Serial Killer / Video Games

• One of these can be optionally confronted in Action Doom 2: Urban Brawl, depending on which path throughout the game you take. Hugo's a huge, fat silent guy who looks like Hugo Andore and lives alone in a farmhouse in the middle of a forest where he keeps a vicious dog. He kidnaps children and apparently butchers them, then hangs them up in his barn. You confront him one-on-one and potentially beat him to death in a fist fight... or just slice him in half with a chainsaw, if you have found it.
• AI: The Somnium Files revolves around the hunt for a Jack the Ripoff of an infamous killer known as the Cyclops Killer, who targeted young women and stole their right eye specifically. It's revealed that the original killer was the thrill-based type, with a lust-based partner. The killer himself was The Sociopath as he had a brain defect that made his brain unable to produce the social bonding hormone oxytocin, so he turned to murder as a substitute as the dopamine rush he got from it was the only way he could feel happiness. His partner was a yakuza boss who already had no qualms about murder, but after suffering brain damage that left him with a total Lack of Empathy, developed a fetish for women's eyes that even his position wouldn't satisfy. Once the killer was finished with them, his partner would be allowed to take their eye as a reward. Or maybe that's just what you're being led to believe.
• Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura has the Whytechurch murderer, loosely based on Jack the Ripper. His true identity is Vincent, an elven wizard possessed by a demon.
• Assassin's Creed Origins has the Taste of Her Sting questline, about a serial killer engaged in religious ritual sacrifice on behalf of an Egyptian god.
• A very rare multiversal case occurs in Bayonetta 3 where the Big Bad Singularity attempts to kill every single Arch-Eve (usually some variant of Cereza) and collapse their universes to merge them into a single world where he rules over, succeeding in killing 2042 plus 2 more Arch-Eves in the process. Killing off an Arch-Eve also destroys the universe they are in, so he also kills an astronomical amount of people in the process and taking the Serial Killer trope to an apocalyptic level. Thankfully, most of the death and destruction he causes are undone by the end of the game.
• The Baldur's Gate series features several of these, starting with Neb, the child-killing gnome who returns in the sequel, and the "tanner" in Baldur's Gate 2, who removes the skin of his victims and makes clothes out of it. Baldur's Gate III has Dolor, a mission-based one who kills on behalf of the Religion of Evil worshipping the god of murder, Bhaal. Amnesiac Hero Dark Urge was also one as a direct result of being the son of Bhaal himself, and was partially the hedonistic type as his demonic blood made him pathologically compelled to brutally murder people, with a nauseating Horror Hunger should he go too long without satisfying his urges.
• Bendy and the Ink Machine: After Susie was made into a deformed version of Alice, she started to believe that "tainted" ink from other Toons would pull her back into the puddles - especially because of an encounter she had with Bendy. Thus, she tortures Butcher Gang members who get too close. However, she also believes that she can use others' ink to restore her own beauty, making her a cannibalistic killer as well. She keeps her vivisected victims on display.
• The pictomancer Folie in Bravely Default 2. A Mad Artist who murders people in order to use their blood as red paint, and has committed murders over at least the preceding 6 months. She describes blood, especially that of magic users, as being one of the “primary colors” she uses for her specialized “art”, with the others being industrial waste and pulverized tree bark. Her “masterpiece” becomes an Eldritch Abomination that assists her in battle. She hides the bodies in her cave, which together resemble red flowers from afar.
• Captured has Damien Clyde, a deformed, blind, cannibalistic, revenge driven killer. Bullied his whole life for his imposing appearance, he went on to live in an underground complex to be away from people, and a man began to aid him in getting revenge on humanity for mistreating him. The man kidnaps people and makes them go through the complex to try and escape, all while having to dodge Damien and solve a series of puzzles that the man has set up.
• The Scissorman from the Clock Tower series. In the first game he's more a generic monster who chases you, but by the second game (the first one released in America), he fits this trope because there is genuine mystery as to his identity and most of the characters are criminal psychologists.
• Most games in the Criminal Case series tend to have at least one serial killer terrorizing a certain district/region, and putting a halt to their killing spree always becomes the focus of its respective Story Arc.
