History PhysicalGod / VideoGames

* In ''VideoGame/WrathUnleashed'' the Overlord Units are this. Apparently created in a cataclysm that shattered their world, they're controllable units and serve as your primary spellcasters. The game specifically refers to them as Demigods in the beginning; at the end of their respective campaigns they ascend to Godhood proper, and their God forms can be used in game.
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'':
** ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' has two: Bionis and Mechonis. All of the landmasses in the world are made up of their bodies, with biological life living on Bionis, and MechanicalLifeforms living on Mechonis. [[spoiler:It is believed that both titans are long dead, but actually their souls (Zanza and Meyneth) live on, while their bodies are in a deep hibernation. Both are eventually revealed to have originally been humans who were elevated to godhood by a science experiment and created the Xenoblade universe.]]

%%* The Composer [[spoiler: aka Joshua]] from ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou''.

%%* ''Xenogears'''s distant descendant, ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'', has two (Bionis and Mechonis). The characters live on one.

* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' has a lot of those, this mosty happens to most of the [[BigBad Big Bad’s]] of each entry to find a way to become a god.

* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' has a lot of those, this mosty happens to most of the [[BigBad BigBad’s]] of each entry to find a way to become a god.

** ''FinalFantasyV'' has Exdeath an extremely powerful warlock with god-like powers born from the sage tree that contained the evil souls that merged together to create him. He becomes more powerful as Neo Exdeath who has complete control over the void, and the power to destroy both himself and all of existence.
** In ''FinalFantasyVI'', Kefka becomes the new god of magic after absorbing the power of the Warring Triad, he then goes on to destroy the world and then later becomes the worlds new ruler for a year.
** In ''FinalFantasyVII'' Sephiroth in his iconic OneWingedAngel form, Safer Sephiroth, is powerful enough to destroy an entire solar system and this form is the closest thing of Sephiroth reaching godhood.
** Ultimecia from ''FinalFantasyVIII'' has her final form which is an EldritchAbomination that emerges from the void and absorbs stars and planets from across the space-time continuum.

%%* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' has you playing as a demigod fighting against the Olympian gods.

*** Arguably, [[PlayerCharacter Dovahkiin/the Dragonborn]] is one; instead of a regular, mortal black soul, s/he has an aedric dragon soul that provides instant mastery over the [[MakeMeWannaShout Thu'um.]] As a result, the Dragonborn can [[RealityWarper screw with reality by yelling it into submission,]] devour the souls of dragons and other Dragonborn, and, [[spoiler: if [[EvilCounterpart Miraak]] is correct, they can become far more powerful than they already are.]]

%%* ''VideoGame/{{Actraiser}}'' also lets you play as a Physical God.

* ''VideoGame/Wizard101'': In a world full of {{MacGuffins}}, {{Doomsday Device}}s, and RealityWarper wizards, the buck stops at Grandfather Tree. He is the first of the Primordials and has power which hypothetically exceeds that of his siblings Grandmother Raven and Grandfather Spider combined. Although he can't directly intervene in Spiral affairs, he singlehandedly maintains the Spiral Thread that keeps the worlds from the Void. Only the [[EldritchAbomination Titans]] exceed him in raw power.

** {{{Defied|Trope}} by the Naaru, who technically qualify based on the parameters of the trope, but are very clear that AGodIAmNot and decline to be worshiped - they're servants and messengers of the Holy Light, akin to angels.

** Emperor Mateus from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'' manages to overthrow both the rulers of both Heaven and Hell, and then split his soul into two different entities, the Dark Emperor and the Light Emperor.

** Garland from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy'' becomes the god of discord Chaos after he absorbs the Fiends of Chaos and fights the party with his newfound power.

%%* Summons from the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series certainly qualify. The BigBad of each game may [[OneWingedAngel become this as well.]]
* The most powerful Fal'Cie of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' could be called this, and the First Three Fal'Cie created by the God Bhunivelze are considered as Gods and Goddesses by Humanity. [[spoiler: Pulse made the Pulse Fal'Cie, Lindzei made the Cocoon Fal'Cie, and mankind was born from Etro's blood.]]

