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* ''Franchise/DragonQuest'':
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestX'' from Version 2 onwards introduces the Needleman monster line[[note]]Consisting of the Needleman, Spike Head, Disfigurine, Dirty Doll, and Needle Bunny, the last of which is a rarefied variant[[/note]], which are dolls that love to stick needles into their enemies. The same game also retroactively adds the Iron Maiden monster line from 5.1 onwards, though it's currently unknown if the Steel Sirens and Platinum Poppets will return.
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestXI'': The Iron Maidens and their Steel Sirens, Platinum Poppets, and Golden Girl relatives make their debut to the series[[note]]At the time, since later versions of ''Dragon Quest X'' were under development.[[/note]], along with Dora-in-Grey, a villain in Mordegon's service that steals the souls of the people of Phnom Nonh to add to her masterpiece.
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* ''VideoGame/WitchHunterIzana'': Verand's personal maid, Elvira is a person sized one. She is drawn less humanly than the rest of the characters to reinforce this. The player characters can of course get turned into them as well.
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* In ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'', a boy in Gravell has a [=StUfFeD tOy=] in his inventory (yes, it's capitalized that way, as opposed to the regular Stuffed Toy items that many child [=NPCs=] have) that has "Won't you play with me?" as its description. Throné and Partitio can't Steal or Purchase it from him, and since he disappears at night, Agnea can't Entreat it from him, either. Using any of the information-gathering Path Actions on the boy reveals that he's very anxious, and he tells all of his worries to the [=StUfFeD tOy=] to make himself feel better... which wouldn't be too bad, if not for the fact that his profile ''also'' states that the toy ''steals his soul away at night'' to keep him from worrying so much.
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* ''VideoGame/Condemned2Bloodshot'' features an abandoned factory full of creepy baby dolls that run at you and [[BabyBoomers explode]]. You can also pick them up and throw them like grenades. Ethan even pulls a pin out when he does this.

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* ''VideoGame/Condemned2Bloodshot'' features an abandoned factory full of creepy baby dolls that run at you and [[BabyBoomers [[ActionBomb explode]]. You can also pick them up and throw them like grenades. Ethan even pulls a pin out when he does this.
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* ''VideoGame/TheBridgeCurseRoadToSalvation'' has a ghost that takes the form of a sentient baby doll, whose cries can be heard from the corridors of an empty school. Trying to investigate the sound of crying, your attempts to follow the source will lead you into a playroom filled with blood and destroyed dolls... moments before the killer doll pounces onscreen and stabs you, cackling into the screen the whole time.

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** The first game had a room filled with long haired, creepy dolls with a little ghost girl wanting to 'play' with you.
** ''Fatal Frame 2'' took that to the next level with the Dollmaker and the life-sized doll of his dead daughter, who was promptly possessed by an evil spirit and convinced her sister to murder her father. Now the pair of them wander around as shuffling ghosts, while the father controls his dolls and convinces them to kill you.
** ''Fatal Frame 3''. The attacking handmaiden ghosts who look like little geisha dolls that will ''kill you'' with their ''hammers'' and ghostly tricks each have their own room. Their choice of decoration? Dolls. A whole ton of them. Skewered on the walls.
*** At the very beginning of the game, there's a doll in the mansion displayed in a nook. You can look at it through your camera; as you slowly walk towards it, will look up at you.

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** [[VideoGame/FatalFrameI The first game had game]] has a room filled with long haired, long-haired, creepy dolls with a little ghost girl wanting to 'play' with you.
** ''Fatal Frame 2'' took that ''VideoGame/FatalFrameII'' takes this to the next level with the Dollmaker and the life-sized doll of his dead daughter, who was promptly possessed by an evil spirit and convinced her sister to murder her father. Now the pair of them wander around as shuffling ghosts, while the father controls his dolls and convinces them to kill you.
** ''Fatal Frame 3''. The attacking handmaiden ghosts who look like little geisha dolls that will ''kill you'' with their ''hammers'' and ghostly tricks each have their own room. Their choice of decoration? Dolls. A whole ton of them. Skewered on the walls.
''VideoGame/FatalFrameIII'' has many examples:
*** At the very beginning of the game, there's a doll in the mansion displayed in a nook. You can look at it through your camera; as you slowly walk towards it, will look up at you. you.
*** The attacking handmaiden ghosts who look like little geisha dolls that will ''kill you'' with their ''hammers'' and ghostly tricks each have their own room. Their choice of decoration? Dolls. A whole ton of them. Skewered on the walls.



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** ''Fatal Frame V'' has a shrine dedicated to them... and some of them attack you. Shiragiku summons dolls that [[ZombieGait limps toward you]] to attack you when you battle her.

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** ''Fatal Frame V'' ''VideoGame/FatalFrameMaidenOfBlackWater'' has a shrine dedicated to them... and some of them attack you. Shiragiku summons dolls that [[ZombieGait limps toward you]] to attack you when you battle her.
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* ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand'': [[DanceBattler Sillydillo]] has a bunch of dolls laying around their lair; they managed to create a fake Elfilin doll to lure Kirby in, and they have a bunch of fake Kirby dolls which they will try to throw at him throughout the fight.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Dreamkiller}}'' have a stage where you assist a client remove his pedophobia. His fears manifest itself into gigantic, sentient, deformed dolls who attacks you on sight.
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* ''VideoGame/MrHoppsPlayhouse'': The titular Mr. Hopp himself, a creepy rabbit doll who is the source of all troubles. And starting from the second game onwards, Mr. Hopp [[BigBadDuumvirate is accompanied by his friends]], [[BearsAreBadNews Miss Bo]], and [[CatsAreMean Mr. Stripes]], making them collectively known as "The Three Curses".

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* ''VideoGame/MrHoppsPlayhouse'': The titular Mr. Hopp himself, a creepy rabbit doll who is the source of all troubles. And starting from the second game onwards, Mr. Hopp [[BigBadDuumvirate is accompanied by his friends]], [[BearsAreBadNews Miss Bo]], Bo]] and [[CatsAreMean Mr. Stripes]], making them collectively known as "The Three Curses".
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* ''VideoGame/MrHoppsPlayhouse'': The titular Mr. Hopp himself, a creepy rabbit doll who is the source of all troubles. And starting from the second game onwards, Mr. Hopp [[BigBadDuumvirate is accompanied by his friends]], [[BearsAreBadNews Miss Bo]], and [[CatsAreMean Mr. Stripes]], making them collectively known as "The Three Curses".
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* In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'', one of the rare Blades that can resonate with a Driver is Azami, who takes on the appearance of a porcelain doll and often [[MarionetteMotion gestures with sharp jolts like a marionette]]. Her ethics can be charitably described as questionable (especially when it comes to [[{{Yandere}} her attachment to her Driver]]) and she has no reservations about spying on people with her MagicalEye.
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* In ''VideoGame/ZombiesAteMyNeighbors'', one of the recurring enemies is Tommy the Evil Doll. These little terrors pop out of crates with a spine-tingling "MWHA HA HA HA HA HA!" Then they chase you while throwing axes. Even once they have burst into flames, they still chase you. And they never stop respawning.

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* In ''VideoGame/ZombiesAteMyNeighbors'', one of the recurring enemies is Tommy the Evil Doll. These little terrors pop out of crates with a spine-tingling "MWHA HA HA HA HA HA!" Then they chase you while throwing axes. Even once they have burst into flames, they still chase you. And they never stop respawning.respawning.
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* ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'' has the Secretaries, who resemble baby dolls. They're huge, they [[DemonicSpiders hit crazy hard]] [[WidgetSeries (with math equations, oddly enough)]], they're [[UncannyValley creepy]], they show up in zones devoid of all life, and they get even uglier as the game goes on. They're also good for EXP grinding, if you're careful.

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* ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'' has the Secretaries, who resemble baby dolls. They're huge, they [[DemonicSpiders hit crazy hard]] [[WidgetSeries (with math equations, oddly enough)]], they're [[UncannyValley creepy]], creepy, they show up in zones devoid of all life, and they get even uglier as the game goes on. They're also good for EXP grinding, if you're careful.

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* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', several dolls in [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Toy Box]] find themselves possessed by Heartless. The most noticeable cases are Angelic Amber, a goth girl doll who becomes a boss upon being possessed, and [[spoiler:Buzz Lightyear, who was possessed on Young Xehanort's orders]].

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* The titular Poppy from ''VideoGame/PoppyPlaytime'', who has massive human-looking eyes, an ability to hold conversations with children, and a strange insistence that she's a real girl. When you find her in the trailer, she doesn't move, but her eyes move just enough to show that they're tracking you. [[spoiler: In the game itself, you find her in a glass case asleep. Opening it wakes her up, upon which she seems to express gratitude.]] It's strongly implied she was once an employee of the toy company that made the dolls, and underwent BrainUploading so she could [[LivingForeverIsAwesome live forever.]]
** The game's first major antagonist, Huggy Wuggy, counts to a lesser degree. He's the larger-than-life-sized version of another popular line of dolls, some of which you can find strewn around in the room he first appears in. [[EasterEgg One of them has black eyes and a physically deformed appearance.]]

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* The titular Poppy from ''VideoGame/PoppyPlaytime'', who has massive human-looking eyes, an ability to hold conversations with children, and vision of a strange insistence doll that she's a real girl. When you find her in the trailer, she doesn't move, but her eyes move just enough WickedToymaker Henry Stauf sees and recreates is what kicks off the storyline of ''VideoGame/TheSeventhGuest''.
* These are encountered as late-game enemies in ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns''. They are ''damn'' creepy,
to show say the least. They represent [[spoiler:the children that Dr. Bumby has brainwashed and broken into child prostitutes]].
* ''VideoGame/AmbridgeMansion'' has a room full of dolls in it. In the second game, [[spoiler:the dolls even lock you inside the room for a little while when
they're tracking you. [[spoiler: In the game itself, you find her in a glass case asleep. Opening it wakes her up, upon which she seems to express gratitude.]] just there staring at you]]. It's strongly implied she was once an employee creepy as hell.
* A [[CreepyGood heroic]] version of this appears in ''VideoGame/Boogeyman2''. It spends the game sitting motionless in its perpetually-rocking chair, and each night it warns you
of the toy company approaching boogeyman.
* At one point in ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'', you discover an old, abandoned inn
that made has an attic room filled with broken sex dolls. They're harmless until you loot the nearby treasure chest, at which point they start giggling and attack. If you [[NonStandardGameOver lose the battle]], then Catie is [[ForcedTransformation transformed into one of them]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Calling}}'' has a room filled with bisque dolls. You not only get scared by those but you also [[spoiler:get into that same room later in the game]].
* The ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series has an animate man-size marionette with long-blond hair. It's lying around idly until the hero comes nearby. Then it giggles, twists its neck in a circle, and floats through the air with unnatural movement as if manipulated by invisible strings. There are also variations that emit electricity, said to be possessed by the ghosts of prisoners that died in the electric chair. ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaChronicles'' has small dolls, the walking clowns and hover dolls, though you might find the voiced hover dolls adorable.
* ''VideoGame/{{Cataclysm}}: Dark Days Ahead'' has talking dolls as items. They're not much use except for taking their batteries or disassembling them for electronic components. Most of
the dolls, and underwent BrainUploading so she could [[LivingForeverIsAwesome live forever.]]
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when activated, say cute doll things, but they have a small chance of being creepy dolls that say things such as "Go kill yourself!", "[[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei Die for me!]]", or "[[Music/JonathanCoulton Do you really need that much honey?]]".
* ''VideoGame/ClockTower:
The game's first major antagonist, Huggy Wuggy, counts to First Fear'' has a lesser degree. He's the larger-than-life-sized version room full of beat-up dolls. One gives you a key. After that, another popular line will attack you.
* ''VideoGame/Condemned2Bloodshot'' features an abandoned factory full
of dolls, some of which creepy baby dolls that run at you and [[BabyBoomers explode]]. You can find strewn around in the room he first appears in. [[EasterEgg One of also pick them has black eyes up and throw them like grenades. Ethan even pulls a physically deformed appearance.]] pin out when he does this.



* Alma carries a doll around with her in ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon''. The effect is not really all that childish.
** Especially since she's covered in blood up to her ankles and typically surrounded by hellfire.
* The first boss of Stage 2 in ''VideoGame/NightSlashers'' is a duo consisting of an old man with a bell and a marionette who prevent the heroes from following the carriage. The marionette walks-or-dances around as if on strings, even though there are none. He sometimes throws his head to attack, laughs maniacally, and may temporarily fall apart if hit with a special move. He burns up upon defeat.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', there's a little girl in Ikana Valley whose father lives in the wardrobe in the basement because he's slowly turning into a Gibdo. Later on, if you look inside his wardrobe it's revealed that he had a mummified little doll resting in the corner.
** The skull kid slightly fits this... especially with how Majora plays with him.
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]'', when you meet the Great Fairy Queen, [[spoiler:she takes the appearance of a child, yet holds a doll that looks like a miniature Great Fairy, all of which look like grown adult women. The effect is rather unsettling, a fact not helped by the background music]].
* The HauntedHouse you explore in ''VideoGame/{{Pacify}}'' has plenty of these lying around. Sometimes, they'll [[LivingToy come to life]].
* ''VideoGame/Trenches2021'': You can find these. In fact, one of the first puzzles in the game is to follow the sounds of babies crying to discarded dolls in the trenches and picking them up.
* ''VideoGame/WarioWorld'': Brawl Doll, the boss of [[BigBoosHaunt Horror Manor]], is an evil baby doll with a {{putto}}-like appearance, having big blue eyes, angel wings, and a star-shaped halo. In the cutscene before the battle, it does an ExorcistHead while laughing sinisterly.
* ''VideoGame/{{Witchkin}}'': One of the titular characters is an eyeless, hairless doll in a tattered dress.

