series installment, ''New Leaf'', he instead sells four pieces of artwork, at least one of which is legitimate (the rest being forgeries). This contrasts Tom Nook, the reliable {{tanuki}} shopkeeper who sells an ever-changing selection of common goods with the occasional rarity.
* ''VideoGame/ArenaOfValor'': Liliana is an elegant magical-attuned nine-tailed fox that either throws fox fire blasts or becomes a literal fox that claws her way through her enemies. Perhaps as a ShoutOut to [[VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends Ahri]] (the game was made by Tencent, which acquired Riot Games in 2015), Liliana gets a Gumiho skin, despite being overall not at all malicious or conflicted, she's more of a curious type.
* ''VideoGame/{{Arknights}}'' has little Suzuran, the Vulpo [[MafiaPrincess daughter of a Higashi Priest and a daughter of a certain Family from Siracusa]]. She has Fennic Fox-like ears from her mother, the kitsune-style nine tails and Arts abilities of her father, and pretty much everyone in Rhodes Island likes her. To protect her from Siracusan Mafia politics, her family name is omitted from her profile.
* Toichiro Yuri from ''VideoGame/AyakashiRomanceReborn''. He has the typical trickster attitude.
* ''VideoGame/CookieRun'' has Kumiho Cookie, a marshmallow fox who learned a spell to turn into a cookie after eating only flour and butter for 999 days. She can shift between a fox and a cookie, and her powers revolve around charming either bear jellies for more points in Ovenbreak or enemies in order to stun them in [[Videogame/CookieRunKingdom Kingdom]]
* ''VideoGame/CrushCrush'': DLC girl Suzu is one, represented as a LittleBitBeastly girl with fox ears and a tail. She's portrayed as a ShrinkingViolet guardian spirit who the player encounters after accidentally destroying her shrine.
* ''VideoGame/Disgaea5AllianceOfVengeance'' introduces Nine-tailed Foxes into the series. Party member Izuna is one of these, and recruiting her unlocks the class for regular use.
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'': You come across one early on in Chapter 3, along with some of his other vulpine cohorts who are keeping the King of Ballymoral's personal architect hostage.
** The various platypus enemies in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestHeroesRocketSlime'' are obvious parodies of this, as the more powerful they are, the more tails they have.
* ''Franchise/FateSeries'':
** Tamamo-no-Mae appears as a Caster-class Servant in ''VideoGame/FateExtra'', ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', ''VideoGame/FateExtellaTheUmbralStar'', and ''VideoGame/FateExtellaLink''. [[spoiler:It turns out she is an incarnation of [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Amaterasu]], with her malevolent original divine form being known as ''Konjiki Hakumen'' or "Golden White Face".]] She claims to be more-or-less completely innocent of the crimes for which she was executed, and [[DoNotCallMePaul takes offence to being "mistaken" for]] the evil nine-tailed fox Daji. After Tamamo underwent a millennium of training to attain divinity, she cut off eight of her tails, returning to her original single-tailed form. Each of her tails was left a portion of her divinity, turning them into Heroic Spirit kitsune like herself, with each a different class. Collectively, the original Tamamo and her tails are known as the Tamamo Nine; they don't get on, either with the original or each other.
** Suzuka Gozen, from ''Fate/Extra CCC Foxtail'' and ''Fate/Grand Order'', has a fox's ears and tail, but isn't a kitsune; she tried imitating Tamamo's look using shapeshifting because she thought it might get her moe points with her Master.
** Osakabe-hime from ''Fate/Grand Order'' has a [[AnimalMotifs bat motif]], but true to Japanese folklore she's actually a kitsune who attained human form. She goes with the bat motif instead so she won't [[SuperheroSpeciation overlap with Tamamo]], both as a favor to a friend and so she won't piss Tamamo off. The "Lady Foxy" Craft Essence shows her in her true form, with a fox's ears and tail.
