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Video games about demons

  • Silent Hill 3In Silent Hill 3, a roller coaster kills 17-year-old Heather Mason, who then wakes in a mall.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the KingdomIn The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, fusing a rocket to a shield is enough to send Link soaring through the air. That one trick says a great deal about this 2023 action-adventure game for the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo EPD built it…
  • Quake (video game)Only one developer came in to upload Quake on launch day. That was John Romero, who left id Software soon after.
  • Legacy of KainLegacy of Kain is a dark fantasy video game series that landed in a legal fight in 1998, before its second game had reached shelves. Silicon Knights, the studio behind the first game, sued Crystal Dynamics for the rights to the franchise.…
  • Dragon Age: OriginsDragon Age: Origins got its title before it had any dragons. A random name generator produced the name first.
  • Silent Hill 2In Silent Hill 2, James Sunderland gets a letter from his wife, who died three years ago.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Twilight PrincessThe Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, a 2006 action-adventure game from Nintendo, owes part of its identity to a strange dream. Its director, Eiji Aonuma, dreamed during an overseas business trip that he was a wolf locked inside a cage.…
  • The Elder Scrolls IV: OblivionPete Hines, Bethesda's vice president of public relations and marketing, once described the mood before The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion arrived with a wry line. He said: "People were expecting the game to cure blindness and heal the sick."…
  • Doom (1993 video game)Doom crashed a university network the night it was released in 1993. Ten thousand people tried to download it at once.
  • Mortal KombatMortal Kombat began as a planned Jean-Claude Van Damme movie game, but the deal fell through.
  • Devil May CryDevil May Cry began as a failed Resident Evil prototype. Capcom let it become its own game instead of scrapping it.
  • Diablo (series)The Diablo video game series is named after a California mountain. Creator David Brevik lived near Mount Diablo.
  • Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2Belgium's anti-gambling law forced Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2 to shut down there.
  • CastlevaniaCastlevania is a gothic horror action-adventure series from Konami, and its first staff roll in 1986 was full of disguises. The director and programmer, Hitoshi Akamatsu, was credited as Trans Fishers, a nod to the horror film director…
  • World of WarcraftVice summed up World of Warcraft in 2019 with a single sentence. "Most people," it wrote, "know someone who's said they were 'addicted' to World of Warcraft." The game came from Blizzard Entertainment, which released it for Windows and…
  • The Legend of Zelda: Skyward SwordThe Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword got its story in a single day. Director Hidemaro Fujibayashi feigned illness, shut himself in a hotel room and wrote the synopsis. Nintendo built the game for the Wii over roughly five years, and much of…
  • Demon's SoulsDemon's Souls, a role-playing game for the PlayStation 3 made by FromSoftware, was announced in early October 2008 and put in front of the public at the Tokyo Game Show the following week. Sony producer Takeshi Kajii later described the…
  • Devil May Cry 5A hooded stranger walks into a demon-hunting office in Devil May Cry 5, and the young hunter on duty, Nero, politely offers him something to eat. The stranger answers by ripping off a demonic Devil Bringer arm, which transforms in his hand…
  • TekkenIn Tekken, a son throws his father off a cliff, and the father survives to throw him into a volcano.
  • Dead by DaylightIn Dead by Daylight, four Survivors fix generators to escape one Killer who tries to hook them all.
  • Silent Hill fSilent Hill f's first ending reveals the town's horrors were induced by red capsules.
  • Megami TenseiMegami Tensei reached Japanese players on the 11th of September 1987, when Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei launched on the Famicom. The game grew out of a science-fiction novel series by Aya Nishitani, and the franchise took its name…
  • ŌkamiŌkami began as a one-minute movie of a wolf racing through a forest, with flowers blooming in its footsteps. Hideki Kamiya made that clip with no gameplay behind it at all. From it grew a 2006 action-adventure about Amaterasu, the Shinto…
  • CupheadCuphead is a run and gun video game whose two creators remortgaged their house to finish it. Brothers Chad and Jared Moldenhauer ran Studio MDHR, a tiny Canadian indie team, and the game they were building looked like nothing else on the…
  • Silent Hill: DownpourSilent Hill: Downpour opens with a prison shower murder by its own hero. The developers made him guilty on purpose.
  • Diablo IVThe first version of Diablo IV was cancelled when its lead designer left Blizzard in July 2016.
  • Diablo ImmortalDiablo Immortal had the biggest Diablo launch ever, yet its PC version got Metacritic's lowest user score.
  • Doom (franchise)Doom is an American media franchise created by five people: John Carmack, John Romero, Adrian Carmack, Kevin Cloud, and Tom Hall. Its hero never receives a proper name. Players call him Doomguy, the Doom Marine, or, in later entries, the…

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