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* Alma carries a doll around with her in ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon''. ''VideoGame/Device6'' has many creepy dolls, some more important than others.
* ''VideoGame/TheDollShop'':
The effect is not really all that childish.
** Especially since she's covered in blood up to her ankles and typically surrounded by hellfire.
* The first boss of Stage 2 in ''VideoGame/NightSlashers'' is a duo consisting of an old man with a bell and a marionette who prevent the heroes from following the carriage. The marionette walks-or-dances around as if on strings, even though there
dolls themselves. Although they are none. He sometimes throws his head to attack, laughs maniacally, and may temporarily fall apart if hit with a special move. He burns up upon defeat.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'',
quite pretty, there's a little girl in Ikana Valley whose father lives in also something unsettling about them, and as well about how seriously the wardrobe in doll maker himself takes them.
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' features
the basement because MonsterClown jack-in-the-box Mad Jack as the third boss, although for many he's slowly turning into more remembered as ThatOneBoss for the frustrations due to the camera angles than for being scary (unless the player was younger than about 7 or 8).
* The second battle in ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'' is against
a Gibdo. Later on, if possessed doll which one of your sisters owns.
* ''VideoGame/EmilyWantsToPlay'' has Emily's "friends", each with a different mechanic: Kiki is a Japanese porcelain doll who will kill you unless
you look inside his wardrobe it's revealed that he had right at her, Mr. Tatters is a mummified little MonsterClown doll resting who will kill you if you move while he's looking at you, and Chester is a DemonicDummy who will kill you if you linger in the corner.
** The skull kid slightly fits this... especially with how Majora plays with him.
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]'', when you meet
same room as him for too long.
* ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy5'' has
the Great Fairy Queen, [[spoiler:she takes Doll family of enemies, a set of crudely made {{Voodoo Doll}}s based on the appearance of a child, yet holds a doll that looks like a miniature Great Fairy, all of which look like grown adult women. The effect is rather unsettling, a fact not helped by the background music]].
* The HauntedHouse you explore in ''VideoGame/{{Pacify}}'' has plenty of these lying around. Sometimes, they'll [[LivingToy come to life]].
* ''VideoGame/Trenches2021'': You can find these. In fact, one of the first puzzles in the game is to follow the sounds of babies crying to discarded dolls in the trenches and picking them up.
* ''VideoGame/WarioWorld'': Brawl Doll, the boss of [[BigBoosHaunt Horror Manor]], is an evil baby doll with a {{putto}}-like appearance, having big blue eyes, angel wings, and a star-shaped halo. In the cutscene before the battle, it does an ExorcistHead while laughing sinisterly.
* ''VideoGame/{{Witchkin}}'': One of the titular
playable characters is an eyeless, hairless and usually found in haunted areas. Reactions from the party upon first seeing them are... ''varied'':
-->'''Matt:''' I-is that supposed to be me? Am I really that dirty?\\
'''Natalie:''' Ugh, who would go through the trouble of making such a doll? Why does it have panties and breasts?!?!\\
'''Lance:''' What's this? A little fascist doll? (Does it want to join my cause?)\\
'''Anna:''' Ewwww, someone's made a voodoo
doll of me? What have I done to deserve this? Let's kill it gently please.
* Turned-out and dirty dolls
in ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'', which you can do a tattered dress.spinning attack on for restorative items. They're even creepier than an eyeless Dumbo ride.



** ''Fatal Frame 2'' took that to the next level with the Dollmaker and the lifesized doll of his dead daughter, who was promptly possessed by an evil spirit and convinced her sister to murder her father. Now the pair of them wander around as shuffling ghosts, while the father controls his dolls and convinces them to kill you.

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** ''Fatal Frame 2'' took that to the next level with the Dollmaker and the lifesized life-sized doll of his dead daughter, who was promptly possessed by an evil spirit and convinced her sister to murder her father. Now the pair of them wander around as shuffling ghosts, while the father controls his dolls and convinces them to kill you.



*** The room of Ayako, a CreepyChild, is littered with dolls and severed doll limbs with a creepy laugh as the background music. There is also a sidequest to take pictures of dolls littered throughout the game. The downside is you after each one, a creepy image of a little girl alongside a creepy laugh plays to verify your picture was successfully taken.
*** "Watashi", the doll [[AngstySurvivingTwin Kageri Sendou]] keeps with her, has chipped paint at various spots. [[ZombieGait It also limps relentlessly towards you]] [[DualBoss when joining Kageri to fight you at least once.]]
** ''Fatal Frame V'' has a shrine dedicated to them. And some of them attack you. And Shiragiku summons dolls that [[ZombieGait limps toward you]] to attack you when you battle her.
* ''VideoGame/Condemned2Bloodshot'' features an abandoned factory full of creepy baby dolls that run at you and explode. You can also pick them up and throw them like grenades. Ethan even pulls a pin out when he does this.
* Calcobrina from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV''.
** To put this in perspective, Calcobrina is actually formed ''via multiple individual Calcos and Brinas.''
--->''"Yip-ho-ho!"''
--->''"Guess who?"''
--->''"We're Calcobreanas!"''
--->''"We're cute!"''
--->''"And scary!"''
--->''"We love to kill!"''
--->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0-9h4YV_PU "Let's take their heads!"]]'''
** They're back, and possibly even creepier, in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''.
--->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2LLKa0Fsk "We are Calcabrina! Adorable dolls! Terrible dolls! Yip-ho-ho!"]]
* ''Franchise/SilentHill'' seems to LOVE these:
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' features the Mannequin, a monster made of two shiny plasticine women's lower torsos stacked on top of one another. [[spoiler: Possibly symbolizes the main character's objectification of women.]]
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins'' features [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Ariel]], appearing as a doll that can either break your neck in the air... or run around on its hands to kill you.
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming,'' however, cranks it up to Eleven with [[BossBattle Scarlet]]. A giant, elongated mannequin with porcelain armor that, when blown off, reveals that there's inexplicably ''flesh and muscle'' beneath it. Add this to the fact that it came out of a pool of [[spoiler: Doc Finch's blood]] and the OneWomanWail creating SoundtrackDissonance... it is EASILY the most frightening monster in the entire game. [[spoiler: Finding out WHAT and WHY Scarlett is doesn't help. [[IKnewIt Not that you]] ''[[IKnewIt probably]]'' [[IKnewIt hadn't figured it out by now anyway...]]]]
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'' also contains a slightly more traditional example in the form of the dolls Stanley leaves behind for Heather in the hospital. The protagonist originally thinks of the doll as another child's, and is disgusted when she finds out it's supposed to be for her. [[spoiler: On his last journal entry, the doll is torn to pieces. Creepy...]]
*** And there's the dolls in the Otherworld Hillside Center. One's in a wheelchair, while another- only a few feet away- is held by a humanoid...thing, suspended over a hole. [[FauxSymbolism Symbolism?]]
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'' has Walter Sullivan's doll, which if picked up and placed in the box, haunts Henry's room permanently ([[GuideDangIt unless you remove it from the box and carry it around with you for the rest of the game]]), making it impossible to get the best ending.
** The Robbie the Rabbit Doll pointing at [[spoiler:YOU]] when you look in a certain hole.
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillDownpour'' has the aptly-named Dolls, which resemble (very creepy-looking) sex dolls. They summon shadows to attack Murphy, preferring to stand (almost) stone-still while they do so.
* ''VideoGame/VagrantStory'''s Quicksilver and Shrieker enemies.
* ''VideoGame/ClockTower: The First Fear'' has a room full of beat up dolls. One gives you a key. After that, another will attack you.
* If you're not careful whilst downloading custom content for ''VideoGame/TheSims3'', you can unknowingly download a doll that will slow down your game loading times and crash your games.
** That's probably Dexter The Bear, a stuffed Bear that gives you the ability to kill other sims with either a knife, a poker, or a hammer. The hammer lets you kill toddlers too, which gives way to the creepy toddler behaviors. That is, when Dexter worked properly and didn't crash the game.
** In summer 2010 there was also a custom content girl doll in a dress that attached itself like a virus to any uploaded content you created. It got onto the official exchange and caused a number of crashed games before people found it.
** For actual creepy dolls rather then bugged ones, we have the Imaginary Friend doll from the ''Generations'' expansion pack, which is generally agreed to be extremely creepy, and is delivered in the mail most of the time when your sims have a baby, and to make matters worse, if you let your toddlers play with the thing it will evolve into an animated ''thing'' with a creepy walk that follows your sim kids around everywhere. Also, the developers went out of their way to make the thing [[ClingyMacGuffin hard to get rid of]], you can't even blow it up in an explosion.
** Your child will constantly play with it, ignoring their needs and their homework, along with constantly being interrupted when you tell them to do something. On top of that, if you take the doll away and leave it out, it will act like a gnome, which disappear in the night to show up elsewhere, often turning on [=TV=]s and stereos, or just poofing up beside a bed to stare at the occupant.
* Each game in the ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' series has a dungeon called the Doll House, which is the home to a demonically possessed doll. In the first game, the spirit possessing the doll is not quite as scary as the doll itself, which sits in the middle of an [[RoomFullOfCrazy extremely disturbing room]], on a rocking horse, creaking slowly back and forth. In the second game, there's a similar dungeon, meant for a character who has a doll of his own. Not quite as scary as the first, but still quite a bit disturbing, given that there are dolls all over the house watching you... In the third game, there are dolls all over the place, and the scariness comes from what you have to ''do'' to them - [[spoiler:plucking out their eyes]].
* The PC kid's game ''I Spy: Spooky Mansion'' has a wardrobe filled with nothing but dusty, antique dolls as a level where you were told a poem (like in the books) to find things. In the game, when you found an object you were told to find, the object would become animated and then the object was checked off the list. In the wardrobe level, nearly every object you were told to find was a doll, and when found would move and talk with high-pitched voices and squeaky joints. Very creepy to a kid playing the game.

