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9	Into [[GameMod game mods and ROM hacks]]? Then try these on for size (note that they're as ridiculous as ever):
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11	* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AITale'']]: A small child falls down a hole into a cave full of monsters, only this time everyone is extremely bigoted and horny.
12	* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AfraidOfMonsters]]'': Drug addict visits hospital for rehab and is thrown into a pitch-black nightmare world where monsters roam and the source of his addiction is all he has to keep himself alive.
13	* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ApertureTagThePaintGunTestingInitiative'']]: Do science by getting paint on everything, until your only friend purposely leads you into a death-trap.
14	** Alternatively, ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' without the elements of ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''.
15	* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/BlackMesa'']]: Nerd with thick glasses goes back to try to solve his problems with a crowbar, [[{{Vaporware}} but he takes horrendously long even attempting to begin the adventure.]]
16	** Alternatively: a group of people decide to make the UpdatedRerelease [[Creator/ValveSoftware a game company]] failed to deliver.
17	* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/BradHasAPain'']]: A ComedicSociopath recruits a bunch of wacky, crazy, and weird losers to go fight an evil child. Martial arts is involved.
18	* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ADanceWithRogues'']]: A petty thief of royal descent tries to get by in a CrapsackWorld without getting mugged, raped, and/or murdered.
19	* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FallFromHeaven'']]: It's ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}''... [-[[RecycledInSpace WITH MAGIC!]]-]
20	* [[spoiler:VideoGame/FreeSpace]] mods:
21	** [[spoiler: ''[=JustAnotherDay=]'']] You are Alpha 1, [[PlotArmor the only pilot alive]] who can save the GTVA from [[OnlySaneMan petty NPC rivalries]], commanding officers who are a [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} little too proud of the paint jobs on their city-sized battlecruisers]], [[{{Deconstruction}} and plot devices gone wild]].
22	** [[spoiler: ''Inferno'']]: [[PlotLeveling Increasingly]] [[SortingAlgorithmOfEvil large]] [[LensmanArmsRace starships]] [[StuffBlowingUp destroy each other]] with increasingly large [[WaveMotionGun beam cannons]]. Just when you think the ships could never get bigger, an even bigger one appears.
23	** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/BluePlanet: Age of Aquarius'']]: Chinese guy with daddy issues travels to a BadFuture, fights space bugs, and becomes an EnergyBeing to save his father.
24	** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/BluePlanet: War in Heaven'']]: Mentally unstable lesbian pilot fights in a HopelessWar to prevent a nation of space hippies from being conquered by the space UN and is the spiritual leader of a crew of basket cases to rival ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
25	** [[spoiler: ''Derelict'']]: The FinalBoss from the first [=FreeSpace=] game is reused. But now with [[SequelDifficultySpike more difficulty!]] And mystery! And [[MemeticMutation duct tape!]]
26	** [[spoiler: ''Terran-Vasudan War Project'']]: A {{prequel}} that gets rid of all the aliens and half the features of your fighter.
27	** [[spoiler: ''Silent Threat Reborn'']]: Anal-retentive nerds spend six years creating a FanRemake of a crappy, rushed expansion pack.
28	** [[spoiler: ''Vassago's Dirge'']]: Classical music is used as the thematic framing for an incomprehensible storyline and NintendoHard gameplay.
29	** [[spoiler: ''The Procyon Insurgency'']]: Just when you think a [=FreeSpace=] mod could not get any harder, it does.
30	** [[spoiler: ''The 158th Banshee Squadron: Exposition'']]: A {{prequel}} where Space NATO fight space Soviets for control of humanity in papier-mache fighters that blow if if looked at cross-eyed.
31	* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'']]: A [[FearlessFool stupid]] midget harasses nearly [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover everyone]] in existence with [[ElectiveUnintelligible incomprehensive lyrics]] while simping for [[LoveInterest another]], slightly less annoying midget.
32	** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/WednesdaysInfidelity'']]: Man kills himself over not getting mouse pussy.
33	** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkinCorruption'']]: Evil [[KnightOfCerebus Lemon]] turns everyone [[TheCorruption evil]] by making them [[UnfortunateImplications black]].
34	** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/TheBlueballsIncident'']]: [[AttentionWhore Narcissistic]] Trollface [[AbhorrentAdmirer out-simps]] the midget.
35	** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/VsStarecrown'']]: Methhead Thanos obsesses over an annoying midget, then tries to kill his idol because a frog told him to.
36	* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'']]: A mod that lets you... INSTALL OTHER MODS!!!
37	** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TroubleInTerroristTown'']]: Terrorists meet up in a ''VideoGame/CounterStrike'' map. A few of them decide to murder the rest, just because.
38	** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatKid'']]: A FatBastard tries to turn people into skeletons (or [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic ponies]]) during gym class.
39	** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PropHunt'']]: Hide and seek where the hiders turn into various household objects.
