In Video Games
- The cult classic Bad Mojo involves a person turned into a cockroach, loosely based on Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
- Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas has a mutant form of the American cockroach called the Radroach. It is about the size of the house cat and is hostile towards the player if encountered. Examples are, however, very weak and do not pose a significant threat.
- In the Silent Hill series of games, monsters resembling cockroaches are featured in some enclosed spaces.
- Cockroaches may be combined with other creatures in Impossible Creatures. Half-cockroaches can be used to spread the plague or defile an area of land, spreading disease to enemy creatures that cross the defiled land.
- Half-Life allows the main character to crush cockroaches. Upon doing so a crunching sound effect is heard, and an off-white sprite is laid over the floor texture.
- The character Sal in Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse is an anthropomorphic human size cockroach. Smaller cockroaches also appear in the series.
- In the Hallway and Mezzzanine level of Toy Commander a player can complete a mission entitled "Invasion" under the Karter/Vroom-Vroom boss missions; these entail killing a mass number of small insects similar to cockroaches, with a larger one present in the sewers.
- In the real-time strategy game StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and its expansions, Zerg forces feature a unit known as the Roach, although taxonomically this creature has no relation to actual cockroaches.
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