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*** The room of Ayako, a CreepyChild, is littered with dolls and severed doll limbs with a creepy laugh as the background music. There is also a sidequest side quest to take pictures of dolls littered throughout the game. The downside is you after each one, a creepy image of a little girl alongside a creepy laugh plays to verify your picture was successfully taken.
*** "Watashi", the doll that [[AngstySurvivingTwin Kageri Sendou]] keeps with her, has chipped paint at various spots. [[ZombieGait It also limps relentlessly towards you]] [[DualBoss when joining Kageri to fight you at least once.]]
once]].
** ''Fatal Frame V'' has a shrine dedicated to them. And them... and some of them attack you. And Shiragiku summons dolls that [[ZombieGait limps toward you]] to attack you when you battle her.
* ''VideoGame/Condemned2Bloodshot'' features an abandoned factory full of creepy baby dolls that run at you and explode. You can also pick them up and throw them like grenades. Ethan even pulls a pin out when he does this.
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Calcobrina from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV''.
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''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV''. To put this in perspective, Calcobrina is actually formed ''via multiple individual Calcos and Brinas.''
--->''"Yip-ho-ho!"''
--->''"Guess who?"''
--->''"We're Calcobreanas!"''
--->''"We're cute!"''
--->''"And scary!"''
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Yip-ho-ho!"]]''
* ''Franchise/SilentHill'' seems to LOVE these:
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' features the Mannequin, a monster made of two shiny plasticine women's lower torsos stacked on top of one another. [[spoiler: Possibly symbolizes the main character's objectification of women.]]
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins'' features [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Ariel]], appearing as
Alma carries a doll that can either break your neck in the air... or run around on its hands to kill you.
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming,'' however, cranks it
with her in ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon''. The effect is not really all that childish, especially since she's covered in blood up to Eleven with [[BossBattle Scarlet]]. A giant, elongated mannequin with porcelain armor that, when blown off, reveals that there's inexplicably ''flesh her ankles and muscle'' beneath it. Add this to typically surrounded by hellfire.
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* There's
a pool of [[spoiler: Doc Finch's blood]] and junk item in ''VideoGame/ForumWarz'', the OneWomanWail creating SoundtrackDissonance... Haunted Doll, but it is EASILY the most frightening monster in the entire game. [[spoiler: Finding out WHAT and WHY Scarlett is doesn't help. [[IKnewIt Not that you]] ''[[IKnewIt probably]]'' [[IKnewIt hadn't figured really do anything... at least, nobody's ''seen'' it out by now anyway...]]]]
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill3''
do anything. You can also contains a slightly more traditional example in the form of the dolls Stanley leaves behind for Heather in the hospital. The protagonist originally thinks of the doll as another child's, and is disgusted when she finds out it's supposed to be for her. [[spoiler: On his last journal entry, the doll is torn to pieces. Creepy...]]
*** And there's the dolls in the Otherworld Hillside Center. One's in a wheelchair, while another- only a few feet away- is held by a humanoid...thing, suspended over a hole. [[FauxSymbolism Symbolism?]]
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'' has Walter Sullivan's doll, which if picked
wind up and placed in the box, haunts Henry's room permanently ([[GuideDangIt unless you remove it from the box and carry it around stuck with you for the rest of the game]]), making it impossible to get the best ending.
** The Robbie the Rabbit
a Burnt Doll pointing at [[spoiler:YOU]] when you look in by pissing off a certain hole.
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillDownpour'' has the aptly-named Dolls, which resemble (very creepy-looking) sex dolls. They summon shadows to attack Murphy, preferring to stand (almost) stone-still while they do so.
* ''VideoGame/VagrantStory'''s Quicksilver and Shrieker enemies.
* ''VideoGame/ClockTower: The First Fear'' has a room full of beat up dolls. One gives you a key. After that, another will attack you.
* If you're not careful whilst downloading custom content for ''VideoGame/TheSims3'', you can unknowingly download a doll that will slow down your game loading times and crash your games.
** That's probably Dexter The Bear, a stuffed Bear that gives you the ability to kill other sims with either a knife, a poker, or a hammer. The hammer lets you kill toddlers too, which gives way to the creepy toddler behaviors. That is, when Dexter worked properly and didn't crash the game.
** In summer 2010 there was also a custom content girl doll in a dress that attached itself like a virus to any uploaded content you created. It got onto the official exchange and caused a number of crashed games before people found it.
** For actual creepy dolls rather then bugged ones, we have the Imaginary Friend doll from the ''Generations'' expansion pack, which is generally agreed to be extremely creepy, and is delivered in the mail most of the time when your sims have a baby, and to make matters worse, if you let your toddlers play with the thing it will evolve into an animated ''thing'' with a creepy walk that follows your sim kids around everywhere. Also, the developers went out of their way to make the thing [[ClingyMacGuffin hard to get rid of]], you can't even blow it up in an explosion.
** Your child will constantly play with it, ignoring their needs and their homework, along with constantly being interrupted when you tell them to do something. On top of that, if you take the doll away and leave it out, it will act like a gnome, which disappear in the night to show up elsewhere, often turning on [=TV=]s and stereos, or just poofing up beside a bed to stare at the occupant.
* Each game in the ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' series has a dungeon called the Doll House, which is the home to a demonically possessed doll. In the first game, the spirit possessing the doll is not quite as scary as the doll itself, which sits in the middle of an [[RoomFullOfCrazy extremely disturbing room]], on a rocking horse, creaking slowly back and forth. In the second game, there's a similar dungeon, meant for a character who has a doll of his own. Not quite as scary as the first, but still quite a bit disturbing, given that there are dolls all over the house watching you... In the third game, there are dolls all over the place, and the scariness comes from what you have to ''do'' to them - [[spoiler:plucking out their eyes]].
* The PC kid's game ''I Spy: Spooky Mansion'' has a wardrobe filled with nothing but dusty, antique dolls as a level where you were told a poem (like in the books) to find things. In the game, when you found an object you were told to find, the object would become animated and then the object was checked off the list. In the wardrobe level, nearly every object you were told to find was a doll, and when found would move and talk with high-pitched voices and squeaky joints. Very creepy to a kid playing the game.
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* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'''s gotten in on this trope with a few character designs.
** [[MarionetteMaster Alice Margatroid]] has a veritable army of dolls at her disposal, otherwise-innocuous toys armed with swords, lances or straight razors, some of which are even [[ActionBomb packed with gunpowder.]] Fan works usually portray them as cute, but with spellcard names like "Eerily Luminous Shanghai Dolls" and "Hanged Hourai Dolls" it's easy to go the other route. Alice herself is often described as slightly creepy, what with her habit of holding one-sided conversations with her dolls, and then there's the fan art that gives her doll joints or otherwise implies that she's just a larger puppet...
** Medicine Melancholy, an abandoned doll left in a field of poisonous flowers for so long that she became a {{youkai}}, is one of the creepiest characters in the series. She has a murderous grudge against humanity, rambles to herself about her toxins' effects, and talks to her victims about how wonderful it is that they'll soon die surrounded by poison. Simply touching Medicine is dangerous, she can manipulate her poisons to control her victims, and she even attempted to poison the Human Village on one occasion. [[CuteIsEvil Other than all that, she looks like a cute little girl.]]
** The curse goddess [[MeaningfulName Hina]] Kagiyama is a subversion - she collects Nagashi-bina dolls, whose purpose is to be filled with the misfortune of the user, but she does this to drain away that misfortune and ensure that it doesn't affect anyone else. She's actually pretty friendly, it's just that she's soaked up so much misfortune this way that [[PowerIncontinence simply being around her can be dangerous.]]
* There is a mod in ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament'' called ''[=Unreal4Ever=]'', which has a doll for a weapon. When used, the doll skips around a map making doll-like noises, until an unlucky victim comes too close and detonates the doll, causing a nuclear explosion. Just imagine being chased by a seemingly harmless doll that's really out to kill you.
* Tails Doll, from ''VideoGame/SonicR.'' Can ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou you]]'' feel [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9kGZfE3VJY the sunshine?]] [[AscendedMeme The devs have]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXsGsALkOeU acknowledged this.]]
* The ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series has an animate man-size marionette with long-blond hair. It's lying around idly until the hero comes nearby. Then it giggles, twists its neck in a circle, and floats through the air with unnatural movement as if manipulated by invisible strings. There are also variations that emit electricity, said to be possessed by the ghosts of prisoners that died in the electric chair. ''Chronicle'' has small dolls, the walking clowns and hover dolls, though you might find the voiced hover dolls adorable.

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* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'''s gotten Used very subtly in on this trope with a few character designs.
** [[MarionetteMaster Alice Margatroid]] has a veritable army of dolls at her disposal, otherwise-innocuous toys armed with swords, lances or straight razors, some of which are even [[ActionBomb packed with gunpowder.]] Fan works usually portray them as cute,
''VideoGame/HalfLife2''. They're never in plain sight, but with spellcard names like "Eerily Luminous Shanghai Dolls" and "Hanged Hourai Dolls" it's easy if you go out of your way to go poke through the other route. Alice herself is often described as slightly creepy, what with her habit of holding one-sided conversations with her dolls, and then there's trash or explore the fan art that gives her doll joints or otherwise implies that she's just a larger puppet...
** Medicine Melancholy, an abandoned doll left in a field of poisonous flowers for so long that she became a {{youkai}}, is one of the creepiest characters in the series. She has a murderous grudge against humanity, rambles to herself about her toxins' effects, and talks to her victims about how wonderful it is that they'll soon die surrounded by poison. Simply touching Medicine is dangerous, she
{{abandoned playground}}s, you can manipulate her poisons to control her victims, and she even attempted to poison the Human Village on one occasion. [[CuteIsEvil Other than all that, she looks like a cute little girl.]]
**
find normal children's dolls... in ruins. Missing an arm. Missing an ''eye''. Covered in something black. Very creepy.
*
The curse goddess [[MeaningfulName Hina]] Kagiyama attic of Boo Manor in ''VideoGame/HamtaroHamHamHeartbreak'' is a subversion - she collects Nagashi-bina dolls, whose purpose is to be filled with dolls with big staring eyes. Bijou thinks they're creepy and the misfortune of the user, but she does this to drain away mood isn't exactly lifted when it turns out that misfortune and ensure that it doesn't affect anyone else. She's actually pretty friendly, it's just that she's soaked up so much misfortune this way that [[PowerIncontinence simply being around her can be dangerous.]]
* There
Spat is a mod in ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament'' called ''[=Unreal4Ever=]'', which has a doll for a weapon. When used, the doll skips around a map making doll-like noises, until an unlucky victim comes too close and detonates the doll, causing a nuclear explosion. Just imagine being chased by a seemingly harmless doll that's really out to kill you.
* Tails Doll, from ''VideoGame/SonicR.'' Can ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou you]]'' feel [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9kGZfE3VJY the sunshine?]] [[AscendedMeme The devs have]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXsGsALkOeU acknowledged this.]]
* The ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series has an animate man-size marionette with long-blond hair. It's lying around idly until the hero comes nearby. Then it giggles, twists its neck in a circle, and floats through the air with unnatural movement as if manipulated by invisible strings. There are also variations that emit electricity, said
hiding among them while pretending to be possessed by the ghosts of prisoners that died in the electric chair. ''Chronicle'' has small dolls, the walking clowns and hover dolls, though you might find the voiced hover dolls adorable.a doll.



** Marionetta, the third boss or more specifically the guardian of Obsidian Mansion in ''VideoGame/RuneFactory4'' has a description of “An old doll. Spookier than you can imagine” for a reason.
* Used very subtly in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2''. They're never in plain sight, but if you go out of your way to poke through the trash or explore the abandoned playgrounds, you can find normal children's dolls... in ruins. Missing an arm. Missing an EYE. Covered in something black. Very creepy.
* One of the hidden-object search scenes in ''[[VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles Return to Ravenhearst]]'' consists of dozens of creepy, damaged dolls arranged on shelves.
** In the sequel, ''Escape From Ravenhearst'', you interact with dozens of creepy animatronic mannequins.
* ''VideoGame/{{Onimusha}}''
** ''[[VideoGame/OnimushaWarlords Genma Onimusha]]'' has Ayame, a demonic, AxCrazy Genma-doll which will randomly appear in the castle and will try to slash you to pieces with her gigantic claws.
** Fiendish puppets and dolls will appear hidden in some chests in ''VideoGame/Onimusha3DemonSiege''. They'll leave behind the object they're guarding when defeated.
* A creepy doll whose eyes move is part of the antique shop's decor in ''VideoGame/TheLostCrown: A Ghost-Hunting Adventure''. Not exactly a doll, but this game also features [[spoiler: a spooky, headless dressmaker's dummy that inexplicably appears in the bathroom each night, looking like an intruder in the dark]].
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' has the thoroughly creepy Psycho Mantis and Sorrow dolls as unlockable weapons.

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** Marionetta, * In ''VideoGame/HauntTheHouse'', one object that can be possessed is a doll. When the third boss or more specifically player character, a ghost, possesses it, the guardian of Obsidian Mansion in ''VideoGame/RuneFactory4'' player can make it shriek.
* ''VideoGame/HauntingGround''
has a description room full of “An old doll. Spookier than you can imagine” for a reason.
* Used very subtly
it, and is, in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2''. They're never in plain sight, but if you go fact, a puzzle. Doing this incorrectly will prompt spikes coming out of your way the dolls to poke give you a game over.
* ''VideoGame/ISpy: Spooky Mansion'' has a wardrobe filled with nothing but dusty, antique dolls as a level where you are told a poem (like in the books) to find things. In the game, when you find an object that you are told to find, the object will become animated and then is checked off the list. In the wardrobe level, nearly every object you are told to find is a doll, and when found will move and talk with high-pitched voices and squeaky joints. Very creepy to a kid playing the game.
* ''VideoGame/{{Ib}}'' not only has a creepy doll that follows Garry around and keeps on asking him to play with it in one scene, but also an ''entire room'' of creepy dolls that lock him inside and force him to "play" with them to find the key to the door before a giant version of them finishes crawling
through the trash or explore the abandoned playgrounds, you can window. If he fails to find normal children's dolls... in ruins. Missing an arm. Missing an EYE. Covered in something black. Very creepy.
* One of
the hidden-object search scenes key in ''[[VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles Return to Ravenhearst]]'' consists of dozens of creepy, damaged dolls arranged on shelves.
** In the sequel, ''Escape From Ravenhearst'',
time, Bad Things happen.
* ''VideoGame/{{Illbleed}}'' has Cutie Marie/Cuty Mary, a cute little doll who challenges
you interact with dozens to a series of creepy animatronic mannequins.
* ''VideoGame/{{Onimusha}}''
** ''[[VideoGame/OnimushaWarlords Genma Onimusha]]'' has Ayame, a demonic, AxCrazy Genma-doll which will randomly appear
deadly games in the castle and will try to slash you to pieces with her gigantic claws.
** Fiendish puppets and
"Killer Department Store" level.
* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', several
dolls will appear hidden in some chests in ''VideoGame/Onimusha3DemonSiege''. They'll leave behind the object they're guarding when defeated.
* A creepy
[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Toy Box]] find themselves possessed by Heartless. The most noticeable cases are Angelic Amber, a goth girl doll whose eyes move is part of the antique shop's decor in ''VideoGame/TheLostCrown: A Ghost-Hunting Adventure''. Not exactly who becomes a doll, but this game also features [[spoiler: a spooky, headless dressmaker's dummy that inexplicably appears in the bathroom each night, looking like an intruder in the dark]].
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' has the thoroughly creepy Psycho Mantis
boss upon being possessed, and Sorrow dolls as unlockable weapons.[[spoiler:Buzz Lightyear, who was possessed on Young Xehanort's orders]].



