History DealWithTheDevil / VideoGames

** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestX'': The Hero's Sibling after much time traveling lands in the Demon Realm where they make a pact with [[BigBad Jagonuba]], who makes them Masen while curing them of the Time Passage Curse that prevented them from staying in one era of time. However, they work behind the Great Source of Darkness's back to prevent the Age of Darkness since the Demon Realm is just as important to protect as Astoltia. When the Sibling explains their actions to the Hero and later survives an attack from Daviyaga, Jagonuba in his avatar body of Nalasia watches and tries to kill them and the Hero after the Sibling is officially freed after the Curse of the Great Darkness is defeated, but Yushka [[TakeMeInstead takes their place in order to save them]].

* The Devil's Deal item in ''VideoGame/LuckBeALandlord''. If you lack the money to pay a rent payment, you can use it once... in exchange for ''[[NumberOfTheBeast 66]]'' [[OhCrap empty spots being added to your pool.]] For comparison, your board and hence the maximum number of symbols rolled at once is 5x4, so you can show 20 symbols at a time. This will choke your pool horribly. If that wasn't your last rent payment, prepare for pain. Its Essence counterpart simply destroys itself and gives you 33 coins if you can't pay the rent.

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'', [[spoiler:the BigBad [[TheDogWasTheMastermind Volo]] made a pact with the setting's SatanicArchetype Giratina, with the two plotting against the TopGod Arceus to [[GodhoodSeeker remake reality]] InTheirOwnImage.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'', if your empire is taking the Psionic Ascension Path, you may randomly make contact with various Shroud entities that offer you a "covenant." They give your empire permanent bonuses, though with some obvious drawbacks, but most players agree they're WorthIt.

** And then there's something that calls itself [[AC:The End of the Cycle]] and offers [[GameBreaker incredible bonuses to everything]] that last fifty years, [[AC:"If we only bring forth the end."]] The cost is never specified, but the tooltip to accept this bargain reads '''[[SchmuckBait "DO NOT DO THIS."]]''' If you accept anyway... [[spoiler:[[EvilIsNotAToy It costs you everything.]] When the time is up, an EldritchAbomination spawns in the middle of your empire and ''destroys it entirely''. Every ship and every megastructure blows up, every planet is scoured of life and rendered uninhabitable, and every leader is killed except for one scientist who saw this coming and fled to a sanctuary world on the edge of the galaxy with everyone he could convince to go and a handful of resources. Meanwhile a gigantic Shroud entity made from all the souls of your dead citizens forms into a fleet with '''ONE MILLION''' naval power and begins marching through the galaxy to purge the galaxy of life, and [[ControllableHelplessness it deliberately saves your pitiful colony for last]]. And even if someone manages to destroy it, you now have a -1000 diplomatic malus for dooming everything and everyone for your own ambition and ''everyone'' will be gunning to finish you off. Oh, and if no habitable planet to become your colony exists then the game just instantly slaps you with a GameOver.]]

* Kazuya Mishima in ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' survives being thrown to a cliff because he made a Deal With The Devil to give him strength so he can [[CallingTheOldManOut take revenge on his dad Heihachi]].
** However he [[FaustianRebellion took control]] of the Devil and his power in ''Tekken 4''.

*** The game has two party members who have made such deals with all the best intentions. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Merrill]] made a deal with a demon to become a blood mage so that she could help her clan rebuild its former glory. [[WellIntentionedExtremist Anders]] made a deal with the benevolent Fade spirit Justice; Justice could possess him, preventing Justice's death and augmenting Anders's powers... but despite both parties' good intentions, they turned out to be very bad for each other; Anders' anger about the systemic abuses that mages suffer corrupt Justice into a demon, and Justice in turn prevents any HeelRealizations from sticking properly.

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':

** On the party's first Long Rest they're approached by a literal Devil named Raphael who offers a vague promise that he'll return once they've exhausted all other options. [[GenreSavvy If playing single-player, not a single one of your companions thinks it's a good idea.]] In Act III, he makes good on his promise and makes you an offer; [[spoiler:trade the AncientArtifact you're trying to reclaim from the BigBadDuumvirate for a SwordOfPlotAdvancement so he can take over {{Hell}} (with no guarantee he'll stop there)]].

* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'', the party is infected with Mind Flayer [[PuppeteerParasite brain parasites]] that threaten to eventually [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong turn them into Illithids]]. They're far beyond the ability of an average healer to remove, and on more than one occasion you get unconventional offers you ''really'' shouldn't take.
** On the party's first Long Rest they're approached by a literal Devil named Raphael who offers a vague promise that he'll return once they've exhausted all other options. [[GenreSavvy If playing single-player, not a single one of your companions thinks it's a good idea.]]
** Auntie Ethel is a [[TheFairFolk Hag]] who offers to cure a party member in exchange for one of their eyes. If the player accepts, it's revealed that the parasite is {{curse}}d [[AllForNothing and beyond even her power to remove]], leaving the player with a permanent debuff called "Paid the Price" that makes it impossible to score critical hits and gives disadvantage on all Perception rolls. To make matters worse, exploring her house reveals a TortureCellar filled with unfortunate souls who [[JerkassGenie suffered worse fates]], such as a man who wished to halt the spread of his terminal illness and was TakenForGranite.

** The Reaper job introduced in the ''Endwalker'' expansion is a melee fighter who has made a covenant with a voidsent to gain dark powers and [[YourSoulIsMine absorb the aether of a slain victim's soul]] to empower both the Reaper and the voidsent they are bound to.

