History GodIsEvil / VideoGames

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXVI'', [[spoiler:Ultima is revealed to be the God responsible for creating humanity and giving life to Valisthea, and is also a narcissistic {{Hypocrite}} who condemns them for developing free will and repeating the mistakes that their own kind made, conveniently forgetting that they took their creations for granted and didn't bother to give them any guidance on their plans. Which was just as well, since Ultima never planned on sharing the world with humanity to begin with, and always planned to dispose of them once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they'd outlived their usefulness.]]]]

** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'': [[spoiler:Quan Chi]] proves to be [[EvilIsPetty insanely spiteful]]; despite having complete and ''uncontested'' control over an entire timeline - meaning he can hit the ResetButton on ''his'' universe as many times as he wants, do whatever he wants to his victims, and the other deities on his level ''can't do anything about it'' - he is obsessed with gaining control over ''all'' [[MultiversalConqueror timelines]] because he can't ''stand'' [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence the idea of a utopian universe in another dimension]].

** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'': [[spoiler:Shao Khan]] proves to be [[EvilIsPetty insanely spiteful]]; despite having complete and ''uncontested'' control over an entire timeline - meaning he can hit the ResetButton on ''his'' universe as many times as he wants, do whatever he wants to his victims, and the other deities on his level ''can't do anything about it'' - he is obsessed with gaining control over ''all'' [[MultiversalConqueror timelines]] because he can't ''stand'' [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence the idea of a utopian universe in another dimension]].

** The original release of ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'' implies that God is a bit less evil, given His actions on the behalf of humanity this go-round. The UpdatedRerelease of ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'', however, again throws doubt upon God's motivations by revealing [[spoiler:He ''deliberately'' set up the AbelAndCain scenario in order to create the first martyr and the first murderer]]. He will also treat the player ''much'' more harshly if they take Naoya's route. While God is certainly understandable in His fear of [[spoiler:the King of Bel]] and his desire to get rid of them, in the new 8th day His method of doing so is to threaten the people in the city into hunting you, in order to prey off of your empathy as they beg you to let them kill you so they can be spared. When that fails, [[spoiler:he sends Metatron to flatten the city in its entirety]], and when THAT fails, he's all too willing to [[spoiler:destroy the planet altogether.]] Even then, this is downplayed compared to the mainline series, as he only becomes overtly if the player directly opposes Him. If you stick with the Law path God is [[GodIsGood happy to send assistance your way]], and even if you go down a Neutral path God and his servants are mostly willing to leave you alone.

* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' uses this trope faithfully; YHVH is a complete and utter megalomaniac who demands full respect and worship from man, and if they don't provide such, His wrath follows quickly. In many games, the Law path that YHVH patrons results in a variant of the WorldOfSilence, where all creation does nothing except ceaselessly chant prayers to Him for all eternity. Lucifer is more on our side, but he's still willing to do some horrible things to "help" us. [[WordOfGod Atlus]] has stated that this all stems from something terribly wrong at the very core of reality. They've also claimed that they're moving away from this trope to avoid offending heavily-Christian countries now that they have a wider audience. [[spoiler:By "move away", they apparently mean "be a touch more subtle about it".]]
** By the end of ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII'', [[spoiler:everyone wants God dead, from Lucifer to the angel Gabriel. The player takes care of this]].
** The boss theme of ''[[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne Nocturne]]'' has the ''demons'' praying to Him for help. Lucifer also implies that God has been destroying and recreating the world multiple times over, with each new iteration meaning the deaths of everyone in the old world that is replaced, and it's implied [[spoiler:the events of ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII'' didn't take and the protagonist got a FateWorseThanDeath for his part in it.]]
** Although God Himself doesn't appear in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'', those acting in His name are no better than He ever was (and while it's hinted they may not be acting on His orders, that's never confirmed). 'Sides, [[LawfulStupid angels]] don't so much as ''breathe'' if they don't get the go-ahead to do so from their master. In addition, the [[ThatOneBoss Demiurge]] [[ThatOneSidequest sidequest]] ''very'' heavily implies the Demiurge is, in fact, YHVH, and that the Demiurge fella is still very much this. While it's implied he becomes somewhat more reasonable after [[spoiler: you defeat him and allow Metatron (actually another piece of YHVH) to merge with him, he's still more or less an AxCrazy KnightTemplar who has you take him to Mem Aleph so he can participate in killing her in the Law Path and warns you ''very'' severely there will be consequences for not choosing his way in the other paths. He's also flat-out mentioned to have forgotten his love for humans and trampled the Goddess-worshipping world, implying he's still an attention-hungry bastard.]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}} The name is a bit of a giveaway]]. Then Strange Journey Redux came out [[spoiler:and in the New endings it turns out the Three Wise Men are in fact a depowered God (Shekinah). What do they want to do, you ask? to create the World of Law... By replacing the old one and ANNIHILATING most humans and strip from the few remaining their free will by forcing them to endlessly worship Her. Fortunately, the main character wrecks them before they can do any of its plans in all new endings (Yes, even in New Law) and takes their Cosmic Egg (Cosmic Fruit), their power source, stopping Her from coming back and using it to guarantee that the Earth won't be consumed by the Schwarzwelt. Doomguy would be proud of the MC ]].
** The original release of ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'' implies that God is a bit less evil, given His actions on the behalf of humanity this go-round. The UpdatedRerelease of ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'', however, again throws doubt upon God's motivations, [[spoiler: by revealing he ''deliberately'' set up the AbelAndCain scenario in order to create the first martyr and the first murderer and will treat the player ''much'' more harshly if they go down the Chaos path. While God is certainly understandable in His fear of the Overlord and his desire to get rid of them, His methods of doing so is to threaten the people in the city into hunting you, in order to prey off of your empathy as they beg you to let them kill you so they can be spared. When that fails, he sends Metatron to flatten the city in its entirety, and when THAT fails, he's all too willing to [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroy the planet all together.]] Though ultimately this trope is [[ZigzaggedTrope zigzagged]] since as cruel God can be in the game; he only becomes so if the player goes down the path of Chaos, aka the path where you assist the demons who are also behind much of the game's villainy. If you stick with the Law path God is [[GodIsGood happy to send assistance your way.]] Also unlike other SMT games, even if you go down the Neutral path God and his servants are wary of you but still helpful, making this more "God is Evil if you really tick him off".]]

** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'' has [[spoiler:YHVH as the final antagonist that must be beaten in the Bonds and Massacre route to stop him from oppressing humanity]]. GodIsEvil is a firm belief among the Divine Powers, who seek to [[spoiler:create their own universe that will be free from YHVH's machinations. Krishna explains that BothOrderAndChaosAreDangerous because of YHVH intentionally setting up the universe as a stage for a faked ForeverWar, but points out that order and chaos ''by themselves'' are not bad things.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Alundra}}'', [[spoiler:Melzas is actually the god who is worshiped by the citizens of Inoa, which makes him more powerful. And then he starts killing them off.]]

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%% A disproportionate number of ''Videogame/BreathOfFire'' games use the world's leading god as their FinalBoss, mostly because the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil says not much else should be powerful enough to faze them by the end of the game. In some cases, like ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII'', they portray the realization that you are going to have to fight and ''kill'' God with the weight such a goal would bring.
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** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'', the final boss is [[spoiler: a thinly disguised {{Expy}} of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}]].
*** Granted, the ''entire thing'' was essentially expanding on the Pharisee argument found in the Bible - [[spoiler: Is Jesus' power really ''divine'' in origin, or is he meant to tempt people from the true path/faith?]] Pretty damn serious subject-matter for a T-rated video game, and one that could be completely missed by anyone not familiar with the subject matter.
*** The above is the result of poor translation (something the [=PS1=] version was well known for). The plot of the PSP version has the final boss as a false prophet type plotting to use Lucavi to rule the world. The Beoluve family are blood descendants of the person who stopped him the last time.
*** The dominant in-universe religion, however, holds that the final boss really is a Jesus-like figure. Thus, their equivalent of the Bible is a lie, and the "god" they worship is actually a demon. Whether a true God exists in the ''[=FFT=]'' world is never specified.
*** The "true god/s" of FFT would be the Occuria of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII', as it's the same world. Their elimination is the only thing that allowed Ultima and the rest of the Lucavi to destroy the world of Ivalice in the first place. [[NiceJobBreakingitHero So yeah.]]
** The fal'Cie, from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' and its sequels. While some just have BlueAndOrangeMorality, nearly all of them doom humans by unwillingly turning them into l'Cie. [[spoiler:Their creator isn't any better.]]
*** [[spoiler:This goes even further in the final game, Lightning Returns. The god Bhunivelze orders the Heroine, Lightning, to save as many souls as possible from despair, in return for her sister's resurrection from the dead. But Lightning later discovers he intends to leave everyone else behind and murder anyone he doesn't deem worthy to live in his ideal world, which leads her to defy him and try to become the new goddess whom will give all souls a second chance.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'': DLC reveals that [[spoiler:Bahamut intentionally drove Ardyn insane and orchestrated the apocalypse 2,000 years in advance, with all the civil wars in between, just to cure a demon epidemic]]. The novels[[note]]jury's out on whether or not they are canon[[/note]] go further; [[spoiler:Bahamut intended to use the power from defeating the Starscourge to wipe out the world and start over. All for the crime of having individuality.]]