** Koyanskaya from ''Fate/Grand Order'' shares Tamamo-no-Mae's fox motif and initially claims to be an AlternateSelf of Tamamo, [[spoiler:but is revealed to be a nature spirit born from the Tunguska event -- having assumed Tamamo's appearance due to empathizing with her having been persecuted by humans and admiring her original self. Koyanskaya eventually succeeds in becoming a [[AnimalisticAbomination Beast]] resembling a colossal five-tailed fox with an enormous fang-lined maw, three eyes on its head, eyes in its ears, and eyes on its tails.]]
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': The Fabled Kamuy -- aka the Kamuy of the Nine Tails -- is a [[WhiteAndRedAndEerieAllOver white-and-red]] nine-tailed canine that looks far more monstrous than the other Kamuy, who are more wolflike.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'': The Kitsune are fox folk (obviously) living within the kingdom of Hoshido who normally look like ([[PrettyBoy rather pretty]]) humans who happen to have a tail and fox ears, but are capable of transforming into full-fledged giant foxes, with the promoted form bearing nine tails. Because humans have a bad habit of killing Kitsune for their fur, the Kitsune have largely isolated themselves to a small hamlet deep within Hoshido's southern mountains and will kill any trespassers on sight. Apart from the shapeshifting, [[MyRulesAreNotYourRules enemy]] kitsune can create illusions that prevent the player's army from attacking them.
* The Inazuma region in ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'' is home to the Kitsune, a supernatural species of Fox Spirits. Because of their close association with the Electro Archon and the region's faith, foxes have a special place in Inazuma's culture and cannot be hunted by the player like other animals. The head priestess of the Grand Naruakmi Shrine, Yae Miko, is [[BlatantLies absolutely not a Kitsune]] and ''most definitely'' [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial does not have a tail]].
* In ''VideoGame/GhostOfTsushima'', foxes will approach Jin Sakai and make him follow them to their dens, which will have shrines to the goddess Inari. Praying at the shrines allow Jin to carry more charms, and occasionally, he can pet the foxes afterwards, making them bounce with joy.
* ''VideoGame/HiddenCity'': Kitsune appears as a monster the player can trade with during the Japanese events. One of the Japanese-themed locations also features the shapeshifting fox as a possible search item, and they can either appear as a many-tailed fox or a young FoxyVixen that basically reuses the Kitsune monster asset.
* The boss of the ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd'''s 3rd storyline of Sakura Samsara mode is Hellmaru, a Honkai Beast in the shape of a Kitsune.
* In ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'' the Forest Shadow and her fox-spirit servants look like six-foot-tall anthropomorphic fox women with two tails. They're said to take human form to test humans with tricks, and Forest Shadow does manipulate you into meeting with her in her realm and into slaying a demon she bound centuries ago, [[spoiler: even if you decide to kill her first.]]
* In ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3'', Pon and Con appear as the game's DualBoss, appearing as a Tanooki and a Kitsune respectively. They later reprise their role in ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'', though [[DefeatEqualsFriendship they are befriended after defeating the duo.]]
* The 2008 adaptation of the ''VideoGame/KnightsOfValour'' series introduces a kitsune named Inugami as a playable character, who assumes a human form during gameplay.
* ''VideoGame/LaTale'': There are several {{Palette Swap}}ped fox girls. One variety is even called Gumihos. They were so popular the company later added them as a pet.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', a complicated sidequest earns you the "Keaton Mask", which is the face of a kitsune; wearing it at the right time and place means you can meet a kitsune who quizzes you about the world in which you live. The same mask also played a minor role in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'', though no actual kitsune appeared in that game.
* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': Ahri (archaic Korean for "Beautiful") draws on Myth/KoreanMythology's description of Gumiho. As a spellcaster, her main attacks resemble Yeowoo-bool('fox fire'), and her 'Orb of Deception' skill seems to be based on Gumiho's yeowoo-gusuul. Plus her backstory explains that after she achieved semi-human form, she began seducing and killing humans to complete her transformation, but as she became more and more human she developed a human conscience.
* ''VideoGame/LoveNikkiDressUpQueen'' has the Moon Vixen of Heart outfit from the Star Secret event. She has nine tails, and the item descriptions describe her as a shapeshifter. Poppy Fox is also a fox spirit.
