Games that feature angels might vary both in theme and gameplay. There are amazing horror games with them, RPGs, shoot-em-ups, strategy, and different genres a gamer can think of. Howvever, some games with angels are better than others, and a lot of them, regardless of how good they were back then, tend to be forgotten.
While some older games can’t hold a candle to the amazing graphics of today’s ones, there are always the storylines and the characters that make some of them stand the test of time – and if not, they are at least in a pretty little nostalgic box somewhere in the minds of the gamers.
7 Bayonetta, 2009
With Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon coming next year, it is a given that gamers would like to think back on the other Bayonetta games in the franchise. And while reminiscing, they would certainly remember how many angels were in these games and the different things each of them did.
While people tend to correlate the word “angels” with goodness, in Bayonetta, the Angels of Paradiso are the main antagonists, and they are far from the sweet image of the cute little winged beings. They are fierce, huge, and tough.
6 Constantine, 2005
The fans loved or hated this game, just like it happened with the movie – especially when it came out. Still, when Constantine the video game came out in 2005, it didn’t go unnoticed. A mix of an RPG and a third-person shooter, the game has Constantine casting spells left and right. In this universe, there are angels, demons, and half-breeds, who are either half angels or half demons and half humans.
Constantine’s mission is pretty much the same as it is in the movie: dispel demons. In fact, one of the first things he does is to dispel a demon from a little girl’s body in a hotel, which is almost identical to the movie.
5 Shade: Wrath Of Angels, 2004
Demon lords might be cool, but angry angels would always be cooler. The Shade: Wrath Of Angels game proves that point and then some.
In the game, the player meets the Angel of Faith, which gives him the quest to release three other angels and gives him a red demon as an assistant in his mission.
Then the angel transfers the player to three different worlds, where he can find the missing pieces of the angels’ hearts and free them.
The big reveal is that the Angel of Faith is the main antagonist and quite evil - although the fact that they gave the player a demon for an assistant should have probably been a hint.
4 Requiem: Avenging Angel, 1999
It might be old enough to have its own kids, but this ’90s game is not forgotten. Requiem: Avenging Angel is, apart from a trip down memory lane for many gamers, also a shoot-em-up that had class. It lacks a lot in terms of graphics, but that is normal for such an old game, and while the characters might be even more pixelated than these games, the huge lore behind it makes up for it.
Instead of opting for the easy gory recipe, the developers went above and beyond while creating this game, since it actually takes inspiration from the Bible and Christianity and has the whole background story set in Heaven.
3 Sacred, 2004
Angels come in many shapes and forms, and it's good not to forget that fallen angels are quite a big thing in the gaming world who love a bit of an antihero now and then.
In Sacred, the player has the choice to choose to play as a Seraphim, get wings, and start the game with a quest in a church. The main bad guy is a demon who was conjured by a necromancer, because… why not?
Of course, it all went wrong, and now the player has to find the five elements and use them to defeat him (the demon, not the necromancer – although he should probably get punished too).
2 Darksiders, 2010
Not as old or as forgotten as the others, since the last installment of the game came out in 2019, but the Darksiders franchise tend to be forgotten as some of the great games about angels because fans focus more on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse aspect of it.
The world of Darksiders is full of angels that fight against the demons about who is going to take control of the world, in this hack-and-slash masterpiece. Inspired characters and interesting gameplay make the franchise a beloved one that hopefully will not be forgotten any time soon.
1 DMC: Devil May Cry, 2013
This game might almost be 10 years old, but some of its characters cannot be forgotten, like Dante, the cool-looking demon hunter, who uses the power of darkness to do his business.
DMC: Devil May Cry plays with the idea of Nephilim, the child of an angel and a demon, and what this unorthodox mixture brings out is memorable heroes and hours of enjoyable gameplay. This hack-and-slash action-adventure video game has a huge and complicated story, but the fans never seem to tire of it, since the characters are very well written and the graphics are breath-taking.