Patient Gamers

God of war?

I mean you fight all the Gods

To some extent the majority of JRPGs fit into this trope. It's a long running joke that it isn't a JRPG if you don't end up fighting a god with the power of friendship.

Morrowind

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.

I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a great 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.

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.

Another Crab's Treasure is a cute, fun, cartoony soulslike game where you play as a hermit crab whose shell has been stolen! He heads out on an adventure to get it back.

Hollow Knight is a game where you start out as a little bug discovering a bug's nest. Then you unlock some secrets, find the secret true final boss, and next thing you know, it ends with you fighting a god.

• Divinity Original Sin
• Soul Reaver through to Legacy of Kain - Defiance (Elder God)
• Titan Quest
• Shin Megami Tensei
• Cat Quest
• Hades
• Smite
• Mortal Kombat?

The original Baldur's Gate story (1 and 2 + expansions) begin with you being a barely trained orphan sent on an unexpected journey by your foster father...

Pretty much any Final Fantasy game fits this to some extent.

The Talos Principle.

Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous.

You start as a level 1 pf1e character and get thrown into a war against demons. This game is pretty hard if you don’t know 1e rules but completely viable, i played it before knowing any 1e. And you don’t end with a level 20 character, you end up much more powerful.

If you are good at making builds, you can have some wild combos, it’s great. It balances the power trip you can have with some brutal fights. Fuck those Bodaks.

I highly recommend it if you enjoy real time CRPGs. Turn based mode exists, but it makes some fights (cough cough tavern *cough cough) take multiple hours.

No one has mentioned Noita yet? In Noita, killing a god is part of exploring the game.

Persona 5 is a JRPG where you role play as a high school student, who was transferred to a high school far from home in Tokyo due to being expelled...

Nier Automata gets really meta...

Fable

As a kid you get your village burned down but you're rescued at the last minute by a Hero.

You're raised in the Heroes Guild and become one yourself. You help people, kick some chickens, and learn magic.

And then you fight a god, twice.

Persona 3, 4 and 5

Breath of Fire 3. People find a dragon that had been dormant in a crystal for centuries. It wakes up later as a human child. That child travels the world trying to figure out who they are. And then you fight a god, or not it's your choice.

"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.

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.

Most persona/smt games fit the bill

Xenoblade Chronicles

Terraria.

And Calamity mod.

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!

Most Final Fantasy games and JRPGs in general.

Earth Defense Force 5 ends with you fighting a god. EDF 6 basically starts and ends with this.

Final Fantasy Legends!

mass effect. Shepard kills many reapers, which are pretty close to eldritch gods in another setting.

You are in a theater group and steal a magical princess. Yada Yada Yada, you find out your twin brother is using magic life mist to build an army of dolls... Yada Yada yada, the princess turns a castle into a giant robot to fight the doll army... Yada Yada yada, you go to your alien space ship to find all of your other clones, yada yada yada your clone brother kills you and the only way to realive is to kill Necron the god of death and then the game ends.

Final Fantasy 9, the pinnacle of FF games doing this.

Another favorite for me though would be Breath of Fire.

You are a man, you become a dragon man, you find out you were always a dragon, find the goddess and have to chose between killing her or becoming a dragon god and killing your friends.