In the Grandmaster Ending of Wizardry IV, Werdna—the villainous protagonist—ascends beyond good and evil, beyond gods and mortals. The game essentially rewards the player for mastering its brutal mechanics and obscure puzzles by letting Werdna transcend the game world itself. The ending text reportedly reads something like:

“You have become one with the cosmic forces. You are now omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent. You are the game.”

No gods, no masters—just pure, self-realized intelligence. It’s the kind of ending that feels like it was written by someone who just finished reading Nietzsche and then coded a dungeon crawler in a caffeine haze.

Wizardry IV may well be the first to canonize that kind of cringey-glorious sentiment in a game ending. And it did so in 1987, long before the internet gave us the meme version.