What's the first game to feature sacrificing at altars as a general game mechanic?

In NetHack you can sacrifice sufficiently fresh corpses at altars for various benefits. Are there any earlier games where such sacrifices are a general game mechanic? Going by the TV Tropes page on Offerings to the Gods NetHack seems to be the earliest.

(By "general game mechanic" I mean "excluding altar sacrifices which are done only to solve a puzzle and/or advance the plot".)