** ''VideoGame/WestOfLoathing'' has the evil talking doll Grace, who told her (late) owner to murder her family in a series of "tea parties" to keep the demonic Cows away. After burning the house down, Grace tells you to finish the "tea party" by giving her the goblet of blood in the basement... and then you remember ''talking dolls haven't been invented yet''.
* There's a junk item in ''VideoGame/ForumWarz'', the Haunted Doll, but it doesn't really do anything... At least, nobody's ''seen'' it do anything.
** You can also wind up stuck with a Burnt Doll by pissing off a certain NPC.
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' had a few moments with creepy dolls:
** First with ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica Code Veronica]]'' (and its remake level in ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles Darkside Chronicles]]'') in which you travel through a house of dolls, filled with Zombies, Bats, Bandersnatches, oh and little dolls and a giant suspended doll, all of which are modeled after the games main antagonist Alexia Ashford. Plus there is also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIyNaHHpmxI the music]], and gets its worse in the games remake in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf587zCG2ec Darkside Chronicles]]''.
** And there was also the ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' prototype, which featured Leon going through a castle owned by Umbrella (at least we assume) that is... weirdly enough haunted with hook-wielding ghost demonic dolls and tentacles in a black mist. It was as if he made a wrong turn at Raccoon City and went to Franchise/SilentHill. (Damn it would have been scary.)
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' has [[PsychopathicWomanchild Lady Donna Beneviento]] and her puppet, [[PerversePuppet Angie]], who during her section of the game has Ethan have to find Angie in a game of hide and seek with several other puppets and stab her. Not finding her in time will have the other puppets ZergRush him. Once she goes down... [[spoiler: Ethan has also killed Beneviento as well, [[LiterallyShatteredLives reducing her to dust]] and taking her crystal.]]
* ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'' has a room full of it, and is, in fact, a puzzle. Doing this incorrectly will prompt spikes coming out of the dolls to give you a game over.

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** ''VideoGame/WestOfLoathing'' has the evil talking doll Grace, who told her (late) owner to murder her family in a series of "tea parties" to keep the demonic Cows away. After burning the house down, Grace tells you to finish the "tea party" by giving her the goblet of blood in the basement... and then you remember that ''talking dolls haven't been invented yet''.
* There's a junk item in ''VideoGame/ForumWarz'', the Haunted Doll, but it doesn't really do anything... At least, nobody's ''seen'' it do anything.
''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** You can also wind up stuck with In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', there's a Burnt Doll by pissing off a certain NPC.
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' had a few moments with creepy dolls:
** First with ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica Code Veronica]]'' (and its remake level in ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles Darkside Chronicles]]'') in which you travel through a house of dolls, filled with Zombies, Bats, Bandersnatches, oh and
little dolls and girl in Ikana Valley whose father lives in the wardrobe in the basement because he's slowly turning into a giant suspended doll, Gibdo. Later on, if you look inside his wardrobe, it's revealed that he had a mummified little doll resting in the corner. The skull kid also slightly fits this... especially with how Majora plays with him.
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'', when you meet the Great Fairy Queen, [[spoiler:she takes the appearance of a child yet holds a doll that looks like a miniature Great Fairy,
all of which are modeled after look like grown adult women. The effect is rather unsettling, a fact not helped by the games main antagonist Alexia Ashford. Plus there background music]].
* A creepy doll whose eyes move
is part of the antique shop's decor in ''VideoGame/TheLostCrown: A Ghost-Hunting Adventure''. Not exactly a doll, but this game also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIyNaHHpmxI the music]], and gets its worse features [[spoiler:a spooky, headless dressmaker's dummy that inexplicably appears in the games remake bathroom each night, looking like an intruder in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf587zCG2ec Darkside Chronicles]]''.
** And there was also
the ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' prototype, dark]].
* In ''VideoGame/MarthaIsDead'', marionettes are used to reenact Giulia’s abusive childhood. Giulia later appears as one when talking to herself.
* In ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'', there's creepy animatronic sex-dolls in Club Hell
which featured Leon going through ''giggle'' when a castle owned by Umbrella (at least we assume) {{mook|s}} pushes them onto an electrified table.
* ''Maze: Subject 360'' has a number of them, including a disturbing mechanical baby doll
that is... weirdly enough haunted with hook-wielding ghost demonic dolls and tentacles in a black mist. It was as if he made a wrong turn at Raccoon City and went to Franchise/SilentHill. (Damn it would have been scary.)
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' has [[PsychopathicWomanchild Lady Donna Beneviento]] and her puppet, [[PerversePuppet Angie]], who during her section of the game has Ethan
you have to find Angie assemble in order to complete a game of hide task and seek with several other puppets and stab her. Not finding her in time will have the other puppets ZergRush him. Once she goes down... [[spoiler: Ethan has also killed Beneviento as well, [[LiterallyShatteredLives reducing her to dust]] and taking her crystal.]]
* ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'' has
a room full of it, decrepit mannequins in contorted poses which are intended to represent previous subjects who supposedly escaped the maze.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' has the thoroughly creepy Psycho Mantis
and is, Sorrow dolls as unlockable weapons.
* The game menu
in fact, ''Mishap: An Accidental Haunting'' consists of signs held up by extremely creepy dolls in various states of disrepair. Similar dolls appear throughout the hidden object scenes.
* In ''Monster Girl Quest'', Gnome can be seen holding
a puzzle. Doing this incorrectly mud doll, a marionette-like doll with hollow eye sockets. She created many of them, animated, to ease boredom. Gnome summons them during her battle to test Luka's strength. [[spoiler:They're even creepier if you lose, in which case Gnome will prompt spikes coming out have these dolls repeatedly rape Luka.]] There is also a Cursed Doll in the Haunted House side quest.
* ''VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles'': One
of the hidden-object search scenes in ''Return to Ravenhearst'' consists of dozens of creepy, damaged dolls to give arranged on shelves. In the sequel, ''Escape From Ravenhearst'', you interact with dozens of creepy animatronic mannequins.
* There are plenty of dolls lying around the house in ''VideoGame/NeverendingNightmares'', where most of them are cracked or have creepy facial expressions. In
a few blink-or-you-miss-it moments, they sometimes wink at the player. Ultimately, they're harmless [[spoiler:unless you're on the Wayward Dreamer path, in which case they will disembowel you the chance they get]].
* The first boss of Stage 2 in ''VideoGame/NightSlashers'' is a duo consisting of an old man with a bell and a marionette who prevent the heroes from following the carriage. The marionette walks-or-dances around as if on strings, even though there are none. He sometimes throws his head to attack, laughs maniacally, and may temporarily fall apart if hit with a special move. He burns up upon defeat.
* ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'' has the Secretaries, who resemble baby dolls. They're huge, they [[DemonicSpiders hit crazy hard]] [[WidgetSeries (with math equations, oddly enough)]], they're [[UncannyValley creepy]], they show up in zones devoid of all life, and they get even uglier as the
game over.goes on. They're also good for EXP grinding, if you're careful.



* One made to look like the game's protagonist spooks the player out near the beginning of ''VideoGame/RuleOfRose''. It makes an appearance later on, but its plot-significance is small.
** What makes this doll even ''creepier'' is the fact that it was created specifically to [[spoiler:be slapped around and beaten by a character that ''hates'' Jennifer '''that much''']].
** The Rose Princess also appears to be one. [[spoiler:It turns out that was just a stand-in for when the real one was ill.]]
* Torned out and dirty dolls in ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'', which you can do a spinning attack on for restorative items. They're even creepier than an eyeless Dumbo ride.
* The second battle in ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'' is against a possessed doll which one of your sisters owns.
* These are encountered as late-game enemies in ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns''. They are ''damn'' creepy, to say the least. They represent [[spoiler:the children that Dr. Bumby has brainwashed and broken into child prostitutes]].
* In ''Monster Girl Quest'', Gnome can be seen holding a mud doll, a marionette-like doll with hollow eye sockets. She created many of them, animated, to ease boredom. Gnome summons them during her battle to test Luka's strength. [[spoiler:They're even creepier if you lose, for Gnome will have these dolls repeatedly rape Luka.]] There is also a Cursed Doll in the Haunted House sidequest.
* ''VideoGame/{{Ib}}'' not only has a creepy doll that follows Garry around and keeps on asking him to play with it in one scene, but also an ''entire room'' of creepy dolls that lock him inside and force him to "play" with them to find the key to the door before a giant version of them finishes crawling through the window. If he fails to find the key in time, Bad Things happen.

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* One made ''VideoGame/{{Onimusha}}'':
** ''VideoGame/OnimushaWarlords'' has Ayame, a demonic, AxCrazy Genma-doll which will randomly appear in the castle and will try
to look like slash you to pieces with her gigantic claws.
** Fiendish puppets and dolls will appear hidden in some chests in ''VideoGame/Onimusha3DemonSiege''. They'll leave behind the object they're guarding when defeated.
* The HauntedHouse you explore in ''VideoGame/{{Pacify}}'' has plenty of these lying around. Sometimes, they'll [[LivingToys come to life]].
* Twilight Town in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' is populated by Twilighters, green creatures resembling shadowy dolls with visible stitching and glowing yellow eyes. Fortunately, it's
the game's protagonist spooks HalloweenTown and they're the player out near ones in need of rescuing.
* Vivien in ''VideoGame/{{Phantasmat}} 4: The Dread of Oakville'' has an entire set of shelves of grotesque wooden dolls which can move by themselves.
* One of
the beginning of ''VideoGame/RuleOfRose''. It makes an appearance later on, but its plot-significance is small.
** What makes this doll even ''creepier''
treasures in ''VideoGame/Pikmin2'' is the fact that it was created specifically to [[spoiler:be slapped around and beaten by a character that ''hates'' Jennifer '''that much''']].
** The Rose Princess also appears to be one. [[spoiler:It turns out that was just a stand-in for when the real one was ill.]]
* Torned out and dirty dolls in ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'', which you can do a spinning attack on for restorative items. They're even creepier than an eyeless Dumbo ride.
* The second battle in ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'' is against a possessed doll which one
head of your sisters owns.
* These are encountered as late-game enemies in ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns''. They are ''damn'' creepy, to say the least. They represent [[spoiler:the children that Dr. Bumby has brainwashed and broken into child prostitutes]].
* In ''Monster Girl Quest'', Gnome can be seen holding a mud doll, a marionette-like doll with hollow eye sockets. She created many of them, animated, to ease boredom. Gnome summons them during her battle to test Luka's strength. [[spoiler:They're even creepier if you lose, for Gnome will have these dolls repeatedly rape Luka.]] There is also a Cursed Doll in the Haunted House sidequest.
* ''VideoGame/{{Ib}}'' not only has
a creepy baby doll that follows Garry around called "The Silencer". In the Japanese version, it is worth [[NumberOfTheBeast 666]] Pokos (changed to 670 in the international releases) and keeps on asking him to play with it in one scene, but also an ''entire room'' of creepy dolls that lock him inside and force him to "play" with them to find the key to the door before a giant version of them finishes crawling through the window. If he fails to find the key in time, Bad Things happen.its eyelids blink if it's moved around.



* ''VideoGame/{{Calling}}'' has a room filled with bisque dolls. You not only get scared by those but you also [[spoiler:get into that same room later in the game]].
* ''VideoGame/AmbridgeMansion'', an indie horror game, has a room full of dolls in it. In the second game, [[spoiler:the dolls even lock you inside the room for a little while when they're just there staring at you]]. It's [[NightmareFuel creepy as hell]].

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* ''VideoGame/{{Calling}}'' ''VideoGame/PoppyPlaytime'':
** The titular Poppy
has a room filled massive human-looking eyes, an ability to hold conversations with bisque dolls. You not only get scared by those but you also [[spoiler:get into children, and a strange insistence that same room later she's a real girl. When you find her in the game]].
* ''VideoGame/AmbridgeMansion'', an indie horror game, has a room full of dolls in it. In the second game, [[spoiler:the dolls even lock you inside the room for a little while when
trailer, she doesn't move, but her eyes move just enough to show that they're just there staring at you]]. tracking you. [[spoiler:In the game itself, you find her in a glass case asleep. Opening it wakes her up, upon which she seems to express gratitude.]] It's [[NightmareFuel creepy as hell]].strongly implied that she was once an employee of the toy company that made the dolls and underwent BrainUploading so that she could [[LivingForeverIsAwesome live forever]].
** The game's first major antagonist, Huggy Wuggy, counts to a lesser degree. He's the larger-than-life-sized version of another popular line of dolls, some of which you can find strewn around in the room he first appears in. [[EasterEgg One of them has black eyes and a physically deformed appearance]].