** Finally we have the Gods associated with the afterlide; ''VideoGame/TouhouKaeidzukaPhantasmagoriaOfFlowerView'' introduced Komachi Onozuka and her superior Eiki Shiki. The former is a {{Shinigami}}, but whether Shinigami count as gods in ''Touhou'' or not is unknown, while the latter is based on the actual Yama divinity. However, she's explicitly stated to be only one of ''many'' such Yamas, each with a different area of jurisdiction ([[FantasyKitchenSink Gensoukyou]], in Eiki's case). ''VideoGame/TouhouKikeijuuWilyBeastAndWeakestCreature'' also introduced Eika Ebisu, Goddess of Fortune, as well as Kutaka Niwatari, who's based upon Niwatarijin, the God of Chickens, and Keiki Haniyasushin, the conflated form of Haniyasubiko and Haniyasuhime, Sculptor Goddess of Soil.

** The BigGood of the series is a deity named Philemon, which (like almost everything in the series) was inspired by the writings of UsefulNotes/CarlJung. The series' SatanicArchetype is the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Lovecraftian deity]] Nyarlathotep.
** The [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek goddess Nyx]] is the GreaterScopeVillain of ''VideoGame/Persona1'''s Snow Queen Quest and ''VideoGame/Persona3''.

** ''VideoGame/Persona5'''s GreaterScopeVillain is the [[spoiler: [[UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}} Gnostic deity Yaldabaoth]], but he's a less straightforward example as [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve humanity itself inadvertently created him]] rather than the other way around and the characters frequently refer to him as a "false god".]]

** ''VideoGame/Persona5'''s GreaterScopeVillain is the [[UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}} Gnostic deity Yaldabaoth]], but he's a less straightforward example as [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve humanity itself inadvertently created him]] rather than the other way around and the characters frequently refer to him as a "false god".

* Raiden from the ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' series in general, as well as Fujin, Shinnok and various others.

%%* ''{{VideoGame/Actraiser}}'' also lets you play as a Physical God.

** Three particular cases of this trope stand out in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls3'', the first being the Nameless King, a BonusBoss who looks like a god of thunder and whose arena is pretty much just gray clouds you can walk on, and while he looks a bit worse for wear, he's definetly at least near his full power. On top of that the lore you get after killing him [[spoiler: imply he's Gwyn's firstborn.]]

** Generally, if they're on the box art, they're powerful enough to be a deity in their own right. The exception is VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue, where there are Starter Pokemon on the cover, not Legendaries, and Pokémon Crystal. (Kyurem, Zygarde, and Necrozma are counted as part of this list.)

%%* The ''{{VideoGame/Suguri}}'' games feature Hime, a guardian goddess, and QP, the [[OddJobGod goddess of pudding]]