* Cubit Foxtar in ''VideoGame/MegaManZero3'' is themed around the Kitsune. He can materialize nine purple-flaming discs that trace you and can turn into fire or move around the battle arena.
* A series of optional bosses at the end of ''VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission'' are themed around the Kitsune. A group of thieves who were locked away because of their powers. You start off fighting 1-Tail, then 2, 3, and so on.
* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': The Mizutsune, debuting in ''Generations'', is a fox-like leviathan heavily inspired by the Kitsune. To further this, it returns in the very Japanese-themed ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterRise'' alongside a cast of other {{Yokai}}-inspired monsters.
* Sutsune from ''VideoGame/MonsterSanctuary'' is named after the kitsune, but its behaviours are more similar to the gumiho; it can take the form of a non-anthro fox or a beautiful woman, and mainly targets men.
* Kongiku and Yuzuruha from ''VideoGame/MuramasaTheDemonBlade'' are a pair of kitsune who help the protagonists on their quests.
* Xiaomu in ''VideoGame/NamcoXCapcom'' and ''VideoGame/EndlessFrontier'' is a 765-year-old Chinese werefox, while her nemesis Saya is a Japanese werefox.
* In ''VideoGame/TheNightOfTheRabbit'' Kitsune is one of the characters that you encounter during your travels. You meet her in several forms: a fox, a statue, a woman, and a girl.
* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'': Demon Lord Nine-Tails is based on Tamamo-no-Mae and is a powerful nine-tailed demon-fox who is the ruler of Oni Island.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Vulpix and Ninetales are based on kitsune, complete with multiple tails, supernatural powers, and the tendency to curse people who tick them off.
** The [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Generation V]] Pokémon Zorua and Zoroark are based on the darker side of kitsune legends, and are even capable of shapeshifting. The Hisuian variants are vengeful undead specters of the species and are closer to a gumiho on the personality end, as they are extremely aggressive, violent, and hateful and will attack the living on sight.
** Fennekin and its line from [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY Generation VI]] are based on fennec foxes rather than red foxes, but their typing and abilities are very similar to Vulpix and Ninetales. Especially in its evolved forms Braixen and Delphox, who represent the kitsune's humanoid form.
** The Eeveelutions also resemble foxes to a degree, except for Espeon (based on a [[{{Youkai}} nekomata]]).
* ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}}'': Set in the Heian period and has many elements of Japanese mythology, fox demons are bound to appear in this game, the most prominent examples being [[TeamPet Kohaku]], Yōko, [[MsFanservice Sanbi-no-kitsune]] and Kudagitsune. Of course, the king of all of them is the SSR Tamamo-no-Mae (given a GenderFlip from how she is normally portrayed from a woman to a [[WholesomeCrossdresser cross-dressing man]]), a ''nine''-tailed kitsune capable of unleashing destructive power akin to that of a PhysicalGod. Also, protagonist Abe-no-Seimei, being the child of the kitsune Kuzunoha.
* A nine-tailed kitsune is featured as the BigBad of ''[[VideoGame/OtogiMythofDemons Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors]]''. What's notable about this is that one of the main characters is based on Abe no Seimei (see above), and it seems like the two [[GenderSwap switched genders]]: The Kyūbi is now a male, while Seimei is a female, and they're not related.
* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/PsychoFox'', who can use shinto sticks to shapeshift into three different animals and has to save the world from the evil Madfox Daimyojin.
* The GameMod ''VideoGame/RidgesideVillage'' features Raeriyala, also known as "The Lady with the Red Tail", or the Spirit of the Mountain. She's a magical fox lady who is worshipped by some villagers, the player can make offerings to her and get [[EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity her blessing]], she is also the protector of VideoGame/StardewValley in the mod.
* [[KidHero Riki]] and the Lummox race from ''VideoGame/SagaFrontier'' are pretty clearly based on them. With vulpine appearances in their true form, shape-shifting, multiple tails seeming to designate age or seniority, and even a trademark attack, "Elfshot", resembling Kitsune-bi.
* ''[[VideoGame/SengokuSNK Sengoku 2]]'' combines the kitsune myth with that of the tale of Fusehime and Yatsufusa. It reinterprets Fusehime as a kitsune and Yatsufusa as her {{hellhound}} partner-in-crime.
