The Alcoholic / Video Games

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• One of the creatures in ARK: Survival Evolved is a Chalicotherium, which is passively tamed with Beer, but despite this, it will happily eat berries once tamed.
• In Black Closet, this is what becomes of both Miss Talmage and the Red Mask if you take them both down in the same playthrough. They apparently get together to drink and idly plot revenge against you.
• Sleip of Blaze Union. She doesn't fit into the Always Female versions at all — she's young, she's cutesy, she's Ms. Fanservice, and she's very resistant to the idea of sobering up.
• Grayson Hunt of Bulletstorm is a revenge-obsessed drunkard. The player can decide to take Ishi's threat to kill him if he starts again to heart, by shooting the bottles of alcohol you see.. or taking a drink, and getting point bonuses for killing enemies while drunk.
• Mr. Galloway of Bully who is also arguably the coolest teacher in the game.
• The eponymous character of Conker's Bad Fur Day. Conker outright starts the game drunk (and he lazes around for a while until he sobers up).
• Dark Castle: The Black Knight. He has a conveyor belt of what are clearly mugs of beer set up next to his throne, and chugging them then flinging the empty mug at you is his only form of attack.
• Paulo Sanchez, the first boss of Dead Man's Hand, is a drunkard. He's fought in a bar his minions took over, and when confronted he threatens to kill you for interrupting his morning tequila.
• Dead Rising 2: Off The Record has Chuck Greene reduced to alcoholism after the death of Katey. He carries a bottle of whiskey everywhere, as well as Molotov Cocktails made from some old liquor bottles from his previous binges, and his boss theme is actually called "Firewater".
• Hank of Detroit: Become Human, who turned to drinking after the death of his son, Cole.
• In the first Diablo game, there was Farnham the Drunk, a comedic character who actually had a tragic side to him; he had to watch most of his friends get slaughtered during a raid in the dungeons. In the sequel, there's Geglash in Act II. While he is played for comedy, he is also an experienced fighter, and Atma notes that he has been drinking more than usual since the 'troubles' began.
• The Player Character in Disco Elysium is an Amnesiac Hero detective who spent his first three days in town on a chaotic bender instead of solving the murder he was called in for, and as a result not only can he not remember his name or profession, even the concept of money temporarily eludes him. Half of the game is spent solving the mystery of who you are and why you became like this.
• Dragon Age:
  • Dragon Age: Origins:
    • Oghren, both in the main game and the expansion Awakening. His alcoholism seems to have started as a way of Drowning My Sorrows. He used to be a renowned warrior and his wife was named a Paragon, the greatest honour a dwarf can ever achieve. When she left him and set off into the Deep Roads, however, things went downhill. By the time you meet him he can still fight well enough, but he's the laughing stock off the city and under the layers of bloodthirstiness and bluster he knows it.
    • Depending on the choices you make in the game, Alistair may become one as well.
  • Dragon Age II gives us Fenris, who spends his free time drinking alone. Given his backstory, you can't really blame him.
  • Dorian in Dragon Age: Inquisition repeatedly refers to drinking or needing to get drunk. It's implied he picked it up from his mother.
• Dungeons of Dredmor presents this as the fate of all wizards. Being that you, and everyone, gets mana from booze, they presumably needed to get absolutely tanked on a regular basis. Even their formidable magic prowess couldn't save them, however, and thus the only wizards you do find are dead, either by a pile of empty bottles (some of them describing some... less-than-healthy beverages), killed by a colleague with a mean drunk streak, or both.
• Dwarf Fortress:
  • The one thing that all of the dwarfs have in common is that they "need alcohol to get through the working day". Almost everything else will vary between them (including what they like, what they hate, their personality traits, etc.), but alcohol is their default drink of choice (though, that said, the type of alcohol that they like best also varies).
  • Dwarves are born alcoholic: dwarven babies drink booze instead of breast-milk. It's even affected their physiology, a deep look at the raw files reveals dwarven livers are enormous, which lets them handle a lot more booze. Or rather, not die from the amount of booze they already drink; almost every other sentient species in the game would die from alcohol poisoning with those amounts.
  • Other sentient creatures don't go out of the way to drink alcohol, unless they have the "doesn't care about anything anymore" quality from repeated, relentless trauma. If that's the case, they'll match the dwarves drink for drink.
• The Elder Scrolls:
  • This is within the sphere of Sanguine, the Daedric Prince of Debauchery and Hedonism. Sanguine's M.O. is to tempt mortals into sin through vice, with alcohol being a common component. Sanguine himself is often seen with some form of drink in his hand, even in his statues. In Skyrim, his quest even begins with a drinking contest at an inn.
  • This is a common trait of the Rieklings — small, primitive, blue-skinned humanoids native to Solstheim who somewhat resemble ice goblins. They are known for collecting and hording detritus scavenged from the more civilized races, which they "form strange attachments to" and can even be witnessed worshiping. Above all else, they love scavenging any alcoholic beverages they can get their hands on, which they refer to as "fizzydrink."
