Ridiculously Cute Critter / Video Games

• The Baliflids in Ascendancy are described this way in universe — although judging from the art, this is a case of either Ugly Cute or Informed Ability (they are rather scrawny rodentoids with three tongues). Alien species find them so irresistibly cute that their special ability is to force all other species to make peace with them at once.
• Aura-Aura is possibly the cutest star ever. And if the game says anything, it's that he's no bigger than a basketball◊!
• Bomberman is just OOZING with them, to the point of risking Cuteness Overload. Let's start listing them off:
  • The roois/Louies from Bomberman '94/Mega Bomberman onward, adorable kangaroos that give Bomberman a ride. White Bomber in Bomberman Jetters also has a small one as a pet companion.
  • The dinosaurs that also serve as mounts. In Super Bomberman 4, they start off as generic enemies early in the game until you blast them, at which point they turn into eggs. Walk over your first egg and you get to ride one, as well as gaining spike bombs. Any additional eggs you collect follow behind, Yoshi-style. Saturn Bomberman instead features different dinosaurs as general Louie replacements, also with unique abilities.
  • The Charaboms in general, but especially Pommy, debuting in Bomberman 64: The Second Attack! He even introduces himself to a few Mooks as "the cutest hero in the galaxy"!
  • If Bomberman B-Daman Bakugaiden IV qualifies, there's the B-Darons; mostly Funny Animals that don't talk, but clearly show intelligence nonetheless. And many of them are indeed adorable, to the point of young Bomberwomen getting Cuteness Proximity reactions around them right in the third episode!
  • See something at the start of the stage that looks innocent and adorable? It'll probably kill you on contact. They might be kid mice holding balloons at an amusement park or weird panda umbrella things, but they're still every bit as deadly as everything else.

• Lex from Bookworm looks unbelievably proper and adorable despite being, well, a bookworm.
• Chrono Cross has Draggy, for being a cute newborn dragon and Pip, a creature that can evolve into cute forms as well.

• The Dragon Quest series is chock-full of endearingly adorable monsters no matter which entry. Even the "menacing" monsters like dragons/golems/inanimate suits of armor/etc. tend to be Ugly Cute at worst. Several notable examples include:
  • The most famous of them all are the Slimes; cute little blue droplets with a big happy smile. Whenever they talk, they tend to replace certain words and syllables with slime-related puns (like "gooman" instead of "human"), and they're always given child-like voices.
  • Imps are diminutive demons with googly eyes, a big tongue sticking out (which makes them talk like Elmer Fudd), and a big pitchfork that looks more like a table fork. They're also a subversion of Killer Rabbits; although they have access to incredibly dangerous spells like Kathwack, their MP is way too low to cast it.
  • Drackys, bat-like creatures with adorable toothy grins.
  • Great Sabrecubs, the younger versions of the fearsome Great Sabrecats, are essentially just kittens with the same flowing mane as their adult counterparts.
  • Sham hatwitch, a recent monster in later entries, they are small warthogs with comically-oversized hats.
• The fluffy wamblers from Dwarf Fortress are described as, "known and beloved for their warm hearts, gentle natures, and stumble bumblings... They are widely held to be 'adorable,' and many dwarves consider them to be a delicacy." They're also respected as killers of bronze colossi.^note After a famous occurrence of an adventurer (somehow) killing a colossus by throwing a wambler at it.
• EXTRAPOWER: Attack of Darkforce: Three of the Hikari Warriors have adorable Non-Human Sidekick, Pururu for the Blue Warrior, Pororo for the Green Warrior, and Purara aids the Red Warrior.
• The Final Fantasy series has several:
  • Most iconic are the Moogles, little white fuzzballs who say "kupo" all the time. Not even Terra can resist the cute◊. Lightning can.
  • Chocobos, yellow birds used as mounts, may or may not be ridiculously cute depending on the Art Shift of the game.
    • In Final Fantasy XI, not only do you have cute chocobos, you also have the even cuter BABY chocobos. Baby chocobos have also made it as merchandise as a noisy but oh so cute toy◊.
