Ok, maybe I’m slow, or late to the party for a video game that came out 14 years ago, but I think I had a cool realization, or literary connection, that exists in the game Dishonored
In one of the levels you infiltrate a masquerade party thrown by the noble Boyle family/sisters. It is emphasized that the Boyles and their noble and gentry guests are celebrating, partying, and feasting to their delight while just outside the estates walls the city, and the level itself, is overrun by weepers, victims of the plague that consumes the city
This is the same set up as The Mask of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe
In this case, depending on how you play of course but certainly unmistakably, Corvo, the player character, acts as death himself, only donned in a skull-like mask rather than red, and takes out the party’s host for their misdeeds
