The goal of this paper is to critically consider both video games themselves and playing video games from the perspective of the philosophy of games and play, trough the prism of four normative ethical theories: virtue ethics, deontological ethics, consequentialist ethics, and contractarian ethics. Virtue ethics emphasizes the acquisition of virtues, deontological ethics focuses on duties and motives of action, consequentalist ethics observes the consequences of an action, and contractarian ethics considers the idea of a social contract as the basis of moral norms. In the context of the philosophy of play and playing as a relatively new field of philosophy, the theories of Johan Huizinga, Eugen Fink, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bernard H. Suits and C. Thi Nguyen are discussed. Huizinga considers game as an activity from which the entire culture arose and developed, Fink studies game as the so-called, „calm present“, for Suits game is an autotelic activity, Wittgenstein studies games in the domain of language and in the form of language games, and Nguyen characterised play as a type of art that manifests itself in the ways of man's disposal of his human agency. Normative ethical theories and theories of games and play by the mentioned authors are used in this thesis as a theoretical basis for a critical analysis of selected ethical problems of video games: (im)moral decisions of video game players, moral dilemmas in video games, of which euthanasia stands out, sexualisation and objectification of women characters in video games, and the relationship between video game players. By playing a video game, the player acts according to aretaic, deontological, consequentialist or contractarian principles. Video games as a modern form of game and an interactive form of art, provide the player with a rich moral experince trough moral reflection.