    • There's a number of Final Fantasy spinoffs known collectively as the Chocobo series, all featuring the same ridiculously adorable protagonist◊.
    • From Final Fantasy XIII, Sazh's baby chocobo fits into this trope. It's essentially a fluffy infant chicken that can fly. Amping this up is an optional scene on Gran Pulse in which Sazh's baby chocobo meets baby chocobos of Gran Pulse.
  • Final Fantasy VIII has Moombas, apparently an evolved form of the big ugly humanoid Shumi.
  • Tonberry is certainly cute as he slowly waddles across the battlefield, pokes you with his cute little knife, and you fall over dead.
  • Final Fantasy VII has Cait Sith. He's essentially a bipedal cat, but with an oversized head to make him even cuter.
  • The Carbuncle, in the games where it is portrayed as a cat (or fox)-like mammal with huge ears, beady eyes, and rounded snout, like Final Fantasy VIII or Final Fantasy XI. Not so much in Final Fantasy V or Final Fantasy VI, where it's more reptilian (and is actually a large and menacing boss monster in the former.) Or Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, where it looks like something entirely different. Double Subversion with Final Fantasy V: You have to fight a very feral-looking one at first, but then you summon it and instead get the adorable, Reflect-buffing, shiny-Espeon-esque creature that's pretty much standard for the later games. Yes, including Final Fantasy VI. Dissidia Final Fantasy outright lampshades how increasingly adorable it gets with each game.
    • Even in Crystal Chronicles it's pretty adorable, looking like some big fluffy green Totoro◊.
  • In Final Fantasy XII, they threw in some literal Killer Rabbits by introducing some bosses in the form of the game's terribly cute Dream Hare creatures (imagine a tiny bunny with a giant puffball tail and feathers for ears, and that's about the gist of it). Fury, one of the optional mini-bosses, is one of those.
  • The Nu Mou race from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Final Fantasy Tactics A2. They've got big furry tails, long and droopy ears like a dog, and their face finishes the rest of their cuteness. Of course, these cute factors run away when you start to see them slaughter your team with powerful magic spells if you find them as enemies. Their Final Fantasy XII incarnations goes the complete opposite end of cute.
  • The Lalafells of Final Fantasy XIV are an entire humanoid race that seems devoted to this concept. They have the largest, most expressive eyes of any playable race in the game (and even a choice to have shimmering pupil less jewel eyes), tiny beady noses, and large pointed ears. Also, they max out at about three feet tall. Even their battle cries will make you want to drop your weapons and give them hugs!
    • In the same game, there's the Namazu, which are a beastmen race that are modeled after catfish. Their googly eyes, short and chubby stature, doofy personalities, and the squeaks they make when they waddle make the Namazu ridiculously cute. There's also merchandise made after them.
    • Shadowbringers introduces the Great Serpents of Ronka (Scree!), a species of Tsuchinoko with beady eyes and Cute Little Fangs that get around by bouncing on their chubby bellies rather than slither. Three variations of them are available as minions (one with a mining helmet, one with a farmer hat and bandana, and the original hatless variety), and two larger specimens as mounts hiding inside levitating pottery.
• If you have the right items, you can turn yourself into a small cute frog, rabbit, dog, etc. in Gaia Online. Cue the delight if you enter the Zomg! game as a frog. Not to mention all the fluffs in the game itself.
• Ghost Trick gives us Missile, the Bad Ass Adorable Pomeranian. Missile was previously featured in Ace Attorney, where he looked more like a Shiba Inu, but with the same amount of adorableness.
• Guild Wars has rollerbeetles, giant rolling beetles that make cute little chittering noises. During Canthan festivals, you even get to participate in Mario Kart-style rollerbeetle races.
  • Guild Wars 2 features Aurene, Glint's very recently hatched adorably cute offspring.
• Hello Kitty Online: All of the mooks are even cuter than they are dangerously aggressive. As is pretty much everything else in this Sugar Bowl world.
