10 Coolest Hatsune Miku Cameos in Games

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Consider, if you will, Hatsune Miku, the infinite diva. Miku originally debuted all the way back in 2007 as part of Crypton Future Media’s first line of character-centric voice packs for Yamaha’s Vocaloid music synthesis program, but has since taken on a life of her own as one of the most recognizable pop culture icons in the world. She is absolutely everywhere, from clothes to billboards to metric whoa-tons of fanart across all social platforms. She even appeared all over the world during the 2026 World Cup, with each match's winner receiving "ownership" of Miku. Naturally, video games have not been exempt from the Miku ubiquity.

While little references to Miku’s iconography have been sprinkled into games for ages, as time has gone on, Miku herself has made more overt appearances in games, whether lending her voice to in-game characters, offering her likeness for cosmetics, or even just straight-up showing up alongside the regular casts in normal gameplay. I’m a huge Miku fan, as are, I think, a statistically-significant portion of modern game players, so it’s always a pleasure to see her show up in a new and interesting capacity.

10 Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum Session!

She’s Got Tunes to Spare

Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum Session!

Of course, when you think of Hatsune Miku, the first and foremost subject is music. That’s the whole point of the Vocaloid software, after all, making music, and songs with Miku as the singer have become major smash hits both on and off the internet. Naturally, any game that involves music would benefit from Miku’s presence, even if said music is produced by banging on taiko drums.

Miku appears as a guest character in 2017’s Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum Session, where she shows up at the bottom of the screen to sing and dance alongside your playing for certain Vocaloid songs like “Ghost Rule” and “Alien Alien,” plus DLC tracks like “Senbonzakura” and “Miku Miku ni Shite Ageru.” Miku also appeared again in 2018’s Drum ‘n’ Fun in a similar guest performer role, albeit only with the game’s Vocaloid song DLC tracks like “Melt,” “Black Rock Shooter,” and “World is Mine.”

9 Just Dance

And Dance Moves to Spare!

As Miku has become more of a pop culture icon, dancing has become just as much a part of her brand identity as singing. I’ve never been to a holographic Miku concert, personally, but I have seen plenty of videos of them, and she really tears it up on that stage. Everyone can see Miku knows how to dance, even those who are notoriously challenged when it comes to reading the writing on the wall like Ubisoft.

Miku songs appeared in Ubisoft’s Just Dance series starting with 2014’s Just Dance Wii U, complete with a dancer silhouette reminiscent of Miku, though that game was Japan-only. Starting with Just Dance 2016, though, Miku made her way over to western shores, with that game in particular featuring a Miku-dressed dancer and a routine based on her classic leek-spinning cover of “Levan Polka.” The following two Just Dance games would both feature at least one new Miku song in the lineup, including “PoPiPo” in 2017 and “Love Ward” in 2018. All of these tracks also appeared in Just Dance Unlimited, at least that game was delisted in 2022.

8 Ninjala

Not One Collab, But Two

When it comes to live-service games, consistent crossover events are generally a pretty good way to both energize your userbase and potentially entice new players into jumping aboard. Case in point, while Ninjala didn’t make as big of a splash in the live-service sector as some games, it did manage to keep itself afloat for a surprisingly long run, helped at least in part by regular collaborations with IPs and characters like Evangelion, Jujutsu Kaisen, and of course, Miku.

Ninjala actually managed to score not just one, but two separate collaborations with Hatsune Miku and Vocaloid characters as a whole. The first, during season 7 in 2021, featured several outfits based on Miku and other Vocaloid characters like Luka Megurine and Kagamine Rin and Len, while the second in season 15 in 2023, added Miku’s Magical Mirai 2023 outfit, plus outfits based on MEIKO and KAITO. Both collabs also added lots of Miku-themed cosmetics, visual effects for Ippons, and some BGM selections like “Roki” and “Senbonzakura.”

7 Fall Guys

Miku Makes Everything Cuter

Miku has an extremely distinctive silhouette, from her massive turquoise twintails to her oversized, standalone sleeves. It’s so distinctive, in fact, that you can add those elements to pretty much anything else, no matter how strange-looking, and fans can immediately clock it as Miku, or at least a Miku reference. For instance, if you thought the little jellybean dudes in Fall Guys couldn’t pull off the Miku look, you’d think wrong, sir.

During Fall Guys’ second season, a variety of collaboration costumes were added to the game, including Mr. Spock from Star Trek, a Xenomorph from Alien, and of course, good ol’ Miku. The basic Miku costume is a two-parter, consisting of her twintails and sleeves on top and her usual black skirt on bottom. However, there were two additional Miku-themed costumes available, including the Miku #1 Fan costume, which gives you a cute Miku backpack, and the Blunderland Miku costume, a completely original winter-styled Miku design made just for Fall Guys.

6 Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble

Miku Meets Monkeys

Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble

In developing and publishing the Project Diva series of Miku rhythm games, Sega has established a pretty strong relationship with Crypton Future Media over the years. More recently, that relationship has manifested in surprisingly consistent Miku appearances in Sega IPs, including ones that you wouldn’t really expect to see Miku show up in, like Super Monkey Ball.

