Trope or not, gods just end up being a common target for games about heroes escalating in power while fighting increasingly world-destroying consequences.
So, for each post, name a game and describe it, with the assumption being that every description automatically ends with the phrase:
“…and then it ends with you fighting a god.”
Most persona/smt games fit the bill
In the first Witcher game, you fight a god from the Cthulu mythos (Dagon) on like a side quest, and he’s not even that tough.
Grim Dawn.
One moment you’re dying on the gallows, the next you’re fighting the tongue of a long dead god trying to reclaim it’s appropriated flesh.
And the stakes only get higher from there for the DLCs.
Path of Exile has you clearing out the entire pantheon. Then the main campaign is over and you begin the post-game part, which is what actually matters.
Shin Megami Tensei 2 and it doesn’t just end with you killing a god. You get to kill THE God, YHWH, aka the Abrahamic God!
OG Chrono Trigger
Earth Defense Force 5 ends with you fighting a god. EDF 6 basically starts and ends with this.
Immortals Fenyx Rising
Persona 3, 4 and 5
I know it’s not out yet but I feel pretty confident adding Persona 6 to this list too.
Silent Hill and Silent Hill 3 - both games revolve around a cult that is trying to bring about the rebirth of their deity. You play as someone who finds themselves in the town of Silent Hill in search of a person. You solve puzzles, battle monsters, and navigate the town… and then it ends with you fighting a god.
Bayonetta invents an entirely new god in the last 10 minutes of the game that was never explained or alluded to before, and then has you piledrive it into the sun.
sounds neat tbh
No one has mentioned Noita yet? In Noita, killing a god is part of exploring the game.
Kirby Superstar: Milky Way Wishes. Ohh you think it’s a game about pink ball stopping the sun and moon from fighting? NOPE, here’s a jester with power of god.
Pokemon. Technically you don’t end with fighting god but somewhere you’re fighting a pokemon that’s basically god of something.
Also does Hades count lol.
Even better for Pokemon, God (Arceus) lets you capture it in a pokeball
Even better, Arceus is given out for free like christmas in the og gen 4. Only in the remake they have you battle and capture it.
You can always spot a Kirby fan based on how they react to a butterfly appearing late into the game.
“Doom” is a pretty good one.
“Advent Rising” you find out you are a god.
“Dread Delusion” prisoner to decider of gods fate.
A lot of Kirby games.
Even with the weird Mormon allusions, I really wish we could’ve gotten an Advent Rising sequel.
I had no idea it had some basis in mormanism, but I also really wanted a sequel to it. It ended on such an interesting cliff hangar and with Orson Scott Card it seemed like the plot would actually go somewhere.
