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  • Arknights: The Sui siblings who are literal fragments of a Feranmut called Sui are a family of twelve, with at least five known playable ones at the time of writing (Nian, Dusk, Ling, Chongyue and Shu), two more mentioned in "Invitation to Wine" (with one of them being the Arc Villain and having killed the other one) and another one mentioned in one of Nian's voice lines.
  • Avernum 3 has the Merry siblings, who own general stores across the continent, and who "left home before [their parents] finished."
  • Admiral Swiggins from Awesomenauts is the youngest of thirty siblings.
  • In Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus and Butterfly, Lucas grew up in a family so large, he couldn't count all of his siblings even if he wanted to. It's implied that his late dad was a swinger because his siblings are "everywhere".
  • Crusader Kings II hard-caps rulers at ten legitimate living children at any one time, though there's no cap on bastards. It is common for a Muslim ruler to have multiple half-siblings (especially if his father has taken four fertile wives). Ditto for rulers whose religion allows them to take concubines. In the context of the game, this can lead to succession wars as the half-siblings can attempt to press their own claims on the throne.
  • Dragon Age:
    • In Dragon Age: Origins, the Human Mage comes from the Amell family. If Dragon Age II is played with this world state, it's revealed that the Mage Warden was one of several children born to Revka Amell, cousin of the protagonist Hawke's mother, who had to watch every single one of them be taken away by the Circle of Magi because they had magic ability.
      • May also be the case with Goldanna, a laundress encountered during Alistair's personal quest, who mentions that she has "five mouths to feed." It's unclear whether she means there are five children or if she's counting herself and/or her husband in that number.
    • The human Inquisitor in Dragon Age: Inquisition is said to be the youngest child of the large Trevelyan family in Ostwick, in the Free Marches. How many siblings the character has is left up to the player, but the in-game profile suggests that this is the case, though there may also be as few as three.
    • Advisor Josephine Montilyet just narrowly fits into this trope, being the eldest of five children. note 
    • The children of Andraste, the Crystal Dragon Jesus of the game world's predominant religion, also narrowly fall into this. She had two daughters of her own and also raised their three half-brothers, her husband's children by his concubine. This is also the case with Andraste's grandchildren, as her younger daughter, Vivial, is said to have had many daughters herself.
  • Fire Emblem:
    • Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
      • Brom reveals in his support conversations with Zihark that he has five sons and three daughters. We only ever meet the youngest daughter Meg, however.
      • The royal family of the Serenes Kingdom had at least seven children. In addition to Reyson, Leanne, and Rafiel, who join the player's army, and Lillia, who died in the backstory, there is mention of a third brother and two additional sisters who died in the Serenes Massacre.
    • In Fire Emblem: Awakening, Anna has at least seven sisters, all of whom are completely identical to her and also named Anna.
    • Fire Emblem Fates: Corrin is one of five children in both their birth family from Hoshido and adoptive family from Nohr. If they were to count their siblings from both families, they would have eight. The Hidden Truths DLC reveals Lilith is their half-sister, meaning Corrin has nine siblings in total.
    • Edelgard von Hresvelg from Fire Emblem: Three Houses is one of eleven children from Emperor Ionius. Due to horrific experimentation from Those Who Slither In The Dark, Edelgard is the only one left alive.
  • In Growing Up, Richard mentions having many siblings and that his parents hate paying for their movie tickets. He also gets a lot of hand-me-downs, which is why he doesn't like handouts.
  • Sam from Harvest Town mentions having 300+ brothers.
  • I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: Besides Kom, Anemone has triplet brothers, making them five siblings in all.
  • Ivalice Alliance features six moogle siblings, which are Montblanc, Sorbet, Horne, Nono, Hurdy, and Gurdy.
  • In The King of Fighters, Goro Daimon has six brothers and sisters. Goro is implied to be the fifth one: "Go" is the Japanese word for "five".
  • The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap has the Blade Brothers, seven swordmaster siblings throughout Hyrule who teach Link new sword techniques (along with the spirit of their ancestor, Swiftblade the First).
  • In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the Rito minstrel Kass has a clutch of five daughters waiting for him to come home. This is more startling when compared to his fellow Rito father, Teba, who only has one son.