* Near the beginning of ''Strange Cases 4: The Faces of Vengeance'' the main character discovers a doll of herself hanging - literally - inside an old fridge. When touched, the head falls off. Also, since the game is set in an abandoned mall, it gets a lot of mileage out of old mannequins in various disturbing poses. After solving a particular puzzle involving three child mannequins and a plastic birthday cake, she comments "It looks like someone is turning seven - if he was human and not a creepy doll."
* Howard the Bear in ''VideoGame/ForgetMeNotAnnie''.
* VideoGame/{{OFF}} has the Secretaries,, who resemble baby dolls. They're huge, they [[DemonicSpiders hit crazy hard]] [[WidgetSeries (with math equations, oddly enough)]], they're [[UncannyValley creepy]], they show up in zones devoid of all life, and they get even uglier as the game goes on. They're also good for EXP grinding, if you're careful.
* Twilight Town in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' is populated by Twilighters, green creatures resembling shadowy dolls with visible stitching and glowing yellow eyes. Fortunately it's the game's HalloweenTown and they're the ones in need of rescuing.
* ''VideoGame/SoulHackers'' features the shop "Robot Haus" which normally sells these. It is run by a creepy old lady who talks as if the dolls were alive, and when you show her the GUNP, she sells suspicious items to you such as water that attracts demons and molotov cocktails.
* ''VideoGame/{{Illbleed}}'' has Cutie Marie/Cuty Mary, a cute little doll who challenges you to a series of deadly games in the "Killer Department Store" level.
* ''VideoGame/{{Device 6}}'' has many creepy dolls, some more important then others.
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' features the MonsterClown jack-in-the-box Mad Jack as the third boss, although for many he's more remembered as ThatOneBoss for the frustrations due to the camera angles than for being scary (unless the player was younger than about 7 or 8).
* The vision of a doll which an evil toymaker, Henry Stauf sees and recreates, is what kicks off the storyline of ''VideoGame/TheSeventhGuest''.
* In ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'' there's creepy animatronic sex-dolls in Club Hell, they ''giggle'' when a mook pushes them onto an electrified table.
* The game menu in ''Mishap: An Accidental Haunting'' consists of signs held up by extremely creepy dolls in various states of disrepair. Similar dolls appear throughout the hidden object scenes.
* Dolly from ''VideoGame/VoodooVince''.
* ''Maze: Subject 360'' has a number of them, including a disturbing mechanical baby doll you have to assemble in order to complete a task and a room full of decrepit mannequins in contorted poses which are intended to represent previous subjects who supposedly escaped the maze.
* Vivien in ''Phantasmat 4: The Dread of Oakville'' has an entire set of shelves of grotesque wooden dolls which can move by themselves.
* In ''VideoGame/HauntTheHouse'', one object that can be possessed is a doll. When the player character, a ghost, possesses it, the player can make it shriek.
* There are plenty of dolls lying around the house in ''VideoGame/NeverendingNightmares'', where most of them are cracked or have creepy facial expressions. In a few blink-or-you-miss-it moments, they sometimes wink at the player. Ultimately, they're harmless [[spoiler:unless you're on the Wayward Dreamer path, where they will disembowel you the chance they get]].
* [=BitmapWorld=] has a storyline that parodies the Music/JonathanCoulton song, but then swerves off into Creator/EdgarAllanPoe territory. It begins [[http://bitmapworld.com/comic/issue296/ here]].
* The eponymous Talking Tattletail doll from ''VideoGame/{{Tattletail}}'' seems like an annoying but harmless [[BlandNameProduct Furby knock-off]] that the KidHero can't wait until Christmas to open. Then it starts getting out of the box on its own, and other weird things start to happen. ''Then'' you meet [[MamaBear Mama Tattletail]], who doesn't like to see its child upset...
* ''VideoGame/EmilyWantsToPlay'' has Emily's "friends", each with a different mechanic: Kiki is a Japanese porcelain doll who will kill you unless you look right at her, Mr. Tatters is a MonsterClown doll who will kill you if you move while he's looking at you, and Chester is a DemonicDummy who will kill you if you linger in the same room as him for too long.
* ''VideoGame/{{Cataclysm}}: Dark Days Ahead'' has talking dolls as items. They're not much use except for taking their batteries or disassembling them for electronic components. Most of the dolls, when activated, say cute doll things, but they have a small chance of being creepy dolls that say things such as "Go kill yourself!", "[[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei Die for me!]]", or "[[Music/JonathanCoulton Do you really need that much honey?]]".
* One of the treasures in ''VideoGame/Pikmin2'' is the head of a creepy baby doll called "The Silencer". In the Japanese version it was worth 666 Pokos (changed to 670 in the international releases) and its eyelids blink if it's moved around.
* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', several dolls in [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Toy Box]] find themselves possessed by Heartless. The most noticeable cases are Angelic Amber, a goth girl doll who becomes a boss upon being possessed, and [[spoiler:Buzz Lightyear, who was possessed on Young Xehanort's orders]].
* A [[CreepyGood heroic]] version of this is in ''VideoGame/Boogeyman2''. It spends the game sitting unmovingly in its perpetually-rocking chair, and each night it warns you of the approaching boogeyman.
* At one point in ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'', you discover an old abandoned inn that has an attic room filled with broken sex dolls. They’re harmless until you loot the nearby treasure chest, at which point they start giggling and attack. If you [[NonStandardGameOver lose the battle]], then Catie is [[BalefulPolymorph transformed]] into one of them.
* In ''VideoGame/ZombiesAteMyNeighbors'', one of the recurring enemies is Tommy the Evil Doll. These little terrors pop out of crates with a spine-tingling "MWHA HA HA HA HA HA!" Then they chase you while throwing axes. Even once they have burst into flames, they still chase you. And they never stop respawning.

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* Near In ''VideoGame/{{Rakion}}'', the beginning of ''Strange Cases 4: The Faces of Vengeance'' Mage's small stature and white mask that sports a stitched-up mouth evokes the main character discovers a doll image of herself hanging - literally - inside an old fridge. When touched, the head falls off. Also, since the game is set in an abandoned mall, it gets a lot of mileage out of old mannequins in various disturbing poses. After solving a particular puzzle involving three child mannequins and a plastic birthday cake, she comments "It looks like someone is turning seven - if he was human and not a living creepy doll."
doll.
* Howard the Bear ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' had a few moments with creepy dolls:
** First with ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'' (and its remake level
in ''VideoGame/ForgetMeNotAnnie''.
* VideoGame/{{OFF}} has the Secretaries,, who resemble baby dolls. They're huge, they [[DemonicSpiders hit crazy hard]] [[WidgetSeries (with math equations, oddly enough)]], they're [[UncannyValley creepy]], they show up
''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles''), in zones devoid which you travel through a house of all life, and they get even uglier as the game goes on. They're also good for EXP grinding, if you're careful.
* Twilight Town in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' is populated by Twilighters, green creatures resembling shadowy
dolls, filled with zombies, bats, Bandersnatches, little dolls with visible stitching and glowing yellow eyes. Fortunately it's a giant suspended doll, all of which are modeled after the game's HalloweenTown and they're main antagonist Alexia Ashford. Plus, there is also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIyNaHHpmxI the ones in need of rescuing.
* ''VideoGame/SoulHackers''
music]], which the remake [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf587zCG2ec makes even worse]].
** There's also the ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' prototype, which
features the shop "Robot Haus" which normally sells these. It is run Leon going through a castle owned by Umbrella (at least we assume) that is... weirdly enough haunted with hook-wielding ghost demonic dolls and tentacles in a creepy old lady who talks black mist. It's as if he made a wrong turn at Raccoon City and went to ''Franchise/SilentHill''. (Damn, would it have been scary.)
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' has [[PsychopathicManchild Lady Donna Beneviento]] and her puppet, [[PerversePuppet Angie]], who during her section of
the dolls were alive, game has Ethan have to find Angie in a game of hide and when you show seek with several other puppets and stab her. Not finding her in time will have the GUNP, other puppets ZergRush him. Once she sells suspicious items goes down, [[spoiler:Ethan has also killed Beneviento as well, [[LiterallyShatteredLives reducing her to you such as water that attracts demons dust]] and molotov cocktails.
taking her crystal]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Illbleed}}'' has Cutie Marie/Cuty Mary, a cute little doll who challenges you ''VideoGame/RuleOfRose'':
** One made
to a series of deadly games in look like the "Killer Department Store" level.
* ''VideoGame/{{Device 6}}'' has many creepy dolls, some more important then others.
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' features the MonsterClown jack-in-the-box Mad Jack as the third boss, although for many he's more remembered as ThatOneBoss for the frustrations due to the camera angles than for being scary (unless
game's protagonist spooks the player out near the beginning. It makes an appearance later on, but its plot-significance is small. What makes this doll even ''creepier'' is the fact that it was younger created specifically to [[spoiler:be slapped around and beaten by a character that ''hates'' Jennifer '''that much''']].
** The Rose Princess also appears to be one. [[spoiler:It turns out that was just a stand-in for when the real one was ill.]]
* Marionetta, the third boss or more specifically the guardian of Obsidian Mansion in ''VideoGame/RuneFactory4'', has a description of "An old doll. Spookier
than about 7 or 8).
you can imagine" for a reason.
* The vision Creepy rag dolls appear as enemies in Episode 2 of ''VideoGame/ScoobyDooFirstFrights''.
* Each game in the ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' series has
a doll dungeon called the Doll House, which is the home to a demonically possessed doll. In the first game, the spirit possessing the doll is not quite as scary as the doll itself, which sits in the middle of an evil toymaker, Henry Stauf sees [[RoomFullOfCrazy extremely disturbing room]], on a rocking horse, creaking slowly back and recreates, is what kicks off forth. In the storyline of ''VideoGame/TheSeventhGuest''.
* In ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo''
second game, there's creepy animatronic sex-dolls in Club Hell, they ''giggle'' when a mook pushes them onto an electrified table.
* The game menu in ''Mishap: An Accidental Haunting'' consists
similar dungeon, meant for a character who has a doll of signs held up by extremely creepy his own. Not quite as scary as the first, but still quite a bit disturbing, given that there are dolls in various states of disrepair. Similar all over the house watching you... In the third game, there are dolls appear throughout all over the hidden object scenes.
* Dolly
place, and the scariness comes from ''VideoGame/VoodooVince''.
* ''Maze: Subject 360'' has a number of them, including a disturbing mechanical baby doll
what you have to assemble in order ''do'' to complete a task and a room full of decrepit mannequins in contorted poses which are intended to represent previous subjects who supposedly escaped the maze.
* Vivien in ''Phantasmat 4: The Dread of Oakville'' has an entire set of shelves of grotesque wooden dolls which can move by themselves.
* In ''VideoGame/HauntTheHouse'', one object that can be possessed is a doll. When the player character, a ghost, possesses it, the player can make it shriek.
* There are plenty of dolls lying around the house in ''VideoGame/NeverendingNightmares'', where most of
them are cracked or have creepy facial expressions. In a few blink-or-you-miss-it moments, they sometimes wink at the player. Ultimately, they're harmless [[spoiler:unless you're on the Wayward Dreamer path, where they will disembowel you the chance they get]].
* [=BitmapWorld=] has a storyline that parodies the Music/JonathanCoulton song, but then swerves off into Creator/EdgarAllanPoe territory. It begins [[http://bitmapworld.com/comic/issue296/ here]].
* The eponymous Talking Tattletail doll from ''VideoGame/{{Tattletail}}'' seems like an annoying but harmless [[BlandNameProduct Furby knock-off]] that the KidHero can't wait until Christmas to open. Then it starts getting
-- [[spoiler:plucking out of the box on its own, and other weird things start to happen. ''Then'' you meet [[MamaBear Mama Tattletail]], who doesn't like to see its child upset...
* ''VideoGame/EmilyWantsToPlay'' has Emily's "friends", each with a different mechanic: Kiki is a Japanese porcelain doll who will kill you unless you look right at her, Mr. Tatters is a MonsterClown doll who will kill you if you move while he's looking at you, and Chester is a DemonicDummy who will kill you if you linger in the same room as him for too long.
* ''VideoGame/{{Cataclysm}}: Dark Days Ahead'' has talking dolls as items. They're not much use except for taking
their batteries or disassembling them for electronic components. Most of the dolls, when activated, say cute doll things, but they have a small chance of being creepy dolls that say things such as "Go kill yourself!", "[[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei Die for me!]]", or "[[Music/JonathanCoulton Do you really need that much honey?]]".
* One of the treasures in ''VideoGame/Pikmin2'' is the head of a creepy baby doll called "The Silencer". In the Japanese version it was worth 666 Pokos (changed to 670 in the international releases) and its eyelids blink if it's moved around.
* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', several dolls in [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Toy Box]] find themselves possessed by Heartless. The most noticeable cases are Angelic Amber, a goth girl doll who becomes a boss upon being possessed, and [[spoiler:Buzz Lightyear, who was possessed on Young Xehanort's orders]].
* A [[CreepyGood heroic]] version of this is in ''VideoGame/Boogeyman2''. It spends the game sitting unmovingly in its perpetually-rocking chair, and each night it warns you of the approaching boogeyman.
* At one point in ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'', you discover an old abandoned inn that has an attic room filled with broken sex dolls. They’re harmless until you loot the nearby treasure chest, at which point they start giggling and attack. If you [[NonStandardGameOver lose the battle]], then Catie is [[BalefulPolymorph transformed]] into one of them.
* In ''VideoGame/ZombiesAteMyNeighbors'', one of the recurring enemies is Tommy the Evil Doll. These little terrors pop out of crates with a spine-tingling "MWHA HA HA HA HA HA!" Then they chase you while throwing axes. Even once they have burst into flames, they still chase you. And they never stop respawning.
eyes]].



* ''VideoGame/StringTyrant'' has life sized versions these as the most common enemy type.
* The attic of Boo Manor in ''VideoGame/HamtaroHamHamHeartbreak'' is filled with dolls with big staring eyes. Bijou thinks they're creepy and the mood isn't exactly lifted when it turns out that Spat is hiding among them while pretending to be a doll.
* In episode 1 of ''VideoGame/SongOfHorror'', the final leg of the game involves a puzzle of a dollhouse with five dolls that need to be placed in the correct rooms. Four of them are normal toys, but the fifth is a hideous gangly ball of rags in a vaguely humanoid shape found clogging a toilet like someone was desperate to get rid of it. The second part of the puzzle applies this to all of the dolls: [[spoiler:in the equivalent rooms of the mansion where you put the dolls in the dollhouse, desiccated corpses appear, and the room where the ugly doll was placed is taken by [[EldritchAbomination the Presence]], which will instakill you if you try to enter]].
* ''VideoGame/SophiesGuardian'': The enemies in the game are a whole host of creepy-looking broken dolls that the PlayerCharacter needs to shoot with the [[DualWielding two guns it wields]].
* ''VideoGame/TheDollShop'': The dolls themselves. Although they are quite pretty, there's also something unsettling about them, and as well about how seriously the doll maker himself takes them.