  • Criminal Case: Grimsborough has The Rorschach Reaper a.k.a Tess Goodwin, a serial killer in the University using Rorschach tests and intricate hypnosis to brainwash other students into murdering their loved ones after having a conflict with them, all for the sake of studying the human psyche for their own thesis.
  • Criminal Case: Pacific Bay has three of them operating in different sections of the titular city: Erikah Mabayo, who murders prostitutes trying to escape her employment in Bayou Bleu; the Puppeteer a.k.a Freddy Alonzo, who murders controlling parents that restrict their children's freedom and has been terrorizing Jazz Town for three decades; and Duncan Young, who disguises himself as the local Urban Legend of the Night Walker and traps women in ice to preserve their beauty in White Peaks.
  • Criminal Case: Mysteries of the Past features the Scarlet Slayer a.k.a Fiona Flanagan, a Jack the Ripper Expy targeting the prostitutes of Sinner's End.
  • Criminal Case: The Conspiracy has the Rocket Cow Killer a.k.a Rosamund Wilcox, using adulterated energy drinks to induce heart attacks onto parents who mistreat their children.
  • Criminal Case: Supernatural Investigations has Abigail Riley, the ghost of a woman who, after being sacrificed to a demon, came back seeking vengeance by possessing the bodies of the ones who killed her and forcing them to commit murder to ruin their lives.
• Cyberpunk 2077 had Anthony Harris, a.k.a. "Peter Pan"/"Meatman". He was regularly abused by his father who blamed him for his mother's death, before he took his own life due to pestilence killing their cattle farm. Later in life he became a Visionary killer, seeing his victims as cattle and himself as the farmer saving them. He would lure in young adults struggling with drug addiction with a fake rehab center website and pump them full of lethal amounts of growth hormones and anabolic steroids like he would do for the sick cows as a boy, and would at times murder people off the street with a cattle gun and branding iron.
• Danganronpa:
  • Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc has Genocider Syo/Genocide Jack, who's the Split Personality of Toko Fukawa. Ironically, Jack is one of the safest people to be around during the Deadly Game because Jack a) has the sense to realize that they'd be an obvious suspect, especially if they use their Calling Card ( killing men Toko is attracted to, crucifying them with homemade scissors, and writing 'Bloodbath Fever/Blood Lust' nearby with their blood), b) is highly picky about their craft and doesn't want to kill in any way but their signature, and c) is aware that the game is based on a false premise; the outside world has been destroyed, so getting away with murder means being taken out of a Gilded Cage and tossed into an apocalypse.
  • Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair has Sparkling Justice, a Serial-Killer Killer who wears a variety of masks of anime characters when killing their targets. They also never actually show up. Peko pretends to be Sparkling Justice to deliberately draw suspicion towards herself and get voted as the culprit. Which she is, but doesn't think she is (it's complicated). Her ruse falls apart when it's revealed that Sparkling Justice's native language is Spanish, and since Peko is quite obviously Japanese and can't speak any Spanish when pressed to do so to prove her identity, there's no way it can be her.
  • Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony has Korekiyo Shinguji, who had an incestuous relationship with his sister. Having been an Ill Girl all her life, his sister was never able to make friends, so Korekiyo, being the, uh... loving brother that he is, took it upon himself to make some for her. There's just one problem: his sister died from her illness. Oh well, there's an easy fix for that: her friends just need to be dead too. He only kills girls who he believes would make good friends for his sister, his goal is to make her 100 friends, and his only regret after being convicted of the obligatory Chapter 3 double murder is that he didn't reach it (but he was close). "Sister" also manifests in Korekiyo as a Split Personality of sorts, which he believes is his sister's ghost inhabiting his body. Whether she's either of those things, a tulpa Korekiyo subconsciously created when he was brutally tortured by Hollywood Natives on one of his anthropology trips, something else entirely, or just Korekiyo acting out both parts by himself because he's batshit crazy is up in the air.