* The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin appropriately-named]] Kitsune in the {{UsefulNotes/SNES}} version of ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''.
* Played with in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIf''. The boss of the World of Greed is one of these, but whose power is directly tied to the traveler's own greed - SuspiciousVideogameGenerosity will provide a massive trove of treasure just before you reach him. Ignore the treasure and go straight to him, and he will be nothing but a pathetic fox that can be easily kicked into oblivion. Take ''all'' of the treasure and you will be facing a titanic EldritchAbomination of fog.
* There's a kitsune as boss fight in ''VideoGame/ShinreiJusatsushiTaroumaru''. They look like a pretty woman when the room is entered, then turn into a huge kitsune with laser-shooting tails, and after that body horror kicks in. This leads to the kitsune shedding their body except for their and four of their tails to form a giant furry shuriken. Upon defeat, the head serves as the mode of transportation to the next area.
* ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'': Da Ji the Nine-Tailed Fox is an evil TortureTechnician taking the form of an attractive woman with bladed metal claws and nine fox tails. Her lore states that she was sent by the goddess Nu Wa to drive Emperor Zhou into madness for his lecherous blasphemy, but managing to escape and go into hiding. She resurfaced when the war among the gods broke out, intending to savor the screams of her enemies as they burn and bleed.
* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'': Miles 'Tails' Prower has [[GadgeteerGenius mechanical abilities]] rather than magical ones, but his two tails are a clear reference.
** In [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics the Archie comics]], he ''did'' have a mystical destiny to him and was (briefly) trained in magic by his sorcerer uncle. His EvilCounterpart was more adept at magic and at one point called him out on his abandoning his training.
* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' features a large statue of a kitsune in Inkopolis Plaza, right across from one of a {{Tanuki}}. Both statues are decorated during Splatfest celebrations, with the kitsune being decorated in the color of Callie's team. This played into the second Japanese Splatfest, whose theme was Red Fox vs. Green Tanuki.
* ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasonsTrioOfTowns'' features a Kitsune named Inari (named after the god that commands Kitsune) that can be married. Their gender is always opposite of the player character, similar to how they could take any form in the original mythology. (S)he is a [[ShrineMaiden keeper of a shrine]] and [[NeatFreak loves keeping her shrine clean.]]
* If Luigi grabs the leaf in ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DLand'', he now turns into a kitsune, instead of a tanooki.
* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioFusionRevival'', Peach can acquire a Kitsune Suit as an equivalent to Mario's Tanooki Suit.
* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'', which already features many different types of {{Youkai}}, has several:
** Ran Yakumo from ''VideoGame/TouhouYouyoumuPerfectCherryBlossom'', who is of the nine-tailed variety, making her very old and powerful. The fact that she's the [[UsefulNotes/{{Onmyodo}} shikigami]] of Yukari Yakumo demonstrates how powerful Yukari is, while the fact that Ran has her ''[[NestedOwnership own]]'' shikigami, [[CatGirl Chen]], demonstrates how powerful ''she'' is. She's also incredibly good at math, being able to calculate the width of the Sanzu River...which is quite a feat, considering the Sanzu's width changes depending on how sinful one is[[note]]Yukari, in the meantime, can apparently calculate its depth, which is again quite a feat since the Sanzu is supposed to be bottomless[[/note]].
** The official manga ''Manga/TouhouIbarakasenWildAndHornedHermit'' has a chapter where Reimu catches a ''kudagitsune'' (pipe fox spirit) attending one of her parties while disguised as Marisa. The spirit offers to pay Reimu back and does so by encouraging the villagers to visit the shrine, making her prosper... and also running her ragged with how busy she's become. Kasen catches it and explains that ''kudagitsune'' eventually eat their owners' health and prosperity. In a later chapter, Reimu thinks she's found a kitsune artifact called a foxball, and the Marisa-Fox returns to give some exposition...as well as to reveal that whatever the object is, it's ''not'' a foxball.