• Pretty much any character in the Kirby games is some degree of cute, given the setting. Kirby himself, a round little pink orb of cuteness, is no exception, as are the Waddle Dees, a race of adorable Waddling Heads that look a bit like stuffed toys. But Elfilin◊, the Big Good of Kirby and the Forgotten Land, takes the cake. He's basically a chinchilla with fluffy blue-green fur and huge ears he can use to fly around. And just when you've finished staring into his Innocent Blue Eyes, you'll realize his entire body is shaped like a heart. It's like HAL made him to be loved.
• Klonoa: Nobody's really sure just what the eponymous protagonist is, beyond the adjectives "cute", "long-eared", and "fuzz-covered". Word of God claims that Klonoa's a cat with long ears. This really applies to pretty much almost everything in his games, as well.
• Shadows from Kingdom Hearts. Big heads, big, wide eyes, and so little and huggable looking. A lot of the smaller Heartless fall into this category. They are so huggable you can almost ignore the fact that if you get within an arms' reach they will plunge whatever limbs they have inside your chest and rip your heart out.
  • Most of the Dream Eaters in Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] were designed with this intent.
  • The Chirithy from Kingdom Hearts χ and Kingdom Hearts III. An adorable race of Dream Eaters resembling small stuffed cats with capes and little pouches See here.◊
• The Yordles from League of Legends count, pretty much being Moogles in all but name. Teemo in particular was the game's first designated cute champion.
  • Also Fizz, who is basically an amphibian Yordle.
  • Poros which inhabit the Howling Abyss map, who are tiny white furballs with very small limbs, disproportionately large tongues and goat-like horns. They can be fed a Poro-Snax, which will cause them to happily run around in a circle◊ once and grow larger.
    • If fed by Braum, they grow a moustache. If fed by enough players and Braum, however, this happens.
  • Poros really came into their own in the Legends of Runeterra CCG, giving us a look at various different varieties of poros and the crazy, adorable things they do. Loremaster Necrit did an analysis of all the poro cards in the game's first release after Riot declared that every card in the game was canonical. Their fluff is truly infinite, to the point where the collective noun for a group of poros is a fluft.
• Genshin Impact:
  • The Aranara are a race of mystical plantlike spirits who reside in the secluded Mahavanaranapna in Sumeru, and are only visible to young children or adventurers who have received the blessing of Dendro. They are characterized by their very short height, simple and rotund body shape, a cute leafy hat as well as facial features which look like a child doodled them on. They also have a youthful singing voice, a cutesy sound to their footsteps and are overall pleasant little creatures to be around who only wish for the well-being of the Traveler and the rainforest.
  • In Fontaine, we have the Leisurely Otters which seem to have been designed to check as many boxes for cuteness as possible. And for good measure, Hoyoverse went the extra mile and gave them plenty of adorable Idle Animations.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • Link's Deku form in Majora's Mask. He retains his cap, which is almost as big as he is!
  • Skyward Sword has Remlits, little siamese cat-raccon things with big bat ears... at least, during the day. At night they're a whole different matter◊... You can make the Remlits stay ridiculously adorable all the time if you complete a certain sidequest, however.
  • Also in Skyward Sword, the Kikwis, who resemble a cross between a penguin, a beaver, and a shrub. Not to mention their Verbal Tic...
  • The Maiamais from A Link Between Worlds are small crab-octopus creatures that you have to collect. They make cute squeaky noises and you bring them back to their mother, which looks like a Puni Plush version of an Octorok.
• Nall and Ruby from Lunar, being what appear to be adorable winged cats with high-pitched voices. Until they become full-fledged dragons.
• Furrikin in Lusternia. Bipedal, intelligent little fuzzballs, they resemble anthropomorphic archetypical animals. Furrikin can look like anything from a panda bear to a raccoon to a sheep, but don't let their appearance fool you - they're smarter than humans and very fast. And not all of them are peaceful, either.
• Nelly Cootalot has spoonbeaks from the Barony of Meeth, which are not only cute for their eponymous spoon-shaped bills, but also serve to show how evil Baron Widebeard can be when he enslaves them to work in the Saul Mines.
