VOCALOID in other media/Video games

13-Sai no Hello Work DS
In 13-sai no Hellowork DS (Job Placement for the Age of 13), Nintendo DS, marked Miku's first appearance in a video game, she is included as one of the characters.

7th Dragon
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The 7th Dragon 2020 video game featured an opening song written, composed and arranged by sasakure.UK and sung by Miku. The song is called "SeventH-HeaveN". The opening for the sequel, 7th Dragon 2020-II, is once again written by sasakure.UK and performed by Miku. It is titled "HeavenZ-ArmZ". The sequel also features Miku singing the background music when the "Diva" setting for choosing BGM Mode is selected. Diva mode has music from 10 different producers: kiichi, Keeno, Clean Tears, Denpol-P, SHIKI, take, nak-ami, millstones, Lemm and Wonderlandica. In addition to this, Miku will also be featured in the game, appearing as the mysterious songstress who goes by the moniker "Hatsune Miku Type2021". While it is unknown what role Miku plays, SEGA has stated she will appear somewhere in the middle of the game.

sasakure.UK would also work on the theme song for 7th Dragon III: VFD, but without the use of VOCALOID. Miku would also not make an appearance.

Aikatsu!
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Hatsune Miku's outfit (top/skirt, boots, and headphones) could be purchased in-game.

Akiba's Trip
Acquire's Akiba's Trip: Undead and Undressed (Akiba's Trip 2 in Japan) features real landmarks and vendors that are located in Akihabara. This includes Dear Stage; the "home" of Tone Rion.

The item description for the leek makes a subtle reference to Miku, and an NPC has hair similar to hers.

Demon Gaze
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Both games in Kadokawa Games' Demon Gaze series feature a soundtrack comprised entirely of IA vocals. The Japanese version of the first game also features IA as a playable DLC character. Demon Gaze 2 allows players to toggle IA on or off depending on their preference.

Dynasty Warriors 8
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The outfit design for Akikoloid-chan is used for the character Wang Yuanji in Koei's series Dynasty Warriors 8.

Hello Kitty's Magic Apron
Hello Kitty's Magic Apron, VOCALOID technology was used for the instructional songs during the cooking session.

Idolmaster 2
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Idolmaster 2, a visual novel. Miku was included within the game as part of the collaboration between this franchise and Project Diva game series. She appears singing "The World is Mine" and "Melt". Her costume is also unlockable.

Just Dance
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Songs featuring Miku have been featured four times in the Just Dance Franchise:
 * In the Japanese-only Just Dance Wii U, kz's Tell Your World.
 * In Just Dance 2016, Otomania's Hatsune Miku sings "Ievan Polkka".
 * In Just Dance 2017, LamazeP's PoPiPo.
 * In Just Dance 2018, OSTER project's Love Ward.

For Miku's international Just Dance debut, Ubisoft also provided a behind-the-scenes video in which they revealed that bringing one of her songs into their games was something they've wanted to do for a long time and also showed off the leek they used while motion capturing the dance choreography.

Within the games themselves, each song is listed by just "Hatsune Miku" rather than by the actual artist with the exception of Just Dance Wii U.

Mabinogi
The MMORPG game Mabinogi, costumes of 4 VOCALOIDS namely Miku, Rin, Len and KAITO are featured as limited-edition items. The player can wear these costumes which includes a wig, imitating the VOCALOID's look completely. In addition, the player can also obtain "Prefix Titles" of each VOCALOID's name, granting various buffs relating to a "Music-based skill".

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
The multi-platform game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, an entry in the popular Metal Gear series by Konami, used VOCALOID-flex technology (known in-game as netVOCALOID) for recording lines pre-set into Metal Gear ZEKE's AI. A number of songs voiced by the voicebank were featured in the game's DLC. The voicebank remains nameless.

The game's netVOCALOID features have since been discontinued.

Monster Hunter
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CAPCOM began promotional videos for the collaboration between its Monster Hunter Frontier G online video game for the PC and Xbox 360 and virtual idol Hatsune Miku.

No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle
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In the No More Heroes universe, the main character, Travis Touchdown, is obsessed with moe mecha magical girl anime franchise called Pure White Lover Bizarre Jelly. Travis collects merchandise of the anime, such as posters, figurines, and body pillows. In the 2010 sequel No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle, there is a fictional video game called Pure White Giant Glastonbury, a shoot-em-up (taking heavy inspiration from the franchise) featuring characters from Bizzare Jelly. The chiptune-styled background music during the minigame features vocals by Hatsune Miku.

PangYa
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The Japanese version of the Korean free-to-play golf game PangYa had a campaign in May 2008 where players could buy a Miku costume for one of the in-game characters.

Persona 4: Dancing All Night
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Miku makes a cameo as a DLC character, along with a remix of the Persona 4 song "Heaven" by ATOLS, using Miku V3 English. Her costume within the game was designed by Shinegori Soejima, and would later be released as a DLC module as "P4D Style" for Project Diva X, and was later included in Project Diva Arcade Future Tone and it's PS4 port.

Phantasy Star
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In Phantasy Star Portable 2 on the PSP, certain passwords can be entered to unlock Miku's costume and hairstyle, as well as leek-themed weapons. In another bit of a fandom nod, each of the eight-digit passwords started with "3939."

Phantasy Star Online 2 also sports costumes and hairstyles for Miku, Rin, Len and Luka.

