History DeathOfAChild / VideoGames

** The main antagonist is a serial killer who targets children by putting them in a DrowningPit and letting the rain do the rest of the work. If the player screws up during the game, it's possible for Ethan's son Shaun to die as well.

* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' has a serial killer who targets children by putting them in a DrowningPit and letting the rain do the rest of the work. If the player screwed up during the game, it's possible for Ethan's son Shaun to die as well.

* Child [=NPCs=] in the ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' series are no less mortal than any other [=NPCs=] and can be killed by the player character accordingly, either through [[ForTheEvulz direct intentional attacks]] or careless are-of-effect spells when dealing with a hostile in a town. At least two quests in the first game have deceased children as ''inventory objects''. One can be resurrected near the end of the related quest, but the other cannot. The second game features a sidequest involving the ghost of a murdered halfing child.

** The [[VideoGame/FatalFrameVMaidenOfBlackWater fifth game]] brings back another set of Children Playing Tag, as well as a mysterious 7-year old Shrine Maiden that was a VirginSacrifice. One of the areas that can be explored is a shrine dedicated to dead children.

* Susan, the protagonist of ''VideoGame/TheCatLady'', accidentally caused the death of her infant daughter in the game's backstory, by leaving a bunch of flower's in the daughter's bedroom without realizing she was severely allergic to pollen. Susan's depression over this leads to a failed suicide attempt in the first chapter, which sets up the events for the rest of the story.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

** In the first game, the 2nd Night partially centers around several young children that were murdered by a ghost. Each child ghost is a mini-boss, and defeating them gains the player a photograph of their final moments.
** The second game features several child ghosts, all of which can be fought. Besides a group of children that died while playing tag, there's ''two'' child Bosses in the game. The first, Chitose, is a DelicateAndSickly {{Woobie}} who died while trying to hide in a closet. Then there's the Kiryuu Twins, one of which was the youngest VirginSacrifice known in the series. Her surviving sister ended up getting her soul eaten by a demon that possessed a doll modeled after her dead twin. The final battle with the Woman in the Box includes a baby crying, revealing that mother and child died together in that very room.
** In the third game, there are a total of five dead little girls to contend with. One died of the Curse, while the other four were Handmaidens during the disaster. The eldest sacrificed the other three as part of a ritual, then killed herself. The player can find the scenes of their gruesome deaths playing out, and even find a bloodstained floor where the first Handmaiden was crucified by the others. Then there's the hidden well, where the cries of a baby can be heard. It's implied this is where the matriarchal Kuze Family disposed of male infants.
** The fourth game features several dead children, all once patients at a hospital.
** The fifth game brings back another set of Children Playing Tag, as well as a mysterious 7-year old Shrine Maiden that was a VirginSacrifice. One of the areas that can be explored is a shrine dedicated to dead children.

* In intro for ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' during the [[EldritchAbomination Rea]][[AbusivePrecursors per]] invasion of Earth, Shepard sees a child in a vent and tries to get the child to come with them. The child refuses and disappears. [[YankTheDogsChain Eventually the child is seen getting on board an evacuation vessel.]] Said vessel is blown to smithereens by a Reaper.

* ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'': Technically, many androids in the game can be anywhere from three to two-hundred years old, and while they all have the same basic survival protocols many of them haven't fully experienced life. They're all liable to die quickly. Near the end, [[spoiler:A bunch of machine kids are hiding in an abandoned factory when a massive air force arrives to wipe them out. Since Pascal taught them fear so they wouldn't jump into the lava pits like the previous owners did, they all got terrified about the (true) rumors that some insane machines turn into cannibals by crushing their faceplates and chopping up the androids with the serrated edges, and decided they would rather impale their brains to death]]. Pascal freaks out from this mass death of children and begs [[spoiler:A2]] to kill or mind-wipe him.

** All of the Silent Hill games seem to have a little bit of this; a lot of them refer to [[CreepyChild Alessa Gillespie]] being burned alive by [[ApocalypseCult the Order]], and in ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'' you can occasionally hear babies cry in the background, though it's unclear whether this is [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness real]]. It was originally planned for the player to hear crying babies when standing in certain locations during ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'', but the sounds were removed because it was "too much".

* The exact moment that Walker [[HeroicBSOD snaps]] in ''Videogame/SpecOpsTheLine'' is when he finds the horribly mutilated corpse of a mother and her child in a camp that he inadvertently bombed with [[KillItWithFire white phosphorus mortars.]]

* Within the first minutes of ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest: Open Season''. In the exposition crime scene at the start of the game, open the dumpster at the back to find the corpse of an 8-year-old riddled with bullets.

** ''VideoGame/NaziZombies'' mode of ''Call of Duty''. Richtofen kills Samantha by locking her and her father in a room with a hellhound.
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: VideoGame/ModernWarfare3'': [[WhamEpisode Davis Family Vacation, Day 3.]] A young American girl on vacation in London with her family ends up being killed by a truck bomb explosion. Which may have been a small bit of mercy, as this meant she did not suffer the effects of the nerve toxin released by the bomb that ended up killing many others.

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXVI'', [[spoiler:Joshua as the Phoenix is beaten into a bloody red mist by a newly-summoned Ifrit while his brother Clive is forced to watch the whole thing in agony.]] And this is just the prologue.

* Part of the tutorial for Venom in ''VideoGame/UltimateSpiderMan'' involves replenishing his health by feeding on a boy as a TakeThatScrappy to the much-hated balloon side missions of the ''VideoGame/SpiderMan2'' game.

* ''VideoGame/AdvanceWars: Days of Ruin'' features a virus (Endoflorus Terriblis) which kills ''only'' children though it mutates into killing ''anyone'' later. To drive the point home, photos are shown of a child with ''[[BodyHorror flowers sprouting out of his body]]''.

* Originally an Easter egg, the backstory of the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' series involves five children being murdered by an ex-employee of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and the third game confirms that their spirits ([[KarmicDeath and later their murderer]]) [[PoweredByAForsakenChild are possessing the animatronics]].

* ''VideoGame/PeretEmHeruForThePrisoners'': It's entirely possible for 9-year old [[BrattyHalfPint Rin Tsukihara]] to be [[CruelAndUnusualDeath slammed through a wall and pinned against another by a statue before bleeding out]]. She's the first member of the RagtagBunchOfMisfits to be on the chopping block, by the way.