History Main / AGodIsYou

* You have a sort of character in ''VideoGame/BlackAndWhite'', but you never see it and supplicants address the screen directly. The other gods you see are points of light with a hand.

* ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'', a fan-written NewWorldOfDarkness game about playing mad scientists. Letting characters become powerful enough to change history or conquer the world was a deliberate design goal.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', wherein you play already heroic mortals granted power by the gods to become veritable divinities in their own right. Or corrupted versions of these divine champions that serve {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. Or TheFairFolk, who in this world are more than powerful enough to qualify for the trope. [[PunyEarthlings Or, if you feel like dying, ordinary mortals.]]
** Infernals can eventually evolve into new Primordials. As in, the beings that ''created'' the gods.

* The original ''DungeonsAndDragons'' just had a list of mythological creatures for it's 4th supplement ''Gods, Demigods, & Heroes''; while ''Basic Dungeons & Dragons'' had the ''Immortals Rules'' box, detailing the transition of a character into divinity. Although the word "god" was never uttered to avoid the wrath of the MoralGuardians.
** The First Edition ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' book ''Deities & Demigods'' didn't even bother and just made ascended characters into [=NPCs=].

* ''BatenKaitos'' has the player as a "Guardian Spirit" guiding the protagonists.
** The sequel uses the same principle. [[spoiler:Before actually pulling a TomatoInTheMirror on the player, revealing you as part of the God of Darkness.]]

* Similarly, divinity is one of the possible "Epic Destinies" for characters in Fourth Edition ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.
** Though you don't get to actually play the character as a god (or, at least, there aren't any rules for it).
** An older edition had the "Immortals Rules", which are exactly that, although the word "god" was never uttered to avoid the wrath of the MoralGuardians.
** First edition's ''Deities and Demigods'' provided two things: stats for various pantheons (Greek, Egyptian, Norse), and rules for building your own deities. Along with suggestions for how to get your PC party into godhood/keep the game running afterwards.

* In virtually any superhero game that allows custom characters, you could theoretically play any member of any pantheon in the world. Case in point, when playing with stock characters, you can play Thor or Hercules just for starters. And in DC, you could be Orion or Lightray if you want.

* ''{{Darksiders}}'' has you play as the HorsemenOfTheApocalypse (War in the first game, Death in the second). Even Heaven and Hell are scared of the Horsemens' power.

* ''FromDust'', which borrows heavily from Polynesian mythology, casts you as "The Breath", the guardian spirit of an island tribe who uses its ability to manipulate land and water to help the tribe recover its lost history.
* ''DoshinTheGiant'' casts the player as a sun god who dies each evening, but is reincarnated the next morning.

Games featuring this often have the potential to have ridiculously extreme VideoGameCrueltyPotential.

** ''Dawn Of War 2'' more or less confirms this, since your units in campaign mode are apparently responding to orders from your HeroicMime Force Commander. Played straighter in ''Retribution'', where all units go back to referring to the player as their CO.

* The VideoGame/{{Mother}} games [[spoiler: have the characters thank the player for their assistance towards the end of the game.]]

** In the PS2 version of the game, you can also play as Battra, who is something along the lines of a [[GodIsEvil God of Destruction]] in ''Film/GodzillaAndMothraTheBattleForEarth'' and is Mothra's EvilTwin.

* In ''{{Summoner}} 2'', you are the Child of Prophecy, the Divine Queen, and about as close to being a goddess as you can get without living in Heaven. You rule a kingdom, have your own temple, and people build huge statues in your honor. You also have some wicked powers, of course...

* ''TheWhisperingVault'': player characters are godlike beings right from the start.

* ''VideoGame/ActRaiser''
* ''VideoGame/TooHuman''

* In ''VideoGame/Demigod'', you are the child of a fallen god and the rest of the gods have pitted you against all your half-siblings in a tournament to see which child will take your father's place.

* ''PocketGod''

* In ''{{Ever17}}'', it is all but stated that [[spoiler:you are Blick Winkel, the 4th dimensional being who helps the protagonists at the end.]] While not technically a god, you are still [[spoiler:a being of a higher dimension than the protagonists who can travel through time.]]

** The same thing happens in its sequel, ''VideoGame/{Okamiden}'', where you play as Amaterasu's son, Chibiterasu (literally called 'Child of the Sun'). Just like his mother, you also kill demons and make plants come back to life, as well as doing good deeds for the living beings of Nippon. Also, like his predecessor, his markings cannot be seen by most people in the world, but Chibi still grows in strength with praise from people and animals.

** ''Deities and Demigods'', provided two things: stats for the D&D pantheon and various historical pantheons (Greek, Egyptian, Norse), and rules for building your own deities. Along with suggestions for how to get your PC party into godhood/keep the game running afterwards.

---> [[ChaoticStupid Ork Boyz]]: [[RuleOfFunny "Up yours!"]]
---> Chaos Lord: [[AGodAmI "Don't think you can order]] ''[[AGodAmI me]]'' [[AGodAmI around!"]]
---> Imperial Psyker: [[SchmuckBait "You know not... what you... ask..."]]
---> Tau Shas'o: "As [[StandardizedLeader Aun-Va]] wishes." (About as close to a god reference as the FlatEarthAtheist [[PlanetOfHats race]] gets.)

* Implied in the first series of ''DawnOfWar'' games, as the units (barring [[TheVoiceless the Necrons]]) seem to talk to the player as if they're even higher-ranked than their commanders, or if the commanders themselves are referring to someone higher ranked than them. To really drive it home, weak Chaos units will ''ask the player to bless them'', although other units will sometimes [[RageAgainstTheHeavens talk]] ''[[RageAgainstTheHeavens back]]'' to the user.

* In ''{{Godville}}'', the player is a god with only one follower: an IdiotHero which [[GameplayAutomation can only be influenced]] into being less idiotic.

** ''Amber Diceless'' has recently received two {{Spiritual Successor}}s: ''Lords of Olympus'' (which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin) and ''Lords of Gossamer and Shadow'' (which is almost exactly Amber with the SerialNumbersFiledOff).

* In ''VideoGame/FromDust'', you are the god/spirit of a tribe heavily based off of Australian aboriginals. It's your job to keep them safe and guide them on their journey by manipulating the environment with your powers.