10 Most Sinister Video Game Cults

10. Happy Happyism - Earthbound (1995)

This first entry is proof that a cult doesn't have to be outright violent to still inspire fear wherever they go - even if they don't plan on doing it.

The Happy Happyist cult is made up of most of the population of Happy Happy Village. Led by a truly mental man named Carpainter, their goal is to paint the entire world blue, a colour they worship above all others. How Carpainter managed to convince a whole village to follow his crackpot ideologies is anyone's guess, but he did, and these insane cultists now seek to spread the word of Happy Happyism to every corner of Earthbound's sleepy little world.

The uniforms of Carpainter's most loyal eerily resemble those of the Ku Klux Klan, and their ominous chanting of "blue, blue, blue" in the morning and at night is just disturbing. Other than that, though, is liking the colour blue really so bad?

Obviously, he could've done without brainwashing a whole village, but as cults go, this one is a relatively harmless strain of insanity.