History TheFaceless / VideoGames

** Mandalore, in the same game series, is a subversion of the trope; as Canderous Ordo, the character is a member of the party in the first game and makes no effort to conceal his name or face. By the time the player meets him in the second game, however, his entire body is concealed by a suit of armor that he refuses to remove and he does not acknowledge his real name.
*** TO clarify, in lore Mandalore isn't a person so much as an idea. Hence the faceless-ness and refusal to acknowledge his name.

* ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'''s Corvo is never shown unmasked, even in the ending.

** In ''HaloWars'', all the marines except Sergeant Forge wear balaclavas, and the Spartans never take off their helmets.

** At the end of ''{{Halo 4}}'', the screen goes black just as the Chief's helmet is taken off. [[spoiler:This is halfway averted in the Legendary ending, where you get a brief glimpse of the area around his eyes (though the eyes themselves are shadowed out).]]

* ''VideoGame/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' has the mysterious villain known as the phantom, an emotionless assassin who can perfectly disguise themselves as anyone. They have done this so many times that the phantom has actually forgotten who they really are, and in the end suffers a ShapeshifterIdentityCrisis.

* The ''DynastyWarriors'' version of [[Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms Wei Yan]] is always portrayed wearing a mask. A cutscene in ''Dynasty Warriors 4: Empires'' shows Wei Yan's mask accidentally getting knocked off. He's only shown from behind, and the other characters react with shocked horror. Pang Tong, meanwhile, wears a veil that obscures his face from the eyes down.

* We never see Vile without his helmet in ''VideoGame/MegaManX''. But being a robot, the helmet could very well be his head. Its never clarified.

* Meta Knight from the ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'' series. He will challenge Kirby to a swordfight, and when defeated, his mask is cleaved in half. He is briefly revealed to look [[BadassAdorable very similar to Kirby]], before wrapping his cape around his face and vanishing.

* ''{{Dishonored}}'''s Corvo.

* ''VideoGame/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' has the mysterious villain known as the phantom, an emotionless assassin who can perfectly disguise ???self as anyone; he/she/it has done this so many times that the phantom has actually forgotten who he/she/it really is, and in the end suffers a [[Main/ShapeshifterIdentityCrisis]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'' - Master Chief's face, hidden behind a face mask and [[TheUnreveal clever camera work]], is a source of debate among fans. This was because, despite having a voice, and "personality" they wanted to keep an active {{AFGNCAAP}} factor going. In the novels, Master Chief does take off his helmet occasionally: he's described as being deathly pale from spending so much time in his armor, and having brown hair and eyes. ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'' and ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' also have protagonists who never remove their helmets. Reach also has one NPC squad member, Emile, who never removes his helmet (which has a skull etched into the front of it) either.

** Inverted with Diglett and its evolution Dugtrio, however. We actually ''never'' see their bodies from the neck down!

* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', Legate Lanius, Caesar's {{Dragon}}, wears a concealing mask almost all the time. He supposedly only takes it off in the privacy of his own quarters, where he's attended by slaves that he's blinded specifically so that they can't see his face. You can't even take the mask off of him when you kill him, because he's the last opponent, and the game turns into a cutscene followed by the end after that.

* Both protagonists of the ''Franchise/BioShock'' series, [[HeroicMime who never speak either]]. The latter is a Big Daddy, who is The Faceless by definition.

* The ''MortalKombat'' series has a few examples, most notably the various ninjas, though a couple of them have appeared unmasked, and Kabal. In Kabal's case, it's because his face was scarred in an unknown accident that requires him to constantly wear a mask that doubles as a respirator. One of his fatalities does involve him removing the mask, causing his opponent to literally die of fright upon seeing his uncovered face. A pre-scarring Kabal appeared without a mask in Shaolin Monks, but it doesn't really count snce that game is not canon to the main series.

* We never see Vile without his helmet in ''MegamanX''. But being a robot, the helmet could very well be his head. Its never clarified.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' LDC "Operation Anchorage" allows the character to command a squad of men- each one seems to wear a full face balaclava that means every one looks exactly the same (the same applies for the Chinese soldiers you fight against, and for the player character in the similation). This trope does not appear in the main game, though.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Crusader}}'' series of games, the Silencer is a [[TheFaceless Faceless]], as is President Gauthier in ''No Regret'', the second of the two games. According to an unverified report this editor has read (i.e. this editor has been unable to duplicate the results), being close enough to a massive explosion that it kills him but not so close that it sets him on fire or otherwise triggers a special death animation can sometimes knock the Silencer's helmet off. Underneath, he is supposedly a pale blonde man.

* The protagonist of the ''SuperSolvers'' learning games. Or is he TheBlank?