• Nippon Ichi games have Prinnies, dood. Fat, cuddly looking penguins with squeaky voices.
  • Also the Eryngi, goofy dancing/boxing mushrooms with adorable faces and high-pitched voices.
• Chibiterasu of Ōkamiden, a puppy replacement for Amaterasu of Ōkami, is undeniably cute. All the brush gods' offspring qualify, as well. Especially Gekigami's.
• Pokémon: About half of all Pokémon start off like this, then get bigger and (slightly) less cute as they evolve. (Kind of like real baby animals.)
  • Except Goomy, who becomes cuter as it evolves. Feebas is an intentional exception; it starts off as an ugly, ratty fish, but evolves into a gorgeous (and somewhat overpowered at times) Milotic. The drooling Gloom becomes a pretty Bellossom when you use a Sun Stone on it.
  • Generation VI has a whole category for this kind of Pokémon (well, except Granbull), the aptly-named "Fairy" type, and a matching gym dedicated to it in XY.
  • Pokémon Sword and Shield not only showcased Grookey, Scorbunny, and Sobble as the starters; the utterly fluffy Wooloo is described as a timid and peaceful creature that rolls away from conflict. Wooloo is so adorable that the Pokémon has gotten tons of fanart minutes after its reveal.
  • Depending on your thoughts on spiders, Joltik and Galvantula can come off as either this or Ugly Cute. Both of them are fluffy yellow spiders with big blue Puppy-Dog Eyes that make you want to pick them up and snuggle them to death (Joltik moreso). Not to mention the large amount of cute Galvantula artwork such as this.
  • Pokémon Scarlet and Violet introduced many very adorable Pokémon. To name just a few:
    • The starters this Generation: Sprigatito the Cute Kitten with the ability to create relaxing therapeutic auras, Fuecoco the happy-go-lucky fire crocodile that loves to eat, and the Water-type duckling Quaxly with its meticulously cared-for pompadour.
    • Fidough, a Fairy-type dachshund puppy made of bread dough with a tiny face. Its evolution Dachsbun, looking like a walking loaf of fresh bread, manages to be every bit as cute.
    • Tandemaus consists of two tiny white mice working together to fight which will eventually become a Maushold, consisting of the same two mice from before but now accompanied by one or two even tinier mice who fight alongside their parents/guardians.
    • Cetoddle, a land-whale with enormous eyes and a round, very huggable appearance which can often be found in large groups that walk up to the player to watch them curiously.
    • Ogerpon, introduced in the Teal Mask DLC campaign, is initially feared by the populace of the Kitakami region, but is ultimately revealed to be a very sweet-natured and fun-loving Pokémon (but nevertheless a force to be reckoned with when the chips are down) and whose face behind her various masks is exceedingly cute◊. Once the misunderstanding is cleared up, one of the villagers even comments on how adorable she is.
    • Terapagos from The Indigo Disk is also very cute, especially in its initial form. It looks like a tiny blue turtle with a gem for a shell, and it has big eyes with star-shaped pupils. Its first action upon waking up is to yawn adorably and look curiously up at the player character.
• This◊ is who you play as in Tamarin.
• Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • Being colorful animals, the main characters are naturally predisposed to cuteness, and many a dedicated fan has even made the likes of the stubborn, cold-faced Blaze the Cat into something adorable◊.
  • Anyone who's seen the Chao◊ would think they're cute.
• Super Mario Bros.:
  • Yoshi easily falls under this. Being a small dinosaur with huge but adorable eyes, a big nose, orange boot-like shoes, and sounding cute whenever he "speaks" (saying "Yoshi!", various exclamations such as "Wow!", "Whoa!", "Yay!", "Ha!" and "Wah!", and several unintelligible noises), who's to say he's not cute? Though he does get less cute when you find out how exactly he can whip some ass in the Mario and Super Smash Bros. series.
  • The Toads are very cute with their small proportions and their big heads, giving the impression that they are a race consisting entirely of little kids. This is even lampshaded in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, where they make Puppy-Dog Eyes in one scene.
