[ShadowJack]

Avalanche,

Video games[edit]

The term non-player character is also used in role-playing video games (as well as non-RPG video games) to describe entities not under the direct control of players. Nearly always the connotation is that an NPC is allied with, or at least neutral toward, the player, while hostile characters are referred to as enemies, mobs or creeps. In video games, NPC is sometimes expanded as "non-playable character" or "non-player class".