• Part of the first quest in Fable II is returning a drunk's lost bottle. The 'good choice' is to give it to his wife, who's trying to make him quit, while the 'evil' one is giving it back to him.
• Fallout: New Vegas has Cass (full name Rose of Sharon Cassidy, but you'd better not call her that), a traveling merchant who you first meet drinking excessive amounts of whiskey at a bar. Though that was because her caravan had been destroyed, she says she's been drinking a lot for a long time; she mentions that she had to stop trying to transport alcoholic beverages to sell because she would arrive with nothing but empty bottles. Given the setting, it's possible her tolerance for it is due to a mutation.
• In Final Fantasy X, Tidus mentions having trouble remembering a time when his father, Jecht, wasn't drunk. This apparently ended when he stabbed a shoopuf in a drunken panic (he thought it was a fiend); after Braska was forced to give the animal's handler all their money, Jecht never drank again. (You can find a recording of the aftermath of the incident around the same area where it happened.)
• In Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Cid's wife passed away, which greatly affected him and his son Mewt. How Cid handles the passing of his wife depends on the version of the game. The Japaense version shows Cid being a total drunk, which has him constantly going through different jobs due to his drinking. The English version removes the alcoholism and has Cid being timid and unreliable at work.
• The town doctor in Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist was such a habitual drunkard that in an early puzzle, a prescription written by him had to be looked at through the bottom of a whiskey glass in order to become legible.
• Grand Theft Auto IV: Packie McReary is an extremely heavy drinker (and drug addict). He even mentions while drunk at one point that he's worried he won't live to see thirty.
  • Grand Theft Auto V: Michael de Santa has devolved into alcoholism by the start of the game, largely owing to his boredom and general dissatisfaction with his life and family.
• Gerry of Graveyard Keeper is an especially notable example, craving and clamouring for alcohol constantly, in spite of the fact that he's a talking skull, and he openly acknowledges he no longer has functioning taste buds.
• Harvest Moon has a few characters of this sort considering how frequently wine is featured in the series. Karen from Harvest Moon 64 is the most popular example (though in other games such as Harvest Moon: Back to Nature she is a Hard-Drinking Party Girl instead). She loves her wine, not helped by the fact her family runs the local winery and she's works at a bar. At least one of her heart events has her drunk and wine is one of her favorite gifts. It's implied a good chunk of her drinking is due to her sadness over having a poor relationship with her father and hating living in a small town.
• Harvest Town has Jim Ortiz, the local artist who seems to spend most of his time high on alcohol. His son complains about his drinking habits, and he apparently owes a 50k drinking debt to Andy. It's all but mentioned that he took up alcoholism to cope with his wife suddenly abandoning him.
• Conway, the first player character in Kentucky Route Zero, is revealed to be a former alcoholic, and he's tempted to fall off the wagon during the course of the game. He falls back into it in Act 3.
• In Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, it is revealed that former deputy police chief Bravura is a recovering alcoholic, and he offers to take the protagonist to meetings with him. It isn't made clear if he is merely misreading Payne's survivor's guilt or if Max actually has a problem.
• In Max Payne 3, Max has become a full blown alcoholic. About halfway into the game it becomes one of Max's main goals to quit drinking.
• Granin in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. To the point that he divulges Sokolov's location to Snake while intoxicated.
• Possibly Bo Rai Cho from Mortal Kombat. It's never actually confirmed that he has an addiction, but seeing as he invented Drunken Boxing and can use vomit as a weapon during a fight, it is possible. Not to mention the fact that his name is derived from borracho, the Spanish word for "drunk".
• Generals and admirals in Napoleon: Total War start to drink heavily if left idle for too long, which has of course increasingly negative consequences on their troops' morale and their own leadership capacities.
• In No Umbrellas Allowed, Jisu Cha was alcohol-dependent during his time working at CARI.
  Suddenly, I feel thirsty. I need a bottle of whisky. It has never been enough to get me drunk, though.
• The Outer Worlds: When you first meet Nyoka, she been sleeping at the bar and she asks you to illegitimately acquire some medications to sober her up (and she'll also take more booze if you have any). Her drinking doesn't slow down much after you recruit her, and her special attack has her chug down a bottle before blasting an enemy with her machine gun. It turns out her drinking problem stems has a lot to do with her dead crew. In short, she's an Expy of Cass from New Vegas.
• Baofu from Persona 2 always enjoyed tipping a few back. With him, alcohol is integrated as a philosophy and as a way to know a real person as "the truth can be seen in a shot glass".
  Baofu: Hey Maya, why don't you try to become the best wine?
  Ulala: What do you mean?
  Baofu: The best wines are those that are treated well, but ultimately become spoiled or bad if misused over time. It's the same with humans.
• Carno's second wife Victoria from Phantasmagoria is implied to have been this, although we only see one flashback of her being drunk. Whether she suffered from alcoholism before being married off to Carno or whether she started drinking heavily soon after their marriage as a result of his abuse is unclear, but either way she was clearly unhappy as it's her spirit you hear (but don't see) sobbing in the wine cellar.