    Toad: How? Look at us! We're adorable!
  • Ever since his first appearance in Super Mario 64 Dorrie, the adorable blue plesiosaur-like creature who can be found in Hazy Cave Maze constantly swimming in circles and will gladly give Mario a ride across water and lowering his neck to allow Mario to climb onto his head to reach high areas. A signpost near the lake in which he resides states that he might eat visitors who come too close, although he is completely harmless. In the remake, his design has changed from a beady-eyed creature into a design which has strong elements akin to Yoshi, sharing a similar round, friendly face and placement of the eyes and nostrils, with the most noticeable change is wearing a pair of goggles. In Super Mario Odyssey Dorries of different colors can be seen swimming around wearing hats.
  • The Ukiki from Super Mario 64, which is an adorable little monkey you see when scaling Tall, Tall Mountain. Most curious players have picked him up in hopes of carrying him around the level, and then he steals your hat...
  • Super Mario 64 DS introduces some adorable colorful rabbits you chase after in order to gain access to a location due to each of them having a key.
  • The Lumas, introduced in Super Mario Galaxy, are little sparkly star-shaped critters that also sound very cute when speaking. Many of them live under the care of their adoptive mother Rosalina, whom they call "Mama", which does not help matters.
  • Super Mario 3D World introduces Plessie, which can be summed up as "Yoshi's possible distant cousin"; he has the face of Yoshi with the body of a cartoon Loch Ness monster and wears a red bandana. You ride Plessie like a super fast jet ski during some water sections of a level and when you have to leave him behind, he gives you a friendly wave goodbye. You can even tickle him using the Gamepad, causing him to giggle!
  • Princess Peach: Showtime! has Peach's magical companion, Stella who's a small adorably cheery 8-pointed star sprite who's the guardian of the Sparkle Theater. She serves as Peach's guide through the plays she reenacts in her quest to defeat the Wicked Witch Grape with the magical ribbon she conjures for Peach when they first meet serving as the princess' Transformation Trinket.
  • While not directly involved in the mainline Mario games, Diddy Kong tends to give off this vibe thanks to his large eyes, red baseball cap with the Nintendo logo on it, long prehensile tail, and rather adorable voice.
    • Ditto for his girlfriend Dixie Kong, who is just as adorable if not more so. Her little sister Tiny Kong used to qualify for this, but after a redesign looks more mature and less cutesy.
• The main Monsters you run into in Wario Land: Shake It! are little bandana-waring red balls with feet and mouths known as Bandineros. They don't actually do any damage, they just walk about and bounce off your fat gut, and grabbing them causes them to panic in a way that can cause just a little bit of empathy for them. Also, they come in multiple types - yellow (they jump all about the stage), blue (they inflate and float, making a face that looks suspiciously like that anime "Hey-I'm-cute" face we all know and love (:3, to be exact) all the while), and a lighter blue (they have forks on their head which can actualy harm you, but cause them to get stuck to the cealing or walls when thrown, with struggling included). It seems even the game likes them, as some missions to unlock the music soundtrack require you to get through a stage without killing a single baddie.
• Cute little Kyu-Kyu of Vanguard Bandits, a platypus who's always hanging around his human Nana.
• World of Mana:
  • Rabites. As the name suggests, the look a little like rabbits, but rounder and fluffier. They are usually the earliest and weakest enemies in each game, but Trials of Mana features the Black Rabite as the ridiculously powerful Superboss. Evil in its cutest form!
  • Flammie from the same franchise. He's a fluffy, four angel winged dragon with big eyes and ears.
• World of Warcraft has many "Vanity Pets" (as opposed to Combat Pets used by hunters) that fall into this category, including a panda cub (which ups the ante by falling asleep), dragon whelps and baby murlocs. Okay, not many consider murlocs cute, but the baby version is so much cutie-fied (and does a funny dance) that most people don't care. In Wrath of the Lich King there is a quest where you have to rescue baby murlocs being kept locked up in cages... and when you open them, sometimes they say, "Mama?" or "Dada?" and then they follow you in a little scampering group.
