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* ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' features the Dreamers, the creators of [[TheVirus the Filth]]. And by the way, that name isn't a coincidence: not only have they been slumbering for millennia and kept asleep through the power of the Gaia Engines, but the Filth itself is [[{{Tulpa}} their dream of awakening made flesh]]. Events throughout the game [[TheChessmaster are orchestrated by them from behind the scenes]], with numerous eldritch races of monsters [[MinionMaster having been engineered]] through their influence and countless historical figures having been [[TheCorrupter seduced]] to their service -- all without ever wakening from their sleep or escaping from the Gaia Engines. At no point do you ever get to see what they really look like, and you never once get to fight them -- because ''they're too powerful to be fought.'' These things ''[[SpaceTimeEater eat stars and dine on quantum foam]].'' If one of them were to ever rise from their sleep, it could end the world in a matter of minutes. How do we know this? [[spoiler: '' '''It's already happened.''' '' See, the Gaia Engines have been able to harness the Dreamers' power in order to turn back time and avert the apocalypse, but it's come at the cost of leaving the world reset to factory settings. And after four consecutive resets, the Gaia Engines are starting to break down and might not be able to reset things again if the Dreamers wake again.]]

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* ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' features the Dreamers, the creators of [[TheVirus the Filth]]. And by the way, that name isn't a coincidence: not only have they been slumbering for millennia and kept asleep through the power of the Gaia Engines, but the Filth itself is [[{{Tulpa}} their dream of awakening made flesh]]. Events throughout the game [[TheChessmaster are orchestrated by them from behind the scenes]], with numerous eldritch races of monsters [[MinionMaster [[TheMinionMaster having been engineered]] through their influence and countless historical figures having been [[TheCorrupter seduced]] to their service -- all without ever wakening from their sleep or escaping from the Gaia Engines. At no point do you ever get to see what they really look like, and you never once get to fight them -- because ''they're too powerful to be fought.'' These things ''[[SpaceTimeEater eat stars and dine on quantum foam]].'' If one of them were to ever rise from their sleep, it could end the world in a matter of minutes. How do we know this? [[spoiler: '' '''It's already happened.''' '' See, the Gaia Engines have been able to harness the Dreamers' power in order to turn back time and avert the apocalypse, but it's come at the cost of leaving the world reset to factory settings. And after four consecutive resets, the Gaia Engines are starting to break down and might not be able to reset things again if the Dreamers wake again.]]
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* ''VideoGame/NobodySavesTheWorld'': The Calamity is a monstrous organic mass of MeatMoss that's trying to consume the world. Making matters worse, the thing is [[ItCanThink sentient]] and definitely [[EvilGloating malevolent]].

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** [[Cephalothorax Beholster]] is a gigantic tentacles eye wielding six guns, able to float and fire a laser beam from it's eye. On death, he is inexplicably StrippedToTheBone.
It even has it's own legion of Beadies which are lesser versions of him.

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** [[Cephalothorax [[{{Oculothorax}} Beholster]] is a gigantic tentacles eye wielding six guns, able to float and fire a laser beam from it's eye. On death, he is inexplicably StrippedToTheBone. \n It even has it's own legion of Beadies which are lesser versions of him.



** [[Cthulhumanoid Mine Flayer]] looks like a straight up spawn of Lovecraft, even able to summon bullets from thin air with a bell he holds.

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** [[Cthulhumanoid [[{{Cthulhumanoid}} Mine Flayer]] looks like a straight up spawn of Lovecraft, even able to summon bullets from thin air with a bell he holds.
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*A number of cases occurs in ''VideoGame/EnterTheGungeon''. No wonder when the main setting is GunPorn as EldritchLocation.
**[[Cephalothorax Beholster]] is a gigantic tentacles eye wielding six guns, able to float and fire a laser beam from it's eye. On death, he is inexplicably StrippedToTheBone.
It even has it's own legion of Beadies which are lesser versions of him.
**Cannonbalrog is one huge sendoff to an EldritchAbomination from ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. A gigantic Cannonball that resembles a skull, has GlowingEyesOfDoom and can naturally create enough smoke to hide in it.
**[[Cthulhumanoid Mine Flayer]] looks like a straight up spawn of Lovecraft, even able to summon bullets from thin air with a bell he holds.
**The High Priest looks human, except his head is a gun and he is said to be an avatar of what's basically a Goddess of Bullets.
**The Wallmonger is a living wall that is BodyOfBodies made up from killed Gundead. ''And it can walk''.
**[[spoiler: Marine encountered one of these in the past, named Interdimensional Horror. This alien being came from the portal Primerdyne has opened during teleportation experimentations and slaughtered a lot of Marines. Not only can it spit projectiles en masse, but it can also teleport, summon demonic-looking minion that shoot flames and straight up [[RealityWarper change the floor of the base to a strange rock and toxin landscape]]. Killing it is the goal of playable Marine, who seeks to prevent the deaths of his comrades and repent for him leaving them to death before. ]]

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* ''Loot Rascals'' has The Thing Below, a "Tentacled, Pandimensional Godbeast", it's oddly AffablyEvil though.

