History TheFaceless / VideoGames

* Samus Aran usually takes her helmet off at the very end of each ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' game. At the time when the original game came out, the fact that [[SamusIsAGirl Samus was a woman]] was a [[TheReveal big revelation]], but nowadays [[ItWasHisSled this is common knowledge]].

* Ethan Winters, the protagonist of VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard and VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage, never has his face clearly seen. There are promotional images of him, but his face is always in shadow or obscured by something. This was likely to emphasize that these were the first ''Resident Evil'' games to not only be played from a first-person perspective, but to have an UnbrokenFirstPersonPerspective.

* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': Jax, whose [[AmbiguouslyHuman visible inhuman-looking features]] make it uncertain if there's a normal-looking face underneath his helmet.

* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series

* Shermie from ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'', [[BlindingBangs who combs her bangs down over her face]] [[HiddenEyes so that her eyes remain hidden]]. It's said that they have a malevolent glare about them. There's also Kukri, whose face is hidden in shadow underneath his hood, which leaves very little aside from his eyes and mouth visible.

* In ''VideoGame/{{LOOM}}'', viewing the face of a member of the perpetually hooded Weavers' Guild is said to be fatal (note that [[ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes their eyes are still visible]] within the darkness of their hood, as in many cartoons). This seems close to being revealed, [[TheUnreveal only to skip to a brief scene happening outside the room in medium and easy mode, and being obscured by a flash of light in hard mode.]] The witness screams and is never seen again.
** Note the "riddle" that Bobbin tells to the man who wants to see under his hood: "If what you fear is [[NothingIsScarier Nothing]], then you'd better not touch me."

[[GlowingEyesOfDoom Yellow eyes]], my disguise, do you like my [[NiceHat pointy hat]]?"''

* Hector from the ''VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand'' and other Dept Heaven games is always seen wearing a [[NiceHat weird hat]] that [[HiddenEyes hides his eyes]]. Perhaps to make him more menacing as he'd be [[{{Bishonen}} pretty]] [[GenericCuteness cute]] without it.

* Shermie from ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'', [[BlindingBangs who combs her bangs down over her face]] [[HiddenEyes so that her eyes remain hidden]]. It's said that they have a malevolent glare about them.

* The face of [[FanNickname Jacket]] from ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'' has never been shown, thanks to the minimalistic pixel-art style of the game (other characters have more detailed "talking heads", but Jacket doesn't). It might have been shown when he made an appearance in ''VideoGame/Payday2'', but we don’t know if that’s the real Jacket or not.

* Semi-averted in most of the ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' games, wherein you don't see what the P.O.V. character looks like and there are no mirrors anywhere in Black Mesa, but the protagonists are shown in the box art... except Cpl. Shepherd in ''[[VideoGame/HalfLifeOpposingForce Opposing Force]]'', who wears a Black Ops-style mask there.

* Semi-averted in most of the ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' games, wherein you don't see what the P.O.V. character looks like and there are no mirrors anywhere in Black Mesa, but the protagonists are shown in the box art... except Cpl. Shepherd in ''Opposing Force'', who wears a Black Ops-style mask there.

* In ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', a certain non-playable character is referred to only as [[NoNameGiven That Man]], on top of which his face is constantly in shadows for no readily apparent reason.

* [[spoiler:Shiki's true self]] in ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' is only shown by the bottom half of her face.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'':

* The face of [[FanNickname Jacket]] from ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'' has never been shown. It might have been shown when he made an appearance in ''VideoGame/Payday2'', but we don’t know if that’s the real Jacket or not.

* The first two protagonists of the ''VideoGame/BioShock'' series, [[HeroicMime who never speak either]]. The second is a Big Daddy, who is The Faceless by definition.

* ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet'' has the Royal Magister. Only his (rather large) eyes are visible.

** 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 Chief having a voice and personality, Creator/{{Bungie}} wanted to keep an active FeaturelessProtagonist factor going. Their successors at Creator/ThreeFourThreeIndustries have kept this up too; at the end of ''VideoGame/Halo4'', the screen goes black just as the Chief's helmet is taken off, [[spoiler:though 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)]]. In the novels, we do occasionally get a description of the Master Chief's face in the rare moments when he takes off his helmet: he's described as being deathly pale from spending so much time in his armor, and having brown hair and blue eyes. So far, the oldest we have seen him with an unobstructed view of his face is in ''Halo: Collateral Damage'', set 27 years before the original trilogy from when he was 14. [[https://www.halopedia.org/images/9/96/HCD_-_John117vsYao.jpg Those augmentations weren't kind to him]].

* The hosts of ''VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack'' and ''VideoGame/TheJackboxPartyPack'' never show their faces, and are generally only heard. The exceptions are at the end of ''YDKJ: The Ride'' and in ''Quiplash'''s "Quip Pro Quo" achievement.

** 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 Chief having a voice and personality, Creator/{{Bungie}} wanted to keep an active FeaturelessProtagonist factor going. Their successors at Creator/ThreeFourThreeIndustries have kept this up too; at the end of ''VideoGame/Halo4'', the screen goes black just as the Chief's helmet is taken off, [[spoiler:though 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)]]. In the novels, we do occasionally get a description of the Master Chief's face in the rare moments when he takes off his helmet: he's described as being deathly pale from spending so much time in his armor, and having brown hair and blue eyes. So far, the oldest we have seen him with an unobstructed view of his face is in ''Halo: Collateral Damage'', set 27 years before the original trilogy from when he was 14. [[https://www.halopedia.org/images/9/96/HCD_-_John117vsYao.jpg Those augmentations weren't been kind to him]].

** 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 Chief having a voice and personality, Creator/{{Bungie}} wanted to keep an active FeaturelessProtagonist factor going. Their successors at Creator/ThreeFourThreeIndustries have kept this up too; at the end of ''VideoGame/Halo4'', the screen goes black just as the Chief's helmet is taken off, [[spoiler:though 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)]]. In the novels, we do occasionally get a description of the Master Chief's face in the rare moments when he takes off his helmet: he's described as being deathly pale from spending so much time in his armor, and having brown hair and blue eyes.