* In ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'', The Stranger/Seth Cay Dhows was revealed to be a man made god known by the name Epsilon. Also, Falerin is actually an (Affably) Evil God.

* A disproportionate number of ''Videogame/BreathOfFire'' games use the world's leading god as their FinalBoss, mostly because the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil says not much else should be powerful enough to faze them by the end of the game. In some cases, like ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII'', they portray the realization that you are going to have to fight and ''kill'' God with the weight such a goal would bring.
** The GBA port of ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireII'' also throws a spanner into the works by implying that Deathevn is not actually a god, despite being Myria's descendant. Rather, he's actually [[spoiler:[[OurDragonsAreDifferent a draconic]] EldritchAbomination]] that's merely posing as one because it's fun to fuck with mortals.

* ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}''. Sort of. [[spoiler:Deus isn't actually a "God", though it did create the branch of humanity on the planet in question. It's really just a genetically engineered planet-destroying bio-weapon that's somehow become even more powerful than its job description would imply. There's also the Wave Existence/Zohar, which seems to be the "true" God of Xenogears, and late in the game it empowers the main character to become even more superhuman than he already was. This is actually a Gnostic allegory, with Deus playing the false god Demiurge and the Wave Existence playing the Source -- the distant, unknowable true creator whose role Demiurge unwittingly usurped.]]

* In ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'', "God" is [[spoiler:a world-destroying alien monster which doesn't have any dialogue.]] Although, it's explained by [[spoiler:the real Roger Bacon]] that it isn't truly a god, but rather something that's as far above humans as humans are above ants (or further).

* In ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'', there is Loptr, who is [[spoiler:the evil side of Aesir, Creator-God of the mortal world. Created when Aesir decided to divide his powers and give them to humanity so humans would have free will, he wants to take control of reality back from them by any means necessary.]]

** Myria and Deathevan are actually more like cases of [[GodOfEvil Gods of Evil]] because they are not the world's only deities. Ladon, the dragon god who appears throughout the game, is actually [[GodIsGood a pretty cool guy]], especially in the third game where he can actually teach you some of his abilities by acting as a Master.

* In the CrapsackWorld of ''Videogame/DemonsSouls'', Magic is explained as power that comes from the human (Or demon) will, and Faith is explained as a power that comes from God. For this reason, Faith-users are usually pretty rude toward ungodly mages. This is all well and good, but in multiple places in the game you can discover that [[spoiler:the "god" that faith users actually get their power from is the world-destroying BigBad Demon Overlord, the Old One, and that faith users are not aware of this. Whether the religion is completely wrong, or whether (even worse) the Old One actually IS God is not revealed. However, faith coming from the Old One is implied by Sage Freke in an optional conversation, and confirmed by the item description of the Talisman of Beasts.]]
** Spiritual successor Dark Souls also features this to a lesser extent in the form of Gwyn, whose hubris and pride lead him to condemn Humanity to the Undead Curse in order to extend his Age of Fire. He also commands his clerics to slay all the Undead as he fears the Dark Soul humans possess.

* ''Franchise/SilentHill'' has the "goddess" (actually a powerful monster) of The Order who acts as The BigBad for a number of the games. Whether she's a true god or just another monster willed into being by delusional worshippers in anyone's guess.

* The DS Tactical RPG ''VideoGame/LuminousArc'' has this, as well as a [[spoiler:CorruptChurch]]. Oddly enough, they actually oppose each other in the end.

* In ''Videogame/{{Scribblenauts}}'', you can turn God evil. [[MemeticMutation You can also give him a shotgun and a skateboard and have him fight Cthulhu.]]
* Although this will come as a surprise to no one, ''[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1924722 behold! The Tetris God!]]''
* ''VideoGame/TheLastResurrection'' features Jesus as the BigBad and God as GreaterScopeVillain.

* In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVII'', when you resurrect God, he immediately begins an evil tyrannical regime that confuses and subjugates the newly reunited world. However, [[spoiler:this turns into a subversion as "God" is actually the thought-to-be-defeated Demon Lord in disguise. You eventually ''do'' fight God, but it's as a BonusBoss outside of anything resembling the plot]].
* In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX'', it turns out The Almighty is kind of a royal prick who tried to destroy humanity just 'cuz. [[spoiler:He's also been dead for a while, and it's implied that the grotto [[BonusBoss Bonus Bosses]] you fight are fragments of his soul.]] Thankfully his daughter's pretty cool.