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* ''VideoGame/StringTyrant'' has life sized versions these ''Franchise/SilentHill'' seems to ''love'' these:
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' features the Mannequin, a monster made of two shiny plasticine women's lower torsos stacked on top of one another. [[spoiler:It possibly symbolizes the main character's objectification of women.]]
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins'' features [[Theatre/TheTempest Ariel]], appearing
as a doll that can either break your neck in the air... or run around on its hands to kill you.
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming'', however, cranks it up even further with [[BossBattle Scarlet]], a giant, elongated mannequin with porcelain armor that, when blown off, reveals that there's inexplicably ''flesh and muscle'' beneath it. Add this to the fact that it came out of a pool of [[spoiler:Doc Finch's blood]] and the OneWomanWail creating SoundtrackDissonance... it is ''easily''
the most common enemy type.
* The attic
frightening monster in the entire game. [[spoiler:Finding out ''what'' and ''why'' Scarlett is doesn't help. [[IKnewIt Not that you probably hadn't figured it out by now anyway...]]]]
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'' also contains a slightly more traditional example in the form
of Boo Manor in ''VideoGame/HamtaroHamHamHeartbreak'' is filled with the dolls with big staring eyes. Bijou Stanley leaves behind for Heather in the hospital. The protagonist originally thinks they're of the doll as another child's and is disgusted when she finds out it's supposed to be for her. [[spoiler:In his last journal entry, the doll is torn to pieces. Creepy...]] Then there's the dolls in the Otherworld Hillside Center. One's in a wheelchair, while another -- only a few feet away -- is held by a humanoid... thing, suspended over a hole. [[FauxSymbolism Symbolism?]]
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'' has Walter Sullivan's doll, which if picked up and placed in the box, haunts Henry's room permanently ([[GuideDangIt unless you remove it from the box and carry it around with you for the rest of the game]]), making it impossible to get the best ending. There's also the Robbie the Rabbit Doll pointing at ''[[spoiler:you]]'' when you look in a certain hole.
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillDownpour'' has the aptly named Dolls, which resemble (very creepy-looking) sex dolls. They summon shadows to attack Murphy, preferring to stand (almost) stone-still while they do so.
* If you're not careful whilst downloading custom content for ''VideoGame/TheSims3'', you can unknowingly download a doll that will slow down your game loading times and crash your games.
** That's probably Dexter the Bear, a stuffed bear that gives you the ability to kill other sims with either a knife, a poker, or a hammer. The hammer lets you kill toddlers too, which gives way to the
creepy and the mood isn't exactly lifted toddler behaviors... that is, when it turns out Dexter works properly and doesn't crash the game.
** In summer of 2010, there was also a custom content girl doll in a dress
that Spat attached itself like a virus to any uploaded content you created. It got onto the official exchange and caused a number of crashed games before people found it.
** For actual creepy dolls rather than bugged ones, we have the Imaginary Friend doll from the ''Generations'' expansion pack, which
is hiding among them while pretending generally agreed to be extremely creepy, and is delivered in the mail most of the time when your sims have a doll.
baby, and to make matters worse, if you let your toddlers play with the thing it will evolve into an animated ''thing'' with a creepy walk that follows your sim kids around everywhere. Also, the developers went out of their way to make the thing [[ClingyMacGuffin hard to get rid of]], you can't even blow it up in an explosion.
** Your child will constantly play with it, ignoring their needs and their homework, along with constantly being interrupted when you tell them to do something. On top of that, if you take the doll away and leave it out, it will act like a gnome, which disappear in the night to show up elsewhere, often turning on [=TV=]s and stereos, or just poofing up beside a bed to stare at the occupant.
* In episode 1 of ''VideoGame/SongOfHorror'', the final leg of the game involves a puzzle of a dollhouse with five dolls that need to be placed in the correct rooms. Four of them are normal toys, but the fifth is a hideous gangly ball of rags in a vaguely humanoid shape found clogging a toilet like someone was desperate to get rid of it. The second part of the puzzle applies this to all of the dolls: [[spoiler:in the equivalent rooms of the mansion where you put the dolls in the dollhouse, desiccated corpses appear, and the room where the ugly doll was placed is taken by [[EldritchAbomination the Presence]], which will instakill you if you try to enter]].
enter]].
* Tails Doll, from ''VideoGame/SonicR''. Can ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou you]]'' feel [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9kGZfE3VJY the sunshine]]? [[AscendedMeme The devs have]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXsGsALkOeU acknowledged this]].
* ''VideoGame/SophiesGuardian'': The enemies in the game are a whole host of creepy-looking broken dolls that the PlayerCharacter needs to shoot with the [[DualWielding [[GunsAkimbo two guns it wields]].
* ''VideoGame/TheDollShop'': The ''VideoGame/SoulHackers'' features the shop "Robot Haus" which normally sells these. It is run by a creepy old lady who talks as if the dolls themselves. Although they are quite pretty, there's also something unsettling about them, were alive, and as well about how seriously when you show her the doll maker himself takes them.GUNP, she sells suspicious items to you such as water that attracts demons and {{Molotov Cocktail}}s.



* Creepy rag dolls appear as enemies in Episode 2 of ''VideoGame/ScoobyDooFirstFrights''.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Rakion}}'', The Mage's small stature and white mask that sports a stitched-up mouth evokes the image of a living creepy doll.
* In ''VideoGame/MarthaIsDead'', marionettes are used to reenact Giulia’s abusive childhood. Giulia later appears as one when talking to herself.
* In ''VideoGame/StardewValley'', if you [[spoiler: turn your children into doves with the shrine at the Witch's House]], an Ancient Doll will appear on TV on Fall 26. After this, the same doll will appear and attack you whenever you visit [[spoiler: the Witch's House]].
--->''You've brought this upon yourself... now I'm free... Hee hee hee!''
* ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy5'' has the Doll family of enemies, a set of crudely-made {{Voodoo Doll}}s based on the playable characters and usually found in haunted areas. Reactions from the party upon first seeing them are...''varied'':
-->'''Matt:''' I-is that supposed to be me? Am I really that dirty?
-->'''Natalie:''' Ugh, who would go through the trouble of making such a doll? Why does it have panties and breasts?!?!
-->'''Lance:''' What's this? A little fascist doll? (Does it want to join my cause?)
-->'''Anna:''' Ewwww, someone's made a voodoo doll of me? What have I done to deserve this? Let's kill it gently please.

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* Creepy rag dolls appear as enemies in Episode 2 of ''VideoGame/ScoobyDooFirstFrights''.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Rakion}}'', The Mage's small stature and white mask that sports a stitched-up mouth evokes the image of a living creepy doll.
* In ''VideoGame/MarthaIsDead'', marionettes are used to reenact Giulia’s abusive childhood. Giulia later appears as one when talking to herself.
* In ''VideoGame/StardewValley'', if you [[spoiler: turn [[spoiler:turn your children into doves with the shrine at the Witch's House]], an Ancient Doll will appear on TV on Fall 26. After this, the same doll will appear and attack you whenever you visit [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the Witch's House]].
--->''You've -->''"You've brought this upon yourself... now I'm free... Hee hee hee!''
hee!"''
* ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy5'' Near the beginning of ''Strange Cases 4: The Faces of Vengeance'', the main character discovers a doll of herself hanging -- literally -- inside an old fridge. When touched, the head falls off. Also, since the game is set in an abandoned mall, it gets a lot of mileage out of old mannequins in various disturbing poses. After solving a particular puzzle involving three child mannequins and a plastic birthday cake, she comments "It looks like someone is turning seven -- if he was human and not a creepy doll."
* ''VideoGame/StringTyrant''
has life-sized versions of these as the Doll family of enemies, a set of crudely-made {{Voodoo Doll}}s based on most common enemy type.
* The eponymous Talking Tattletail doll from ''VideoGame/{{Tattletail}}'' seems like an annoying but harmless FauxFurby that
the playable KidHero can't wait until Christmas to open. Then it starts getting out of the box on its own, and other weird things start to happen. ''Then'' you meet [[MamaBear Mama Tattletail]], who doesn't like to see its child upset...
* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' has gotten in on this trope with a few character designs.
** [[MarionetteMaster Alice Margatroid]] has a veritable army of dolls at her disposal, otherwise-innocuous toys armed with swords, lances or straight razors, some of which are even [[ActionBomb packed with gunpowder]]. Fan works usually portray them as cute, but with spellcard names like "Eerily Luminous Shanghai Dolls" and "Hanged Hourai Dolls" it's easy to go the other route. Alice herself is often described as slightly creepy, what with her habit of holding one-sided conversations with her dolls, and then there's the fan art that gives her doll joints or otherwise implies that she's just a larger puppet...
** Medicine Melancholy, an abandoned doll left in a field of poisonous flowers for so long that she became a {{youkai}}, is one of the creepiest
characters in the series. She has a murderous grudge against humanity, rambles to herself about [[PoisonousPerson her toxins' effects]] and usually found in haunted areas. Reactions from talks to her victims about how wonderful it is that they'll soon die surrounded by poison. Simply touching Medicine is dangerous, she can manipulate her poisons to control her victims, and she even attempted to poison the party upon Human Village on one occasion. [[CuteIsEvil Other than all that, she looks like a cute little girl]].
** The curse goddess [[MeaningfulName Hina]] Kagiyama is a {{subver|tedTrope}}sion -- she collects Nagashi-bina dolls, whose purpose is to be filled with the misfortune of the user, but she does this to drain away that misfortune and ensure that it doesn't affect anyone else. She's actually pretty friendly, it's just that she's soaked up so much misfortune this way that [[PowerIncontinence simply being around her can be dangerous]].
* ''VideoGame/Trenches2021'': You can find these. In fact, one of the
first seeing puzzles in the game is to follow the sounds of babies crying to discarded dolls in the trenches and picking them are...''varied'':
-->'''Matt:''' I-is that supposed to be me? Am I
up.
* There is a mod in ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament'' called ''[=Unreal4Ever=]'' which has a doll for a weapon. When used, the doll skips around a map making doll-like noises, until an unlucky victim comes too close and detonates the doll, causing a nuclear explosion. Just imagine being chased by a seemingly harmless doll that's
really that dirty?
-->'''Natalie:''' Ugh, who would go through
out to kill you.
%%* ''VideoGame/VagrantStory'''s Quicksilver and Shrieker enemies.%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
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* ''VideoGame/WarioWorld'': Brawl Doll,
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* ''VideoGame/{{Witchkin}}'': One of the titular characters is an eyeless, hairless doll in a tattered dress.
* In ''VideoGame/ZombiesAteMyNeighbors'', one of the recurring enemies is Tommy the Evil Doll. These
little fascist doll? (Does it want to join my cause?)
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terrors pop out of me? What crates with a spine-tingling "MWHA HA HA HA HA HA!" Then they chase you while throwing axes. Even once they have I done to deserve this? Let's kill it gently please.burst into flames, they still chase you. And they never stop respawning.
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* ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy5'' has the Doll family of enemies, a set of crudely-made {{VoodooDoll}}s based on the playable characters and usually found in haunted areas. Reactions from the party upon first seeing them are...''varied'':

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* ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy5'' has the Doll family of enemies, a set of crudely-made {{VoodooDoll}}s based on the playable characters and usually found in haunted areas. Reactions from the party upon first seeing them are...''varied'':
-->'''Matt:''' I-is that supposed to be me? Am I really that dirty?
-->'''Natalie:''' Ugh, who would go through the trouble of making such a doll? Why does it have panties and breasts?!?!
-->'''Lance:''' What's this? A little fascist doll? (Does it want to join my cause?)
-->'''Anna:''' Ewwww, someone's made a voodoo doll of me? What have I done to deserve this? Let's kill it gently please.
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** ''VideoGame/WestOfLoathing'' has the evil talking doll Grace, who told her (late) owner to murder her family in a series of "tea parties" to keep the demonic Cows away. After burning the house down, Grace tells you to finish the "tea party" by retrieving a goblet of blood in the basement... and then you remember ''talking dolls haven't been invented yet''. [[spoiler: Giving Grace the blood causes her to escape and kill all the squirrels at Halloway's Hideaway. Destroying the goblet, or throwing it away down a mineshaft, earns you XP at the cost of being haunted until the end of your days, seen in the epilogue.]]

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* In ''VideoGame/MarthaIsDead'', marionettes are used to reenact Giulia’s abusive childhood. Giulia later appears as one when talking to herself.

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* In ''VideoGame/StardewValley'', if you [[spoiler: turn your children into doves with the shrine at the Witch's House]], an Ancient Doll will appear on TV on Fall 26. After this, the same doll will appear and attack you whenever you visit [[spoiler: the Witch's House]].
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Rakion}}'', The Mage's small stature and white mask that sports a stitched-up mouth evokes the image of a living creepy doll.

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* In ''VideoGame/MarthaIsDead'', marionettes are used to reenact Giulia’s abusive childhood. Giulia later appears as one when talking to herself.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Rakion}}, The Mage's small stature and white mask that sports a stitched-up mouth evokes the image of a living creepy doll.