  • The angara race in Mass Effect: Andromeda have large families. One angara remarks that being one of nineteen children is average, and another considers being one of fifteen children "small". Several of them are quite shocked to learn that Ryder has only one sibling.
  • In My Time at Portia, there are the Hulu brothers. There are seven of them, and outside of being Color-Coded for Your Convenience, they all look nearly identical.
  • In No Umbrellas Allowed, Sangsu Ahn came from a family of seven.
  • In Overwatch's 2016 Christmas comic, it's revealed that Torbjorn and his wife have at least eight children, maybe even more.
  • Pikmin 3 has Alph, who will sometimes state in his notes he has twelve older brothers, one older sister, and one younger brother!
  • Pokémon Sword and Shield has the Rock-type Gym Leader Gordie, who is shown in the artbook for the game to have four younger siblings, who appear in the design art for his mother Melony. The second eldest is the only girl. None of the siblings have appeared in the game or an animated adaptation, but do appear in fanarts sometimes.
  • Poseidon: Master of Atlantis: Atlas has nine brothers, each a twin (so five pairs). Poor Cleito…
  • Maguro from Puyo Puyo is the oldest of five siblings within his family.
  • In Rune Factory 4, Vishnal has at least five younger siblings. They aren't important enough to get character portraits, though, and generally stay out of town.
  • In Scribblenauts Unlimited, Maxwell is revealed to come from a family with forty-one siblings. All of them are brothers, except for Lily.
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice: The most elite Lone Shadows (deadly shinobi working for the Interior Ministry), are a set of seventeen brothers, the sons of the master shinobi Masatsuna Oribe.
  • Yozakura of Senran Kagura is the eldest of twelve siblings, with one pair of twins and one set of triplets, and claims they were born across a span of nine years. While the writers did the math, that's all the research they did, as if their mother carried each child to term, she needed to be constantly pregnant during that timenote . Not only is this unlikely to begin with, but there's a laundry list of health reasons not to do it.
  • The Sims consistently limits household sizes to a maximum of eight, and pre-made families usually have six (i.e. two parents and four kids) at most; however, there are a few exceptions:
    • Peter and Samantha Ottomas from The Sims 2: Seasons have three children and are expecting twins when first played. Peter's mother Dora, who lives with the family, has a lifetime want to have six grandchildren, challenging the player to add yet another baby to the family once the eldest (David) leaves home.
    • The Best family from Starlight Shores in The Sims 3: Showtime are expecting their fifth child, as are the MacDuff family from Moonlight Falls in The Sims 3: Supernatural.
    • Brandi Broke in The Sims 2 is pregnant with her third child, but upon giving birth to him, she'll roll a want to have 10 children! (The want panel even warns the player that they'll have to move out the older siblings as they reach adulthood to make room for the new babies - even assuming Brandi stays a single parent, she'll have to move out the three she already has at some point to clear the space for the seven more the player is directed to have.)
    • The Curious family from The Sims 2 probably has the most siblings in a single generation in the game, with four full siblings (Pascal, Lazlo, Vidcund and Jenny), and two half-sisters (Chloe and Lola).
    • The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 both include lifetime wishes/wants that require this trope in order to achieve them: randomly rolled Lifetime Wishes in 2 can include things like "Marry Off 6 Children", while the "Surrounded by Family" Lifetime Want in 3 is achieved by raising 5 children from babies to teenagers. Both can look pretty tame, though, in comparison to a regular (but high-scoring) want from The Sims 2 base game to "Have 10 Children"!
  • In Star Control II, Fwiffo is the youngest child in a family of 18,487. His happiest memory is the time his mother called him by his actual name.
  • In Super Mario Bros. 3 for the NES, players were introduced to Bowser's seven children. However, in more recent Mario games they have been retconned into simply being high-ranking minions of his, making the 'eighth kid' — Bowser Jr. — his only son. However, the seven Koopalings are still regarded as being siblings.
  • Super Sized Family is about trying to look after seven children.
  • Scout from Team Fortress 2 is the youngest of eight boys.
  • In World of Warcraft, one daily quest for the Mantid faction known as the Klaxxi has the questgiver remark that the monster you killed for him ate his brother, but he points out that he has millions of brothers. This may be an exaggeration, but it's implied that the Mantid birth large numbers of young and send them to fight the pandaren, with the intent of having the strongest come back alive.

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