40	** [[spoiler: ''Nextbot Chase'']]: [=NPCs=] (mostly [=2D=] images) chase players around a map.
41	* [[spoiler:[[http://farm.muddasheep.com/cgi-bin/farm_news.cgi HalfQuake]]]]: You die repeatedly while the dev team laughs at you.
42	* [[spoiler: ''Hell Revealed'']]: ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', only with ten times as many monsters.
43	** [[spoiler:''nuts.wad'']]: ''Doom'', only with ten times as many monsters. [[ThisIsGonnaSuck All in one map.]]
44	** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/BrutalDoom'']]: ''Doom'', only with ten times as much difficulty and gore.
45	*** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/ProjectBrutality'']]: ''Brutal Doom'', only with [[SerialEscalation ten times more monsters, difficulty, and gore]].
46	** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/GhoulsVsHumans'']]: Big heads vs. small guys.
47	** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/GoingDown'']]: Ride an elevator through every floor of an office complex. Weeee.
48	** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Demonsteele}}'']]: A game where you play a blender.
49	** [[spoiler:''A Boy and His Barrel'']]: ''Doom'', as an EscortGame with an ExplodingBarrel.
50	** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RussianOverkill'']]: The weapons are so overpowered, they're just as hazardous to the user as the people they're pointed at.
51	** [[spoiler:''Zharkov Goes To The Store'']]: Mentally-ill Russian man goes grocery shopping.
52	** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/HighwayAcceleroidBooster'']]: The mod's creator's ''VideoGame/MegaMan8BitDeathmatch'' OriginalCharacter gets her own ''Doom'' mod.
53	* [[spoiler: VideoGame/FiendFolio]]: VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac , but with more ways to kill stuff, get killed, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking an anthropomorphic imp emoji]].
54	* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Huncraft}}'']]: Fan sequel to a [[VideoGame/StarCraftI popular real time strategy game]], where everybody dies, and the plot is still not resolved. Notable for being entirely in some weird moonspeak nobody cares about.
55	* [[spoiler: ''Videogame/KaiserreichLegacyOfTheWeltkrieg'']]: The Kaiser won and now the world's a mess. There's civil wars ''everywhere''.
56	** [[spoiler: ''Videogame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'']]: Turns out Hitler winning WWII turns the world into an unimaginable hellhole, who would've freaking guessed? Now go, and try not to start nuclear Armageddon.
57	* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/KaizoMarioWorld'']]: A DamselInDistress must be saved, except the evil turtle king that kidnapped her decides to cut the crap and hires Japanese fellows to stop two [[TheEveryman blue-collar workers]] who do a lot of mushrooms. They would have succeeded, were it not for the duo's new unexplained [[SaveScumming time rewinding powers]].
58	** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/SuperDemoWorldTheLegendContinues'']]: Previously mentioned blue-collar workers steal dinosaur eggs for breakfast while ghosts hide from them.
59	** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheSecondRealityProject Reloaded'']]: Turtle king gets help from traitorous robots from another dimension and builds an air fleet within an entirely separate dimension. Said traitorous robots want to turn the world into StylisticSuck. One of the duo must stop them both.
60	*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ChaosCompleXX'']]: The duo revisit the remains of the traitorous robots' dimension, accompanied by a LemonyNarrator.
61	*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheSecondRealityProject 2: Zycloboo's Challenge'']]: A cyclops ghost sends one of the duo back to the other alternate dimension and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero tricks him into giving him infinite power through a switch]]. There's also a WackyWaysideTribe of cats.
62	** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BrutalMario'']]: One of the duo is hungry for dinosaur eggs again, but this time ends up in a MegaCrossover.
63	** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ASuperMarioThing'']]: A cyclops alien tries to get veggies for her master and ends up in a war between horse-dinosaurs and football players. References to the legacy of a {{talkative loon}} ensue.
64	** [[spoiler: Call of Cthulhu]]: Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu as retold in VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld.
65	* [[spoiler: VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic: Brotherhood of Shadow]]: LossOfIdentity meets TraumaCongaLine.
66	* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/MariosMysteryMeat'']]: An OriginalCharacter tries to find meat for spaghetti, but gets SwallowedWhole by a giant earthworm. MindScrew then happens from then on.
67	* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/MegaMan8BitDeathmatch'']]: Evil scientist resurrects {{Killer Robot}}s to enter a tournament, and a few good ones go out to stop him by entering said tournament. They then proceed to blast the nuts and bolts out of each other with a plethora of weapons.
68	* [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} Mine Little Pony]]]]: [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Horses]] mine for ores and fight zombies and such.
69	* [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]] Midas Magic]]: Turn gold into food and eat it to learn magic.
70	** [[spoiler:Lost Spires]]: Join a guild for archeologists and feed gems to a statue.
71	** [[spoiler:MALEVOLENT]]: Join forces with a suspiciously named suit of armour and get put in prison inside your own head.
72	* [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/{{Nehrim}} The Vyn]] [[VideoGame/{{Enderal}} Saga]]]]: Elder Scroll games, except they have nothing to do with The Elder Scrolls.