** At the end of the game, [[spoiler:Berkut [[SanitySlippage snaps]] and makes a deal with Duma, which powers him up and turns his fiancée Rinea into a Vestal, which is basically a Witch ''[[ManOnFire on fire]]''.]]

* Seems to be part of Siegfried's mode of operation in the ''VideoGame/WildArms'' series.

* ''VideoGame/DivinityDragonCommander'' has two examples: if Ophelia is your wife, this can come up as a possible solution to her problem. But the devil you're dealing with is Corvus, who in Act II can boost your popularity and provide extra mercenary cards in exchange for devouring some of your population, and even your queen. [[spoiler:This will inevitably backfire on you in Act III, as every deal you make with Corvus increases ''his'' power as well as yours.]]

** ''VideoGame/Castlevania64'' offers a very interesting variation. In the Villa, the heroes encounter a demon salesman called Renon who offers to sell you potions and other items. (His stock is not very impressive compared to most merchants, but unlike most, his shop can be accessed from anywhere, using magical scrolls, making him somewhat of an asset.) However [[spoiler:he neglects to mention that spending more than 30,000 gold in his shop equals to selling your soul to the devil (that clause is technically written into the contract, but in a [[LoopholeAbuse demonic language that humans can't read]]), in which case Renon will be more than eager to claim his fee when the time comes. (If this happens, you have to fight him as a BonusBoss, and the contract is rendered void if you defeat him.)]]

** Yet another Sliske moment: a dying man named Gregorovic prayed to Sliske to save him from his terminal illness. Long story short, Gregorovic is now an insane MonsterClown that [[ImAHumanitarian eats]] people to stay alive.

*** The game has two party members who have made such deals with all the best intentions. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Merrill]] made a deal with a demon to become a blood mage so that she could help her clan rebuild its former glory. [[WellIntentionedExtremist Anders]] made a deal with the benevolent Fade spirit Justice; Justice could possess him, preventing Justice's death and augmenting Anders's powers... but, since Fade spirits are essentially creatures of emotion, his own anger at the Templars and the injustices he saw in the world corrupted Justice into a demon of Vengeance. Both end up suffering greatly for their poor judgment later.

*** Nocturnal, the Daedric Prince of [[TheSacredDarkness Night and Darkness]], is shown cutting these sorts of deals. Nocturnal is the patron of thieves, and said to be the source of "scoundrel's luck" that aids them and the shadows that hide them. However, this is a ''contract'', not a blessing. [[spoiler:As revealed in the ThievesGuild questline, three champions known as the Nightingales swear absolute loyalty to her, pledging their souls to guard the Ebonmere, her conduit to the mortal realms, in life and in death. In life, the Nightingales receive great power, special armor, and the freedom to do with these as they wish on the condition that they always guard the Ebonmere - fail and they will lose all their gifts, and ''all'' thieves will have a sudden run of supernaturally bad luck, until it is reconsecrated. After serving their term as spectral guardians, they join the shadows which aid all living thieves]].
*** A specific group of the aforementioned Hagravens, known as the Glenmoril Witches, acted as a broker in such a deal between Hircine, the Daedric Prince of the Hunt, and the [[spoiler:Companions of Whiterun]]. Hircine granted them the ability to freely transform into werewolves, giving them immense power, but in death, he claims their souls. [[spoiler:Undoing this deal is a major part of the Companions quest line; however, only a few of them actually want to (being a werewolf in Hircine's afterlife is a pretty sweet gig if you like killing things) and so most remain werewolves.]].

*** In the ''Dragonborn'' DLC, Miraak, the First Dragonborn, gained the power he needed to defy his former dragon masters through a deal with Hermaeus Mora, Daedric Prince of Knowledge. [[spoiler:The player must make that same deal in order to gain the power necessary to ''slay'' Miraak.]]

*** [[spoiler:The protagonist and/or Alistair]]'s deal with Morrigan to [[spoiler:survive killing the Archdemon, and then putting its soul in Morrigan's care,]] has the distinct scent of this trope about it. It's all about the way she presents it, combined with ominous camera angles and background music.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"So tell you what, I've got a piece of paper here! Don't worry about the details! I just need you to sign right here at the bottom!"'']]

** In ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories'', it's suggested that Adell had such a deal with a HornyDevil, but it ended with him getting the scars on his face. It's implied that it was for the identity of his MissingMom and DisappearedDad.

* In ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'', [[spoiler:choosing to side with [[MegaCorp Arasaka]] (and by association, [[BigBad Saburo Arasaka]]) leads to some of V's friends shunning him or her, in particular Misty [[YouBastard for working with the people that killed Jackie just to save their own skin]] and Johnny Silverhand, the latter of which tells V that they'll regret it and [[SellOut that they chose wrong]]. Sure enough, Arasaka can't save V anyway and the only options are to live out what's left of their life and die, or get uploaded into the "Secure Your Soul" program and eventually get a new body once technology advances enough to make it possible. The latter option does have ''some'' hope assuming that Arasaka upholds their end of the deal, but the former is a complete DownerEnding because V [[AllForNothing betrayed Johnny and his/her friends for nothing]], culminating with them [[TragicKeepsake breaking the bullet necklace in anger and despair]]. Said ending is fittingly called "The Devil".]]

** Saren attempts to make a deal with [[EldritchAbomination the Reapers]], assisting them in their return in the hope of securing a better fate for himself and those who will follow him in submitting to them [[CosmicHorrorStory when they will arrive]]. It is made quite clear that the Reapers have [[ILied no intention in letting anyone survive]].

** In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVII', a priest let himself be transformed into a monster in exchange for a promise that no harm will come to the townsfolk so long as he lives in his cursed form.