• The Zork universe has the minx, "an irresistibly cuddly animal which shares all the most ingratiating characteristics of kittens, koala bears, and piglets."
• The titular Knytt and its mouse-like scurring up walls.◊ It is (and his species) a cross between a kangaroo and a tiny T-Rex.
• Teddie from Persona 4, it's like this trope page is describing him on purpose. As the name would suggest, he looks like an overly large, animate teddy bear, with short arms and legs and a huge head and eyes. Funny enough, it is kind of describing him on purpose-Teddie looks the way he does because he wanted humans to like him.
• Minecraft:
  • Baby mobs are just the normal mobs with a smaller body and a head of the same size as the old ones, but they're still very cute.
  • As of the "Pretty Scary" update, bats count as well. They're small brown flying bundles with big ears that make adorable squeaks and hang on walls by their tiny little feet.
• The Nopon in Xenoblade Chronicles 1. Small? Check. Fluffy? Check. Adorable speech pattern? Check. This cuteness causes a stark contrast from the other more-humanoid sentient beings in the world, and they are fully aware of it. Some Nopon lament that other races tend to not take them seriously, while others use their cuteness to their advantage (resulting in sidequests covering material darker than one'd expect from a token cutesy species, like breaking up a drug-smuggling ring).
  • They're back in the sequel Xenoblade Chronicles X, where they're natives of planet Mira. That's right, the cute little merchant puffballs have evolved and survived on a planet where humans with mini-mecha are experiencing severe survival issues. They achieve this by hiding and traveling smart, though, so they're noncombatants.
  • They show up once again in Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Only Bana, the chairman of the Argentum Trade Guild, is designed to be not-so-cute compared to the rest of his species to showcase his slimy nature.
    • 2 also reveals in a sidequest that, centuries prior, Nopon were capable of speaking the common language just as well as any other race. Then, the famous Nopon pirate Captain Nopopon proposed that, since everybody else already perceived Nopon are harmless furballs anyway, they should go the whole hog to get people to underestimate the fuzzy Proud Merchant Race. He promptly fluffed himself up and started talking like an idiot, and the entire species followed suit. What was at first merely a deliberate attempt to play up the ridiculous cuteness inherent to Nopons ultimately became a legitimate part of their culture.
• Shadowverse:
  • The Cerberus card grants the player two cute puppy like cards, Mimi and Coco.
  • Runecraft has a Penguin Wizard. That's right, a penguin wizard.
  • The Ivory Dragon from the Dragoncraft deck is pretty cute as well.
  • Blood Wolf staggers between this and Savage Wolf.
  • Hamsa card is basically an adorable duck.
  • Owlcat is a bizarre cross between an owl and cat, but its expressions in both its forms make it widely adored.
  • Bladed Hedgehog is a hedgehog that happens to be insanely adorable despite having dozens of sword-like quills sticking out of its back.
• Spiral Knights has snipes, adorably pudgy birds that fly around using helicopter wings. The mewkats also fit in, being tiny, higher-pitched, non-aggressive versions of the spookats.
• Omnom from Cut the Rope. Especially with the puppy dog eyes he makes if the player fails a level.
  • In the sequel, the other nommies.
• Vegemon Farm is filled with adorable vegetable creatures that serve as the player's front lines against monsters and are residents of the player's farm.
• Taomee's Little Flower Fairy has the pet flower fairies the player get from harvesting selected plants.
• The titular Kaburin in the mobile game of the same name, which is now defunct. They are creatures wearing an bag or bucket over their heads. In gameplay, the player throws them to attack enemies.
• The Mimigas from Cave Story can count. Cute little bunny/dog creatures with big ears. What's not to like? When they're given Red Flowers, that's what.
• Nugs in Dragon Age, a combination of the most pleasant traits of piglets and rabbits. You can acquire one as a pet for Leliana in the first game.