• Moira from "Piss" is an extreme example, she regularly drinks so much she sometimes suffers from amnesia to the point where she occasionally even needs her diary to remind her who she is... it's deliberate though as she's desperate to numb the memory and pain of her Dark and Troubled Past.
• The Prince of Landis: Evan's dad, who's usually seen on the couch in the living room. When he's not drinking and watching TV, he's past out drunk on the couch, fast asleep.
• Randal's Monday: Both Randal and Matt are deep in this trope, and it's the root of the large majority of their troubles. The final puzzle revolves around keeping them both sober to escape the ring's loop.
• Gen of SaGa Frontier is a drunken samurai. His 'win' animation after the battles show him drinking...and drinking...and drinking. You even recruit him from a bar in a backwater region. Sadly justified, as he's the Sole Survivor of a devastated region drinking to forget.
• Kenshin Uesugi in Samurai Warriors. Depending on who you ask, real life as well!
• If some alcohol is examined in the Heaven's Night club in Silent Hill 2, James will say that he doesn't want a drink right now given the extreme situation, but also implies that he's dissolved into alcoholism during his wife's long terminal illness.
• The Sims:
  • In The Sims 3, you can make any Sim this, though due to the substitution of "juice" and "nectar" for alcohol, it takes either a fix names mod or imagination. That said, it's easy enough to make your character do nothing but drink. Unfortunately, as the game doesn't have any effect for this, you will need to accomplish symptoms via personality traits. Some good ones are Party Animal (which has a lot of drinking-related wants), Dramatic (which allows "Fake Passing Out,") Hot-Headed or Grumpy (for the violent drunk), and Inappropriate or Insane (bad behavior) or Clumsy (Exactly What It Says on the Tin). Giving them the Nectar Maker or Mixologist skills also helps.
  • In The Sims 4, as of the Get Famous expansion, it's possible for famous Sims to become addicted to "juice" by getting the Juice Enthusiast fame quirk. Sims with this quirk slip into foul moods if they haven't had any juice in some time.
  • In The Sims Medieval Sims with the Drunkard flaw must frequently drink alcohol. If they don't within a few days they will get a negative buff.
• Both Dr. Luis and Alex of South of Real are implied to have troubles with alcohol. While Alex wants to drink on the job in the face of an impending Cosmic Horror apocalypse, Dr. Luis seems to be trying to drink away his sorrows...and the things he's done. The habit must run in the family.
• Jim Raynor in StarCraft II, in reaction to what he feels is his role in Kerrigan being turned into the Queen of Blades. Matt Horner apparently has to clean up after him a lot.
• Stardew Valley has Pam, Penny's grumpy middle-aged mother who was put out of a job after the bus to Calico Desert broke down, and Shane, Marnie's nephew who is dissatisfied with his job at JojaMart. Naturally, both of them have Beer as a loved gift. The effects are tragic in both cases; Pam's drinking has alienated her daughter, driven away her husband, and left her unable to maintain her own home, and Shane is self-medicating for chronic depression in the worst way possible.
• The mouthy Demoman of Team Fortress 2 seems to be perpetually drunk on the battlefield. His default melee weapon is even a scrumpy bottle! Interestingly, the comics imply that he's a perfectly reasonable guy while sober... which means that he's always drunk off his ass in-game. Even further, in at least one case he appeared to be drunk after being forced to go sober for too long, implying he's always at least somewhat drunk, after which his body apparently found a way to produce its own alcohol through fermenting his bone marrow: he was able to give blood-sucking robots alcohol poisoning.
  Demoman: [on sudden death] Thankfully, I already don't remember this.
• Touhou Project: Gensokyo's resident drunkards, Suika Ibuki and Yuugi Hoshiguma. Official manga shows pretty much all of Gensokyo is quite fond of the sauce.
• Played with in The Walking Dead (Telltale). Some examples also seem to understand it's not smart to get drunk with all the zombies around.
  • Chuck was a homeless alcoholic before the apocalypse.
  • Kenny appears to have a history of alcohol abuse. In Season 1, after his plan to find a boat seems to fail, he resorts to getting drunk off a bottle of whiskey. Much later in Season 2, he adamantly refuses to have any alcohol at all, hinting strongly at his past with alcohol abuse.
  • Christa in Season 1 refuses a drink at first, but then grabs the bottle and takes an extremely long swig while the other characters stare at her in disbelief. It is revealed Christa is pregnant so that could have been the reason for her initial refusal.
• In World of Warcraft, it's possible to make your player character one, granted that you have enough gold for the stronger alcohol items. If you're a Blood Elf, you don't even need the gold — there's a location close to your starting zone, that after a quest you can undertake around level 10, gives weak but free alcohol.
• In XCOM 2, Central Officer Bradford, once an upstanding advisor to the commander in XCOM: Enemy Unknown, had turned to drowning his sorrows after the fall of XCOM, on his way to becoming a more grizzled version of his former self.
• Yes, Your Grace: In the chain of events required to recruit Jovan, Noaksey mentions rumors of Sir Friderick having a drinking problem. Sir Friderick regularly having too much to drink is later confirmed by Jovan himself.

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