Miku was added as a paid DLC character to 2024’s Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble, allowing her to sub in for AiAi or the other monkeys as your little rolling sphere creature of choice. She sings, dances, and shouts while she rolls around, and she actually has surprisingly balanced stats amongst all the playable characters, making her a good all-rounder choice. Or at least she was before she was delisted and made unavailable for purchase. I guess even that rapport between Sega and Crypton has its limits.

Miku Works a Lot of Voice Gigs

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

It’s easy to forget that Miku’s “job,” as it were, is to provide synthesized speech. The Vocaloid program is intended to make music, but it can also be used to produce non-musical speech for robotic characters. I don’t know if Hideo Kojima is a fan of Miku, but it wouldn’t especially surprise me given that Vocaloid was used to provide voices for the AI weapons in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.

All the AI weapons in this game, including Pupa, Chrysallis, Cocoon, and Metal Gear ZEKE speak with Vocaloid-powered voices, and even do a bit of singing during their respective battles. If you want to get technical about it, they don’t use the actual Miku voice bank, instead opting for a specialized branch of Vocaloid called Vocaloid-flex, but it sounds too much like Miku to be a coincidence. I’ve seen multiple people play this game and, upon encountering one of these bosses, immediately ask, “wait, is that Miku?”

4 Persona 5: The Phantom X

Dancing in Your Mind

Persona 5 The Phantom X Miku All-Out Attack

I’ve often considered Miku a “memetic entity,” a person who only exists so long as we acknowledge she exists. Like, obviously, Miku isn’t a real person, but she’s so firmly wedged in our minds, we talk about her as though she were. It’s an amusing sort of pseudo-psychological perspective, and you know what else is full of pseudo-psychology? Persona 5. Unfortunately, Miku isn’t in Persona 5, but she is in Persona 5: The Phantom X.

During a special crossover banner in June 2026, Miku was added to the game as an unlockable party member, sporting an outfit she originally wore for her appearance in Persona 4: Dancing All Night and serving as her own Persona, which, considering how Personas work in-universe, is actually thematically consistent. She’s a Navigator character rather than a combatant, aiding the party with assorted buffs that you can swap out based on the track she’s playing. She even has her own unique All-Out Attack finishing slide. She was definitely a better thematic choice for a crossover than Call of Duty.

3 Crypt of the NecroDancer

Armed with a Leek

The modern Miku and Vocaloid scene sprang up mostly from independent, grassroots efforts, starting with cute homemade MVs on NicoVideo well before blooming into the full stage performances we have now. All that is to say is that Miku respects the indie scene, and that includes smaller-dev games like Crypt of the NecroDancer as well.

Crypt of the NecroDancer received Miku as a DLC character in 2024, allowing you to play as the digital diva for your next delve into the dungeon. Miku has her own unique character properties, including being able to move diagonally and taking damage from missed beats, as well as unique weapons like her Spring Onion and her Sing Spell instead of a bomb, which both damages enemies and heals her. Interesting aside, Miku also returned to the NecroDancer series in Rift of the NecroDancer, where she appears opposite Cadence for DLC Rhythm Rifts of songs like “Intergalactic Bound” and “Magical Cure Love Shot.”

2 Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

Sonic and his Sibling, Miku

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

As I mentioned, Sega and Crypton’s good relationship has led to more consistent side-by-side appearances by Miku and various Sega characters. Miku has appeared in various promotional music videos and ads for Sonic stuff, for instance, to the point that some fans have started to consider them unofficial siblings (or… other relationships). One of Miku’s largest Sonic-adjacent appearances to date was as a free post-launch character for Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds.

Miku’s appearance in the game isn’t just as a skin or costume for an existing character, she’s fully standalone and playable, complete with a brand-new racing outfit, personal hoverboard, and a victory fanfare theme song sung by herself. She’s even got voice callouts, unlike literally every other post-launch and DLC character, whooping and hollering as she drifts, dashes and flies off track. Her addition to the game also came with a festival event where you could earn various Miku-themed cosmetics for your car. Hopefully, unlike with Monkey Ball, her status as an automatically-added character for all players ensures she won’t just disappear from the game someday.

1 Fortnite

Miku’s Pass to Infinity

Whether you like Fortnite or not, I think we can agree to some extent that it serves as a sort of litmus test of modern pop culture. If a character is added to Fortnite as a skin, I’d call it pretty definitive proof that that character and/or their IP has at least managed to sufficiently penetrate the public consciousness. Given that, it was really only a matter of time before Miku got the invite to the Battle Bus.

In Fortnite Chapter 6: Season 1, not only was Miku added to the game as a new skin, but an entire set of Miku-themed items came with her, including a cute cat-themed Miku skin, a Snow Miku skin, and an entire galaxy of Miku-themed sprays, back bling, instruments and pickaxes, and emotes like the famous Miku Miku Beam. Not only that, Miku was the headliner for the seventh Fortnite Festival in January 2025, which featured several Miku-inspired stages and multiple Miku Jam Tracks in the setlist, including Anamanaguchi’s famous anthem, “Miku.”

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