• Dead by Daylight has one lone player as a serial killer hunting down a band of survivors. The killers are all variations of stock Slasher villain tropes with some even being taken straight from actual franchises. Interestingly enough, in lore, not all of them were actually serial killers (the Wraith only had one intentional victim, the Nurse was a spree killer, The Hag didn't kill anyone prior to a Deal With the Entity to take revenge on her captors, and so on), but now that they're in the Entity's realm, they all count as they hunt down groups of survivors over and over and over...
• The Dead Case: The church ghost's husband, Greg Toberen, stalked and murdered a number of women, always keeping photographs of his victims and burying at least one of them in the basement. He's also responsible for the murders of the protagonist and the church ghost (whose real name is Marion Toberen). Though technically he only killed two victims for his intended series, it's clear he would have killed more were it not for the protagonist's intervention.
• Dead In Vinland has one right out of nowhere that comes as a shock: sweet, gentle, helpful party member Brother Angelico is of the Visionary subtype, though it's left as Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane whether the demon he claims is possessing him is an actual demon or his own delusion.
• Dragon Age II has Quentin, an insane Blood Mage who murders women and takes parts of their bodies that resemble his dead wife in a crazy attempt to bring her back. His last victim is Hawke's mother Leandra.
  • Kelder from the sidequest "Magistrate's Orders" is an insane killer who targets elven children because they are "too beautiful" and blames his impulses on imaginary demons (as opposed to the real ones in the setting). He has managed to escape justice thanks to 1) the protection of his powerful magistrate father and 2) the lack of concern most humans have for elves. Part of him is still sane enough to realize that he is beyond redemption and he begs Hawke to kill him.
• Elden Ring:
  • The Dung Eater is a mission-based type, being an Ax-Crazy maniac Hated by All for routinely Desecrating the Dead in a manner so vile the souls of his victims can't reincarnate or move on. Which is exactly his goal, as he'll happily explain to you; he desires to make defilement so omnipresent that curses become blessings. Five of his victims can be found in the world, and if you complete Big Boggart's quest before Dung Eaters, Big will become victim #6.
  • Elemer of the Briar was also known as the Bell-Bearing Hunter because he travelled the world killing merchants and trainers for the bell bearings they drop (an Anti-Frustration Feature by which you can retain access to merchant inventory even if the merchant dies for whatever reason). He was caught and sentenced to execution (his 'of the Briar' moniker is because he was given armor wound with barbed wire to mark his status as a criminal), but he managed to get out of it by snatching the executioner's sword and driving the whole family out of their castle.
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has a serial killer on the loose in Windhelm whose methods and motivation are very similar to the one from Dragon Age II, except that this guy is trying to bring back his dead sister rather than a wife.
• In roleplaying games such as The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout, the player can become a serial killer if they wanted to. In Fallout 4 some perks are ideal for a serial killer such as allowing the player to stealth kill other characters if they are asleep or to do more damage and be more charismatic to characters of the opposite gender.
• Fallout:
  • Fallout 3 has the pre-war killer the Pint-Sized Slasher, a child who apparently wore a clown mask and stabbed numerous people. You can pose as this killer in the Tranquility Lane simulation.
  • Clanden in Fallout: New Vegas is a seemingly-normal man working for the Omertas who is in fact a psychotic killer who makes snuff films of himself raping, torturing and killing prostitutes.
  • Pickman from Fallout 4 is a serial killer of raiders, and he uses their blood and corpses to make grotesque art in his gallery.
    • From the same game, you can visit the Fens Street sewer just north-west of Diamond City, there you'll find a trail of dead bodies and holotapes left by the 'Fens Phantom' for a long-dead detective who was on his trail, as well as their skeletons.
    • Another Pre-War serial killer was the Nuka-Killer, who would stick Nuka-Cola bottlecaps in their victims' eye sockets and leave them with waterlogged clothing for some unknown reason.
    • In the Nuka-World DLC, one of the Raider gangs, the Disciples, are an entire group of serial killers, and are completely psychotic ones, at that. One has to wonder how they managed to avoid butchering each other.
• Five Nights at Freddy's prominently features one in its backstory. One of the posters you can see on the cameras occasionally changes to newspaper articles about a man wearing a costume luring five children to the back room of Freddy's, where they were murdered and implied to be stuffed inside the suits. The second game expands on this detail in its minigames and in the third game we get to see the spirits of the children avenge their death by tricking the killer into wearing a faulty animatronic-hybrid suit. Which is also the same animatronic that's been trying to kill you the entire game, in fact.