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* ''Loot Rascals'' ''VideoGame/LootRascals'' has The Thing Below, a "Tentacled, Pandimensional Godbeast", it's oddly AffablyEvil though.though.
* ''VideoGame/LuckBeALandlord'': Invoked almost by name with the Eldritch Creature, with a circular maw. Thankfully, it doesn't drive anything mad; it instead consumes all Hexes, Witches, and Cultists, becoming stronger (hence giving more coins) with each consumption.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Carrion}}'' revolves around a bizarre, evolving creature resembling an amorphous tentacle mass that tries to escape the facility, murdering every human on its way. The twist? ''[[VillainProtagonist You play as it]]''.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Carrion}}'' revolves around a bizarre, evolving creature resembling an amorphous tentacle mass that tries to escape the facility, facility that it’s imprisoned in, murdering every human on its way. The twist? ''[[VillainProtagonist You play as it]]''.
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* Much of the horror that occurs in the first ''VideoGame/{{Siren}}'' is the result of a village of people eating one alive out of desperation.

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* Much of the horror that occurs in the first ''VideoGame/{{Siren}}'' ''VideoGame/Siren1'' is the result of a village of people eating one alive out of desperation.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Afterimage}}'': Whispering Forest is full of eldritch creatures brought upon by experimentation. They're mostly grouped with the "Hideous" descriptor in the [[MonsterCompendium Beastiary]], and such creatures usually feature huge eyeballs, [[EyesDoNotBelongThere several eyes]], tentacles (Walker, Creeper, Guard, Researcher), or are straight-up {{botanical abomination}}s (Blossom, Sufferer, Pimpleling). One boss in the Whispering Forest is even appropriately named "Gongor, the Eldritch Fusion".
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** The same trilogy suggests that once a Flood infestation has grown interstellar, the Flood can even begin to infect ''space-time itself'', subtly altering it to disable their prey's FTL drives (while leaving the Flood's own FTL tech unimpeded, of course). Graveminds, or "Keyminds" they are called if they grow large and complex enough, are even capable of "infecting" mechanical AI's through what is called the "logic plague", a slow, subtle corruption of the AI that gradually drives it mad and convinces it that the Flood are in the right and that it should aid them. ''Nothing'' is safe from the Flood's influence.
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* In ''VideoGame/PathOfExile'', the game's CrapsackWorld is still an island of relative peace surrounded by half-real fragments of worlds and more stable areas mostly dominated by hideous entities.
** Wraeclast's homegrown abomination is The Beast, an ancient mountain of twisted flesh that is the source of thaumaturgy, the primary magic system, and the continent's restless dead and [[MorePredatorsThanPrey hyper-aggressive ecology]]. It turns out to be a BenevolentAbomination created to free humanity from the rule of the gods by soothing them to endless slumber, but unfortunately was made too passive, allowing people to [[DidYouJustHijackCthulhu redirect its power to their own ill-conceived ventures]].
** The Elder is a being of corruption and infinite hunger that devoured minds, particularly favoring [[ChildEater children]]. While capable of speech, it never bothered to communicate once [[SealedEvilInACan freed]]. The Exile is eventually able to seal it back away, but learns it was only a servant of a greater entity.
** The Maven typically manifests as a doll-like humanoid figure, but her "nucleus" is a giant brain, and longs for conflict, endlessly resurrecting her favorites to battle for her amusement. She's also referred to as an infant or hatchling, a [[GooGooGodlike baby escaped from her play-pen and wrecking havoc across the realm in her boundless power.]] The Exile is eventually able to inflict pain upon her, but her caretaker stops the fight before things go any further, warning of terrible consequences should her progenitors discover her wounded.
** The Tangle is a [[BodyOfBodies endless mass of fused bodies]], an [[TorturedMonster agonized composite being]] that gains momentary relief upon assimilating more individuals into itself, while the Cleansing Fire is a brain composed of suns and black holes that seeks omniscience without purpose and traps the minds of those it consumes in eternal agony to be studied. These two both attempt to claim the Maven's territory but have not appeared onscreen, challenging her through CombatByChampion as direct conflict risks tearing apart the cosmos.

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