* The ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' cast has its own fair share of gods amongs the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters. For starters, the Dragon God who, though it has never been seen, is the greatest divinity in the setting (presumably by virtue of being a kind of AnthropomorphicPersonification of all east-Asian mythology).
** From the pre-windows era game ''Mystic Square'' we had Shinki, who is THE God of the demon realm, Makai. As in, she personally created Makai and every single one of its inhabitants (with the possible exception for Alice). And then there's also [[GhostAmnesia Mima]], who tells Shinki she's [[BlatantLies the goddess of the human world]] for laughs. And isn't that far off, [[AwesomeEgo if her fanon interpretation is anything to go by]].
** Most of ''Touhou'''s godd[[ImprobablyFemaleCast esses]] were introduced in ''Mountain of Faith'': Autumn goddesses Shizuha Aki, [[OddJobGods goddess of]] [[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows colouring the leaves when autumn comes]], and her younger sister [[StrongerSibling Minoriko Aki]], goddess of the abundant harvest. Then there's the curse goddess Hina Kagiyama, though she is described as technically being closer to a {{youkai}} since she lives off of misfortune rather than faith. On the top of the hierarchy there's the Shinto goddesses, Kanako Yasaka and Suwako Moriya. The first is a mountain goddess of the wind and the sky, while the second is a native goddess of earth and curses (though she's also strongly associated with [[AnimalMotifs frogs]]). Their shrine maiden, Sanae, also falls under this since she's an ''arahitogami'', a being who is both fully god and fully human at the same time (which is what the emperor of Japan was once considered).
** ''Ten Desires'' gives us Toyosatomimi no Miko. Being based on Prince Shoutoku, she is a Buddhist Saint, a Taoist Hermit, as well as a Shinto god, all at the same time. Like Shinki above, she has more or less created her own realm, Senkai, and spends much of her time there in meditation.
** Over the course of the series, several Lunarian deities have been introduced as well. Eirin Yagokoro from ''Imperishable Night'' is, for example, heavily implied to actually be the Shinto god of knowledge, Omoikane, also known as '''Ya-gokoro'''-omoi-kane-no-mikoto, and in the interview with ZUN at the end of ''Symposium of Post-Mysticism'', he implies that she's one of the "higher class of gods" that live on the moon, as opposed to the native gods that live on the Earth. ''Manga/SilentSinnerInBlue'' also introduced the Lunarian princesses [[WarriorPrincess Watatsuki no Yorihime]] and her sister Toyohime, both likely based on the daughters of the Dragon God, Watatsumi. Princess Chang'e, Goddess of the Moon according to Chinese mythology, has also occasionally been name-dropped but has yet to be seen. Finally, ''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom'' introduced Sagume Kishin, who's outright stated in the ''Grimoire of Sumireko'' to be Ama no Sagume.
** ''Lagacy of Lunatic Kingdom'' also introduced both Junko, a "Sagacious Spirit" who turned her power of purification (which have the ability to purify anything of all impurities, up to and including their True Name, returning them to their primordial, divine nature) upon herself in order to turn herself into a being of pure resentment, she can probably be considered some kind of goddess, as well as Hecatia Lapislazuli, Greek Goddess of the Hells of the Earth, the Moon and the Otherworlds.
** The following game, ''Hidden Star in Four Seasons,'' introduced Okina Matara, the syncreticized goddess of the back door, secrets, noh theatre and many other things, based upon Matarajin, as well as Satono Nishida and Mai Teireida, who are based upon Matarajin's attendants, and also Eternity Larva, who's heavily implied to be the God of the Everlasting World.
** Finally we have the Gods associated with the afterlide; ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View'' introduced Komachi Onozuka and her superior Eiki Shiki. The former is a {{Shinigami}}, but whether Shinigami count as gods in ''Touhou'' or not is unknown, while the latter is based on the actual Yama divinity. However, she's explicitly stated to be only one of ''many'' such Yamas, each with a different area of jurisdiction ([[FantasyKitchenSink Gensoukyou]], in Eiki's case). ''Wily Beast and Weakest Creature'' also introduced Eika Ebisu, Goddess of Fortune, as well as Kutaka Niwatari, who's based upon Niwatarijin, the God of Chickens, and Keiki Haniyasushin, the conflated form of Haniyasubiko and Haniyasuhime, Sculptor Goddess of Soil.

* The ''Film/{{Tron}}'' example is ZigZagged in ''[[{{VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh}} Tron 2.0]].'' Digitized human "Users" are certainly powerful. Even at his lowest level, Jet Bradley is still more powerful than most Programs. And Thorne certainly lives down to the worst parts of this trope by going AGodAmI and unleashing ZombieApocalypse all over {{Cyberspace}}. [[spoiler: [=Ma3a=], being ''part'' User in that she's what's left of Lora Baines-Bradley, can unleash terrifying amounts of power given sufficient time or bad code.]] [=Ma3a=] zapped Jet in via the Shiva laser on the basis of TakesOneToKillOne. However, Seeker engines or certain security programs are certainly capable of killing Jet outright, and [[spoiler: The Kernel finishes Thorne off after Jet and [=Ma3a=] wound him in the BarBrawl. Alan Bradley also has laughably low hit points once he's zapped in, and the most he can do is duck and cover once discs start flying]]. Once the Datawraith mercenaries come into the picture, however, it pretty much proves [=Ma3a=] right as it really does take a User to kill a User.
* Archons in ''Videogame/{{Tyranny}}''. When a person awakens as an Archon, they gain ageless immortality and fearsome magical power. They are in fact ''sources'' of magical power -- the Sigils used by mages in the setting are derived from studying Archons. And Kyros the Overlord dwarfs them all. The source of the Archons' power is implied to be partly rooted in belief, though a few awaken their powers naturally. While Kyros commands many Archons, only several are encountered in-game:

** Although according to canon, few of these are full gods per se ([[WordOfDante and according to the]] '''[[WordOfDante non]]'''[[WordOfDante -canon RPG]] ''[[WordOfDante none]]'' [[WordOfDante of them are]]). The ones that are include the Old Gods which are {{Eldritch Abomination}}s [[spoiler:made by even more ''powerful'' {{Eldritch Abomination}}s]] and the blood god Hakkar. The troll Loa on the other hand were animalistic nature spirits (and either way the players never killed any of them, the things the players killed were troll priests that already killed the Loa and absorbed their power, or were channeling them), Al'ar wasn't a phoenix god (though that is its title), just a powerful phoenix. In the Warcraft Encyclopedia the Titans were SufficientlyAdvancedAliens until the official website [[{{Retcon}} Retconned]] them into full gods(though that's likely related to Blizzard realizing that Sargeras was called a God in ''The Last Guardian'' and the ''War of the Ancients Trilogy''). As to Sargeras, he was referred to in ''The Last Guardian'' as a God to begin with and affirmed to be the God of Fel by the Ultimate Visual Guide, and he himself was never killed. He [[ThanatosGambit allowed Aegwynn to destroy an avatar of him]], so he could put his spirit into her body while her defenses were down from the spell. However, he has been out of the picture since Medivh died, leaving his status ambiguous.

** [[DefiedTrope Defied]] by the Naaru, who technically qualify based on the parameters of the trope, but are very clear that AGodIAmNot and decline to be worshiped - they're servants and messengers of the Holy Light, akin to angels.

%%* ''Xenogears'''s distant descendant, ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'', has two (Bionis and Mechonis). The characters live on one.

** Asura himself becomes this each time he reaches a new level of power. [[spoiler: From punching giant demigods into space and destroy planet-sized ones with his sheer rage and singlehandedly wiping out a fleet of ships capable of bombing continents, Asura becomes powerful enough to rival mantra within the Karma Fortress that is TRILLONS worth of human souls, even tanking and surviving their [[WaveMotionGun Wave Motion Gun]] point blank. He eventually earns enough power to fight on par with an [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abomination]] and winning and surviving and trading blows with the aforementioned Chakravatin. However his power is so great, his anger could destroy his own body. However after Yasha gives him the Mantra Reactor and using it to absorb a planet busting laser, Asura completely becomes this trope as he grows bigger than the planet, can fly through space at speeds faster than light, can destroys planets and stars thrown at him, move and break out of dimensions through sheer willpower and KILLS Chakravartin in his base form. It's clear that Asura has truly earned the title of Asura the Destructor.]]
* In ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' [[spoiler:Elizabeth becomes one at the end of the game after the destruction of [[PowerLimiter the Siphon]]. With her powers no longer constrained Elizabeth can freely open tears and travel to different worlds ''at will'' and can [[TheOmnipotent "see all the doors"]] and [[TheMultiverse branching paths]] between worlds.]]
** [[spoiler: The Lutece twins are revealed to [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble have been]] assumed dead for some time before the events of the game, but are actually capable of apparently effortless travel across the multiverse due to the accident which supposedly killed them. They are also apparently immortal and invulnerable.]]
* ''Franchise/{{Blazblue}}'': The entire setting is maintained by the three "Sankishin Units" (or Orignal Units), each named after famous gods in Myth/JapaneseMythology. Ameterasu, Susanoo, and Tsukuyomi respectively. Amaterasu is a RealityWarper that created the entire setting and can manipulate it freely. Susanoo can cut through time itself and Tsukuyomi provides the ultimate defense. Notably, a major conflict is how the villains try to manipulate said gods to change the world in their own way. [[spoiler:The true BigBad and FinalBoss of the series turns out to be [[SatanicArchetype Susanoo]] himself. It's just that for most of the series its mind was separated from its body as the entity known as [[CardCarryingVillain Yuuki Terumi.]]]]
* In most of the ''Franchise/BreathOfFire'' games, Ryuu's ability to turn into a dragon is considered to be either amazingly powerful or completely ignorable. For example, in ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireII'', no one seems to care about Ryuu's transformations until very late in the game. However, in ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'', all dragons are considered to be gods called the Endless, and in ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireDragonQuarter'', [[spoiler: Ryuu is possessed by Odjn, a godly dragon, whose power is so immense that it's slowly killing Ryuu, shown in game as the D-Counter.]]

** ''{{VideoGame/Pharaoh}}'': While the five gods of the Egyptian pantheon (Osiris, Ra, Ptah, Bast, and Seth) don't appear physically, they are more than happy to bless/curse whatever aspect of civilization falls under their purview (agriculture, diplomacy and trade, craftmanship and industry, food and health, and warfare) if you honor/forget to honor them.
** ''VideoGame/ZeusMasterOfOlympus'': A core game mechanic is that the various gods of the Greek pantheon (and Atlas in the sequel) like to briefly incarnate themselves and wander around, giving blessings and curses. The only way to get rid of gods going around cursing / smashing buildings is to build a sanctuary to a more powerful god.

