•
Aquaria – Players control the mermaid-like character Naija. •
Black Desert Online – One of the playable classes in this
MMORPG is Corsair who wields the Mareca, a jewel of the seas which grants her the ability to transform into a mermaid. •
Chrono Cross –
Irenes is a mermaid demi-human possessing her water magic. •
Cookie Run: Kingdom – Black Pearl Cookie is a gingerbread mermaid featured in ''A Mermaid's Tale'' update. • One of the many
bosses from
Cuphead is Cala Maria, a gigantic mermaid who has a lot of sea creatures fighting by her side. •
Donkey Kong 64 – There is a blond-headed blue mermaid queen (with a silver
tiara on her head) who lives in her seashell home at Gloomy Galleon and needs five pearls, so Tiny Kong is tasked to go small and retrieve the pearls for her so she can give her the Golden Banana. •
Double Dealing Character – In the fourteenth title of the
Touhou Project series, a mermaid named Wakasagihime serves as the game's first boss. She has the ability to increase her strength when in water. • Mermaids appear in the
Dragon Quest video games like
Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation and
Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age. •
Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep – Although the mermaids do not appear in this game, a statue of the mermaid is one of the items that can be placed in the private reef. • The game
Ever Oasis features Esna, the water spirit based on the mermaid. •
Feeding Frenzy and
Feeding Frenzy 2 – A mermaid gives starfish for bonus points after successful levels. •
Final Fantasy Dimensions II – One of the water-elemental
eidolons is the mermaid whose special attack is Mermaid's Harp, which restores a maximum of 1/5 MP stat to many summoners. • Eliza was a second boss from
Gokujō Parodius, made a cameo in
Sexy Parodius in Stage 2, which a Pachinko of
CR Gokujo Parodius, and
Otomedius in Stage 1, voiced by
Hitomi Nabatame. •
The Goonies II – The climax of the game involves rescuing a mermaid. •
Harvest Moon DS – Leia the mermaid is one of the nine bachelorettes the player has to marry. •
Insaniquarium – The puzzle game published by
PopCap Games features a mermaid named Meryl who appears as the hostess of the game. She also appears as a pet and her ability is that she sings, which makes the guppies drop more money. •
Ariel and other characters from Disney's
The Little Mermaid appear as supporting characters in the
Kingdom Hearts video game series, a crossover between various Disney franchises and
Square Enix's
Final Fantasy franchise.
Attina and Andrina, two of Ariel's mermaid sisters, make cameos in
Kingdom Hearts II during its final musical number. • The Marai creatures from the
League of Legends lore, featuring Nami. • ''
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening'' – On Koholint Island, there is a mermaid named Martha who lives in a
bay. She states that she has lost her
necklace because of the ocean waves. After
Link retrieves her necklace, Martha gives him a mermaid scale in return. •
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages – In
Oracle of Ages, the sixth dungeon is named the Mermaid's Cave where Link finds the mermaid suit that would increase his speed in water. •
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass – Link encounters what he at first believes is a real mermaid, but later discovers she is a Hylian girl named Joanne who enjoys dressing up as a mermaid. She is involved in several side quests. • In
Nintendo's
The Legendary Starfy series, a character named simply "Mermaid" is used to save the game. When the player character, Starfy, bumps into the shell she lives in, the game saves. • Undine from the
Mana series is a summonable Mana spirit of water resembling a mermaid. There is also Flameshe from
Legend of Mana, a teenage mermaid who can be found sunbathing at two locations, Madora Beach and Polpota Harbor. •
Mega Man 9 – Splash Woman's design is based on the appearance of a mermaid. •
Monster Rancher 2 – The water-elemental monsters include mermaids,
Undines, and sirens. •
Muramasa: The Demon Blade – If the player successfully defeats the
Sea Bonze within 60 seconds, a mermaid appears to reward them with the consumable Yata Mirror. • In the game
No Straight Roads, Sayu, the second member of the Megastars, is a mermaid and a virtual pop idol. The heroes Zuke and Mayday battle her in Akusuka, the district of Vinyl City under her control. • The
Pokémon Primarina, a Water/Fairy-type, is based on both a mermaid and a sea lion. • ''
Pop'n Music'' – The Japanese music game series published by
Konami includes the mermaids, such as KIRARA and MANA. •
Princess Peach: Showtime! – One of
Princess Peach's transformations is a mermaid. In this form, she uses her magical singing voice to control the fish and other sea creatures for help. In addition, there is a mermaid Sparkla she must rescue. •
Puyo Puyo – The Japanese puzzle game series from
Compile (later owned by
Sega) features a mermaid named Serilly (Seriri in Japan) who believes that everyone is trying to eat her, due to the belief that eating mermaid flesh will grant immortality. • The mobile game
Puyopuyo!! Quest features five additional mermaids as part of the Tropical Merfolk series in the game. •
Return of the Obra Dinn – This mystery game incorporates many naval myths of the 18th/19th century, including the myth of mermaids. • In the role-playing game
Reverse: 1999, one of the playable characters is Vila who is a half-
rusalka. • Mermaids appear in
Shantae games like ''
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse and Shantae: Half-Genie Hero''. •
The Sims – Mermaids are a new "life state", introduced from
The Sims 3: Island Paradise and
The Sims 4: Island Living. •
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake – Madame Kassandra, the mermaid
fortune-teller, is a final boss in this game. • Ineptune, a large acid-breathing mermaid, is one of the bosses from ''
Spyro: A Hero's Tail''. There is also a friendly mermaid named Lily who mistakes
Spyro for a fish. •
Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis – The Ovis Mermaid clan is the original inhabitants of the island nation, most notably Aerial and Queen Chloeri. • ''
A Witch's Tale'' – Princess Aquell is transformed into a mermaid by Queen Alice and has a crush on Loue the vampire after being rescued by him. She is loosely inspired by "
The Little Mermaid" story but in reverse. ==Mascots and other==