  • Nugs are somewhat of a subversion due to the fact many people find their tiny little hands to be creepy. As well, they're a primary food source for the dwarves.
• Pikmin, of course, which utilize every last one of the tricks listed up at the top of the page. Many of the monsters would qualify as well.
• Wiki the bell monkey from Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure can certainly qualify, with his almost unfaltering cheery face and adorable voice.
• Mary's dream world in Dreaming Mary is exclusively inhabited by cute animal companions. Except for the Otherworld, that is.
• The eponymous critters from Popcap's Chuzzle are little more than brightly-colored balls of fur with eyes. They also sneeze if you click on one too much, causing them to suddenly shed all their fur (it grows back), and leaving your pointer hovering over one too much makes them angry, causing them to fling your pointer away with an irritated squeak.
• All of the monkeys that appear in the Super Monkey Ball series are very cute to look at◊. Especially Baby and MeeMee!
• The Felynes of Monster Hunter. They're two-foot tall anthropomorphic Siamese cats with the cutest meow ever ("mywah!") and speak in gratuitous catspeak ("purretty" and "beclaws"). They enjoy dancing, and being a Supreme Chef is their racial hat; Monster Hunter 3 (Tri) adds a French Felyne chef who says things like "meown ami", and yes, he has the little hat. Let's not forget Poogie, a little pig you can dress up in different costumes, pet, and carry around. There's no real in-game benefit to do this.
• Dragon Project gives us Linton, the adorable friendly orange baby dragon as the mascot for both the Kingdom of Heiland and the game.
  • The Mufu family ^note  Mufu-Mufu, Fu-Fu, Kalulu, and Rabbot too, although they're just as threatening as other behemoths if you're not careful, especially Rabbot. Killer Rabbit indeed...
  • Ange's Head Pet, a white fluffy squirrel thing, is also pretty adorable.
  • The Kraken Story Event introduces the squishy and cuddly Nebbi, as they are so docile that they never attack you. In fact, they even get their own accessory◊ for the Player Character to wear!
• Freedom Wars: Like Dragon Project above, the game also has its own cute orange mascot in the form of Percy Propa, an adorable teddy bear wearing a large blue Panopticon hat and a civilian's utility belt who helps motivates the Sinners to contribute to their Panopticon for the Greater Good!
• Falling somewhere between being a Feelie and a Ridiculously Cute Critter gives us these adorable yarn Amiibo◊ figures that accompanied the launch of Yoshi's Woolly World. Based on the already-cute-as-a-literal-button Yoshis from the game, many media outlets have remarked Nintendo has outdone themselves with these little guys.
• Splatoon:
  • Inklings are pretty adorable in both squid and human form. Their competitive, Totally Radical natures and the upbeat rock-flavored soundtrack offset the cuteness somewhat. The same goes for their octopus counterparts, Octolings, who are more serious and diligent (and their introduction to the series has them trying to kill you), but still know how to have a good time. Helps that they all make the cutest noises when excited. Woomy!
  • In-Universe, Squee-Gs garner this reaction from a few characters, being small, polka-dotted fish robots that clean up ink. They'd probably be cute to the player as well if them cleaning up ink didn't get in the way of you trying to climb that wall over there.
• All the slimes from Slime Rancher, this is pretty much what the whole game is about. They're almost constantly smiling and make cheerful noises and they look like giant living gumdrops.
• The entire point of Neko Atsume is to invite adorable cats to play in your yard.
• While most of the monsters in Undertale are Ugly Cute, several of them fall square into the cute critter territory:
  • Toriel is a motherly goat monster with such an adorable face that some people just want to hug her.
  • Asriel, who was Toriel's son, is ridiculously cute and his tragic backstory only makes him more endearing when you finally meet him. You can even give him a hug.
  • Temmies, which are adorable white cat-dog hybrids with bizarre, misspelling-ridden speech patterns.
• Yo Kai Watch gives use Jibanyan, Komasan, Komajiro and especially Pinkipoo and Pookivil.
• The Sackboys and Sackgirls from LittleBigPlanet. They even spend much of their time with their mouths open, possibly with their tongues hanging out like little happy puppies.