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* Creepy rag dolls appear as enemies in Episode 2 of ''VideoGame/ScoobyDooFirstFrights''.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Rakion}}, The Mage's small stature and white mask that sports a stitched-up mouth evokes the image of a living creepy doll.
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* The 2010 remake of ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}'' has the boss of Phase 2, aptly titled "The Doll that Bled". This doll has the both the powers of telekinesis and the ability to form fleshy masses of tentacles. It combines these abilities in its boss fight to create a massive golem out of flesh and furniture, which it uses as an armored shell while fighting Rick.

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* The 2010 remake of ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}'' has the boss of Phase 2, aptly titled "The Doll that Bled". This doll has the both the powers of telekinesis and the ability to form fleshy masses of tentacles. It combines these abilities in its boss fight to create a massive golem out of flesh and furniture, which it uses as an armored shell while fighting Rick.Rick.
* Creepy rag dolls appear as enemies in Episode 2 of ''VideoGame/ScoobyDooFirstFrights''.
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* The titular Poppy from ''VideoGame/PoppyPlaytime'', who has massive human-looking eyes, an ability to hold conversations with children, and a strange insistence that she's a real girl. When you find her in the trailer, she doesn't move, but her eyes move just enough to show that they're tracking you. [[spoiler: In the game itself, you find her in a glass case asleep. Opening it wakes her up, upon which she seems to express gratitude.]] It's strongly implied she was once an employee of the toy company that made the dolls, and underwent BrainUploading so she could [[LivingForeverIsAwesome live forever.]]
** The game's first major antagonist, Huggy Wuggy, counts to a lesser degree. He's the larger-than-life-sized version of another popular line of dolls, some of which you can find strewn around in the room he first appears in. [[EasterEgg One of them has black eyes and a physically deformed appearance.]]
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* ''VideoGame/DeadRealm'': This is one of the ghosts you can play as in the game.
* Alma carries a doll around with her in ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon''. The effect is not really all that childish.
** Especially since she's covered in blood up to her ankles and typically surrounded by hellfire.
* The first boss of Stage 2 in ''VideoGame/NightSlashers'' is a duo consisting of an old man with a bell and a marionette who prevent the heroes from following the carriage. The marionette walks-or-dances around as if on strings, even though there are none. He sometimes throws his head to attack, laughs maniacally, and may temporarily fall apart if hit with a special move. He burns up upon defeat.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', there's a little girl in Ikana Valley whose father lives in the wardrobe in the basement because he's slowly turning into a Gibdo. Later on, if you look inside his wardrobe it's revealed that he had a mummified little doll resting in the corner.
** The skull kid slightly fits this... especially with how Majora plays with him.
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]'', when you meet the Great Fairy Queen, [[spoiler:she takes the appearance of a child, yet holds a doll that looks like a miniature Great Fairy, all of which look like grown adult women. The effect is rather unsettling, a fact not helped by the background music]].
* The HauntedHouse you explore in ''VideoGame/{{Pacify}}'' has plenty of these lying around. Sometimes, they'll [[LivingToy come to life]].
* ''VideoGame/Trenches2021'': You can find these. In fact, one of the first puzzles in the game is to follow the sounds of babies crying to discarded dolls in the trenches and picking them up.
* ''VideoGame/WarioWorld'': Brawl Doll, the boss of [[BigBoosHaunt Horror Manor]], is an evil baby doll with a {{putto}}-like appearance, having big blue eyes, angel wings, and a star-shaped halo. In the cutscene before the battle, it does an ExorcistHead while laughing sinisterly.
* ''VideoGame/{{Witchkin}}'': One of the titular characters is an eyeless, hairless doll in a tattered dress.
* ''VideoGame/FatalFrame'' cannot help but place them in every title.
** The first game had a room filled with long haired, creepy dolls with a little ghost girl wanting to 'play' with you.
** ''Fatal Frame 2'' took that to the next level with the Dollmaker and the lifesized doll of his dead daughter, who was promptly possessed by an evil spirit and convinced her sister to murder her father. Now the pair of them wander around as shuffling ghosts, while the father controls his dolls and convinces them to kill you.
** ''Fatal Frame 3''. The attacking handmaiden ghosts who look like little geisha dolls that will ''kill you'' with their ''hammers'' and ghostly tricks each have their own room. Their choice of decoration? Dolls. A whole ton of them. Skewered on the walls.
*** At the very beginning of the game, there's a doll in the mansion displayed in a nook. You can look at it through your camera; as you slowly walk towards it, will look up at you.
*** A doll in Miku's room will grow hair throughout the game.
** ''Fatal Frame 4'' has two examples:
*** The room of Ayako, a CreepyChild, is littered with dolls and severed doll limbs with a creepy laugh as the background music. There is also a sidequest to take pictures of dolls littered throughout the game. The downside is you after each one, a creepy image of a little girl alongside a creepy laugh plays to verify your picture was successfully taken.
*** "Watashi", the doll [[AngstySurvivingTwin Kageri Sendou]] keeps with her, has chipped paint at various spots. [[ZombieGait It also limps relentlessly towards you]] [[DualBoss when joining Kageri to fight you at least once.]]
** ''Fatal Frame V'' has a shrine dedicated to them. And some of them attack you. And Shiragiku summons dolls that [[ZombieGait limps toward you]] to attack you when you battle her.
* ''VideoGame/Condemned2Bloodshot'' features an abandoned factory full of creepy baby dolls that run at you and explode. You can also pick them up and throw them like grenades. Ethan even pulls a pin out when he does this.
* Calcobrina from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV''.
** To put this in perspective, Calcobrina is actually formed ''via multiple individual Calcos and Brinas.''
--->''"Yip-ho-ho!"''
--->''"Guess who?"''
--->''"We're Calcobreanas!"''
--->''"We're cute!"''
--->''"And scary!"''
--->''"We love to kill!"''
--->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0-9h4YV_PU "Let's take their heads!"]]'''
** They're back, and possibly even creepier, in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''.
--->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2LLKa0Fsk "We are Calcabrina! Adorable dolls! Terrible dolls! Yip-ho-ho!"]]
* ''Franchise/SilentHill'' seems to LOVE these:
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' features the Mannequin, a monster made of two shiny plasticine women's lower torsos stacked on top of one another. [[spoiler: Possibly symbolizes the main character's objectification of women.]]
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins'' features [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Ariel]], appearing as a doll that can either break your neck in the air... or run around on its hands to kill you.
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming,'' however, cranks it up to Eleven with [[BossBattle Scarlet]]. A giant, elongated mannequin with porcelain armor that, when blown off, reveals that there's inexplicably ''flesh and muscle'' beneath it. Add this to the fact that it came out of a pool of [[spoiler: Doc Finch's blood]] and the OneWomanWail creating SoundtrackDissonance... it is EASILY the most frightening monster in the entire game. [[spoiler: Finding out WHAT and WHY Scarlett is doesn't help. [[IKnewIt Not that you]] ''[[IKnewIt probably]]'' [[IKnewIt hadn't figured it out by now anyway...]]]]
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'' also contains a slightly more traditional example in the form of the dolls Stanley leaves behind for Heather in the hospital. The protagonist originally thinks of the doll as another child's, and is disgusted when she finds out it's supposed to be for her. [[spoiler: On his last journal entry, the doll is torn to pieces. Creepy...]]
*** And there's the dolls in the Otherworld Hillside Center. One's in a wheelchair, while another- only a few feet away- is held by a humanoid...thing, suspended over a hole. [[FauxSymbolism Symbolism?]]
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'' has Walter Sullivan's doll, which if picked up and placed in the box, haunts Henry's room permanently ([[GuideDangIt unless you remove it from the box and carry it around with you for the rest of the game]]), making it impossible to get the best ending.
** The Robbie the Rabbit Doll pointing at [[spoiler:YOU]] when you look in a certain hole.
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillDownpour'' has the aptly-named Dolls, which resemble (very creepy-looking) sex dolls. They summon shadows to attack Murphy, preferring to stand (almost) stone-still while they do so.
* ''VideoGame/VagrantStory'''s Quicksilver and Shrieker enemies.
* ''VideoGame/ClockTower: The First Fear'' has a room full of beat up dolls. One gives you a key. After that, another will attack you.
* If you're not careful whilst downloading custom content for ''VideoGame/TheSims3'', you can unknowingly download a doll that will slow down your game loading times and crash your games.
** That's probably Dexter The Bear, a stuffed Bear that gives you the ability to kill other sims with either a knife, a poker, or a hammer. The hammer lets you kill toddlers too, which gives way to the creepy toddler behaviors. That is, when Dexter worked properly and didn't crash the game.
** In summer 2010 there was also a custom content girl doll in a dress that attached itself like a virus to any uploaded content you created. It got onto the official exchange and caused a number of crashed games before people found it.
** For actual creepy dolls rather then bugged ones, we have the Imaginary Friend doll from the ''Generations'' expansion pack, which is generally agreed to be extremely creepy, and is delivered in the mail most of the time when your sims have a baby, and to make matters worse, if you let your toddlers play with the thing it will evolve into an animated ''thing'' with a creepy walk that follows your sim kids around everywhere. Also, the developers went out of their way to make the thing [[ClingyMacGuffin hard to get rid of]], you can't even blow it up in an explosion.
** Your child will constantly play with it, ignoring their needs and their homework, along with constantly being interrupted when you tell them to do something. On top of that, if you take the doll away and leave it out, it will act like a gnome, which disappear in the night to show up elsewhere, often turning on [=TV=]s and stereos, or just poofing up beside a bed to stare at the occupant.
* Each game in the ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' series has a dungeon called the Doll House, which is the home to a demonically possessed doll. In the first game, the spirit possessing the doll is not quite as scary as the doll itself, which sits in the middle of an [[RoomFullOfCrazy extremely disturbing room]], on a rocking horse, creaking slowly back and forth. In the second game, there's a similar dungeon, meant for a character who has a doll of his own. Not quite as scary as the first, but still quite a bit disturbing, given that there are dolls all over the house watching you... In the third game, there are dolls all over the place, and the scariness comes from what you have to ''do'' to them - [[spoiler:plucking out their eyes]].
* The PC kid's game ''I Spy: Spooky Mansion'' has a wardrobe filled with nothing but dusty, antique dolls as a level where you were told a poem (like in the books) to find things. In the game, when you found an object you were told to find, the object would become animated and then the object was checked off the list. In the wardrobe level, nearly every object you were told to find was a doll, and when found would move and talk with high-pitched voices and squeaky joints. Very creepy to a kid playing the game.
* ''Website/GaiaOnline'' has a "joint puppet" feature for avatars to use. If that doesn't fit this trope, then the livid-patchy "dead doll" option will.
* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'''s gotten in on this trope with a few character designs.
** [[MarionetteMaster Alice Margatroid]] has a veritable army of dolls at her disposal, otherwise-innocuous toys armed with swords, lances or straight razors, some of which are even [[ActionBomb packed with gunpowder.]] Fan works usually portray them as cute, but with spellcard names like "Eerily Luminous Shanghai Dolls" and "Hanged Hourai Dolls" it's easy to go the other route. Alice herself is often described as slightly creepy, what with her habit of holding one-sided conversations with her dolls, and then there's the fan art that gives her doll joints or otherwise implies that she's just a larger puppet...
** Medicine Melancholy, an abandoned doll left in a field of poisonous flowers for so long that she became a {{youkai}}, is one of the creepiest characters in the series. She has a murderous grudge against humanity, rambles to herself about her toxins' effects, and talks to her victims about how wonderful it is that they'll soon die surrounded by poison. Simply touching Medicine is dangerous, she can manipulate her poisons to control her victims, and she even attempted to poison the Human Village on one occasion. [[CuteIsEvil Other than all that, she looks like a cute little girl.]]
** The curse goddess [[MeaningfulName Hina]] Kagiyama is a subversion - she collects Nagashi-bina dolls, whose purpose is to be filled with the misfortune of the user, but she does this to drain away that misfortune and ensure that it doesn't affect anyone else. She's actually pretty friendly, it's just that she's soaked up so much misfortune this way that [[PowerIncontinence simply being around her can be dangerous.]]
* There is a mod in ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament'' called ''[=Unreal4Ever=]'', which has a doll for a weapon. When used, the doll skips around a map making doll-like noises, until an unlucky victim comes too close and detonates the doll, causing a nuclear explosion. Just imagine being chased by a seemingly harmless doll that's really out to kill you.
* Tails Doll, from ''VideoGame/SonicR.'' Can ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou you]]'' feel [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9kGZfE3VJY the sunshine?]] [[AscendedMeme The devs have]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXsGsALkOeU acknowledged this.]]
* The ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series has an animate man-size marionette with long-blond hair. It's lying around idly until the hero comes nearby. Then it giggles, twists its neck in a circle, and floats through the air with unnatural movement as if manipulated by invisible strings. There are also variations that emit electricity, said to be possessed by the ghosts of prisoners that died in the electric chair. ''Chronicle'' has small dolls, the walking clowns and hover dolls, though you might find the voiced hover dolls adorable.
* In ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife'', your character has the option of buying a teddy bear for your child in chapter three. And then it turns out that the fucking thing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sNfxOL72YE blinks]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMgBvGdnmxQ moves]] and your child will hold conversations with it.