  • It's implied in the novels that the killer, William Afton, was the hedonistic type. He was The Sociopath who killed children purely because it was fun to him and even his own friends and family were at most pawns to be used (with the possible exception of his daughter Elizabeth).
• Grand Theft Auto:
  • Eddie Low in Grand Theft Auto IV is a pedophilic serial killer.
  • Catalina as well. In fact, in San Andreas, she has three bodies buried in her backyard.
  • One of the convicts who are busted by Johnny Klebitz is an intellectual, yet cannibalistic serial killer, complete with a faux British accent.
  • Trevor Philips is heavily implied to be one, among other things. Michael has implied that abducting and murdering hitchhikers is a pastime of his. He is also implied to be the "San Andreas Strangler", but claims he doesn't strangle people... anymore. Also, delivering innocent people to a cannibalistic cult could also make him one.
  • Grand Theft Auto V has the Infinity Killer, who you never meet, but can find clues about in the form of newspaper clippings and writing on walls by the killer in certain places in San Andreas. If you follow the clues, you can even find the bodies of their victims. The killer is believed to be a man named Merle Abrahams, who went insane and became obsessed with the number 8.
• The Happyhills Homicide is an indie game where you take the role of a Slasher Movie villain with a Monster Clown mask. It's eventually revealed that he's a revenge-based killer, as he used to be a janitor at the local high school who was Hated by All for being creepy, except for one girl he developed an obsession with. After a couple of Jerk Jocks accidentally set the school on fire and left him to die, he went on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against everybody involved aside from the aforementioned girl.
• The Origami Killer from Heavy Rain, a sick fuck who murders children by throwing them in deep ditches and waiting for them to drown, in addition to putting their fathers through hellish trials. It's really Scott Shelby: player-character, resident Nice Guy and private detective "investigating" the Origami Killer.
  • There's also Dr. Adrian Baker, an insane doctor who murders people with surgery, and Leland White from the Taxidermist DLC, who murders young women before stuffing them and displaying them around his house.
• In Hitman (2016), the first target of the Patient Zero campaigns, the leader of an Apocalypse Cult, may be one of these. His intel file states he's founded multiple cults in the past and each one ended with him leading them all into ritual suicide (himself excluded), and Agent 47 is hired to stop him from doing so again.
  • One of the Elusive Targets, Etta Davis, is a former nurse who was an "angel of death", poisoning her patients. Her body count is in the dozens, and even though she's in her eighties she still seeks out new targets. Between her sheer death toll and her incredibly smug attitude about it all, she's easily one of the worst people 47 has ever gone after.
  • In Hitman 2, you can meet a random NPC who's implied to be a serial killer if you search her house. Interestingly, she's otherwise not related to the story.
    • You can hear a news broadcast in the Whittleton Creek mission that reports on a serial killer code-named The Censor terrorizing Vermont. Their M.O.: they kill victims, and then assign them "grades" based on how well they struggled and fought back, and the highest grade they ever assigned was a B- they gave to a retired firefighter. Forensic psychologists believe that The Censor is actually a Death Seeker who hopes to die at the hands of their first A+ victim. His recent murders would help the ICA pinpoint Whittleton Creek as his next hunting ground, where he appears as an Elusive Target.
• Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number features the Miami Mutilator, a killer who leaves behind mutilated corpses with cryptic messages. It turns out that the killer is Manny Pardo, a detective working the case who you play as for parts of the game.
• Hungry Lamu: Lamu goes around killing people and devouring them in Lamu Forest Park by biting off their heads, giving him the title "The Lamu Killer". Before he arrived in Lamu Forest, he also murdered his parents.
• Judgment focuses on a mysterious serial killer dubbed "The Mole" by the protagonist who targets Yakuza lieutenants and puts out their eyes as a Calling Card. It's later revealed that the killer is actually a hired assassin who is part of a government conspiracy and that the victims are failed test subjects for an experimental Alzheimer cure whose eyes were put out to hide the pigmentation that said drug causes. Said killer also happens to be the police detective put on the case. By the end of the game however, he's devolved into killing for pleasure.