Syndicate
Syndicate is a first-person shooter video game developed by Starbreeze Studios and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is a reboot of the Syndicate series of real-time tactical shooter games developed by Bullfrog Productions. In the level "Aspari Extraction" the player enters a club where he is attacked. The music that plays uses Hatsune Miku, as the author said, "to give it a japanese feel" the author also stated that the lyrics are "Syndicate Classical Franchise Persuader Happy Minigun.

Tales of Graces
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SoPhie has a Miku costume available as DLC in "Tales of Graces f" on the PS3. However, it was only made available in Japan.

Time Travelers
Miku's voicebank was later used as a threatening message call.

Tori no Hoshi ~Aerial Planet~
Tori no Hoshi: Aerial Planet is an Adventure game, developed and published by Nippon Ichi Software, which was released in Japan in 2008. It's soundtrack includes four image songs composed by Basiscape and performed by Hatsune Miku.

Transformice
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In Transformice, an online game, a Hatsune Miku hairstyle was added as a purchasable item.

Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE
Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE is a Shin Megami Tensei and Fire Emblem crossover RPG that touches on Japan's recording industry, and naturally includes references into the VOCALOID scene. Tiki, originally from the original Fire Emblem game, is portrayed as a popular virtual singer known in the game world as an "Uta-loid." (Singaloid in the Japanese version) Tiki's first character side-quest is similarly titled to Ika's Miku Miku ni Shite Ageru.

Kiria's carnage form hair is also an exact match to Hatsune Miku.

Yakuza 5
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In Yakuza 5, PS3, Miku snow sculptures can be seen around town and you can win Miku toys from UFO catchers (like claw-arm games). When playing as the character Sawamura Haruka, you have the option to wear a Miku costume. Instead of getting into street fights, Haruka has dance "battles" that play like a rhythm game.

Yandere Simulator
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In Yandere Simulator, a game in which you are a Japanese high school girl ruining your "Senpai's" love life so you and only you can be with them, Miku's hairstyle is available for the main character by pressing H repeatedly. It is the 47th hairstyle in the game.

Cytus
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Cytus is a rhythm game developed by Rayark Games, an independent game developing corporation in Taiwan. Done in chapters- there are songs vocalized by Luka, Rin, Miku and GUMI.

Tracklist
 * Endless Journey / Hoskey feat. Megurine Luka
 * LNS OP / Hoskey feat. Megurine Luka
 * COSMO / HAMO feat. Hatsune Miku
 * Dragon Warrior / Hoskey feat. Megurine Luka & Kagamine Rin
 * It's A Wonderful World / HAMO feat. Hatsune Miku
 * Her Sword / Hoskey feat. Megurine Luka
 * Code 03 / Hoskey feat. Megurine Luka
 * COMA / ensou feat. Gumi

Recettear
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In the Indie game Recettear, the skill icon for Nagi's "Hundred Trusts" resembles Miku.

Chaos Fighters
In Chaos Fighters, a Chinese-based iOS app, you can unlock Miku-based content.

Crash Fever
The collectible puzzle RPG Crash Fever ran a Hatsune Miku crossover promotion in February, 2017.

BanG Dream!
A crossover between a mobile app idol game and Crypton's Hatsune Miku featured three songs in game play.

Brave Frontier
In the mobile app Brave Frontier (a turn-based RPG app by game developers Alim and gumi Asia Pte. Ltd.), Hatsune Miku appears as a "collab" (cross-over) character which is obtainable through her special "Vortex" dungeon called "Songstress of Light". She is designated with the Earth element and has her V2 design as a 4-star form while her 5-star form uses her Append design. Her dungeon also plays Sharing The World, MIKU EXPO 2014's theme song.

Megurine Luka was also included but is only obtainable via a special code obtained by players from the 2014 New York Comic Con booth of Brave Frontier. She is designated with the Dark element.

By December 29, 2014, Rin and Len Kagamine joined the fray as "Rare Summons". They are designated with the Thunder and Light Element respectively.

MEIKO and KAITO were also added, designated with the Fire and Water element respectively.

In the 2015 version of the event, Luka was added as well as a 6 star form for Miku featuring her V3 design. Her dungeon music was changed to "Hand in Hand" and her boss music to "Shiroi Yuki no Princess wa." The event also returned for Miku Expo 2016.

Line Play
In Line Play, there are several VOCALOID-themed items obtainable via gacha. Such gachas include Kagamine Rin/Len, Sakura Miku, Snow Miku 2014, Snow Miku 2015, Racing Miku 2014 and Magical Mirai 2015.

Magica Wars Taisen
An app game that features illustrated magical girl types, featured Hatsune Miku's persona, Snow Miku 2014.

Unison League
The iOS/Android game Unison League held a Hatsune Miku collaboration event around the time of Magical Mirai 2016 where players could recruit the Cryptonloids for their parties as well as obtain related cosmetic items for their characters. The event lasted until mid-October 2016.

VOEZ
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The iOS/Android/Nintendo Switch rhythm game VOEZ features a small number of songs with VOCALOID vocals.

Alteil
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A story-driven, Flash-based online collectible card game produced by Dex Entertainment. A special promotion featured Miku.

Rage of Bahamut
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An online mobile card game, Rage of Bahamut features Miku in a special collaboration that lasted until February 14, 2014.