History ImAHumanitarian / VideoGames

* In the original ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark1992'' for the PC. If the player samples the stewpot on the stove the player character reacts with "Ugh, human flesh." and loses a point or two of health.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':
** One of the doctors in Junktown [[spoiler:has a mysterious basement, and a propensity for amputations. If you investigate, you'll discover that illicit anatomy is being funneled to Iguana Bob, whose shishkabobs are not entirely iguana. If you try to expose him to the authorities, he'll simply take RefugeInAudacity, nobody else believing that such a thing is going on]]. Oh, and in [[VideoGame/Fallout2 the second game]], it's become a hugely successful franchise restaurant!
** Set, the ghoul leader of Necropolis, absolutely hates "normies" (his word for humans), and so if you royally piss him off, something that is [[HairTriggerTemper quite easy to do]], he'll threaten to eat your corpse, and in one instance he'll even sing a jazzy tune he calls "That Happy Tummy Song"!
* ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' has several instances:
** As a perk, you can become a cannibal and eat the corpses. In doing so you incur 3 rads and gain 25 hit points, which is the same as some high end food items. You also lose a small amount of karma and good-aligned characters may attack you if do it in front of them.
** Certain Hunters, wandering food vendors, sell "Strange Meat," which is clearly from humans. They crack jokes about it. And if you follow them, they occasionally come across hapless wastelanders and make quick work of them... and you too if you stick around for too long. In the city of Little Lamplight, the child residents kill adult raiders and dump the bodies into water pools to feed the fungus they live off of. The one step removed from cannibalism keeps them within the "good" spectrum of the KarmaMeter. However, they don't seem to have made the connection that 'strange meat' is actually human meat.
** Feral Ghouls will occasionally be found carrying "Human Flesh."
** In the quest [[spoiler: "Blood Ties", it's revealed that "The Family" is a group of people who have mutated into cannibals, but [[OurVampiresAreDifferent discipline themselves to only drink blood]]. You can refer to Vance, the leader, as "a real humanitarian," though he doesn't find it funny. One possible conclusion to the quest is Vance teaching the character to derive nutrients, and therefore enhanced healing, from human blood packs.]]
** In the unmarked quest "Our Little Secret", the small town of Andale found on the southern edge of the map looks like a cheerful town, if somewhat detached from the war-torn horrors, seemingly retaining a Pre-War attitude and standard of living. One old resident tries to make you go away and tells you "check the shed or the basement". Naturally [[spoiler: you will find dead bodies in the basement, horribly mutilated with dozens of Strange Meat in the freezers, while the shed holds skeletons, stripped clean of meat with even more Strange Meat in the freezers around it. Bonus since you can find many bloody chainsaws there]]. Naturally, the townsfolk won't be too happy to know that you know about their little secret, unless that is, [[spoiler: you have the Cannibal perk above (or manage to bullshit your way through)]]. Oh, and one more thing. The people in Andale? [[spoiler: They're all inbred]].
** The Super Mutants may spout the line, "Hurry up and die already! I'm hungry!" when fighting, implying they eat people they kill. As they were once humans, this puts them under this trope. Other lines confirm this, such as one in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' where they say they'll eat your legs when you're dead.
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' gives the player character the option of taking the cannibal perk, which lets them eat human corpses to restore health at the cost of some karma. There's also the White Glove Society, a tribe of gourmets and former cannibals who have sworn never to eat human flesh again; their quest involves one of their members trying to trick them into returning to cannibalism because he believes it was what made them truly refined and exceptional.
** Also in ''New Vegas'': after eating a certain number of people, you will be able to [[spoiler: "Dine and Dash", saving meat for later]] and, after [[spoiler: eating four of the most powerful people in the Mojave Wasteland,]] you will gain significantly greater skills after eating any person.
** In ''Honest Hearts'' you can learn that the remnants of [[spoiler:Vault 22]] started canibalizing other refugee groups in Zion National Park in order to survive. [[CrazySurvivalist Randall Clarke]] was so horrified by the sight of it that he started to hunt them down one by one.
** The Marked Men in ''Lonesome Road'' were human, but that doesn't stop them attacking and eating humans.
** Subverted, however, with Cannibal Johnson. He got the name when he cut out and took a bite out of a Raider's heart to scare off the guy's buddies, but otherwise does not practice cannibalism. Could be based on the real John "Liver-Eating" Johnson which supposedly has similar circumstances.
* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' also allows the player to take on the Cannibal perk, allowing them to eat the corpses of humans to regain health. Since this game forgoes Karma, partaking in human flesh instead causes friendly or otherwise neutral [=NPCs=] around you to turn hostile. Eating your fellow man also has an impact on some of your companions' RelationshipValues: some are unaffected by watching you feast ([[EveryoneHasStandards although they will voice their unease]]), most will hate see you feed, and [[TokenHeroicOrc Strong]] will approve.

* ''VideoGame/{{Arknights}}'': Cannibalism is a matter of fact among the Seaborn, with them viewing the act as simply returning to nutrients to nourish We Many. Seaborn eating each other or offering to be eaten shows up in "Stultifera Navis", while "Mizuki & Caerula Arbor" takes this UpToEleven by showing [[spoiler:the titular Leviathan Caerula Arbor a.k.a. the "Creeping Branch", who was an EmptyShell after It lost control of the Seaborn to Ishar'mla and Its mindless body still continues to grow as a food source for other Seaborn.]]

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* In the ''franchise/{{Splatoon}}'' games, the player will come across giant onion rings during a single-player stage that give bonus fish eggs. Except they aren't onion rings. They're squid rings. And in the main campaigns of the games, you mostly play as an Inkling, which is a creature descended from squids. A small chunk of the game's dark comedy comes from characters casually talking about how they like to eat squid, with the Japanese dialogue for one of the game's Splatfest events just being the two hosts comparing recipes.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' games, the player will come across giant onion rings during a single-player stage that give bonus fish eggs. Except they aren't onion rings. They're squid rings. And in the main campaigns of the games, you play as an Inkling, which is a creature descended from squids. A small chunk of the game's dark comedy comes from characters casually talking about how they like to eat squid, with the Japanese dialogue for one of the game's Splatfest events just being the two hosts comparing recipes.