• Lost Judgment has Jin Kuwana, who's a vigilante whose MO is acting as an extreme version of a Bully Hunter, targeting those who bullied kids into suicide and escaped legal consequences and giving the victim's parents a chance at vengeance. While Yagami does understand his motives to some extent, he still vows to bring him to justice for his crimes and all the collateral damage he's caused.
• Lakeview Cabin Collection has several throughout the episodes; the killers in III and V are supposedly from the same family while IV has a redneck cannibal family. There is also one present in the Hub Level, and the epilogue has you play as one. VI is the only episode to not have one, as it's about an alien invasion instead.
• The target of Samara's loyalty mission in Mass Effect 2, Morinth, is an Ardat-Yakshi (the name means 'Demon of the Night Wind' in an old asari dialect), an asari with a genetic defect that kills whoever she melds with, which gets her High on Homicide and enhancing her powers. She's been a Hedonistic killer for 400 years, and Samara has been chasing her down ever since she fled the asari authorities. Liara mentions in Mass Effect 3 that Morinth was just hitting her stride, and that Ardat-Yakshi who kill leave behind astronomical body counts.
  • Garrus references an Elcor serial killer that was operating on the Citadel during his first year on C-Sec.
• Naughty Bear is about a teddy bear who kills other teddy bears.
• Eddie Gluskin from Outlast was a serial killer of women, mutilating and raping them before murdering them. He was institutionalized at Mount Massive Asylum, and after the inmates riot, continues to kill people by cutting off their genitals.
• Overwatch gives us Reaper, an ex-member of Overwatch who tracks down other ex-members and kills them.
• Partum Artifex is a first-person horror game where you are the killer.
• In Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous Camellia is a mission based serial killer, who seeks to gain knowledge from a spirit that knows how to close the Worldwound, but can only be calmed by a blood ritual. At least this is what she tells the player when they find out about her hobby. In truth she kills purely for her own pleasure.
• The plot of Persona 4 involves chasing down one who kills by shoving people into the TV world, where the Shadows inside get them. This leads to their bodies being found hanging from electrical wires without a clear cause of death in the real world. Technically, the culprit isn't a serial killer as only two victims (Mayumi Yamano and Saki Konishi) actually die, but it certainly isn't for lack of trying as Yukiko, Kanji, Rise, Mitsuo, and Nanako would all have died if the Investigation Team hadn't intervened (and that last one does die in the bad ending). The Investigation Team spends most of the game trying to find patterns in the victims so they can potentially head off the killer. The culprit is Tohru Adachi (albeit that he manipulated Taro Nametame into doing his dirty work for all but Mayumi, Saki, and Mitsuo), who was Touched by Vorlons much like the protagonist and gained the ability to enter the TV world... and more importantly, to put other people inside it. He discovered his power by accident during a tussle with Mayumi, but then killed Saki on purpose. After that, he encouraged Nametame's misconception that the TV world was a safe haven to get Nametame to do his dirty work. When finally uncovered and confronted, Adachi claims he did it purely for his own amusement.
  • Despite claiming he did it just For the Evulz, his social link in Golden shows that his motives were a mix of thrill-seeking and lust for power. Adachi had a Friendless Background due to Abusive Parents growing up as well as being relocated From New York to Nowhere, and the resulting Small Town Boredom in addition to his sociopathic tendencies and superiority complex drove him to become a Straw Nihilist. What makes Adachi so interesting is that his thoughts and actions mirror several real-world mass murderers.
• Persona 5 has another person who kills using the cognitive world, albeit that this guy is The Heavy and not the main villain. From the very start of the game, you'll hear news reports on psychotic breakdowns and mental shutdowns, and it eventually turns out that this is the work of a Persona user who goes into the Metaverse, finds the target's Shadow, and kills them, which triggers the breakdown. The 'Black Mask', as this person is called, uses their ability as a hitman for the Antisocial Force. It's Goro Akechi, who's Shido's illegitimate son. He kills to get Shido's approval and as a complicated plan to break Shido's popularity at its highest point by revealing his identity. He has three named victims (along with numerous background characters): Wakaba Isshiki, Principal Kobayakama, and Kunizaku Okumura.