** Marionetta, the third boss or more specifically the guardian of Obsidian Mansion in ''VideoGame/RuneFactory4'' has a description of “An old doll. Spookier than you can imagine” for a reason.
* Used very subtly in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2''. They're never in plain sight, but if you go out of your way to poke through the trash or explore the abandoned playgrounds, you can find normal children's dolls... in ruins. Missing an arm. Missing an EYE. Covered in something black. Very creepy.
* One of the hidden-object search scenes in ''[[VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles Return to Ravenhearst]]'' consists of dozens of creepy, damaged dolls arranged on shelves.
** In the sequel, ''Escape From Ravenhearst'', you interact with dozens of creepy animatronic mannequins.
* ''VideoGame/{{Onimusha}}''
** ''[[VideoGame/OnimushaWarlords Genma Onimusha]]'' has Ayame, a demonic, AxCrazy Genma-doll which will randomly appear in the castle and will try to slash you to pieces with her gigantic claws.
** Fiendish puppets and dolls will appear hidden in some chests in ''VideoGame/Onimusha3DemonSiege''. They'll leave behind the object they're guarding when defeated.
* A creepy doll whose eyes move is part of the antique shop's decor in ''VideoGame/TheLostCrown: A Ghost-Hunting Adventure''. Not exactly a doll, but this game also features [[spoiler: a spooky, headless dressmaker's dummy that inexplicably appears in the bathroom each night, looking like an intruder in the dark]].
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' has the thoroughly creepy Psycho Mantis and Sorrow dolls as unlockable weapons.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' has the Misfit Doll accessory. A normal doll with black hair, white skin, and hollow eye sockets. Adds Spooky damage (which is apparently generated by frightening the opponent) to attacks. Also has the Evil Teddy Bear and Cymbal Playing Monkey familiar and Killer Rag Doll and Creepy Marionette off-hands.
** You can get a creepy clockwork monkey as a combat item. The item description is in the quotes page.
** An update to Spookyraven Manor in May 2014 added a "creepy doll" monster to the Manor, as well as the quest reward "Elizabeth's Dollie".
* There's a [[VendorTrash junk item]] in ''VideoGame/ForumWarz'', the Haunted Doll, but it doesn't really do anything... At least, nobody's ''seen'' it do anything.
** You can also wind up stuck with a Burnt Doll by pissing off a certain NPC.
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' had a few moments with creepy dolls:
** First with ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica Code Veronica]]'' (and its remake level in ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles Darkside Chronicles]]'') in which you travel through a house of dolls, filled with Zombies, Bats, Bandersnatches, oh and little dolls and a giant suspended doll, all of which are modeled after the games main antagonist Alexia Ashford. Plus there is also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIyNaHHpmxI the music]], and gets its worse in the games remake in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf587zCG2ec Darkside Chronicles]]''.
** And there was also the ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' prototype, which featured Leon going through a castle owned by Umbrella (at least we assume) that is... weirdly enough haunted with hook-wielding ghost demonic dolls and tentacles in a black mist. It was as if he made a wrong turn at Raccoon City and went to Franchise/SilentHill. (Damn it would have been scary.)
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' has [[PsychopathicWomanchild Lady Donna Beneviento]] and her puppet, [[PerversePuppet Angie]], who during her section of the game has Ethan have to find Angie in a game of hide and seek with several other puppets and stab her. Not finding her in time will have the other puppets ZergRush him. Once she goes down... [[spoiler: Ethan has also killed Beneviento as well, [[LiterallyShatteredLives reducing her to dust]] and taking her crystal.]]
* ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'' has a room full of it, and is, in fact, a puzzle. Doing this incorrectly will prompt spikes coming out of the dolls to give you a game over.
* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' has some of these in the Sunken Ship dungeon. They aren't exactly creepy on their own right, but combined with the surroundings, occasional chest-monsters and the sound world that at first makes them seem like they're laughing at you, we can't really blame you if you feel like Power Slashing them, just to be sure.
* One made to look like the game's protagonist spooks the player out near the beginning of ''VideoGame/RuleOfRose''. It makes an appearance later on, but its plot-significance is small.
** What makes this doll even ''creepier'' is the fact that it was created specifically to [[spoiler:be slapped around and beaten by a character that ''hates'' Jennifer '''that much''']].
** The Rose Princess also appears to be one. [[spoiler:It turns out that was just a stand-in for when the real one was ill.]]
* Torned out and dirty dolls in ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'', which you can do a spinning attack on for restorative items. They're even creepier than an eyeless Dumbo ride.
* The second battle in ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'' is against a possessed doll which one of your sisters owns.
* These are encountered as late-game enemies in ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns''. They are ''damn'' creepy, to say the least. They represent [[spoiler:the children that Dr. Bumby has brainwashed and broken into child prostitutes]].
* In ''Monster Girl Quest'', Gnome can be seen holding a mud doll, a marionette-like doll with hollow eye sockets. She created many of them, animated, to ease boredom. Gnome summons them during her battle to test Luka's strength. [[spoiler:They're even creepier if you lose, for Gnome will have these dolls repeatedly rape Luka.]] There is also a Cursed Doll in the Haunted House sidequest.
* ''VideoGame/{{Ib}}'' not only has a creepy doll that follows Garry around and keeps on asking him to play with it in one scene, but also an ''entire room'' of creepy dolls that lock him inside and force him to "play" with them to find the key to the door before a giant version of them finishes crawling through the window. If he fails to find the key in time, Bad Things happen.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' has Banette. Its Dex entry states that it was a doll that came to life as a Pokémon after being abandoned by a child. Mr. Mime also counts, due to its heavily puppet-like design and intentionally invoking the UncannyValley, and being part [[TheFairFolk Fairy-type]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Calling}}'' has a room filled with bisque dolls. You not only get scared by those but you also [[spoiler:get into that same room later in the game]].
* ''VideoGame/AmbridgeMansion'', an indie horror game, has a room full of dolls in it. In the second game, [[spoiler:the dolls even lock you inside the room for a little while when they're just there staring at you]]. It's [[NightmareFuel creepy as hell]].
* The ''VideoGame/{{Puppetshow}}'' series is ''made'' of creepy dolls. Creepy ''mechanical'' dolls ranging from naked sexless automatons to a baby doll head mounted on a giant spider body.
* Near the beginning of ''Strange Cases 4: The Faces of Vengeance'' the main character discovers a doll of herself hanging - literally - inside an old fridge. When touched, the head falls off. Also, since the game is set in an abandoned mall, it gets a lot of mileage out of old mannequins in various disturbing poses. After solving a particular puzzle involving three child mannequins and a plastic birthday cake, she comments "It looks like someone is turning seven - if he was human and not a creepy doll."
* Howard the Bear in ''VideoGame/ForgetMeNotAnnie''.
* VideoGame/{{OFF}} has the Secretaries,, who resemble baby dolls. They're huge, they [[DemonicSpiders hit crazy hard]] [[WidgetSeries (with math equations, oddly enough)]], they're [[UncannyValley creepy]], they show up in zones devoid of all life, and they get even uglier as the game goes on. They're also good for EXP grinding, if you're careful.
* Twilight Town in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' is populated by Twilighters, green creatures resembling shadowy dolls with visible stitching and glowing yellow eyes. Fortunately it's the game's HalloweenTown and they're the ones in need of rescuing.
* ''VideoGame/SoulHackers'' features the shop "Robot Haus" which normally sells these. It is run by a creepy old lady who talks as if the dolls were alive, and when you show her the GUNP, she sells suspicious items to you such as water that attracts demons and molotov cocktails.
* ''VideoGame/{{Illbleed}}'' has Cutie Marie/Cuty Mary, a cute little doll who challenges you to a series of deadly games in the "Killer Department Store" level.
* ''VideoGame/{{Device 6}}'' has many creepy dolls, some more important then others.
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' features the MonsterClown jack-in-the-box Mad Jack as the third boss, although for many he's more remembered as ThatOneBoss for the frustrations due to the camera angles than for being scary (unless the player was younger than about 7 or 8).
* The vision of a doll which an evil toymaker, Henry Stauf sees and recreates, is what kicks off the storyline of ''VideoGame/TheSeventhGuest''.
* In ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'' there's creepy animatronic sex-dolls in Club Hell, they ''giggle'' when a mook pushes them onto an electrified table.
* The game menu in ''Mishap: An Accidental Haunting'' consists of signs held up by extremely creepy dolls in various states of disrepair. Similar dolls appear throughout the hidden object scenes.
* Dolly from ''VideoGame/VoodooVince''.
* ''Maze: Subject 360'' has a number of them, including a disturbing mechanical baby doll you have to assemble in order to complete a task and a room full of decrepit mannequins in contorted poses which are intended to represent previous subjects who supposedly escaped the maze.
* Vivien in ''Phantasmat 4: The Dread of Oakville'' has an entire set of shelves of grotesque wooden dolls which can move by themselves.
* In ''VideoGame/HauntTheHouse'', one object that can be possessed is a doll. When the player character, a ghost, possesses it, the player can make it shriek.
* There are plenty of dolls lying around the house in ''VideoGame/NeverendingNightmares'', where most of them are cracked or have creepy facial expressions. In a few blink-or-you-miss-it moments, they sometimes wink at the player. Ultimately, they're harmless [[spoiler:unless you're on the Wayward Dreamer path, where they will disembowel you the chance they get]].
* [=BitmapWorld=] has a storyline that parodies the Music/JonathanCoulton song, but then swerves off into Creator/EdgarAllanPoe territory. It begins [[http://bitmapworld.com/comic/issue296/ here]].
* The eponymous Talking Tattletail doll from ''VideoGame/{{Tattletail}}'' seems like an annoying but harmless [[BlandNameProduct Furby knock-off]] that the KidHero can't wait until Christmas to open. Then it starts getting out of the box on its own, and other weird things start to happen. ''Then'' you meet [[MamaBear Mama Tattletail]], who doesn't like to see its child upset...
* ''VideoGame/EmilyWantsToPlay'' has Emily's "friends", each with a different mechanic: Kiki is a Japanese porcelain doll who will kill you unless you look right at her, Mr. Tatters is a MonsterClown doll who will kill you if you move while he's looking at you, and Chester is a DemonicDummy who will kill you if you linger in the same room as him for too long.
* ''VideoGame/{{Cataclysm}}: Dark Days Ahead'' has talking dolls as items. They're not much use except for taking their batteries or disassembling them for electronic components. Most of the dolls, when activated, say cute doll things, but they have a small chance of being creepy dolls that say things such as "Go kill yourself!", "[[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei Die for me!]]", or "[[Music/JonathanCoulton Do you really need that much honey?]]".
* One of the treasures in ''VideoGame/Pikmin2'' is the head of a creepy baby doll called "The Silencer". In the Japanese version it was worth 666 Pokos (changed to 670 in the international releases) and its eyelids blink if it's moved around.
* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', several dolls in [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Toy Box]] find themselves possessed by Heartless. The most noticeable cases are Angelic Amber, a goth girl doll who becomes a boss upon being possessed, and [[spoiler:Buzz Lightyear, who was possessed on Young Xehanort's orders]].
* A [[CreepyGood heroic]] version of this is in ''VideoGame/Boogeyman2''. It spends the game sitting unmovingly in its perpetually-rocking chair, and each night it warns you of the approaching boogeyman.
* At one point in ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'', you discover an old abandoned inn that has an attic room filled with broken sex dolls. They’re harmless until you loot the nearby treasure chest, at which point they start giggling and attack. If you [[NonStandardGameOver lose the battle]], then Catie is [[BalefulPolymorph transformed]] into one of them.
* In ''VideoGame/ZombiesAteMyNeighbors'', one of the recurring enemies is Tommy the Evil Doll. These little terrors pop out of crates with a spine-tingling "MWHA HA HA HA HA HA!" Then they chase you while throwing axes. Even once they have burst into flames, they still chase you. And they never stop respawning.
* ''VideoGame/ShutEye'': This is one of the toys that stalks you each night. It usually starts appearing by the door.
* ''VideoGame/StringTyrant'' has life sized versions these as the most common enemy type.
* The attic of Boo Manor in ''VideoGame/HamtaroHamHamHeartbreak'' is filled with dolls with big staring eyes. Bijou thinks they're creepy and the mood isn't exactly lifted when it turns out that Spat is hiding among them while pretending to be a doll.
* In episode 1 of ''VideoGame/SongOfHorror'', the final leg of the game involves a puzzle of a dollhouse with five dolls that need to be placed in the correct rooms. Four of them are normal toys, but the fifth is a hideous gangly ball of rags in a vaguely humanoid shape found clogging a toilet like someone was desperate to get rid of it. The second part of the puzzle applies this to all of the dolls: [[spoiler:in the equivalent rooms of the mansion where you put the dolls in the dollhouse, desiccated corpses appear, and the room where the ugly doll was placed is taken by [[EldritchAbomination the Presence]], which will instakill you if you try to enter]].
* ''VideoGame/SophiesGuardian'': The enemies in the game are a whole host of creepy-looking broken dolls that the PlayerCharacter needs to shoot with the [[DualWielding two guns it wields]].
* ''VideoGame/TheDollShop'': The dolls themselves. Although they are quite pretty, there's also something unsettling about them, and as well about how seriously the doll maker himself takes them.
* The 2010 remake of ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}'' has the boss of Phase 2, aptly titled "The Doll that Bled". This doll has the both the powers of telekinesis and the ability to form fleshy masses of tentacles. It combines these abilities in its boss fight to create a massive golem out of flesh and furniture, which it uses as an armored shell while fighting Rick.

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