73	* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonBlueKaizo'']]: 11-years old kid travels the region he lives in catching creatures and making them fight. But everything is ''way harder'' than how it's supposed to be.
74	** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonCrystalKaizo'']]: 3 years later, another kid finds himself in a similar, yet ''even harder'' situation.
75	* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PortalPrelude'']]: Break the laws of physics repeatedly while being carted around a laboratory by a group of scientists who [[SyntheticVoiceActor sound hilariously bad]] and want to build an insane computer.
76	* [[spoiler:''Videogame/PortalStoriesMel'']]: You took a short nap. Now many years have passed, and a computer is trying to kill you, a robot, and some other thing.
77	* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/RedAlert3Paradox'']]: Pop culture references: The Game.
78	** Alternative: DieselPunk, RaygunGothic, Franchise/StarTrek, a MegaCorp, {{Super Robot}}s and [[AIIsACrapshoot a bunch of actual robots]] blow the crap out of each other, and a LaResistance and ChurchMilitant tag along for the ride.
79	* And what about {{Game Mod}}s for ''[[spoiler:VideOGame/TheSims]]''?
80	** [[spoiler:The [=InTeenimator=]]]: Your game, but now with birth control and fertility drugs. And pregnant teenagers.
81	** [[spoiler:The [=InSimenator=]]]: Cheating made easy, for those who don't want to learn codes.
82	** [[spoiler:Anything on [=ModTheSims'=] website]]: Well, because it just means you have the same game, but everything looks cooler/more realistic. And makes cheating easy.
83	* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/Rockman4MinusInfinity'']]: Small robot fights through a bunch of [[ShoutOut references]] and [[CallBack stuff from older games in his franchise.]]
84	* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/SonicRoboBlast2'']]: Fat man commits mass murder for no real reason, then engages in asteroid mining to obtain an ill-defined energy source.
85	* [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/SuperMarioLand Super]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pika]] [[VideoGame/SuperMarioLand Land]]]]: [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} An adorable monster, or yellow rat,]] fights aliens and other adorable monsters to save his trainer's mother.
86	** [[spoiler:Super Pika Land version 2.0]]: Same as the above but he saves his trainer.
87	* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros VideoGame/BrawlMinus'']]: Hackers attempt to balance a fighting game by breaking it.
88	** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/ProjectM'']]: Hackers attempt to improve a fighting game by turning into the game that came before it.
89	** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/PMEXRemix'']]: Hackers attempt to improve a fighting game by turning into the game that came before it...and giving it a bigger roster than the game that came two games later.
90	* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/SweetHalfLife'']]: A warehouse manager winds up in a B-Movie.
91	* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Terminal7'']]: Italian plumber is told that he has brain cancer, and goes on a murderous rampage.
92	* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/TheyHunger'']]: A player character without character that wanders through Rockwell has to be [[DistressedDude rescued three times]] in his hunt for a disfigured Doctor and a fat police officer.
93	* [[spoiler:''[[Franchise/TouhouProject Touhou]][[VIdeoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue mon]]'']]: The player takes on the role of a child in a world where kids are allowed to leave the house at 10 years of age and traverse the world, capture and force a bunch of magic-using girls to fight each other causing them to grow up, and beat up the local crime syndicate. You sick little monkey!
94	* [[spoiler: ''[[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Vs. Saxton Hale]]'']]: A bunch of crazy mercenaries fight a [[TestosteronePoisoning muscle-bound Australian arms dealer]], a Headless Horseman, a serial killer, a HumanoidAbomination, and a bunch of other random people/animals/things that want to fight them.
95	** [[spoiler: [=TF2=] x10]]: Weapons are stronger. Shit hits the fan immediately.
96	** [[spoiler: [=TF2=] Randomizer]]: Characters are given weapons, possibly not even fitting their class.
97	** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2Classic'']]: ''Team Fortress 2'' minus updates, plus some weapons that were cut out and four-team maps.
98	** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/OpenFortress'']]: ''Team Fortress 2'' meets what its [[VideoGame/TeamFortressClassic predecessor's]] [[VideoGame/TeamFortress1 predecessor]] was [[VideoGame/QuakeI a mod of]]. Or just its predecessor.
99	** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/SlenderFortress'']]: ''Team Fortress 2'' as a SurvivalHorror where most of the bosses are from other horror games.
100	* [[spoiler: ''[[VideoGame/SonicGenerations Unleashed Project]]'']]: After getting thrown back in time, a blue mammal relives the time he ran around the world.
101	* ''[[spoiler: Tale of Two Wastelands]]'': A mute man/woman from an underground bunker goes on wacky and violent adventures across post-apocalyptic Washington D.C. and Las Vegas.
102	* ''[[spoiler: Wars of Liberty]]'': ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresIII'' [-[[RecycledInSpace IN THE 19TH CENTURY]]-]!

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