• Red Dead Redemption II has the Stranger mission "American Dreams". This can be triggered by encountering one of the crime scenes through regular exploration, or through conversation with a local sheriff. It turns out the killer is a guy named Edmund Lowry, Jr., who has a gory torture chamber under an abandoned cabin near Valentine. He nearly kills Arthur, who only manages to escape by flinging a severed head at him and knocking him out in a fist fight. Then, once he's turned in to the law, he starts out calmly accepting his arrest, only to instantaneously snap and attack the sheriff like a rabid dog, forcing either Arthur or the sheriff to shoot him dead. He clearly craved attention for his murders, as his crime scenes have things like "look on my works" written near them, and a letter to a newspaper editor found in his lair has him saying more articles should be written about the killings.
• Rides With Strangers has Donald Mcarthur, A.K.A Father Donald. A combination of a sexual sadist and a mission based killer, Donald is a Pedophile Priest who has raped, tortured, and killed many people, with little boys being his "passion". To try and suppress his desire to harm children, he murders adult people, primarily heretics due to his religious beliefs. He considers it his mission to purge the world of heretics. Not that he has any qualms about murdering someone who isn't a heretic if he happens upon someone while he feels like killing.
• Shadow Man features The Five, serial killers imbued with the immortal power of the Dark Souls, serving as heralds of Legion's invasion of Liveside:
  • Marco Roberto Cruz, AKA "Repo Man" because of his MO of posing as a repossession agent to enter his victims' homes, who preyed upon couples in the Mojave Desert.
  • Milton T. Pike, the "Video Nasty Killer", a Vietnam vet who tortured and killed young women, filmed the ordeals in tape, and sent those tapes to the authorities.
  • Avery Marx, the yet unidentified In-Universe "Home Improvement Killer", suspected of 12 murders in New York City. A visit to his hideout in a condemned hotel in Queens reveals he's killed far more than that.
  • An unidentified killer known as "Jack 2", because his MO and victims have an uncanny resemblance to those of Jack the Ripper... because he is the original Jack the Ripper, brought back to Liveside to complete his master's work.
  • Dr. Victor Batrachian, AKA "The Lizard King", the leader of the Five. Formerly a killer of his elderly patients to check in their inheritances and life insurances, upon recieving the power of the Dark Soul he developed the ability to kill people by making their head explode with his mind.
• The Emerald City Ripper, a serial killer that stalks the Barrens in the Dead Man's Switch campaign of Shadowrun Returns. He stuns his victims with magic and drugs and kills them in the process of extracting one of their internal organs while they're still alive as some kind of twisted souvenir taking. He is eventually revealed to be an organised profit killer for hire: His victims were all connected by their organs all coming from the same organ donor, whose corpse he had been hired to restore.
• Sakahagi of Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne routinely kills his fellow Manikins and proceeds to skin them, using the skin as a coat. He later attempts to kill Chiaki, leading to the victim's Start of Darkness, before finally attempting to kill the main character.
• The second mission of SWAT 4 involves carrying out a no-knock warrant at the home of a suspected serial killer, Lawrence Fairfax. The nature of his crimes are slowly uncovered as you search the house, culminating in the discovery that He has been creating papier mache casts of his victims before killing them.
• Virtually all the enemies encountered in Spookys Jumpscare Mansion are supernatural variations of this. Most of them have body counts in the hundreds, and even Specimen 1 has more the 3 (it has 4).
• The Thaumaturge: A serial killer dubbed the Fisherman is terrorizing the Wretched Hive neighborhood of Powiśle, leaving the naked, eyeless bodies of men on the banks of the Vistula. The killer is revealed to be Klara, a prostitute at Aunt Jadzia's brothel, who (according to her Motive Rant, at least) falls under the Power/Control category, channelling her hatred of her abusive brother along with her having to resort to prostitution to make a living to kill most of her clients.
