Asian Fox-Spirits in Video Games.
- AdventureQuest Worlds: The fourth lord of Chaos, the Chaos Shogun appropriately named Kitsune, can shapeshift into a giant purple seven-tailed kitsune.
- Animal Crossing: 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 New 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.
- Arena of Valor: 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 Shout-Out to 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.
- Arknights has little Suzuran, the Vulpo 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 Ayakashi: Romance Reborn. He has the typical trickster attitude.
- Azur Lane 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.
- Cookie Run 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 Kingdom
- Crush Crush: DLC girl Suzu is one, represented as a Little Bit Beastly girl with fox ears and a tail. She's portrayed as a Shrinking Violet guardian spirit who the player encounters after accidentally destroying her shrine.
- Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance introduces Nine-tailed Foxes into the series. Party member Izuna is one of these, and recruiting her unlocks the class for regular use.
- Dragon Quest:
- Dragon Quest IV: 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 Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime are obvious parodies of this, as the more powerful they are, the more tails they have.
- Raiden from Dusty Raging Fist is an andromorphic kitsune and the Guardian of Thunder, as well as a boss with Shock and Awe abilities.
- Eastern Exorcist, 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 fox-ears and a tail, while the second storyline have the player controlling a half-hulijing named Xiahou-xue.
- Xuannu, the protagonist of Exorcist Fairy is a humanoid hulijing. Who looks more like a human than a fox spirit, though she still have fox-ears. Same goes for her Evil Counterpart, the Inner Demon.
- Fate Series:
- Tamamo-no-Mae appears as a Caster-class Servant in Fate/EXTRA, Fate/Grand Order, Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star, and Fate/Extella Link. It turns out she is an incarnation of 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 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 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 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.
- Daji, who 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 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 Alternate Self of Tamamo, 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 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.
- Final Fantasy XIV: The Fabled Kamuy — aka the Kamuy of the Nine Tails — is a white-and-red nine-tailed canine that looks far more monstrous than the other Kamuy, who are more wolflike.
- Fire Emblem Fates: The Kitsune are fox folk (obviously) living within the kingdom of Hoshido who normally look like (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, enemy kitsune can create illusions that prevent the player's army from attacking them.
- Flash of the Blade have a kitsune serving as the first boss, one who looks mostly human, except he has 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.
- Fox Spirit: A Two-Tailed Adventure: 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.
- The Inazuma region in Genshin Impact 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 absolutely not a Kitsune and most definitely does not have a tail.
- In Ghost of Tsushima, 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.
- Heroes Evolved: 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.
- Hidden City: 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 Foxy Vixen that basically reuses the Kitsune monster asset.
- The boss of the Honkai Impact 3rd's 3rd storyline of Sakura Samsara mode is Hellmaru, a Honkai Beast in the shape of a Kitsune.
- In Jade Empire 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, even if you decide to kill her first.
- In Kirby's Dream Land 3, Pon and Con appear as the game's Dual Boss, appearing as a Tanooki and a Kitsune respectively. They later reprise their role in Kirby Star Allies, though they are befriended after defeating the duo.
- The 2008 adaptation of the Knights of Valour series introduces a kitsune named Inugami as a playable character, who assumes a human form during gameplay.
- La Tale: There are several Palette Swapped fox girls. One variety is even called Gumihos. They were so popular the company later added them as a pet.
- In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, 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 Ocarina of Time, though no actual kitsune appeared in that game.
- League of Legends: Ahri (archaic Korean for "Beautiful") draws on Korean Mythology'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.
- Love Nikki - Dress Up Queen 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.
- Love of Magic: 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.
- Cubit Foxtar in Mega Man Zero 3 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.
- The unofficially-named Tail clan in Mega Man X: Command Mission is a group of nine superbosses themed around the Kitsune's growing tails, all looking identical except for their number of tails. You start off fighting Onetail, then Twotails, etc. all the way to Ninetails. Many of them fight with multiple copies of themselves and the later ones can create even more as replacements.
- Monster Hunter Generations: The Mizutsune is a fox-like leviathan heavily inspired by the Kitsune, and fittingly it's the member of the 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 Monster Hunter: Rise alongside a cast of other Yokai-inspired monsters.
- Sutsune from Monster Sanctuary 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 Muramasa: The Demon Blade are a pair of kitsune who help the protagonists on their quests.
- Xiaomu in Namco × Capcom and Endless Frontier is a 765-year-old Chinese werefox, while her nemesis Saya is a Japanese werefox.