** Another official manga, ''Manga/TouhouSuzunaanForbiddenScrollery'', has a two-part story where a kitsune is writing on the doors of the local school, which worries the parents. After Reimu makes some failed attempts at repelling it, Kosuzu uses her {{Omniglot}} skills to figure out what's going on: [[spoiler:it's repeating the day's lessons, meaning that the kitsune is a child that's trying to learn]]. She ends up resolving the situation by giving Reimu some special {{Paper Talisman}}s...[[spoiler:that are actually advertisements for Suzunaan. When the kitsune-child comes to the store, Kosuzu gives it a blank book to write in and offers to give new blank books in exchange for trading in the old ones when they fill up, meaning she gets a steady supply of youma books.]]
** ''VideoGame/TouhouKouryuudouUnconnectedMarketeers'' introduces Tsukasa Kudamaki, a pipe fox who supposedly works for the {{tengu}} Megumu Iizunamaru but is secretly playing all sides in the game against each other. Unlike the pipe fox in ''Wild and Horned Hermit'' who's depicted as a small fox, she's depicted as a girl with [[LittleBitBeastly a fox's ears and tail]].
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'':
** Corrine, a small, rainbow man-made summon spirit who resembles a three-tailed fox.
** Verius, the summon spirit of heart. It is rainbow like Corrine, but much larger.
* ''VideoGame/{{Toukiden}}'' has Mitama based on the legendary Tamamo-no-mae and Kuzunoha that the player can equip to gain special powers. Interestingly, they are [[TheMedic Healing type]] instead of Deceit.
* ''VideoGame/WarioLand3'' has Wolfenboss/Kezune, the boss of the Pool of Rain, a flying Kitsune wearing a sorcerer's robe. He creates and fires wisps/magical energy balls that bounce off the floors and walls and levitate you out of the arena if they hit, and giant spiked balls that turn you into Puffy Wario (Causing you to fly out of the arena) if they hit and provide the enemies needed to attack him. He is usually considered ThatOneBoss. ''VideoGame/WarioLandII'' also has the Flames/Flame Kitsunes, small red foxes in pirate outfits wielding torches, but unlike Wolfenboss above they don't fly and use magic, instead walking around and trying to light Wario on fire with their torch.
* ''VideoGame/WarriorsOrochi'':
** Orochi's right-hand woman is Daji, the infamous consort of the last Shang emperor who was vilified as a ''huli jing'' (malevolent fox spirit) in Chinese folklore. She appears mostly human, but has [[LittleBitBeastly pointed ears, animal feet, and six ornamental ribbons which symbolize her tails]]. Like the mythological kitsune, Daji is unable to outright lie, though she loves to skirt around truths.
** The third game introduces Abe no Seimei, who carries a kitsune on his shoulder, and Tamamo no Mae. The latter is later revealed to be Kyubi, the nine-tailed fox herself, who shapeshifts into a beautiful woman to trick people to help her. Notably, she was the one who set the dragon god Yinglong into a path of darkness, [[GreaterScopeVillain turning him into Orochi]].
* The "Mage Fox" boss in ''VideoGame/WildArms1''.
* The Fox Noise from ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou''. Most notably, the [[BonusBoss Progfox]].
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfFinalFantasy'', Tama is a diminutive white fox who accompanies your party, but her true form, Tamamohimé, is this. She has nine lives and one point [[spoiler:sacrifices all remaining lives to rewind time for the party, though a loophole allows you to bring her back and doing so is part of the requirements for the game's true ending.]] Her name is a reference to the ''hoshi no tama'', a magical ball that the kitsune keeps in its mouth or carries it on its tail, and the legendary kitsune Tamamo-no-Mae.
* ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch'': "Kyubi" is a fox {{yokai}} whose human form is a slightly androgynous PrettyBoy. There's also an ice-based variant, Frostail (called Inugami in Japanese), a dark-themed one named Darkyubi (starting from ''Yo-kai Watch 2 Psychic Specters''), a robotic counterpart dubbed Kyubot (from ''Yo-kai Watch 3 Sukiyaki''), and a rain-and-frog themed variant named Tsuyu Kyubi (only appearing in the Japanese ''Yo-kai Watch Puni Puni'' in an event).

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