• Touhou Project's Sakuya Izayoi is a maid, and an awesome one at that. But she is a Psycho Knife Nut and her spellcards have a serial killer theme.
• A Role in Town of Salem. They can kill 1 person each night, similar to the Mafia's killing role, but unlike the Mafia are lone wolves who usually act alone - but they can win in teams.
• Sweet Tooth from Twisted Metal is of the hedonistic type with antisocial and disorganized sub types.
  • And not just Sweet Tooth. There's a few more running around, while the cast of Black are either serial killers, will be turned into serial killers if they win or good guys who are going to be fucked over hard by a serial killer (which Calypso seems to be in this continuity).
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines:
  • The psychotic Dr. Stanley Gimble, who lures victims to his prosthetics lab with the promise of a modeling job, and proceeds to lock them in the basement and slowly vivisect them over a matter of months.
  • Vandal Cleaver, the guy running the blood bank, was a deranged psycho who tortured small animals to death as a child and has now graduated to harvesting blood from his preferably female victims and selling it to the vampires who visit Santa Monica. The twist is that he's the local Baroness's ghoul, and he most likely tried to kill her before she revealed what she really was and enslaved him in response. The player can be tasked with "resupplying" Vandal when they let a victim of his escape, which can be completed by sending the aforementioned Gimble in his direction.
• Welcome to the Game features The Breather, a bald caucasian man who targets hitchhikers and Deep Web browsers. He kills For the Evulz, but follows a strict code. He always calls his victims to let them know that he's coming, and either breathes into the phone (hench his alias), or threatens his soon to be attempted victims. If his potential victims have locked the door, or are able to keep their hands on the knob to keep him from getting in, and he doesn't see them, he will leave. Even if he does see them, he will still stop if they can keep him from breaking down the door.
• The indie horror game White Night has you wandering through the mansion of 'The Wolf of Black Lake', a serial killer that targeted dark-haired young women.
• Hubert Rejk from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt definitely qualifies as the mission-based type. He ritualistically tortured and murdered an untold amount of people in the name of the Church of the Eternal Fire, killing those he viewed as sinners or apostates. He also happened to be a vampire, but this had nothing to do with his motive.
  • The plot of the Blood and Wine expansion revolves around Geralt hunting down a serial killer who appears to be mission-based due to his murders of knights that violated the Five Chivalric Virtues of Toussiant. In reality, the murders were revenge killings orchestrated by the duchess' sister who tricked her vampire lover into killing the knights as a smokescreen for her plot to murder the duchess all because she thought she forgot about her.
• Wolfenstein: The New Order has "Ramona" ( aka Anya), who began killing Nazis after they shot an ex-boyfriend of hers in 1960. Her methods over time got more gruesome and grotesque, from stabbing one with a knife to burning an entire building full of them.
• Yandere Simulator allows the option of the main character becoming a serial killer in order to eliminate any potential love rivals. It's the path most portrayed in official artwork and promotional material. Additionally, even if Ayano isn't one, her mother was known for killing at least one rival, implicitly more. The Aishi family's nature also means that there's probably a few others in Ayano's family history.
• Olive Specter of The Sims 2 is heavily implied to be this. Her garden is a literal graveyard and her bio claims she spends her time sharpening sticks and collecting mushrooms. Not to mention if one checks her closet, it's full of outfits worn by those buried in her graveyard. Her possible victims include service sims, random townies, a former fiancee, two of her late husbands, two of her in-laws, a neighbor and even her own parents, sister and brother-in-law. It's implied that she plans to make another neighbor, the ex-husband of one of her victims, her next kill.
• Master Detective Archives: Rain Code features the Nail Man. The Nail Man is an urban legend in Kanai Ward where someone plants a doll with a nametag in the church's forest for the Nail Man to target and kill, and no one has no idea who he truly is, only that he uses a Locked Room Mystery tactic to avoid implication. The Nail Man turns out to have killed four people, and the Nail Man is revealed to be the priest at the church where the forest is. However, one of the Nail Man's obsessors took it upon themselves to steal a kill, that being the kill in the art gallery, which was actually from the worshipper frequenting the church, acting as a copycat of the real Nail Man.

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