- In The Night of the Rabbit 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.
- Ōkami: 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.
- In Overwatch, Kiriko is miko/Ninja associated with a fox motif and summons a guardian fox spirit using 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 Genji and Hanzo Shimada with their dragon spirits.
- Pokémon:
- Vulpix and Ninetales are based on kitsune, complete with multiple tails, supernatural powers, and the tendency to curse people who tick them off.
- The 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 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 nekomata).
- Onmyōji (2016): 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 Kohaku, Yōko, Sanbi-no-kitsune and Kudagitsune. Of course, the king of all of them is the SSR Tamamo-no-Mae (given a Gender Flip from how she is normally portrayed from a woman to a cross-dressing man), a nine-tailed kitsune capable of unleashing destructive power akin to that of a Physical God. Also, protagonist Abe-no-Seimei, being the child of the kitsune Kuzunoha.
- A nine-tailed kitsune is featured as the Big Bad of 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 switched genders: The Kyūbi is now a male, while Seimei is a female, and they're not related.
- The protagonist of Psycho Fox, who can use Shinto sticks to shapeshift into three different animals and has to save the world from the evil Madfox Daimyojin.
- George Sand from Rhythm Star is one. Interestingly, she is based on a real-life French woman.
- The Game Mod Ridgeside Village 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 her blessing, she is also the protector of Stardew Valley in the mod.
- Riki and the Lummox race from SaGa Frontier 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.
- 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 appropriately-named Kitsune in the SNES version of Shadowrun.
- Played with in Shin Megami Tensei if.... The boss of the World of Greed is one of these, but whose power is directly tied to the traveler's own greed - Suspicious Videogame Generosity 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 Eldritch Abomination of fog.
- There's a kitsune as boss fight in Spiritual Assassin Taromaru. 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.
- Smite: Da Ji the Nine-Tailed Fox is an evil Torture Technician 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.
- Sonic the Hedgehog: Miles 'Tails' Prower has mechanical abilities rather than magical ones, but his two tails are a clear reference.
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3: When Eggman is telling Knuckles about how Sonic and Tails are villains that they need to stop from getting the Master Emerald, Knuckles' Imagine Spot shows Tails as a sinister-looking nine-tailed fox.
- In the Archie comics, Tails did have a mystical destiny to him and was (briefly) trained in magic by his sorcerer uncle. His Evil Counterpart was more adept at magic and at one point called him out on his abandoning his training.
- Soul Series: 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.
- The first 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.
- Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns 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 keeper of a shrine and loves keeping her shrine clean.
- The Season 9 starter pack DLC of Super Animal Royale featured a kitsune as a new exclusive super animal breed.
- If Luigi grabs the leaf in Super Mario 3D Land, he now turns into a kitsune, instead of a tanooki.
- In Super Mario Fusion Revival, Peach can acquire a Kitsune Suit as an equivalent to Mario's Tanooki Suit.
- Touhou Project, which already features many different types of Youkai, has several:
- Ran Yakumo from Touhou Youyoumu ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom, who is of the nine-tailed variety, making her very old and powerful. The fact that she's the shikigami of Yukari Yakumo demonstrates how powerful Yukari is, while the fact that Ran has her own shikigami, 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 isnote .
- The official manga Touhou Ibarakasen ~ Wild and Horned Hermit 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, Touhou Suzunaan ~ Forbidden Scrollery, 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: 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 Talismans...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.
- Touhou Kouryuudou ~ Unconnected Marketeers 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 a fox's ears and tail.
- Tales of Symphonia:
- 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.
- Touken Ranbu:
- 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.
- Toukiden has Mitama based on the legendary Tamamo-no-mae and Kuzunoha that the player can equip to gain special powers. Interestingly, they are Healing type instead of Deceit.
- Ugetsu Kitan is set in a haunted, yokai-infested hospital building, one of them being a nine-tailed kitsune who motions you to follow her.
- Wario Land 3 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 That One Boss. Wario Land II 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.
- Warriors Orochi:
- 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 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, turning him into Orochi.
- The "Mage Fox" boss in Wild ARMs.
- In World of Final Fantasy, Tama is a diminutive white fox who accompanies your party, but her true form, Tamamohimé, is this. She has nine lives and one point 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.
- Yo-kai Watch: "Kyubi" is a fox Yōkai whose human form is a slightly androgynous Pretty Boy. 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).