• Insaniquarium has many. The adorable Starcatchers pparticularly stand out with their innocent, big eyes and their cat smile.
• The Iggles from Iggle Pop! are literal fuzzy balls of fluff with wide, innocent eyes.
• The moles featured in Wii Play: Motion are ungodly cute and round. Too bad you have to whack them with a hammer as they are stealing vegetables from your garden.
• Almost every character from The Legendary Starfy series qualify. Heck, the hero is a cute yellow starfish with a huge smile which makes the most adorable noises.
• The various planctons in Electroplankton are designed to be adorable: bright, colourful, simplistic, small and smiling.
• While the titular octopus monster from Octogeddon isn't anywhere near this trope, its animal buddies do qualify - a smiling pufferfish with big eyes? A bandana-wearing Kung-Fu starfish? The cutest electric eel you have ever seen? Sold!
• All the squids from Squid Ink qualify, what with having a Cat Smile and many having friendly dispositions to boot.
• Tales Series:
  • Tales of Symphonia has Corrine, a tiny fox-like Summon Spirit under the ownership of Sheena. He's so cute that the even normally Stoic Presea can't resist getting close with him.
  • Tales of Berseria has Pengyons, which are brightly-colored piscine penguins native to the tropics. They're actually farmed as a staple food source in Southgand, which means the party have a good deal of fun ribbing Token Good Teammate Eleanor for doing something as barbaric as eating such a cute creature (and finding them delicious, apparently).
  • Tales of the Abyss has the cheagles. The mere sight of them sends Tear into a stupor over the sheer cute of them; she's not alone as all the girls enjoy the Team Pet Mieu just for cuteness value. Luke isn't too fond of them however and finds Mieu irritating; even after he Took a Level in Kindness he still calls him annoying to his face.
  • Tales of Arise has owls, which are round, fluffy, and happen to make all sorts of cute noises. One of them, Hootle, who's also Fun Size due to being a chick, also acts as the party's Team Pet.
• Phantasy Star series has the Rappy (at first called "Chirper"), a chubby yellow bird◊ that slowly but surely evolved◊ to become the adorable mascot◊ we now know of.
• BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm:
  • In Chapter 6, the Hype Train is staffed entirely by chibi-esque talking frogs and kittens. They speak childishly, and seem to be largely oblivious of the murder mystery that's unfolding on their train.
  • Later in the same chapter, we meet the Turnip Tribe, who are utterly adorable with their derpy little eyes and smiles. The baby turnip/crab hybrid manages to be super cute despite being only a few pixels tall. Sadly, things don't end too well for them.
• An orange, crazy, genetically modified marsupial doesn't exactly sound like this trope, but Crash Bandicoot is very much this and Ugly Cute at the same time, especially when he dances. His Moe younger sister Coco even more so.
• Reachin' Pichin stars Pichin, an adorable bird-flan-peach creature. His evolved forms are equally cute.
• Roco Kingdom follows greatly in the steps of Pokémon in multiple ways, including having a cute electric mouse mon named Dimo to serve as main character Roco's partner, similar to Pikachu.
• Pillars of Eternity: Itumaak, Sagani's Animal Companion is an utterly adorable, bright white arctic fox. Edér is very upset that Itumaak bites him whenever he tries to pet Itumaak.
  If I'm not meant to pet him, then WHY IS HE SO SOFT?!
• The Tims in Balan Wonderworld are fluffy animalistic squeaky blobs that follow the player and can sometimes assist in levels.
• A few of the potential species portraits in Stellaris fit into this mold. Of particular note are Reptilian portrait #16◊, which are guranteed to be the appearance of the aggressive Absolute Xenophobe Prikkiki-Ti.
• The protagonist of Tunic is an adorable little orange fox in a green adventurer's tunic.
• The entire monster design philosophy of Patch Quest is to make bright, cute, cartoony creatures.
• My Friendly Neighborhood has the mice puppets; being small, round, hopping in place and making little adorable squeaks.