** Dante's final boss in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry2'' is another powerful demon who was sealed away by Sparda. The ''[=DMC5=]'' prequel novel, ''-Before the Nightmare-'', states that Argosax was powerful enough to challenge Mundus after the latter had eaten the Qliphoth fruit and their battle ended up splitting the demon world into two halves, one ruled by Mundus and the other ruled by Argosax. Interestingly, Sparda did manage to kill Argosax as opposed to merely sealing him away, with the BigBad's plot in ''2'' revolving around reviving the demon king and--you guessed it--obtaining his power.

* ''VideoGame/AdventRising'' is based upon the theory that ''all'' humans have the potential to become Physical Gods. Of course, this means a race of ScaryDogmaticAliens are obsessed with wiping us out in our latent state out of sheer jealousy. By the time the game starts, they've driven us off at least two planets - and by the time it ''ends'', they've killed all but '''[[AdamAndEvePlot two of us]]'''.

* In the canonical ending of ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', [[spoiler: the player]] becomes this.

** Mundus, the main villain of the [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry1 first game]], is effectively the God of Demons. It's heavily implied that the reason Sparda (and later Dante) made him into a SealedEvilInACan is because there is literally no power that can kill him. ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'' tweaks the lore slightly with the revelation that the source of Mundus's great power is the [[UsefulNotes/{{Kabbalah}} Qliphoth]], an ancient tree residing within the Demon World that collects human blood over the course of millennia and eventually bears a single fruit that effectively bestows godhood upon whoever eats it. Sparda made sure to cut off the Qliphoth from the Human World after defeating the King of the Underworld, but with the seal broken in the present, new BigBad Urizen ([[spoiler:Vergil's devil half [[LiteralSplitHumanity split off from]] his human side]]) seeks to obtain the legendary fruit for himself. [[spoiler:He succeeds about 3/4 of the way through the game but proves no match for a reinvigorated Dante, [[TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential who has gained even greater power]] by using the broken remains of his Rebellion to fuse both that sword and the Sparda into his body. By the end of the game, both Dante and Vergil have surpassed both Mundus and Sparda, essentially pushing this UpToEleven.]]
** Sparda is often described as such whenever he is spoken of. The [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry3 third]] and [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry4 fourth]] games both revolve around villains seeking to claim his power for themselves and become gods. In fact, the villains of the fourth game are a [[CorruptChurch religious organization]] inspired by tales of Sparda's feats. His sons Dante and Vergil also follow in his footsteps with Dante having been said to have become even more powerful than Sparda at least once.
** Dante's final boss in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry2'' is another powerful demon who was sealed away by Sparda. The prequel novel, ''Devil May Cry 5: Before The Nightmare'', states that Argosax was powerful enough to challenge Mundus after the latter had eaten the Qlipoth fruit and their battle ended up splitting the demon world into two halves, one ruled by Mundus and the other ruled by Argosax.

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''

*** Clavicus Vile is the [[JackassGenie Daedric Prince of corrupted wishes]]. He explicitly states that the Dragonborn is equal to him in power, while he is in a weakened state. You can encounter this quest at Level 10, and the cap is Level 81. There's also a line i n the Dovahkiin song that translates to "with power to rival the sun" - remember in the ''Elder Scrolls'' cosmology, the sun is [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm actually]] a giant hole in the fabric of reality that Magnus tore through when he created the mortal plane [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere and then ran away]]; it is speculated that this event is the source of ''all magic in Nirn''.

** ''Lagacy of Lunatic Kingdom'' also introduced both Junko, a "Sagacious Spirit" who turned her power of purification (which have the ability to purify anything of all impurities, up to and including their True Name, returning them to their primordial, divine nature) upon herself in order to turn herself into a being of pure resentment, she can probably be considered some kind of goddess, as well as Hecatia Lapislazuli, Greek Goddess of the Hells of the Earth, the Moon and the Otherworlds. The following game, ''Hidden Star in Four Seasons,'' introduced Okina Matara, the syncreticized goddess of the back door, secrets, noh theatre and many other things, based upon Matarajin, as well as Satono Nishida and Mai Teireida, who are based upon Matarajin's attendants, and also Eternity Larva, who's heavily implied to be the God of the Eternal Night.